Benito Wainwright

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

[Benito Wainwright @BenitoExplains]

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😀https://t.co/eiwZRPkKFd

[Benito Wainwright @BenitoExplains]

Novel year, novel me: hopefully see you on Bluesky! 👊🏼☺️

[Benito Wainwright @BenitoExplains]

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: https://t.co/tfQ8z92Umj

[Benito Wainwright @BenitoExplains]

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

[Max Farnworth @max_farnworth]

Really happy to share that our story on mosaic evolution in the internal mushroom body circuit in Heliconiini butterflies is now published @CurrentBiology. https://t.co/1tN41bt0rm @EBaBlab #brainevolution @DZG_FG_Neurobio @neuroethology

[Jessica Foley @Jessie_foley14]

The Third and Final Thesis (submitted! 🥳)

[Pernille M Sørensen @PernilleMS]

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!➡️https://t.co/jObQ5OgR3z @ResearchDolphin @NatGeoExplorers
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[Benito Wainwright @BenitoExplains]

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… 🤩🐆https://t.co/zri51VI4d7 @DFMTalent

[Benito Wainwright @BenitoExplains]

There's some really whacky biology going on in the tropics...🤯❓🤔 @DFMTalent @YasuniPark

[Benito Wainwright @BenitoExplains]

@ShubhamTRathore Thank you Shubham! :)

[Benito Wainwright @BenitoExplains]

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😀https://t.co/eiwZRPkKFd

[bioRxiv Evobio @biorxiv_evobio]

Mutualisms within light microhabitats drive sensory convergence in a mimetic butterfly community https://t.co/7H2IqG2yLa #biorxiv_evobio

[Benito Wainwright @BenitoExplains]

@Jessie_foley14 The perfect post #evol2024 detox I’m sure…

[Benito Wainwright @BenitoExplains]

@SamJakeEngland All ommatidia on the prize 👸

[Benito Wainwright @BenitoExplains]

@DickMerrill @EBaBlab Thanks so much Rich! (I am sure you were also one of the other ‘original reasons why Steve got into butterflies’ by the way…)

[Benito Wainwright @BenitoExplains]

@Lauren_hSR Thanks so much Lauren!! 😀 Your post-doc helped a bit I guess…

[Benito Wainwright @BenitoExplains]

@EBaBlab @tommaso_jucker Thanks so much Tommasso, that sounds awesome! I am down for anything that gives me an excuse to go to Yasuni again…

[Benito Wainwright @BenitoExplains]

@joana_meier @DrMartinJohnHow @EcologyofVision @jTroscianko @PUCE_Ecuador @CamZoology @sangerinstitute @UniExeCEC Oh and of course, a heartfelt thanks to @BristolBioSci for all the good times! ❤️❤️❤️

[Benito Wainwright @BenitoExplains]

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