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Erik Svensson
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Evolutionary biologist, photographer and professor (Lund, Sweden). Preferred pronoun: comrade.

Publications: http://tinyurl.com/fkhzubhw
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November 7, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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October 29, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Stoked to see this journal cover of PNAS with one of my photos: a mating pair of Swamp Bluet (Africallagma glaucum) from Harold Porter Botanical Garden in the Western Cape Province of South Africa, photographed in 2011.

#Odonata #odonataoftheworld #damselflies […]

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September 24, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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Some insect photography by me this summer, using my new #NikonZ9 body with my 105 mm macrolens. Photos taken In the region of #Skåne (two butterfly species of the family Lycaenidae) and #Blekinge (a robber fly and a jewel wasp) in southern #sweden

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July 23, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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A male Greater Blue Skimmer (Orthetrum triangulare melania), photographed near Kyoto in Japan in August 2011.

A species of the family Libellulidae, where males of many species are coloured in blue, achieved by pruinescence, a waxy colour substance on the […]

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July 12, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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An Oriental Lesser Emperor (Anax parthenope julius), photograhed on Amami Island (Japan) in August 2011.

#Odonata #dragonfly #odonataoftheworld #dragonfliesofjapan #dragonfliesoftheworld #odonata #japan #natgeoyourshot #naturephotography #macrophoto […]

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July 12, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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July 10, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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July 6, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Trevligt reportage i Sydsvenska Dagbladet om min fotoutställning om flick- och trollsländor på Skrylle Naturum i Lunds Kommun.

Utställningen hänger kvar till början av september 2025, för den som är intresserad av att se den. Tack @kallekn för detta!
July 4, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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April 16, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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And now IKEA has launched a new very much needed product!
March 14, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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March 11, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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March 11, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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Excellent presentation in #SvenssonLab today about Odonata genomics, synteny, B-chromosomes and the origin of recombination suppression of Chromosome 13 in Ischnura elegans by our postdoc Guillaume Lavanchy […]

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February 13, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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February 3, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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Let's make this happen!
January 25, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Two members of my research group at the Department of Biology in Lund - Sofie Nilén and Guillaume Lavanchy - are currently participating in the Population and Speciation Genomics course in Cesky Krumlov (Czech Republic):

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January 24, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Grey Wagtail (Motacilla cinerea) with food for its nesting young at the waterfalls of Hallamölla in the region of #Skåne, southern #sweden in May 2024 #naturephotography #birdphotography #birdsoffediverse #birdsofmastodon

See more of my nature photos here […]

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January 10, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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We thank our two postdocs Guillaume Lavanchy and Anna Penna for leading an excellent discussion about scientific publishing for members of #SvenssonLab and #tsuboilab at #LundUniversity yesterday, January 10 2024.
January 10, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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Me and m cat Sixten wish all my followers on Mastodon a continued Happy 2025!
January 6, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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Some more nature photos of mine from the great year of 2024 and a link to my Instagram profile if you want to see more and follow me there.

#naturephotography #insectphotography #birdphotography

https://www.instagram.com/eriksvenssonsweden?utm_source=qr&igsh=bWp4OWFvNDBkZ3Zj
January 4, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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Happy New Year to all of my followers on #Mastodon! Here are some of my natural history highlights during 2024, photographed during my brief sabbattical in southern #india during January-March. More nature photos of mine here […]

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December 31, 2024 at 10:26 PM
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Raptor migration over #falsterbo in southern #sweden in autumn 2024, where I took these photos of Common Buzzard (Buteo buteo) and Black Kite (Milvus migrans). Note the two colour morphs of the buzzard. See more of my photographs here […]

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December 28, 2024 at 9:45 AM
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December 24, 2024 at 9:02 PM
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We congratulate our PhD-student Sofie Nilén in #SvenssonLab for successfully defending her Halftime Report and summarizing her research progress for an interested audience in the Biology Department today.

We also thank her opponent Dr. Anja Felmy from the […]

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December 10, 2024 at 6:45 PM