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It is good to see Europe voicing commitment to Science and extending a hand to the scientific community in the US. As a dual french and american citizen leading a research center in Norway since 2021 and after 15 years in the US academia, this all feels quite close to home.

submitted 19 hours ago • 2 comments

Thrilled to see my first PhD paper finally out in @pnas.org !!! We investigated the macroevolutionary dynamics of South American #Mammals across the Eocene-Oligocene Transition (~34 millions of years ago) 🦥❄️ www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment

Intéressante tribune sur l'illusion d'une université française attractive pour les chercheurs américains tentés par l'exil. Ou de l'incapacité de regarder en face les conséquences de sa propre politique. Terrible absence de sens des responsabilités... www.lemonde.fr/sciences/art...

submitted 19 days ago • 7 comments

NEW 🧵 The number of people travelling from Europe to the US in recent weeks has plummeted by as much as 35%, as travellers have cancelled plans in response to Trump’s policies and rhetoric, and horror stories from the border. Story: www.ft.com/content/6dc1...

submitted 24 days ago • 248 comments

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

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

1. For the past thirty years I've had the best job in the world.  I've had the opportunity to follow my curiosity; explore the workings of nature and society; mentor students and junior colleagues in the same process; and teach generations of students about it all.

submitted 47 days ago • 39 comments

" (...) French researcher was expelled from the country for expressing "a personal opinion" on Trump." I fear it is now not safe for Europeans to do conferences in the US. www.lbc.co.uk/world-news/d...

submitted 47 days ago • 2 comments

"Your job is to have ideas and spread them so that they impact other people’s work. Writing is your job. Nothing else. Therefore, everything else that you do is subservient to the activity of writing. Let this revolution take place in your mind." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 47 days ago • 3 comments

Thinking about flipping your journal to Diamond OA? Check out this guide from the Netherlands' Diamond Expertise Centre buff.ly/0lVMMq2 FYI, PCI is mentioned there too 😉 #OpenAccess #AcademicPublishing

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

Big news: we are setting up a new non-profit organization to run bioRxiv and medRxiv. It's called openRxiv [no it's not a new preprint server; it's dedicated organization to oversee the servers] openrxiv.org 1/n

submitted 56 days ago • 55 comments

openRxiv has arrived! We’re thrilled to announce the launch of openRxiv as an independent, researcher-led nonprofit to oversee bioRxiv and medRxiv, the world’s leading preprint servers for life and health sciences. openrxiv.org/introducing-... #openRxiv #OpenScience #Preprints #bioRxiv #medRxiv

submitted 56 days ago • 3 comments

#StandUpForScience En direct de la grotte Chauvet. Sous-terre mais debout ! Live from the Chauvet Cave, standing up for science even below ground ! @standupforscience.bsky.social

submitted 59 days ago • 14 comments

Scientists from the University of Montpellier are standing up for science and academic freedom. #StandUpForScience2025 @cnrsoccitanieest.bsky.social @umontpellier.bsky.social @ird-fr.bsky.social @cirad.bsky.social

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

Trump : l'Amérique en science inverse. C'est la une de Libération vendredi. L’offensive obscurantiste menée par la Maison Blanche contre la recherche fait vaciller le monde scientifique. Les chercheurs américains se mobilisent ce vendredi. Un mouvement soutenu massivement en France.

submitted 60 days ago • 8 comments

This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell. This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.

submitted 64 days ago • 2048 comments

submitted 65 days ago • 1154 comments

What a shit show by the two dickheads who serve as US president and vice-president

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...

submitted 65 days ago • 8 comments

After yesterday's embarrassing display in the White House, this cartoon from @economist.com seems even more appropriate.

submitted 65 days ago • 12 comments

Projet de thèse sur l'histoire évolutive et la génomique de la conservation des abeilles noires Co-direction: Pierre Faux et moi-même Localisation: GenPhySE, centre INRAE Toulouse + d'infos: thibaultleroyfr.github.io/pdf/Annonce_... (Merci par avance pour vos RT et la diffusion à vos M2 😉)

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

New @erc.europa.eu funded #ConvergeAnt preprint on using the evolution of pseudogenes to document the parallel regression of oral anatomy in myrmecophagous mammals posted at @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

I think people both within science and outside science don’t fully appreciate the miracle that were the Covid-19 vaccines. How much courage it took to get the sequence out, how much work had already gone into figuring out the best viral antigen and how best to present it. 1/

submitted 72 days ago • 9 comments

I re-ran previous ONT basecalling benchmarks using the latest version of Dorado (thanks, @vellamike.bsky.social), and the RTX 40 series GPUs show an impressive speed boost! Check out the updated benchmark results at the bottom of this post: rrwick.github.io/2024/08/16/s...

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

Last first-author paper finally published! This took too many years but even after leaving research we manage to get it done, with Odile Maliet, @leandrist.bsky.social, @noguesbravo.bsky.social, @n8upham.bsky.social, Walter Jetz, and really supportive Hélène Morlon www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 74 days ago • 1 comment

Bluetorial-A dream and a bit of a nightmare Serving as Editor-in-Chief at Science was fascinating. I greatly enjoyed working with talented and committed editorial, news, graphics, and production staff. But the inside look into scientific publishing and AAAS was also deeply disillusioning.

submitted 104 days ago • 19 comments

Fellow Mammalogists. As many of you are aware, science is in a state of turmoil in the United States. Recent efforts to drastically reduce government workforces and research funding for science will lead to many adverse consequences for Earth’s remaining natural ecosystems.

submitted 76 days ago • 3 comments

NEW: NSF confirmed that they fired 168 employees today, out of their staff of ~1,500 feds. This includes some people who'd finished their 1-year probationary periods, which were extended to 2-years last month without explanation. More to come.

submitted 76 days ago • 30 comments

🚨Urgent: 12-month Postdoc in Paris-Saclay on the INCREASE project! 🫘 Dissecting genetic mechanisms of environmental adaptation in common bean Project: [https://www.pulsesincrease.eu/] 📄 Click on Job for description [https://moulon.inrae.fr/] Please share! #Postdoc #JobOpening #INCREASEProject

submitted 83 days ago • 1 comment

It’s not the head, it’s the butt! Meet a completely unknown organism: a blow fly (Calliphoridae) that evolved social integration in termite nests using a false termite head in the posterior part of the body. @CurrentBiology www.cell.com/current-biol...

submitted 84 days ago • 5 comments

Message from SSE Council: Supporting our Community and our Mission mailchi.mp/evolutionsoc...

submitted 84 days ago • 1 comment

✨We are hiring!✨🧪🏛️🧬 The @nhmdk.bsky.social at the University of Copenhagen is seeking a permanent, full-time Molecular Biology Lab Manager to help us establish and run our National Facility for #Museomics in the heart of one of Europe's most beautiful cities! Please reskeet!

submitted 84 days ago • 24 comments

I am deeply saddened to have learned of the death, on Feb 5, 2025, of Elisabeth Vrba—a fantastically creative scientist and a warm, wonderful human being. She leaves us a legacy of original macroevolutionary thinking that is still fresh and illuminating.

submitted 84 days ago • 9 comments

New @erc.europa.eu funded #ConvergeAnt paper on phylogenetics and transcriptomics of chitinase gene repertoires in convergent ant-eating mammals finally published in @genomebiolevol.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/gbe/...

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

Between 2019 and 2023, researchers paid $8.968 billion to make papers open access. Imagine what else could be done with this money if it wasnt paid to for profit publishing companies... 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551

submitted 99 days ago • 17 comments

Hi, ISEM is coming to Bluesky, if you're interested in #evolutionarybiology, if you're curious about the research being carried out in #Palaeo++ #GlobalChange… You've come to the right place! @cnrsoccitanieest.bsky.social @umontpellier.bsky.social @ird-fr.bsky.social @cirad.bsky.social

submitted 106 days ago • 0 comments

People, just stop doing Frontiers special issues. Find a nice diamond open access journal, and self-publish and collaboratively peer review the set of papers you all want to write. Do not give Frontiers money. They add no value. If anything, they hurt your reputation. MDPI is of course even worse.

submitted 107 days ago • 3 comments

🔥The X exodus is massive! Don't lose any of your followers. Thanks to #HelloQuitX I've registered 2341 new passengers for a journey to #BlueSky & #Mastodon. Join us and automatically find your communities on #January20! app.helloquitx.com

submitted 112 days ago • 1 comment

Here's a nice free app to transfer your X account to BlueSky, share with people around you: app.helloquitx.com/en/dashboard The plan is to jointly leave X on Jan 20.

submitted 113 days ago • 0 comments

Here are some 2024 highlights of PCI and Peer Community Journal.📊 Grateful to everyone who contributed to this success🦸. We're excited and prepared for an amazing 2025🤩!

submitted 116 days ago • 0 comments

NEW: 2024 has just been confirmed as the warmest year on record, and the first to breach the 1.5C threshold. We used a ridgeline (Joy Division inspired) chart to visualise daily temperature anomalies since 1940. 2024 clearly stands out with 100% of its days above 1.3C and 75% above 1.5C.

submitted 116 days ago • 220 comments

I made this over the break. Why would I do such a thing? Am I some sort of #phylogenetics dork? Well... yes, but that's not why. To fully explain I'll have to do one of those sewing-strings-wrapped-around-a-spool dealies. 1/ 🧪

submitted 128 days ago • 10 comments

APCs, amongst other things are out of control within the publishing industry.

submitted 130 days ago • 0 comments

🔥Une action forte également en France Revues MDPI et Frontiers ont été déclassées par la conférence des doyens : elles ne sont même plus ds liste des revues légitimes Publier dans ces revues joue en notre défaveur pour une demande de poste universitaire ! www.redactionmedicale.fr/2023/06/la-c...

submitted 131 days ago • 3 comments

Hi everybody, newcomer to bluesky (seems great), let me share our last results on open science in eco-evo. #ScientificPublishing #EvolutionaryBiology 1/4

submitted 134 days ago • 1 comment

This is a catastrophe. While Finland has downgraded the MDPI and Frontiers journals to level 0 (meaning these publications are not recognized for research evaluation purposes), Germany has signed an agreement to promote publications in MDPI journals.

submitted 136 days ago • 16 comments