Jamie C. Weir
British evolutionary biologist and entomologist. Lepidoptera | Phenology | Adaptive Colouration | Polymorphism | History of Science | Palaeontology
Twitter: @Jamie_C_Weir Website: www.jamiecweir.com
- Thanks to everyone who came along at #BES2025 to chat about my work on phenological synchrony with @kenandlindasmith.bsky.social and @piedflynet.bsky.social Even for specialist species, mismatch may only matter in years where resources are scarce 🐦🐛 If I missed you at the conference, get in touch!
- If you're at the @britishecologicalsociety.org #BES2025 in Edinburgh and interested in #phenology, come and find me for a chat about how resource abundance modulates the impacts of the trophic #mismatch. My poster is A17.21 in the Cromdale Hall, and I'll be there from 6pm this evening! 🌳 -> 🐛 -> 🐦
- If you're at the @britishecologicalsociety.org #BES2025 in Edinburgh and interested in #phenology, come and find me for a chat about how resource abundance modulates the impacts of the trophic #mismatch. My poster is A17.21 in the Cromdale Hall, and I'll be there from 6pm this evening! 🌳 -> 🐛 -> 🐦
- Very pleased to announce that my recent paper in Oecologia "Trophic generalism in the winter moth: a model species for phenological mismatch" won the journal's 2024 Ehleringer Prize for student research! 🏆 You can read more about the paper and the award below 👇 link.springer.com/journal/442/...
- You can find the whole paper available, open access, at Oecologia 📄: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
- If you missed the @linneansociety.bsky.social's annual lecture in #Edinburgh last month, you can watch it now on YouTube! 👇 Hear Mark Blaxter (@sangerinstitute.bsky.social) give an inspiring overview of the Tree of Life Project! 🌳🦋🐒 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cca7...
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- 1/2. In or around #Edinburgh?... 🏰 There's still time to sign up for our annual @linneansociety.bsky.social lecture, hosted by @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social. **Thurs 27th, 6-8pm** Sign up now, for free, in person or online! 👇 tinyurl.com/edin-linnsoc... ... or scroll for more info 🧵👇
- Had a great time today presenting a poster about my PhD work 🐛 at the @linneansociety.bsky.social symposium on biological resilience. Some excellent talks in wonderful surroundings - so much food for thought with Darwin looking on - and all topped off with a fishy keynote @trishschulte.bsky.social 🐠
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- In my **new paper**, out now in Folia Primatologica, I shed light on the nocturnal feeding habits of the Southern Lesser Bushbaby (Galago moholi), documenting observations and experiments made during fieldwork in South Africa. tinyurl.com/bushbaby-diet ...Scroll for more #bushbaby pics 👀👇 🧵 1/8
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- Hot on the heels of receiving the @linneansociety.bsky.social's Marsden Medal, very pleased to announce that my PhD thesis also came in as runner up for the @royentsoc.bsky.social's Alfred Russel Wallace Award! 🌿🐛 Thanks to @eastbio.bsky.social and my supervisor @allyphillimore.bsky.social 1/2 👇
- Read more about my work in @uk.theconversation.com: theconversation.com/will-food-ch... Or, have a look at our recent perspective piece in @globalchangebio.bsky.social: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 2/2 🧵
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- It was a real delight to go down to Burlington House the other week, to tour the @linneansociety.bsky.social collections and receive this year's John C. Marsden medal, for the best biology PhD thesis in the UK. It was, and remains, a tremendous honour. Interested in my thesis? 👇
- Employing one of my lesser-used mugs today! Lord Palmerston not looking impressed by my work... History enthusiasts: any thoughts on who might be the most important British prime minister of the nineteenth century?
- Some highlights from the last few warm nights here in the central belt of Scotland... A pair of puss moths, ermines, and several poplar hawks. Poplars sit with hindwings resting *in front* of the forewings, breaking up the classic moth outline and giving them a more ragged, leaf-life appearance 🦋🌿
- Although species vary in their #phenological response to #climate change, some food-chains and webs are surprisingly resilient... On the anniversary of my @globalchangebio.bsky.social paper with @allyphillimore.bsky.social, I wanted to revisit some of the key ideas 👇 tinyurl.com/BufferCater 🧵1/6
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- It's an incredible honour to be awarded the John C. Marsden medal from the @linneansociety.bsky.social for my PhD research on phenology, moths... and some very hungry caterpillars 🌳🐛 Thanks to all my friends and mentors at @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social, but especially @allyphillimore.bsky.social!
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- Very pleased to be back at the @savebutterflies.bsky.social Scotland spring meeting in Perth, this time talking about my PhD work on #phenology, #ecology, and #trophic #mismatch. As always, the winter #moth will be headlining... (but will be put in its place) 🦋
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- Excited to report that our collaborative paper laying out the key priorities for entomological research is now among the 10 most-cited publications in #RESInsectConsDiv for 2023. #TopCitedArticle Do have a read 👇 (and keep citing 😉) resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... 1/2 🧵
- Was a great pleasure to go through to Glasgow last week and talk to the Paisley Natural History Society about animal camouflage, including some of my own work on moths 🦋🐛 A lovely, friendly society that I would recommend to anyone local interested in nature! paisleynaturalhistorysociety.org.uk
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- The hazards of being an entomologist You're easily distracted by smaller things 🐜 ...and I had no idea we were being watched 🐘
- Absolutely sterling research with fascinating findings 🕷️🦋
- The surgeon and explorer John Rae. His openness to learning and utilising the survival techniques of native peoples gave his expeditions unusual resilience. He was able to uncover the fate of the disastrous Franklin Expedition to the NW Passage. Bust in the Old Medical School, #Edinburgh.
- Thanks again to everyone who came along last Thursday to hear @sandyheth.bsky.social's excellent talk for the @linneansociety.bsky.social in #Edinburgh, at the Old Medical School. Great to see such a big and enthusiastic turnout! Stay tuned for more Linnean events hosted here in Edinburgh... 📻
