@dbattistella I can't find anything by Jo Nagai or Martha Weiss related to butterflies on
Do you have the source for the actual paper?
It's probably just unpublished, I think.
EDIT: I actually searched for Weiss (then butterfl from the results), somehow brain transformed it to Wells here. Fixed, thanks @mycotropic
Conference posters rarely get published. There may well be further studies toward a paper in the future.
Search the conference proceedings for Nagai
Jul 19, 2026, 5:04 AM@adavid @cohentheblue @dbattistella
here's a video of martha and jo's conference/ webinar:
https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/mcguire/event/martha-weiss-and-jo-nagai/
Jul 19, 2026, 7:25 AM@benroyce Thank you!
@benroyce And here’s the lab’s website with a note on their research:
That's the one I had been watching too 😊 The direct link to the Zoom is on the page.
I am very touched by this because it throws me back into my childhood, when I said things like this and people said I was weird, and that my biology teacher did take me seriously. Looking back, the teachers that were the kindest were the biology teachers.
Jul 19, 2026, 12:34 PM@benroyce
Great stuff, thanks 🙏
Weiss rather than Wells though #Murderbot might have identified the same biology under the correct set of circumstances!
@mycotropic @dbattistella I've read Books of Raksura, now on 5th. No Murderbot Diaries yet.
I haven't tried that series yet, thanks for reminding me that they exist!