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pbrand.bsky.social
Postdoc in New York. Evolution of behavior, neural circuits, chemical senses, and speciation. he/him. Incoming PI at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research. (Fall 2025) https://evolvingors.wordpress.com/
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🏅 Congrats to 2025 GSA Medal recipient @nkwhiteman.bsky.social (@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social)! His research reveals how plants and herbivores co-evolve through chemical warfare. Read more about his career & research: buff.ly/mxnPQon

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Really happy to share our new preprint on the central complex of Heliconiini butterflies www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... Check it out! @neuroethology.org @brainevolutionnews.bsky.social @prelights.bsky.social @tibbe-evolneuro.bsky.social #brainevolution #heliconius #centralcomplex

submitted 23 days ago • 2 comments

I'm honoured to have been elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. It's a wonderful recognition of all the hard work by the amazing folks in the lab over the years. A huge thanks to them all.

submitted 36 days ago • 37 comments

🚀 I’m thrilled to announce I’ve started a tenure track position as Professor for Animal Neurophysiology at @jlugiessen.bsky.social As of April 1, the Münch Lab is open! 🔬🧠🪰 We’ll study chemosensory processing, multisensory integration & feeding in flies. 🎓 PhD position coming soon, stay tuned!

submitted 50 days ago • 16 comments

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/...

submitted 53 days ago • 1 comment

Proud that one of my photographs has made the cover of Cell. (first 'official' photograph publication) Very happy to contribute the pic and highlight the latest publication of the Ruta lab.

submitted 71 days ago • 8 comments

New preprint featuring my favorite maize-relatives, the Andropogoneae! We sequenced the genomes of 27 species, including lemongrass, kangaroo grass, little and big bluestem, and more -- key species that shape grasslands and prairies worldwide. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

submitted 123 days ago • 1 comment

New pre-print: an one-stop shop for everything you wanted to know about the fly olfactory system: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

submitted 133 days ago • 3 comments

I'm thrilled to be opening my own lab this Fall at the @maxplanck.de MPI for Brain Research in Frankfurt. The lab is going to investigate the neuronal and genetic underpinnings of behavioral evolution. We are hiring on all levels. Don't hesitate to share widely and reach out if interested.

submitted 142 days ago • 20 comments

Sharing my new paper again since moving from the other place 🙂 We shed light on some of the most rapidly evolving animal behaviors—those surrounding mating.

submitted 171 days ago • 2 comments

Phidippus jumping spider

submitted 174 days ago • 0 comments

I made a starter pack of speciation researchers. Please let me know if you or someone you know would like to be added. I am particularly sad that so far there are not many speciation researchers from the Global South represented. go.bsky.app/J7qDY56

submitted 174 days ago • 44 comments

Asilid fly feeding on a hemipteran. Seen in south Texas. #naturephotography #entoart

submitted 182 days ago • 1 comment

#PhD Advert: Please share! Are you looking for a PhD studentship in comparative- or population-genomics, using 300+ species of #Drosophila and 1000+ genomes of #melanogaster? #Entomology #Genomics #PopGen #Phylogenetics

submitted 184 days ago • 3 comments

We are looking for a new lab administrator (based in Brighton, UK). This is a 50% position, and it is largely admin & computer based. It does not necessarily require a science background. Anyone interested please get in contact and/or apply here: jobs.sussex.ac.uk/job/565750b6...

submitted 194 days ago • 0 comments

great starter pack bsky.app/starter-pack...

submitted 195 days ago • 0 comments