Marcus Stensmyr
Science, drosophilids, mosquitoes, and cats. Currently clean on OPSEC.
Lund university, Sweden. 🇺🇦🇸🇪
- 937 results. Who else is in the Epstein material?
- Sponge! sponge! sponge!
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- Reposted by Marcus StensmyrCover girl Veronika is making headlines across the globe🐂 (animal cleverness trumps human stupidity) Notably, she is a 'companion cow' not used for meat or dairy. Maybe if we saw other creatures less as a means to an end, we could appreciate their richness better... www.cell.com/current-biol...
- Reposted by Marcus StensmyrOur paper on the mysterious Devonian organism Prototaxites has now finally been published! See the paper here (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...) and our explainer thread below! Prototaxites reconstruction by Matt Humpage
- Reposted by Marcus StensmyrWhat a breakthrough! Such a puzzle for 30 years, this is real progress! I wonder how general this mechanism of repression is for other systems where highly-selective expression is needed. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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- Reposted by Marcus Stensmyr“A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress - though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known" - Bertrand Russell, 1976. Time-lapse video of Vampyrella lateritia eating Spirogyra algae from Science Source/Oliver Skibbe. 🦠
- Reposted by Marcus StensmyrYou should be able to respond to reviewer comments with memes to liven up the peer review process.
- Reposted by Marcus StensmyrClay letters from ancient Mesopotamia are alive with idiom, sayings, and everyday language that I love. Here are just a few random ones so you can enjoy them too.
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- Reposted by Marcus StensmyrHave you ever wondered what you would find if you could keep your eyes on a bee for more than a few meters? Us, too! preprint (with videos!) + thread 🧵 Precise, individualized foraging flights in honey #bees 🐝 revealed by multicopter drone-based tracking www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/9
- Extra virgin?
- That was not really what I meant...
- Reposted by Marcus StensmyrA newly discovered archaeal cell has a tiny genome and can’t metabolize biomolecules. It’s upending biologists’ definition of a living thing. “These types of organisms have been found before, but not as extreme as this,” said microbiologist Thijs Ettema.
- Reposted by Marcus Stensmyr#OnThisDay in 1859, Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species was first published. Much of the original manuscript was used as scrap paper by Darwin's children. On the back of this painting of a house is an original manuscript page from Origin! #CambridgeUniversityLibrary (DAR 185)
- "potentially divisive"
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- Reposted by Marcus StensmyrOn the event of James Watson's death, I highly recommend this 2023 commentary from @matthewcobb.bsky.social and Nathaniel Comfort with crucial new insights into the discovery of the double helix. (And also check out Cobb's brand new biography of Francis Crick) www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Reposted by Marcus StensmyrAn Asgard archaeon with internal membrane compartments Brilliant study led by @fmacleod.bsky.social and Andriko von Kügelgen. Tight collaboration with @buzzbaum.bsky.social and lab. Congrats to all authors! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Marcus StensmyrIndependently evolved supergenes control colony social organization and queen reproductive strategies in several ant lineages. Sigeman et al. uncover a novel 9 Mb supergene controlling queen size and social organization in Myrmica ruginodis. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf255 #evobio #molbio #ants
- Reposted by Marcus StensmyrAcademics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
- Reposted by Marcus Stensmyr“The bad review will come from your list of suggested reviewers”
- Reposted by Marcus Stensmyr1/ Hello Drosophila-philists and braino-maniacs! 👋🪰🧠🧪 The Caron lab has a new preprint, and it is about 🥁🥁🥁 democracy! Neuro-democracy, to be precise. So: drop EVERYTHING and listen up — a 🧶! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Marcus StensmyrFirst neurons didn’t appear overnight. We trace their roots to ancient secretory cells - showing how lifestyle & behavior shaped the evolution of first synapses.🧠🌊 #Evolution #Neuroscience Our latest in @natrevneuro.nature.com Link: rdcu.be/eMX3E @jeffcolgren.bsky.social @msarscentre.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Marcus StensmyrHow does life evolve to adapt to modern cities? Out now in Science, my PhD work with @lindymcbr.bsky.social uncovers the ancient origin of the “London Underground mosquito” – one of the most iconic examples of urban adaptation. 🧵(1/n) @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ady4515
- Reposted by Marcus StensmyrNew preprint led by the brilliant @aleksandra-marconi.bsky.social on cichlid brain diversification, fgf8a signalling and regulatory divergence with TEs on the mix! All part of a wonderful collaboration with @ebablab.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @camzoology.bsky.social
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- Great episode!
- Reposted by Marcus StensmyrWe are in Bluesky and we are happy to share our two last consortium publications: the DrosEU expanded DEST dataset and a Continent-wide study of phenotypic differentiation among European #Drosophila melanogaster populations (1/7)
- Reposted by Marcus StensmyrI'm looking to recruit a post-doc to help push forward our growing interests in insect ecotoxicology. Apply here by Nov 30th! (thanks for reposting) career5.successfactors.eu/sfcareer/job...
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- Reposted by Marcus StensmyrMy little book on Schrödinger's famous classic 'What Is Life?' is out! Offering the most comprehensive analysis ever undertaken of the book's origins, reception, impact, and legacy, it uncovers Schrödinger's motivations in writing it, and shows how it has shaped our current understanding of the cell
- Looks like a great conference! 🦣🐝🦟🧌
- 🦴🧬🦴🧬🦴 Abstract submission is now open for the 1st International Conference on Palaeogenomics! June 23–26 2026, in Stockholm. Join researchers from across the field for 4 days and >100 talks (+ poster sessions)! Submit abstracts here 👉 icp2026.palaeogenomics.org/abstracts/ Deadline: Nov 30th
- Incredible!
- Nearly 4,000 y ago, Egyptians finished their pyramids Meanwhile, across the ocean, termites in NE Brazil were building something even larger: a hidden empire of 200M mounds, over an area the size of UK 🌍🐜 Still active today, a masterpiece of non-human engineering! 🧪🌐 HT @ricardsole.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Marcus StensmyrCase Western Reserve Department of Biology is hiring! We're recruiting for a tenure-track position focusing on eukaryotic microbiology, especially microbial/environment interactions. Please share widely: apply.interfolio.com/174456
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- Reposted by Marcus StensmyrA nice shift in perceived colour between central and peripheral vision. The fixated disc looks purple while the others look blue. The effect presumably comes from the absence of S-cones in the fovea. From Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.115...
- Maybe the Brits make Trump a lord, the Norwegians give him the Peace Prize, we Swedes hand over the rest of the Nobels, and he retires quietly in Florida.🤔
- Reposted by Marcus StensmyrHello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it
- Reposted by Marcus Stensmyr#Job alert: associate professor (universitetslektor) at the program in Human #Paleogenomics and #Population #Genomics. Please see the ad for more information. Application deadline: Sept 1st. #vacancy @haam-community.bsky.social @cschlebu.bsky.social www.uu.se/om-uu/jobba-...
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- Reposted by Marcus Stensmyr🚨Very happy that my PhD work is now out in @nature.com! We discovered that evolution, by acting in the midbrain, shifted the threshold to escape in Peromyscus mice, to fine-tune defensive strategies in different environments www.nature.com/articles/s41... This was a truly collaborative effort! 🧵⬇️
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- Its all crab!
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- Really neat paper from my colleagues Eric Warrant and Stanley Heinze at @biologylu.bsky.social!
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- Having a great time at the Crete fly circuit meeting!
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- Bit disappointing really. Very predictable so far, needs a plot twist.
- A worm tower hitching a ride on a fly! 😲 Wild paper in @currentbiology.bsky.social www.cell.com/current-biol...
- Reposted by Marcus StensmyrOur newest special issue is now live! Check it out to discover more about diverse and beautiful Fungi🍄🍄🟫🍄 On the cover: the fly agaric, Amanita muscaria, releasing its spores in the early morning light. www.cell.com/current-biol...
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