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#Communiqué 🗞️ Une équipe internationale a analysé un nombre colossal d’échantillons du champignon responsable de la plus grande mortalité de mammifères jamais documentée, bouleversant la compréhension actuelle de la maladie du nez blanc. 🦇 👉 cnrs.fr/fr/presse/un...

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This Pieris mannii, southern small white, larva came out over the weekend. Check the concave discal spot on the frontwing, the rather rounded wing shape and the evenly dusted and very yellowish underside.

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La France malade du cadmium, une « bombe sanitaire », alertent les médecins libéraux

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BLACK LIGHT OWLFLY ALERT 😍 Welcome back, bizarre creatures 🤎

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Ce 30 mai 2025 a réécrit l'Histoire de l'a climatologie du sud-ouest de la France avec 137 records mensuel battus et 22 égalés. ➡️Jusqu'à 36.4°C dans les Landes et en Gironde. ➡️Près de 35°C à Toulouse, 40°C en Espagne. En 2025, des centaines de records de chaleur ont été battu. Presqu'aucun de froid.

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Field work in muddy ports 🤩 #MusselsAreCool #UrbanEvolution #DockEvol #MarEvol

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Two distinct host-specialized fungal species cause white-nose disease in bats www.nature.com/articles/s41... This study shows that there are two distinct lineages responsible for white-nose disease. They co-occur throughout Europe in sympatry but show different host specialisation.

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“An extensive genetic survey has found that Pseudogymnoascus destructans is actually two species native to Europe and Asia. Only one has reached North America. If the second one is introduced to the continent, it could start another devastating epidemic. “It’s like a reboot,” said Dr. Reeder”

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The Last of Us may be over for now, but fungus pandemic news endures. Here's my story on how white-nose disease, which has battered North American bats, may have more devastation in store. 🧪 Gift link: nyti.ms/4mGRyV8

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Et aussi : vous voulez faire de la recherche (déjà vous êtes zinzins bravo) ou de l'enseignement supérieur et comme moi on vous a dit que la prépa c'était quasi obligatoire ? C'est faux venez à la fac c'est là que les chercheurs enseignent.

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This excellent preprint makes me wonder how frequent reversion of adaptive substitutions is (that are deleterious when the selective pressure is gone), and how much of of the true extent of adaptation we might miss looking at divergence after the fact as result. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Fun collaboration with Mélodie Bastian and Nicolas Lartillot. Pi_S and Pi_N/Pi_S extracted from genome assemblies follow nearly neutral predictions across 150 mammals. Getting closer to getting the constraint controls needed to detect ancient epidemics mammals-wide. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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The lab has started using CatBoost to predict selective constraint in mammalian coding sequences, and it is shocking how good it is. It could make it possible to test adaptation accounting for constraint as McDonald-Kreitman does, but without having to do a lot of resequencing to get PN/PS.

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#BiodiversityDay #WorldBiodiversityDay species diversity of flies in deserts is amazing - here a few species of assassin flies (Asilidae) + mydas flies (Mydidae) from #Namib Desert, Namibia, photographed over past years - assassin flies Prytanomyia kochi + Trichardis picta - 2012 #asiloidflies

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Two hybrid Coenonympha species inherited most of their genome from one parent species but prefer mating with the other! By analyzing chemical profiles, we show that non-random trait sorting likely drives reproductive isolation, fueling hybrid speciation @pdvsky.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...

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Come join us at the Bioinformatics Research Centre at Aarhus University. Tenure track/associate professor position available. The application deadline is approaching, June 1, 2025. Application details here: international.au.dk/about/profil...

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My small contribution to the discussion on scientific ethics, by highlighting a typical case of citation bias. Here is the citation trajectory I retrieved for the Monroe et al. paper, despite multiple reanalyses revealing critical flaws. 😔 Feel free to be as depressed as I am right now! 😉

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Thrilled about our new mechanistic and population study on damselfly visual tuning & morph discrimination #procB Evolution tinkering with perception? 👀 doi.org/10.1098/rspb.... Led by former postdoc Natalie Roberts @lundvision.bsky.social & with Erik Svensson @EvolOdonata.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy

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The Painted Lady (Vanessa cardui) is a butterfly migrating each year from Africa to Europe and back in fluctuating numbers. Follow the expansion on 15-min counts (butterfly-monitoring.net/bms-methods) on butterfly-monitoring.net/painted-lady-seasonal-distribution

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Very happy to share a new paper open access in Syst Biol. Introgression is commonly reported in phylogenomic studies, but whether these patterns are caused by ancestral or contemporary gene flow is rarely understood. Here we took a stab at this problem using parapatric tinkerbirds as a model (1/10)

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As grant money starts drying up, it's more important than ever not to waste it on paying publishers' open access "article processing fees" when we can host PDFs for free. Tom Morgan and I wrote a paper on this, forthcoming at Science and Public Policy. Accepted draft here: osf.io/preprints/os...

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Tooth and Eda, how not to love this? Very cool preprint about Eda-mediated initiation of dentition with broader implications regarding organ initiation, regeneration and evolutionary developmental trajectories.

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Resist the birdfood industry marketing telling you that you have to buy their sunflower hearts or nyjer seed that's intensively farmed and shipped from India - to see & support Goldfinches in your garden, just ease off on mowing the lawn. Goldfinch food grows for free, with zero carbon/food miles.

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Acrosathe annulata ♂️ from the dunes at The Raven, Co. Wexford yesterday.

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The 229 chromosomes of the Atlas blue butterfly reveal rules constraining chromosome evolution in Lepidoptera https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.14.642909v1

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Speciation genomics in scarce swallowtails Iphiclides podalirius and I . feisthamelii : dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

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Time to celebrate native bees for #InverteFest! They're vital pollinators who need our help. Big, small, fuzzy, metallic green and more. #invertebrates 🌿 🐝 🧪

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Ne riez pas. Le gouvernement vient d'annoncer la suppression de 493 millions d'euros de crédit à l'enseignement supérieur et de la recherche. Une semaine après que Macron ait annoncé en grande pompe qu'on pouvait accueillir les chercheur•ses des États-Unis.

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Excited to share the first manuscript from my PhD in which we leveraged ultra-long Nanopore sequencing, D. melanogaster inbred lines, and a ton of manual validation to investigate the effects of long-read length on population-level structural variant (SV) calling accuracy! doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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une lettre des scientifiques pour nos ministres afin d’alerter contre la loi Duplomb, et la signer avant le 4 Mai. Les scientifiques s’engagent et le maximum de soutien de tous est désormais nécessaire ! framaforms.org/lettre-ouver...

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🚨 New preprint! We analyzed 39 bird genomes—including 3 Mauritian species that bounced back from the brink of extinction—to explore genomic erosion in a comparative framework. 🧬🦜🧩 📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #consgen #popgen @claudiafontsere.bsky.social

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🦒🧬 New preprint🦒🧬 We investigated the degree of admixture, genetic diversity and inbreeding in ex situ giraffes using WGS data from the famous Marius, 12 zoo giraffes, and a data set from 71 wild giraffes. #ConsGen #PopGen #Genomics #Giraffes #Marius www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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[ #VeilleESR #LRU ] #COMP 100% : les universités libres d'obéir. Je ressors très inquiet de l'écriture de ce billet. Prenez le temps de le lire, jusqu'au bout, de vous faire votre idée, et de le relayer si vous rejoignez mes conclusions. Avec gravité, ça me semble vraiment d'une grande importance.

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This is horribly misguided. Preprints are nothing more than vehicles for disseminating work that is nominally unreviewed. Preprints don't serve an anti-science agenda outside of how they are employed. Scientists are already skeptical of journals they aren't familiar with. I don't see the difference.

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It’s not about the size of your green space… it’s what you do with it that counts. 🌿🌼🐛🐞 #NMCCbiodiversity #EarthDay

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Quick break from the doom and gloom for science! We're really proud of this one. We found that two major effect loci on duplicated versions of the same ancestral chromosome play a major role in run timing diversity across four species of salmon (pink, chum, sockeye, coho) shorturl.at/GISX2

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I know you like #Drosophila and I know you like #Genomes - but do you also like #Genes? Coding DNA annotation of 304 species of Drosophilidae! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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🤓 Ever heard of PCI-friendly journals? These journals either ✅ directly accept preprints or registered reports recommended by PCI, or ✉️ provide an answer (accept, reject, review) within 5-10 days. For more details and the list of these 💯 journals 👉 buff.ly/lNn7rPx

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Awesome new paper by @lucalivraghi.bsky.social et al. doi.org/10.1016/j.cu... in @currentbiology.bsky.social on the evo-devo of a butterfly color variation enjoy the show!

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Très bonne mise en perspective de la crise qui touche la recherche américaine: www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...

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Notre article sur la délimitation des espèces de tatous du genre Dasypus est désormais publié dans Systematic Biology (doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syae027) officialisant ainsi le tatou à long museau de Guyane (Dasypus guianensis) comme une nouvelle espèce endémique du plateau des Guyanes

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Retrouvez mon interview pour "Le Peau Bleu" (par Matteo Maurel) pour discuter de mon parcours, mon métier et mes projets.

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