@jamesehammond.bsky.social
DPhil at @biology.ox.ac.uk | Cichlids, Somitogenesis, and Evolvability | Lepidoptera and Birds | jewh.github.io | #embryo2024
Can't be taken beyond genus but most likely to be cagnagella with those white terminal cilia
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Nemapogon ruricolella, resting on my finger
Argyresthia glaucinella
Stephensia brunnichella
Great night mothing in Wytham Woods on midsummer's day - warm weather brought in 121 species including (presumed) Nemapogon ruricolella, Argyresthia glaucinella, and a very handsome Stephensia brunnichella
@tmbirding.bsky.social #mothsmatter
The 2024 Embryology cohort. Top row (left to right): Lucrezia Ferme, Vivek Ramalingam, Louise Dagher. Second row (left to right): Yuchuan Miao, Angelo Arrigo, Cliff Rostomily, Ekasit Sonpho, James Hammond, Jakke Neiro, Fjodor Merkuri, Paul Maier. Third row (left to right): Tatjana Piotrowski, Marc Trani Bustos, Roy Chen, Amanda Powell, Maya Pahima, Verena Kaul, Alexandra Lion, Frederic Zimmer, Kaitlyn Abshire, Stanley Marjenberg. Bottom row (left to right): Athula Wikramanayake, Kate McCluskey, VirgΓnia Andrade, Arushi Gupta, Francisca Espinoza Romero, Ruth Styfhals, Chaitra Prabhakar, Erica Lin.
In this Perspective, students from the 2024 Embryology Course share their experiences spending the summer at the Marine Biological Laboratory (@mblscience.bsky.socialβ¬) in Woods Hole:
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
Images taken during the Woods Hole Embryology Course that have been promoted by Development and the Node.
The Company of Biologists and the Woods Hole Embryology Course
We explore the association of Development and @biologists.bsky.social⬠with the Woods Hole Embryology Course @mblscience.bsky.social⬠and hear from former students about the impact the course has had on them:
doi.org/10.1242/dev....
From hydra grafts to butterfly gene expression, the 2024 @mblscience.bsky.social #Embryology Course was a playground for #discovery. π @planaria1.bsky.social Lab postdoc Ekasit Sonpho co-authored a reflection in @dev-journal.bsky.social on what made this summer so transformative: bit.ly/3ZIMRQu
04.06.2025 16:07 β π 12 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0
What a fantastic essay by last year's @mblscience.bsky.social Embryology students! A perfect paean to the most wonderful science: "It's exhausting; it's exhilarating; it's Embryology."
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Somitic Change Drives Changes in Vertebral Regionalisation in African Cichlids Despite Strong Canalisation of Somite Number https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.23.655800v1
28.05.2025 20:32 β π 1 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
Experimental embryology postdoc available in my lab at the @biology.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk working on the evolution of vertebral counts. Reach out if youβre passionate about EvoDevo, enjoy lab work and microscopy and are into or could get into cichlid fishes. Deadline on the 16th June. Please share!
19.05.2025 16:10 β π 63 π 66 π¬ 3 π 6
Excited to announce my second PhD manuscript is on bioRvix (biorxiv.org/content/10.1...). Thanks to all co-authors, including my supervisors @bertaverd.bsky.social and Roger Benson. Thread below...
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Segmentation clock & tissue development are decoupled - explanation for evolution of flexible body plans?
#EvoDevo #SegmentationClock
Study from Verd Lab @bertaverd.bsky.social @oxfordmathematics.bsky.social
π #preprintpeerreview @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social
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I assume you reared them from larvae? What did you feed them - are you close enough to Bearberry to feed them that, or did you try them on Willow?
28.04.2025 17:28 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Not argyrana IMO, suspect one of albuginana/suspectana, worth dissecting
27.04.2025 19:36 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0How'd you find this one? On a fencepost?
18.04.2025 18:44 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
A male of the micro moth Pammene juniperana.
A female of the micro moth Pammene juniperana.
Habitat of the micro moth Pammene juniperana with wild Juniper growing on chalk downland.
Larval feeding signs of the micro moth Pammene juniperana, with green Juniper berries discoloured pale blue.
Previously only recorded once in the UK in 2018, records of Pammene juniperana have been increasing since 2022. Pleased to finally share this paper with @jamesehammond.bsky.social confirming that this lovely moth is breeding here, probably both on both wild and garden Junipers: shorturl.at/E2LrU
18.04.2025 09:00 β π 62 π 5 π¬ 5 π 2Thank you!
26.03.2025 14:52 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Thank you! Obviously heavily inspired by your work
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Latest work:
Review on the evolvability of vertebral number, and the developmental processes underpinning it
Written by Callum Bucklow, @bertaverd.bsky.social, and myself
Check it out here: doi.org/10.32942/X2K...
Rannoch sprawler / Brachionycha nubeculosa
Rannoch sprawler / Brachionycha nubeculosa
Yellow horned / Achlya flavicornis
LepiLED drew in thirteen Rannoch sprawler (Brachionycha nubeculosa) at Drynachan up the Findhorn valley, including some nice dark specimens. Conditions about perfect, 90 moths of 11 species for 1.5 hrs trapping
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