Tuomas Kankaanpää

@bugwebs.bsky.social

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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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Geography 16%

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Tuomas Kankaanpää @bugwebs.bsky.social · 8h

The mean lab size should be 2000 if we took science seriously.

Tuomas Kankaanpää @bugwebs.bsky.social · 4d

😱

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Richard Fox @richardfoxbc.bsky.social · 4d

More evidence of negative impacts of artificial light at night on moths - activity of Scarce Bordered Straw moths is naturally concentrated in the first 2hrs of night but activity was suppressed under streetlights www.sciencedirect.com:5037/science/arti... #teammoth #lightpollution 🌍

Tuomas Kankaanpää @bugwebs.bsky.social · 7d

the ring flash effect is cool and disturbing

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Elina Mäntylä @elinamantyla.bsky.social · 7d

McConway: Bad stats: A regular series exploring slip-ups, snafus and salutary lessons from the world of statistics academic.oup.com/jrssig/artic... #ornithology #OpenScience

Bad stats: A regular series exploring slip-ups, snafus and salutary lessons from the world of statistics

How much does it matter if we make different model choices?

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Tuomas Kankaanpää @bugwebs.bsky.social · 7d

That's like 3x the normal size? What is it for? Wombat behinds?

Tuomas Kankaanpää @bugwebs.bsky.social · 8d

Juu, toivottavasti itse kukin tarkastelee toimintaansa kriittisesti.

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Nature Ecology & Evolution @natecoevo.nature.com · 8d

Bee assemblage data from 681 crop fields across 3 continents shows that local pesticide hazards and decreasing adjacent semi-natural habitats negatively affected wild bee abundance and species richness in crop fields, while pesticides reduce functional diversity🧪🐝 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Pesticides and habitat loss additively reduce wild bees in crop fields - Nature Ecology & Evolution

The authors synthesize bee assemblage data from 681 crop fields across three continents, finding that local pesticide hazards and decreasing adjacent semi-natural habitats both negatively affected wil...

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Tuomas Kankaanpää @bugwebs.bsky.social · 8d

Japani on tosin Suomeakin rasistisempi maa. Usein unohtuu, kun siellä on myös käytöstapoja ja tarkoin varjeltu maabrändi.

Reposted by Tommaso Jucker, Pieter Vantieghem, Tuomas Kankaanpää

Rochelle Meah @rochellemeah.bsky.social · 9d

Multiple anthropogenic stressors can negatively impact species but can a single stressor also have multiple, concurrent impacts? Here we show that light pollution creates several simultaneous impacts to the nocturnal movement ecology of a moth and a spider: tinyurl.com/5eku5bff (1/5)

Tuomas Kankaanpää @bugwebs.bsky.social · 9d

He probably complained about DEI in the interviews.

Tuomas Kankaanpää @bugwebs.bsky.social · 11d

Did not, even tongue in cheek, imply that it's a good thing. Just pointing out a specific case of near deliberate reproductive harm given that e.g. bisphenol a was developed as a sex hormone stand-in. Also, other ways humans affect ecosystems are, for now, orders of magnitude bigger.

Tuomas Kankaanpää @bugwebs.bsky.social · 11d

*a gif of mr. Bean adding more toilets to the interior design model*

Tuomas Kankaanpää @bugwebs.bsky.social · 11d

The plastics industry has done its utmost best to solve overpopulation in a slow and controlled manner. They have ramped it up exponentially over time though

Tuomas Kankaanpää @bugwebs.bsky.social · 11d

Not only is it long, it's also tautological and not very informative, they could have given it a proper name instead of saying it looks like a stratiosphecomyia but is not, twice.

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Seppo @sepponet.bsky.social · 11d

The #EU is preparing a gift for #pesticide giants: toxic pesticides could stay on the market forever, with no safety tests at all. Yes, forever approvals. Yes, this is real. Sign now to stop it. action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-12...

Protect Our Food From Toxic Pesticides

The EU is preparing a gift for pesticide giants, and a nightmare for the rest of us. A new proposal could let toxic pesticides, including glyphosate, stay on the market forever.Yes, forever approvals....

action.wemove.eu

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Johanna Mappes @jmappes.bsky.social · 14d

Thrilled to announce a Postdoc opportunity in our group on the evolutionary genetics and ecology of colour. Wonderful system, great collaborators, and room to shape your own ideas.
Apply by 7 Jan: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/13477181...

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Max Farnworth @maxfarnworth.bsky.social · 14d

New paper covering what we think is a pretty nice and comprehensive overview over tools suitable for neuroethology in butterflies and moths.
Also, check out the whole special issue if you're an insect neuroethologist.
@neuroethology.org @dzg-neurobiology.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1007/s003...

Emerging tools to advance neuroethology in butterflies and moths - Journal of Comparative Physiology A

Journal of Comparative Physiology A - Butterflies and moths have played historically important roles in developing our understanding of both ecology and evolutionary biology, and neuroethology. In...

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Pavel Kratina @kratina.bsky.social · 14d

Flying changes how metabolism scales with body mass –> NEW META-ANALYSIS of insects and spiders in Ecology Letters with @vojsavagjoni.bsky.social, H. Tan, A. Hirst and D. Atkinson

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Locomotion Reveals Contrasting Responses in Body Mass‐Scaling of Metabolic Rates Between Winged and Wingless Arthropods

We test how activity and locomotor mode affect metabolic scaling in arthropods. Only winged insects show increased scaling with activity, likely due to flight-related thermal and biomechanical factor...

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Ulrika Candolin @ulrikacandolin.bsky.social · 14d

NEW PAPER on impact of #lightpollution, led by Yuhan He who recently defended her PhD thesis.
Historical Exposure to Artificial Light at Night Shapes Daphnia Responses: An Experiment Across an Urban–Rural Gradient - He - 2025 - Ecology and Evolution onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Tuomas Kankaanpää @bugwebs.bsky.social · 17d

Jos tuottavuutta mitataan saukoissa, ja miksi ei mitattaisi?

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spencer roberts 🦈 @unpopularscience.bsky.social · 17d

Monsanto scientists ghostwrote this paper claiming the company’s proprietary glyphosate & roundup herbicides had no risk to human health.

25 years & 1300 citations later, it has finally been retracted — 8 years after the collusion was exposed.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Tuomas Kankaanpää @bugwebs.bsky.social · 18d

They even treat wool with plastics without explicitly telling the consumer about it.

Tuomas Kankaanpää @bugwebs.bsky.social · 20d

oh no. Missed hymathlon. Must make a calendar mark for next year.

Tuomas Kankaanpää @bugwebs.bsky.social · 21d

"line go up" but communist

Tuomas Kankaanpää @bugwebs.bsky.social · 21d

Thanks, Sam

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James Briscoe @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social · 22d

Great to see this published: Fitting dynamical landscape models to single-cell data, creating interpretable maps of cell decision making & developmental logic

Applied to neural tube patterning, we show how morphogen signals reshape landscapes and drive fate decisions

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Reconstructing Waddington’s landscape from data | PNAS

The development of a zygote into a functional organism requires that this single progenitor cell gives rise to numerous distinct cell types. Attemp...

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Tuomas Kankaanpää @bugwebs.bsky.social · 23d

He obviously declared the war won.

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Ulrika Candolin @ulrikacandolin.bsky.social · 23d

Congratulations to Yuhan for successful PhD defence: Shrimps and water fleas in distress - Artificial light at night disrupts freshwater ecosystems www.helsinki.fi/en/news/anim...