Dr Christophe Patterson
@christophe-patt.bsky.social
Post-doc at the University of Nottingham: North Uist Sticklebacks 🐟
Population genetics, genomics, phylogenetics 🧬🔬🧪👨🔬
PhD Durham University: Interspecific behavioural interference and range dynamics
Director of Science at The Rock Pool Project 🦀🐚🐟🐙
Population genetics, genomics, phylogenetics 🧬🔬🧪👨🔬
PhD Durham University: Interspecific behavioural interference and range dynamics
Director of Science at The Rock Pool Project 🦀🐚🐟🐙
Pinned
Thrilled to share the 3rd and largest paper from my PhD!🎉:
"Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Non-Ecological Speciation in Rubyspot Damselflies" is out now in Molecular Ecology!
⬇️Includes divergence times and an F1 hybrid
Thanks to my fantastic co-authors & collaborators!
📖 doi.org/10.1111/mec....
🧬🌎🧪
"Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Non-Ecological Speciation in Rubyspot Damselflies" is out now in Molecular Ecology!
⬇️Includes divergence times and an F1 hybrid
Thanks to my fantastic co-authors & collaborators!
📖 doi.org/10.1111/mec....
🧬🌎🧪
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*Guaranteed funding* PhD opportunity in my group. Work with damselflies, UN global biodiversity targets, genetic data, and NatureScot policy groups; the project will advance comparative population genetics and provide evidence feeding directly to policy. www.findaphd.com/phds/project....
QUARTILES DLA CASE: Genetic diversity and adaptation: Developing indicators for national and international policy at University of Aberdeen on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - QUARTILES DLA CASE: Genetic diversity and adaptation: Developing indicators for national and international policy at University of Aberdeen , listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:58 PM
*Guaranteed funding* PhD opportunity in my group. Work with damselflies, UN global biodiversity targets, genetic data, and NatureScot policy groups; the project will advance comparative population genetics and provide evidence feeding directly to policy. www.findaphd.com/phds/project....
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Looking for a PhD opportunity? I'm hoping to recruit someone to my group at Durham University to work on a project combining fieldwork and labwork to study speciation in rubyspot damselflies: iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
Get in touch if you want to chat!
Get in touch if you want to chat!
November 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Looking for a PhD opportunity? I'm hoping to recruit someone to my group at Durham University to work on a project combining fieldwork and labwork to study speciation in rubyspot damselflies: iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
Get in touch if you want to chat!
Get in touch if you want to chat!
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Wow! 😮🤩
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓
itiner-e.org
We might have to have a lie-down.
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓
itiner-e.org
We might have to have a lie-down.
November 6, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Wow! 😮🤩
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓
itiner-e.org
We might have to have a lie-down.
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓
itiner-e.org
We might have to have a lie-down.
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Wow! Tracking a butterfly with motus!
Look at her go!
#invertebrates 🌿
#invertebrates 🌿
October 8, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Wow! Tracking a butterfly with motus!
🤯
How is this possible?
This ant can lay eggs of two different species, birthed by the same mother
This ant can lay eggs of two different species, birthed by the same mother
September 4, 2025 at 6:47 AM
🤯
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Introducing Bases, a new core plugin that lets you turn any set of notes into a powerful database.
Now available to everyone with Obsidian 1.9!
Now available to everyone with Obsidian 1.9!
August 18, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Introducing Bases, a new core plugin that lets you turn any set of notes into a powerful database.
Now available to everyone with Obsidian 1.9!
Now available to everyone with Obsidian 1.9!
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Advances in computational methods for inferring networks from #genome-scale data and guidelines for deriving biological insights from #phylogenetic networks www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Phylogenetic networks empower biodiversity research | PNAS
Reticulate evolution has long been recognized as a key mechanism that contributes
to genetic and trait diversity. With the widespread availability ...
www.pnas.org
July 29, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Advances in computational methods for inferring networks from #genome-scale data and guidelines for deriving biological insights from #phylogenetic networks www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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So excited to see this out! Check out what we've learned about smoky rubyspots 👇. Amazing work led by @christophe-patt.bsky.social
Thrilled to share the 3rd and largest paper from my PhD!🎉:
"Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Non-Ecological Speciation in Rubyspot Damselflies" is out now in Molecular Ecology!
⬇️Includes divergence times and an F1 hybrid
Thanks to my fantastic co-authors & collaborators!
📖 doi.org/10.1111/mec....
🧬🌎🧪
"Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Non-Ecological Speciation in Rubyspot Damselflies" is out now in Molecular Ecology!
⬇️Includes divergence times and an F1 hybrid
Thanks to my fantastic co-authors & collaborators!
📖 doi.org/10.1111/mec....
🧬🌎🧪
May 19, 2025 at 11:57 AM
So excited to see this out! Check out what we've learned about smoky rubyspots 👇. Amazing work led by @christophe-patt.bsky.social
Thrilled to share the 3rd and largest paper from my PhD!🎉:
"Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Non-Ecological Speciation in Rubyspot Damselflies" is out now in Molecular Ecology!
⬇️Includes divergence times and an F1 hybrid
Thanks to my fantastic co-authors & collaborators!
📖 doi.org/10.1111/mec....
🧬🌎🧪
"Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Non-Ecological Speciation in Rubyspot Damselflies" is out now in Molecular Ecology!
⬇️Includes divergence times and an F1 hybrid
Thanks to my fantastic co-authors & collaborators!
📖 doi.org/10.1111/mec....
🧬🌎🧪
May 19, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Thrilled to share the 3rd and largest paper from my PhD!🎉:
"Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Non-Ecological Speciation in Rubyspot Damselflies" is out now in Molecular Ecology!
⬇️Includes divergence times and an F1 hybrid
Thanks to my fantastic co-authors & collaborators!
📖 doi.org/10.1111/mec....
🧬🌎🧪
"Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Non-Ecological Speciation in Rubyspot Damselflies" is out now in Molecular Ecology!
⬇️Includes divergence times and an F1 hybrid
Thanks to my fantastic co-authors & collaborators!
📖 doi.org/10.1111/mec....
🧬🌎🧪
Couldn't say anything on April fools day, but just got some really positive reviews back for a manuscript. So making minor revisions and it'll be out into the world! 🍻
April 2, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Couldn't say anything on April fools day, but just got some really positive reviews back for a manuscript. So making minor revisions and it'll be out into the world! 🍻
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📢New volunteering opportunity 📢
BES Macroecology Group is looking for a committee chair to join its team!
As part of the group, you will coordinate the committee’s activities, including events and communications. This is a perfect opportunity if you are a macroecologist and an active researcher.
BES Macroecology Group is looking for a committee chair to join its team!
As part of the group, you will coordinate the committee’s activities, including events and communications. This is a perfect opportunity if you are a macroecologist and an active researcher.
March 31, 2025 at 9:41 AM
📢New volunteering opportunity 📢
BES Macroecology Group is looking for a committee chair to join its team!
As part of the group, you will coordinate the committee’s activities, including events and communications. This is a perfect opportunity if you are a macroecologist and an active researcher.
BES Macroecology Group is looking for a committee chair to join its team!
As part of the group, you will coordinate the committee’s activities, including events and communications. This is a perfect opportunity if you are a macroecologist and an active researcher.
The only real reason I own a colander.
March 29, 2025 at 10:57 AM
The only real reason I own a colander.
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Make like a nudibranch and slooow down in our latest installment of Krill Waves Radio! 🎧
Settle with spectacular sea slugs as they sway to soothing lo-fi beats: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOeQ...
Settle with spectacular sea slugs as they sway to soothing lo-fi beats: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOeQ...
2 Hours of Nudibranchs to Relax/Study To! | Lofi Hip Hop | Monterey Bay Aquarium Krill Waves Radio
YouTube video by Monterey Bay Aquarium
www.youtube.com
March 28, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Make like a nudibranch and slooow down in our latest installment of Krill Waves Radio! 🎧
Settle with spectacular sea slugs as they sway to soothing lo-fi beats: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOeQ...
Settle with spectacular sea slugs as they sway to soothing lo-fi beats: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOeQ...
Starting my post-doc today @uniofnottingham.bsky.social. Had a great time over the last six months organising Marine Citizen Science Week for Natural England, but now back to full-time research! 🧪
Watch this space for sticklebacks! (Still a few damselfly papers in the pipeline don't worry)
Watch this space for sticklebacks! (Still a few damselfly papers in the pipeline don't worry)
March 17, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Starting my post-doc today @uniofnottingham.bsky.social. Had a great time over the last six months organising Marine Citizen Science Week for Natural England, but now back to full-time research! 🧪
Watch this space for sticklebacks! (Still a few damselfly papers in the pipeline don't worry)
Watch this space for sticklebacks! (Still a few damselfly papers in the pipeline don't worry)
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1 week left to apply to do a PhD with me & APHA on the Virome of British #bats 🦇🧬🦠 ⚠️⚠️⚠️ #OneHealth
PhD Alert! ⚠️⚠️
Come to do a PhD with me @universityofexeter.bsky.social and Animal and Plant Health Agency on 'Virome of British bats: A One Health approach to understanding disease emergence and environmental health'.
Application deadline 28 Feb. #bats #zoonoses 🦇🦠
www.surrey.ac.uk/bbsrc-wessex...
Come to do a PhD with me @universityofexeter.bsky.social and Animal and Plant Health Agency on 'Virome of British bats: A One Health approach to understanding disease emergence and environmental health'.
Application deadline 28 Feb. #bats #zoonoses 🦇🦠
www.surrey.ac.uk/bbsrc-wessex...
BBSRC Wessex One Health (WOH) Doctoral Landscape Award | University of Surrey
17 PhD studentships for October 2025 start: Interdisciplinary approaches to Infection Biosciences to combat disease threats to human and animal health.
www.surrey.ac.uk
February 21, 2025 at 7:07 AM
1 week left to apply to do a PhD with me & APHA on the Virome of British #bats 🦇🧬🦠 ⚠️⚠️⚠️ #OneHealth
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We’re recruiting for a #PhD opportunity funded by NERC Envision DTP, investigating the impact of climate change on chytrid disease dynamics in Appalachian salamanders.
Full details here: findaphd.com?pj=182328
Full details here: findaphd.com?pj=182328
February 12, 2025 at 11:16 AM
We’re recruiting for a #PhD opportunity funded by NERC Envision DTP, investigating the impact of climate change on chytrid disease dynamics in Appalachian salamanders.
Full details here: findaphd.com?pj=182328
Full details here: findaphd.com?pj=182328
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Damselfly fieldwork is the best! 🇸🇪☀️
PLEASE REPOST! We’re hiring 5 Project assistants/Field assistants for a population study of damselflies with me and @EvolOdonata.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy as PIs. Besides research and field work experience, a beautiful Swedish summer awaits! DM me, should you have any questions.
We’re hiring! 5 (!) Project assistants/ Field assistants for the project “Population biology, micro- and macroevolution” at Stensoffa Research station, led by @EvolOdonata.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy and @masahitotsuboi.bsky.social
Please apply no later than 3 March!
lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Please apply no later than 3 March!
lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
February 4, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Damselfly fieldwork is the best! 🇸🇪☀️
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🚨 #phdposition study the interplay between #globalchange & animal personality in #hermitcrabs 😍 with Mark Briffa, Pete Cotton (Plymouth) & myself
Deadline: 8.1.2025 ▶️ shorturl.at/FGLec
🧪🦑🌊🌐🦀 #marineecology #marinebiology #marinelife
#animalbehaviour #sensoryecology #lightpollution #noisepollution
Deadline: 8.1.2025 ▶️ shorturl.at/FGLec
🧪🦑🌊🌐🦀 #marineecology #marinebiology #marinelife
#animalbehaviour #sensoryecology #lightpollution #noisepollution
November 26, 2024 at 4:54 PM
🚨 #phdposition study the interplay between #globalchange & animal personality in #hermitcrabs 😍 with Mark Briffa, Pete Cotton (Plymouth) & myself
Deadline: 8.1.2025 ▶️ shorturl.at/FGLec
🧪🦑🌊🌐🦀 #marineecology #marinebiology #marinelife
#animalbehaviour #sensoryecology #lightpollution #noisepollution
Deadline: 8.1.2025 ▶️ shorturl.at/FGLec
🧪🦑🌊🌐🦀 #marineecology #marinebiology #marinelife
#animalbehaviour #sensoryecology #lightpollution #noisepollution
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PhD Studentship Scholarship Opportunity!
🧑🏾🔬 This programme offers 4-year fully-funded PhD studentships to support Black British researchers.
💻 For more information and to apply, visit: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
#ExeterCEC 🧪
🧑🏾🔬 This programme offers 4-year fully-funded PhD studentships to support Black British researchers.
💻 For more information and to apply, visit: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
#ExeterCEC 🧪
December 23, 2024 at 11:33 AM
PhD Studentship Scholarship Opportunity!
🧑🏾🔬 This programme offers 4-year fully-funded PhD studentships to support Black British researchers.
💻 For more information and to apply, visit: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
#ExeterCEC 🧪
🧑🏾🔬 This programme offers 4-year fully-funded PhD studentships to support Black British researchers.
💻 For more information and to apply, visit: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
#ExeterCEC 🧪
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#PhD opportunity on "Decoding biological colour: leveraging AI to analyse big data on animal images in a changing world" with me, @chris-nemeth.bsky.social Chris Cooney (U Sheff) & David Roy (UKCEH) thru new @exageo-dla.bsky.social based at Lancaster Uni www.exageo.org/phd-student-...
December 20, 2024 at 12:30 PM
#PhD opportunity on "Decoding biological colour: leveraging AI to analyse big data on animal images in a changing world" with me, @chris-nemeth.bsky.social Chris Cooney (U Sheff) & David Roy (UKCEH) thru new @exageo-dla.bsky.social based at Lancaster Uni www.exageo.org/phd-student-...
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Just over one week left for international applicants to get in touch for this PhD studentship opportunity. #damselflies
First, a project combining fieldwork and labwork to study speciation in rubyspot damselflies: iapetus2.ac.uk/studentships...
November 28, 2024 at 1:14 PM
Just over one week left for international applicants to get in touch for this PhD studentship opportunity. #damselflies
I am a #PhDone! Passed my viva... no corrections‽
Thanks to all who helped me get here! Especially my 𝒔𝒖𝒑𝒆𝒓visors @jonathanpdrury.bsky.social & Adrian Brennan
Had a fantastic time in me Viva thanks to Dr. Lesley Lancaster & Dr. Andreanna Welch
Ace hat & cake from Laura Campbell & Ellie Ward
Thanks to all who helped me get here! Especially my 𝒔𝒖𝒑𝒆𝒓visors @jonathanpdrury.bsky.social & Adrian Brennan
Had a fantastic time in me Viva thanks to Dr. Lesley Lancaster & Dr. Andreanna Welch
Ace hat & cake from Laura Campbell & Ellie Ward
September 5, 2024 at 9:18 AM
I am a #PhDone! Passed my viva... no corrections‽
Thanks to all who helped me get here! Especially my 𝒔𝒖𝒑𝒆𝒓visors @jonathanpdrury.bsky.social & Adrian Brennan
Had a fantastic time in me Viva thanks to Dr. Lesley Lancaster & Dr. Andreanna Welch
Ace hat & cake from Laura Campbell & Ellie Ward
Thanks to all who helped me get here! Especially my 𝒔𝒖𝒑𝒆𝒓visors @jonathanpdrury.bsky.social & Adrian Brennan
Had a fantastic time in me Viva thanks to Dr. Lesley Lancaster & Dr. Andreanna Welch
Ace hat & cake from Laura Campbell & Ellie Ward
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8:32 a.m.
A M5.1 earthquake. The north face ripples and churns.
Moments later, without warning, the largest landslide in recorded history begins as the north face gives way. An unfathomable lateral blast of steam, ash, rocks, and ice quickly overtakes the slide in seconds.
A M5.1 earthquake. The north face ripples and churns.
Moments later, without warning, the largest landslide in recorded history begins as the north face gives way. An unfathomable lateral blast of steam, ash, rocks, and ice quickly overtakes the slide in seconds.
8:32.
youtu.be
May 18, 2024 at 3:32 PM
8:32 a.m.
A M5.1 earthquake. The north face ripples and churns.
Moments later, without warning, the largest landslide in recorded history begins as the north face gives way. An unfathomable lateral blast of steam, ash, rocks, and ice quickly overtakes the slide in seconds.
A M5.1 earthquake. The north face ripples and churns.
Moments later, without warning, the largest landslide in recorded history begins as the north face gives way. An unfathomable lateral blast of steam, ash, rocks, and ice quickly overtakes the slide in seconds.
Our chromosome-level genome for smoky rubspots (Hetaerina titia) is now available on NCBI for all to use.
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/datasets/genom…
Also here's all the code needed to assemble a genome, please use and share! github.com/ChristophePatt #genomese#odonatata 🧪🧬
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/datasets/genom…
Also here's all the code needed to assemble a genome, please use and share! github.com/ChristophePatt #genomese#odonatata 🧪🧬
April 10, 2024 at 10:32 AM
Our chromosome-level genome for smoky rubspots (Hetaerina titia) is now available on NCBI for all to use.
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/datasets/genom…
Also here's all the code needed to assemble a genome, please use and share! github.com/ChristophePatt #genomese#odonatata 🧪🧬
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/datasets/genom…
Also here's all the code needed to assemble a genome, please use and share! github.com/ChristophePatt #genomese#odonatata 🧪🧬