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Erika Kupyrova

@ekupyrova.bsky.social

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Animal behaviour, particularly sexual selection, mate choice, same-sex sexual behaviour. Moths, birds. MSc at University of Liverpool. 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈

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ASAB Spring 2027 @asab-meetings.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Another great talk session this morning at #ASABSpring2026 : We covered meerkat sunning calls, fish colour patterning, cricket insecticide exposure, moth same-sex sexual behaviours, cold snap and heatwave effects on bees & farm bird song learning ☀️🐠🦗🦋🥶 🥵🐦‍⬛

A collage of students in front of slides

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Erika Kupyrova @ekupyrova.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

First time doing a big talk about my research! Thank you for your support and all the insightful questions @asab.org #ASABSpring2026

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BehavEcolPapers @behavecolpapers.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Reduced male pheromone production and an increased female sex ratio promote same-sex sexual #behavior in male Indian meal moths AnimBeh

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Reduced male pheromone production and an increased female sex ratio promote same-sex sexual #behavior in male Indian meal moths

Publication date: September 2025 Source: Animal Behaviour, Volume 227 Author(s): Erika Kupyrova, Liam Robert Dougherty, Tabitha Beesley, Zenobia Lewis

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Erika Kupyrova @ekupyrova.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Had the best time presenting my research on same-sex sexual behaviours in Indian meal moths at #ASABWinter2025 Was brilliant meeting and chatting with experts in animal behaviour, can’t wait to be back with new research!

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Erika Kupyrova @ekupyrova.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Baorangia bicolor / two-coloured bolete. Black pen on paper.

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Erika Kupyrova @ekupyrova.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Hortiboletus rubellus / ruby bolete: black pen and acrylic on paper.

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Erika Kupyrova @ekupyrova.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Coprinopsis atramentaria / common ink cap: black pen on paper.

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Erika Kupyrova @ekupyrova.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Absolutely delighted to share that I have published my first first-author manuscript in #AnimalBehaviourJournal with @zen-of-science.bsky.social, @liamdougherty.bsky.social and Tabitha Beesley, where we looked at why male moths attempt same-sex mating! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Reduced male pheromone production and an increased female sex ratio promote same-sex sexual behaviour in male Indian meal moths

Same-sex sexual behaviours (SSSBs) are often deemed detrimental to fitness because they carry the same costs as sexual interactions with the opposite …

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Erika Kupyrova @ekupyrova.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

besides doing science, i also have a heavily biology-influenced art side hustle! here are dot-work skulls of some of UK’s most widely occurring birds: a great tit, a European starling and a common wood pigeon :)

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Barnaby Edwards @barnabyedwards.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

An alert to all creatives using #WeTransfer. Basically, stop immediately! As of August, they will begin scraping everything you send for AI purposes (see the new paragraph in their Terms and Conditions below). If, like me, you’re a voice artist, they’ll clone your voice. Avoid at all costs.

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Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 08/04/2025

I say this every time de-extinction comes up: it makes no sense to devote science to bringing back extinct animals when we can’t be bothered to keep extant ones alive in the first place.

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Gregory Kohn @kohngregory.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Beautiful Soviet Poster, 1981, "Protect Ants!" (БЕРЕГИТЕ МУРAВЬЕВ!)

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Whenever you hear someone sneer about scientific research that seems useless to them — “they’re studying the spit of lizards?!” — remind them that’s exactly how we got Ozempic. globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

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How a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic - National | Globalnews.ca

In 1984, Dr. Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist from the University of Toronto, discovered a hormone that helped pave the way for popular diabetes drugs such as Ozempic.

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