Annie Jessop
@aleejessop.bsky.social
Congratulations Lauren!
October 18, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Congratulations Lauren!
A huge thank you to all of our collaborators involved in this project. It was a great team effort and I feel very privileged to have had the opportunity to work with you all!
October 14, 2025 at 11:25 PM
A huge thank you to all of our collaborators involved in this project. It was a great team effort and I feel very privileged to have had the opportunity to work with you all!
Our new butterfly gyroid paper is out! We found that the gyroid nanostructure embedded within the wing scales of Parides sesostris butterflies develops in the pupa as a gyroid made up of entangled fibres.
Check out the paper here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Check out the paper here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Hierarchical woven fibrillar structures in developing single gyroids in butterflies | PNAS
Nature offers a remarkable diversity of nanomaterials that have extraordinary functional
and structural properties. Intrinsic to nature is the impr...
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October 14, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Our new butterfly gyroid paper is out! We found that the gyroid nanostructure embedded within the wing scales of Parides sesostris butterflies develops in the pupa as a gyroid made up of entangled fibres.
Check out the paper here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Check out the paper here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Reposted by Annie Jessop
Wa hoo! Our paper in Science is out today, revealing why some prey use conspicuous warning colouration while others use camouflaging colours. A huge global collaboration under incredible leadership by Iliana Medina and @wlallen.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Global selection on insect antipredator coloration
Natural selection has repeatedly led to the evolution of two alternative antipredator color strategies—camouflage to avoid detection and aposematism to advertise unprofitability—but we lack understand...
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September 26, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Wa hoo! Our paper in Science is out today, revealing why some prey use conspicuous warning colouration while others use camouflaging colours. A huge global collaboration under incredible leadership by Iliana Medina and @wlallen.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Very happy to share that I have been awarded a #MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship to work on the extravagant colours of peacock jumping spiders with @bodowilts.bsky.social at the Paris Lodron University of Salzburg. Feeling very lucky indeed! Image courtesy of Jurgen Otto: www.peacockspider.org
February 17, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Very happy to share that I have been awarded a #MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship to work on the extravagant colours of peacock jumping spiders with @bodowilts.bsky.social at the Paris Lodron University of Salzburg. Feeling very lucky indeed! Image courtesy of Jurgen Otto: www.peacockspider.org
Loved working on this collaboration with @jenkelley01.bsky.social and so happy to see it published. The three-dimensional appearance that these moths create on their flat wings is really remarkable and it was great fun characterising the effect.
Super excited to share this remarkable finding and to give a shout out to my brilliant maths and physics co-authors at @murdoch.edu.au and @unisalzburg.bsky.social. Great working with you @aleejessop.bsky.social!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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A leaf-mimicking moth uses nanostructures to create 3D leaf shape appearance
Nature provides many astonishing examples of visual deception, from fish that resemble leaves to spiders and butterfly pupae that look like bird dropp…
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February 13, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Loved working on this collaboration with @jenkelley01.bsky.social and so happy to see it published. The three-dimensional appearance that these moths create on their flat wings is really remarkable and it was great fun characterising the effect.