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Gabriela Montejo-Kovacevich

@gmkov.bsky.social
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Evolutionary biologist 🦋 Assistant Professor, Uppsala University www.montejo-kovacevich-lab.com

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Gabriela Montejo-Kovacevich @gmkov.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The lab is growing 🤩 exciting times ahead
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
From the abstract: “promoting a woman to Associate Professor increases female faculty by 1.5 members after 15 years, leads to six additional female PhD graduates over the following decade, and raises the number who subsequently remain in academia and reach tenured positions”
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Gabriela Montejo-Kovacevich @gmkov.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Representing all the amazing research at the Evolutionary Biology Centrum from Uppsala University #SMBE2026 @animecol-uu.bsky.social @evobiouppsala.bsky.social
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Veronika Mrazek @vmrazek.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I am very happy to present my PhD project so far at #SMBE2026 ! If you want to find out about the genomics of host plant adaptation and ecotypic diversity in the Edith's checkerspot butterfly, come and find me in the Main Hall, poster B116 🦋🧬
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Gabriela Montejo-Kovacevich @gmkov.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
this was an incredibly cool talk!!
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Gabriela Montejo-Kovacevich @gmkov.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Some lab members at SMBE presenting for their first conference! Today: Jana Weigel (master) will speak in the Evolutionary rescue symposium at 17.35h about isolation by environment 🐛 Tomorrow: Veronika Mrazek (PhD) will present a poster on the genomics of ecotypic diversity (B116) 🦋
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Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales @mncn-csic.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
#blogmncn 🦋Las mariposas Morpho azul exhiben algunos de los colores + brillantes de la naturaleza. Se trata de una coloración azul que llama poderosamente la atención por su iridiscencia. Pero el mayor interés de estos insectos es científico y tecnológico. www.mncn.csic.es/es/comunicac...
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Gabriela Montejo-Kovacevich @gmkov.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Congratulations to Raissa Rausch for smashing her master thesis defence last week 💪🏽🙌 she has worked on simulating bottlenecks during biocontrol releases in islands. Super #proudPI @animecol-uu.bsky.social
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Gabriela Montejo-Kovacevich @gmkov.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
In the time I have been at Uppsala, ~9 students have contacted me about masters projects. All were women. Role models matter? Fear of sexism from teachers? Sexism in students? Please join us, we dont often bite
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Gabriela Montejo-Kovacevich @gmkov.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Our program went out sampling around Uppsala, following the footsteps of Prof Kullenberg, and we recorded >300 observations in inaturalist! www.inaturalist.org/projects/bot...
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BOTANISKA TRÄDGÅRDEN & HÅGADALEN Bioblitz 29may
This project is a Bioblitz held at Botaniska trädgården. Participants will explore local biodiversity by observing, photographing, and documenting insects. All observations will be uploaded to iNatura...
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Gabriela Montejo-Kovacevich @gmkov.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
My students know me too well 😍
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Andrew Mongue @ajmongue.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Can confirm, we've used this method to preserve and sequence DNA from critters caught in the Costa Rican cloud forest. Chromosome level insect genomes from tissue kept at room temperature for ~5 days before we could get it back to the lab!
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David Berger @dbergerbiol.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Still 10 days left to apply - Come join us in Uppsala! Fully funded Phd position in Evolutionary Biology. Deadline 22nd of May.
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Gabriela Montejo-Kovacevich @gmkov.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
SUPER exciting PhD with David Berger (+me as co-supervisor). Incredible datasets ready to crack on Also: Sweden has some of the best PhD salaries and working conditions in the world. Four years (+up to 20% teaching) fully funded. Contact us for any questions
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Gabriela Montejo-Kovacevich @gmkov.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
The reason butterfly rearing is mostly about gardening: (x1 speed!)
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María cortazar-chinarro @cortazar-chinarro.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
A new phD position in my lab about amphibian, infection diseases in a global changing world. Check it out! And spread the word ;)
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Gabriela Montejo-Kovacevich @gmkov.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
iPhones are the new hand lens 🤓 (looking for a terminal, angled, orange spike to ID Euphydryas edtiha vs chalcedona)
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Joana Meier @joanameier.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
David Marques was an amazing speciation genomics researcher, a passionate birder, and a wonderful friend, husband, and father. May he rest in peace. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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David Alexander Marques (1984–2026) - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Speciation genomics researcher, author of the combinatorial theory of speciation and passionate birder
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Luca Livraghi @lucalivraghi.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
New pre-print with some updates on ivory:miR193 in a highly polymorphic moth. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... We mapped ivory (again!?) this time controlling aspects of camouflage in Anticarsia gemmatalis. Mapping, SVs, Expression and Function. Comments/suggestions welcome!
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Gabriela Montejo-Kovacevich @gmkov.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
What a way to start the year!! Really enjoyed the usual friendly atmosphere at PopGroup and all the research shared. Many thanks to the organisers @popgroup2026.bsky.social If anyone is interested in joining my group or coming to Sweden please get in touch 🧬❄️
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Henry North @henrylnorth.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Oh my way to PopGroup! I’ll be talking about our preprint on bidirectional adaptive introgression between native and invasive agricultural pests: Friday, 16:30 in Amphi B doi.org/10.64898/202...
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The collision of two genomes threatens global food security
Human activity alters selection pressures and species’ ranges, creating opportunities for hybridisation through secondary contact. Ancient hybridization has enabled adaptive radiation, but its role in...
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Cian Williams @cd-williams.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Excited to be in Lille for @popgroup2026.bsky.social ! Come and catch my talk on accounting for local adaptation in species distribution models @16:15 in Amphi B :)
Lille town centre
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Gabriela Montejo-Kovacevich @gmkov.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
We’ve been working on this paper longer than it took adaptive alleles to cross the species barrier (in both directions) and make two pests ever more resistant to the things we throw at them. New preprint out 🧬🌱🐛
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Florida Museum of Natural History @floridamuseum.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Tom and John Emmel and Sterling Mattoon officially began their work on “The Butterflies of California” book in 1974. Now, more than 50 years after they began, the book draft has officially been published online and is freely available to the public: www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/the-... 🦋📕
a shallow wooden tray has eight smaller white cardboard boxes in it with rows of carefully preserved and pinned small butterflies, either white with dark freckles or yellow with orange wing tips, seen from directly above
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Gabriela Montejo-Kovacevich @gmkov.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
We are so pleased with our new Assist Plus robot. Already hugely upscaling magnetic bead extractions! 🧬 next up libraries and museum samples. (thanks @scilifelab.se for the funding).
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Pável Matos @pavelmatosm.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
New PhD position: Butterfly Evolution at High Elevations 🦋⛰️ The project aims to understand the rapid evolution and adaptation of white butterflies at high elevations. DEADLINE: January 11, 2025 More info: pavelmatos.wordpress.com/join-us/
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Join us
Opportunities Below are the positions currently open in our lab. Fully-funded PhD position The project aims to understand rapid evolution and adaptation in white butterflies flying at high elevatio…
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Gabriela Montejo-Kovacevich @gmkov.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Really exciting times to be doing Lepidoptera research! Incredible efforts by the consortium (and thank you for bringing Lepbase back too, sorely missed!)
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Charlotte Wright @charlottewright.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
I'm very excited that our paper on Project Psyche is now published! 🦋🧬 Over the last two years we've built an incredible community & already made huge progress. Read about this & how @projectpsyche.bsky.social will drive exciting and collaborative science here: www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
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Project Psyche: reference genomes for all Lepidoptera in Europe
Project Psyche is a transnational initiative to generate and study chromosome-level reference genomes of all ~11 000 species of Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths) found in Europe. Here, we describe t...
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Mario Vallejo-Marin @nicrodemo.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Too warm to buzz? Check out our newest paper on how warming temperatures affect bee buzzes in the Arctic. Well done to Charlie and Guadalupe and other coauthors for this nice study in the Swedish Arctic! @hfspo.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Increasing temperatures affect thoracic muscle performance in Arctic bumblebees - Nature Communications
Increasing temperatures threaten cold-adapted pollinators such as Arctic bumblebees by disrupting their physiology. This study found that thorax acceleration during non-flight vibrations peaks at 25 °...
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Nicola Nadeau @nicolanadeau.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
We are looking for a part-time research assistant with an enthusiasm for working with insects and plants to join our Leverhulme-funded project on butterfly scale development jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Research...
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Research Assistant (Entomology)
Research Assistant (Entomology)
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E. Yağmur Erten @yagmurerten.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Applications for the MEME programme (www.evobio.eu ) are now open! MEME is a research- and mobility-oriented master’s in evolutionary biology (& I’m a proud alumna!), jointly run by the Unis of Groningen, Uppsala, Montpellier, and LMU Munich, with Harvard and Lausanne as partners. Spread the word!
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Kathy Darragh @kdarragh.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
I'm looking for PhD students to join the lab starting August 2026. We study the evolution of insect chemical signals so if you're interested in evolutionary biology, chemical ecology, molecular biology, behavior, or genetics, this could be a good fit for you! More info here: tinyurl.com/mrxchwfm
Green butterfly sat on a flower.
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Gabriela Montejo-Kovacevich @gmkov.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Reliably hungry students @ an R crashcourse 😍
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Lisandro Milocco @milocco.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
🚨 We're hiring! PhD position in Evolutionary Systems Biology at Stockholm University & SciLifeLab 🎓 Focus: evolution, development, computational & mathematical modeling, prediction 📍 Stockholm, Sweden 🕒 4 years, fully-funded 🔍 Details: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/... Please share!
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Gabriela Montejo-Kovacevich @gmkov.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
I guess I’m a euphy biologist now ☺️
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Gabriela Montejo-Kovacevich @gmkov.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
First day of fieldwork: one flat tyre, one gopher snake, and many Euphydryas editha 🤩 @ Piute peak, California
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David Berger @dbergerbiol.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Finally out: Predicting adaptation to climate warming www.nature.com/articles/s41... We find that there are many genomic routes to heat-adaptation, but this can also make genomic data of limited value for prediction. A tour de force by @denovorego.bsky.social , with @stelkens.bsky.social.
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Repeatability of evolution and genomic predictions of temperature adaptation in seed beetles - Nature Ecology & Evolution
The authors compare genomic and phenotypic changes between genetic backgrounds of seed beetles evolved at hot or cold temperatures. Despite phenotypic changes being more rapid and predictable at hot t...
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Gabriela Montejo-Kovacevich @gmkov.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
A much deserved award to the mother of climate change ecology and dear Euphydryas collaborator, Camille. Her story is one of resilience and fighting to study what she believed was important, not what was trendy at the time. www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
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The Frontiers of Knowledge Award goes to Camille Parmesan for demonstrating the impact of climate change on the geographical displacement of species round the globe
The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Climate Change and Environmental Sciences goes in this seventeenth edition to Camille Parmesan (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France...
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Gabriela Montejo-Kovacevich @gmkov.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
A little tutorial to make interactive maps with GBIF data for any species, including any metadata you want - pictures too Great work by intern Edgar Signe from Brest University www.montejo-kovacevich-lab.com/projects/
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Vicki Hird MSc FRES @vickihird.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Know a budding insect lover? Here's a new fund from @royentsoc.bsky.social and family of the great moth expert Douglas Boyes. For 14-18 year old persons who would benefit from funding to support their entomological interest? Please encourage them to apply www.royensoc.co.uk/douglas-boye...
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Douglas Boyes Fund - Royal Entomological Society
The Douglas Boyes Fund has been established in honour of Douglas Boyes (1996-2021), an esteemed entomologist specialising in Lepidoptera. The Fund aims to provide young people aged 14-18 with access t...
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Gabriela Montejo-Kovacevich @gmkov.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
What an amazing week at the @floridamuseum.bsky.social We digitised >800 Euphydryas editha, sampled hundreds of legs for genomics, and was given access to Mattoon’s incredible California butterfly collection. Thanks @vmshirey.bsky.social Anisha Sapkota and Andrei Sourakov for all your help
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Gabriela Montejo-Kovacevich @gmkov.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Butterfly detective by night 🦋🕵🏼‍♀️
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Animal Ecology Uppsala @animecol-uu.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
📣 New PhD position on flycatchers with @qvarnstromlab.bsky.social — spread the word! Combine bioinformatics, long-term datasets and field work to explore climate adaptation and speciation in the lovely flycatchers. Join us in Uppsala, Sweden! Apply by Mar 18: www.uu.se/en/about-uu/... #ecoevojob
A male pied flycatcher perching on a branch
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E. Yağmur Erten @yagmurerten.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Applications for MEME are open! It's a research- and mobility-oriented Evolutionary Biology Master's Programme, where students have the opportunity to visit 4(+2) different universities in two years. Please spread the word! www.evobio.eu #EvoBio
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Niklas Wahlberg @lepphylo.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
A postdoc opportunity to work on Noctuidae (Lepidoptera) functional genomics with me, @jadrankarota.bsky.social and @chriswheat.bsky.social in Lund, Sweden. We aim to leverage the amazing amount of data being generated by @projectpsyche.bsky.social and DToL projects. lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
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Postdoctoral fellow in Noctuidae functional genomics
Subject description The project will use a comparative functional genomes approach to study a species-rich group of moths, Noctuidae (Lepidoptera). Noctuidae have both a huge negative and positive imp
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Aida Andres @aidaandres.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
With some delay... but some good news. The final version of our paper Local Genetic Adaptation to Habitat in Wild Chimpanzees is out in Science. Great PanAfrican (PanAf) collaboration led by PhD student (now Dr!) Harrison Ostridge. 🧪#PopGen #evobio www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Local genetic adaptation to habitat in wild chimpanzees
How populations adapt to their environment is a fundamental question in biology. Yet, we know surprisingly little about this process, especially for endangered species, such as nonhuman great apes. Ch...
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José Cerca @naturalselection.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
[please share widely!] We have two PhD positions available at the Swedish Museum of Natural History: [Position 1] Birds, hybridization, genomes, island biology, biogeography, sexual selection 🦚, w/ me, Knud Jønsson, Martin Iredstedt and @stelkens.bsky.social et al recruit.visma.com/spa/public/a...
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PhD student in Evolution of Indo-Pacific birds
The Department of Bioinformatics and Genetics is offering a four-year PhD position focused on analyzing population-level genomic data from museum bird samples. The project will employ cutting-edge gen...
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Gabriela Montejo-Kovacevich @gmkov.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Interested in applying for a 3-year postdoc fellowship co-funded by Marie Curie and SciLifeLab / me? See our research lines here gmontejokovacevich.wordpress.com/research/ and get in touch! www.scilifelab.se/research/pul... @animecol-uu.bsky.social @scilifelab.se Some mobility rules apply
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PULSE
SciLifeLab PULSE: Program for Future Leaders in Life Science SciLifeLab PULSE is a comprehensive postdoctoral program, that will train 48 future leaders in life sciences. PULSE focuses on innovative, ...
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Gabriela Montejo-Kovacevich @gmkov.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Exciting PhD opportunity, please apply by the 20/01 and feel free to email me with any questions! Fully funded by @scilifelab.se
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Animal Ecology Uppsala @animecol-uu.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
❕ PhD position on 🦋 ❕ Passionate about studying the genomics of local adaptation? Join us for a fully funded 4-year PhD at Uppsala University, Sweden. Enjoy competitive salaries, full employment benefits, and a vibrant research community surrounded by nature. Apply here uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Field work setupButterflies
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