Moritz Lürig

hey folks, happy to announce that I was awarded an @ERC_Research grant to investigate the phenomics of butterfly and moth diversification using computer vision and AI. I'll be looking for phd students and postdocs starting in late 2026/early 2027. will post more details soon!

Pretty interesting for all people who participate in video interviews Video-call glitches trigger uncanniness and harm consequential life outcomes nature.com/articles/s4158…

Museum position 👉 NAGPRA Bioarchaeologist and Coordinator This is a this full-time, TEAMS exempt staff position. Last call! 🏛️📌 Apply by Oct 31, 2025 🔸 Full position info: floridamuseum.ufl.edu/nhdept/careers… 🔸 Apply via @UF: explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/5372…

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT📣: I haven’t been this excited to be part of something new in 15 years… Thrilled to reveal the passion project I’ve been working on for the past year and a half!🙀🥳 It started from my frustration with the depressing effect that the current publishing system has on the well-being of myself, my team, and pretty much every scientist I know (maybe you’ve noticed from my stupid jokes… :) I was exhausted of dealing with the huge delays, reviewers that can be abusive, and how arbitrary it all is. Unfortunately, the most important factors are often WHO your reviewers are and who YOU are... It’s clear we need alternatives or at least ways to improve the situation. So, together with a really special and talented team we worked to develop this idea into “qed” a platform where you can get CONSTRUCTIVE feedback on your own work or CRITICALLY assess other people’s papers. It can be a real difference maker if many of you join us (thousands have tried it already, but today we release a NEW and much stronger version ;) Let’s harness qed to put the power back in the scientists’ hands, to do, to read & to publish science on our own terms. I’m dying for you to TRY IT, and it’s very simple - just drop a paper (the link to the website is in the replies👇) - it’s completely secure, private, and free, and you get results fast. Please show your support, SHARE, tell your friends, and let’s be the revolution 🫵!

Mel!

Excited that we got the journal cover of @PNASNews with a photo of mine: A mating couple of Swamp Bluets (Africallagma glaucum), photographed in Harold Porter Botanical Garden in the Western Cape Province in South Africa in 2011!

Congrats to Moritz Lürig @mluerig! 👏👏👏 He has been awarded a group starter grant by the European Research Council @ERC_Research to create an atlas for moth and butterfly wing patterns using machine learning. floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/moritz… 🧵

Online now: The genomics of discrete polymorphisms maintained by disruptive selection dlvr.it/TMv6kr

looking forward to see y'all at #evolution2025 @Evol_mtg in Georgia next week! feel free to stop by session Adaptation I on Saturday, 9:30-10:30

"...endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved." Ch. Darwin, On the Origin of Species

We are hiring two tenure-track assistant professors at the Institute of #ecology and #evolution at @unibern in conservation biology and mathematical and computational ecology tinyurl.com/IEEjobs l

Geometriphylogenetics xkcd.com/3010

My entire team wrote an opinion paper about Common misconceptions of speciation research. Each section is written by 1-2 team members. The bulk of the writing happened during two writing retreats. It was a lot of fun and I am very happy with the result. academic.oup.com/evolinnean/art…

@SevCrumbScience @JohnNyakatura congrats John, fun times!! I saw the third picture and thought "wow his group has like 50 people" haha

Such a perfect time we had at @JohnNyakatura’s lab for it’s 10 years anniversary ✨🎊 Always a pleasure to come back to Berlin and see you guys ❤️

good reminder by @EvolOdonata that all the talks for our #computervision in #eeb meeting last year are available on yt - for an overview check cv-eeb.netlify.app/program/

Insect levitation with ultrasound: capturing 360° views to automate measurements and create 3D models. More fun devices from KIT to join the DiversityScanner family 🦋🔬 techrxiv.org/users/813834/a… @mfnberlin @leeselab @myrmoteras @Brent_C_Emerson @TokeHoye

Our study @JEvBio shows how adaptation overrides constraints in the evolution of #SexualDimorphism in #Cichlids. We highlight that integrating intra-specific variation with comparative methods can advance macroevolutionary research. @ #SpecialIssue with @GaboriauT @Phylogenetrips

"We are guardians of life's history [...]" September 10, 1941, birthday of paleontologist, geologist, evolutionist, historian of #science and author Stephen Jay Gould youtube.com/watch?v=EIs31a…