Our new paper.

New paper! Using pollen DNA metabarcoding, citizen science and remote sensing we track origin and movements of the massive 2019 #PaintedLady butterfly outbreak. 🦋🌍 #ButterflyMigration #InsectMigration #vanessacardui #PhyloMigrationLab Institut Botànic de Barcelona

How a liverwort reacts to wounding: tracing the evolution of defence responses in the nonvascular plant Marchantia polymorpha 📖 ow.ly/g4If50Sp5qz #Commentary by Claudia Beraldo and Alessandro Alboresi highlighting the recent work by Sanmartín et al. 📖 ow.ly/Mbk250Sp5qA

🚅Advance Access: Review💐 Secret Weapon of Insects: The Oral Secretion Cocktail and Its Modulation of Host Immunity Vinod Kumar Prajapati et al. doi.org/10.1093/pcp/pc… ✨Excellent summary of survival strategy of herbivory insects and underlying molecular mechanisms

Not spatial resolution, not temporal resolution, but climate proximity is what matters. Indeed, in a new paper we show a 247% (!) improvement in ecological model performance using proximal microclimate data. I break this concept down for you here ⬇️ the3dlab.org/2024/06/28/pro…

I am happy to share our recently published review : "A transition from enemies to allies: how viruses improve drought resilience in plants" ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P… This review is inspired by the work I did with @clarecasteel at #Cornell. Thank you, Clare.

Cornell has an open tenure track faculty position (Asst. Prof.) in PLANT ECOLOGY in the E&EB Dept., please consider applying! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/27879

We are currently recruiting for the following roles: * Head of Science Operations * Research Assistant / Associates * Research Laboratory Technicians Please visit the University job site for full details 👇 jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/?unit=u002…

I wrote a little Blogpost about how to make figures interactive, using the python library bokeh: luerig.net/posts/interact… I use this quite often to better understand multivariate phenotypic data (e.g., in PCA), especially if it's abstract (e.g. image embeddings from AI models)

She is out! Yahooo! Happy Dance!

We must train specialists in botany and zoology — or risk more devastating extinctions nature.com/articles/d4158…

Fresh from the Kersch-Becker Lab! 🌿Our latest research Ecology Letters shows how leaf shelters boost microbial diversity in the phyllosphere. Congrats to Danilo Ferreira Borges on this exciting work! 👏🎉 #latinosinSTEM #diversityinSTEM One Health Microbiome Center Penn State Entomology doi.org/10.1111/ele.14…

🎉Thrilled to announce my tenure-track position at University of Neuchatel (Switzerland), inheriting the lab of Prof. Ted Turlings. 2 PhD positions available on #ChemicalEcology and #Sustainable #agriculture 🌽🫛🐝🐛🐞 Job details: informationecology.github.io/openpositions/

Paper alert 🚨! Check out what we found about how "push-pull" mixed cropping can work, mechanistically speaking... The "push-pull technology" is a mixed cropping practice that consists in cultivating a focal crop together with companion plants.

Here is a link to an exciting collection of 14 new review articles in Current Opinions in Insect Science on "Parasitoid Biology in the Anthropocene" edited by Editors: R.M. Borges, R. Venkatesan and S. van Nouhuys. sciencedirect.com/special-issue/…

New PhD positions in tropical insect ecology at our institute - highly recommended.

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