Tuomas Kankaanpää
@bugwebs.bsky.social
Insect ecologist. Insect responses to environmental change. Interested in trophic interactions. Now developing monitoring methods for blood-feeding insects in the North. #InterregAurora #InsectsoftheNorth
Post-doctoral researcher at University of Oulu
Post-doctoral researcher at University of Oulu
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Terrific new paper by @jessicalwarelab.bsky.social and others on dragonfly wings, in particular the hydrocarbons which act in multiple ways - structurally, pheromonally and in terms of water resistance. Wish I were still teaching, I'd use this as a great example. of multiple adaptations.
The secrets of the extreme durability of odonata wings
Abstract. Essential properties considered in the design, fabrication, and application of contemporary bio/nanomaterials have been modeled on adaptations of
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November 24, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Terrific new paper by @jessicalwarelab.bsky.social and others on dragonfly wings, in particular the hydrocarbons which act in multiple ways - structurally, pheromonally and in terms of water resistance. Wish I were still teaching, I'd use this as a great example. of multiple adaptations.
Oh no, apparently it's walrus day again.
November 24, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Oh no, apparently it's walrus day again.
Classic evening mass pcrring to use all (new) machines at once. Miss the 384 blocks and eppendorf robots at university of Helsinki C building. #insectsofthenorth
November 24, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Classic evening mass pcrring to use all (new) machines at once. Miss the 384 blocks and eppendorf robots at university of Helsinki C building. #insectsofthenorth
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Excited to share our fresh-off-the-press Annual Review on the role of temperature in metabolic scaling! We review the state of the field on this topic and unpack confusion about the various ways the term "scaling" is used in metabolic theories. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Scaling Temperature Effects on Metabolism from Individuals to Ecosystems
The effects of temperature on metabolic rates are a core component of ecological change, with surprisingly regular effects across diverse ecological systems. Metabolic scaling theories can provide qua...
www.annualreviews.org
November 7, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Excited to share our fresh-off-the-press Annual Review on the role of temperature in metabolic scaling! We review the state of the field on this topic and unpack confusion about the various ways the term "scaling" is used in metabolic theories. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
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for less "Fake science news", choose women: "The gender gap was even more pronounced in misconduct-related retractions, where women first authors accounted for only 11.5% of all cases. Women were also significantly less likely to have multiple retractions." 😀👏
2025. Few women named as authors on retracted medical studies, analysis shows phys.org/news/2025-11...
Few women named as authors on retracted medical studies, analysis shows
Women are underrepresented among authors of retracted publications, particularly in cases involving multiple retractions, according to a new study published in PLOS One by Paul Sebo of the University ...
phys.org
November 21, 2025 at 6:41 AM
for less "Fake science news", choose women: "The gender gap was even more pronounced in misconduct-related retractions, where women first authors accounted for only 11.5% of all cases. Women were also significantly less likely to have multiple retractions." 😀👏
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#Ecology at @helsinki.fi just jumped to #8 in the world in the 2025 Shanghai rankings and is the highest ranking discipline in Finland 🥳🥳🥳. So proud of my community 💚
www.helsinki.fi/en/news/sust...
www.helsinki.fi/en/news/sust...
ShanghaiRanking: University of Helsinki ranks 8th in the world in ecology, and the 1st in Nordic countries | University of Helsinki
According to ShanghaiRanking’s Global Ranking of Academic Subjects in 2025, ecology is the most successful discipline at the University of Helsinki.
www.helsinki.fi
November 21, 2025 at 12:59 PM
#Ecology at @helsinki.fi just jumped to #8 in the world in the 2025 Shanghai rankings and is the highest ranking discipline in Finland 🥳🥳🥳. So proud of my community 💚
www.helsinki.fi/en/news/sust...
www.helsinki.fi/en/news/sust...
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Widespread influence of artificial light at night on ecosystem metabolism 🧪🌐 "we detect consistent nonlinear interactions between ALAN and night duration, with Ecosystem respiration " www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Widespread influence of artificial light at night on ecosystem metabolism - Nature Climate Change
The authors combine light intensity data with eddy covariance observations from 86 sites to show that artificial light at night increases ecosystem respiration and alters carbon exchange, with impacts...
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November 20, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Widespread influence of artificial light at night on ecosystem metabolism 🧪🌐 "we detect consistent nonlinear interactions between ALAN and night duration, with Ecosystem respiration " www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Social media data can be valuable for identifying ecological patterns. Cats are a major predator of wild animals worldwide, including invertebrates, and this study documents new observations of cat-arthropod interactions #RESInsectConsDiv resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Social media highlights the overlooked impact of cats on arthropods
The impact of domestic cats on vertebrate biodiversity is unequivocal; however, we still know little about their effects on arthropods. By analysing over 17,000 photos and videos from social media p...
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November 19, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Social media data can be valuable for identifying ecological patterns. Cats are a major predator of wild animals worldwide, including invertebrates, and this study documents new observations of cat-arthropod interactions #RESInsectConsDiv resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Oh, they had actual transmitters onboard. Before reading I thought it was some radar gimmick...
For the first time, humans have tracked an individual butterfly, as shown in the Monarch migration of north America.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/s...
@savebutterflies.bsky.social
@bc-suffolk.bsky.social
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@savebutterflies.bsky.social
@bc-suffolk.bsky.social
We Can Now Track Individual Monarch Butterflies. It’s a Revelation.
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Oh, they had actual transmitters onboard. Before reading I thought it was some radar gimmick...
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November 17, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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This is a truly insane (in a good way!) and much needed piece of work. Well done @krystofchytry.bsky.social et al.!
How to not be swamped by your microclimate data?
The rise of microclimate data may have opened Pandora’s box. Gone are the days of simple bioclimatic variables — now heads spin trying to summarize these timeseries.
A much-needed paper by @krystofchytry.bsky.social:
🔗 the3dlab.org/2025/11/11/h...
The rise of microclimate data may have opened Pandora’s box. Gone are the days of simple bioclimatic variables — now heads spin trying to summarize these timeseries.
A much-needed paper by @krystofchytry.bsky.social:
🔗 the3dlab.org/2025/11/11/h...
How to not be swamped by your microclimate data
Microclimate data are finally finding their way more routineously into ecological models – and rightly so. Hooray for that! The growing availability of in-situ measurements is helping us brid…
the3dlab.org
November 15, 2025 at 9:10 AM
This is a truly insane (in a good way!) and much needed piece of work. Well done @krystofchytry.bsky.social et al.!
Finnish women have just won the European championship bronze 🥉 in underwater rugby. 🎉 The game against Denmark was a real nailbiter. Watch the games online
tinyurl.com/uwrec2025
tinyurl.com/uwrec2025
CMAS TV
Web TV pour la Confédération Mondiale Des Activités Subaquatiques - CMAS
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November 15, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Finnish women have just won the European championship bronze 🥉 in underwater rugby. 🎉 The game against Denmark was a real nailbiter. Watch the games online
tinyurl.com/uwrec2025
tinyurl.com/uwrec2025
Nematode parasites of insects are super interesting and their interplay with fungi is apparently very interesting too.
New preprint: "Priority effects drive fungal and nematode emergence from insect larvae," introducing our new study system at 'Ootchamin 'Ooyakma (Stanford's Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve), led by Amaury Payelleville
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
November 15, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Nematode parasites of insects are super interesting and their interplay with fungi is apparently very interesting too.
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Tack et al. Bird and bat diversity, herbivory and trade-offs with yield in coffee agroforests in Arabica coffee’s native range www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #ornithology
Bird and bat diversity, herbivory and trade-offs with yield in coffee agroforests in Arabica coffee’s native range
Agroforestry systems have the potential to provide benefits for conservation, natural pest control and farmer livelihoods. Yet, we need a clearer unde…
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November 14, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Tack et al. Bird and bat diversity, herbivory and trade-offs with yield in coffee agroforests in Arabica coffee’s native range www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #ornithology
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Did you know. That the meme-explosion that was the wooden model of Sacabambaspis (an Ordovician jawless fish) held at a Museum in Helsinki, was created by a pioneering Estonian fish paleontologist and palaeoartist, Elga Mark-Kurik. 🧵
November 11, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Did you know. That the meme-explosion that was the wooden model of Sacabambaspis (an Ordovician jawless fish) held at a Museum in Helsinki, was created by a pioneering Estonian fish paleontologist and palaeoartist, Elga Mark-Kurik. 🧵
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Do you work (/want to work) with caterpillars? Or sensory systems? Or BOTH?! Well good golly do we have the paper for you! We explain the senses that caterpillars have, what they use them for, and how anthropogenic sensory pollution might be messing it all up 🐛 doi.org/10.1007/s003...
The sensory ecology of caterpillars - Journal of Comparative Physiology A
Caterpillars (larval Lepidoptera) are one of the most ecologically and evolutionarily significant taxa on Earth. As both feeders and food, they shape the dynamics of enumerate ecosystems on land. Key ...
doi.org
November 10, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Do you work (/want to work) with caterpillars? Or sensory systems? Or BOTH?! Well good golly do we have the paper for you! We explain the senses that caterpillars have, what they use them for, and how anthropogenic sensory pollution might be messing it all up 🐛 doi.org/10.1007/s003...
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After several years of hard work two important papers from Berchtesgaden NP are finally out: 1) effects of microclimate on biodiversity change with macroclimate along elevation, but taxon specific - led by @lisageres.bsky.social doi: 10.1002/ecog.07984 with @rupertseidl.bsky.social and many more
November 10, 2025 at 7:17 PM
After several years of hard work two important papers from Berchtesgaden NP are finally out: 1) effects of microclimate on biodiversity change with macroclimate along elevation, but taxon specific - led by @lisageres.bsky.social doi: 10.1002/ecog.07984 with @rupertseidl.bsky.social and many more
Thought I'd summarise the main finding quickly, but yeah it's not simple. Anyway nice to see comparative studies. I should finish one of these.
Spatial and temporal exposure to climatic extremes shape butterfly thermal physiology and vulnerability to recent climate change vist.ly/4dme7 #RangeLimit #ThermalTolerance
November 10, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Thought I'd summarise the main finding quickly, but yeah it's not simple. Anyway nice to see comparative studies. I should finish one of these.
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#DBfeature
Fritz Müller’s "Für Darwin" (1864) bridged evolution and development, anticipating evo-devo and warning to the dangers of scientific dogma
By Scott Gilbert and Beatrice Steinert
tinyurl.com/3sccvcr5
#SpecialIssue on Research that transformed #DevBio
Fritz Müller’s "Für Darwin" (1864) bridged evolution and development, anticipating evo-devo and warning to the dangers of scientific dogma
By Scott Gilbert and Beatrice Steinert
tinyurl.com/3sccvcr5
#SpecialIssue on Research that transformed #DevBio
November 10, 2025 at 12:35 PM
#DBfeature
Fritz Müller’s "Für Darwin" (1864) bridged evolution and development, anticipating evo-devo and warning to the dangers of scientific dogma
By Scott Gilbert and Beatrice Steinert
tinyurl.com/3sccvcr5
#SpecialIssue on Research that transformed #DevBio
Fritz Müller’s "Für Darwin" (1864) bridged evolution and development, anticipating evo-devo and warning to the dangers of scientific dogma
By Scott Gilbert and Beatrice Steinert
tinyurl.com/3sccvcr5
#SpecialIssue on Research that transformed #DevBio
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Glowing sperm helps to reveal secrets of mosquito sex.
Female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes signal that copulation can proceed by subtly extending their genitalia.
Insert your own joke here.
🧪🦟💓
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes signal that copulation can proceed by subtly extending their genitalia.
Insert your own joke here.
🧪🦟💓
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Glowing sperm helps to reveal secrets of mosquito sex
Female Aedes mosquitoes signal that copulation can proceed by subtly extending their genitalia.
www.nature.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Glowing sperm helps to reveal secrets of mosquito sex.
Female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes signal that copulation can proceed by subtly extending their genitalia.
Insert your own joke here.
🧪🦟💓
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes signal that copulation can proceed by subtly extending their genitalia.
Insert your own joke here.
🧪🦟💓
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Surullista ja hälyttävää: amazonindelfiinit ja muu elämä samoissa vesistöissä ovat hätää kärsimässä, kun veden lämpötila nousee. Useissa järvissä lämpötila on noussut jo yli 37 asteen, Tefé-järvessä jopa 40 asteeseen.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Amazon lakes hit ‘unbearable’ hot-tub temperatures amid mass die-offs of pink river dolphins – study
Droughts and heatwaves causing water in some areas to reach 41C, killing fish and endangered dolphins, say researchers
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Surullista ja hälyttävää: amazonindelfiinit ja muu elämä samoissa vesistöissä ovat hätää kärsimässä, kun veden lämpötila nousee. Useissa järvissä lämpötila on noussut jo yli 37 asteen, Tefé-järvessä jopa 40 asteeseen.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Kollross et al. Nutrient addition, but not vertebrate predator exclusion, shapes arthropod communities and herbivory in a temperate forest resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Nutrient addition, but not vertebrate predator exclusion, shapes arthropod communities and herbivory in a temperate forest
We experimentally manipulated top-down (predator exclusion) and bottom-up (fertilisation) forces in a temperate forest understory to test effects on arthropod densities, body sizes and herbivory. Pr...
resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Kollross et al. Nutrient addition, but not vertebrate predator exclusion, shapes arthropod communities and herbivory in a temperate forest resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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New research in #RESMedVetEnt
Assessment of the #cox1 #mtDNA & #28S #rRNA genes for distinguishing newly recorded #Lucilia cuprina Wiedemann & the established #Lucilia sericata Meigen (#Diptera: #Calliphoridae) in Northwest Africa
doi.org/10.1111/mve.70020
@wileyeco.bsky.social
Assessment of the #cox1 #mtDNA & #28S #rRNA genes for distinguishing newly recorded #Lucilia cuprina Wiedemann & the established #Lucilia sericata Meigen (#Diptera: #Calliphoridae) in Northwest Africa
doi.org/10.1111/mve.70020
@wileyeco.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 2:05 PM
New research in #RESMedVetEnt
Assessment of the #cox1 #mtDNA & #28S #rRNA genes for distinguishing newly recorded #Lucilia cuprina Wiedemann & the established #Lucilia sericata Meigen (#Diptera: #Calliphoridae) in Northwest Africa
doi.org/10.1111/mve.70020
@wileyeco.bsky.social
Assessment of the #cox1 #mtDNA & #28S #rRNA genes for distinguishing newly recorded #Lucilia cuprina Wiedemann & the established #Lucilia sericata Meigen (#Diptera: #Calliphoridae) in Northwest Africa
doi.org/10.1111/mve.70020
@wileyeco.bsky.social
Trend-bucking specialists
Another amazing paper from Tara Christensen - with a surprising result that nectar generalists (butterflies) are declining more than specialists. esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Specialized flower visitation in montane butterflies is associated with positive population trajectories over time
Insect biodiversity is under threat from multiple stressors, including climate change and extreme weather. For butterflies, nectar resource use is an understudied trait in relation to population traj....
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Trend-bucking specialists
