Genome assembly fresh of the supercomputer, total size = 29,892,519,935 base pairs 🦎🧬

Our monograph (128 pages!) of the brood-pollinator #weevil genus #Derelomus is now out in @ejtaxonomy.bsky.social ! 😃 #OA Huge revision work led by #Julien_Haran @cirad.bsky.social / @cbgpmontpellier.bsky.social with some #integrative_taxonomy approaches to help clarifying some species complexes!

🦣🍖🧬 Fully funded 3-yr PhD in palaeogenomics & bioinformatics! Help me push non-model palaeogenomes beyond their limits @DTU in Denmark. Start: Feb 2026 (flexible) Application deadline: 24 Oct 2025 For details click here: tinyurl.com/BioExtPhD Reposts appreciated 😁

You may have missed this #ant poster at #ESEB2025, but be sure not to miss the article just published in #openacess in @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Will be at #Ento25 next week in #Glasgow! I will give a talk on some overlooked #pollinators (based on results we got @cbgpmontpellier.bsky.social) Will also be there as EIC of #Systematic_Entomology @royentsoc.bsky.social; do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions about the journal!

A common type of ant in Europe breaks a fundamental rule in biology: its queens can produce male offspring that are a whole different species go.nature.com/4mOb5T9

How is this possible? This ant can lay eggs of two different species, birthed by the same mother

My very first post on here. I am stoked to share lab's latest paper led by @ethantolman.bsky.social. Ethan developed a highly scalable pipeline to differentiate between various gene flow models, including ghost introgression in phylogenomic datasets. Check it out! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

FANTASIA's paper is finally out! Check it out if you're interested in alternative methods to homology for functional annotation in nonmodel organisms 🦐🐙🪱🧬🐝🪲 @gemmaeling.bsky.social @amrojasm.bsky.social @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social @cabd-upo-csic.bsky.social @csic.es www.nature.com/articles/s42...

A high-throughput aDNA extraction method for large-scale sample screening 🦣🦬🧬 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Super interesting session on post-phylogenomics this morning at #eseb2025 I have a poster on the new version of Orthofinder - there will be a suggestion box 🎁 P03.076 on Thursday

If, as it is commonly thought, you only see weevils as pest species, it is time to change your mind! Have a look at Benjamin’s poster at #eseb2025 tonight! He will introduce you to the unexpected diversity of very cute weevils involved in the pollination of tropical trees! 🌴🌙 #ANR POLLIDIV

Aurélien Tellier with the nice idea of using DNA methylation markers for demographic inference for recent time. #eseb2025 elifesciences.org/articles/89470

Gregarious behaviour in butterfly larvae has evolved multiple times - Cicconardi, @ebablab.bsky.social et al. use genome data of 60 Heliconiini species, identifying signatures of convergent molecular evolution, on both coding and noncoding loci. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf179 #evobio #molbio

#eseb2025 has started. So many friends and colleagues around. This is amazing. Welcome everyone to Barcelona!

Biologist folk (especially in evolutionary biology and/or ecology, but it don’t matter): Can you give me your favorite examples of trade offs in biology? Organism or system don’t matter. Primary literature or reviews preferred.

Happy about our grad. student #Zhe-Yuan_Yu (@cbgpmontpellier.bsky.social & @isyeb.mnhn.fr) 1st paper, where she & @tonyrobillard.bsky.social described a new 🦗 species from Madagascar 😀 A follow-up study, focusing on the historical biogeography of the genus Xenogryllus should come very soon !!

Huge thank you @aeastephens.bsky.social‬ for initiating the TrendsTalk series 'Disability in ecology and evolution' in T.R.E.E. providing visibility for disabled researchers in #Ecology & #Evolution to make our field more #inclusive www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

New article about Messor harvester ant phylogeny and evolution funded by @erc.europa.eu in @isemevol.bsky.social resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...