📢New preprint on the impact of dengue virus genetic diversity on inhibition by Wolbachia 🦟🦠🧬 Project led by Afeez Sodeinde, @emiliefinch.bsky.social, and @keli5734.bsky.social! ✨ Key findings in thread below 👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Hi! We are looking for a PhD to work on the cross talk between transposable elements, insects and intracellular bacteria on the bioinformatics side. The PhD would be supervised by @mariefablet.bsky.social and myself along with @nicolasparisot.bsky.social Deadline December 2025! Please share! #tesky

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...

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

Had a blast presenting my work on Wolbachia and Spiroplasma-induced sex allocation distortion in haplodiploids at #ESEB2025!

Goodbye #eseb2025 @eseb2025.bsky.social see you next time! Perhaps what stuck most was powerful talk on resilience and survival by Palestinian researcher, play director, and ESEB EUEA awardee May Shehady. Let's not forget, let's not look away. 🇵🇸

This collaboration/friendship started while measuring the yield of wild strawberry plants in Spain and has now led to a first publication, dx.doi.org/10.1111/eva.... . We wanted to better understand how Wolbachia infection persists upon loss of CI in our favourite mite, Tetranychus urticae.

Two fully funded #PhD positions on insect #Symbiosis available in our lab: Spiroplasma in Neotropical Arthropods (tinyurl.com/spiroplasma) & Psyllid symbionts (tinyurl.com/psyllids). Please contact me for any questions & share widely #symbiosky #academicjobs

Insects usually care for their own young, but sometimes they also help other species. This #RSOS study found that yellow meadow #ants protect the eggs of root aphids in their nests during winter. Read more: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... @tparmentier.bsky.social @wybouw.bsky.social

New paper with @wybouw.bsky.social on the protection of aphid eggs in ant nests: doi.org/10.1098/rsos... *black eggs --> Anoecia zirnitsi, host: Lasius flavus *eggs rapidly retrieved among ant brood and protected against predators and fungi *mediated by chemical cues, transferred to glass dummies

Excited to advertise a shared PhD position at KU Leuven (Belgium) and Mondsee (Austria) with @markusmoest.bsky.social on the genetic basis, plasticity and evolution of melanization in Daphnia from alpine lakes. Apply here: www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

Diverging Arabidopsis populations quickly accumulate pollen-acting genetic incompatibilities doi.org/10.1093/evle... Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by Christopher Condon et al.

Our newest #RESPhysEnt paper reveals plant silicon defence disrupts cryptic colouration in an insect herbivore by restricting carotenoid sequestration into the haemolymph Read the article🔽 doi.org/10.1111/phen.12492 @wybouw.bsky.social @tbuescher.bsky.social @tobybruce.bsky.social @wiley.com

A MSCA fellowship is a wonderful thing

Wonderful opening talk on phasmid egg colouration by @gdebruyn.bsky.social at the yearly International Stick Insect Meeting.

Always satisfying to see a new thriving Liriomyza lab population #leafminers

Studentship opportunity! Come join us to work on plant-insect interactions at @johninnescentre.bsky.social (supported by @rsb.org.uk). More details here: ryanebrock.github.io/opportunities/

@haraipapilio.bsky.social paper on evolution of Wolbachia MK mechanism through prophage acquisition in molina butterflies - avoiding suppression by the host. Now out! #symbiosky www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... With @daisukekageyama.bsky.social @bolinabug.bsky.social and others

🐞 Spread the word! Registration and abstract submission are now open for our annual conference, #Ento25! Join the entomological community in-person or online this September, with opportunities to present your work, meet new contacts and build collaborations 🔽 buff.ly/tKyJIbN

Leafminers are the coolest

Our newest research in #RESPhysEnt reveals species differences in reproductive timing and egg load in two #fly species adapted to different #HostPlants Read the article now🔽 buff.ly/jrFSup9 @wybouw.bsky.social @tbuescher.bsky.social @wiley.com

‪The new March issue of #RESPhysEnt, Vol. 50 Issue 1, opens with an editorial: Key questions for future research in Physiological Entomology 👀doi/10.1111/phen.12481 If you’d like to submit an article on any of these key research areas, get in touch! @wybouw.bsky.social @tbuescher.bsky.social

📢 FWO is op zoek naar 2 adviseurs onderzoeksaangelegenheden (#hiring). Geïnteresseerd in een job met impact waarin je jouw organisatorische vaardigheden en beleidsmatige inzichten optimaal kunt inzetten? 📢 Meer info: lnkd.in/erFNESjA ⏰ Deadline: 14 maart 2025

Welcome to RES Publications on Bluesky! 📖 https://buff.ly/4hatyX9 Join us here for the latest in our seven #entomology journals, details of every new article & each new issue, as they are published Follow also for new RES book & handbook series titles, & peeks into the members' magazine #Antenna

collaborative effort involving almost all previous postdocs in the lab and many years, but it is out and it is a great story! @kamilsjaron.bsky.social @ajmongue.bsky.social and many others

Almost there. Five more days for our fundraiser.

How do animals compensate for trait loss? In beetles, symbiosis is a consistent strategy. Where the repeated loss of endogenous digestive enzymes is offset by functionally convergent symbioses: www.cell.com/current-biol... Excited to share our latest, out today in @currentbiology.bsky.social!

Wanna be my colleague? Parasites & Microbes Programme at Sanger @sangerinstitute.bsky.social is hiring an open rank Group Leader. Great opportunity for any ready to be PI with a big vision! sanger.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Wellco...

The Plant-Herbivore Interaction GRC is Feb. 9. Our USDA conference proposal was positively reviewed but won't be funded (at least now) along with ANY others bc of budget freeze! Please consider donating (tax-deductible) so we can still bring in as many folks as possible: my.grc.org/p/contributi...

#OnThisDay in 1924, 100 years ago, Nikolai Vavilov concluded his 6 month research expedition to Afghanistan. Trained by Regel and Bateson, Vavilov was looking for the origins of cultivated crops and collected an unpredented seed collection for his genetic research. #plantgenetics

#Ornithology excursion with 2nd bachelor biology students of #GhentUniversity in the Uitkerke ramsar area, prime area for wintering geese in Flanders. No less than 67 future biologists! @ecobird.bsky.social @natuurpunt.bsky.social

For her PhD work, Carla Bautista in our group discovered that yeast hybrids adapted slower to stressful conditions, and she figured out why. See what she found here. #evolution www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Are you aware of our collection of #Drosophila #history articles? Feel free to suggest more!!!!!!!! droso4public.wordpress.com/history/

Nominations due soon for the 2025 Dobzhansky Prize! This award recognizes the accomplishments and future promise of an outstanding early-career evolutionary biologist. Submit your nomination now! https://buff.ly/4fNJk9k