Marcus Stensmyr
@marcusstensmyr.bsky.social
Science, drosophilids, mosquitoes, and cats. Currently clean on OPSEC.
Lund university, Sweden. 🇺🇦🇸🇪
Lund university, Sweden. 🇺🇦🇸🇪
"potentially divisive"
November 20, 2025 at 7:55 PM
"potentially divisive"
The type specimens of Drosophila melanogaster from Meigen’s collection at the Natural history museum in Paris! 🤓
July 16, 2025 at 5:15 PM
The type specimens of Drosophila melanogaster from Meigen’s collection at the Natural history museum in Paris! 🤓
Having a great time at the Crete fly circuit meeting!
June 18, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Having a great time at the Crete fly circuit meeting!
A worm tower hitching a ride on a fly! 😲 Wild paper in @currentbiology.bsky.social
www.cell.com/current-biol...
www.cell.com/current-biol...
June 11, 2025 at 7:48 PM
A worm tower hitching a ride on a fly! 😲 Wild paper in @currentbiology.bsky.social
www.cell.com/current-biol...
www.cell.com/current-biol...
We are looking for a PhD student! If you are interested in Drosophilids, systematics, bioinformatics, fiddling with museum specimens of old/weird flies, and chemosensation, then maybe this is for you! Please rebutterfly(?)! Apply below.
lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
April 7, 2025 at 7:10 PM
We are looking for a PhD student! If you are interested in Drosophilids, systematics, bioinformatics, fiddling with museum specimens of old/weird flies, and chemosensation, then maybe this is for you! Please rebutterfly(?)! Apply below.
lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
My entry to the debate!
March 6, 2025 at 10:25 PM
My entry to the debate!
Happy "International Ninja Day" to those who celebrate! #StayStealthy 🥷
December 5, 2024 at 12:00 PM
Happy "International Ninja Day" to those who celebrate! #StayStealthy 🥷
December 3, 2024 at 9:20 PM
🦟 Pestered by mosquitoes? Fear not—grapefruit might hold the key! 🍊In our latest paper in @currentbiology.bsky.social, led by Merybeth Triana and Felipe Andreazza, we explore how nootkatone, a compound derived from grapefruit, affects mosquitoes. authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
December 3, 2024 at 9:18 PM
🦟 Pestered by mosquitoes? Fear not—grapefruit might hold the key! 🍊In our latest paper in @currentbiology.bsky.social, led by Merybeth Triana and Felipe Andreazza, we explore how nootkatone, a compound derived from grapefruit, affects mosquitoes. authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
Fun visit to @cpgsthlm.bsky.social 🦣! Gave a talk about our work on historical flies and discussed future projects with @indianadiez.bsky.social and his lab! Old bugs ftw.
November 27, 2024 at 1:52 PM
Fun visit to @cpgsthlm.bsky.social 🦣! Gave a talk about our work on historical flies and discussed future projects with @indianadiez.bsky.social and his lab! Old bugs ftw.
Here is a cool fly, would love to be added!
November 18, 2024 at 12:16 PM
Here is a cool fly, would love to be added!
Had a great time at the #SfN in Chicago. Rounded off the meeting with eating pig brain! Very fitting, but not all that tasty…
October 9, 2024 at 6:12 PM
Had a great time at the #SfN in Chicago. Rounded off the meeting with eating pig brain! Very fitting, but not all that tasty…
Wrote a dispatch for @currentbiology.bsky.social on the genome of the bee louse Braula, an odd looking drosophild relative!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
March 11, 2024 at 4:01 PM
Wrote a dispatch for @currentbiology.bsky.social on the genome of the bee louse Braula, an odd looking drosophild relative!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Will publish my papers in this journal from now on.
November 11, 2023 at 10:08 AM
Will publish my papers in this journal from now on.
We examined flies (mostly) collected in Sweden from about 1810 untill 1933, and used a non-destructive method to extract the DNA. Remarkably, we obtained almost complete genomes, a par in quailty with what you get out of contemporary flies, from these 200 year old crumpled up flies!
October 12, 2023 at 7:02 PM
We examined flies (mostly) collected in Sweden from about 1810 untill 1933, and used a non-destructive method to extract the DNA. Remarkably, we obtained almost complete genomes, a par in quailty with what you get out of contemporary flies, from these 200 year old crumpled up flies!
"A Bavarian in a lab coat extracting ancient DNA"
October 11, 2023 at 3:47 PM
"A Bavarian in a lab coat extracting ancient DNA"
Adobe's Firefly AI image generator is impressive. Better than Midjourney in generating semi-accurate images of insects. Prompt: "Drosophila perched on a fruit, golden hour." Clearly, it did a poor job conjuring up a drosophila, but a solid job cranking out a generic looking Diptera.
October 11, 2023 at 1:25 PM
Adobe's Firefly AI image generator is impressive. Better than Midjourney in generating semi-accurate images of insects. Prompt: "Drosophila perched on a fruit, golden hour." Clearly, it did a poor job conjuring up a drosophila, but a solid job cranking out a generic looking Diptera.
Ok. Im here now.
October 5, 2023 at 9:35 PM
Ok. Im here now.