Carolina Pereira

I don't know, maybe it's because I'm a big Carl Sagan fan but I'm super dismayed out how many people these days seem to think that Nuclear Weapons are fine. And not, you know, a completely insane way for us all to live.

🚨JOB alert🚨

We have three (yes, THREE) 🌟lectureships🌟 advertised in the School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol.

Broad remit, including #AnimalBehaviour & #GlobalChangeBiology

⏱️Deadline: 8th March 2026
🙏Please circulate widely

😊Come join us!

Full #job details: tinyurl.com/y3us95rc

Eu ainda não vi nenhuma :p

🦋 CALLING ALL PhD APPLICANTS!

Fully funded PhD at the UPR, Río Piedras as part of the NSF-funded Blueprint of Life project. Click on the link to learn more!

evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldi...

📍 Puerto Rico | Genomics | Evolution |

💩🥬this is why I can't pass up little turds on leaves - they could be frass mimics! 😰

mating Exema sp "warty leaf beetles", Oklahoma
Publilia reticulata treehopper, OK
Bolbonota sp treehoppers, Costa Rica
Beata sp jumping spider, Peru

DDLS Research School Postdoc call 2026 Call for Academic and Industrial Postdoctoral Fellowships in Data-Driven Life Science 2026 Generic Description of the DDLS Postdoc Program The SciLifeLab and Wallenberg National Program for Data-Drive...

Hit me up if you'd like to apply to a Data-driven postdoc fellowship with me in Sweden. 2 year salary, excellent community. Deadline March 31. I have a project idea on reference bias vs pangenome, but keen on hearing ideas. Please share broadly.

www.scilifelab.se/data-driven/...

Photo of a squid

Photo of a walrus on ice

We currently have TWO open positions within the GBIF Secretariat!

🐙 Senior software data enginee within the Engineering team 🔗gbif.link/senior-dat...
📍Applications close 9 Jan 2026

🦭 Data administrator within the Data Products team
🔗 gbif.link/data-admin...
📍Applications close 13 Jan 2026

Portugal é a “economia do ano” para quem? Há uma parte importante do custo de vida que está a ser subestimada pelos indicadores. Neste aspeto, a economia portuguesa destaca-se pela negativa. Portugal foi o país da UE em que o fosso entre os rendimentos e os preços da habitação mais aumentou na última década.

Portugal é a “economia do ano” para quem?

Atenção, diáspora! Votamos na 1.ª volta das presidenciais já entre 3.ª e 5.ª da próxima semana (6-8 de janeiro), nas embaixadas e consulados! Bora! 🗳️

Marcelo, o maior desestabilizador da política portuguesa, não se cansa de pedir estabilidade. A estabilidade faz parte do seu discurso hipócrita. Agora também quer estabilidade, mas para o Governo destruir serviços públicos, retroceder direitos laborais e degradar o Estado Social tranquilamente.

The "After all, why not?" LOTR meme, with the bottom text reading "Why shouldn't I study Lepidoptera...?"

A predominantly brown and orange butterfly perched on small bright yellow flowers. Its wings are closed and the lower wing is edged with small eye spots with wavy lines nearer the body. The upper wing is partially hidden but has a large eye spot near the tip with brighter orange segments separated by black lines. Its proboscis (tongue) is extended into one of the flowers. The background is a diffuse brown.

Another post dreaming of the warmer weather to come!
The Wall Brown (Lasiommata megera) butterfly, now sadly extinct in many regions of the UK, I photographed this one in #Gredos, Spain where they're still plentiful.

#InverteFest #inverts #lepidoptera #UKButterflies @europebutterfly.bsky.social

Delighted that our review on taste in butterflies and caterpillars still made it into the special collection of "Neuroethology in Lepidoptera" 🐛 🦋:
lnkd.in/epXNNK_z

This article, led by Dimitri Peftuloglu, gives a great overview of how these wonderful insects detect plant metabolites 🌱.

Variation is everywhere. 🦗

#intraspecificvariation
#colorvariation
#phenotypes
#insects

Environment-induced phenotypic variation throughout development in Papilio machaon. 🌡🐛🦋