Emily Hornett
@bolinabug.bsky.social
Evolutionary geneticist interested in natural selection, diversity drivers & response to environmental change
Insect-microbe interactions | genomics | environmental stress | colour patterns | Wolbachia | symbionts | male-killing | ladybird | butterfly
Insect-microbe interactions | genomics | environmental stress | colour patterns | Wolbachia | symbionts | male-killing | ladybird | butterfly
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Do you know a young person with an interest in insects? 🦋
The Douglas Boyes Fund aims to provide people aged 14-18 with access to entomology equipment, fostering their passion for insects and inspiring them to engage and share their interest with other young individuals 🔽
The Douglas Boyes Fund aims to provide people aged 14-18 with access to entomology equipment, fostering their passion for insects and inspiring them to engage and share their interest with other young individuals 🔽
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…
buff.ly
June 24, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Do you know a young person with an interest in insects? 🦋
The Douglas Boyes Fund aims to provide people aged 14-18 with access to entomology equipment, fostering their passion for insects and inspiring them to engage and share their interest with other young individuals 🔽
The Douglas Boyes Fund aims to provide people aged 14-18 with access to entomology equipment, fostering their passion for insects and inspiring them to engage and share their interest with other young individuals 🔽
Fun unexpected finding just submitted as a preprint
New preprint ex @bolinabug.bsky.social (+ @daisukekageyama.bsky.social & @scottishwormboy.bsky.social) on the pronounced secondary expansion of Spiroplasma and Rickettsia genomes in lacewings doi.org/10.1101/2025... #symbiosky 1/2
Concerted genome expansion of heritable symbionts in an insect host
Maternally transmitted symbionts represent important components of arthropod biology, acting as both beneficial partners and as reproductive parasites. Their strict vertical transmission greatly reduc...
doi.org
May 12, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Fun unexpected finding just submitted as a preprint
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Have/nearly have a PhD?
≤7 years post-doc experience?
Working outside UK?
Not a UK citizen?
BA & Royal Society offering 2-yr Fellowships for early career researchers to come to the UK!
💷 Includes:
Research expenses £12k
Relocation up to £8k
🗓️ Deadline: Mar 18, 2025 (17:00 GMT)
#ResearchFunding
≤7 years post-doc experience?
Working outside UK?
Not a UK citizen?
BA & Royal Society offering 2-yr Fellowships for early career researchers to come to the UK!
💷 Includes:
Research expenses £12k
Relocation up to £8k
🗓️ Deadline: Mar 18, 2025 (17:00 GMT)
#ResearchFunding
International Fellowships 2025
The International Fellowships Programme enables researchers to work for two years at a UK institution with the aim of building a globally connected, mobile research and innovation workforce.
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk
February 9, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Have/nearly have a PhD?
≤7 years post-doc experience?
Working outside UK?
Not a UK citizen?
BA & Royal Society offering 2-yr Fellowships for early career researchers to come to the UK!
💷 Includes:
Research expenses £12k
Relocation up to £8k
🗓️ Deadline: Mar 18, 2025 (17:00 GMT)
#ResearchFunding
≤7 years post-doc experience?
Working outside UK?
Not a UK citizen?
BA & Royal Society offering 2-yr Fellowships for early career researchers to come to the UK!
💷 Includes:
Research expenses £12k
Relocation up to £8k
🗓️ Deadline: Mar 18, 2025 (17:00 GMT)
#ResearchFunding
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The UK is very much open for business, and so is the rest of Europe.
You will have to suffer a pay cut, but instead you get high-quality healthcare, no shootings and, if you choose wisely, no fascists in government.
You will have to suffer a pay cut, but instead you get high-quality healthcare, no shootings and, if you choose wisely, no fascists in government.
If only some university/ research institute/ philanthropy in the world had the courage, they could hire some very amazing scientists who are going to blaze new trails in science (if they can get a chance).
And I’m sorry for not defending tenure in academia & government more vociferously in the past
And I’m sorry for not defending tenure in academia & government more vociferously in the past
February 14, 2025 at 8:57 PM
The UK is very much open for business, and so is the rest of Europe.
You will have to suffer a pay cut, but instead you get high-quality healthcare, no shootings and, if you choose wisely, no fascists in government.
You will have to suffer a pay cut, but instead you get high-quality healthcare, no shootings and, if you choose wisely, no fascists in government.
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We are calling for a nationwide and international boycott of all Elon Musk-related products and services. Sell your Tesla shares, avoid buying Tesla vehicles, cancel Starlink, and delete your X accounts.
February 14, 2025 at 3:32 AM
We are calling for a nationwide and international boycott of all Elon Musk-related products and services. Sell your Tesla shares, avoid buying Tesla vehicles, cancel Starlink, and delete your X accounts.
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New preprint from @haraipapilio.bsky.social with @bolinabug.bsky.social @daisukekageyama.bsky.social and others not on bluesky #symbiosky www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Evolution of Wolbachia male-killing mechanism within a host species
Male-killing bacterial symbionts, prevalent in arthropods, skew population sex ratios by selectively killing male progeny, profoundly impacting ecology and evolution of their hosts. Male-killing is a ...
www.biorxiv.org
January 15, 2025 at 12:01 PM
New preprint from @haraipapilio.bsky.social with @bolinabug.bsky.social @daisukekageyama.bsky.social and others not on bluesky #symbiosky www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Happy 2025 all! Hot off the press, news from the #mosquito #microbiomes and why a 'reproducibility crisis' in mosquito research might be because your #holobiont is not exactly the same as next-door's holobiont 😁 💻🧬🦠🦟
lnkd.in/dp7v-wqU
lnkd.in/dp7v-wqU
LinkedIn
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lnkd.in
January 9, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Happy 2025 all! Hot off the press, news from the #mosquito #microbiomes and why a 'reproducibility crisis' in mosquito research might be because your #holobiont is not exactly the same as next-door's holobiont 😁 💻🧬🦠🦟
lnkd.in/dp7v-wqU
lnkd.in/dp7v-wqU
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Brilliant BBC animated report by ecologist David Goulson on the vital role of insects in our ecosystems and the real threats of declining populations
Why insects are so crucial to life on Earth - BBC Ideas
Watch the "Why insects are so crucial to life on Earth" video at BBC Ideas. Explore other related content via our curated "Nature and us" playlist.
www.bbc.co.uk
August 4, 2023 at 2:08 PM
Brilliant BBC animated report by ecologist David Goulson on the vital role of insects in our ecosystems and the real threats of declining populations
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A favorite commission this year, a dividing cell with an extra detail. Colleagues of a retiring researcher commissioned me to add the specific structure she worked on—the spindle pole body—to the sculpture. Here it is close up, in sterling silver embedded in the bronze nuclear membrane. 🔬#SciArt
December 28, 2024 at 2:05 AM
A favorite commission this year, a dividing cell with an extra detail. Colleagues of a retiring researcher commissioned me to add the specific structure she worked on—the spindle pole body—to the sculpture. Here it is close up, in sterling silver embedded in the bronze nuclear membrane. 🔬#SciArt
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Thames Water diverted millions of pounds pledged for environmental clean-ups to pay bonuses & dividends
187 criminal convictions since 1989, routinely dumps sewage in rivers/seas, neglects investment.
Protected by successive govts, customers fleeced.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
187 criminal convictions since 1989, routinely dumps sewage in rivers/seas, neglects investment.
Protected by successive govts, customers fleeced.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Revealed: Thames Water diverted ‘cash for clean-ups’ to help pay bonuses
Exclusive: UK’s biggest water company assessed risks before cutting back on cost of environmental work, investigation shows
www.theguardian.com
December 23, 2024 at 2:58 PM
Thames Water diverted millions of pounds pledged for environmental clean-ups to pay bonuses & dividends
187 criminal convictions since 1989, routinely dumps sewage in rivers/seas, neglects investment.
Protected by successive govts, customers fleeced.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
187 criminal convictions since 1989, routinely dumps sewage in rivers/seas, neglects investment.
Protected by successive govts, customers fleeced.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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New preprint by butterfly wizard
@lucalivraghi.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We mapped optix (again?!) as the switch gene of a natural polymorphism, this time controlling silver patches of a mountain butterfly. Gorgeous RNAi validation, evidence of selective sweeps, introgression
@lucalivraghi.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We mapped optix (again?!) as the switch gene of a natural polymorphism, this time controlling silver patches of a mountain butterfly. Gorgeous RNAi validation, evidence of selective sweeps, introgression
December 17, 2024 at 3:18 PM
New preprint by butterfly wizard
@lucalivraghi.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We mapped optix (again?!) as the switch gene of a natural polymorphism, this time controlling silver patches of a mountain butterfly. Gorgeous RNAi validation, evidence of selective sweeps, introgression
@lucalivraghi.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We mapped optix (again?!) as the switch gene of a natural polymorphism, this time controlling silver patches of a mountain butterfly. Gorgeous RNAi validation, evidence of selective sweeps, introgression
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Quote: "It is very hard to interpret big data in ecology in meaningful ways if you do not know anything about who the organisms are and what they do in the environment."
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
A place for natural history in the 21st century
Natural history provides an important basis for observing interactions between organisms in their environments. Biotropica recently inaugurated a new paper category called “Natural History Field Note....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 15, 2024 at 2:20 AM
Quote: "It is very hard to interpret big data in ecology in meaningful ways if you do not know anything about who the organisms are and what they do in the environment."
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Happy 100th Birthday #Wolbachia! This "Mother of all Microbes" is in the bright spotlight at The Scientist www.the-scientist.com/wolbachia-tu...
Wolbachia Turns 100: The Journey of a Triumphant Endosymbiont
In a century, Wolbachia has gone from a master reproductive manipulator to a partner in the fight against pathogens, exemplifying how a microbe can shape hosts and diseases.
www.the-scientist.com
December 13, 2024 at 10:47 PM
Happy 100th Birthday #Wolbachia! This "Mother of all Microbes" is in the bright spotlight at The Scientist www.the-scientist.com/wolbachia-tu...
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King’s College Cambridge has just announced a Research Fellowship on the topic of Symbiosis and/or Coevolution for early career researchers.
www.kings.cam.ac.uk/about/work-a...
www.kings.cam.ac.uk/about/work-a...
December 9, 2024 at 3:55 PM
King’s College Cambridge has just announced a Research Fellowship on the topic of Symbiosis and/or Coevolution for early career researchers.
www.kings.cam.ac.uk/about/work-a...
www.kings.cam.ac.uk/about/work-a...
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So here is a Wolbachia starter pack. Please let me know if you'd like to join or have other suggestions.
go.bsky.app/FTCKEyB
go.bsky.app/FTCKEyB
November 17, 2024 at 3:40 PM
So here is a Wolbachia starter pack. Please let me know if you'd like to join or have other suggestions.
go.bsky.app/FTCKEyB
go.bsky.app/FTCKEyB
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I was deeply disappointed by the lack of nature/science/climate/enviro on many major end-of-year book lists—so I decided to make my own!
Introducing: ✨🎁📚 The 2024 Holiday Gift Guide to Nature & Science Books ✨🎁📚
Please share: Let's make this go viral in time for Black Friday / holiday shopping!
Introducing: ✨🎁📚 The 2024 Holiday Gift Guide to Nature & Science Books ✨🎁📚
Please share: Let's make this go viral in time for Black Friday / holiday shopping!
November 27, 2024 at 7:08 PM
I was deeply disappointed by the lack of nature/science/climate/enviro on many major end-of-year book lists—so I decided to make my own!
Introducing: ✨🎁📚 The 2024 Holiday Gift Guide to Nature & Science Books ✨🎁📚
Please share: Let's make this go viral in time for Black Friday / holiday shopping!
Introducing: ✨🎁📚 The 2024 Holiday Gift Guide to Nature & Science Books ✨🎁📚
Please share: Let's make this go viral in time for Black Friday / holiday shopping!
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last couple days to apply (for free! from anywhere in the world!) to the Sanger 2025 PhD Programme — Deadline: 28th November 2024 (09:00 GMT)
For more info, visit www.sanger.ac.uk/about/study/...
For more info, visit www.sanger.ac.uk/about/study/...
November 25, 2024 at 6:34 PM
last couple days to apply (for free! from anywhere in the world!) to the Sanger 2025 PhD Programme — Deadline: 28th November 2024 (09:00 GMT)
For more info, visit www.sanger.ac.uk/about/study/...
For more info, visit www.sanger.ac.uk/about/study/...
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Been waiting a while for this cool story to come out. Detecting viruses from museum #drosophila samples >100 years old! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Sequencing RNA from old, dried specimens reveals past viromes and properties of long-surviving RNA
Recovery of virus sequences from old samples provides an opportunity to study virus evolution and reconstruct historic virus host interactions. Studies of old virus sequences have mainly relied on DNA...
www.biorxiv.org
November 10, 2024 at 9:06 PM
Been waiting a while for this cool story to come out. Detecting viruses from museum #drosophila samples >100 years old! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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#PhD Advert: Please share! Are you looking for a PhD studentship in comparative- or population-genomics, using 300+ species of #Drosophila and 1000+ genomes of #melanogaster? #Entomology #Genomics #PopGen #Phylogenetics
November 27, 2024 at 4:23 PM
#PhD Advert: Please share! Are you looking for a PhD studentship in comparative- or population-genomics, using 300+ species of #Drosophila and 1000+ genomes of #melanogaster? #Entomology #Genomics #PopGen #Phylogenetics
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What happens to the #genome of #bacteria as their association with the host becomes ever more intimate?🧪🦠
A lot: Expansion, pseudogenization and shrinkage, driven by reduction of phage pressure
New by Stefanos Siozios, Greg Hurst &co
#evolution #genomics #microbiology
www.cell.com/current-biol...
A lot: Expansion, pseudogenization and shrinkage, driven by reduction of phage pressure
New by Stefanos Siozios, Greg Hurst &co
#evolution #genomics #microbiology
www.cell.com/current-biol...
November 15, 2024 at 5:08 PM
What happens to the #genome of #bacteria as their association with the host becomes ever more intimate?🧪🦠
A lot: Expansion, pseudogenization and shrinkage, driven by reduction of phage pressure
New by Stefanos Siozios, Greg Hurst &co
#evolution #genomics #microbiology
www.cell.com/current-biol...
A lot: Expansion, pseudogenization and shrinkage, driven by reduction of phage pressure
New by Stefanos Siozios, Greg Hurst &co
#evolution #genomics #microbiology
www.cell.com/current-biol...
New publication on the decline of melanic two-spot ladybirds, with @greghurst.bsky.social and Jack Archer
eje.cz/artkey/eje-2...
eje.cz/artkey/eje-2...
Declines in the frequency of melanic Adalia bipunctata (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) in Northern UK populations
Emily A. HORNETT, Jack ARCHER, Gregory D. D. HURST
eje.cz
November 20, 2024 at 9:28 AM
New publication on the decline of melanic two-spot ladybirds, with @greghurst.bsky.social and Jack Archer
eje.cz/artkey/eje-2...
eje.cz/artkey/eje-2...