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Alexa Sadier @aigverte.bsky.social · 21h

Bats just get cooler every day and another great example of the diversity of their diet (even in species that used to be considered insectivores!)

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Greater noctule bats prey on and consume passerines in flight

Despite billions of passerines seasonally migrating during the night at high altitudes, only three bat species have been found to consistently tap into this rich prey resource. However, it remains unk...

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Benoit Nabholz @benoitevol.bsky.social · 21h

For the fly enthusiasts:
Grass fly evolution unlocked: phylogenomics and classification of worldwide Chloropidae (Diptera)
Paula Raile Riccardi, Dalton de Souza Amorim, Keith Bayless, Joshua V. Peñalba
bioRxiv 2025.09.30.679457; doi: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Grass fly evolution unlocked: phylogenomics and classification of worldwide Chloropidae (Diptera)

Chloropidae, commonly known as grass flies, is a hyperdiverse family of true flies thriving in terrestrial ecosystems around the world with importance to conservation and economy. However, true grass ...

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Per Alström @peralstrom.bsky.social · 4d

I was honoured to be invited to give a talk on AviList, the new unified global checklist of birds, at the Delta Birding Festival 2+ weeks ago, and the organizers just sent me a link to a YouTube video of my talk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QO5x... #birds #ornithology #taxonomy

AviList: a unified global bird checklist - Per Alström

YouTube video by Delta Birding Festival

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Molecular Biology and Evolution @molbioevol.bsky.social · 1d

The MBE Best Student Paper award of 2024 goes to Julien Joseph (winner) and William S. Henriques (runner-up).

👏 Congratulations Julien and William for this recognition of your amazing work!

Check below for details on their research ⬇️

MBE Best Student Paper of 2024 award | Julien Joseph (Winner), William S. Henriques (Honorable mention)

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Ryan Gutenkunst @ryangutenkunst.bsky.social · 8d

The GHIST paper has been accepted for publication in Molecular Biology and Evolution. Join the competition and do well to be on our next paper! ghi.st

Success Kid meme about GHIST paper being accepted.

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Alexa Sadier @aigverte.bsky.social · 5d

Please RT! Together with the fantastic @jcarnesecchi.bsky.social we are looking for a M2 student. The internship will take place primarily in her lab at IGMM with a part at ISEM (5-10min away). Don't miss this unique opportunity to mix molecular and cellular experiments with evolution. Apply!

Julie Carnesecchi @jcarnesecchi.bsky.social · 5d

M2 internship (funded, 6months) in Montpellier — IGMM × ISEM with amazing @aigverte.bsky.social
Project: Hox factors beyond DNA: how RNA binding links molecules to body-plan evolution.
Start: early 2026
Apply: CV+motivation
#Master2 #Internship #Montpellier #RNA #Hox #EvoDevo #Drosophila #Bat

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Dr Elodie Chabrol @eloscicomm.bsky.social · 17d

👩‍🔬J'ai commencé un kit de démarrage "chercheuses en France" go.bsky.app/TBEzKC #FemmesEnScience

J'ai besoin de votre aide pour le remplir et donner de la visibilité aux chercheuses que vous connaissez et qui sont sur Bluesky !
▶️Taguez celles que vous connaissez, je les ajoute !

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Nicholas Per Huffeldt @nphuffeldt.bsky.social · 19d

I definitely wasn’t early to the Listers party, but I’m glad I made it.

Can recommend to all birder adjacent and bird curious folks 🪶

m.youtube.com/watch?v=zl-w...

LISTERS: A Glimpse Into Extreme Birdwatching

YouTube video by owen reiser

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Jonathan Romiguier @selfishmeme.bsky.social · 25d

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 Ants That Broke Biology

YouTube video by 7 Days of Science

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Camille Roux @crouxevo.bsky.social · 28d

This allowed us to link molecular divergence with genetic connectivity in plants and animals. (A) Gene flow stops sooner between plant species than between animal species. (B) Genomic barriers emerge faster in plant genomes than in animals.

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Camille Roux @crouxevo.bsky.social · 28d

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

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Maxim Greenberg @maxvcg.bsky.social · Sep 3

🚨 🐜 is there a Bluesky starter pack for researchers who don’t study ants but who get lightheaded every time there’s an awesome ant paper? CC @mariusw.bsky.social @jrichardalbert.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

One mother for two species via obligate cross-species cloning in ants - Nature

In a case of obligate cross-species cloning, female ants of Messor ibericus need to clone males of Messor structor to obtain sperm for producing the worker caste, resulting in males from the same moth...

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katja heuer @k4tj4.bsky.social · Aug 22

Fantastic talk by @aigverte.bsky.social on genomic & developmental foundations of adaptive tooth shape evolution. One ancestral developmental rule along which phenotypes evolve&converge; rule is broken when colonising new ecol. niche
#ESEB2025 Craniofacial Evolution in Vertebrates
@r3rt0.bsky.social

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Benoit Nabholz @benoitevol.bsky.social · Sep 3

Congrats to @selfishmeme.bsky.social‬ and collaborators for this wonderful study!

Rob Noble @robjohnnoble.bsky.social · Sep 3

Mindblowing research out of the wonderful @isemevol.bsky.social (where I'm delighed to be based for the next three months).

Opening line: "Living organisms are assumed to produce same-species offspring [1,2]. Here, we report a shift from this norm".

1. Darwin (1859)
2. Mayr (1942).

Arne Elofsson @bioinfo.se · Sep 3

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Jonathan Romiguier @selfishmeme.bsky.social · Aug 21

Be sure to check Poster number 100 with Alice Ha at #ESEB2025 if you fancy crazy reproductive systems

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Craig Kaplan @triggerloop.bsky.social · Sep 3

Look at this crazy thing!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

One mother for two species via obligate cross-species cloning in ants - Nature

In a case of obligate cross-species cloning, female ants of Messor ibericus need to clone males of Messor structor to obtain sperm for producing the worker caste, resulting in males from the same moth...

www.nature.com

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Benoit Nabholz @benoitevol.bsky.social · Sep 3

After an update in the species, here is a database of function traits for the French bees :
Aubouin, L., Genoud, D., Givord-Coupeau, B. et al. BeeFunc, a comprehensive trait database for French bees. Sci Data 12, 1302 (2025). doi.org/10.1038/s415...

#anthophila #bees #hymenoptera

BeeFunc, a comprehensive trait database for French bees - Scientific Data

Scientific Data - BeeFunc, a comprehensive trait database for French bees

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Tanja Slotte @tanjaslotte.bsky.social · Sep 2

*Postdoc in Evolutionary genomics at Stockholm University*
We are recruiting a postdoc for a large interdisciplinary project to investigate evolutionary drivers and genomic consequences of pollen evolution in response to pollination mode shifts in flowering plants. 1/5

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Purple pollen visible in a dissected flower of Linum grandiflorum, flowering flax, an insect-pollinated species.

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Benoit Nabholz @benoitevol.bsky.social · Aug 30

www.inaturalist.org/observations...

French Mountain Bush-cricket (Antaxius sorrezensis)

French Mountain Bush-cricket from Florac, 48400 Florac Trois Rivières, France on August 25, 2025 at 10:11 PM by Benoit NABHOLZ

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Benoit Nabholz @benoitevol.bsky.social · Aug 30

www.inaturalist.org/observations...
Picture by Judith Monade

Carabus hispanus

Carabus hispanus from Bédouès, 48400 Bédouès-Cocurès, France on August 26, 2025 at 10:30 AM by Benoit NABHOLZ. Découverte Kévin Salinas Photo Judith Monade Avec la promo DARWIN 2025-2026

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Benoit Nabholz @benoitevol.bsky.social · Aug 30

The Cévennes is a mountain range on the south-eastern edge of the Massif Central in France. It hosts several endemic species, including these two striking ones.

Carabus hispanicus, named after the town of Ispagnac and not after Spain!

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Pleuni Pennings @pleunipennings.bsky.social · Aug 29

I made a video about my new paper. I hope you enjoy it!

vimeo.com/1113132836?s...

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Zach likes bees @zachportman.bsky.social · Aug 29

New paper! “Pollinator plantings in the intensively farmed Midwest (U.S.A.) support a core set of common bee species, regardless of local and landscape controls” led by postdoc Marissa Chase.

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