New work out! #Coevolution and synchronized evolutionary rates in #aphid dual #endosymbiot sytems w/ Jess, Emmanuelle, Armelle, & co. doi.org/10.64898/202... @cbgpmontpellier.bsky.social @inrae-france.bsky.social @cemess.bsky.social @dome-vienna.bsky.social @univie.ac.at #SymbioSky #MicroSky

We will post weekly manuscripts published at PAMI. Today: how tomato spotted #wilt #virus facilitates non-vector #spidermite species (#Tetranychus urticae and Tetranychus evansi) on #tomato. brill.com/view/journal...

Very happy to be invited as a keynote at the SIP in Wageninen, where I did my postdoc! Come to listen about insect- #symbiont #networks across environmental and agricultural #gradients. @cbgpmontpellier.bsky.social

#StatsPubs No matter how many times you read it, this paper on hierarchical GAMs keeps giving. Clear model explanations together with R code (mgcv). So useful! doi.org/10.7717/peer... Thanks for writing @ericjpedersen.bsky.social, D. Miller, @gsimpson.bsky.social @noamross.net

Phages as ecosystem engineers of plant microbiomes: Cell Host & Microbe www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

Good news! #Biodiversity🦜🐜🐒🐸 in a tropical #rainforest 🌴🇪🇨can naturally recover quickly 📈 (if the conditions are suitable = enough surrounding forest). Our new study in #Nature #forestecol #restoration @jocotoco.bsky.social www.reassembly.de/posts/recove... www.reassembly.de/news/rainfor...

New book "A Primer for Experimental Evolution" with coauthors Michael Rose, Margarida Matos, and Joe Graves. www.worldscientific.com/worldscibook... A compact primer for students and colleagues interested in planning and designing experiments to address questions in evolutionary biology.

#gutMicrobiota of Brazilian #Melipona stingless #bees A distinct microbiota architecture retaining a compartment-specific specialization, suggesting an "alternative symbiotic strategy that may reflect unique dietary ecology and evolutionary history." doi.org/10.1371/jour... #SymbioSky

A study in Nature Ecology & Evolution from a temperate forest landscape in Germany shows that a single year of tree responses to intense insect herbivory can counteract a decade of environmentally driven shifts in spring phenology. go.nature.com/4uASGMU 🌍🧪

Great work led by #Francisco_Martínez-Martínez & @enricfrago.bsky.social @cbgpmontpellier.bsky.social showing that consumption competition can increase survival under #intraguild #predation and influence the persistence of species in communities with multiple natural enemies

📖 New research Consumption competition by a parasitoid wasp opens a window of survival under intraguild predation 🐝 🌺 🔎 Find out more: buff.ly/iR3kaQg

Beauveria Bassiana Triggers Soybean Systemic Resistance and Causes Sublethal Effects in Spodoptera frugiperda #OpenAccess onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Botanical parasitism of an insect by a parasitic plant: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...

Merci pour la vulgarisation de notre étude sur cette tribu de #coccinelles (majoritairement) aphidophages ! parue dans @ecol-evol.bsky.social ! @cbgpmontpellier.bsky.social @isyeb.mnhn.fr

New paper out "Linking Biotic Interactions to Species Stability" freely available in Ecology Letters. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A new version (5.0-1) of the metafor package has been released on CRAN. It includes some smaller updates, including more ways to visualize prediction intervals / distributions. Further details here: www.metafor-project.org/doku.php/new... #Rstats #MetaAnalysis

Swimming invasive snakes colonize Mediterranean islets by active swimming, then wipe out Endangered endemic lizard populations. A hidden pathway for biological invasions with profound conservation implications, as they re-shape island ecosystems 🐍 🌊 #OpenAccess in 'Ecology' Picture: Rubén Casas

Symiotic fungi are crucial to restoration on earth's most remote island www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @spun.earth @tobykiers.bsky.social @nature.org

PhD offer at The Valencian Institute for Agricultural Research (IVIA). Fully funded four-year contract. Design and evaluation of novel Intregrated Pest Management strategies for Scirtothrips dorsalis and Scirtothrips aurantii on citrus. Contact Dr. César Monzó Ferrer befor 5th May. shorturl.at/aa4iA

Cross-ecosystem linkages between freshwater insects and riparian birds across the USA 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New paper out! How do species coexist through invasion cycles (like the classic✂️🪨📄) in nature? We introduce a general framework linking the structure of species interactions to the emergence of complex ecological cycles esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Two new calls: FRB-Cesab 2026 synthesis call for proposals, which will support two general projects, and a thematic marine project #FRB-Cesab, #Motpellier r.info.fondationbiodiversite.fr/mk/mr/sh/1t6...

Excited to share a new article from the lab & wonderful co-authors. We argue that habitat fragmentation research needs to be recalibrated to focus on changes over time. We hope that doing so will advance understanding, isolate attribution, and diminish heated debate. www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

📰Published📰Inducible defenses, chemical aposematism, and the spatial ecology of plant-herbivore interactions in tall goldenrod🪲 buff.ly/OOWVzt2 🧪🌍️

Resource Availability Overrides Predator Presence in Mosquito Oviposition Habitat Selection #OpenAccess onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Cellular remodeling of ovarian follicular epithelial cells transmits an obligate nutritional #endosymbiont in a #scaleInsect #Insignibacter tubulum, novel nutritional endosymbiont of #Insignorthezia insignis doi.org/10.1073/pnas... #SymbioSky

New paper published: aggressive ladybirds, slow-eating lacewings, and parasitoids greedy for resources. #BES #JAE besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New paper published: aggressive ladybirds, slow-eating lacewings, and parasitoids greedy for resources. #BES #JAE besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Greenpeace's ship Arctic Sunrise will join the Global Sumud Flotilla leaving Barcelona on 12 April, to help break the siege on Gaza 1000+ people on 70+ vessels will show the world's solidarity with the people of Gaza, while governments have failed to uphold international law and prevent genocide

Read our perspective piece on a brilliant new piece of work out in @pnas.org studying public goods in an insect. Congratulations to the team! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... @caritalindstedt.bsky.social @stuwest.bsky.social

Pablo Villar et al discover male octopus mating arms are sensory organs used to find females, navigate internally to the oviduct & deliver sperm. From behavior to structure, these findings offer a framework for how sensory systems shape reproduction & species barriers www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I invite applications for a PhD position. Join our team exploring how rapid evolution in communities allows maintenance of genetic variation and species diversity! Application deadline is 7th May 2026. See lab.hrcek.net

A paper that blurs "the bacteria-organelle boundary"

📣 paper alert 😀 Our study on the evolutionary history of true #ladybirds 🐞 #Coccinellini is out today in @ecol-evol.bsky.social ! #OA Another great collab with @isyeb.mnhn.fr and other colleagues! @cbgpmontpellier.bsky.social / @inrae-dpt-spe.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Did you know we also record butterfly–flower interactions? 🦋🌸 Three decades of observations show how species loss limits the capacity of communities to reorganize their interactions in response to environmental change. 📄Read the scientific article: l1nq.com/L5wls

#SymbioSky #MicroSky

Open postdoc position in my lab at Cornell, conducting comparative and experimental studies on transcriptomic responses to diet and toxins, utilizing the milkweed-insect community. Background in molecular bio & herbivory desired. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31867

after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

The key result: suppressing insects with bifenthrin, a synthetic pyrethroid insecticide, suppresses plant diversity. Unfortunately, with this poison there are knock-on effects to the animal's evolutionary sister group: fungi. So if 10 years of insecticide is also killing beneficial fungi...

The recording of the panel discussion on "Rethinking Peer Review" is available here: youtu.be/Icr04Gbvqj0?... #peerreview#academicpublishing

quatre postes d'enseignants chercheurs ouverts (deux MdC deux PR) à l' #Institut_Agro de #Montpellier Date limite pour le dépôt des dossiers : 17 avril 2026 #Adaptation_ligneux_fruitiers #Bioclimatologie #œnologie #Ecologie_fonctionnelle www.institut-agro-montpellier.fr/recrutement-...

New paper out in Evolution: Experimental evolution in communities: beyond pairwise interactions DOI: doi.org/10.1093/evol... with @janhrcek.bsky.social

Reçu aujourd'hui, tous frais sortis de l'imprimante ! 😁 @cbgpmontpellier.bsky.social @g-fried.bsky.social @gkergoat.bsky.social

‪ 🌳 Do you want to contribute to research on how humans perceive forests? Take this quick, anonymous 10-min survey 🌲 👉 www.biodiful.org#/forest This will help us explore how people experience forest biodiversity! Please share on 🦋 & tag @biodiful.bsky.social to reach more participants 🙏💚 🌐🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪

This week, PCI is attending the Researcher to Reader Conference 2026 (r2rconf.com) in London. Thomas Guillemaud joined a panel on independent peer review models, featuring Katherine Brown from The Company of Biologists, Peter Rodgers from eLife, and moderated by Jonny Coates of Rippling Ideas.

New paper out examining fish food web degradation in the Anthropocene. We show the structure of aquatic food webs are changing-- even when species richness doesn’t. These signals are strongly associated with decreases in body size within fish communities. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🌐🐠🐡🦈🐟

🌾🐛 New #BAAE article: Hidden insect food webs thrive inside perennial grass shoots 🌿 Longer shoots host richer herbivore–parasitoid communities. Unmown refuges are key to protecting these overlooked specialists. 🕷️ DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.baae.2026.01.004 @gfoesoc.bsky.social

New publication: #Lipids as currency in #parasitoid competition: #Interactions between two #lipidscavenging species. doi.org/10.1016/j.ji...

A short guide for effective field data collection by Jones et al. @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

How specific are heritable symbioses? And what can we learn from swapping obligate symbionts across host species? We address this in our latest, led by @inespons.bsky.social & in our collaboration w/ @microbiome.bsky.social 🦠🪲 Out today in @natcomms.nature.com! 1/n www.nature.com/articles/s41...