Pieris rapae

Been meaning to add some citizen science into your T&L? Many are online & perfect for at home learning -now might be the time eh? Check out some of the different projects we've profiled here: bit.ly/2IavlP8 @nzwormdoctor @inaturalistnz @byondMyrtleRust @PierisProject

@samd_official @Tesco You could always send them to us =) pierisproject.org

Hey @Tesco I was about to cook my favourite vegetable of all time (broccoli) and after unwrapping it, to my surprise, found caterpillars inside! They’re really nice and we’ve ended up keeping one as a pet and naming him. but just as a heads up, some of your broc has c-pillars😳🐛

A very important summary about how we are increasingly less connected with nature. Very sad. We need to help our kids connect back with nature through direct interactions and build experiences/memories with forests, fields, streams, ocean -by Soga & Gaston esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.100…

@neilmccoy Hold my butterfly net, oh wait I'll need that

We measured microclimates for a year (>500k records), tested heliconius thermal tolerance in the wild across altitudes and reared them in common garden. A huge effort with great help! ☀️🦋🐛🌡 @u_ikiam @CamZoology @simonhmartin @joana_meier @mel_rosina @NicolaNadeau

Find out more about these mosaic CRISPRed butterflies in our new paper! nature.com/articles/s4146… @ChrisWWheat @alyssa_woronik @Kallekarlhugo

@kirstenmprior @DylanGJones92 @InsideNatGeo I don't see the "pink sea star" looking one. Have you ever seen that one on a garry oak?

School citizen science project dramatically improves children's knowledge of UK mammals phys.org/news/2019-12-s… via @physorg_com

A great poop quote from a classic bug study: Weiss 2003: "[Some butterflies] ballistically eject [poop] pellets great distances. [I] observed a skipper larva launch a pellet 38X its body." Can you imagine shooting poop 38 times your body length? (will post caterpillar video soon)

Please RT! Funding opportunity for students studying Lepidoptera from @TheLepSoc - deadline Jan 15, 2020. Application is on Society awards page lepsoc.org/content/awards. Contact Shannon Murphy (email address on the application) with questions!

Today the main chapter of my PhD thesis was published in #ProcB! We show for the first time that plant feeding insects (cabbage white butterflies specifically) use the polarization of light to discriminate between host plants. Check it out here: doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2…

Meet the scientist who's been counting California butterflies for 47 years and has no plans to stop latimes.com/science/story/…

#Bioinformatics #ProteinStructure Check out our #DeepLearning method DeepSAV in #bioRxiv that predicts variant pathogenicity and establishes a mutation severity measure for for human genes: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Super excited for this paper with @petrelharp to be out! In it, we try to think really hard about how close popgen methods & models can get to real biology: organisms just living, dispersing, mating, & dying in space. annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.114… [summary below]

Very nice to see our buttefly and moth phylogenomic study published in #PNAS today. Took many years of hard work to do this with #1KITE @alxdonath @paulbfrandsen @EmmanuelTouss1 @KarenMeusemann @cgstorer @mariodosreis @BarberLab and many others! @PNASNews

@roland_kroebel Definitely. That is the purpose of most citizen science projects. Many people developing CS projects have and continue to think at length about how CS can be more expansive and inclusive. There’s been enormous progress on this front but still a long way to go.

in order to really start moving things, we need to find ways to work with people outside academia

Citizen scientists in California have been helping document and prevent the spread of SOD--a disease that can devastate many species of trees including oaks--for well over a decade dailycal.org/2019/10/04/cit…

@Tali_Reiner Thanks Tali! It was a massive undertaking and could not have been accomplished without the help of so many people like you helping to collect a few butterflies. Thank you!Your butterflies should make it in our next paper! :)

@PierisProject Great work Sean!

We made the cover :) pnas.org/content/116/40…

@PNASNews Photo by @LaurenMNichols :)

In this issue: External costs of air pollution in the United States, body representation in monkeys’ brains, and designing effective antibodies against Ebola virus. pnas.org/content/116/40