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Tuomas Kankaanpää

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Insect ecologist. Insect responses to environmental change. Interested in trophic interactions. Now developing monitoring methods for blood-feeding insects in the North. #InterregAurora #InsectsoftheNorth Post-doctoral researcher at University of Oulu

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Yes. It's imperative that the planned research involves insects.

12.02.2026 11:50 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Humbug. Doing a PhD was fun and I got paid to do it.

12.02.2026 11:46 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
Fig. 3. Percentage of reads attributed to carabid, prey and other for Nebria salina and Poecilus cupreus for samples from 2013 to 2019 and 2021. Colors distinguish between (a) prey reads (green), (b) carabid reads (blue) and (c) other reads (contaminants and not assigned – orange). Proportions are given as percentages of the total number per sample (after filtering the singletons).

Fig. 3. Percentage of reads attributed to carabid, prey and other for Nebria salina and Poecilus cupreus for samples from 2013 to 2019 and 2021. Colors distinguish between (a) prey reads (green), (b) carabid reads (blue) and (c) other reads (contaminants and not assigned – orange). Proportions are given as percentages of the total number per sample (after filtering the singletons).

Fig. 5. Prey diversity in the diet of Nebria salina (a) and Poecilus cupreus (b) through time. Each dot represents the diet of one carabid specimens, dots are jittered horizontally and vertically for more clarity. The curve corresponds to a linear regression with the grey area displaying the 95 % confidence interval.

Fig. 5. Prey diversity in the diet of Nebria salina (a) and Poecilus cupreus (b) through time. Each dot represents the diet of one carabid specimens, dots are jittered horizontally and vertically for more clarity. The curve corresponds to a linear regression with the grey area displaying the 95 % confidence interval.

🪲 New BAAE article:

Metabarcoding of stored carabid beetles reveals declining prey diversity over the last decade. Temporal diet shifts highlight long-term invertebrate declines and the value of historical collections for monitoring.

DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.ba...
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11.02.2026 07:00 — 👍 12    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0

They didn't realize that it doesn't take many generations to become fat.

10.02.2026 10:00 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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🦋 New research challenges the Temperature-Size Rule and highlights climate change’s potential to profoundly reshape butterfly life cycles, population dynamics, and ecological interactions.

📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/zFrpO7t

09.02.2026 11:01 — 👍 10    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

of course dudes dressed in vinyl wearing gas masks cluster is much bigger than the ento cluster

09.02.2026 08:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Spotted lanternflies are invading the US. They may have gotten their evolutionary superpowers in China's cities. The alarming spread of spotted lanternflies across the U.S. has been made possible by cities acting as evolutionary incubators, fine-tuning the insects and enabling them to thrive.

The spotted lanternfly has spread across the United States with unrelenting speed — and now we have a clue as to why: living in cities seems to have helped these invasive insects evolve to be more resistant to stresses. 🧪

www.livescience.com/animals/inse...

06.02.2026 00:17 — 👍 26    🔁 15    💬 2    📌 3

I've been working on this for >20 years. It was about time to write it and stop playing dice against time (far too old for that)

"On commonness and rarity of insect pollinators: patterns of species abundance and diversity in a hyperdiverse Mediterranean assemblage"

www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

06.02.2026 07:37 — 👍 39    🔁 12    💬 0    📌 1

Voisikohan osan eläkkeistä maksaa suoraan hoivapörriäiselle? Ei tarvitsisi kelaa vaivata.

05.02.2026 08:53 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Can Traps Outperform Cloth Dragging for Tick Surveillance? New research shows dry‑ice tick traps can capture more ticks than traditional cloth‑dragging, suggesting a faster and potentially more effective way to monitor tick‑borne disease risks.

New research shows dry‑ice tick traps can capture more ticks than traditional cloth‑dragging, suggesting a faster and potentially more effective way to monitor tick‑borne disease risks.

04.02.2026 15:44 — 👍 9    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0
EU Grassland Butterfly Index 1991-2024 Technical report Executive Summary Butterflies have been systematically monitored in Europe for several decades using standard protocols that are now adopted in over 30 countries. Butterflies are ideal biological indi...

We just released the latest update of the European Grassland Butterfly Indicator.
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
With nearly 50% decline since 1991 and the decline not reversing, this is again an urgent call for actions for bending the curve, restore habitat and protect biodiversity

03.02.2026 13:33 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Probably that too, given their programming. Your post was just under an article about self-propagating prompts.

03.02.2026 13:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Physical recursive agenting will be a blast.

03.02.2026 13:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Live, laugh, cringe

03.02.2026 10:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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New #OpenAccess research in #RESInsectConsDiv

Towards red listing understudied tropical #insects: A case study of the #DungBeetles of Sabah, Malaysian Borneo
doi.org/10.1111/icad.70045

#IUCN #RedList #EndangeredSpecies #Conservation
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03.02.2026 09:01 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Narrowing farmland biodiversity knowledge gaps with Digital Agriculture - npj Sustainable Agriculture npj Sustainable Agriculture - Narrowing farmland biodiversity knowledge gaps with Digital Agriculture

#DigitalAgriculture and #BiodiversityMonitoring are using the same tools (#Drones, #AI, #IoT) but living in different worlds… 🌍

New research suggests that this gap could turn every smart farm into a massive data source for #conservation

#AgriEcology #Biodiversity

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

02.02.2026 12:22 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Wonderful weird: 3D reconstruction of the tracheal system and balloon gut of the male Stylops ovinae. #Strepsiptera

01.02.2026 17:06 — 👍 12    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Ei pitäisi olla teknisesti kovin vaikeaa. Alustat kuitenkin tietävät käyttäjistään kaiken. Ja missä on turvallinen, enshittifikaatiton ja mainokseton julkinen some?

02.02.2026 11:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Aikuiset miehet pitäisi kieltää, piste.

02.02.2026 10:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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New #OpenAccess work in #RESPhysEnt

Influence of #temperature & light on #development of #moth larvae: Different response in the sister species #Orthosia gothica & O. cerasi
doi.org/10.1111/phen.70030

#Phenology #Photoperiod
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29.01.2026 14:03 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Putin olisi sattumalta vähän oudonnäköinen, mutta kovassa kunnossa.

27.01.2026 14:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Eikö ttip tms. salli jenkkifirmojen haastaa valtion oikeuteen, jos niiden liiketoimintaa haitataan säädöksillä tai julkisesti tuetulla kilpailulla?

27.01.2026 11:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

it's the worst promo program ever

26.01.2026 12:15 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Those pens are worth like gazillion ep-points, which require you to buy megagazillion dollars worth of eppendorf products and spend 1000 hours processing the ep-point code stickers.

26.01.2026 12:13 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Sakarin villapaita remake voisi oikeasti tuottaa miljoonia.

26.01.2026 10:42 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Great new research shows that light pollution prevents activity in the critical twilight period (just after sunset) in a moth and spider species. 🕷️🦋💡- this calls for mitigations targeting this critical time period. Read more in our dispatch:
www.cell.com/current-biol...

23.01.2026 08:54 — 👍 28    🔁 13    💬 0    📌 1
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New #OpenAccess research in #RESEcolEnt

Strong #diel variation in the activity of #insect taxa sampled by #Malaise traps
doi.org/10.1111/een.70059

#EntoMethods #InsectSampling #InsectMonitoring
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23.01.2026 09:01 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

People are used to gauge scale and distance.

22.01.2026 15:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

There must be a specific set of neurons which set the scale of people.

22.01.2026 14:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Do mango flowers smell rotten like e.g. Sorbus flowers?

22.01.2026 13:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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