Robert Tropek

Chapter from a recently defended PhD thesis of
@fpgaona1.bsky.social has just been published in the African Journal of Ecology!

Elevational patterns in two groups of micromoths (#Lepidoptera: Pterophoridae, Alucitidae) in tropical forests of Mount Cameroon

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

President of the Czech Republic Petr Pavel (left) and Tomáš Jungwirth (right) from the Institute of Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences. Photo credit: Czech Television (ČT).

Among those honored yesterday with state decorations by Czech President Petr Pavel is Tomáš Jungwirth from @fzuavcr.bsky.social: a physicist and world-leading expert in spintronics, a field that could greatly boost the efficiency of electronic devices. He received the Medal of Merit in science.

The most challenging chapter of my PhD thesis is now out as a preprint! A joint effort I co-led with @robtrop.bsky.social and 139 incredible collaborators from all around the world. Huge thanks to everyone involved!

Warmer and less seasonal climates promote generalisation. This means climate change may erode the world’s most specialised pollination systems, although unevenly across taxa and regions.

This synthesis was possible only through a global collaboration of 140+ researchers...

Pollination is often least specialised in the tropics and peaks at northern mid-latitudes.

Plants and pollinators show contrasting, non-linear trends, and climate, not latitude, is the key driver. Temperature, rainfall, and seasonality explain global variation in interaction specialisation.

New preprint!

“Climate-driven specialisation in plant–pollinator networks peaks outside the tropics”

Testing the long-debated latitudinal specialisation gradient using >3,400 quantitative networks (>110,000 interactions). Led by @saileesakhalkar.bsky.social and myself ☺️

doi.org/10.1101/2025...

to mě napadlo taky, ale tahle blbost už opadla, ne?

já mám už posledních ca 10 dní problém s chatGPT každé odpoledne, když Amerika pracuje. Je neskutečně pomalý a často padá, i u triviálních úloh. Docela by mě zajímalo, co se děje...

That would be great!

Today, we have received an announcement that Intranet of @charlesuni.cuni.cz is becoming an official communication channel between the university and its employees. Probably a good idea but... the university decides to ignore a few hundreds (I guess🤔) non-Czech speaking staff🤡 (please fix it!)

Our mini-review on the role of moths in pollination of tropical plants has been published! Maybe interesting not only for entomologists, botanists, and pollination ecologists...

🚨New paper on tropical moth pollination 🧵1/8 - What happens in tropical ecosystems when the day ends?🌔🦋 Our new review that @robtrop.bsky.social and I wrote highlights moths’ vital role in pollination and outlines research gaps, challenges and biases. Sharing valued! Link: doi.org/10.1017/S026...

Grateful for the opportunity to present our very recently accepted review paper on Nocturnal Moths as Pollinators in the Tropics that @robtrop.bsky.social and I wrote at the #OIKOSFin2025. Stay tuned for the full paper coming soon!

Naše Zvířata v éře lidí se vešla do širších nominací na Cenu Magnesia Litera. Mám radost velikou a mávám a dekuju všem, co na tom mají podíl @denikn.cz

It is hard to imagine... despite my general trust in people dropped down a lot over the last years... try to stay strong and safe, they are not there forever and you will be needed to restore the American science!

Serious question from a European scientist: Are there any Trump voters among American academics who are now satisfied with the situation in US research/academia? I suppose they are not common in this network but do you know any?

(I hope this nightmare will end soon)

Czech President Petr Pavel: “We stand with Ukraine more than ever. Time for Europe to step up its efforts.”

Whole‐genome data shed light on speciation and within‐species differentiation of the Papilio machaon complex around the Mediterranean Basin Genomic data refine the species boundary of Papilio machaon and confirm the species status of Papilio saharae, with clarification of subspecies delineation of Mediterranean machaon and saharae. A he...

A new butterfly species in Europe: Papilio saharae. An African species with (as far as we know at the moment) one population in Europe on Lampedusa. resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Still a bit surprising for me... I do not know many students having published results before applying for PhD. And even much less having a publication not written by their supervisors😀 Apparently, your project - your rules! I was just surprised...

Are you really expecting that candidates for PhD studentship will have "at least one relevant scientific paper published in a Q1 journal"?🤔

Upřímně nechápu, jaktože @ondrejcerny.bsky.social a jeho bublině nevadí, že zůstáváním na Twitteru dodávají relevanci (a peníze) těm magorům, co se teď tak urputně snaží vyhandlovat svobodu ukrajiny🤡

Loving deep-sea fish and molecular evolution?

We're hiring!:-) Looking for a motivated PhD student to join us to study evolution of vision & to explore limits of vertebrate eye in extreme environment. Deadline 15th March. Thanks for applying and sharing!

more info: www.fishevo.com/erc-funded-p...

🌿🌳 Rethinking Europe’s #Nature🍃🐘 Our new study challenges the closed-forest paradigm—pre-Homo sapiens landscapes were a fine-grained mosaic of open areas, closed #forest & light #woodland, likely linked to the rich #megafauna🐂🏵️https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2950475925000061

Anonymní články na Ekolistu? To snad ne...🤦‍♂️

Postdoctoral fellow in Noctuidae functional genomics Subject description The project will use a comparative functional genomes approach to study a species-rich group of moths, Noctuidae (Lepidoptera). Noctuidae have both a huge negative and positive imp

A postdoc opportunity to work on Noctuidae (Lepidoptera) functional genomics with me, @jadrankarota.bsky.social and @chriswheat.bsky.social in Lund, Sweden. We aim to leverage the amazing amount of data being generated by @projectpsyche.bsky.social and DToL projects.
lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

To je teda fakt děsivý

pitty she is not wearing her clothes with a Diretmus fish picture 😁

You buy an interactive book for your kid realising its texts are based on scientific results of your wife @fishevo.bsky.social!😍 Proud a lot💪

Postavili si hřiště u řeky, ale nepočítali s tím, že v řece teče voda🤦‍♂️🤡

Any slug enthusiasts among my followers? Please RT. Our lab develops a slug laboratory model from Deroceras laeve (genomes, CRISPRs, small RNAs ...) and I am opening one PhD position on "piRNa and genome defense in gastropods". Info & online application here:
www.img.cas.cz/kariera/phd-...