I am glad to share the latest paper by Adriel M. Sierra published in ISME Communications on the "Assembly of nitrogen-fixing bacteria associated with epiphyllous liverworts in fragmented Amazonian tropical forest" doi.org/10.1093/isme...

I am glad to be part of the largest paper on bryophyte genomics. Spearheaded by Shanshan Dong and Yang Liu ( Fairy Lake Botanical Garden) presents: "A comprehensive super-pangenome analysis, incorporating 123 newly sequenced bryophyte nuclear genomes......" www.nature.com/articles/s41...

a cute video on bryophytes www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAQ0...

Un groupe français dont ma collègue Christelle Fraïsse (Université de Lille) fait partie vient de publier un article très intéressant sur les barrières entre les espèces de plantes et d'animaux ! Bravo à Chris, Camille et tous les autres ! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

@pourlascience.bsky.social . Le volume parle de la matière noire, du chromosome X inactif. L'article sur la diversité des plantes était fascinant. Notre placette en Darien fait partie de FORESTGEO et nous y ferons certainement des découvertes fascinantes. www.pourlascience.fr/sd/ecologie/...

Quel bel article, intéressant et amusant ! @pourlascience.bsky.social www.pourlascience.fr/sd/neuroscie...

🚨 Save the date! Thrilled to be co-organizing the next iteration of the @embl.org Symposium on the Cellular Mechanics of Symbiosis (📅 March 17-20), w/ @floravincent.bsky.social, @hassansalem.bsky.social & Tom Richards. www.embl.org/about/info/c... #EESSymbiosis #Symbiosis #SymbioSky #MicroSky 🦠

Adriel Sierra defended his PHD. He worked on the impact on fragmentation on plant population genomics and microbial diversity and 2) the relationship between plant metabolome and microbes. His work can be found shorturl.at/DZgCU. Congratulations to Adriel and the best of luck on the way forward. 🌿

so cool !! www.c-lab.co.uk/projects/AIi...

Adriel M. Sierra published a paper on the impact of fragmentation in the Amazonian forests on plant demography and population genomics @ulaval.ca onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

some news from the lab villarreal-lab.ibis.ulaval.ca/2025/07/26/o...

#soirées Québec www.instagram.com/stories/jcva...

A big thank you to everyone who joined us for our 'Communicating your science to different audiences' with Colleen Iversen and Rich Norby yesterday! The webinar is now available to watch on demand. Q&A is open until 14:30 BST (UTC+1), 19 July 2025. ⏯ cassyni.com/events/FASBv... #SciComm

and talking about hornworts: our paper got the cover of Annals of Botany, photo of Nothoceros endiviifolius (Chile) by Juan Larraín: academic.oup.com/aob/article-...

I was reading a recent cool paper on the genomics of hornwort sex/"accessory" chromosomes (New Phytologist) and it never ceases to amaze me the tremendous knowledge that Johannes M. Proskauer had about the group. He'd be thrilled to see the hornwort research in this era. www.jstor.org/stable/3241446

Congratulations @fernway.bsky.social - 2025 BSA Emergent Leader !! www.botany.org/home/awards/.... - well-deserved!

A great study on mutualism by Guilaume Chomicki and colleagues "Many symbioses involve one host species having several mutualist partners, yet theory predicts that unrelated symbionts lead to destabilizing conflict through competition for host resources. ...... " . www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

www.meetup.com/terturlia-fr... #quebec

The most recent article from Lilisbeth Rodríguez-Castro, a former master's student, working on cycad phyllosphere #cycads #phyllosphere #IUCN www.mdpi.com/2813-0464/4/...

Our paper bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... was the most cited in the American Journal Of Botany in 2024! and the most downloaded with over 10,500 views ! It has been cited 74 times since December 2023 !

A British colleague, Des Callaghan, just shared some astonishing bryophyte pictures (even a hornwort!) bryophytes.myportfolio.com/chile

The most recent preprint from our lab on cryptic speciation, clonality and microbiome from an Arctic plant www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

once I thought (as a grad student in Illinois and Connecticut), to live and work in the US (a country that I love dearly with splendid landscapes and good people!). But life brought me to Québec and I love Canada more way more now ;) www.bbc.com/news/article...

notre plus recent pre-print #lichens #antibiotics #ARGs www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

📰 Nouveau numéro | Autisme : un héritage de Néandertal ? www.pourlascience.fr/sd/neuroscie...

The May 2025 issue is now fully online, with a cover highlighting the cell wall of ferns, from: "Comparative transcriptomics in ferns reveals key innovations and divergent evolution of the secondary cell walls" rdcu.be/enhGp

Mesquite 4 beta released! Many new features, esp. phylogenomic. Check out the trailer and longer video on the home page: www.mesquiteproject.org, and use the download link there to get a copy. Feedback welcome! Ask and discuss on our new Google Group (groups.google.com/g/mesquite-p...).

we just saved a sloth crossing the road, a good animal lover asked to help her to save the perezoso ;) ...check the video here: www.instagram.com/stories/jcva...

more from our workshop in Río Balsa, great experience ! Lots of biodiversity to protect in Darién . Photos (some) by Yann Le Polain de Waroux

back in Panama and fieldwork in Río Balsa (Darién)

In space, Venus flanks Earth on the left, with a hellfire greenhouse effect. Mars on the right, which long ago had running water. Today, it's bone dry. Something bad happened on each planet. Seems like the wrong time to limit the Nation’s capacity to conduct climate research.

L'Université Laval, la @villequebec.bsky.social et Québec International s'unissent pour attirer les scientifiques américains

Plongez dans l’aventure pour découvrir le sort de Gary ! Venez découvrir comment la recherche à l’IBIS fait des choses concrètes pour aider les poissons, la forêt, les microbes et bien plus! À vivre en famille. 6 ans et +. Activité et stationnement gratuit!

Je viens de recevoir ma copie de @pourlascience.bsky.social . Merci Isabelle Bellin pour l'article des anthocérotes. www.pourlascience.fr/sd/biologie-...

Jacob Suissa and I wrote a #book about #ferns! It's beautifully illustrated by the amazing artist Laura Silburn. Will be released in May and you can preorder from Amazon. We hope this book could help you forget all the bad things happening on Earth right now. More here: mailchi.mp/btiscience/f...

apprendre plus sur les anthocérotes et leur importance potentielle ? #photosynthese www.pourlascience.fr/sd/biologie-... @fernway.bsky.social @tarobison.bsky.social

Our review of chemical ecology of cycad symbiosis is out today in @newphyt.bsky.social! Great working with @jcarlosvillarreal.bsky.social @lycaeidesmelissa.bsky.social @evodivmet.bsky.social and others not yet on Bluesky. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Our most recent review on the chemical ecology of cycad symbioses. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... Great collaboration with @shaylasalzman.bsky.social leading the paper! @evodivmet.bsky.social and all the authors (not in bluesky yet :( @universitelaval.bsky.social

Gabriel Peñaloza and Alissa Bee are growing Cycas panzhihuaensis to run experiments on the coralloid roots and cyanobacteria. Seedlings are coming out. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

In 2021 I started brainstorming about this study. Then, we gathered bright young and experienced biologists. We published it in November 2023. It's been cited 61 times! It's the largest phylogenomic work on bryophytes so far. bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....