Nature is wonderfully diverse—and so are people. 🌈 As evolutionary biologists, we know that diversity is one of nature's greatest strengths. Happy #Pride from the Wood Tiger Moth Lab! 🐛🏳️‍🌈 @aplantaginis.bsky.social @helsinki.fi

A great week at #ISBE2026 in Turin! 🇮🇹 EEI was well represented with @eselenius.bsky.social talking about sexual selection, @michalbartak.bsky.social presenting his first chapter on the effect of photoperiod of life-history and @theobrown.bsky.social discussing why butterflies fly slowly!

"Lintujen törmäilyä tuulivoimaloihin voitaisiin vähentää värittämällä lapoja luonnon varoitusvärien mukaisesti. Tähän tulokseen on tullut Helsingin yliopiston vasta julkaistu kokeellinen tutkimus." yle.fi/a/74-20223329 #linnut

Tuulivoimaloiden lintukuolemia voisi vähentää värittämällä lapoja

Helsingin yliopiston tuoreen tutkimuksen mukaan luonnon varoitusvärit voisivat estää lintuja törmäilemästä tuulivoimaloihin.

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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...

Biomimetic aposematic wind turbines

YouTube video by George Hancock

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New paper out now! Biologically inspired warning patterns deter a passerine, Parus major, from digital turbine blades academic.oup.com/beheco/artic...

Biologically inspired warning patterns deter a passerine, Parus major, from digital turbine blades

By mimicking the warning colours of animals that ward off birds, we can produce wind turbine patterns to which birds are averse, reducing the likelihood of

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New paper out: this is the 3rd ch. from my M.Sc.-thesis that started in 2019! How did the toxin glands as well as the composition of the toxins secreted from these glands change after an African toad invaded novel ranges and what are potential drivers of these changes? doi.org/10.1016/j.is...

One of my PhD chapters is now out! It’s a review on pyrazines in insects and their biological roles and their evolution. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @lepphylo.bsky.social @jmappes.bsky.social

Ecology and evolution of pyrazines in insects

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...

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Today Nordea voted to continue financing new oil from the Arctic. Nordea's claim to be a sustainability leader has watered down - they not only continue to be the biggest investor in fossil fuel companies in Finland but also retracted from their climate pledges. Our polar coalition is not happy.

Really happy that a moth made it to the cover of @nature.com! Thanks to my co-author Gunnar Brehm for this great photo 📸 Find our study on thermal limits in this week's issue: www.nature.com/nature/volum... @ecoresearchzoo3.bsky.social @biologie-uniwue.bsky.social @uni-wuerzburg.de

Jane Goodall, known for her pioneering work with chimpanzees, has passed away aged 91 go.nature.com/46QHIZk

Jane Goodall’s legacy: three ways she changed science

Nature - The primatologist challenged what it meant to be a scientist.

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Nature research paper: Bogong moths use a stellar compass for long-distance navigation at night https://go.nature.com/3SZ314M

Bogong moths use a stellar compass for long-distance navigation at night - Nature

Every spring, Bogong moths use the starry night sky as a compass to navigate up to 1,000 km towards their alpine migratory goal.

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✴️ NEW PAPER! ✴️ In the beautiful Caucasian mountains of 🇬🇪 lives a moth whose wing colour variation (🔴🟠🟡) has intrigued us for ages. Here (doi.org/10.1111/1744...), we studied whether such variation is associated with 🧬 structure or other traits such as size. (1/3)

Another wonderful OEB Day yesterday, focused on collaboration, team spirit, and inter/multidisciplinarity. What a great way to kick off the spring 🌻 Here the opening words from the director, @annaliisalaine.bsky.social

I am the proudest supervisor on planet! My fantastic ex-student @chiaradp.bsky.social won the best thesis prize and gave fantastic keynote presentation in #OIKOSFin25. Great opportunity to see so many ex @aplantaginis.bsky.social group members as well. Thank you #OIKOSFin25 !

We disrupted Nordea General Meeting while they were voting against the resolution to stop funding fossil fuel expansion. Nordea is still NOT listening to the Science. Fossil fuels must stay in the ground.

Great kick-off by my team @aplantaginis.bsky.social at #OIKOSFin25! 🎉 @zowioudendijk.bsky.social shared fascinating insights on the evolution of reflex bleeding in Arctiinae, and @theobrown.bsky.social made a compelling case for 'why to pay to be lazy'(—if you’re a toxic butterfly!) 🦋🔥

LUOVA Spring Symposium at the University of Helsinki! Presented my recent understanding of reflex bleeding in Arctiinae @helsinki.fi @aplantaginis.bsky.social

A great LUOVA Spring Symposium! Presented the preliminary results from an ongoing experiment. @helsinki.fi @aplantaginis.bsky.social

Excited to kick off my PhD at the @helsinki.fi with a talk about my doctoral research plans at the 34th LUOVA Spring Symposium

Gestern habe ich Europas 1. Solar-Radweg besucht. Er steht in Freiburg, ist auf 300m mit 900 PV-Modulen überdacht, liefert Strom für rund 180 Menschen und schützt Radfahrer. Ein tolles Vorzeigeprojekt, dass Verkehrs- & Energiewende vereint. Ich hoffe, er wird vielen Kommunen zur Inspiration dienen❤️