Richard Merrill
@dickmerrill.bsky.social
Evolutionary biologist at LMU Munich interested behaviour and speciation. Tropical butterfly hunter. Dog father. https://www.evol.bio.lmu.de/research/merrill/index.html
first road trip in our van has been a mixed bag …
September 17, 2025 at 6:57 AM
first road trip in our van has been a mixed bag …
Very happy to have arrived in Uppsala for the MEME summer school after a very enjoyable (albeit very wet) week in Lapland
August 23, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Very happy to have arrived in Uppsala for the MEME summer school after a very enjoyable (albeit very wet) week in Lapland
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!
Not just butterfly food :)
May 6, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Not just butterfly food :)
Really excited that our DFG grant on the Speciation Genomics of Eye Size variation in *Heliconius* has been funded :) In the next weeks, I will post an advert for a PhD, but if you know of good students, please suggest they get in touch. Please repost.
April 22, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Really excited that our DFG grant on the Speciation Genomics of Eye Size variation in *Heliconius* has been funded :) In the next weeks, I will post an advert for a PhD, but if you know of good students, please suggest they get in touch. Please repost.
Taking the slow way home from a fantastic speciation meeting in California.
March 11, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Taking the slow way home from a fantastic speciation meeting in California.
Kind of amazing that there’s better 5g reception here than most of germany
March 11, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Kind of amazing that there’s better 5g reception here than most of germany
I’ve seen many wonderful things in California so far (sea otters, elephant seals, hummingbirds) but this is this the only real mug in America?
March 10, 2025 at 3:36 PM
I’ve seen many wonderful things in California so far (sea otters, elephant seals, hummingbirds) but this is this the only real mug in America?
Merrill lab Christmas fondue 2024 edition … now brought to you by blue sky. Happy Christmas everyone and see you in 2025
December 20, 2024 at 11:01 PM
Merrill lab Christmas fondue 2024 edition … now brought to you by blue sky. Happy Christmas everyone and see you in 2025
Really pleased to to see this study from our lab at LMU Munich in collaboration with the U. of Rosario, led by PhD students Matteo Rossi and Alexander Hausmann finally, finally out: Adaptive introgression of a visual preference gene www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
March 22, 2024 at 1:22 PM
Really pleased to to see this study from our lab at LMU Munich in collaboration with the U. of Rosario, led by PhD students Matteo Rossi and Alexander Hausmann finally, finally out: Adaptive introgression of a visual preference gene www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...