Pieris rapae @PierisProject

A citizen science project designed to create the most comprehensive collection of a butterfly - Pieris rapae- from across the world to advance science pierisproject.org Joined May 2014

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Science Learning Hub @NZScienceLearn

4 years ago

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

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Dr. Akito Kawahara @Dr_Akito

6 years ago

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…

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Gabriela Montejo-Kovacevich 🇪🇺 @gmkov

6 years ago

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

heliconiuspapers @heli_papers

6 years ago

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Michael Perry @michaelwperry

6 years ago

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

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Pieris rapae @PierisProject

6 years ago

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

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Dr. Akito Kawahara @Dr_Akito

6 years ago

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)

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Shannon Murphy @SmurphLab

6 years ago

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!

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Adam Blake @ajblake05

6 years ago

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…

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Jessica Kurylo @SoilsFlutterBy

6 years ago

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

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Lisa Kinch @lnkinch

6 years ago

#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…

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Gideon Bradburd @gbradburd

6 years ago

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]

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Dr. Akito Kawahara @Dr_Akito

6 years ago

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

Florida Museum @FloridaMuseum

6 years ago

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Pieris rapae @PierisProject

6 years ago

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…

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Pieris rapae @PierisProject

6 years ago

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

PNASNews @PNASNews

6 years ago

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

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Pieris rapae @PierisProject

6 years ago

Big thanks to @SoilsFlutterBy for sending more butterflies to our project that will help us to delineate the "hybrid zone" in California AND the many butterflies from southeast Australia she sent us that made it into our recent paper. Jessica, you rock! pnas.org/content/early/…

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Butterfly Diversity & Evolution Lab @RogerVila_Lab

6 years ago

Check the odyssey of the Pieris rapae butterfly, travelling by boat, train and even dromedary! Thanks to the citizen scientists that helped! Global invasion history of the agricultural pest butterfly Pieris rapae revealed with genomics and citizen science pnas.org/content/early/…

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Yiyuan Li (YY) @yy_yiyuan_li

6 years ago

We applied genome sequencing and citizen science to understand the invasion history of the cabbage white butterfly @PierisProject : Global invasion history of the agricultural pest butterfly Pieris rapae revealed with genomics and citizen science pnas.org/content/early/…

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Pieris rapae @PierisProject

6 years ago

Humans inadvertently helped the small cabbage white butterfly become arguably the most destructive butterfly on the planet, but humans--citizen scientists--also helped to uncover their extraordinary journey. Check out our paper published today in PNAS pnas.org/content/early/…