Stella Wimmer
@stellawimmer.bsky.social
🪰Ecology M.Sc. student working on the impact of warming on food webs at:
📌Czech Academy of Sciences - Hrček Lab
📌University of South Bohemia
🦋 I’m interested in tropical ecology, interactions, butterflies, literature
♾️ Autism Awareness in STEM
📌Czech Academy of Sciences - Hrček Lab
📌University of South Bohemia
🦋 I’m interested in tropical ecology, interactions, butterflies, literature
♾️ Autism Awareness in STEM
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Hello BlueSky! 🪲🦋 time for a little introductory post: I’m Stella, an ecologist-to-be at Hrcek lab, Uni of South Bohemia. I’m currently working on the impact of warming on food webs. I’ll show my journey of field work abroad, research and stuff I find interesting.
#ecology #fieldwork #entomology
#ecology #fieldwork #entomology
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📣 Call for participation! 4&5 Dec
Hybrid Workshop: Analogies, External Validity and the Future of Experimental Modeling Across Sciences.
Addressing science questions from an interdisciplinary perspective!
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Hybrid Workshop: Analogies, External Validity and the Future of Experimental Modeling Across Sciences.
Addressing science questions from an interdisciplinary perspective!
✅ Register Now! buff.ly/mwhmV9s
@unisalzburg.bsky.social
@univie.ac.at
@fwf-at.bsky.social
Salzburg-Vienna Workshop: Analogies, external validity and the future of experimental modelling across sciences
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November 27, 2025 at 11:01 AM
📣 Call for participation! 4&5 Dec
Hybrid Workshop: Analogies, External Validity and the Future of Experimental Modeling Across Sciences.
Addressing science questions from an interdisciplinary perspective!
✅ Register Now! buff.ly/mwhmV9s
@unisalzburg.bsky.social
@univie.ac.at
@fwf-at.bsky.social
Hybrid Workshop: Analogies, External Validity and the Future of Experimental Modeling Across Sciences.
Addressing science questions from an interdisciplinary perspective!
✅ Register Now! buff.ly/mwhmV9s
@unisalzburg.bsky.social
@univie.ac.at
@fwf-at.bsky.social
Recently, Storygraph has been suggested to me a lot, so I made an account:
stella_wimmer
Is Storygraph a thing yet in the scientific community?
I'm always looking for reading inspiration. 📚
stella_wimmer
Is Storygraph a thing yet in the scientific community?
I'm always looking for reading inspiration. 📚
November 27, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Recently, Storygraph has been suggested to me a lot, so I made an account:
stella_wimmer
Is Storygraph a thing yet in the scientific community?
I'm always looking for reading inspiration. 📚
stella_wimmer
Is Storygraph a thing yet in the scientific community?
I'm always looking for reading inspiration. 📚
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PhD-position vacancy in Jan Hrcek's lab lab.hrcek.net, Czech Academy of Sciences: Exploring how rapid evolution in communities allows maintenance of genetic variation and species diversity. @erc.europa.eu 🪰 🧬 🌏 🧪Application deadline: January 7th 2026
November 25, 2025 at 12:42 PM
PhD-position vacancy in Jan Hrcek's lab lab.hrcek.net, Czech Academy of Sciences: Exploring how rapid evolution in communities allows maintenance of genetic variation and species diversity. @erc.europa.eu 🪰 🧬 🌏 🧪Application deadline: January 7th 2026
Happy #macromonday!
Some Physcia and Xanthoria growing on a tree. This November I am challenging myself to take photos of organisms I wouldn't immediately think of. I'm liking it so far.
#photography #lichen
Some Physcia and Xanthoria growing on a tree. This November I am challenging myself to take photos of organisms I wouldn't immediately think of. I'm liking it so far.
#photography #lichen
November 17, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Happy #macromonday!
Some Physcia and Xanthoria growing on a tree. This November I am challenging myself to take photos of organisms I wouldn't immediately think of. I'm liking it so far.
#photography #lichen
Some Physcia and Xanthoria growing on a tree. This November I am challenging myself to take photos of organisms I wouldn't immediately think of. I'm liking it so far.
#photography #lichen
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Painted Lady passing on by...
November 15, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Painted Lady passing on by...
Today's #macromonday is a #mossmonday as well!
I don't know much about them, but they're very aesthetic.
I don't know much about them, but they're very aesthetic.
November 10, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Today's #macromonday is a #mossmonday as well!
I don't know much about them, but they're very aesthetic.
I don't know much about them, but they're very aesthetic.
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Join us TOMORROW when @julespretty.bsky.social will be leading an important discussion on 'How Story Creates Agency for the Nature and Climate Crises'. Register to attend online or in-person, followed by a drinks reception. bookwhen.com/oxfordbiodiv...
November 6, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Join us TOMORROW when @julespretty.bsky.social will be leading an important discussion on 'How Story Creates Agency for the Nature and Climate Crises'. Register to attend online or in-person, followed by a drinks reception. bookwhen.com/oxfordbiodiv...
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"Spherical cows and bipedal goats: perspectives on mathematical models in biology". 13 and 14/11/2025 (Salle Jaurès, ENS-PSL, rue d'Ulm, Paris). More info about the event: montevil.org/talks/2025--...
November 1, 2025 at 7:50 AM
"Spherical cows and bipedal goats: perspectives on mathematical models in biology". 13 and 14/11/2025 (Salle Jaurès, ENS-PSL, rue d'Ulm, Paris). More info about the event: montevil.org/talks/2025--...
Project update & cool little milestone captured:
After all the field and lab work, I am finally holding the first photo of "visible results" in my hands.
These are the first gels of a PCR to detect parasitoids. 🪰
After all the field and lab work, I am finally holding the first photo of "visible results" in my hands.
These are the first gels of a PCR to detect parasitoids. 🪰
November 3, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Project update & cool little milestone captured:
After all the field and lab work, I am finally holding the first photo of "visible results" in my hands.
These are the first gels of a PCR to detect parasitoids. 🪰
After all the field and lab work, I am finally holding the first photo of "visible results" in my hands.
These are the first gels of a PCR to detect parasitoids. 🪰
I used my time in Vienna to visit the Natural History Museum with a friend. 3 hours only got us through the mineral collection and a few fossils. Very aesthetically pleasing ones:
#naturhistorischesmuseum #wien
#naturhistorischesmuseum #wien
October 31, 2025 at 7:36 AM
I used my time in Vienna to visit the Natural History Museum with a friend. 3 hours only got us through the mineral collection and a few fossils. Very aesthetically pleasing ones:
#naturhistorischesmuseum #wien
#naturhistorischesmuseum #wien
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More moments from the Community & Stress Ecology workshop at the University of South Bohemia! 🌿
Great energy from participants, insightful presentations, and a sunny group visit to the mesocosm platform.
#ClimateChange #StressEcology #EarlyCareerResearchers #Networking
Great energy from participants, insightful presentations, and a sunny group visit to the mesocosm platform.
#ClimateChange #StressEcology #EarlyCareerResearchers #Networking
October 23, 2025 at 12:00 PM
More moments from the Community & Stress Ecology workshop at the University of South Bohemia! 🌿
Great energy from participants, insightful presentations, and a sunny group visit to the mesocosm platform.
#ClimateChange #StressEcology #EarlyCareerResearchers #Networking
Great energy from participants, insightful presentations, and a sunny group visit to the mesocosm platform.
#ClimateChange #StressEcology #EarlyCareerResearchers #Networking
It was a pleasure to participate in this workshop - heard interesting talks about current topics in Community Ecology, had nice discussions and presented about my current project. :-)
Thanks to @stresseddaphnia.bsky.social and everybody involved in organising!
Thanks to @stresseddaphnia.bsky.social and everybody involved in organising!
Wrapped up an inspiring 2-day Community & Stress Ecology workshop at the University of South Bohemia! 🌿
Grateful to all speakers and participants for the great discussions.
💬 Let’s keep the conversation going!
📸 Highlights below!
#ClimateChange #StressEcology #Networking #EarlyCareerResearchers
Grateful to all speakers and participants for the great discussions.
💬 Let’s keep the conversation going!
📸 Highlights below!
#ClimateChange #StressEcology #Networking #EarlyCareerResearchers
October 23, 2025 at 12:01 PM
It was a pleasure to participate in this workshop - heard interesting talks about current topics in Community Ecology, had nice discussions and presented about my current project. :-)
Thanks to @stresseddaphnia.bsky.social and everybody involved in organising!
Thanks to @stresseddaphnia.bsky.social and everybody involved in organising!
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Excited to share our new paper where we find that the rise, decline and fall of clades is not explained by the usual suspects (diversity-dependence, ecological opportunities) but rather by species' insidious loss of macroevolutionary fitness: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/3
Loss of macroevolutionary species fitness explains the rise and fall of clades - Nature Ecology & Evolution
The interplay between speciation and extinction rates shapes clade diversity dynamics. Using a novel phylogenetic model that includes living and fossil lineages, the authors estimate speciation and ex...
www.nature.com
October 17, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Excited to share our new paper where we find that the rise, decline and fall of clades is not explained by the usual suspects (diversity-dependence, ecological opportunities) but rather by species' insidious loss of macroevolutionary fitness: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/3
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Physicists have long been enamored with “beautiful” models—but this seems to have changed in high-energy physics. In his new paper, Martin King argues that experimental contexts strongly determine the pursuitworthiness of “ugly models” 👇📃 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #philsci #philphysics #HPS
October 15, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Physicists have long been enamored with “beautiful” models—but this seems to have changed in high-energy physics. In his new paper, Martin King argues that experimental contexts strongly determine the pursuitworthiness of “ugly models” 👇📃 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #philsci #philphysics #HPS
Weekend activities: Colchicum autumnale - spotting in Slovenia. 🌱
October 17, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Weekend activities: Colchicum autumnale - spotting in Slovenia. 🌱
Our faculty’s Ecology Seminar Series is starting again next week. Yann Hautier will be here in České Budějovice for the first one.
October 6, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Our faculty’s Ecology Seminar Series is starting again next week. Yann Hautier will be here in České Budějovice for the first one.
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Our 4yo wants to keep some of our kitchen’s fruit flies as pets. Feels like I’m already l losing him to popgen.
September 29, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Our 4yo wants to keep some of our kitchen’s fruit flies as pets. Feels like I’m already l losing him to popgen.
Guess who graduated! (Spoiler alert: it’s not me 😄)
So congratulations to my sister for finishing her degree in physiotherapy. 😊🙌🏻
#graduation #ceremony
So congratulations to my sister for finishing her degree in physiotherapy. 😊🙌🏻
#graduation #ceremony
September 27, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Guess who graduated! (Spoiler alert: it’s not me 😄)
So congratulations to my sister for finishing her degree in physiotherapy. 😊🙌🏻
#graduation #ceremony
So congratulations to my sister for finishing her degree in physiotherapy. 😊🙌🏻
#graduation #ceremony
It’s been a while since the last #macromonday.
Here are some spiders we found during this semester’s first excursion.
#photography #spiders
Here are some spiders we found during this semester’s first excursion.
#photography #spiders
September 22, 2025 at 7:27 AM
It’s been a while since the last #macromonday.
Here are some spiders we found during this semester’s first excursion.
#photography #spiders
Here are some spiders we found during this semester’s first excursion.
#photography #spiders
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A paper in Nature Climate Change reports that there’s a bias in climate change health impact attribution towards direct heat effects and extreme weather in high-income countries, highlighting the lack of global representation in current efforts. go.nature.com/3KgMkQZ #medsky 🧪
September 21, 2025 at 4:41 PM
A paper in Nature Climate Change reports that there’s a bias in climate change health impact attribution towards direct heat effects and extreme weather in high-income countries, highlighting the lack of global representation in current efforts. go.nature.com/3KgMkQZ #medsky 🧪
Thesis update: I can’t believe it, my field work is officially DONE!
From January until now I’ve collected and processed thousands of flies (and hopefully some parasitoids).🪰
Next step: DNA! 🧬 🧪
From January until now I’ve collected and processed thousands of flies (and hopefully some parasitoids).🪰
Next step: DNA! 🧬 🧪
September 19, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Thesis update: I can’t believe it, my field work is officially DONE!
From January until now I’ve collected and processed thousands of flies (and hopefully some parasitoids).🪰
Next step: DNA! 🧬 🧪
From January until now I’ve collected and processed thousands of flies (and hopefully some parasitoids).🪰
Next step: DNA! 🧬 🧪
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If you think the seasons are feeling… different, you may be right.
Our new review in Science (@science.org) shows that Earth’s changing rhythms could have major and underestimated consequences for life on Earth. 🌍🧵
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Our new review in Science (@science.org) shows that Earth’s changing rhythms could have major and underestimated consequences for life on Earth. 🌍🧵
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Ecological and evolutionary consequences of changing seasonality
Climate change and other anthropogenic drivers alter seasonal regimes across freshwater, terrestrial, and marine biomes. Seasonal patterns affect ecological and evolutionary processes at different eco...
www.science.org
May 29, 2025 at 10:41 PM
If you think the seasons are feeling… different, you may be right.
Our new review in Science (@science.org) shows that Earth’s changing rhythms could have major and underestimated consequences for life on Earth. 🌍🧵
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Our new review in Science (@science.org) shows that Earth’s changing rhythms could have major and underestimated consequences for life on Earth. 🌍🧵
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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🎉 Our new paper is out in Evolution!
We show how sexual selection shapes heat tolerance in Drosophila prolongata.
Males evolved under sperm competition suffer more under heat stress.
Led by @adenardo.bsky.social with @StefanLupold lab members.
academic.oup.com/evolut/artic...
#sexualSelectio
We show how sexual selection shapes heat tolerance in Drosophila prolongata.
Males evolved under sperm competition suffer more under heat stress.
Led by @adenardo.bsky.social with @StefanLupold lab members.
academic.oup.com/evolut/artic...
#sexualSelectio
May 28, 2025 at 8:39 AM
🎉 Our new paper is out in Evolution!
We show how sexual selection shapes heat tolerance in Drosophila prolongata.
Males evolved under sperm competition suffer more under heat stress.
Led by @adenardo.bsky.social with @StefanLupold lab members.
academic.oup.com/evolut/artic...
#sexualSelectio
We show how sexual selection shapes heat tolerance in Drosophila prolongata.
Males evolved under sperm competition suffer more under heat stress.
Led by @adenardo.bsky.social with @StefanLupold lab members.
academic.oup.com/evolut/artic...
#sexualSelectio
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Buckle up buttercups...
May 21, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Buckle up buttercups...
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Nature has launched its seventh global survey of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) doctoral students, which will probe graduate students’ views about their goals and challenges, and their experiences of their studies so far. Survey runs until June 11. #Academicsky 🧪
PhD students in STEM: Nature wants to hear from you
Buried in lab work or drowning in data? Take a break and help shape the future of PhD education.
go.nature.com
May 19, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Nature has launched its seventh global survey of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) doctoral students, which will probe graduate students’ views about their goals and challenges, and their experiences of their studies so far. Survey runs until June 11. #Academicsky 🧪