👩‍🔬J'ai commencé un kit de démarrage "chercheuses en France" go.bsky.app/TBEzKC #FemmesEnScience J'ai besoin de votre aide pour le remplir et donner de la visibilité aux chercheuses que vous connaissez et qui sont sur Bluesky ! ▶️Taguez celles que vous connaissez, je les ajoute !

I definitely wasn’t early to the Listers party, but I’m glad I made it. Can recommend to all birder adjacent and bird curious folks 🪶 m.youtube.com/watch?v=zl-w...

If you’ve heard about our study on ants producing two different species but are still confused about how it works (and don’t have time to read the paper), this 10-minute video made by @bengthomas.bsky.social is very informative: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-O4... Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This allowed us to link molecular divergence with genetic connectivity in plants and animals. (A) Gene flow stops sooner between plant species than between animal species. (B) Genomic barriers emerge faster in plant genomes than in animals.

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

🚨 🐜 is there a Bluesky starter pack for researchers who don’t study ants but who get lightheaded every time there’s an awesome ant paper? CC @mariusw.bsky.social @jrichardalbert.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Fantastic talk by @aigverte.bsky.social on genomic & developmental foundations of adaptive tooth shape evolution. One ancestral developmental rule along which phenotypes evolve&converge; rule is broken when colonising new ecol. niche #ESEB2025 Craniofacial Evolution in Vertebrates @r3rt0.bsky.social

Congrats to @selfishmeme.bsky.social‬ and collaborators for this wonderful study!

Be sure to check Poster number 100 with Alice Ha at #ESEB2025 if you fancy crazy reproductive systems

Look at this crazy thing! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

After an update in the species, here is a database of function traits for the French bees : Aubouin, L., Genoud, D., Givord-Coupeau, B. et al. BeeFunc, a comprehensive trait database for French bees. Sci Data 12, 1302 (2025). doi.org/10.1038/s415... #anthophila #bees #hymenoptera

*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 su.varbi.com/what:job/job...

The Cévennes is a mountain range on the south-eastern edge of the Massif Central in France. It hosts several endemic species, including these two striking ones.

I made a video about my new paper. I hope you enjoy it! vimeo.com/1113132836?s...

New paper! “Pollinator plantings in the intensively farmed Midwest (U.S.A.) support a core set of common bee species, regardless of local and landscape controls” led by postdoc Marissa Chase. 1/

Finally had time to watch John Welch’s excellent AV Hill lecture Recent Controversies in Evolutionary Theory. youtu.be/iOnpLT8p500?...

Robber fly (Polyphonius laevigatus) in Greece 🇬🇷

Les images aériennes de nombreuses forêts françaises nous offrent une leçon implacable sur les limites de l’adaptation végétale face au changement climatique. Du Périgord aux Alpes du Sud, des Pyrénées au Massif Central, les clichés affluent de toutes parts. Oui, la réalité est dérangeante.

If someone you know buys into claims about "genetic optimization" of embryos using polygenic scores of cognition, just send them our 2024 paper on Beethoven & musicality. We wrote it to help communicate limits of individual-level genetic predictions & complexity of links between DNA & behaviour. 🧪👇

Now, proud to announce that our work is published in #GENETICS (@genetics-gsa.bsky.social). Currently available as an "advance article" : doi.org/10.1093/gene... As a PhD student in genetics, I dreamed of publishing a paper in Genetics, MBE & Mol Ecol. It took me 15 years to complete that list!

Interested to know more about a new theory relating the #evolution of #sexchromosomes to the rules of #speciation? Check out this paper that we published with Denis Roze in the last issue of #Science. PDF here: www.science.org/stoken/autho...

Running a test on the DAFNEE database will only take a few minutes of your time. It's a must-do. 👇

New preprint out !! We show that publishing in ethical journals is equally visible for your career and also cheaper (if you really want to pay... But there are free alternatives you know!) ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Using simulations and empirical data, Thawornwattana, Flouri, @wtf-r-species.bsky.social & @zihengyang.bsky.social ‬ et al. evaluate the performance of the MSC-M model for inferring gene flow. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf121 #evobio #molbio #geneflow

*PhD position* 🦉 Would you like to do a PhD with Indo-Pacific birds and evolutionary genomics? Join us in Stockholm: <deadline> 05 September 2025, 23:59 PhD student in Evolution of Indo-Pacific birds recruit.visma.com/spa/public/a...

A green eyed flower bee female - Anthophora bimaculata - found on the Roseland, Cornwall, this week. Look at those green eyes!! These bees also have a much higher pitched buzz than other species.

Mediterranean butterfly spotted in the UK for the first time - twice! Two sightings of the Southern Small White (Pieris mannii) have now been verified - one in Suffolk and one in County Durham. 📍 Read the full story 👉 buff.ly/q7svIE5 📷: Adam Gor

Re-upping, because the deadline is fast approaching: review begins Aug. 15th! Global change ecology is defined BROADLY and I'm on the SC and happy to answer any questions. Please apply!!!!

Fivefold variation in genome size within the same genus, not bad! This time in bees 🐝 : Xylocopa violaceae → ~ 1Gb www.nature.com/articles/s41... X. dejeanii → ~0.2Gb www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Smithsonian is hiring a Museum Specialist in Entomology! Great opportunity in Washington DC. Pay: $69,923–$90,898 per year. Apply by August 19 or when 200 applications are received. Apply here: trustcareers.si.edu/postings/a15... #Entomology #sciencejobs #science 🧪

If you're new to demographic history inference from population genomics, try this webapp I created to illustrate how dadi fits bottleneck models to site frequency spectra: ryangutenkunst-dadi-two-epoch.hf.space . It even outputs files for submitting to the GHIST competition! ghi.st

Day 2 of Popgen is also where I say “Please look at your kinship matrix.”Probably the best summary of pop structure there is, identifies problems or weird stuff in the data, and avoids pitfalls of structure-like plots and PCA.

More bad news for butterflies. Our new paper led by Wendy Leuenberger shows common species are declining even more rapidly than rare ones. @ZipkinLab Three decades of declines restructure butterfly communities in the Midwestern United States | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2501340122

When I started butterflying the Speckled wood (P aegeria, bont zandoogje) was restricted to woodlands in a few regions in NL, now it can be found all over the country. 2025 seems to become a good year on Dutch Butterfly Monitoring transects.

La science citoyenne accélère la recherche en écologie : selon une nouvelle étude, des milliers d'articles scientifiques ont utilisé les données collectées par les utilisateurs de la plateforme iNaturalist. The New York Times & BioScience

Happy to share our new paper describing two new, and soooo different, species of stone loaches from Switzerland doi.org/10.1111/jfb.70108

The Centre for Biodiversity Genomics (CBG) is seeking ten taxonomic specialists in Collembola or any of the following insect orders - Blattodea, Ephemeroptera, Hemiptera, Hymenoptera, Lepidoptera, Orthoptera, Trichoptera! graduatestudies.uoguelph.ca/postdoctoral...

Et encore un épisode génial de la série "Comment le vivant peut nous sauver" du podcast chaleur humaine. Toute la série est vraiment excellente pour l'instant: podcasts.lemonde.fr/chaleur-huma...

Really nice! Would love to this such a study in Plants ;)

Very cool work, congrats Alba! 🔥🔥

Excellente émission avec Vincent Prié. www.lemonde.fr/chaleur-huma...

In @elife.bsky.social: Effective population size does not explain long-term variation in genome size and transposable element content in animals doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

Thrilled to see my first PhD paper finally out in @pnas.org !!! We investigated the macroevolutionary dynamics of South American #Mammals across the Eocene-Oligocene Transition (~34 millions of years ago) 🦥❄️ www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Curious what people think - is this obvious? Surprising? Important to show? @jahemker.bsky.social in our lab checked whether long reads solve the problem of detecting CNVs and found that yes they do better than short reads but if you want to do well your reads need to be ULTRA long not just long1/n

Non-profit publishers (PLoS, Oxford, Cambridge) and publishers partnering a lot with academia (Wiley) are much more committed to open science than the others - MDPI being the worst by large. (4/5)

New preprint about open science in eco-evo! We sampled 110 journals, 550 articles, and assessed whether data and code are accessible: (1/5) ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v... #ScientificPublishing #OpenScience #ecology #conservation #EvolutionaryBiology #paleobio #systematics #archeology

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😊 👏👏 @gilyardeni.bsky.social Here is the link: academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan...