☠️"Depuis des centaines de millions d’années, les êtres vivants produisent des molécules mortelles pour se tuer les uns les autres. Les scientifiques commencent à mieux comprendre ces ingénieux mécanismes de défense contre les toxines", explique Knowable

Palaeontologists reported some remarkable dinosaur fossils this year, including a Velociraptor relative, a dome-headed pachycephalosaur and one of the most heavily armoured creatures that ever lived

William Bond challenged the idea that forests are nature’s default, arguing grasslands & savannas are ancient ecosystems. As mass tree-planting boomed, he warned that blanket afforestation can harm biodiversity and water systems. His work pushed conservation to start with how landscapes function.

Une étude du @cesco-lab.bsky.social confirme que les #chauves-souris sont attirées par les feux rouges de balisage nocturne des #éoliennes. Un balisage circonstancié permettrait de réduire les risques pour la faune volante, tout en maintenant la sécurité aérienne 👉 www.mnhn.fr/fr/actualite...

🦇 in the news. #bats #lovebats #nature #wildlife scitechdaily.com/meet-the-tin...

Huge News from the Western Amazon: it's the year 2025 and we are still describing entirely new, strikingly-distinctive large-bodied bird species! Behold Tinamus resonans sp. nov. the Slaty-masked Tinamou mapress.com/zt/article/v... #Ornithology @tetzoo.bsky.social 🪶

LorMe: a streamlined and interoperable R framework for end-to-end microbiome analysis www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #Rstats 🧬🖥️🧪 github.com/wangnq111/Lo...

Our Ensembl 2026 paper is out! Learn about 1,900+ new genomes, expanded pangenome support, new regulation interfaces, and what’s coming in our 2026 releases. doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkaf1239

Accéder à l’expression des gènes d’un mammouth vieux de près de 40 000 ans : c’était inimaginable. L’ARN de Yuka raconte pourtant l’activité d’un muscle figé dans le pergélisol. Une plongée rare dans la biologie du passé. www.lemonde.fr/realites-bio... #paleogenetique #paleobiologie #paleontologie

New in #Systematic_Biology, syaf082 #OpenAccess "PhyloCNN: Improving tree representation and neural network architecture for deep learning from trees in phylodynamics and..." Perez, M.F., & Gascuel, O. @isyeb.mnhn.fr #tree_models #diversification #HIV #primates ➡️ academic.oup.com/sysbio/artic...

I’ve released a tool to sketch and edit phylogenetic trees! yawak.jp/PhyloWeaver/ Load a Newick file and intuitively add/remove/resize branches. Useful for quick conceptual trees, extracting subtrees, or turning ideas into Newick.

NEW pub in @science.org 🥳 Is it sponges (panels A & B) or comb jellies (C & D) that root the animal tree of life? For over 15 years, #phylogenomic studies have been divided. We provide new evidence suggesting that... 🔗: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

If you're interested in understanding discordance in phylogenomic analyses, the @evojlinnsoc.bsky.social's special issue 'Phylogenomic Discordance: Patterns, Processes, and Solutions' is for you! tinyurl.com/v2eces3s I'll be sharing a few articles a week until we're through the issue! (1/n)🧪

If you like genomics, speciation, and primates, this PhD position is for you! Unraveling the genomic architecture of speciation and gene flow in guenons, a diverse group of African monkeys. Funding through DTP. Do reach out with questions! #genomics #genome_assembly evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldi...

A new era in natural history publishing begins. 🐢✨ Introducing the Handbook of the Reptiles of the World!

My lab is hiring a 2-yr hummingbird evolution and genomics postdoc and a 1-yr salaried research and lab tech. Both with full U. Wyoming benefits. Please spread the word! Info below. Best consideration date Nov 1, start dates early Spring 2026.

As I argue in #PlatypusMatters, Australia has the world's best mammals, but is sadly the worst place on Earth to be a mammal, with the planet's worst #extinction rate. The Christmas Island shrew is now the latest species to be officially declared extinct. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A paper in Nature Ecology & Evolution presents a time-calibrated phylogeny of Fungi. This timescale suggests an older age of crown Fungi, as well as a minimum age for ancient interactions involving fungi and the algal ancestors of embryophytes in terrestrial ecosystems. #phylo 🧪

Super excited to finally share this! #CollectionsAreEssential

Delighted to see our paper studying the evolution of plasmids over the last 100 years, now out! Years of work by Adrian Cazares, also Nick Thomson @sangerinstitute.bsky.social - this version much improved over the preprint. Final version should be open access, apols. Thread 1/n

🖥️ Explore the latest from Bioinformatics Advances: "Termal: A fast and interactive terminal-based viewer for multiple sequence alignments" Full article available: https://doi.org/10.1093/bioadv/vbaf208

Check out our new preprint! We compare sequence versus synteny approaches for resolving a challenging #phylogenetic problem. In this case, synteny is far more informative! Also includes the first chromosome-level #genome for the enigmatic #fish family Gyrinocheilidae. doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Sometimes you meet absolutely incredible bioinfo-magicians. It was a huge privilege when @shenwei356.bsky.social joined our group for a year on an @embl.org sabbatical. While here, he developed a new way of aligning to millions of bacteria, called LexicMap 1/n www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Scientists often use models to study how species evolved, but these models are not always perfect. Here, Ziheng Yang (Darwin Wallace Medal winner) looks at how small changes in data or assumptions can affect the results of these studies. Check it out below 👇🌍🧪

C. Zhang, R. Nielsen and S. Mirarab integrate all ASTRAL-like methods into a single package called ASTER, comprising several tools that collectively enhance the scalability, accuracy, and versatility of species tree inference. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf172 #evobio #molbio #compbio

A workflow for statistical analysis and visualization of microbiome omics data using the R microeco package. #Microbiome #OmicsData #DataAnalysis #R @natprot.nature.com 🧬 🖥️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Cette loi affaiblit la protection de l’environnement sous la pression de l’agro-industrie. ✍️ La pétition envoie un message fort : les citoyens ne veulent pas sacrifier le vivant. Pour espérer un referendum il faut qu’on soit 4,8 millions. ✒️ Alors on signe. 👥 On partage. 🗣️ Et on interpelle !

Here is a very cool piebald Ethiopian epauletted fruit bat (Epomophorus labiatus) that we caught last month in Lilongwe, Malawi! 🦇 Piebaldism is a rare genetic condition caused by the absence of melonocytes in certain patches of skin and fur. #bats #research #fieldwork #malawi #wildlife

**JOBS ALERT** The Virology Unit at @PasteurCambodia hiring 1 Scientist and 2 Postdocs to join our fast-moving, field-connected, research-driven team on emerging viruses and zoonoses. 🧪🧬🥼🦠🔬🐓💉🦇😷 Limited time to apply — and we need people to start ASAP.**👇

Ever wanted to infer a morphological or total-evidence phylogeny in BEAST2? It’s long overdue, but we now have a tutorial on Taming the BEAST to talk you through the process 💻🌳⚙️ Thanks to Joëlle Barido-Sottani for helping me pull this together! taming-the-beast.org/tutorials/To...

Fun fact: The greater sage grouse attracts females of its species by inflating two yellow air sacs on its chest and bouncing them around to produce a unique sound.💄🐦🍸 #naturalhabitatshorts #naturalhabitok #naturalhabitat

Ethical scientific journals and where to find them....here is DAFNEE, a #database of non-profit journals in #Ecology and #Evolution #EvoBio, to choose an ethical place where to publish your next articles! (1/2) dafnee.isem-evolution.fr 🧪 #science

Excited to share our study on sailing siphonophores, AKA bluebottles or man-o'-war! 🌊 we received hundreds of samples from scientists around the world, part of a huge effort to sequence genomes and test for multiple species 🧬 out today in @currentbiology.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.cu... 🦑🧪📌

Fun fact: The Spix's disc-winged bat has suction cups on its thumbs and ankles that let it stick to surfaces. It uses these to stick to the inside of banana leaves to roost 🦇🪠🤝 #naturalhabitatshorts #naturalhabitok #naturalhabitat

We're not playing (dead), you'll enjoy this! New research by Shelby Middleton reveals a revised taxonomy & new sub-species of Australia's brush-tailed possum! Could you possumbly get more cute? Impossumable! 🌍🧪👇 academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a... @linneansociety.bsky.social @pezoporus.bsky.social

🚨 Out now! Chronostrain - a method to profile low abundance strains in longitudinal microbiome samples 🦠💻 @travis.gibsonlab.io @younhk.bsky.social @gibsonlab.io @harvardmed.bsky.social @broadinstitute.org #MicroSky 🦠 #MicrobiomeSky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our study screening the majority of all published Merbecovirus RBD’s for cell entry phenotypes is now published in Nature Communications! (1/5) shorturl.at/gYz4E

Using museum specimens for microbiome analyses? We tested it out - and it seems these samples could be an untapped resource for understanding host-microbe interactions! ⬇️

New blog post! In it, I benchmark the new version of Dorado from @nanoporetech.com, which comes with new DNA basecalling models. Short version: big accuracy gains for hac, small improvements for sup. Check it out for the full results: rrwick.github.io/2025/05/27/d...

A new method for trimming alignments in #phylogenomics — PhyIN. It identifies and trims regions with high phylogenetic discord. Able to trim well even on single loci — an advantage for gene tree/species tree studies. #evolbiol #phylogeny 🧪http://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18504 Some backstory... 🧵

🎉Bat Conservation Win 🎉 Livingstone’s fruit bat (𝘗𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘶𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘪) has been officially downlisted from Critically Endangered to Endangered by the IUCN!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Autocycler, the automated successor to Trycycler from @rrwick.bsky.social has a pre-print out - overall, pretty awesome performance (and is very easy to use) github.com/rrwick/Autoc...

Fun fact: Common murre chicks leap off cliffs before they can fly, bouncing off rocks on the way down to reach the ocean, where their dad takes over raising them at sea 🐧🪨🌊 #naruralhabitatshorts #naturalhabitok #naturalhabitat

Yossi Yovel's book is out! 🦇 Yossi, the Batman, is not only a super original neuroscientist, he's also a great writer and adventurer. Recenlty he's been releasing, one by one, his tales from the jungles. Get his book on promotion here: bit.ly/TheGeniusBatBN