As every year, I will soon teach an online workshop on DNA methylation and its bioinformatic analysis, using short reads (BS-seq) and long reads (ONT and PacBio) approaches. It will be October 27th-29th (european afternoons and US mornings). Mor info here instats.org/seminar/anal...

#stage #master2 #Montpellier @isemevol.bsky.social #PopGen #MarEvol #MusselsAreCool

Sujet de stage M2 sur la "dock mussel", cet écotype de moules hybrides qui habite dans les ports. L'objectif est de tester si la dock mussel s’est adaptée grâce à sa variance génétique d’admixture ou si l’admixture n’est que le corolaire du contact secondaire entre les deux espèces parentales.

Thanks to @cjgiaimo.bsky.social for this nice article in @nytimes.com (www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/s...) about our last study (www.nature.com/articles/s41...)

New paper out! 🤩 "Shrinking to bird size with dinosaur-level cancer defences: Evolution of cancer suppression over macroevolutionary time" with @kokkonut.bsky.social and @marcanthonytollis.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1371/jour... A short thread:

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...

The first Aguillon Lab paper is officially out in early view at Evolution!! Led by postdoc @devonderaad.bsky.social, we’ve explored the hybrid zone between black-headed and rose-breasted grosbeaks in the Great Plains. #ornithology #hybridization #speciation #evolution doi.org/10.1093/evol...

Curious to hear thoughts from #popgen, #humangenetics, #genomics folks on recent paper: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... "Directed mutation" in specific human pop'ns seems unlikely to me. DM didn't stand up as proposed in bacteria, but there are hot spots shaped by past selection. Plausible here?

Thrilled to share our Perspective published in 𝘕𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘊𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴: 𝗟𝗲𝗴𝗮𝗰𝘆 𝗲𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗶𝗼𝗻, #𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 #𝘄𝗮𝗿 𝗼𝗻 #𝘂𝗿𝗯𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗯𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆. It also elevates Eastern European perspectives - underrepresented in #urban #evolution narratives. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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

Looking forward to speaking @dzg2025berlin.bsky.social in Berlin on Anthropocene Biology in Eastern Europe and Beyond. I will talk about the implications of #war on wildlife. Sadly, science meets reality when my departure to Berlin was delayed due a #drone attack in Poland.

📣Enquête 2025 - Financement de la recherche publique 💡 Une recherche publique sous-financée, mal soutenue, bridée par l’administratif. 🔻 < 15 % des scientifiques en sont satisfaits. 🔒 Plus de 70 % jugent qu’elle freine les projets novateurs. #socsav #recherche #VeilleESR #FinancementESR2025

Breaking genetics news‼️🌱🌽 A natural DNA trick triples recombination in maize. What we first saw in Arabidopsis (@hendersi lab) a decade ago is now confirmed in crops—opening new doors for plant breeding. Published today in Nature Plants! More details 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📢 Postdoc Opportunity – Université Paris-Saclay 🌾🧬💻 Reproductive isolation between crops and their wild relatives Candidates with PhD in evolutionary genomics & programming skills. 👉 Full description & how to apply: [https://moulon.inrae.fr/en/] #Postdoc #EvolutionaryGenomics #Speciation

This is the best explanation of the weird new ant paper.

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...

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

Why do speciation rates vary across the tree of life? Some of the best yet most underappreciated places for this investigation are natural hybrid zones. This preprint takes you to the hybrid zones in the origin of species to find a clue. 👉 shorturl.at/N7FXE #Speciation #Evolution #hybridization

Would a rose by any other gene smell so sweet?

A réfléchir, la "decroiscience" #degrowth reporterre.net/La-science-e...

In these dark times, it comes as a rare pleasure to highlight @natanaels.bsky.social ‬ & @marcdemanuel.bsky.social's work on germline and somatic mutations in humans. 1/n www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

Still possible to apply to this #post-doc position at CESAB #Montpellier. Application closing date: September 15th 2025 (12:00 PM CET) How taking intraspecific diversity and evolutionary processes into account in translocation-based programs. Please share widely #PopGen #NbS #Biodiversity

Hi marine biologist folks #MarBiol 🦪🐙🪸🐟🦈🦀🦐🌱🦭🌊 Please give us 5 minutes of your time to fill this online survey on marine connectivity policy - The marine connectivity science and tools we need for the ocean we want #MarCo #MarEvol docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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

My lil' baby turns 3.0 today! Most notable features: - autodetection of linked-read types (and not linked-read WGS too!) - more debuggin' and troubleshootin' options #bioinformatics #genomics #linkedreads

For those interested: 🚀 BayPass v3.1 released! 🔹 Improved MCMC adaptive phase 🔹 Computation reduced >6X with default (recommended) options, while keeping similar accuracy 🔹 Plus other minor edits 📖 Details in the manual / changelog 🔗 Repo: forge.inrae.fr/mathieu.gaut...

A new article of the team published in @heredityjournal.bsky.social #PopGen #MarEvol Congratulations to Hedvig for her brilliant work on this project. Atlantification is dead, long live genetic atlantification! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Please share broadly: I am looking for a postdoctoral fellow to work on a collaborative project on the temporal population genomics of invasive Capeweed (using contemporary and herbarium genomics), with ‪‪@shaky-dingo.bsky.social‬ and colleagues

Music to my ears. This is brilliant. Either 90% of us can claim to be better musicians than Beethoven or… maybe just maybe polygenic scores aren’t perfect?

For folks interested in hybrid zones / introgression / speciation, this looks interesting: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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!

Shirley Chen's paper from my lab on the dilution and amplification hypotheses regarding the biodiversity-disease relationship. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

I am happy to share my second paper with @samyeaman.bsky.social and collaborators! If you are into hybrid zones and tree genomics, this is for you! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

SLiM 5: Eco-evolutionary simulations across multiple chromosomes and full genomes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.07.669155v1

Please help us spread the word! Please amplify! We are searching for an associate or full professor (Canada Excellence Research Chair) in Biodiversity Genomics at the University of Guelph! 🐟🌿🦠🐜🐸🐝 Applications are due October 6 2025. careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-C... #AcademicJobs #EvoBio

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It is depressing, but all too predictable, how swiftly we’ve gone from the Social Science Genetic Association Consortium offering reassurances about the uses of behavioural polygenic scores to one of their lead authors marketing embryo selection for IQ

Still no good evidence that inversions dominate evolution.

Still no good evidence that hybridization facilitates invasions

Still no good evidence for homoploid hybrid speciation in nature

Enjoyed this @natrevcancer.nature.com article on comparative oncology - how we can learn from other species 🐘🐋🦜🐍 about ways to prevent (& possibly treat) cancer. Both a review and a call to action for the research community. www.nature.com/articles/s41... @atjcagan.bsky.social @cmaley.bsky.social

Where we look at anoles in the city doi.org/10.1111/mec....

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...

working link: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A fun video about biodiversity and speciation with curly the seahorse as a star #outreach youtu.be/qqsx6bXo2LI?...

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

🦋 𝐋𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐞̀𝐧𝐞 𝐝𝐮 𝐩𝐚𝐩𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐧 𝑯𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒖𝒔 𝒏𝒖𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒂 𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐮 𝐉𝐨𝐫𝐨𝐧 𝐝𝐮 𝐂𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐞 𝐝'𝐞́𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐞 𝐞𝐭 𝐞́𝐯𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞(CEFE) étudie la capacité de ce papillon à arborer une multitude de motifs différents Article👉https://lejournal.cnrs.fr/nos-blogs/focus-sciences/video-le-supergene-du-papillon-heliconius-numata

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/...

[Prix Recherche SFE2 2025] Félicitations à Violaine Llaurens (@cnrsecologie.bsky.social‬, @cirbcdf.bsky.social‬ & @isyeb.mnhn.fr‬, Paris & Université des Antilles), pour sa nomination et attribution de notre Prix Recherche 2025. Pour en savoir plus ➡️ sfecologie.org/2025/07/16/p...

Novel major loci shape habitat-associated flowering time variation in Yellowstone monkeyflowers www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...