Sounds nifty. I want DNA and RNA hoovers for other applications as well.

Alejandro Montenegro@aemonten.bsky.social · last wk.

"Here, we introduce the ‘recordanelle’, a single-component synthetic organelle capable of recording the transcriptome in human cells (...). We demonstrate that it can recruit (...) a sampling of up to 90% of all endogenous mRNAs and protect them over several days" www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New publication! In our review published in @globalchangebio.bsky.social : we discuss what is climate change experienced by life on Earth 💧🌡️❄️ Led by @linegreis.bsky.social @evagril.bsky.social @ilyamaclean.bsky.social @jlembrechts.bsky.social and @kvanmeerbeek.bsky.social 📜 doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

Climate Change Experienced by Life on Earth—Drivers and Mechanisms of Future Trends in Microclimates

Microclimate changes do not necessarily track macroclimate trends. However, changes in meteorological conditions (e.g., cloud cover) and vegetation dynamics (e.g., shrub encroachment) associated with...

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New #OpenAccess research in #RESMedVetEnt Relationships between meteorological factors and mosquito vector density in an Urban District of Shanghai, China (2018–2024) doi.org/10.1111/mve.... #InsectVectors #Culicidae #Aedes #VectorDynamics @wileyecology.bsky.social

A gallery of mosquitoes.

Mosquitoes - Alex Wild

Mosquitoes comprise a large family, Culicidae, of slender, scale-covered flies found worldwide. We think of mosquitoes as voracious blood-feeders, but the primary food of adult mosquitoes is actually ...

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New #OpenAccess research in #RESMedVetEnt Diapausing adult female #mosquitoes (Diptera: #Culicidae) in overwintering sites in Estonia in 2023–2024: Species composition and variation doi.org/10.1111/mve.... #InsectVectors @wileyecology.bsky.social

New #OpenAccess research in #RESMedVetEnt Investigating the association between weather variables and #Aedes albopictus abundance in Windsor, Ontario doi.org/10.1111/mve.... #InsectVectors #Culicidae #InsectAbundance @wileyecology.bsky.social

Nice publication from Sam in our group. Setting evolutionary relationships right one chunk at a time.

RES Publications@respublications.bsky.social · 2w ago

New #OpenAccess work in #RESSystematicEnt Genetic structure, spectral characteristics & evolutionary history of #butterflies in European #Polyommatus eros species group (Lepidoptera, #Lycaenidae) doi.org/10.1111/syen... #Phylogenetics #Spectrometry @gkergoat.bsky.social @wileyecology.bsky.social

1/ Nature is in peril. Drastic declines and specialist species struggling is what the Wild Bird Indicators, using BTO data & published by Defra, show. Here’s what we know ⬇️ The All Bird Species Index shows 19% declines in the UK since 1970. This comprises 132 species. 📉 #Ornithology

"State of the climate 2026" was published yesterday. A sobering but important read Link: academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

New #OpenAccess research in #RESAppEnt Testing the transferability of image-based automated insect detection under different light conditions doi.org/10.1002/3070... #EntoMethods #InsectMonitoring @jordancuff.bsky.social @wileyecology.bsky.social

New paper out on the future impact of extreme weather events on butterflies in Italy - 🦋❄️🌡️⛈️ Lead by @dinobiancolini.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @euracalpenv.bsky.social @europebutterfly.bsky.social

Short summary of our recent paper. I am glad our European Red List was shown to be impartial! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Beautiful butterflies get more attention from the public – and from scientists

Research has shown that species considered colourful and patterned are the subject of more studies, and receive more conservation funding

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📖 New research Beta diversity of Arctiinae moths (Lepidoptera: Erebidae) along a recovering tropical forest gradient🦋 🌳 🔎 Find out more: buff.ly/vKlxwr4

Drivers of insect decline: direct, indirect, and combined pressures academic.oup.com/aesa/article...

Biodiversity shapes human health and human well-being...but how do we measure those connections? That´s the challenge I discuss in my contribution for the new Biodiversity and Health FACTS Report from the Veolia Institute. Full report: www.institut.veolia.org/en/publicati...

Biodiversity and Health

2026

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🥑 A gall midge species, Bruggmanniella perseae, has been identified as the cause of fruit deformation in avocado crops in Mexico, with six parasitoid species discovered that naturally control this damaging insect pest: doi.org/10.3897/jhr.99.200280

Our paper on the rather large genome (1.08Gb) of the agricultural pest blueberry gall wasp is now out as a preprint. We also looked across chalcidoid genomes and found the genome size variation is largely driven by transposable element proliferation. 🧪 #Ormyridae #Hemadasnubilipennis

bioRxivpreprint@biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · last mo.

The chromosome level genome of the Blueberry Stem Gall Wasp, Hemadas nubilipennis (Hymenoptera: Ormyridae) on lowbush blueberry (Vaccinium angustifolium) reveals repeat-driven expansion https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.21.753281v1

I'm sorry, what now? www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Direct cell-to-cell transmission of retrotransposons

Retrotransposons can infect neighboring cells using a mechanism that relies on a small fusogen-like protein rather than on the envelope protein that is typically required for infection.

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Happy to share results of the @bat1kgenomes.bsky.social phase 1, providing reference genomes covering 21 bat families. New insights into bat phylogeny, ancestral genome reconstruction, European origin & ancestral echolocation. Great work by a team of 100+ colleagues www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Reference genomes and fossils revise bat family phylogeny and biogeography - Nature

An updated phylogeny of bats is presented, based on new genome assemblies and many ancient fossils and including all known bat families.

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Exec Summ: Citizen science data often miss species because people tend to record sightings only where public access is easy. To get a complete picture, we need to encourage people to log common species near their homes and at the same time improve access to private natural areas for rare species.

Richard Fox@richardfoxbc.bsky.social · last mo.

📣 New paper alert. Latest study by @mingrui-li.bsky.social as part of his PhD @uniexecec.bsky.social on the impact of public access to land on #CitizenScience butterfly recording. 🥾⛔️📋🦋 @savebutterflies.bsky.social @ukceh.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

New research in #RESMedVetEnt Body size and wing shape responses of #mosquitoes (Diptera: #Culicidae) to contrasting environmental conditions in cold-temperate Argentine Patagonia doi.org/10.1111/mve.... @wileyecology.bsky.social

An american kissing bug species was found a year ago in a hotel in Lisbon. Such an introduction would be very troublesome as Spain, and I guess also Portugal, have a relatively high hidden prevalence of Chagas disease. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Live triatomine bug, vector of Trypanosoma cruzi , found engorged in Lisbon hotel room: A first for Portugal and for Europe - Parasites & Vectors

Triatomine bugs are blood feeding insects that transmit the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, causative agent of Chagas disease. The bugs are found primarily in the Americas with a few species in Asia and A...

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Working with #arthropod #bodymass in #ecology? 🕷️🪲🦟🦗🐜🐝🪳🐞 Then this preprint is for you! Batch-measuring of body length, width, and area and calculation of individual level body mass! ⚖️ This is a game changer!🌐 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... @wslresearch.bsky.social @uni-wuerzburg.de @ethz.ch

Still doing this personal project of finding, photographing and illustrating the geometer moths of Finland. About 70 of the 300 or so species done. Not likely to ever be completed, but a lot of fun regardless! #SciArt

#Butterfly ranges are shifting on every continent, with #climatechange and #extremeweather associated with 79% of recorded movements. A global study of 1,758 species also reveals major monitoring gaps in biodiversity-rich tropical regions. DOI: doi.org/rh8j

Climate change is reshaping butterfly ranges worldwide • Muser Press

The researchers call for broader and more inclusive monitoring to track how climate pressures and land-use change are affecting butterfly diversity.

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Are you interested in #gulls, diet metabarcoding, or both? Of course you are! Check out our new preprint where we use molecular methods to decode the (animal-based) diet of lesser black-backed gulls - arguably a species with one of the most diverse diets out there. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

bioRxiv Ecology@biorxiv-ecology.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Evaluating DNA metabarcoding to characterise diet diversity and foraging strategies in a generalist mesopredator, the lesser black-backed gull (Larus fuscus) https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.17.738687v1

New #OpenAccess research in #RESInsectConsDiv Systematic differences in #phenology estimates from unstructured and structured #biodiversity datasets doi.org/10.1111/icad.70098 #Lepidoptera #InsectMonitoring @manusaunders.bsky.social @wileyecology.bsky.social Images courtesy of article authors

Midsummer midnight at a wilderness mosquito trap.

Waiting for the sun to make even a tiny appearance to capitalize on the final chance to collect a cloudberry pollinator sample on this Northern Enontekiö ice cored mire. #insectsofthenorth #interregaurora