Joe Hanly
@hanliconius.bsky.social
interested in evolution, development and butterflies. Postdoc at GWU. #albinism. He/him 🏳️🌈
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Joe Hanly
@hanliconius.bsky.social
· May 30
While helping out on a cool genomics project recently, I came to realise I’d been taught a pretty big inaccuracy about the events that occur at fertilization. I suspect that almost everyone reading this has the same misapprehension, so let’s do some learning together: 1/
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A few years ago, through luck and vibes, I managed to produce this blue colored bean variety.
This was an early step in trying to answer the question, [paraphrased] "Why isn't blue as common as red in beans, even though they're both anthocyanins and the plant has the genes for both?"
This was an early step in trying to answer the question, [paraphrased] "Why isn't blue as common as red in beans, even though they're both anthocyanins and the plant has the genes for both?"
December 29, 2025 at 7:14 AM
A few years ago, through luck and vibes, I managed to produce this blue colored bean variety.
This was an early step in trying to answer the question, [paraphrased] "Why isn't blue as common as red in beans, even though they're both anthocyanins and the plant has the genes for both?"
This was an early step in trying to answer the question, [paraphrased] "Why isn't blue as common as red in beans, even though they're both anthocyanins and the plant has the genes for both?"
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#WntA is a crucial marker of stripe elements early in development for the Nymphalidae butterfly family. @jasminealqassar.bsky.social & co explore if WntA has maintained its role in stripe elements over 95 million years of evolution in the Hesperiidae family of butterflies. doi.org/10.1242/bio....
December 17, 2025 at 8:09 PM
#WntA is a crucial marker of stripe elements early in development for the Nymphalidae butterfly family. @jasminealqassar.bsky.social & co explore if WntA has maintained its role in stripe elements over 95 million years of evolution in the Hesperiidae family of butterflies. doi.org/10.1242/bio....
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¿Conoces casos de hormigas adheridas a otros animales?
@adsalbert.bsky.social está recogiendo datos de este tipo de interacciones.
@adsalbert.bsky.social está recogiendo datos de este tipo de interacciones.
An ant biting my insect specimen?! 🐜 ⚠️
We recently reported an unusual sighting: a fire ant biting a giant hawkmoth that was collected 38 years ago! 🤯
doi.org/10.3897/BDJ....
Here's a thread on this hidden ecological relationship and where to find it in NHCs! 🏛️
Let's take a look! 🔍 1/6
We recently reported an unusual sighting: a fire ant biting a giant hawkmoth that was collected 38 years ago! 🤯
doi.org/10.3897/BDJ....
Here's a thread on this hidden ecological relationship and where to find it in NHCs! 🏛️
Let's take a look! 🔍 1/6
December 15, 2025 at 11:01 PM
¿Conoces casos de hormigas adheridas a otros animales?
@adsalbert.bsky.social está recogiendo datos de este tipo de interacciones.
@adsalbert.bsky.social está recogiendo datos de este tipo de interacciones.
It's been a good few weeks for cool bird genomcis - incl this, on warblers sharing colour genes through hybridisation (with evidence of between-genus introgression journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
A colorful legacy of hybridization in wood-warblers includes frequent sharing of carotenoid genes among species and genera
Introgression between species can shape evolutionary trajectories in important ways. This study of the entire family of the colorful wood-warblers (Parulidae) uses whole-genome sequencing to reveal fr...
journals.plos.org
December 15, 2025 at 10:59 PM
It's been a good few weeks for cool bird genomcis - incl this, on warblers sharing colour genes through hybridisation (with evidence of between-genus introgression journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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Fantastic people and environment, wanna join? 👀
And here is the working link: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
December 12, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Fantastic people and environment, wanna join? 👀
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New paper out. If you like colorful birds, hybridization, and phylogenetics, read on! 🧵https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3003501
A colorful legacy of hybridization in wood-warblers includes frequent sharing of carotenoid genes among species and genera
Introgression between species can shape evolutionary trajectories in important ways. This study of the entire family of the colorful wood-warblers (Parulidae) uses whole-genome sequencing to reveal fr...
doi.org
December 12, 2025 at 3:55 PM
New paper out. If you like colorful birds, hybridization, and phylogenetics, read on! 🧵https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3003501
I’m still in a bunch of immigration subreddits from when I was going thru the Green Card process. It’s transitioned from questions about form filing and wait times to people saying their family members have been taken by ICE and can’t be located.
December 11, 2025 at 4:23 PM
I’m still in a bunch of immigration subreddits from when I was going thru the Green Card process. It’s transitioned from questions about form filing and wait times to people saying their family members have been taken by ICE and can’t be located.
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Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :)
The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used
> neal.fun/size-of-life/
The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used
> neal.fun/size-of-life/
December 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :)
The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used
> neal.fun/size-of-life/
The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used
> neal.fun/size-of-life/
The meta AI automatic translation of Instagram reels is so smooth that I’m not 100% sure I’m not being pranked.
December 5, 2025 at 3:29 AM
The meta AI automatic translation of Instagram reels is so smooth that I’m not 100% sure I’m not being pranked.
Excellent title - and I'm a sucker for mapping any de novo mutations in insect pigment and pattern mutants. In this case, the culprit seems to be an ncRNA!?!? resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Eye can see clearly now: Identifying the locus associated with a white‐eye mutation in honey bees (Apis mellifera)
We performed a community science investigation with the beekeepers nationwide to find phenotypic mutants. Alongside a beekeeper in Kentucky, we performed a GWAS to identify a region associated with ...
resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Excellent title - and I'm a sucker for mapping any de novo mutations in insect pigment and pattern mutants. In this case, the culprit seems to be an ncRNA!?!? resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
I do love the irony that the article literally starts with... an accommodation for people who would find it easier to listen than read.
December 2, 2025 at 9:44 PM
I do love the irony that the article literally starts with... an accommodation for people who would find it easier to listen than read.
eyes progressively rolling harder and harder as i read through these threads today.
I'm hatereading this Atlantic article on "too many college kids are getting accomodations." I have internet poisoning and I'm only on the fourth paragraph.
December 2, 2025 at 9:24 PM
eyes progressively rolling harder and harder as i read through these threads today.
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Seeking a postdoc position?
Balancing selection is a fascinating process: malaria resistance, self-incompatibility,etc. Yet, countless examples remain hidden in genomes!
If this question intrigues you, the project led by Laure Segurel and Violaine Llaurens (Paris + Lyon) is perfect! urlr.me/Huj2De
Balancing selection is a fascinating process: malaria resistance, self-incompatibility,etc. Yet, countless examples remain hidden in genomes!
If this question intrigues you, the project led by Laure Segurel and Violaine Llaurens (Paris + Lyon) is perfect! urlr.me/Huj2De
Portail Emploi CNRS - Offre d'emploi - Post-doctoral fellow (M/F): Assessing the power of current methods to detect balancing selection in population genomic datasets
urlr.me
November 18, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Seeking a postdoc position?
Balancing selection is a fascinating process: malaria resistance, self-incompatibility,etc. Yet, countless examples remain hidden in genomes!
If this question intrigues you, the project led by Laure Segurel and Violaine Llaurens (Paris + Lyon) is perfect! urlr.me/Huj2De
Balancing selection is a fascinating process: malaria resistance, self-incompatibility,etc. Yet, countless examples remain hidden in genomes!
If this question intrigues you, the project led by Laure Segurel and Violaine Llaurens (Paris + Lyon) is perfect! urlr.me/Huj2De
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Amanda Sabatino, @jpjahner.bsky.social and I have a new paper on @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social. Amanda, in her undergraduate thesis work, found variation in Colias colour phenotypes is associated with different metrics of urbanization in Toronto. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Anthropogenic factors explain wing colour variation in Colias (Lepidoptera: Pieridae) butterflies across the Toronto urbanization gradient
Hybridization, or interbreeding between two previously diverged populations, is increasing due to human influences on the environment. Rates of hybridization might be increasing particularly quickly a...
www.biorxiv.org
November 19, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Amanda Sabatino, @jpjahner.bsky.social and I have a new paper on @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social. Amanda, in her undergraduate thesis work, found variation in Colias colour phenotypes is associated with different metrics of urbanization in Toronto. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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🚨RA/PhD position available in evolutionary neurobiology 🚨
Working on a deep dive into circuit changes during mushroom body expansion in Heliconius butterflies @camzoology.bsky.social
- employment benefits
- 4 years funding
- 1000% fun
Deadline: 14/1/2026
Details:
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
Working on a deep dive into circuit changes during mushroom body expansion in Heliconius butterflies @camzoology.bsky.social
- employment benefits
- 4 years funding
- 1000% fun
Deadline: 14/1/2026
Details:
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
November 21, 2025 at 2:31 PM
🚨RA/PhD position available in evolutionary neurobiology 🚨
Working on a deep dive into circuit changes during mushroom body expansion in Heliconius butterflies @camzoology.bsky.social
- employment benefits
- 4 years funding
- 1000% fun
Deadline: 14/1/2026
Details:
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
Working on a deep dive into circuit changes during mushroom body expansion in Heliconius butterflies @camzoology.bsky.social
- employment benefits
- 4 years funding
- 1000% fun
Deadline: 14/1/2026
Details:
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
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Team fish - we need your help! We are trying to build a database of all the fish chromosome-scale genomes where sex chromosomes have been identified. Have you build one or some? Do you know someone who has? Can you post the link in the comments? Please spread the word and repost! Thank you!
November 20, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Team fish - we need your help! We are trying to build a database of all the fish chromosome-scale genomes where sex chromosomes have been identified. Have you build one or some? Do you know someone who has? Can you post the link in the comments? Please spread the word and repost! Thank you!
Does anyone know if there are any biographies of Alfred Sturtevant?
November 20, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Does anyone know if there are any biographies of Alfred Sturtevant?
Can’t figure out which virus is killing your bacterial culture? Problematic phage gap.
Accidentally deadnamed Elliot? Problematic Page gap.
Fell into the orchestra pit in the middle of a performance? Problematic stage gap.
November 20, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Can’t figure out which virus is killing your bacterial culture? Problematic phage gap.
Crossing the Spanish border from France on a train? Problematic gage gap.
Friend can't make it to the D and D session this week, and you really need those spells: problematic mage gap
Angry person yelling at chill person who is responding by being calm, which makes the angry person even more mad? Problematic rage gap.
November 19, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Crossing the Spanish border from France on a train? Problematic gage gap.
In my capacity as your friendly neighbourhood blind person, I approve of this message.
periodic reminder of the existence of Atkinson Hyperlegible, a free font available from the Braille Institute designed to improve readability for people with low vision
I use it in talks because it's pretty and also because, as an audience member, I am perpetually squinting at people's slides
I use it in talks because it's pretty and also because, as an audience member, I am perpetually squinting at people's slides
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November 19, 2025 at 8:35 PM
In my capacity as your friendly neighbourhood blind person, I approve of this message.
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periodic reminder of the existence of Atkinson Hyperlegible, a free font available from the Braille Institute designed to improve readability for people with low vision
I use it in talks because it's pretty and also because, as an audience member, I am perpetually squinting at people's slides
I use it in talks because it's pretty and also because, as an audience member, I am perpetually squinting at people's slides
Atkinson Hyperlegible Font - Braille Institute
Read easier with Atkinson Hyperlegible Font, crafted for low-vision readers. Download for free and enjoy clear letters and numbers on your computer!
www.brailleinstitute.org
November 17, 2025 at 4:19 AM
periodic reminder of the existence of Atkinson Hyperlegible, a free font available from the Braille Institute designed to improve readability for people with low vision
I use it in talks because it's pretty and also because, as an audience member, I am perpetually squinting at people's slides
I use it in talks because it's pretty and also because, as an audience member, I am perpetually squinting at people's slides
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Join us! 🧬🪰🎉🔬
We are currently advertising two #PhD projects to study the #evolution, #development and #genomics of sexual traits in stalk-eyed flies.
Deadline for applying is Wednesday, January 7, 2026. Get in touch for more info!
We are currently advertising two #PhD projects to study the #evolution, #development and #genomics of sexual traits in stalk-eyed flies.
Deadline for applying is Wednesday, January 7, 2026. Get in touch for more info!
November 17, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Join us! 🧬🪰🎉🔬
We are currently advertising two #PhD projects to study the #evolution, #development and #genomics of sexual traits in stalk-eyed flies.
Deadline for applying is Wednesday, January 7, 2026. Get in touch for more info!
We are currently advertising two #PhD projects to study the #evolution, #development and #genomics of sexual traits in stalk-eyed flies.
Deadline for applying is Wednesday, January 7, 2026. Get in touch for more info!
These have to be some of the weirdest-looking nuclei that exist. What on earth is going on!?! Check out this thread and follow @jasminealqassar.bsky.social, who is working on the biology of secretory organs in Lepidoptera!
Silk glands are epithelial tubes made of giant cells. These cells have giant polyploid nuclei (blue) made of thousands of genome copies, and are wrapped around a lumen (yellow), in which they dump silk proteins
November 17, 2025 at 8:19 PM
These have to be some of the weirdest-looking nuclei that exist. What on earth is going on!?! Check out this thread and follow @jasminealqassar.bsky.social, who is working on the biology of secretory organs in Lepidoptera!
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🚨New paper! 🚨
@jasminealqassar.bsky.social led this work on the silk glands of the pantry moth.
These two long tubes inside the caterpillar continuously make a ton of silk
How does this special organ work?
www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
@cp-iscience.bsky.social
🧵THREAD🧵
@jasminealqassar.bsky.social led this work on the silk glands of the pantry moth.
These two long tubes inside the caterpillar continuously make a ton of silk
How does this special organ work?
www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
@cp-iscience.bsky.social
🧵THREAD🧵
November 16, 2025 at 2:06 AM
🚨New paper! 🚨
@jasminealqassar.bsky.social led this work on the silk glands of the pantry moth.
These two long tubes inside the caterpillar continuously make a ton of silk
How does this special organ work?
www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
@cp-iscience.bsky.social
🧵THREAD🧵
@jasminealqassar.bsky.social led this work on the silk glands of the pantry moth.
These two long tubes inside the caterpillar continuously make a ton of silk
How does this special organ work?
www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
@cp-iscience.bsky.social
🧵THREAD🧵