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Assessing zinc tolerance in two butterfly species: consequences for conservation in polluted environments onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Zinc, an acquired taste Cabbage whites like it a lot Monarchs more fussy Assessing zinc tolerance in two butterfly species: consequences for conservation in polluted environments The Sciku Project onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/175245…

Monarchs, milkweed, and metal: is roadside zinc pollution harming butterflies? 🐛🦋New post is live: buff.ly/2UMaEg7

If it seems to you that American politics has reached peak madness, or escape velocity, here are 2 essays that lay out backstory—conditions that set us up even before Trump’s election. 1) @Edsall summarizing research on rising cross-partisan animosity: nytimes.com/2020/07/08/opi…

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New work with Emilie Snell-Rood now out in Evolutionary Applications

Review received today. Wow. This is how science is supposed to work! Impressed with this reviewer. Academic Chatter™ #PeerReview

People who live past 105 years old have genes that stop DNA damage bit.ly/2PXwdvR

Study of mangrove rivulus #fish hints at mechanism for #brain evolution of land animals Royal Society Publishing phys.org/news/2021-06-m…

UMN researchers Alex Shephard and Lauren Agnew are working to understand the complex factors that contribute to insect pollinator stress and how to increase nutrition in roadside habitats. Learn more about their work in this video! #BugsOutsideTheBox youtube.com/watch?v=1X9wze…

Latest piece of our ongoing research on the nutritional ecology of #roadsides with Emilie Snell-Rood out now in ConservationPhysiology #Monarch caterpillars are robust to combined exposure to the roadside micronutrients #sodium and #zinc academic.oup.com/conphys/articl…

As I wrap up my third field season studying the cabbage white butterfly, I've almost memorized how to spell Brassicaceae.

A late summer #monarch caterpillar spotted today at Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve, Minnesota.

Urbanisation Exposes Birds to Metal Pollution Marion Chatelain tells us more about this great study on the blog: urbanevolution-litc.com/2021/10/29/urb… #UrbanEvolution #UrbanEcology

Deep-sea rockfish that live to be 200 hint at genes for longevity bit.ly/3HeYXpJ

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KLI Fellowship Call!!! This is the first announcement of a new KLI #postdoc fellowship in collaboration w/ Philipp Mitteröcker at the Dept of Evolutionary Biology @UniVienna. “Evolutionary theory in interdisciplinary context” kli.ac.at/content/en/the… Deadline: Dec 15, 2022

'Superagers' who stay sharp into their 80s have larger neurons in a part of the brain involved with memory newscientist.com/article/234056…

📰Published📰 Traffic patterns – more than adjacent land use – influence element content of roadside forbs & most levels of metals are below toxic levels for leaf-feeding caterpillars 🚗🐛📉 New research by Alex Shephard Emilie Snell-Rood Elizabeth Borer 🔗besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

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