New paper! Insects commonly time dormancy based on daylength, and responses to daylength have evolved in range-expanding populations facing novel daylength calendars. But how crucial is this for expanding species tracking climate niches? Maybe less than you’d think. (1/6) doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

Fitness effects of local seasonal adaptation depend on the timing of reproduction in a range-expanding butterfly

Abstract. Local seasonal adaptation across latitudes is ubiquitous, but its fitness consequences are rarely estimated in the field. Using a common-garden f

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This is one of my favorite pieces of footage from space. Remember the early Macs had a motorized floppy drive that would eject the disk?

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3st0n14n defence forces replacing the letter õ with 6 (common in slang) in official air threat message is simply beautiful!

New review: we discuss how the continuous nature of insect diapause induction and termination responses (which are often seen as binary threshold decisions) offers phenological robustness and evolutionary flexibility that can reduce vulnerability to climate change–driven seasonal timing mismatches.

Rethinking diapause timing thresholds in a warming world

Diapause lets insects synchronize their life cycles with seasonal environments, but climate change challenges its effectiveness by reshaping thermal r…

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Loke von Schmalensee@vonschmalensee.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Interested in insect phenology? @matsittonen.bsky.social and and I argue that population-level diapause responses, which form smooth distributions despite binary individual decisions, are key to understanding climate change responses and range shifts. Just out in #COIS: doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

However great #TIBS2026 has been, I can't endure three full days of talks. So I took a few hours off to visit Den gamle byn, and what an impressive museum (or collection of museums) it turned out to be! Go there if you can find the time while in Aarhus!

The park next to the #TIBS2026 venue offers unexpected birding fun – I'm not used to aggregations of 15 or so moorhens casually hanging around with gulls, mallards and jackdaws.

I spent a wonderful family holiday in our beautifully snowy former hometown, Uppsala! Now it's time for work again, but not quite the usual kind of work – #TIBS2026 and Aarhus, here I come!

I finally finished reading Walden! In many places a frustrating, but also an interesting, occasionally funny, and often beautiful read. A few favourites of mine: the excited ant war report, the excessively detailed description of different kinds of ice, and this pictured passage... (1/2)

The new European Butterfly Red List is published today, with worrying findings. Over 1/4 (28%) of Europe’s 442 species are threatened with extinction or are close to being so. The situation is far worse for our 148 endemic species, 40% are now threatened or nearly so www.bc-europe.eu/webpage.php?...

Kaivosala on käynnistänyt mediakampanjan, jonka tavoitteena on saada hallitus perumaan maltillisen kaivosveron maltillinen korotus. Luonnonsuojeluliitto antaa hallitukselle ruusuja & kehottaa kaivosteollisuutta keskittymään toimintansa kestävyyden parantamiseen. #kaivokset www.sll.fi/ajankohtaist...

Ei ole niin pientä veronkorotusta, etteikö kaivosala sitä vastaan pullikoisi – kaivosveroa on välttämätöntä korottaa

Kaivostoimijat ovat joukolla nousseet vastustamaan hallituksen esittämää maltillista kaivosveron korotusta valtakunnallisella mediakampanjalla. Vuonna 2024 Suomessa otettiin vuosien vaikuttamistyön…

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Ympäristöpäällikkömme @heiantti.bsky.social kirjoittaa, että kaivosveron korotus on välttämätöntä ja oikein. Se ohjaa kaivosyhtiöitä muuttamaan toimintaansa kestävämmäksi ja jättämään matalapitoisimmat esiintymät rauhaan. Suomen #kaivosvero on korotuksenkin jälkeen matala. www.hs.fi/mielipide/ar...

Lukijan mielipide | Hallitus esitys kaivosverosta ansaitsee kiitoksen

Ilman riittävää kaivosverotusta uhkana on, että myös hyvin matalapitoiset ja heikot mineraaliesiintymät avataan.

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Remarkable & important Finnish court decision. Activists stopped logging in Helsinki & didn't follow police's orders to leave. The court ruled activists had the right to break the law (disobedience towards police) because they had to; it was the only way to save a legally protected stream habitat!

Helsingin Stansvikin metsän suojelijoille ei niskoittelutuomioita – käräjäoikeus pohti päätöksenteossa Koijärvi-liikettä

Viittä mielenosoittajaa syytettiin niskoittelusta poliisia vastaan Stansvikin metsässä kaksi vuotta sitten.

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Mridul K. Thomas@mridulkthomas.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Need to think more about the headline claim, but this proposes a very nice new thermal performance curve (TPC) function with appealing properties. www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

German minister of culture criticized countries that boycott the Eurovision Song Contest if Israel participates for "cancel culture". The willingness of leading German politicians to approve genocide is quite baffling. I mean, they were supposed to have learned something from their country's past...

Adrian Daub@adriandaub.bsky.social · 12mo ago

It’s downright poignant to have one (1) idea in your life and for that idea to be wrong

I don't know what to really think of this, but it was an interesting late-night read for sure!

Michael Hochberg@mkhochb.bsky.social · 12mo ago

What future does AI hold? With @paulbrainey.bsky.social, we hypothesize that human-AI coevolution is leading to the emergence of a new evolutionary unit of selection. Science fiction or looming fact? Read our paper and judge for yourself. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

News from Finland. A 9-year-old lost an especially good stick he’d had since he was 2. He hung up 20 posters. A few days later it was returned. It had been found by a 2-year-old, who wanted to keep it for herself, but her mother made her return it. She got toys, flowers and candy as a reward.

🚨🚨🚨 In the worst tradition of the McCarthy-era anti-communist House Un-American Activities Committee, the GOP House Oversight Committee has just launch a massive, grotesque, ad hominem, partisan assault on the US National Academy of Sciences. oversight.house.gov/wp-content/u...

Map of areas meeting thresholds for butterfly observation count & species sampling coverage in 2001–2010. I find this fascinating. I expected the good coverage in western and parts of northern Europe, but, knowing little about south-eastern Europe, I didn't expect Serbia to be a data hotspot. (1/3)

Enviously peeking in on all the #ESEB2025 content posted here. I've always wanted to go, but never did because ESEB always overlaps with my daughter's birthday! 🙁Well, I currently don't do much evolution anyway, but this year I was at least lucky to have Matthew Nielsen present our recent paper!

Interesting paper using @ukbms.bsky.social data to examine extreme weather impacts on butterfly populations. Winter heatwaves and periods of high rainfall appear bad for many species. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🌍

Butterfly abundance changes in England are well associated with extreme climate events

Climate change exerts significant impacts on ecosystems through extreme climate events (ECEs), which are linked to various climate variables and can o…

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Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all: “If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.” Israel just killed him.

Finns are proudly rule-abiding, but living abroad has taught me that we really could sometimes relax a bit. A popular train route can't be run with longer trains because some platforms are too short. In Sweden, they do use the long trains; you just can't exit from the last few cars – problem solved.

VR | Junat Riihimäeltä Hankoon tulivat tupaten täyteen, osa joutunut matkustamaan seisten

Uusi junayhteys on osoittautunut erittäin suosituksi.

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Meet the new seal species: Pusa saimensis! yle.fi/a/74-20173801

Saimaa ringed seal recognised as distinct species

The seals native to Lake Saimaa were found to be genetically distinct from other ringed seals, according to a recent study by Finnish and international researchers.

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As the climate warms, species are heading uphill and poleward, but such moves may require evolutionary adaptations. A study of butterflies finds evolution for the timing of life events, but winter cold still limits range expansion. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Outoa tosiaankin. Myös "avoimesti saatavissa olevien julkaisujen osuus" laatuindikaattorina pistää silmään, kun olen ymmärtänyt että hallitus haluaisi säästää rahaa; indikaattorihan kuvaa pitkälti sitä, kuinka paljon rahaa syydetään kankkulan kaivoon maksamalla julkaisijoille tuplana.

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Hyvin outoa on tämä. Tapio Määttä: Ministeriö asetti yliopistot paremmuusjärjestykseen – yksi peruste on, kuinka suuri osa valmistuneista sijoittuu Uudellemaalle suomenkuvalehti.fi/mielipide/ta...

🚨Postdoc opportunity🚨: LepEU postdoc: comparative population genomics of European scale adaptation in butterflies 2 year, full-time PD in my group, Stockholm Univ. Applications assed on rolling basis, deadline: 23 August 2025. Planned start 1 Oct. Details: christopherwheatlab.wordpress.com

New paper in @pnas.org — and this is my favourite one out of my PhD thesis! Field transplants of wall brown butterflies show life history evolution during climate change-driven range expansion, BUT non-evolving winter tolerance still sets the range limit.🧵1/12. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

I finally managed to find a copy of this crucial, but out of print, Estonian language learning material! 🤩 Brilliant folk/bluegrass band & special guest's children's album – released together with a song- and colouring book! Lovely idea & great music.

Very useful blog on safety in the field, with the focus on marginalised communities. Thank you @zoomingbio.bsky.social and @britishecologicalsociety.org for this piece; mandatory reading for anyone teaching and organising field courses. 🧪 #academicsky #DEI methodsblog.com/2025/06/17/s...

Supporting safe and equitable access to field research

To celebrate Pride Month 2025, we are excited to share a series of blogs and podcasts highlighting useful articles and resources for LGBTQIA+ ecologists and researchers. In each post, the authors b…

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