iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reposted by Tuomas Kankaanpää

Dr. Jessica L Ware @jessicalwarelab.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Drivers of insect decline: direct, indirect, and combined pressures academic.oup.com/aesa/article...

academic.oup.com

Validate User

084

Reposted by Tuomas Kankaanpää

David Nogués Bravo @noguesbravo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Biodiversity shapes human health and human well-being...but how do we measure those connections? That´s the challenge I discuss in my contribution for the new Biodiversity and Health FACTS Report from the Veolia Institute. Full report: www.institut.veolia.org/en/publicati...

institut.veolia.org

Biodiversity and Health

2026

032

Reposted by Tuomas Kankaanpää

Journal of Hymenoptera Research @jhr.pensoft.net · 28/09/2026

🥑 A gall midge species, Bruggmanniella perseae, has been identified as the cause of fruit deformation in avocado crops in Mexico, with six parasitoid species discovered that naturally control this damaging insect pest: doi.org/10.3897/jhr.99.200280

0308

Reposted by Tuomas Kankaanpää

Miles Zhang | 张远濛 @ymilesz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Our paper on the rather large genome (1.08Gb) of the agricultural pest blueberry gall wasp is now out as a preprint. We also looked across chalcidoid genomes and found the genome size variation is largely driven by transposable element proliferation. 🧪 #Ormyridae #Hemadasnubilipennis

Blueberry gall wasp adult habitus and gall

Blueberry gall wasp genome snail plot, hi-c contact map, and K-mer spectra plot

Phylogeny, TE landscape, and PGLS between different chalcidoid lineages.

Chromosome structure of the blueberry gall wasp genome

1215

Reposted by Tuomas Kankaanpää

Michael Hiller @hillermich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Happy to share results of the @bat1kgenomes.bsky.social phase 1, providing reference genomes covering 21 bat families. New insights into bat phylogeny, ancestral genome reconstruction, European origin & ancestral echolocation. Great work by a team of 100+ colleagues www.nature.com/articles/s41...

nature.com

Reference genomes and fossils revise bat family phylogeny and biogeography - Nature

An updated phylogeny of bats is presented, based on new genome assemblies and many ancient fossils and including all known bat families.

318381

Reposted by Tuomas Kankaanpää

David Bradley @sciencebase.com · 24/09/2026

Exec Summ: Citizen science data often miss species because people tend to record sightings only where public access is easy. To get a complete picture, we need to encourage people to log common species near their homes and at the same time improve access to private natural areas for rare species.

063

Reposted by Tuomas Kankaanpää

RES Publications @respublications.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

New research in #RESMedVetEnt Body size and wing shape responses of #mosquitoes (Diptera: #Culicidae) to contrasting environmental conditions in cold-temperate Argentine Patagonia doi.org/10.1111/mve.... @wileyecology.bsky.social

032

Reposted by Tuomas Kankaanpää

Malte Jochum @maltejochum.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Working with #arthropod #bodymass in #ecology? 🕷️🪲🦟🦗🐜🐝🪳🐞 Then this preprint is for you! Batch-measuring of body length, width, and area and calculation of individual level body mass! ⚖️ This is a game changer!🌐 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... @wslresearch.bsky.social @uni-wuerzburg.de @ethz.ch

2146

Reposted by Tuomas Kankaanpää

Maija Karala @maijakarala.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Still doing this personal project of finding, photographing and illustrating the geometer moths of Finland. About 70 of the 300 or so species done. Not likely to ever be completed, but a lot of fun regardless! #SciArt

Digital illustration of riband wave (Idaea aversata), mutkakulmumittari

Digital illustration of ochraceous wave (Idaea serpentata), serpentiinimittari

Digital illustration of sandy carpet (Perizoma flavofasciata), keltanauhamittari

18920

Reposted by Tuomas Kankaanpää

MUSER PRESS @muser.press · 05/08/2026

#Butterfly ranges are shifting on every continent, with #climatechange and #extremeweather associated with 79% of recorded movements. A global study of 1,758 species also reveals major monitoring gaps in biodiversity-rich tropical regions. DOI: doi.org/rh8j

muser.press

Climate change is reshaping butterfly ranges worldwide • Muser Press

The researchers call for broader and more inclusive monitoring to track how climate pressures and land-use change are affecting butterfly diversity.

034

Reposted by Tuomas Kankaanpää

Alice Risely @alice-risely.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Are you interested in #gulls, diet metabarcoding, or both? Of course you are! Check out our new preprint where we use molecular methods to decode the (animal-based) diet of lesser black-backed gulls - arguably a species with one of the most diverse diets out there. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

33627

Reposted by Tuomas Kankaanpää

RES Publications @respublications.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

New #OpenAccess research in #RESInsectConsDiv Systematic differences in #phenology estimates from unstructured and structured #biodiversity datasets doi.org/10.1111/icad.70098 #Lepidoptera #InsectMonitoring @manusaunders.bsky.social @wileyecology.bsky.social Images courtesy of article authors

054

Tuomas Kankaanpää @bugwebs.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Midsummer midnight at a wilderness mosquito trap.

140

Tuomas Kankaanpää @bugwebs.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Waiting for the sun to make even a tiny appearance to capitalize on the final chance to collect a cloudberry pollinator sample on this Northern Enontekiö ice cored mire. #insectsofthenorth #interregaurora

060

Reposted by Tuomas Kankaanpää

Biodiversa+ (European Biodiversity Partnership) @biodiversa.eu · 18/06/2026

eDNA methods are opening new possibilities for biodiversity monitoring. But what is still needed for routine use? The recording of our webinar with Tiina Laamanen and Kristian Meissner from SYKE is now available: www.biodiversa.eu/2026/06/14/u...

biodiversa.eu

Webinar: eDNA methods in environmental monitoring

In this webinar, we explore where eDNA methods stand on the road to routine implementation, and what is still needed to support their wider uptake...

065

Tuomas Kankaanpää @bugwebs.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Started fieldwork this week. Cloudberry started flowering alreadly, which means scrambling to collect pollinators. Cloudberry herbivore Boloria freija was out and about too. Got many malaise traps up, but not all. Well there's still snow up north. #insectsofthenorth #interregaurora

020

Reposted by Tuomas Kankaanpää

Lauren Donovan Ginsberg @laurenginsberg.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

It's not 1536, but Anne Boleyn has taken over the news. Recently a team of computer scientists, electrical engineers and a historical novelist think they have discovered the “true face” of Anne (& her mother) by applying AI-based computational facial recognition to Holbein sketches. The catch? /1

15867383

Reposted by Tuomas Kankaanpää

Natalia (娜塔莉) @wrycritic.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Pterosaurs were colourful? Tapejarids having magenta iridescent colorationation? Chinese team uncovers complex pycnofibres with pigments in Sinopterus dongi. Source: biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.06.723168v1.full.pdf+html

Reconstruction of the iridescent appearance of Sinopterus dongi. By courtesy of Chuang Zhao.

“Brush-like” pycnofibres. Arrow, distal branches; Arrowheads, the thick and elongated proximal shaft.

526074

Tuomas Kankaanpää @bugwebs.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Practical use for bloodsucking insects.

020

Tuomas Kankaanpää @bugwebs.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Cool, shapes of melanosome sized structures in a well preserved skin fossil of a young Diplodocus suggest light speckles on a dark base colour.

020

Reposted by Tuomas Kankaanpää

John M. Drake @jdrakephd.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Add enough environmental noise to a mosquito-borne disease model and epidemics that R0 says should happen simply don't. But at intermediate noise, you get the biggest outbreaks. New paper in PLOS Comp Biol with Kyle Dahlin, Karin Ebey, and John Vinson. doi.org/10.1371/jour...

doi.org

Nonlinear effects of noise on outbreaks of mosquito-borne diseases

Author summary Climate change is expected to cause drastic changes in the spread of mosquito-borne disease outbreaks, both in where they occur and in their size. A key aspect of climate change is an i...

0155

Reposted by Tuomas Kankaanpää

RES Publications @respublications.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

New research in #RESSystematicEnt Phylogenomic analysis of #Chelonus (Hymenoptera: #Braconidae): Systematics and coevolution with endogenous bracoviriforms doi.org/10.1111/syen.70047 #UCEs #Phylogenomics @gkergoat.bsky.social @wileyecology.bsky.social

064

Reposted by Tuomas Kankaanpää

Jamie C. Weir @jamiecweir.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

📣 New Preprint, out now on @ecoevorxiv.bsky.social... Resource abundance can buffer trophic mismatch in a caterpillar-passerine food-chain 🌳→🐛→🐦 w/ @kenandlindasmith.bsky.social, @piedflynet.bsky.social et al. Read it here: doi.org/10.32942/X2K... ...or scroll for some highlights 🧵👇 1/4

182

Reposted by Tuomas Kankaanpää

Robin Heinen @robinheinennl.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Paper 19 is out: Conrad Schittko et al conducted a synthesis across a number of publicly available ALAN datasets that investigated effects of light intensity on ecological responses. The work highlights how many responses to ALAN occur at low (sub-lux) doses! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

sciencedirect.com

Universal dose–response sensitivity of ecological processes to low levels of artificial light at night

Artificial light at night (ALAN) is an emerging driver of biodiversity change, yet quantitative evidence on how biological responses scale with light …

133

Reposted by Tuomas Kankaanpää

Gunnar De Winter @gunnardewinter.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Ants like a morning pick-me-up too! “… under low to intermediate caffeine concentrations, ants were 38% faster with each consecutive visit, implying that caffeine boosts learning.” Bonus point for the ant people in the graphical abstract. www.cell.com/iscience/ful... #science #biology #animals

051

Tuomas Kankaanpää @bugwebs.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Research station staff called my sampling sites (six tent like traps each) extermination camps even though they didn't even have any nzi traps. Anyway, Stomoxys (muscidae) are cosmopolitan bloodsucking pests.

020

Reposted by Tuomas Kankaanpää

RES Publications @respublications.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

New research in #RESPhysEnt #Voltinism of the wild mulberry #silkmoth, #Bombyx mandarina (Lepidoptera: #Bombycidae), is defined by spring temperature and autumn daylength in Japan doi.org/10.1111/phen.70041 @wybouw.bsky.social @tbuescher.bsky.social @tobybruce.bsky.social @wileyecology.bsky.social

021

Reposted by Tuomas Kankaanpää

Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 11/04/2026

New #RSOS paper: Unveiling the patterns and drivers of scientific and societal interest in Brazilian #lepidopterans: doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

034

Reposted by Tuomas Kankaanpää

RES Publications @respublications.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

New research in #RESMedVetEnt Ecological drivers of St. Louis #encephalitis virus activity in #mosquito communities from Argentine agroecosystems doi.org/10.1111/mve.70066 #InsectVectors #Culicidae #InsectBorneDiseases @wileyecology.bsky.social Photos courtesy of article authors

022

Reposted by Tuomas Kankaanpää

RES Publications @respublications.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

New #OpenAccess work in #RESInsectConsDiv finds that #DistributionModels of polysphinctine #parasitoid wasps (#Ichneumonidae) reveal sampling bias & flag potentially overlooked host #interactions doi.org/10.1111/icad.70077 @riosdeciencia.bsky.social @marceloog3.bsky.social @manusaunders.bsky.social

064

Reposted by Tuomas Kankaanpää

RES Publications @respublications.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

New #OpenAccess research in #RESInsectConsDiv Hermit beetle (#Osmoderma barnabita) habitat selection & movement are shaped by tree #microhabitat availability in Eastern Romanian Carpathians doi.org/10.1111/icad.70078 #RadioTelemetry #Conservation @manusaunders.bsky.social @wileyecology.bsky.social

031

Reposted by Tuomas Kankaanpää

Butterfly Conservation Europe @europebutterfly.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Ever wanted to know about the special butterflies in the far north of Europe. Here is your chance to learn from an expert, Nils Ryrholm, who will deliver his online masterclass on Wednesday at 1500 CET. We can promise you a fabulous presentation. Details here butterfly-monitoring.net/index.php/ep...

0195

Reposted by Tuomas Kankaanpää

RES Publications @respublications.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

New research in #RESMedVetEnt Molecular surveillance reveals #Rickettsia aeschlimannii in ticks from livestock in northwestern Iran: A short communication doi.org/10.1111/mve.70062 #InsectVectors #InsectBorneDiseases @wileyecology.bsky.social

011

Reposted by Tuomas Kankaanpää

Michael Caterino @mcaterino.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Wow! A bat bot!

292

Reposted by Tuomas Kankaanpää

Jan Hrcek @janhrcek.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

I invite applications for a PhD position. Join our team exploring how rapid evolution in communities allows maintenance of genetic variation and species diversity! Application deadline is 7th May 2026. See lab.hrcek.net

01817

Tuomas Kankaanpää @bugwebs.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Ancient insect symbiont theorists believe bacteria covergently evolve into nutrient producing semi-organelles in sap-suckers.

000

Reposted by Tuomas Kankaanpää

ZooKeys @zookeys.pensoft.net · 27/03/2026

Using the gemotrid moth genus Nychiodes across the Iranian mountain ranges, a new study highlights how the combination of #morphological, #genetic and #ecological #data helps define the boundaries between closely related #species. Learn more: doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1273.161858

163

Reposted by Tuomas Kankaanpää

Joe Hanly @hanliconius.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Some quite elegant work from Kenta Tomihara and my PhD-twin @pinharanda.bsky.social: They mapped genetic variation in a caterpillar structure between wild and domestic Bombyx to a cluster of three Wnt genes, then narrowed down on the functional gene with a CRISPR mKO-based hemizygosity test.

journals.plos.org

Cis-regulatory evolution of Wnt family genes contributes to a morphological difference between silkworm species

1229

Reposted by Tuomas Kankaanpää

Journal of Evolutionary Biology @jevbio.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

We discovered ribosome-inactivating protein (RIP) genes in Wolbachia, revealing an evolutionary link with mosquitoes. Here we provide new evidence of horizontal gene transfer as a driver of innovation in insects: doi.org/10.1093/jeb/... Lapadula et al. 2026 @mabeltaracena.bsky.social

doi.org

Ancestral Wolbachia lineages are likely donors of ribotoxin genes in Aedes aegypti

Abstract. Ribosome-inactivating proteins (RIPs) are enzymes that irreversibly inhibit protein synthesis by depurinating a specific adenine residue in the r

052

Reposted by Tuomas Kankaanpää

Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Happy Taxonomist Appreciation Day, y'all. There's undescribed biodiversity all around us! Not long ago, Brian Brown and Emily Hartop put up some malaise traps smack in the middle of Los Angeles, and right away they described 30 new species of phorid flies. mapress.com/zt/article/v...

mapress.com

Opportunity in our Ignorance: Urban Biodiversity Study Reveals 30 New Species and One New Nearctic Record for Megaselia (Diptera: Phoridae) in Los Angeles (California, USA) | Zootaxa

2228