Good to see some activity in the garden again.

RT @MichaelGBertram: The first many-analysts study in ecology is finally published! 🥳🙌. 300+ coauthors and 5+ years, this was a massive eff….

RT @savebutterflies: We are in a #ButterflyEmergency 🚨🦋. This year’s #BigButterflyCount saw the lowest number of butterflies spotted per Co….

What we cultivate in our veg patch: Large white butterfly caterpillars (Pieris brassicae).

Despite this, all chromosomes, attach to spindle microtubules at a single location, making this the first instance of a functionally monocentric species with holocentric-like attributes!.

New paper!. Our stick insects have weird chromosome segregation. The major centromere protein, CenH3, binds to the autosomes in a monocentric pattern, but in a holocentric pattern on the X.

New paper! . Dosage compensation in male reproductive tissues is present only in the early nymphal stages. This is likely due to the establishment of meiotic sex chromosome inactivation during development.

RT @AmyEllison_UK: 💡Recruiting!💡Looking for a postdoc interested in #chronobiology & functional genomics to join our project investigating….

Today's garden cutie (Ringlet butterfly, Aphantopus hyperantus).

RT @Metallophyte: New pre-print! We looked at whether phenotypic plasticity towards environmental cues only present in ancestral habitats (….

Today's cutie (Swollen-thighed beetle,.Oedemera nobilis).

Found this beauty (Nicrophorus humator) while doing fieldwork with the Insect Behaviour and Evolution students at @TreborthBG

Someone is excited to see the seeds we are planting! . (Tawny mining bee, Andrena fulva)

Finally warm enough to see some butterflies in the garden.

This weekend's garden insects.

Prep for the first-years first lecture back.

Thanks to the organizers of #popgroup57 for organizing such a great conference! Really good to be at one of these in person again.

Christmas butterfly hunting.

RT @AlexisLSperling: I have a new parthenogenesis paper with @LabGlover!. We found that aneuploidy arises during development in natural Dro….

RT @sciam: Some female stick insects can reproduce without males—but they have a secret.