Young birds can adapt to heat after hatching, but it may affect growth. Elin Persson’s PhD thesis combines quail lab experiments with heated blue tit nestboxes to show how post-hatch temperature changes thermoregulation. Congratulations, Elin! Summary: www.lunduniversity.lu.se/lup/publicat...
Flower-rich road verges can feed bumblebees, but traffic changes the balance. Sofia Blomqvist and colleagues surveyed 60 Scanian verges, counted live and dead bumblebees, and used scent-trained dogs to find nests. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Photo: Kennet Ruona
Julia Weber’s PhD thesis shows that legume-rich leys can provide flowers for pollinators despite mowing or grazing. Organic leys offered a more consistent resource, and satellite data helped map where these flowers occur. www.lunduniversity.lu.se/lup/publicat...
The baby oil crisis is solved. After @olofhellgren.bsky.social appeal, people donated Johnson’s baby oil gel, enough for about 10 years of fieldwork on malaria-transmitting biting midges in bird nest boxes.
Thank you to everyone who helped.
This has been a side project for many years, but now our definitions of life study is finally published!
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
I am hiring a PhD student to join our group in Lund, Sweden working on an ERC-funded project to untangle color and polarization vision in some amazing crustaceans – minute water fleas and pugnacious mantis shrimp!
Please forward this to promising students. Apply here: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Department of Biology, Lund University
In our recent @jexpbiol.bsky.social paper, we test how air temperature during development influences the ontogeny of heat and cold tolerance, using our trusted quail population 🐥🐦
We draw four main conclusions 🧵
shorturl.at/JZpSr
Just published @nordicjbotany.bsky.social! We studied flower color and seed dispersal in Anemone coronaria under climate change. Spoiler: Anemones cannot keep with the pace of climate change. doi.org/10.1002/njb..... Amazing collaboration with TzlilLabin, JinleiZhu and @yuvalsapir.bsky.social
Are you a computational scientist? Within 7 years of your PhD? Come join us at Lund University! We have two new positions as assistant professor! Deadline: 25th of May. The advert is broad, but this is your chance to push computational neuroscience in a fantastic place!
lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Department of Biology, Lund University
Department of Biology, Lund University
Department of Biology, Lund University
npj Complexity - The problem of defining life: a case study using family resemblance
Summary: Warm or cold developmental temperatures affect heat and cold tolerance at population levels in Japanese quail; but at individual levels, there was no evidence for a trade-off between toleranc...
Flower colour polymorphism is driven by divergent selection regimes on the colour morphs across time and space. Anemone coronaria, a colour-polymorphic geophyte with red, purple, and white flowers, d...
doi.org
We are looking for an up-and-coming researcher who wants to conduct pioneering research to take up a position as Assistant Professor in Computational Science. Computational science research is conduct
