Reposted by Annie JessopCentre for Evolutionary Biology at UWA @ceb-uwa.bsky.social · 20/07/2026The Art of Ant War 🛡️ @invertebrateissy.bsky.social presenting her work on battlefield complexity on any warfare outcomes in native and introduced 🐜 in WA. #ISBE2026 0144
Annie Jessop @aleejessop.bsky.social · 15/10/2025Our new butterfly gyroid paper is out! We found that the gyroid nanostructure embedded within the wing scales of Parides sesostris butterflies develops in the pupa as a gyroid made up of entangled fibres. Check out the paper here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...pnas.orgHierarchical woven fibrillar structures in developing single gyroids in butterflies | PNASNature offers a remarkable diversity of nanomaterials that have extraordinary functional and structural properties. Intrinsic to nature is the impr... 100
Reposted by Annie JessopJen Kelley @jenkelley01.bsky.social · 26/09/2025Wa hoo! Our paper in Science is out today, revealing why some prey use conspicuous warning colouration while others use camouflaging colours. A huge global collaboration under incredible leadership by Iliana Medina and @wlallen.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...science.orgGlobal selection on insect antipredator colorationNatural selection has repeatedly led to the evolution of two alternative antipredator color strategies—camouflage to avoid detection and aposematism to advertise unprofitability—but we lack understand... 24611
Annie Jessop @aleejessop.bsky.social · 17/02/2025Very happy to share that I have been awarded a #MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship to work on the extravagant colours of peacock jumping spiders with @bodowilts.bsky.social at the Paris Lodron University of Salzburg. Feeling very lucky indeed! Image courtesy of Jurgen Otto: www.peacockspider.org 1110
Annie Jessop @aleejessop.bsky.social · 13/02/2025Loved working on this collaboration with @jenkelley01.bsky.social and so happy to see it published. The three-dimensional appearance that these moths create on their flat wings is really remarkable and it was great fun characterising the effect. 010
