Talks by: Simon Yung Wa Sin Jack Dorman Anna Kukekova Xuan Zhuang Haoli Gan Gregory Wray Quentin Fernandez De Grado @mimicryin3d.bsky.social Léa Nicolas Riccardo Poloni Leandra Brettner Stephanie McKay @gabrielesgarlata.bsky.social @mich-albertini.bsky.social Vincent Mérel @abstokes.bsky.social

Funded PhD position available 🎉 Come and work with me in Helsinki to uncover the pathways producing colourful tiger moth wings. Lots of options for genomics, CRISPR, fieldwork, behaviour experiments… Email with questions! jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

Check out the graphical abstract for a paper recently published in Ecological Modelling. I have papers published in Ecological Modelling. Never again, I guess.

Looking forward to it - come and chat about molecular adaptations to heat

Jonathan Fenn@jfennbio.bsky.social · 12mo ago

And some poster presentations too! Christopher Taylor @mimicryin3d.bsky.social in Poster Session 1 on Monday, at poster number P01.261: 'Convergent molecular evolution of thermal tolerance in mammals '

I have arrived in Barcelona for ESEB 2025! I will be talking about microRNA and the evolution of the mammalian placenta on Tuesday at 14:30 in Meeting Room 113 @eseb2025.bsky.social

Winter ASAB @asab.org on *Sensory Ecology* register and submit your abstracts now (abstract deadline just a month away)! I'm organising the conference this year with @lauraakelley.bsky.social and Innes Cuthill Register & get more info here: asabwinter.github.io/2025/

Gorgeous natural history and gorgeous photos!

Alex Wild@alexwild.bsky.social · last yr.

These are not ants.

So very excited for the magnum opus of my #PhD to finally be out in @pnas.org. 🎉🎉 We demosntrate that mutualistic co-mimicking tropical butterflies not only converge in light microhabitat but, as a consequence, have also converged in visual system morphology! 1/n😀 www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Latest from the Nature Podcast 🔊 3D-printed fake wasps help explain bad animal mimicry https://go.nature.com/4lcluqU

3D-printed fake wasps help explain bad animal mimicry

Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 2 July 2025

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Thank you Tom Sherratt and Karl Loeffler-Henry for the excellent commentary on our article

Nature@nature.com · last yr.

Predation experiments using models of edible flies and stinging wasps provide some answers to a long-standing evolutionary puzzle in mimicry research https://go.nature.com/4lzU4uQ

Why do imperfect mimics (such as many hoverflies) exist? We created 3D printed replicas of flies, wasps and our own custom intermediates and then "asked" various predators what they thought of our 3D stimuli. Read all about it here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Mapping the adaptive landscape of Batesian mimicry using 3D-printed stimuli - Nature

Birds have an excellent ability to learn to discriminate harmless insects from those that they mimic on the basis of subtle differences in appearance.

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Brilliant preprint out from some lab colleagues - do check it out

Jonathan Fenn@jfennbio.bsky.social · last yr.

Take a look at our work on miRNAs and their involvement with placental phenotypes. It's great to see this work finally see the light of day - huge thanks to everyone involved with the manuscript.

After being very quiet on social media for a couple of years, I've been spurred to get organised by a bit of good news that I'd like to share very soon. Watch this space!