Tuomas Kankaanpää
@bugwebs.bsky.social
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
Post-doctoral researcher at University of Oulu
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Did you know. That the meme-explosion that was the wooden model of Sacabambaspis (an Ordovician jawless fish) held at a Museum in Helsinki, was created by a pioneering Estonian fish paleontologist and palaeoartist, Elga Mark-Kurik. 🧵
November 11, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Did you know. That the meme-explosion that was the wooden model of Sacabambaspis (an Ordovician jawless fish) held at a Museum in Helsinki, was created by a pioneering Estonian fish paleontologist and palaeoartist, Elga Mark-Kurik. 🧵
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Do you work (/want to work) with caterpillars? Or sensory systems? Or BOTH?! Well good golly do we have the paper for you! We explain the senses that caterpillars have, what they use them for, and how anthropogenic sensory pollution might be messing it all up 🐛 doi.org/10.1007/s003...
The sensory ecology of caterpillars - Journal of Comparative Physiology A
Caterpillars (larval Lepidoptera) are one of the most ecologically and evolutionarily significant taxa on Earth. As both feeders and food, they shape the dynamics of enumerate ecosystems on land. Key ...
doi.org
November 10, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Do you work (/want to work) with caterpillars? Or sensory systems? Or BOTH?! Well good golly do we have the paper for you! We explain the senses that caterpillars have, what they use them for, and how anthropogenic sensory pollution might be messing it all up 🐛 doi.org/10.1007/s003...
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After several years of hard work two important papers from Berchtesgaden NP are finally out: 1) effects of microclimate on biodiversity change with macroclimate along elevation, but taxon specific - led by @lisageres.bsky.social doi: 10.1002/ecog.07984 with @rupertseidl.bsky.social and many more
November 10, 2025 at 7:17 PM
After several years of hard work two important papers from Berchtesgaden NP are finally out: 1) effects of microclimate on biodiversity change with macroclimate along elevation, but taxon specific - led by @lisageres.bsky.social doi: 10.1002/ecog.07984 with @rupertseidl.bsky.social and many more
Thought I'd summarise the main finding quickly, but yeah it's not simple. Anyway nice to see comparative studies. I should finish one of these.
Spatial and temporal exposure to climatic extremes shape butterfly thermal physiology and vulnerability to recent climate change vist.ly/4dme7 #RangeLimit #ThermalTolerance
November 10, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Thought I'd summarise the main finding quickly, but yeah it's not simple. Anyway nice to see comparative studies. I should finish one of these.
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#DBfeature
Fritz Müller’s "Für Darwin" (1864) bridged evolution and development, anticipating evo-devo and warning to the dangers of scientific dogma
By Scott Gilbert and Beatrice Steinert
tinyurl.com/3sccvcr5
#SpecialIssue on Research that transformed #DevBio
Fritz Müller’s "Für Darwin" (1864) bridged evolution and development, anticipating evo-devo and warning to the dangers of scientific dogma
By Scott Gilbert and Beatrice Steinert
tinyurl.com/3sccvcr5
#SpecialIssue on Research that transformed #DevBio
November 10, 2025 at 12:35 PM
#DBfeature
Fritz Müller’s "Für Darwin" (1864) bridged evolution and development, anticipating evo-devo and warning to the dangers of scientific dogma
By Scott Gilbert and Beatrice Steinert
tinyurl.com/3sccvcr5
#SpecialIssue on Research that transformed #DevBio
Fritz Müller’s "Für Darwin" (1864) bridged evolution and development, anticipating evo-devo and warning to the dangers of scientific dogma
By Scott Gilbert and Beatrice Steinert
tinyurl.com/3sccvcr5
#SpecialIssue on Research that transformed #DevBio
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Glowing sperm helps to reveal secrets of mosquito sex.
Female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes signal that copulation can proceed by subtly extending their genitalia.
Insert your own joke here.
🧪🦟💓
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes signal that copulation can proceed by subtly extending their genitalia.
Insert your own joke here.
🧪🦟💓
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Glowing sperm helps to reveal secrets of mosquito sex
Female Aedes mosquitoes signal that copulation can proceed by subtly extending their genitalia.
www.nature.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Glowing sperm helps to reveal secrets of mosquito sex.
Female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes signal that copulation can proceed by subtly extending their genitalia.
Insert your own joke here.
🧪🦟💓
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes signal that copulation can proceed by subtly extending their genitalia.
Insert your own joke here.
🧪🦟💓
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Reposted by Tuomas Kankaanpää
Surullista ja hälyttävää: amazonindelfiinit ja muu elämä samoissa vesistöissä ovat hätää kärsimässä, kun veden lämpötila nousee. Useissa järvissä lämpötila on noussut jo yli 37 asteen, Tefé-järvessä jopa 40 asteeseen.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Amazon lakes hit ‘unbearable’ hot-tub temperatures amid mass die-offs of pink river dolphins – study
Droughts and heatwaves causing water in some areas to reach 41C, killing fish and endangered dolphins, say researchers
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Surullista ja hälyttävää: amazonindelfiinit ja muu elämä samoissa vesistöissä ovat hätää kärsimässä, kun veden lämpötila nousee. Useissa järvissä lämpötila on noussut jo yli 37 asteen, Tefé-järvessä jopa 40 asteeseen.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Kollross et al. Nutrient addition, but not vertebrate predator exclusion, shapes arthropod communities and herbivory in a temperate forest resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Nutrient addition, but not vertebrate predator exclusion, shapes arthropod communities and herbivory in a temperate forest
We experimentally manipulated top-down (predator exclusion) and bottom-up (fertilisation) forces in a temperate forest understory to test effects on arthropod densities, body sizes and herbivory. Pr...
resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Kollross et al. Nutrient addition, but not vertebrate predator exclusion, shapes arthropod communities and herbivory in a temperate forest resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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New research in #RESMedVetEnt
Assessment of the #cox1 #mtDNA & #28S #rRNA genes for distinguishing newly recorded #Lucilia cuprina Wiedemann & the established #Lucilia sericata Meigen (#Diptera: #Calliphoridae) in Northwest Africa
doi.org/10.1111/mve.70020
@wileyeco.bsky.social
Assessment of the #cox1 #mtDNA & #28S #rRNA genes for distinguishing newly recorded #Lucilia cuprina Wiedemann & the established #Lucilia sericata Meigen (#Diptera: #Calliphoridae) in Northwest Africa
doi.org/10.1111/mve.70020
@wileyeco.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 2:05 PM
New research in #RESMedVetEnt
Assessment of the #cox1 #mtDNA & #28S #rRNA genes for distinguishing newly recorded #Lucilia cuprina Wiedemann & the established #Lucilia sericata Meigen (#Diptera: #Calliphoridae) in Northwest Africa
doi.org/10.1111/mve.70020
@wileyeco.bsky.social
Assessment of the #cox1 #mtDNA & #28S #rRNA genes for distinguishing newly recorded #Lucilia cuprina Wiedemann & the established #Lucilia sericata Meigen (#Diptera: #Calliphoridae) in Northwest Africa
doi.org/10.1111/mve.70020
@wileyeco.bsky.social
Trend-bucking specialists
Another amazing paper from Tara Christensen - with a surprising result that nectar generalists (butterflies) are declining more than specialists. esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Specialized flower visitation in montane butterflies is associated with positive population trajectories over time
Insect biodiversity is under threat from multiple stressors, including climate change and extreme weather. For butterflies, nectar resource use is an understudied trait in relation to population traj....
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Trend-bucking specialists
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Reposted by Tuomas Kankaanpää
New research in #RESEcolEnt
Multivariate flower #phenotype and #proboscis length shape specialised #pollination #niches
doi.org/10.1111/een.70034
#PlantPollinatorInteractions
@sheborg.bsky.social @robwilsonmncn.bsky.social @callomac.bsky.social @wileyeco.bsky.social
Multivariate flower #phenotype and #proboscis length shape specialised #pollination #niches
doi.org/10.1111/een.70034
#PlantPollinatorInteractions
@sheborg.bsky.social @robwilsonmncn.bsky.social @callomac.bsky.social @wileyeco.bsky.social
November 2, 2025 at 9:10 AM
New research in #RESEcolEnt
Multivariate flower #phenotype and #proboscis length shape specialised #pollination #niches
doi.org/10.1111/een.70034
#PlantPollinatorInteractions
@sheborg.bsky.social @robwilsonmncn.bsky.social @callomac.bsky.social @wileyeco.bsky.social
Multivariate flower #phenotype and #proboscis length shape specialised #pollination #niches
doi.org/10.1111/een.70034
#PlantPollinatorInteractions
@sheborg.bsky.social @robwilsonmncn.bsky.social @callomac.bsky.social @wileyeco.bsky.social
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Delighted to announce a new paper, led by Mansi Mungee, which studies insect populations over the UK using weather radar and is covered by the Guardian: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
more below...
#entomology #radar #biodiversity #insect #research #conservation #data #tech #sustainability
more below...
#entomology #radar #biodiversity #insect #research #conservation #data #tech #sustainability
Night-flying insects over UK in decline, weather radar study reveals
Study of Met Office data one of first to show how nocturnal insects affected by factors such as light pollution
www.theguardian.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Delighted to announce a new paper, led by Mansi Mungee, which studies insect populations over the UK using weather radar and is covered by the Guardian: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
more below...
#entomology #radar #biodiversity #insect #research #conservation #data #tech #sustainability
more below...
#entomology #radar #biodiversity #insect #research #conservation #data #tech #sustainability
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Excited to announce the final version of the Mosquito Cell Atlas is out now in @cellpress.bsky.social!! 🦟🩸
There is SO much left to find & investigate in this dataset (& the rich biology of the Aedes aegypti mosquito)! We hope this helps scientists in many fields!
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
There is SO much left to find & investigate in this dataset (& the rich biology of the Aedes aegypti mosquito)! We hope this helps scientists in many fields!
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
A single-nucleus transcriptomic atlas of the adult Aedes aegypti mosquito
A comprehensive single-nucleus RNA-seq atlas of >367,000 nuclei from male and female
Aedes aegypti mosquitoes reveals sexual dimorphism in sensory systems and brain cell
types and widespread co-expres...
www.cell.com
October 30, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Excited to announce the final version of the Mosquito Cell Atlas is out now in @cellpress.bsky.social!! 🦟🩸
There is SO much left to find & investigate in this dataset (& the rich biology of the Aedes aegypti mosquito)! We hope this helps scientists in many fields!
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
There is SO much left to find & investigate in this dataset (& the rich biology of the Aedes aegypti mosquito)! We hope this helps scientists in many fields!
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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‘ILSM': a package to analyze the interconnection structure of tripartite interaction networks vist.ly/4cdba #Hybrid #TripartiteNetwork #R
October 31, 2025 at 9:24 AM
‘ILSM': a package to analyze the interconnection structure of tripartite interaction networks vist.ly/4cdba #Hybrid #TripartiteNetwork #R
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Our new paper is out! We show that assessing the effects of adding flower patches in cities is complex and their direct benefits for pollinator communities and pollination aren’t always straightforward.
@plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social #openaccess
doi.org/10.1002/ppp3...
@plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social #openaccess
doi.org/10.1002/ppp3...
The effects of flower supplementation on pollinators and pollination along an urbanisation gradient
Enhancing urban greenspaces for pollinator communities by planting flower patches is increasingly common, but their efficacy for different groups of insects (bees, hoverflies and moths) is unclear. O....
doi.org
October 31, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Our new paper is out! We show that assessing the effects of adding flower patches in cities is complex and their direct benefits for pollinator communities and pollination aren’t always straightforward.
@plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social #openaccess
doi.org/10.1002/ppp3...
@plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social #openaccess
doi.org/10.1002/ppp3...
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New paper out! 🤘
Can we estimate forest biodiversity using spaceborne #EnMAP data? 🛰️
Turns out, yes — spectral heterogeneity from EnMAP can estimate tree species diversity in Alpine forests 🌲🌳🏔️
Especially in the NIR region, with area-weighted pixels and canopy cover > 70%.
🔓 lnkd.in/eWKGeGfs
Can we estimate forest biodiversity using spaceborne #EnMAP data? 🛰️
Turns out, yes — spectral heterogeneity from EnMAP can estimate tree species diversity in Alpine forests 🌲🌳🏔️
Especially in the NIR region, with area-weighted pixels and canopy cover > 70%.
🔓 lnkd.in/eWKGeGfs
October 30, 2025 at 7:55 AM
New paper out! 🤘
Can we estimate forest biodiversity using spaceborne #EnMAP data? 🛰️
Turns out, yes — spectral heterogeneity from EnMAP can estimate tree species diversity in Alpine forests 🌲🌳🏔️
Especially in the NIR region, with area-weighted pixels and canopy cover > 70%.
🔓 lnkd.in/eWKGeGfs
Can we estimate forest biodiversity using spaceborne #EnMAP data? 🛰️
Turns out, yes — spectral heterogeneity from EnMAP can estimate tree species diversity in Alpine forests 🌲🌳🏔️
Especially in the NIR region, with area-weighted pixels and canopy cover > 70%.
🔓 lnkd.in/eWKGeGfs
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A paper for the #eDNA crowd, in particular those using flies for terrestrial biomonitoring. We show that massive pooling works well, reducing costs + time, bringing us a step closer to scalable terrestrial eDNA biomonitoring. doi.org/10.1002/edn3...
An Exploration of DNA Extraction Methods of Fly iDNA for Scalable Biodiversity Monitoring
Metabarcoding of invertebrate-derived DNA (iDNA) is an excellent tool for assessing terrestrial mammal diversity, but the time and costs associated with sample processing constrain its wider adoption....
doi.org
October 30, 2025 at 11:47 AM
A paper for the #eDNA crowd, in particular those using flies for terrestrial biomonitoring. We show that massive pooling works well, reducing costs + time, bringing us a step closer to scalable terrestrial eDNA biomonitoring. doi.org/10.1002/edn3...
Reposted by Tuomas Kankaanpää
Gelechioidea, that superdiverse superfamily of Lepidoptera that has been a super mess taxonomically, finally gets some structure at the family level with phylogenomics! Read all about it in our article led by PhD student @etkayapar.bsky.social !
resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Integrating Sanger and next‐generation sequencing data sheds light on phylogenetic relationships among gelechioid moths (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea)
The maximum-likelihood analysis of a phylogenomic dataset of 1767 protein-coding genes from 57 ingroup taxa yields a robust family-level topology for Gelechioidea, revealing novel among-family relat...
resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 30, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Gelechioidea, that superdiverse superfamily of Lepidoptera that has been a super mess taxonomically, finally gets some structure at the family level with phylogenomics! Read all about it in our article led by PhD student @etkayapar.bsky.social !
resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Check out the recent publication in Annual Reviews of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics where the authors explore genomic species delimitation in depth. You'll see a number of #sciart figures I created to help explain some of the concepts!
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
October 29, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Check out the recent publication in Annual Reviews of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics where the authors explore genomic species delimitation in depth. You'll see a number of #sciart figures I created to help explain some of the concepts!
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
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Excited to be a co-author on this one in @currentbiology.bsky.social! @tillramm.bsky.social did a fantastic job bringing it all together. A mountain dragon was the *very first* CT scan I ever worked on as an undergraduate, so it holds a special place in my ❤️
Out today in @currentbiology.bsky.social and led by @tillramm.bsky.social! We integrated population genomics, fossils, SDMs, and micro-CT scanning to understand how climate change has influenced extinctions and extant genetic diversity in the threatened Australian mountain dragon #ozherps #genomics
Climate change predicts Quaternary extinctions and extant genetic diversity in a threatened Australian lizard
Ramm et al. show that Quaternary climate change predicts local extinctions and intraspecific
differences in genetic diversity of the threatened Mountain Dragon (Rankinia diemensis).
Their data suggest...
www.cell.com
October 29, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Excited to be a co-author on this one in @currentbiology.bsky.social! @tillramm.bsky.social did a fantastic job bringing it all together. A mountain dragon was the *very first* CT scan I ever worked on as an undergraduate, so it holds a special place in my ❤️
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🌷New Research highlight showcases Arrowsmith et al. (2025), which shows that temperature alone can shift pollinators’ floral choices in diverse plant–pollinator communities. Such thermally-driven species interaction rewiring may have important consequences. ➡️ buff.ly/i5QrFjd
@blancaac.bsky.social
@blancaac.bsky.social
October 28, 2025 at 1:05 PM
🌷New Research highlight showcases Arrowsmith et al. (2025), which shows that temperature alone can shift pollinators’ floral choices in diverse plant–pollinator communities. Such thermally-driven species interaction rewiring may have important consequences. ➡️ buff.ly/i5QrFjd
@blancaac.bsky.social
@blancaac.bsky.social
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🌍 Humanity now moves more living mass each year by walking, driving, flying and cycling than all wild land animals, birds and insects combined.
Even our walking alone exceeds the movement of all terrestrial wildlife.
#Anthropocene
#Mobility
#Biomass
Even our walking alone exceeds the movement of all terrestrial wildlife.
#Anthropocene
#Mobility
#Biomass
Human biomass movement exceeds the biomass movement of all land animals combined - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Quantifying the global estimated movement of biomass on Earth, the authors show that land animal biomass movement is around 40 times smaller than all human biomass movement, with marine animal movemen...
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October 28, 2025 at 9:54 AM
🌍 Humanity now moves more living mass each year by walking, driving, flying and cycling than all wild land animals, birds and insects combined.
Even our walking alone exceeds the movement of all terrestrial wildlife.
#Anthropocene
#Mobility
#Biomass
Even our walking alone exceeds the movement of all terrestrial wildlife.
#Anthropocene
#Mobility
#Biomass
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New #OpenAccess research in #RESEcolEnt
Distance of movement in three threatened #butterfly species
doi.org/10.1111/een.70027
#Euphydryas #Parnassius #Phengaris #CMR #Dispersal #Conservation
@sheborg.bsky.social @robwilsonmncn.bsky.social @callomac.bsky.social @wiley.com
Distance of movement in three threatened #butterfly species
doi.org/10.1111/een.70027
#Euphydryas #Parnassius #Phengaris #CMR #Dispersal #Conservation
@sheborg.bsky.social @robwilsonmncn.bsky.social @callomac.bsky.social @wiley.com
October 26, 2025 at 11:05 AM
New #OpenAccess research in #RESEcolEnt
Distance of movement in three threatened #butterfly species
doi.org/10.1111/een.70027
#Euphydryas #Parnassius #Phengaris #CMR #Dispersal #Conservation
@sheborg.bsky.social @robwilsonmncn.bsky.social @callomac.bsky.social @wiley.com
Distance of movement in three threatened #butterfly species
doi.org/10.1111/een.70027
#Euphydryas #Parnassius #Phengaris #CMR #Dispersal #Conservation
@sheborg.bsky.social @robwilsonmncn.bsky.social @callomac.bsky.social @wiley.com