The ozone hole over Antarctica was growing rapidly throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, as the data in the chart shows. At its largest, the ozone hole was more than 25 million square kilometers — slightly bigger than the size of Sub-Saharan Africa. The earth’s ozone layer is

Just a reminder: 2 PhD positions are now open at Mammal Research Institute PAS first: bip.ibs.bialowieza.pl/wp-content/upl… second: ibs.bialowieza.pl/ogloszenia/20-… Cool projects, #Bialowieza is super-nice place to work & live so apply and join our team!

New study! We demonstrate a transatlantic flight for Vanessa cardui butterflies. An incredible feat for insects! Read the full paper here: nature.com/articles/s4146… #insectmigration #butterflymigration #PhyloMigrationLab Institut Botànic de Barcelona CSIC

We are very proud to announce our new paper published in mSystems, in which we described unique bacterial association and transmission mechanisms alongside other unique symbiosis evolutionary patterns! with Piotr Łukasik Diego Castillo Franco journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/ms…

We are on #mSystems ASM cover! Anna Michalik's microphotograph shows a ball formed by specialized symbiotic bacteria within the oocyte of a planthopper. This is a stage in symbionts' transovarial transmission, dating back >300 my. Link to our article below!

Check out the latest #planthopper tree based on genomic data! #phylogenomics #Auchenorrhyncha #Hemiptera doi.org/10.1101/2024.0… Great collaboration with colleagues in different fields! Jacek Szwedo Piotr Łukasik Niklas Wahlberg Hamid Ghanavi Etka Yapar Diego Castillo Franco Anna Michalik

I am super excited that one of the most interesting finding in my lab was published in Nature Microbiology !! Have you heard about the fungus that helps carnivorous plants digest insects? 🐜🍃

Here we go again: ecoevojobs 2024-25 is now open! docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

Some news 🎉 Elated to share that our work will soon be supported by an European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant! There will be openings to join the lab, so if you are keen to learn how plant pathogens double as insect mutualists, do reach out! Amsterdam Institute for Life and Environment Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (inactief) VU Faculteit der Bètawetenschappen #ERCStG

I am running out of words to describe how absurd August 2024 was in Svalbard. Reaching an average temperature of 11°C in August would have been unimaginable just a few years ago. This is totally bonkers.

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New preprint up! We sequenced hundreds of samples from across one of Earth's oldest living organisms - the Pando aspen clone - to understand how mutations accumulate and spread in long-lived clonal organisms. Our results were…surprising. 1/30

Here is something to distract you from the gloom: What can metagenomics tell us about the taxonomic composition of lichen symbioses? A peer-reviewed version of our analysis of >400 lichen metagenomes from around the world is now out in PLOS Biology. 1/12 doi.org/10.1371/journa…

A forest of neurons inside your head, happy #FluorescenceFriday 🔬🧪🧠

We churn out more & more papers *per scientist*, at an increasing pace, in a rapidly changing publication landscape. Why? How? Want to make sense of this? In a new paper just published in Quantitative Science Studies we dive in & look for answers. direct.mit.edu/qss/article/do…

I am looking for a postdoc! Pls RT #postdoc #genomics #insects #inversions genomicsofoutbreaks.com/?page_id=141

Of >105,000 participants with 30-year follow-up, only 9.3% achieved healthy aging (age 70, w/o any chronic diseases). Their diet was significantly associated with this outcome🧵 Nature Medicine

New paper The Journal of Invertebrate Pathology (JIP)! We show how #sequencing target genes of #insects, their fungal #pathogens, and #bacteria can facilitate #biodiversity and biological interaction discovery, and present new fly-Entomophthora associations from Greenland! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…