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Carmen da Silva

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Macquarie University Research Fellow 🔬Evolutionary physiology 🧬 climate adaptation 🌞native bees 🐝 butterflies 🦋

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Australasian Evolution Society - AES @ausevosoc.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
🏆 Best Paper Award Winner (2/2)! 🪲 Cngratulations to @livingecoevo.bsky.social ✨ Li Yun/李韵’s work developed a new phlogenomic radiation of darkling beetles 🪲 Read it 👉🏼 www.cell.com/current-biol... Don’t forget to register for 🧬 Evolution in the Gong, so you don’t miss the plenary!
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Evolution across the adaptive landscape in a hyperdiverse beetle radiation
Li et al. reconstruct the ecomorphological diversification of darkling beetles, one of the largest beetle families. From global to regional scale, they show that the evolutionary history of this hyper...
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Carmen da Silva @saltydasilva.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I am thrilled and honoured to have won the @ausevosoc.bsky.social Best Paper Award. This means I will be giving a plenary lecture at the societies conference in December. ausevo.com/programme/ da Silva et al (2026) Nature Communications was the awarded publication. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
"This content isn't available" ARC has blocked the information about the success rates of Future Fellowships and DECRAs that still under consideration. Clearly, the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing.
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Carmen da Silva @saltydasilva.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Heading to @sebiology.bsky.social conference in Florence! If you want to learn about how behavioural thermoregulation shapes how heat tolerance evolves please come say hi 👋 🐝 I'm speaking in session A9 "Integrating genomics and ecology to study adaptation to global change" on Thursday @ 12:15pm.
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Carmen da Silva @saltydasilva.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Heading to @sebiology.bsky.social conference in Florence! If you want to learn about how behavioural thermoregulation shapes how heat tolerance evolves please come say hi 👋 🐝 I'm speaking in session A9 "Integrating genomics and ecology to study adaptation to global change" on Thursday @ 12:15pm.
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Carmen da Silva @saltydasilva.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
☀️ Climate change is impacting plant nutrition 🌱 , and the knock on effects are likely effecting bees, especially if they are solitary. 🐝 Led by Brooke Zanco, read our new opinion piece 🌸 @sarahdiamond.bsky.social @fleurponton.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Carmen da Silva @saltydasilva.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Interview with Sydney Community Radio 2SER this morning on how climate change is impacting native bees 🎤 🐝 🔥 Check it out 🌸 www.2ser.com/how-are-bees...
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Carmen da Silva @saltydasilva.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Check out our article on how native bees evolve tolerance to heat which influences their vulnerability to climate change.
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Carmen da Silva @saltydasilva.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
🔥 Hot off the press 🔥 Who can take the heat? 🐝 Published in Nature Communications we show that native bees can evolve greater tolerance to heat. But how heat tolerance evolves depends on the different nesting behaviours bees have. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Carmen da Silva @saltydasilva.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Check out our article on how native bees evolve tolerance to heat which influences their vulnerability to climate change.
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Carmen da Silva @saltydasilva.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
🔥 Hot off the press 🔥 Who can take the heat? 🐝 Published in Nature Communications we show that native bees can evolve greater tolerance to heat. But how heat tolerance evolves depends on the different nesting behaviours bees have. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Cynthia Riginos @seaprof.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Led by Iva Popovic, with Katharine Prata, @melissanaugle.bsky.social le.bsky.social, @ilhabyrne.bsky.social habyrne.bsky.social, Sam Howitt, Tom Bridge, Vero Mocellin, Emily Howells, Line Bay & @couplingdmi.bsky.social lingdmi.bsky.social #RRAP #AIMS @uq-cbcs.bsky.social
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Ryan Martin @ryanamartin.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
New paper led by Tiberiu Sahlean at the Romanian Academy of Science. We used meta-analysis to test for evidence of consistent life history evolution across elevation in squamates. We found little support and discuss why onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
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No Evidence for Pace of Life Evolution Along Elevational Gradients in Squamate Reptiles
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Carmen da Silva @saltydasilva.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
We found support for the Rapoport effect in butterflies 🦋 species that live in more variable climates have broader thermal tolerances and larger range sizes. A collaboration with Aaron Yilmaz and @sarahdiamond.bsky.social 🔬 academic.oup.com/biolinnean/a...
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Climatic variability drives greater thermal tolerance breadth and enables larger range size in butterflies
Abstract. Although climatic variability has been proposed to shape physiological tolerances, and in turn, species distributions, relatively few studies hav
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Carmen da Silva @saltydasilva.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
A cool new tool for IDing bees using wing morphometrics is out now. This study was led by Rob Moore at @monashbiol.bsky.social as part of his PhD and supervised by Scarlett Howard and team at @monashbiol.bsky.social 🐝 check it out! 🔬 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Nicholas Wu @nicholaswu.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
I have two #PhD scholarships available on either the ecophysiology or movement ecology of the Pilbara leaf-nosed #bat at @murdoch.edu.au 🦇 Apply now: www.murdoch.edu.au/study/schola... Lab website: www.nicholaswulab.com
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Carmen da Silva @saltydasilva.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Check out the Research Highlight of our work on climate change impacts on bee flight performance in Nature Climate Change 🐝 @pipilika.bsky.social #bee #flight #climatechange @natclimate.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Blanca Arroyo-Correa @blancaac.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
🌼🌡️ 🐝 Thermal conditions can directly reshape species interaction networks under climate change. ⬇️ In this invited short piece, I discuss how temperature-driven shifts in pollinators’ foraging choices, revealed by a new study, can cascade through entire plant–pollinator networks.
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Carmen da Silva @saltydasilva.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Thermal physiology and abundance trends over 30 years in 119 species of butterfly show narrow warming margins in tropical species and complex trends in abundance depending on climate adaptation, ecology and demography. @sarahdiamond.bsky.social nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Mike Moore @moore-evo-eco.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Bumping this up one last time. I'm looking to hire graduate student(s) to work on an NSF-funded project to study elevational range shifts among dragonflies here in Colorado. @cudenverclas.bsky.social 🧪🌍🐙 Applications will be considered until Nov 1. See post below for more details
Lake Agnes in State Forest State Park
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Avery Russell @draverbee.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
I cannot believe our work is finally out there and in @journal-evo.bsky.social ! This was an enormous group effort! We provide an updated estimate of the number of buzz pollinated angiosperm species, genera, and families, look at consequences for diversification, number of transitions, and more!
Circular phylogeny showing the branching pattern of 30k plant species with lineages with poricidal and non poricidal taxa indicated. A small subset of poricidal taxa are illustrated around the phylogeny.
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Corey Bradshaw @conservbytes.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Deep Time Australia An epic story > 65,000 years in the making Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander peoples have walked, worked & celebrated this land for millennia. Their cultures endure, alive in every story, every place, and every moment today www.abc.net.au/news/deeptime/
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Explore an epic story 65,000 years in the making
Dive into Deep Time, an immersive story of the knowledge, art and ingenuity of Australia’s First Nations peoples — told like never before.
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David Tomkins 🦋 @davidctomkins.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Real time data coming out of the world’s climate measurement systems should be stopping us in our tracks. The latest estimate shows that, this week, the Earth is 1.9°C warmer than before we began burning fossil fuels. #climatecrisis #ClimateEmergency #auspol www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/we-re-t...
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We’re Touching 1.9°C - And It’s Only 2025
Real time data coming out of the world’s climate measurement systems should be stopping us in our tracks. The latest estimate by climate scientist Dr Karsten Haustein shows that, this week, the Earth ...
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Carmen da Silva @saltydasilva.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Sublethal impacts of climate change on stingless bees, check out our hot off the press publication in @thermal-biology.bsky.social 🔥 How is flight speed impacted by changes in temperature? We tested #TPCs in an arid and subtropical bee 🐝 @pipilika.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Before the brink: considering sublethal impacts of climate change on stingless bee flight performance
Vulnerability to climate change is often predicted using species critical thermal limits (CTMAX), the temperature at which an organism experiences a l…
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Carmen da Silva @saltydasilva.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Nesting behaviour drives the evolution of heat tolerance and climate vulnerability in bees! Check out our pre-print on 95 species of Australian native bee across the latitudinal extent of Australia! 🐝 #nativebee #climateadaptation #heattolerance #plasticity #behaviour #bees #climatechange
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Carmen da Silva @saltydasilva.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
🐝 ECR Spotlight interview 🐝 🐟 Learn about my scientific journey and my future plans here ⛰️ : journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/... Thanks for the interview and platform @jexpbiol.bsky.social
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ECR Spotlight – Carmen da Silva
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Carmen da Silva @saltydasilva.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Excited to see our ms published with @jexpbiol.bsky.social! We show that temperature and precipitation explain metabolic rate in Fijian bees across an elevational gradient. #metabolicrate #bee #adaptation #climate Check it out here journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
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Temperature and precipitation explain variation in metabolic rate but not frequency of gas exchange in Fijian bees
Summary: Temperature and precipitation explain variation in Fijian bee metabolic rate, partially supporting the metabolic cold adaptation hypothesis. Aridity does not explain variation in frequency of...
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Carmen da Silva @saltydasilva.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
🐝 ECR Spotlight interview 🐝 🐟 Learn about my scientific journey and my future plans here ⛰️ : journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/... Thanks for the interview and platform @jexpbiol.bsky.social
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ECR Spotlight – Carmen da Silva
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Carmen da Silva @saltydasilva.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Excited to see our ms published with @jexpbiol.bsky.social! We show that temperature and precipitation explain metabolic rate in Fijian bees across an elevational gradient. #metabolicrate #bee #adaptation #climate Check it out here journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
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Temperature and precipitation explain variation in metabolic rate but not frequency of gas exchange in Fijian bees
Summary: Temperature and precipitation explain variation in Fijian bee metabolic rate, partially supporting the metabolic cold adaptation hypothesis. Aridity does not explain variation in frequency of...
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Carmen da Silva @saltydasilva.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Revegetation and koala conservation project on Kangaroo Island led by Julian Beaman, Karen Burke da Silva and Alan Nobel just launched! 🐨 #conservation #revegetation #koala
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Carmen da Silva @saltydasilva.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Check out our new paper in Scientific Data introducing PapilioTherm, a North American and multicontinental dataset on butterfly thermal tolerance (CTmax and min), body mass, and metabolic rate. Led by Sarah Diamond and with Osmary Medina-Baez 🦋 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #evophys
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A multicontinental dataset of butterfly thermal physiological traits - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - A multicontinental dataset of butterfly thermal physiological traits
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Carmen da Silva @saltydasilva.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Butterflies in the USA are shifting their ranges in all directions, except towards regions where climate is warming the fastest. They rate that they shift their ranges is correlated with the rate temperature is warming. 🦋 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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TK @blueosmia.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Time to rebuild from the bird site!! Im looking for fellow bee-ecologist and wildlife enthusiasts! go.bsky.app/PrjzU94
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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
📖Published📖 Our new Research Article introduces a novel phylogenetic comparative method for comparing within-species patterns among species while accounting for their phylogenetic non-independence. 🌎 🧪 Check it out here 👇
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Carmen da Silva @saltydasilva.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Check out our new publication on genetic divergence and gene flow in an Australian stingless bee. 🐝 Led by Genevieve Law and Ros Gloag. @jamesbeedorey.bsky.social #nativebee #evolution onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Gene Flow Between Populations With Highly Divergent Mitogenomes in the Australian Stingless Bee, Tetragonula hockingsi
We investigate genetic divergence and gene flow between populations of a stingless bee (Tetragonula hockingsi) that have highly divergent mitogenomes. We identify at least two zones of gene flow betw...
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