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Abhishek Thakur

@obhishekh.bsky.social
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Chemical ecology of plant-insect interaction | Research on milkweed chemical defense | PhD student @illinoisstateu.bsky.social | BS-MS ('25), @iiserbhopal | @treelab.bsky.social

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Xosé López Goldar @xosegoldar.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
5.53am in Chicago waiting for our flight to the @chemicalecology.bsky.social in Ithaca (NY). My PhD student @obhishekh.bsky.social, and I are looking forward to see everyone there and learn a lot about science!
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Ashish Nerlekar @ashishnerlekar.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
I am excited to hire a PhD candidate at #iiserpune to work on savannas! Please share widely among relevant circles! sites.google.com/view/nerlekar
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Nerlekar Savanna Ecology Lab
Welcome to our brand new lab at IISER Pune, India! We are on a curiosity-driven mission to understand the complex drivers of biodiversity and to provide solutions for halting the ongoing global biodi...
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Christophe Duplais 🧪🐛⚗️🦋🪴🪲🌾⌬ @chemistophe.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Here is the Cornell Chronicle article about our PNAS paper on the evolution of milkweed toxins (N,S-cardenolides), to which the monarch butterfly is sensitive, despite being co-evolved with milkweeds! @cornellentomology.bsky.social news.cornell.edu/stories/2026...
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Milkweed evolves ‘mind-blowing’ tactic to fight monarchs | Cornell Chronicle
Milkweed has found a new strategy in its epic evolutionary battle with monarch butterflies: structurally upgrading its toxins to outmaneuver monarchs' resistance.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
'Running Iris' linocut by Australian printmaker Rachel Newling #WomensArt
Print featuring a plant with dark green speared leaves and blue and yellow flowers against a white background
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IPBES @ipbes.net · 07/12/2025
In Manas National Park, India, Bengal floricans are making a comeback. Critically endangered, their recovery owes much to former poachers now working as protectors, supported by local communities and nonprofits. Learn how conservation transforms lives: ow.ly/c5t450XqtOW
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They used to poach this rare bird. Now, they save them.
After decades of political unrest, former poachers and community members rallied to protect the Bengal florican.
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Phillip Davidson @the-phil-osopher.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Our lab at Mississippi State is recruiting graduate students (PhD/MSc) to join us in Spring or Fall 2026! If you—or someone you know—are interested in researching evo-devo and comparative genomics of horned dung beetles, check out our site & get in touch! davidsonlab-msu.github.io
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Davidson Lab
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Vinita Gowda @vinitagowda.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Understanding mass flowering/flowering synchrony on a laterite plateau from the Western Ghats. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @saaaakeeeet.bsky.social @sukhrajkaur.bsky.social #DhargalkarRahul & #najla 3 master's students & countless years! @biotropica.bsky.social #ATBC #iiserbhopal
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Mass Flowering and Flowering Asynchrony Characterize a Seasonal Herbaceous Community in the Western Ghats
In a three-year study on the Kaas plateau (Western Ghats, India), we quantified flowering phenology across 76 herbaceous species and introduced two novel synchrony indices (SItemp and SIabd) to disti...
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Phil Stevenson @philstevenson.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Great BBC news story documenting how Kew Gardens is digitising its herbarium specimens to make them and their meta data available to everyone for free www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
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Kew Gardens: Preserving plants for future generations
Works to digitise and preserve plant samples are about three quarters complete.
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Saskya van Nouhuys @saskyavn.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Here is a link to an exciting collection of 14 new review articles in Current Opinions in Insect Science on "Parasitoid Biology in the Anthropocene" edited by Editors: R.M. Borges, R. Venkatesan and S. van Nouhuys. www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu... Message me if you want PDFs you can't access.
A parasitoid wasp, Hyposoter horticola, parasitizing eggs of the butterfly Melitaea cinxia.
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Emilio M Bruna @brunalab.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Reply here if you want to be added to the Tropical Plant Ecology Starter pack go.bsky.app/FSQE1vP
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Christophe Duplais 🧪🐛⚗️🦋🪴🪲🌾⌬ @chemistophe.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Hi #ChemicalEcologists, Just created a starter package for networking people in our field 😆 Please let me know if people need to be added! go.bsky.app/KzwBnhN
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Robin Heinen @robinheinennl.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Our Chemodiversity Research Unit is now also on BlueSky! Give them a follow to stay up to date with our work on the ecology and evolution of chemical diversity in plants.
The research unit in a group picture at a recent meeting at Helmholtz Munich
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Vinita Gowda @vinitagowda.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
And with a snap of a few years Dr. Ritu Yadav is here to take the world!!! Congratulations to the newly minted Doc from @treelab.bsky.social !!! Thanks to the reviewers and all who have watched her grow...
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Abhishek Thakur @obhishekh.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Wanted my first post here to be something related to #art. So here is a quick #sketch I made during my train journey.
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Vinita Gowda @vinitagowda.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Want my first post on blue sky to be about amazing #plants and I have a great news!! @rituYadav defends her doctoral work on the #globba - dancing doll of the Ginger world & one mesmerizing plant! She asks:why do some species show obligate selfing? Yes, you heard it right. No sexual reproduction!
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