Gabriela Montejo-Kovacevich
@gmkov.bsky.social
Evolutionary biologist 🦋 Assistant Professor, Uppsala University https://www.montejo-kovacevich-lab.com
From the abstract: “promoting a woman to Associate Professor increases female faculty by 1.5 members after 15 years, leads to six additional female PhD graduates over the following decade, and raises the number who subsequently remain in academia and reach tenured positions”
Physgal ⚛️@physgal.bsky.social · last wk.Fascinating paper on the progression of women in academia. 👩🏻🔬 ⚛️ 🧪 #AcademicSky docs.iza.org/dp18477.pdf?... Here's an excerpt from the conclusion:
Representing all the amazing research at the Evolutionary Biology Centrum from Uppsala University #SMBE2026 @animecol-uu.bsky.social @evobiouppsala.bsky.social
I am very happy to present my PhD project so far at #SMBE2026 ! If you want to find out about the genomics of host plant adaptation and ecotypic diversity in the Edith's checkerspot butterfly, come and find me in the Main Hall, poster B116 🦋🧬
Some lab members at SMBE presenting for their first conference! Today: Jana Weigel (master) will speak in the Evolutionary rescue symposium at 17.35h about isolation by environment 🐛 Tomorrow: Veronika Mrazek (PhD) will present a poster on the genomics of ecotypic diversity (B116) 🦋
#blogmncn 🦋Las mariposas Morpho azul exhiben algunos de los colores + brillantes de la naturaleza. Se trata de una coloración azul que llama poderosamente la atención por su iridiscencia. Pero el mayor interés de estos insectos es científico y tecnológico. www.mncn.csic.es/es/comunicac...
Congratulations to Raissa Rausch for smashing her master thesis defence last week 💪🏽🙌 she has worked on simulating bottlenecks during biocontrol releases in islands. Super #proudPI @animecol-uu.bsky.social
In the time I have been at Uppsala, ~9 students have contacted me about masters projects. All were women. Role models matter? Fear of sexism from teachers? Sexism in students? Please join us, we dont often bite
Our program went out sampling around Uppsala, following the footsteps of Prof Kullenberg, and we recorded >300 observations in inaturalist! www.inaturalist.org/projects/bot...
BOTANISKA TRÄDGÅRDEN & HÅGADALEN Bioblitz 29may
This project is a Bioblitz held at Botaniska trädgården. Participants will explore local biodiversity by observing, photographing, and documenting insects. All observations will be uploaded to iNatura...
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Animal Ecology Uppsala@animecol-uu.bsky.social · 2mo agoWe had an absolute blast and the weather was gorgeous, so enjoy some pictures of us looking like proper wilderness explorers, compared to prof. Kullenberg and students! We also had a lovely city tour and ended the day with a dinner in the sun! ☀️
Can confirm, we've used this method to preserve and sequence DNA from critters caught in the Costa Rican cloud forest. Chromosome level insect genomes from tissue kept at room temperature for ~5 days before we could get it back to the lab!
mara lawniczak@marakat.bsky.social · 2mo agoIf you are interested in collecting specimens for chromosomal genomes and/or generating chromosomal reference genomes from specimens that were not cold-chain preserved, please read on and share this thread.
Still 10 days left to apply - Come join us in Uppsala! Fully funded Phd position in Evolutionary Biology. Deadline 22nd of May.
David Berger@dbergerbiol.bsky.social · 4mo agoPhD-position ALERT! 🧪🪲 🧬 Interested in studying the genomics of local adaptation and niche breadth using long-term experimental evolution? Come join me and @gmkov.bsky.social at @animecol-uu.bsky.social, Uppsala Univ. Read more and apply here: uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/... Deadline 22nd of May!
SUPER exciting PhD with David Berger (+me as co-supervisor). Incredible datasets ready to crack on Also: Sweden has some of the best PhD salaries and working conditions in the world. Four years (+up to 20% teaching) fully funded. Contact us for any questions
David Berger@dbergerbiol.bsky.social · 4mo agoPhD-position ALERT! 🧪🪲 🧬 Interested in studying the genomics of local adaptation and niche breadth using long-term experimental evolution? Come join me and @gmkov.bsky.social at @animecol-uu.bsky.social, Uppsala Univ. Read more and apply here: uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/... Deadline 22nd of May!
The reason butterfly rearing is mostly about gardening: (x1 speed!)
A new phD position in my lab about amphibian, infection diseases in a global changing world. Check it out! And spread the word ;)
Animal Ecology Uppsala@animecol-uu.bsky.social · 4mo agoWe have a new exiting PhD position in our program on the skin microbiome of amphibians, supervised by @cortazar-chinarro.bsky.social! Follow the link to read more and apply: www.uu.se/en/about-uu/.... Deadline the 8th of May.
iPhones are the new hand lens 🤓 (looking for a terminal, angled, orange spike to ID Euphydryas edtiha vs chalcedona)
David Marques was an amazing speciation genomics researcher, a passionate birder, and a wonderful friend, husband, and father. May he rest in peace. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
David Alexander Marques (1984–2026) - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Speciation genomics researcher, author of the combinatorial theory of speciation and passionate birder
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New pre-print with some updates on ivory:miR193 in a highly polymorphic moth. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... We mapped ivory (again!?) this time controlling aspects of camouflage in Anticarsia gemmatalis. Mapping, SVs, Expression and Function. Comments/suggestions welcome!
What a way to start the year!! Really enjoyed the usual friendly atmosphere at PopGroup and all the research shared. Many thanks to the organisers @popgroup2026.bsky.social If anyone is interested in joining my group or coming to Sweden please get in touch 🧬❄️
Oh my way to PopGroup! I’ll be talking about our preprint on bidirectional adaptive introgression between native and invasive agricultural pests: Friday, 16:30 in Amphi B doi.org/10.64898/202...
The collision of two genomes threatens global food security
Human activity alters selection pressures and species’ ranges, creating opportunities for hybridisation through secondary contact. Ancient hybridization has enabled adaptive radiation, but its role in...
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Excited to be in Lille for @popgroup2026.bsky.social ! Come and catch my talk on accounting for local adaptation in species distribution models @16:15 in Amphi B :)
We’ve been working on this paper longer than it took adaptive alleles to cross the species barrier (in both directions) and make two pests ever more resistant to the things we throw at them. New preprint out 🧬🌱🐛
Chris Jiggins@chrisjiggins.bsky.social · 7mo agoExcited about our new preprint showing bidirectional adaptive introgression between invasive and native crop pests over ecological timescales www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Tom and John Emmel and Sterling Mattoon officially began their work on “The Butterflies of California” book in 1974. Now, more than 50 years after they began, the book draft has officially been published online and is freely available to the public: www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/the-... 🦋📕
We are so pleased with our new Assist Plus robot. Already hugely upscaling magnetic bead extractions! 🧬 next up libraries and museum samples. (thanks @scilifelab.se for the funding).
New PhD position: Butterfly Evolution at High Elevations 🦋⛰️ The project aims to understand the rapid evolution and adaptation of white butterflies at high elevations. DEADLINE: January 11, 2025 More info: pavelmatos.wordpress.com/join-us/
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Opportunities Below are the positions currently open in our lab. Fully-funded PhD position The project aims to understand rapid evolution and adaptation in white butterflies flying at high elevatio…
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Really exciting times to be doing Lepidoptera research! Incredible efforts by the consortium (and thank you for bringing Lepbase back too, sorely missed!)
Charlotte Wright@charlottewright.bsky.social · 8mo agoI'm very excited that our paper on Project Psyche is now published! 🦋🧬 Over the last two years we've built an incredible community & already made huge progress. Read about this & how @projectpsyche.bsky.social will drive exciting and collaborative science here: www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
I'm very excited that our paper on Project Psyche is now published! 🦋🧬 Over the last two years we've built an incredible community & already made huge progress. Read about this & how @projectpsyche.bsky.social will drive exciting and collaborative science here: www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
Project Psyche: reference genomes for all Lepidoptera in Europe
Project Psyche is a transnational initiative to generate and study chromosome-level reference genomes of all ~11 000 species of Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths) found in Europe. Here, we describe t...
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Too warm to buzz? Check out our newest paper on how warming temperatures affect bee buzzes in the Arctic. Well done to Charlie and Guadalupe and other coauthors for this nice study in the Swedish Arctic! @hfspo.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Increasing temperatures affect thoracic muscle performance in Arctic bumblebees - Nature Communications
Increasing temperatures threaten cold-adapted pollinators such as Arctic bumblebees by disrupting their physiology. This study found that thorax acceleration during non-flight vibrations peaks at 25 °...
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We are looking for a part-time research assistant with an enthusiasm for working with insects and plants to join our Leverhulme-funded project on butterfly scale development jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Research...
Research Assistant (Entomology)
Research Assistant (Entomology)
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Applications for the MEME programme (www.evobio.eu ) are now open! MEME is a research- and mobility-oriented master’s in evolutionary biology (& I’m a proud alumna!), jointly run by the Unis of Groningen, Uppsala, Montpellier, and LMU Munich, with Harvard and Lausanne as partners. Spread the word!
