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Leonie Moyle

@speciationlab.bsky.social
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Into evolution, genetics, reproduction. Immigrant (actual, and from the bird site). She/her.

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Leonie Moyle @speciationlab.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
friday
Two cocktails sit on a bar. In the foreground is a coppery lowball with square ice cube and a sprig of rosemary. Behind is a bright coupe with lime peel.
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Leonie Moyle @speciationlab.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
;)
three books: sperm competition, sexual conflict, female control
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Leonie Moyle @speciationlab.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Interested in genetics, diversification, and speciation? We're hiring a Research Associate to help with our projects, including the convergent evolution of fruit color. Come and work with us! Feel free to contact me with questions. (Reposts appreciated!) Link: indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/33973
a matrix of 6 different Solanum (wild tomato) species with six different fruit colors, ranging from white to bright red.
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Leonie Moyle @speciationlab.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Berlin 💛
Berlin, at night along the Spree
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Leonie Moyle @speciationlab.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
sunday, morning
a small turtle, looking unimpressed
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Leonie Moyle @speciationlab.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
berlin sky
a view of the grey sky, through the silhouette of bare branches. one silhouette has tufted ears.
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Leonie Moyle @speciationlab.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
must do adjacents: rottnest island, stromatolites
quokkas!!Stromatolites stretch into the distance
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Leonie Moyle @speciationlab.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
dancing in Berlin, for #internationalwomensday
a blurry dance floor of international women (and men) dancing
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Leonie Moyle @speciationlab.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
he did seem to have a geologist's appreciation of the unique landscape...
"The Beagle sailed round Chatham Island, and anchored in several bays. One night I slept on a part of the island, where black truncated cones were extraordinarily numerous: from one small eminence I counted sixty of them, all surmounted by craters more or less perfect. The greater number consisted merely of a ring of red scoriae or slags, cemented together: and their height above the plain of lava was not more than from fifty to a hundred feet: none had been very lately active. The entire surface of this part of the island seems to have been permeated, like a sieve, by the subterranean vapours: here and there the lava, whilst soft, has been blown into great bubbles; and in other parts, the tops of caverns similarly formed have fallen in, leaving circular pits with steep sides. From the regular form of the many craters, they gave to the country and artificial appearance, which vividly reminded me of those parts of Staffordshire, where the great iron-foundries are most numerous."
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Leonie Moyle @speciationlab.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
In celebration of #DarwinDay, here are his decidedly mixed first impressions after landing on the Galápagos (17 Sept 1835; from 'the Voyage' Chap X): "Nothing could be less inviting..."
"Nothing could be less inviting than the first appearance. A broken field of black basaltic lava, thrown into the most rugged waves, and crossed by great fissures, is everywhere covered by stunted, sun-burnt brushwood, which shows little signs of life. The dry and parched surface, being heated by the noon-day sun, gave to the air a close and sultry feeling, like that from a stove: we fancied even that the bushes smelt unpleasantly. Although I diligently tried to collect as many plants as possible, I succeeded in getting very few; and such wretched-looking little weeds would have better become an arctic than an equatorial Flora."
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Leonie Moyle @speciationlab.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
sunday
 art deco facade of the Babylon Kino. The marquee reads: metropolis live babylon orchester berlin
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Leonie Moyle @speciationlab.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
snow & stairs, Berlin
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Leonie Moyle @speciationlab.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
😬🥔
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Leonie Moyle @speciationlab.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
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Leonie Moyle @speciationlab.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
amsterdam, NYE 2025
a glowing canal under golden lights and a night sky
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Leonie Moyle @speciationlab.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
christmas moon over koenigssee
a crescent moon hangs over its faint reflection in a Berlin lake
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Leonie Moyle @speciationlab.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
christmas trifle 2025
two bright bowls of trifle, with fresh red currants, in front of our Christmas tree
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Leonie Moyle @speciationlab.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Weihnachtsmorgen, Berlin
Christmas morning: a black cat sits expectantly next to wrapped gifts, under a decorated Christmas tree.
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Leonie Moyle @speciationlab.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
winter solstice, Potsdam
a bright gold christmas star glows in the foreground, with a lit cathedral and riesenrad in the dusk behind
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Leonie Moyle @speciationlab.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
riesenrad, Berlin
a Ferris wheel turns above the Alexanderplatz weihnachtsmarkt
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Leonie Moyle @speciationlab.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
twin fox kits, grunewald berlin
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Leonie Moyle @speciationlab.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
a 'Mamdani'-inspired sign that says “ORIGINS for the species” in yellow font on blue
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Leonie Moyle @speciationlab.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
low tide, Roscoff Brittany
two bright rowboats rest on the bottom of an empty port. there are boats of other sizes in the distance, all sitting on the sand.
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Leonie Moyle @speciationlab.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
night view from Roscoff, Brittany
The beam from a lighthouse sweeps a dark sea and wispy clouds, with distant stars behind
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Leonie Moyle @speciationlab.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Samstag, Berlin
a bright helles in a branded stein, on a red beergarden table
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Leonie Moyle @speciationlab.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
dominance, epistasis, pleiotropy
three american football commentators sit at a table. their fashion sense is wildly diverse.
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Leonie Moyle @speciationlab.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Berlin snail, Berlin
A snail, with glowing rose-rust shell, makes it’s way across a green stone
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Leonie Moyle @speciationlab.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Berlin sky
hundreds of kites in a blue sky
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Leonie Moyle @speciationlab.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
kites over Berlin, tempelhofer feld
dozens of kites soar in a blue sky, over thousands of people
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Leonie Moyle @speciationlab.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
renaissance moth (Gemäldegalerie, Berlin)
an imaginary underwing moth perches on the painted leg of Venus
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Leonie Moyle @speciationlab.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Kreuzberg, Berlin
a woman’s face emerges from a graffiti’ed doorA distant bridge arches over a canal of green water, lined with trees.two figures appear below a square with tall buildings. The tallest has graffiti tags on its green balconies. Pigeons perch above a brick arch, and the blue sky through it.
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Leonie Moyle @speciationlab.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
first eight days in #Berlin
a graffiti’ed wall (*the* wall) extends off into the distance. The closest painted image shows a bearded man (possibly a communist icon) whose t-shirt reads (in English): I told you how to change the world.pink flowers sprout at the edge of a small calm lake; a Villa appears in the distant backgroundDelicious colorful cakes, by the dozen, in a glass shop displaya cheery orange aperol spritz on the homey green-checked table cloth of a Biergarten
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Leonie Moyle @speciationlab.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
blue sky over Berlin
the heads of four bronze horses (greened by chemistry) peer from the top edge of the Brandenberg Gate. the sky behind is bright blue.
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Leonie Moyle @speciationlab.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Still looking for some fun science at #Botany2025 today? Check out the evolving reproductive transcriptomes in labbie Timothy’s talk @11:15am in Smoketree AB…
Title slide of a talk which reads: 
"Postmating prezygotic affairs: evolution of the reproductive transcriptome among 8 tomato species with diverse mating systems"
Timothy Biewer-Heisler, Matthew Gibson, Jacob Jiles, and Leonie Moyle
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Leonie Moyle @speciationlab.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
australian warning signs
Signs reads, in part: “DANGER, strong currents, deep water, and submerged boulders…. People have died here.Signs reads, in part: WARNING, these are tropical waters where presence of dangerous jellyfish is possible…. Persons entering these waters do so at their own risk.”Sign reads, in part: Do not touch or eat wild mushrooms…  consumption may be fatal…”Sign reads: Falling rocks
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Leonie Moyle @speciationlab.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
bronte beach surfers, sydney
blue ocean with distant people, like dark seals, in the surf.
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Leonie Moyle @speciationlab.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
sky over bengello beach
stars in a dark blue-green night sky, over distant lights
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Leonie Moyle @speciationlab.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
flying, lounging
kangaroo, gently airborne above yellowed grassa dozen or more grazing kangaroos, in silhouette
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Leonie Moyle @speciationlab.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
milky way, southern hemisphere
hundred of stars sprinkled against a faint milky blue night sky
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Leonie Moyle @speciationlab.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
ellis beach, queensland
three figures on a beach. one is a distant head in the waves. the beach is streaked with retreating surf. a two-peaked island appears on the horizon.
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Leonie Moyle @speciationlab.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
orb weavers (spiny, and giant), queensland
a fabulous chunky spider, with black and yellow horizontal stripes and shiny spikes, hangs on her weba huge dark spider hangs in profile, with long slim dark legs. her wingspan is at least 10cm.
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Leonie Moyle @speciationlab.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
the previous image, but zoomed in closer the center. the silhouetted shapes in center are more clearly hanging animals. closer still, the middle shape has a gentle fox face and a slight ear.
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Leonie Moyle @speciationlab.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
flying-foxes, far north queensland
a jumble of trunks and leaves in silhouette. in the distant middle are dense shapes hanging upside down. one has a distinctly foxy profile.
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Leonie Moyle @speciationlab.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
sand bubbler crab art
a small hole in the beach is surrounded by a display of dozens of tiny sand balls
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Leonie Moyle @speciationlab.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
polychaete sand art, FNQ
a spiral, poop-like structure sits on a glossy beach. similar structures are in the distance. the sky is bright blue with clouds.
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Leonie Moyle @speciationlab.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
not a cassowary
brush turkey (bright red head, yellow scarf, black body) pretending to be one of the famed but ultimately elusive cassowaries of FNQ…
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Leonie Moyle @speciationlab.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Daintree rainforest, FNQ
strangler fig and victim, looking from the forest floor up into the canopybrilliant pink mushrooms on green mosspalm leaves from below
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Leonie Moyle @speciationlab.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
cape tribulation beach
a vast shallow silvery tide washes in front of a dark promontory in the distance gnarled roots of a mangrove frame the left side of a view of a broad beach, with several shadowed figures in the distance
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Leonie Moyle @speciationlab.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
toe-biter on the move
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Leonie Moyle @speciationlab.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
“toe-biter” water scorpion, far north queensland
sitting on sand: a large black insect with long grasping forelegs and a long needle-like siphon projecting from the tip of its abdomen. a true bug, definitely not a scorpion.
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