Lucie Queste

This stunning slow-motion footage of the green dragontail butterfly was filmed by Kazuo Unno in northern Thailand. Lamproptera meges are a species of swallowtail butterfly that can be found throughout Asia [full video: buff.ly/2ThZAVZ]

Updated Heliconius maps website now online: heliconius-maps.github.io

First day on the job at our new greenhouses at IKIAM in Tena, Ecuador! (not actually the ones in the background...) With @borreroja and Shane Wright

Haldane's Rule hybrid sterility is complex, in butterflies as well as flies. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Light environment influences mating behaviours during the early stages of divergence in tropical butterflies dlvr.it/RwGhYZ

Unsure right now if the outlook for 2021 is bleak or optimistic but thankfully my contingencies for both involve copious amounts of Yorkshire Tea so at least I'm somewhat prepared

Rain or shine.... (or in this case, snow!)

Really love when research is combined with other media, this video really captures the importance of diversity in our forests and justifies these kinds of studies video: vimeo.com/377406300 research: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ec… Part funded by @NatGeo #outreach

I second this! Very good video with stunning views

Neil Rosser, the best field worker I've met, has a new paper on the Amazon river as a suture zone for butterflies due to a partial barrier effect. Collaborative effort with Brazilian colleagues. doi.org/10.1111/ecog.0… Part funded by NatGeo - movie too vimeo.com/377406300

@Hanliconius Thanks for the tip! Never going back....

Further evidence. I’m never using any other method ever again.

People who work with butterflies: observe this wonder-material for hanging pupae! Amazon basics microfibre cloth. Was able to hang 30 tricky pupae in about 5 minutes.

Excited to share the first paper I contributed to during my PhD. Great work from Matteo! nature.com/articles/s4146…

New paper out by Alex Hausmann et al. from my new lab! Really interesting and underappreciated effect of the light environment on mating behaviour in #Heliconius! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

New preprint from me, Matteo Rossi, Owen McMillan and @DickMerrill. Only took 8 years, but it’s always fun to work with friends and the PhD students they stole from you...

@eohomo @lizlizliz1000 @Hanliconius I have! It's surprising how small the stumps can get actually... They just compensate by increasing their wing beat frequency

@lizlizliz1000 @Hanliconius I wonder if @LMQueste ever filmed stumpies flying?

Have definitely seen some Heliconius persevering with very stumpy wings...

@DickMerrill @EvoBioMunich @ERC_Research I'm very excited to get started!

@eohomo Phew! I had planned on saying lots of horrible things about your interview method

@LMQueste I’m only kidding, you can tell me I’m the pub one day!

Giving a presentation to my lab about applying to and getting a post-doc (as I’ve just gone through it) – what are some good interview questions you like to ask or have been asked?

@eohomo You're welcome to join! I'll let you know the details

@LMQueste Always unsure how good I am as an interviewer! And interviewee for that matter...

@freyagarry Great advice for sure! That's got to be the first priority. I also like it when people ask questions not directly related to the project, helps get a better idea of who they are. You're not just hiring for the job, you're hiring someone you're going to be working with everyday!

@LMQueste My postdoc interview was (in my possibly flawed memory) mostly focussed on the science in the proposal. My advice then and now would be to make sure you know the science on the subject as well as you can. This preparation took me a over a week of holiday reading and studying.