Gabriela Montejo-Kovacevich

What a way to start the year!! Really enjoyed the usual friendly atmosphere at PopGroup and all the research shared. Many thanks to the organisers @popgroup2026.bsky.social

If anyone is interested in joining my group or coming to Sweden please get in touch 🧬❄️

The collision of two genomes threatens global food security Human activity alters selection pressures and species’ ranges, creating opportunities for hybridisation through secondary contact. Ancient hybridization has enabled adaptive radiation, but its role in...

Oh my way to PopGroup! I’ll be talking about our preprint on bidirectional adaptive introgression between native and invasive agricultural pests: Friday, 16:30 in Amphi B
doi.org/10.64898/202...

Lille town centre

Excited to be in Lille for @popgroup2026.bsky.social ! Come and catch my talk on accounting for local adaptation in species distribution models @16:15 in Amphi B :)

We’ve been working on this paper longer than it took adaptive alleles to cross the species barrier (in both directions) and make two pests ever more resistant to the things we throw at them.

New preprint out 🧬🌱🐛

a shallow wooden tray has eight smaller white cardboard boxes in it with rows of carefully preserved and pinned small butterflies, either white with dark freckles or yellow with orange wing tips, seen from directly above

Tom and John Emmel and Sterling Mattoon officially began their work on “The Butterflies of California” book in 1974.

Now, more than 50 years after they began, the book draft has officially been published online and is freely available to the public:
www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/the-...
🦋📕

We are so pleased with our new Assist Plus robot. Already hugely upscaling magnetic bead extractions! 🧬 next up libraries and museum samples. (thanks @scilifelab.se for the funding).

Join us Opportunities Below are the positions currently open in our lab. Fully-funded PhD position The project aims to understand rapid evolution and adaptation in white butterflies flying at high elevatio…

New PhD position: Butterfly Evolution at High Elevations 🦋⛰️
The project aims to understand the rapid evolution and adaptation of white butterflies at high elevations.
DEADLINE: January 11, 2025
More info: pavelmatos.wordpress.com/join-us/

Really exciting times to be doing Lepidoptera research! Incredible efforts by the consortium (and thank you for bringing Lepbase back too, sorely missed!)

Project Psyche: reference genomes for all Lepidoptera in Europe Project Psyche is a transnational initiative to generate and study chromosome-level reference genomes of all ~11 000 species of Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths) found in Europe. Here, we describe t...

I'm very excited that our paper on Project Psyche is now published! 🦋🧬

Over the last two years we've built an incredible community & already made huge progress. Read about this & how @projectpsyche.bsky.social will drive exciting and collaborative science here:

www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

Increasing temperatures affect thoracic muscle performance in Arctic bumblebees - Nature Communications Increasing temperatures threaten cold-adapted pollinators such as Arctic bumblebees by disrupting their physiology. This study found that thorax acceleration during non-flight vibrations peaks at 25 °...

Too warm to buzz? Check out our newest paper on how warming temperatures affect bee buzzes in the Arctic. Well done to Charlie and Guadalupe and other coauthors for this nice study in the Swedish Arctic! @hfspo.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We are looking for a part-time research assistant with an enthusiasm for working with insects and plants to join our Leverhulme-funded project on butterfly scale development jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Research...

Applications for the MEME programme (www.evobio.eu
) are now open! MEME is a research- and mobility-oriented master’s in evolutionary biology (& I’m a proud alumna!), jointly run by the Unis of Groningen, Uppsala, Montpellier, and LMU Munich, with Harvard and Lausanne as partners. Spread the word!

cool!!

Green butterfly sat on a flower.

I'm looking for PhD students to join the lab starting August 2026. We study the evolution of insect chemical signals so if you're interested in evolutionary biology, chemical ecology, molecular biology, behavior, or genetics, this could be a good fit for you! More info here: tinyurl.com/mrxchwfm

Reliably hungry students @ an R crashcourse 😍

🚨 We're hiring!
PhD position in Evolutionary Systems Biology at Stockholm University & SciLifeLab

🎓 Focus: evolution, development, computational & mathematical modeling, prediction
📍 Stockholm, Sweden
🕒 4 years, fully-funded
🔍 Details: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Please share!

I guess I’m a euphy biologist now ☺️

First day of fieldwork: one flat tyre, one gopher snake, and many Euphydryas editha 🤩

@ Piute peak, California

Repeatability of evolution and genomic predictions of temperature adaptation in seed beetles - Nature Ecology & Evolution The authors compare genomic and phenotypic changes between genetic backgrounds of seed beetles evolved at hot or cold temperatures. Despite phenotypic changes being more rapid and predictable at hot t...

Finally out: Predicting adaptation to climate warming www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We find that there are many genomic routes to heat-adaptation, but this can also make genomic data of limited value for prediction. A tour de force by @denovorego.bsky.social , with @stelkens.bsky.social.

The Frontiers of Knowledge Award goes to Camille Parmesan for demonstrating the impact of climate change on the geographical displacement of species round the globe The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Climate Change and Environmental Sciences goes in this seventeenth edition to Camille Parmesan (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France...

A much deserved award to the mother of climate change ecology and dear Euphydryas collaborator, Camille. Her story is one of resilience and fighting to study what she believed was important, not what was trendy at the time. www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

A little tutorial to make interactive maps with GBIF data for any species, including any metadata you want - pictures too

Great work by intern Edgar Signe from Brest University

www.montejo-kovacevich-lab.com/projects/

Watching right now… loved boiling point as well!

Im in Florida 😎 (visited the mcguire) kathy told me about your hectic travels - hope they are going well!

I havent seen a single real mug in a hotel yet ☹️

Douglas Boyes Fund - Royal Entomological Society The Douglas Boyes Fund has been established in honour of Douglas Boyes (1996-2021), an esteemed entomologist specialising in Lepidoptera. The Fund aims to provide young people aged 14-18 with access t...

Know a budding insect lover? Here's a new fund from @royentsoc.bsky.social and family of the great moth expert Douglas Boyes. For 14-18 year old persons who would benefit from funding to support their entomological interest? Please encourage them to apply www.royensoc.co.uk/douglas-boye...

What an amazing week at the @floridamuseum.bsky.social We digitised >800 Euphydryas editha, sampled hundreds of legs for genomics, and was given access to Mattoon’s incredible California butterfly collection. Thanks @vmshirey.bsky.social Anisha Sapkota and Andrei Sourakov for all your help

Butterfly detective by night 🦋🕵🏼‍♀️

A male pied flycatcher perching on a branch

📣 New PhD position on flycatchers with @qvarnstromlab.bsky.social — spread the word!

Combine bioinformatics, long-term datasets and field work to explore climate adaptation and speciation in the lovely flycatchers. Join us in Uppsala, Sweden! Apply by Mar 18: www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

#ecoevojob

Applications for MEME are open! It's a research- and mobility-oriented Evolutionary Biology Master's Programme, where students have the opportunity to visit 4(+2) different universities in two years. Please spread the word! www.evobio.eu #EvoBio

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/...