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Benito Wainwright @BenitoExplains

Research fellow @SchoolofBiology 🏳️‍🌈 • Evolutionary and sensory ecology in 🦋 🦗 @Royalcom1851 • He/him • I also make YouTube videos. Link here 👇

Joined July 2016
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Benito Wainwright@BenitoExplains
20 Aug 2024
Bear witness! So very excited (yes, okay, I mean 'profoundly relieved') to finally send the magnum opus of my #PhD research into the world. The preprint of our big community-level study of visual system convergence in tropical rainforests is here! 1/n😀biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…

Mutualisms within light microhabitats drive sensory convergence in a mimetic butterfly community

Niche partitioning within variable habitats can expose species to distinct sensory information. Vision is the primary sensory modality used by many animals to interact with their habitat. However,...

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Novel year, novel me: hopefully see you on Bluesky! 👊🏼☺️
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The final video of our life changing expedition to Yasuni, Ecuador is up on my YouTube now. 🤗🤗🤗 Some really important topics covered in this one, from indigenous culture to critical conservation. Would really love it if you watched: youtu.be/i8HOxLn3YDU?si=O3Iq…
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Congratulations to our great leader, Professor Nathan Bailey, for a magnificent inaugural lecture today featuring a perfect blend of superb science, embarrassing childhood photos and… errr indecent cricket content. Go Bailey Lab! 🦗💪🏼 @SchoolofBiology @univofstandrews
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Max Farnworth@max_farnworth
18 Oct 2024
Really happy to share that our story on mosaic evolution in the internal mushroom body circuit in Heliconiini butterflies is now published @CurrentBiology. cell.com/current-biology/ful… @EBaBlab #brainevolution @DZG_FG_Neurobio @neuroethology

Mosaic evolution of a learning and memory circuit in Heliconiini butterflies

Farnworth et al. use anatomical and statistical means to examine how the internal circuitry of the mushroom bodies changed coincidently with a major increase in their volume in Heliconius butterfli...

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Jessica Foley@Jessie_foley14
9 Oct 2024
The Third and Final Thesis (submitted! 🥳)
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Pernille M Sørensen@PernilleMS
17 Sep 2024
We have a new paper out today in @CurrentBiology ! 🐬 Our research shows that variation in acoustic communication range, driven by habitat structure, predicts dolphin alliance group sizes!➡️sciencedirect.com/science/ar… @ResearchDolphin @NatGeoExplorers /1
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Join us as we search for the Amazon’s most elusive beasts in my latest vid. As you can tell, I get a bit excited… 🤩🐆youtu.be/a_hxKJJHFTM?si=_iPT… @DFMTalent
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There's some really whacky biology going on in the tropics...🤯❓🤔 @DFMTalent @YasuniPark
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bioRxiv Evobio@biorxiv_evobio
19 Aug 2024
Mutualisms within light microhabitats drive sensory convergence in a mimetic butterfly community biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #biorxiv_evobio
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Bear witness! So very excited (yes, okay, I mean 'profoundly relieved') to finally send the magnum opus of my #PhD research into the world. The preprint of our big community-level study of visual system convergence in tropical rainforests is here! 1/n😀biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…

Mutualisms within light microhabitats drive sensory convergence in a mimetic butterfly community

Niche partitioning within variable habitats can expose species to distinct sensory information. Vision is the primary sensory modality used by many animals to interact with their habitat. However,...

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And last but certainly not least, thank you to this epic team of ithomiine/sensory ecology titans and mentors: @joana_meier @DrMartinJohnHow @EcologyofVision @jTroscianko 👏👏👏 @PUCE_Ecuador @CamZoology @sangerinstitute @UniExeCEC 18/n
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Oh and of course, a heartfelt thanks to @BristolBioSci for all the good times! ❤️❤️❤️
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