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Plant evo-devo scientist, CNRS researcher in the Evo-Eco-Paleo lab in Lille.
Bah voilà, vous saurez tout sur moi ici 👇 Merci à Florent Brun de la délégation régionale du CNRS pour l'entretien !
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Pierre Baduel
4 days ago
Happy to share the results of a long-haul post-doc project, now online
@science.org
, aiming at understanding the rules of transgeneration epigenetic inheritance over TEs in plants and its extent and impact in nature. More below!
doi.org/10.1126/scie...
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Transposable elements are vectors of recurrent transgenerational epigenetic inheritance
DNA methylation loss at transposable elements (TEs) can affect neighboring genes and be epigenetically inherited in plants, yet the determinants and significance of this additional system of inheritan...
https://doi.org/10.1126/science.ady3475
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Camille Roux
11 days ago
Hybridization and introgression are major evolutionary processes. Since the 1940s, the prevailing view has been that they shape plants far more than animals. In our new study (
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
), we find the opposite: animals exchange genes more, and for longer, than plants
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Check out this cool work from
@crouxevo.bsky.social
and others, congrats!!! 🥳 Rapid establishment of species barriers in plants compared with that in animals | Science
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Rapid establishment of species barriers in plants compared with that in animals
Speciation, the process by which new reproductively isolated species emerge from ancestral populations, results from the gradual accumulation of barriers to gene flow within genomes. To date, the noti...
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adl2356
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Wayne Maddison
17 days ago
Confused writing is usually a symptom of confused thinking. As we struggle to clarify writing, we clarify our thoughts. AI writing aids rob us of that struggle, leaving clean-looking text and thoughts still confused for lack of inspection. Writing is not just a product; it is a diagnostic tool.
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Claudia Alvarez Carreño
20 days ago
The ProSE seminars are back after a summer break. The next speaker is Nir Ben-Tal on "Contrastive learning unites sequence and structure in a global representation of protein space". Date: September 9 Time: 5pm CET Register here:
tinyurl.com/prose-seminar2
Please share! 🧪
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Gabriella Mosca
15 days ago
The BM^2 Lab is hiring a Ph.D. student to work on a variety of problems connected to modeling of morphogenesis in plants (i.e. ovule curvature formation, fixed handedness establishment in certain plant organs and its link to cell wall mechanics). Please share!
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Josh Luke Davis 🏳️🌈
19 days ago
woah this is genuinely, utterly WILD Ant queens of one species produce males of another species, so she can then mate with them and produce hybrid workers! This is so gloriously weird I can't quite compute it 🤯🧪🐜
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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‘Almost unimaginable’: these ants are different species but share a mother
Ant queens of one species clone ants of another to create hybrid workers that do their bidding.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02807-0
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Kaia Mattioli
19 days ago
out today: my labmate Shubham developed a super clever new technique to profile TF-DNA interactions with unprecedented resolution of low-affinity binding sites, revealing patterns in how these sites are organized in the genome to modulate TF occupancy:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Multiple overlapping binding sites determine transcription factor occupancy - Nature
A new method enables comprehensive screening and identification of low-affinity DNA binding sites for transcription factors, and reveals that nucleotides flanking high-affinity binding sites create ov...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09472-3
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Tanja Slotte
20 days ago
*Postdoc in Evolutionary genomics at Stockholm University* We are recruiting a postdoc for a large interdisciplinary project to investigate evolutionary drivers and genomic consequences of pollen evolution in response to pollination mode shifts in flowering plants. 1/5
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Timothy Fuqua 🏳🌈
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Excited / nervous to share the “magnum opus” of my postdoc in Andreas Wagner’s lab! "De-novo promoters emerge more readily from random DNA than from genomic DNA" This project is the accumulation of 4 years of work, and lays the foundation for my future group. In short, we… (1/4)
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De-novo promoters emerge more readily from random DNA than from genomic DNA
Promoters are DNA sequences that help to initiate transcription. Point mutations can create de-novo promoters, which can consequently transcribe inactive genes or create novel transcripts. We know lit...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.25.672121v1
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Hugues Renault
about 2 months ago
#plantscience
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Hugues Renault
about 2 months ago
Three
#Master2
#internship
topics are available in our team to study the
#adaptations
associated with
#plant
#terrestrialization
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闵娅(Min Ya; Minya) PhD
about 2 months ago
I’m proud to present the main work from my postdoc, 3+ years in making from scratch, my ultimate
#MimulusPropaganda
up till now: The Moment That Symmetry Breaks.
#plantscience
#development
#imaging
#microscopy
🧪🌸🔬 w. Captain Yaowu &
@biancatash.bsky.social
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Andy Plackett
2 months ago
I have a Postdoctoral Research Fellow position starting in January to study the evolution of seed gene networks using the fern Ceratopteris! Interested? More info here:
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNU179/r...
Closing date 31st July. 🙂
#PlantScience
#PlantSciencejobs
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Research Fellow (Postdoctoral) at University of Birmingham
An opportunity for an academic position as a Research Fellow (Postdoctoral) is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.
https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNU179/research-fellow-postdoctoral
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Leonie Moyle
about 2 months ago
Hello, I'm an evolutionary biologist in a film. I can identify any species from 30 base pairs of DNA, including human-alien hybrids. I quote Darwin and Gould ad libitum to compensate for my lack of emotional depth. Inexplicably, I'm unable to correctly pronounce 'genome' or 'drosophila'.
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PlantEvolution 🌱🌾
2 months ago
Jennifer Nemhauser’s and my tribute to our amazing friend and mentor, the extraordinary Joanne Chory. Read about our personal and professional reminiscences. Thanks to all who provided background for this.
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Joanne Chory (1955–2024): Plant geneticist extraordinaire | PNAS
Joanne Chory (1955–2024) was a pioneering biologist whose research transformed our understanding of plant growth and development. Her groundbreakin...
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2515437122
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Baptiste Alberti
2 months ago
🚨 Our paper is out! 🚨 Check how spatial-scERA can predict enhancer activity in a virtual Drosophila embryo. Very proud of this first step in the research world published in
@narjournal.bsky.social
Thanks to
@yghavi.bsky.social
,
@paulvilloutreix.bsky.social
and all the scientists who made it real!
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Oliver Berkowitz
2 months ago
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Evolution and functioning of an X–A balance sex-determining system in hops - Nature Plants
On the basis of the whole-genome sequences of cultivated and wild hops, this study describes the evolution of sex chromosomes, including degeneration and dosage compensation, and identifies a candidat...
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Very excited that our work on directional symplastic transport in differentiated root is now published!A developmental switch controls cell-to-cell transport in roots via pectin-linked plasmodesmata changes: Molecular Plant
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Josselin Clo
2 months ago
Carlos and Diane just published a preprint about genetic diversity in a selfing polyploid species complex:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
First (and hopefully not the last) great collaboration with Spanish colleagues!
@mabdelaziz.bsky.social
@anagarciamunoz.bsky.social
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The effects of ploidy and mating system on the evolvability of populations: theoretical and empirical investigations
Polyploidy has been associated in theoretical works with better adaptive potential, even though it is related to higher selfing rates. Self-fertilization causes an increase in homozygosity and has bee...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.17.665335v1
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Please fwd: 3-year funded PhD position on the evolution and molecular mechanisms of self-incompatibility in petunia, University of Lille. Cool new exploratory project dealing with plant genetics, evolution, networks of interacting proteins (and maybe even a field trip to South America) 🤩
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If you're still doubting that systemic bias exists...
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Amy Diehl, Ph.D.
2 months ago
Study finds A.I. LLMs advise women to ask for lower salaries than men. When prompted w/ a user profile of same education, experience & job role, differing only by gender, ChatGPT advised the female applicant to request $280K salary; Male applicant=$400K.
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ChatGPT advises women to ask for lower salaries, study finds
A new study has found that large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT consistently advise women to ask for lower salaries than men.
https://thenextweb.com/news/chatgpt-advises-women-to-ask-for-lower-salaries-finds-new-study
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Mikhail Spivakov
2 months ago
Translational research is digging for gold. Basic research is learning where and what to dig. The more funding is diverted to translation, the more we deplete the research ecosystem, driving the supplies of "gold" - immediately translatable findings and innovations - to unsustainably low levels.
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Vincent Debat
2 months ago
Congrats to Violaine for this well deserved prize!! Champagne!
sfecologie.org/2025/07/16/p...
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[Prix Recherche SFE²] Lauréate 2025 - Violaine Llaurens - sfecologie.org
Toutes nos félicitations à Violaine Llaurens (DR CNRS, CIRB & ISYEB, Paris & Université des Antilles), lauréate du Prix Recherche SFE² 2025.
https://sfecologie.org/2025/07/16/prix-recherche-2025/
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CNRS Écologie & Environnement
3 months ago
@cnrsecologie.bsky.social
regrette profondément l'adoption de cette loi à la vision court-termiste & ses conséquences graves sur l’environnement, qui méprise santé & bien-être de la population & le rôle des espèces sauvages dans la prod. agricole. La communauté scientifique n'a pas été entendue.
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Chaz Firestone
2 months ago
Cats like to sleep on the left
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From binding to regulation: crystal-clear paper on which features better predict regulatory binding sites. Surprisingly, location of the binding site within the gene (promoter/terminator/...) is a very bad predictor, which I didn't expect! Congrats
@turchil.bsky.social
@flowerwhatelse.bsky.social
!
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Vincent CASTRIC
3 months ago
How does genome doubling modulate the action of natural selection in a population ? --> Check out our theoretical and empirical analysis of an iconic balanced polymorphism in plants.
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Autopolyploidy exacerbates dominance masking under negative frequency-dependent selection : evidence from sporophytic self-incompatibility in Arabidopsis arenosa and A. lyrata
Polyploidy is a widespread phenomenon in flowering plants, with up to 30% of extant species being recent polyploids. Whether and how polyploidy modulates the action of natural selection remains debate...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.11.659117v1
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To me, biking back home is often when I have good ideas, or at least manage to sort the mess in my brain!
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Moritz K. Nowack
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Our latest on cell death and our second on maize: Using single-nucleus RNAseq of maize endosperm, Nicolas Doll (now
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) shows that KIL transcription factors promote endosperm cell death to facilitate embryo growth - with a genomic imprinting twist!
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Join us in Lille to work on the amazing diversity of receptor-ligand complexes involved in plant self-incompatibility! At the interface of evolution, structural and plant biology
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Beautiful interview with Cassandra Extavour. I like the "Don’t take academia too seriously". Fully agree, I love science and research, but it's easy to drown into it while there are so many other things out there.
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CEPLAS - Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences
3 months ago
Congratulations, Miltos!!🎊 Well-deserved!
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RDP lab
3 months ago
🎉 Congratulations to our director Gwyneth Ingram, awarded the 2025 CNRS Silver Medal! A well-deserved recognition of her outstanding research in plant developmental biology. 🌱 👉 More info:
www.cnrs.fr/fr/actualite...
👉 Her profile:
www.insb.cnrs.fr/fr/personne/...
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Félicitations à toutes/tous, et plus particulièrement à Gwyneth Ingram
@rdplab.bsky.social
pour une médaille d'argent bien méritée !!! 🤩
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Jean Léon Maître
3 months ago
📣Join us for the DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY COURSE
@institutcurie.bsky.social
@sorbonne-universite.fr
We have fantastic speakers and registration is free!
training.institut-curie.org/courses/deve...
@karinayaniv.bsky.social
@doetschlab.bsky.social
@eileen-furlong.bsky.social
@jesseveenvliet.bsky.social
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Margaret Morgan 🇳🇱🇦🇺🇪🇺
3 months ago
Huge analysis in "Nature" shows that while boys and girls receive similar maths scores at the start of school, within a year there is a substantial divergence suggesting environmental influences are responsible for the gender gap.
#mathematics
#gender
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Evolution Letters
3 months ago
Diverging Arabidopsis populations quickly accumulate pollen-acting genetic incompatibilities
doi.org/10.1093/evle...
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@evolletters.bsky.social
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Diverging Arabidopsis populations quickly accumulate pollen-acting genetic incompatibilities
Abstract. The process by which species diverge from one another, gradually accumulate genetic incompatibilities, and eventually reach full-fledged reproduc
https://doi.org/10.1093/evlett/qraf013
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I've just discovered The Night Science Podcast, and after hearing a few episodes, I'm hooked! Brilliant way to introspect about creativity, where ideas come from, chance and stupidity... love it! 😍
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Kevin Bird
3 months ago
Ok, fine I'm willing to admit it now: Mimulus is interesting
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Gabriele Corso
4 months ago
Excited to unveil Boltz-2, our new model capable not only of predicting structures but also binding affinities! Boltz-2 is the first AI model to approach the performance of FEP simulations while being more than 1000x faster! All open-sourced under MIT license! A thread… 🤗🚀
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Mark A. Hanson
4 months ago
URGENT: FlyBase has lost practically all its funding overnight; even user fees are tied up in denied grant funding. 🤬🤯 Any lab using
@flybase.bsky.social
please donate using the link in post below. This incredible community, on whose backs our
#Drosophila
labs depend, can't be left out to dry.
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Rüdiger Simon
4 months ago
We are looking for a postdoc with experience in electron microscopy. mail to
[email protected]
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Antoine Zalc
4 months ago
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Dev bio is amazing !!
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Maternal iron deficiency causes male-to-female sex reversal in mouse embryos - Nature
Iron-deficient conditions in pregnant mice can cause XY mouse embryos to develop female rather than male genitalia, revealing that iron metabolism has a role in determining male sex in mice.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09063-2
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Bravo à mes anciens collègues Léa Rambaud et Charlie Scutt
@rdplab.bsky.social
pour cette super vidéo sur le mystère de l'origine des fleurs ! 😍
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Yasin Dagdas
4 months ago
Important changes on
@erc.europa.eu
grants‼️Grant structure & most importantly eligibility timeframes (10 years for starting, 15 years for consolidator post PhD-but you can have them only once) changes:
erc.europa.eu/news-events/...
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Changes to the 2026 and 2027 Work Programmes
With the launch of the competitions for grants under ERC Work Programme 2026 in July of this year, several changes to the submission of applications and the evaluation of proposals will apply. The mai...
https://erc.europa.eu/news-events/news/changes-2026-and-2027-work-programmes
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An interview with
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with, among others, a refreshing view on scientific research!
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Annette Becker
4 months ago
🌱🌻Finally out! All ICIPS PIs had their say in a seminal 31 page review on the evolution of land plant sexual reproduction. With lots of fine figures to share! Thanks to
@icips.bsky.social
and
@dfg.de
for funding our work.
#PlantScienceResarch
,
#PlantEvoDevo
rdcu.be/elOeI
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Sexual reproduction in land plants: an evolutionary perspective
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