Our latest #DarwinTreeOfLife #GenomeNote: the black-veined white butterfly (Aporia crataegi)🦋 Thanks to Sam Ebdon @zanderhayward @saadarif81 Rebecca Whitla 🏳️‍🌈 Biological Sciences | University of Edinburgh @SangerToL and all who worked on this #genome🧬 Read how we did it WellcomeOpenResearch: wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/7-81

We are excited to announce the winners of our 2021 Student Award - Congrats to Fitzy ✨🕷🌈 for 1st prize, Ashley Dear for 2nd & Amy E. Farrow 3rd! Read more about the #competition here: royensoc.co.uk/membership-and… #Insects #Entomology #Science #Writing #SciComm #Student

Interested in museum genomics and/or butterflies? Come chat to me at the #ESEB2022 poster evening at poster 658!

The Diarsia Awards are small research grants for Masters and PhD students in memory of the gifted lepidopterist Douglas Boyes (Dr Douglas Boyes)(Clare Boyes). Find out here how to apply: butterfly-conservation.org/our-work/scien… UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Brookes_CFG @ScienceBazaar Royal Entomological Society Butterfly Conservation 🦋

📢 #EGG2023 open for abstracts and registration ‼️ 🗓️ 5-7 September Oxford Statistics Since 1957, Ecological Genetics has met annually to provide a platform for all working at the nexus of ecology, evolution, and population genetics 🗺️🧬 Talks and posters welcome! 🎙️ britishecologicalsociety.org/event/egg2023-…

Butterfly Conservation has received lots of fantastic messages from people who are seeing the extinct Black-veined White butterfly in south-east London. Seeing butterflies is one of the heart-warming delights that should accompany a sunny day. 🧵👇 (1/5) 📸: Matt Berry

The last days of Aporia crataegi (L.) in Britain: evaluating genomic erosion in an extirpated butterfly biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_evobio

🥚 #EGG2024 18-20 September, online Since 1957, Ecological Genetics meets annually for all working at the nexus of ecology, evolution, and population genetics. This year is no difference and our science has no borders. Abstract submission & registration now open britishecologicalsociety.org/event/ecologic…

Come and join us for the Ecological Genetics Group Annual Meeting #EGG2024: Nature Has No Borders 18–20 September 2024 Online Abstract submission extended until 18 August Registration opens until 18 August britishecologicalsociety.org/event/ecologic…

The Black-veined White butterfly became extinct in the UK 100 years ago - DNA analysis of museum collections tracks genetic evidence of decline - @saadarif81, NHM Geoff Martin, Rebecca Whitla 🏳️‍🌈 &al doi.org/10.1111/mec.17…

#EGG2024 is starting in minutes! Grab your seat, and a fabulous series of talks awaits.

Butterfly decline and genomics: the case of the Black-veined White - a great scrollytelling explanation of research from Rebecca Whitla 🏳️‍🌈 Korneel Hens Casper_J_Breuker @saadarif81 👉🦋saadarif.github.io/BVW-LastDays/

#AIMS2024 - been there, got the mug! Thanks to all who attended! A big thanks to all our generous sponsors - National Parks and Wildlife Service Vincent Wildlife INJ-Journal ATU Galway City Scott Cawley MKO The Heritage Council Galway City Council Galway County Council An exciting time for Irish mammalogy!