Really happy about seeing this one finally out in @commsbio.nature.com ! Impact of the aridification of #Australia on a tribe of endemic #crickets 🦗 @cbgpmontpellier.bsky.social @isyeb.mnhn.fr @csiro.bsky.social @inrae-dpt-spe.bsky.social @tonyrobillard.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s42...

🔊 New @zookeys.pensoft.net study out today clarifying the status of the subgenus Apeltarius from the legume-feeding #weevil genus Tychius stay tuned for future work on this genus! ( #phylogenomics ) @cbgpmontpellier.bsky.social @inrae-dpt-spe.bsky.social zookeys.pensoft.net/articles.php...

This is amazing! Infrared radiation is an ancient pollination signal | Science www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Applications are open for a 3-year funded PhD position at the Finnish Museum of Natural History, focused on dung beetle evolution. Deadline: March 16. … https://jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki-Doctoral-Researcher-in-Macroevolution-and-Phenotypic-Diversification-of-Dung-Beetles/1352799257/ #gradstudent

Now online! In this review, we cover four major topics on butterflies and moths: their evolutionary history and diversification dynamics, genomics, global diversity patterns, and conservation 🦋🌏 (1/8) @natrevbiodiv.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s44...

The Natural History Museum Denmark seeks a Tenure Track Assistant Professor and Curator of Lepidoptera. Candidates should have a strong research background in Lepidoptera. Applications due March 22, 2026. Info: https://snm.dk/en/about-museum. #job

From Chris Borkent: Fellow Dipterists/systematists/ecologists: Agri./Agri-Food Canada plans to eliminate the Diptera Unit at the Canadian National Collection of Insects. Dr. Art Borkent has prepared an open letter to support keeping the unit open. To sign, please read & follow the instructions here.

1/ New weevil #brood-pollinator species described within the frame of the highly collaborative #ANR project #POLLIDIV, led by @remiallio.bsky.social and #Julien_Haran @cbgpmontpellier.bsky.social 🪲🌳 europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ej...

Interested in the ecosystem services provided by leaf-litter arthropod communities? Read all about it in the latest 'Value in nature' post: 'Hidden treasures'. #biodiversity #nature 🌐 mscaterino.pika.page/posts/hidden...

Time to publish responsibly: DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly journals in ecology and evolutionary biology url: academic.oup.com/jeb/article/...

The preprint of the first of the batch of parasitoid wasp genomes that we are generating is now out. Erythrina gall wasp is an invasive pest on the Hawaiian wiliwili tree, we were able to generate a HiFi genome using 1/10 of a flowcell, costing only ~$100 for the sequencing.

the second paper of our (now former) PhD. student Benoit Penel is out! #OA large collaborative work relying on the French national national biodiversity monitoring #500ENI network @cbgpmontpellier.bsky.social @cnmeynard.bsky.social @inrae-dpt-spe.bsky.social #Agroecosystems #Biodiversity #Beetles

"The coevolution of colour patterns and hindwing shapes on a large phylogenetic scale reveals predation-driven adaptive syndromes in swallowtail butterflies" Puissant, A., Chotard, A., Condamine, F. L., @vincentdebat.bsky.social & Llaurens, V. 🦋 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Species- versus specimen-level congruence between DNA barcodes and morphology. Species-level dominates papers but specimen-level matters more for sample evaluation. Read more in "Illuminating Entomological Dark Matter with DNA Barcodes..." in Ann Rev Ent: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

A first recommended read for this new year, 'Rising Publication Costs Strain Researchers' in The Scientist (featuring PCI 😎): www.the-scientist.com/rising-publi...

Super cool new study from Talavera lab on migratory divide between painted lady (Vanessa cardui) populations north of the equator and south of the equator! They find a candidate gene that might be associated with the differenc ein behaviour. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We know that the role of nocturnal moths as pollinators has been greatly underestimated in Europe, but this impressive new study shows that tiger moths (Arctiinae) are important generalist pollinators in a lowland rainforest in Ecuador #teammoth 🌎 royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

Are you heading to Edinburgh for #BES2025? Do come and find us at stand LT7 in the Lennox Suite! We’d love to connect, chat about all things entomology, and share what’s new at RES. See you there! 🪲 buff.ly/cF3NKTN @britishecologicalsociety.org

New preprint: we advertise DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly eco-evo-archaeo journals. 1/6 #AcademicPublishing #ecoevo #archaeology #EthicalPublishing #SocietyJournals #DiamondOpenAccess doi.org/10.32942/X24...

Time to publish responsibly: DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly journals in ecology and evolutionary biology url: academic.oup.com/jeb/article/...

📢Don’t miss it! Less than 3 weeks left to submit your abstract and register at the early bird rate! The 15th of December deadline for the XIII European Congress of Entomology (29 June – 3 July 2026, Tours, France) is fast approaching! All details & submission: ➡️https://www.ece2026.org/

Je cherche un.e étudiant.e de M2 pour travailler sur des SDM et les ravageurs de la vigne @cbgpmontpellier.bsky.social à Montpellier, en collaboration avec @arusch.bsky.social. Plus d'infos ici: sfecologie.org/offre/modeli...

Our study on limenitidine #butterflies is online! 🔊 The classification of #Adelpha is clarified thanks to the definition of a new genus #Adelphina. Led by #Erika_Páez @isyeb.mnhn.fr and #Keith_Willmott #OA #mimicry @cbgpmontpellier.bsky.social resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Excited to share our new paper where we find that the rise, decline and fall of clades is not explained by the usual suspects (diversity-dependence, ecological opportunities) but rather by species' insidious loss of macroevolutionary fitness: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/3

FYI: Despite recent info suggesting otherwise, my lab at CU Boulder is in fact accepting grad students fall 2026! Reach out if interested in insect systematics, phylogenetics, life history, insect-plant interactions.

➡ EJT Vol. 1014 (2025) #openaccessjournal Published: 2025-09-16 ➡️ A monograph of Afrotropical and Mediterranean Derelomus Schoenherr, 1825 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) with the descriptions of 14 #newspecies ⤵ ✒ Julien M. Haran et al. @gkergoat.bsky.social 🔗 DOI: doi.org/10.5852/ejt.... #weevils

To celebrate the genomes for 1,000 (!) species of Lepidoptera in Europe, Project Psyche has released a preprint outlining our ambitions to jointly sequence & leverage genomes of all 11,000 species in Europe to propel science, conservation & society. This was a joy to write together as a community!

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!

Proud & delighted about the coming defense of our grad student #Benoit_Penel - co-supervised with @cnmeynard.bsky.social & #Julien_Haran - who did a terrific job characterizing and analyzing field margin #beetle communities responses to #agricultural practices at very large scales throughout France!

This week, I had the honor of signing the historical #Obligation_book of the @royentsoc.bsky.social as a newly appointed Fellow of the RES It is quite intimidating to sign a book that has been signed by the likes of Darwin, Wallace and Queen Elisabeth II ! Great venue too ! #Glasgow_City_Chambers

Really nice to be there at #Ento25 in #Glasgow ! @royentsoc.bsky.social Fantastic plenary this morning by #Christiane_Weirauch from @ucriverside.bsky.social on the systematics and evolution of assassin and plant bug!

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

Our study on the origin of the disjunct distribution of Paleotropical Eneopterinae crickets is out! #Zoologica_Scripta #OA 2nd study by our PhD. student #Zheyuan_Yu (co-supervised with @tonyrobillard.bsky.social) @cbgpmontpellier.bsky.social @isyeb.mnhn.fr onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🐜⚡ La #fourmi électrique, espèce invasive classée préoccupante par l’UE, progresse en Europe. 🔬 Une étude #INRAE réalisée sur plus de 6000 fourmis dans le monde révèle ses voies d'introduction et appelle à mieux surveiller les foyers pour prévenir sa propagation 🌎 👉 www.inrae.fr/actualites/i...

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 🧪

vulgarisation de notre étude récente parue dans @consbiog.bsky.social (doi.org/10.1111/ddi....) sur l'invasion de la #fourmi_électrique 🐜⚡ en Europe du Sud (dont la #France) : www.inrae.fr/actualites/i... @inrae-dpt-spe.bsky.social / @cbgpmontpellier.bsky.social

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...

New species of giant stick insect found in the Australian wet tropics. We are still living in the age of discovery! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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 !!

Our study on the recent invasion of the Little Fire #Ant in Southern Europe (including France!) was published today in Diversity & Distribution @consbiog.bsky.social #OA great collaborative work led by @cbgpmontpellier.bsky.social @inrae-dpt-spe.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#ERGAReads | Comparative analysis of 163 ant genomes uncovers how #genome rearrangements, gene family expansions and selection shaped the evolution of caste systems and social complexity in ants 🐜🧬 🔗 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... @cellpress.bsky.social #ants #evolution #socialevolution

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)

With one month left to join the entomological community this September, we are excited to invite you to #Ento25 🦋 Programme coming soon - Register now 🔽 buff.ly/TMMzh4o #StrathLife @unistrathclyde.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social #Glasgow #Entomology #InsectDecline #ClimateChange #PhD #STEM

‪XIII European Congress of Entomology 🚨 Registration is now open for ECE 2026 www.ece2026.org/submission-r... #ECE2026Tours #Entomology #insectscience @univtours.bsky.social @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @cnrs.fr @ird-fr.bsky.social @mnhn.fr @inrae-france.bsky.social

BEAST X v10.5.0 finally released – you can't just do beta releases forever. github.com/beast-dev/be... Details and instructions for installing on the BEAST website: beast.community

slowly but surely we're making progress in understanding the diversity and ecology of noctuid stemborers. Lots of great collaborators from Africa; study led by Bruno Le Ru @ird-fr.bsky.social with supports from #@CBGPmontpellier and @inrae-dpt-spe.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

some recent changes for #Systematic_Entomology @royentsoc.bsky.social ! We welcome new people on our board of EiCs ( #Ligia_Benavides, #Christopher_Owen and #Emmanuel_Toussaint) and expand our scope to include most non-terrestrial arthropods 🕷️ resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Mesquite 4.0 released! A major update — many new features, small and large (phylogenomics, visualizations, workflow management, &c). Check out the trailer video: www.mesquiteproject.org. Come discuss in our new Google Group (groups.google.com/g/mesquite-project). @bembidion.bsky.social ‬🧪 #evolbio

Written by our RES members, #RESInsects is a comprehensive exploration of the world of insects, perfect for experts and non-experts, put together in a beautifully illustrated book. We have an exclusive discount code for 10% off for RES Members. Get your copy 🔽 buff.ly/QCvroo0 @dkbooks.bsky.social