Márcio Zikán Cardoso
@zikan.bsky.social
Evolutionary ecologist at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Interested in butterflies and tropical ecology. AE @funecology.bsky.social
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Coffee prices are up 21%.
Ground beef prices up 13%.
Big reason why?
Trump’s chaotic tariffs on Brazil.
I voted to repeal these tariffs along with every Democrat and a few Republicans, and it PASSED the Senate.
All eyes now on House Republicans who are still on vacation.
Ground beef prices up 13%.
Big reason why?
Trump’s chaotic tariffs on Brazil.
I voted to repeal these tariffs along with every Democrat and a few Republicans, and it PASSED the Senate.
All eyes now on House Republicans who are still on vacation.
October 28, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Coffee prices are up 21%.
Ground beef prices up 13%.
Big reason why?
Trump’s chaotic tariffs on Brazil.
I voted to repeal these tariffs along with every Democrat and a few Republicans, and it PASSED the Senate.
All eyes now on House Republicans who are still on vacation.
Ground beef prices up 13%.
Big reason why?
Trump’s chaotic tariffs on Brazil.
I voted to repeal these tariffs along with every Democrat and a few Republicans, and it PASSED the Senate.
All eyes now on House Republicans who are still on vacation.
Reposted by Márcio Zikán Cardoso
Insect salivary proteins alter the stability of plant splicing factors
Haoli Gao, et al.
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/3PX4GV...
#planthopper #PlantScience
Haoli Gao, et al.
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/3PX4GV...
#planthopper #PlantScience
October 17, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Insect salivary proteins alter the stability of plant splicing factors
Haoli Gao, et al.
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/3PX4GV...
#planthopper #PlantScience
Haoli Gao, et al.
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/3PX4GV...
#planthopper #PlantScience
Amazing eyes of the malachite butterfly (Siproeta steneles). Bosque da Barra, Rio de Janeiro.
October 15, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Amazing eyes of the malachite butterfly (Siproeta steneles). Bosque da Barra, Rio de Janeiro.
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Lots of interesting evolutionary nuggets in this study, and some we can’t exactly explain!
A great combination of Yi Peng Toh’s patient neuroanatomical work and @fcicconardi.bsky.social’s bioinformagician skills, and another fun collaboration with @dickmerrill.bsky.social
A great combination of Yi Peng Toh’s patient neuroanatomical work and @fcicconardi.bsky.social’s bioinformagician skills, and another fun collaboration with @dickmerrill.bsky.social
New paper out! A nice collaboration.
We explore how olfactory brain structures and receptors evolved across this remarkable group, Heliconiini butterflies.
We explore how olfactory brain structures and receptors evolved across this remarkable group, Heliconiini butterflies.
Evolution of the olfactory system during the radiation of Heliconiini butterflies
Abstract. Sensory system evolution plays a crucial role in shaping species’ interactions with their environment, yet the extent to which olfactory system d
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October 8, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Lots of interesting evolutionary nuggets in this study, and some we can’t exactly explain!
A great combination of Yi Peng Toh’s patient neuroanatomical work and @fcicconardi.bsky.social’s bioinformagician skills, and another fun collaboration with @dickmerrill.bsky.social
A great combination of Yi Peng Toh’s patient neuroanatomical work and @fcicconardi.bsky.social’s bioinformagician skills, and another fun collaboration with @dickmerrill.bsky.social
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New paper out! A nice collaboration.
We explore how olfactory brain structures and receptors evolved across this remarkable group, Heliconiini butterflies.
We explore how olfactory brain structures and receptors evolved across this remarkable group, Heliconiini butterflies.
Evolution of the olfactory system during the radiation of Heliconiini butterflies
Abstract. Sensory system evolution plays a crucial role in shaping species’ interactions with their environment, yet the extent to which olfactory system d
academic.oup.com
October 7, 2025 at 6:43 PM
New paper out! A nice collaboration.
We explore how olfactory brain structures and receptors evolved across this remarkable group, Heliconiini butterflies.
We explore how olfactory brain structures and receptors evolved across this remarkable group, Heliconiini butterflies.
Today´s Guardian has an article about our study on butterfly colors, where we compare butterfly colors in native forest to those in eucalyptus plantations. This is study is a partnership between labs from Denmark, Spain, and Brazil.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
As forests are cut down, butterflies are losing their colours
The insects’ brilliant hues evolved in lush ecosystems to help them survive. Now they are becoming more muted to adapt to degraded landscapes – and they are not the only things dulling down
www.theguardian.com
October 6, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Today´s Guardian has an article about our study on butterfly colors, where we compare butterfly colors in native forest to those in eucalyptus plantations. This is study is a partnership between labs from Denmark, Spain, and Brazil.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Confused writing is usually a symptom of confused thinking. As we struggle to clarify writing, we clarify our thoughts. AI writing aids rob us of that struggle, leaving clean-looking text and thoughts still confused for lack of inspection. Writing is not just a product; it is a diagnostic tool.
September 5, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Confused writing is usually a symptom of confused thinking. As we struggle to clarify writing, we clarify our thoughts. AI writing aids rob us of that struggle, leaving clean-looking text and thoughts still confused for lack of inspection. Writing is not just a product; it is a diagnostic tool.
Excellent initiative! I grew up thinking Greenland was huge and larger than the whole of South America.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
African Union joins calls to end use of Mercator map that shrinks continent’s size
Member states back Correct the Map campaign that urges governments and organisations to use more accurate map
www.theguardian.com
August 15, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Excellent initiative! I grew up thinking Greenland was huge and larger than the whole of South America.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Besides Trumpf deranged interference in my country, I am down to a new low. I have sent a manuscript for review to (so far) 11 potential reviewers (7 declined; 4 did not respond). I am now bothering a 12th potential reviewer... Any fellow assistant editors out there have had this happening before?
July 9, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Besides Trumpf deranged interference in my country, I am down to a new low. I have sent a manuscript for review to (so far) 11 potential reviewers (7 declined; 4 did not respond). I am now bothering a 12th potential reviewer... Any fellow assistant editors out there have had this happening before?
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Trump is now imposing tariffs for political retribution.
July 9, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Trump is now imposing tariffs for political retribution.
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With everything else going on, I'm not sure people realize that Trump's latest tariff on Brazil took things to a new (lower) level
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trumps-dic...
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trumps-dic...
Trump's Dictator Protection Program
Using tariffs to fight democracy
paulkrugman.substack.com
July 9, 2025 at 11:02 PM
With everything else going on, I'm not sure people realize that Trump's latest tariff on Brazil took things to a new (lower) level
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trumps-dic...
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trumps-dic...
Fantastic place to work!
🚨Anyone want a job?🚨
We have two #postdocs up for grabs! 🧪
- cell developmental biology/#evodevo/#neuroevodevo
- bioinformatics and molecular biology
Both working on brain evolution in Heliconiini butterflies
Details below! Please repost 🙏 1/n
We have two #postdocs up for grabs! 🧪
- cell developmental biology/#evodevo/#neuroevodevo
- bioinformatics and molecular biology
Both working on brain evolution in Heliconiini butterflies
Details below! Please repost 🙏 1/n
June 5, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Fantastic place to work!
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🚨Anyone want a job?🚨
We have two #postdocs up for grabs! 🧪
- cell developmental biology/#evodevo/#neuroevodevo
- bioinformatics and molecular biology
Both working on brain evolution in Heliconiini butterflies
Details below! Please repost 🙏 1/n
We have two #postdocs up for grabs! 🧪
- cell developmental biology/#evodevo/#neuroevodevo
- bioinformatics and molecular biology
Both working on brain evolution in Heliconiini butterflies
Details below! Please repost 🙏 1/n
June 4, 2025 at 9:51 AM
🚨Anyone want a job?🚨
We have two #postdocs up for grabs! 🧪
- cell developmental biology/#evodevo/#neuroevodevo
- bioinformatics and molecular biology
Both working on brain evolution in Heliconiini butterflies
Details below! Please repost 🙏 1/n
We have two #postdocs up for grabs! 🧪
- cell developmental biology/#evodevo/#neuroevodevo
- bioinformatics and molecular biology
Both working on brain evolution in Heliconiini butterflies
Details below! Please repost 🙏 1/n
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Are you originally from a non-U.S. country interested in doing a postdoc in my lab? We study the evolution of butterfly vision and coloration. The Human Frontier Science Program postdoctoral fellowship Letter of Intent deadline is May 7. Please contact me if interested. www.hfsp.org/funding/hfsp...
Postdoctoral Fellowships | Human Frontier Science Program
www.hfsp.org
May 6, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Are you originally from a non-U.S. country interested in doing a postdoc in my lab? We study the evolution of butterfly vision and coloration. The Human Frontier Science Program postdoctoral fellowship Letter of Intent deadline is May 7. Please contact me if interested. www.hfsp.org/funding/hfsp...
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Enjoy this great short (9 min) film on the work of Constanti Stefanescu, co-ordinator of the Catalan Butterfly Monitoring Scheme. Such schemes are not only important for the butterfly counts, but also as a social network bringing butterflies to the people.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=d__p...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=d__p...
CHASING BUTTERFLIES
YouTube video by KAVU
www.youtube.com
May 6, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Enjoy this great short (9 min) film on the work of Constanti Stefanescu, co-ordinator of the Catalan Butterfly Monitoring Scheme. Such schemes are not only important for the butterfly counts, but also as a social network bringing butterflies to the people.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=d__p...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=d__p...
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Interested in a PhD connecting sensory ecology and evolutionary genetics? Applications are now open for a project on the Speciation Genomics of Eye Size Variation in Heliconius Butterflies in our lab at LMU Munich: www.evol.bio.lmu.de/research/mer... Please repost!
May 6, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Interested in a PhD connecting sensory ecology and evolutionary genetics? Applications are now open for a project on the Speciation Genomics of Eye Size Variation in Heliconius Butterflies in our lab at LMU Munich: www.evol.bio.lmu.de/research/mer... Please repost!
First visit to a protected area that hosts the endangered butterfly Parides ascanius (Fluminense swallowtail). A small enclave in the heart of highly urbanized West Rio. Its host plant is the trilobed vine depicted here. The other vine is a passionflower plant. Tiger moth is a beautiful Poliopastea.
May 3, 2025 at 4:06 PM
First visit to a protected area that hosts the endangered butterfly Parides ascanius (Fluminense swallowtail). A small enclave in the heart of highly urbanized West Rio. Its host plant is the trilobed vine depicted here. The other vine is a passionflower plant. Tiger moth is a beautiful Poliopastea.
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📢ATENÇÂO, JORNALISTA
A Bori convida você para um debate com especialistas sobre aditivos alimentares. Vamos entender o que está por trás do uso dessas substâncias pela indústria e como isso afeta nossa saúde.
Coletiva Desvendando os aditivos alimentares: o que estamos consumindo? 🧶
A Bori convida você para um debate com especialistas sobre aditivos alimentares. Vamos entender o que está por trás do uso dessas substâncias pela indústria e como isso afeta nossa saúde.
Coletiva Desvendando os aditivos alimentares: o que estamos consumindo? 🧶
April 30, 2025 at 8:11 PM
📢ATENÇÂO, JORNALISTA
A Bori convida você para um debate com especialistas sobre aditivos alimentares. Vamos entender o que está por trás do uso dessas substâncias pela indústria e como isso afeta nossa saúde.
Coletiva Desvendando os aditivos alimentares: o que estamos consumindo? 🧶
A Bori convida você para um debate com especialistas sobre aditivos alimentares. Vamos entender o que está por trás do uso dessas substâncias pela indústria e como isso afeta nossa saúde.
Coletiva Desvendando os aditivos alimentares: o que estamos consumindo? 🧶
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With some 20,000 species- four times the total diversity of mammals- ants have developed an enormous variety of forms.
This is the soldier of Pheidole absurda, from Texas.
This is the soldier of Pheidole absurda, from Texas.
April 26, 2025 at 12:59 PM
With some 20,000 species- four times the total diversity of mammals- ants have developed an enormous variety of forms.
This is the soldier of Pheidole absurda, from Texas.
This is the soldier of Pheidole absurda, from Texas.
Greetings from a cloudy afternoon in Rio.
April 21, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Greetings from a cloudy afternoon in Rio.
Kicking-up our Easter lab meeting with a chocolate bar extravaganza and a great talk by our newest post-doc Marilia Costa on land-use change and its impact on ant communities. Looking forward to a productive 3-year collaboration!
April 18, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Kicking-up our Easter lab meeting with a chocolate bar extravaganza and a great talk by our newest post-doc Marilia Costa on land-use change and its impact on ant communities. Looking forward to a productive 3-year collaboration!
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Happy to share my first major PhD work, where we show that Heliconiini caterpillars have developed more puncture resistant cuticle as a counter-adaptation against sharp Passiflora trichomes. However, we also show that the trichomes affect post ingestion, suggesting that the arms-race continues!
Caterpillar counter-adaptations to hooked trichomes: does the coevolutionary arms race continue? https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.22.644295v1
March 29, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Happy to share my first major PhD work, where we show that Heliconiini caterpillars have developed more puncture resistant cuticle as a counter-adaptation against sharp Passiflora trichomes. However, we also show that the trichomes affect post ingestion, suggesting that the arms-race continues!
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The 2025 @tylerprize.bsky.social has been awarded to Sandra Díaz & Eduardo Brondízio for their stellar bodies-of-work. Not only are they the 1st recipients from S. America, but they were also 2/3 co-Chairs of @ipbes.net #GlobalAssessment. 🌍🧪
Congratulations!
Read more: www.tylerprize.org
Congratulations!
Read more: www.tylerprize.org
February 12, 2025 at 10:00 AM
The 2025 @tylerprize.bsky.social has been awarded to Sandra Díaz & Eduardo Brondízio for their stellar bodies-of-work. Not only are they the 1st recipients from S. America, but they were also 2/3 co-Chairs of @ipbes.net #GlobalAssessment. 🌍🧪
Congratulations!
Read more: www.tylerprize.org
Congratulations!
Read more: www.tylerprize.org
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Early-career researchers: Apply by 14 February for a funded place at the 'Democratising Microscopy in Latin America: Imaging Across Scales and Regions' Workshop occurring 12-15 October 2025.
https://bit.ly/4aXgFxq
#Microscopy #SciSky
https://bit.ly/4aXgFxq
#Microscopy #SciSky
February 7, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Early-career researchers: Apply by 14 February for a funded place at the 'Democratising Microscopy in Latin America: Imaging Across Scales and Regions' Workshop occurring 12-15 October 2025.
https://bit.ly/4aXgFxq
#Microscopy #SciSky
https://bit.ly/4aXgFxq
#Microscopy #SciSky
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📢Senior Editor vacancy!
We're looking for an active researcher with broad interests in #animal #ecology & related fields, to join our #editorial team
⏰Deadline 20th Feb
👇Full details www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/seni...
We're looking for an active researcher with broad interests in #animal #ecology & related fields, to join our #editorial team
⏰Deadline 20th Feb
👇Full details www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/seni...
Senior Editor - British Ecological Society
Join the editorial board on Functional Ecology! Apply by 20 Feb 2025.
www.britishecologicalsociety.org
February 6, 2025 at 2:06 PM
📢Senior Editor vacancy!
We're looking for an active researcher with broad interests in #animal #ecology & related fields, to join our #editorial team
⏰Deadline 20th Feb
👇Full details www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/seni...
We're looking for an active researcher with broad interests in #animal #ecology & related fields, to join our #editorial team
⏰Deadline 20th Feb
👇Full details www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/seni...