Professor of Ecology at the University of Helsinki
🧪 #Animal behaviour, #animal coloration, #evoeco, #moths, #sensory ecology #fundamental science
I teach birds to play computer games
Johanna Mappes
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@koskenpato.bsky.social @caritalindstedt.bsky.social
Why stay cryptic if chemically defended?
In pine sawfly (Neodiprion sertifer) larvae, higher conspicuousness reduced survival.
Weak warning signals may rely on behavior and grouping.
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#Aposematism
Johanna Mappes
Thrilled to announce a Postdoc opportunity in our group on the evolutionary genetics and ecology of colour. Wonderful system, great collaborators, and room to shape your own ideas.
Apply by 7 Jan: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/13477181...
Measuring predation in the wild is hard. @mherberstein.bsky.social
We compared wing damage, artificial replicas, and bird surveys in Australian butterfly communities.
Methods were complementary — together they better estimate predation risk.
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With @nathist.bsky.social we revisited the Earophila badiata complex by using:
Quantitative wing image analysis
Genitalia + micro-CT
mtCOI barcodes
No support for several named taxa → synonymies proposed; fennokarelica reduced below subspecies rank.
peerj.com/articles/206...
#IntegrativeTaxonomy
Oh! Our #biomimetic, #aposematic #wind turbine paper is out!
@grahancock.bsky.social put together a fantastic short video explaining the study — so if you don’t feel like reading the paper, here’s the nutshell version! @helsinki.fi @behavecol.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rg41...
And here is the working link: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
#chemicaldefence #volatiles #predators @aplantaginis.bsky.social
Cool work by my cool student!
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Evolutionary Genetics & Ecology of Colour and Performance
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Thrilled to announce a Postdoc opportunity in our group on the evolutionary genetics and ecology of colour. Wonderful system, great collaborators, and room to shape your own ideas.
Apply by 7 Jan: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/13477181...
Johanna Mappes
Taste of things to come (if things go bad) in Europe, maybe?
Ping @jmappes.bsky.social @fishcongen.bsky.social
Jaakko Husa
This is an exciting opportunity to work in Helsinki, and in collaboration with us in Cambridge… on moth colouration. Could focus on the role of Ivory long non coding RNA in regulating melanisation…
Chris Jiggins
Jussi T. Eronen
The geometrid moth Earophila badiata (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775), which occurs widely in the Palearctic realm, has rapidly filled a large gap in its range across southern Finland during the past tw...
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Why do some chemically defended prey use weak visual signals when conspicuous aposematic coloration seems more effective for predator avoidance? Using weak
Abstract. Predation pressure is a major force driving the evolution of anti-predatory traits, yet quantifying its intensity in the wild remains difficult.
One of my PhD chapters is now out! It’s a review on pyrazines in insects and their biological roles and their evolution.
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@lepphylo.bsky.social
@jmappes.bsky.social
Chemical communication is the oldest and most widespread form of signalling among and within organisms. Among the many compounds involved in such communication, pyrazines – nitrogen-containing hetero...
Thrilled to announce a Postdoc opportunity in our group on the evolutionary genetics and ecology of colour. Wonderful system, great collaborators, and room to shape your own ideas.
Apply by 7 Jan: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/13477181...
Johanna Mappes
On NSF’s postdoc page, the biology and earth science fields have been completely eliminated; the only remaining fellowships are in math, astronomy, engineering, and “entrepreneurship.” Weird choice not to support research on the life support system for 8 billion people.
www.nsf.gov/funding/post...
