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Thibault (Tibo) Leroy @tiboleroyinen.bsky.social · 6h

The manuscript is dedicated to the memory of Laurence Hibrand-Saint Oyant, and to her family, friends, collaborators and colleagues, including those from the GDO team (IRHS) at INRAE Angers.

Read the dedication here: oup.silverchair-cdn.com/oup/backfile...

oup.silverchair-cdn.com

Thibault (Tibo) Leroy @tiboleroyinen.bsky.social · 6h

Our work on the history of rose breeding during the 19th century, the golden age for roses in Europe, is now published in #GENETICS
204 ancient roses phenotyped (>60 traits) & genotyped (SNP array) +32 WGS
➡️Evolution of the pop structure, genetic diversity, genomic footprints, GWAS & more!
URL 🔽
🧬🌹

Genetics Society of America @genetics-gsa.bsky.social · 13h

In #GENETICS, @tiboleroyinen.bsky.social et al. present the largest #GWAS catalog for roses to date and show how genetic makeup changed from a historical European to a near-Asian genetic background within a few generations during rose breeding in Europe. buff.ly/tw4vVUl

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Physalia-courses@Online @physaliacourses.bsky.social · 21h

Registrations are now open for the next edition of the Population Genomics course with @tiboleroyinen.bsky.social & @bourgeoisyann.bsky.social

Save the dates: 16-20 March 2026 (online)

www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

Introduction to population genomics

16-20 May 2026

www.physalia-courses.org

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Thibault (Tibo) Leroy @tiboleroyinen.bsky.social · 1d

In the paper, I kept my passion for ggplot2 intact. 😉

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Thibault (Tibo) Leroy @tiboleroyinen.bsky.social · 1d

Delighted to see our work on the evolution of roses during the 19th century featured on this month’s Genetics cover! 😍

Feel free to let your curiosity guide you to our recent article!
academic.oup.com/genetics/art...
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Genetics Society of America @genetics-gsa.bsky.social · 1d

The October #GENETICS cover shows phenotypic variation in rose flowers across different periods of 19th-century breeding history, illustrated with some of the rose varieties preserved in the ancient rose garden Roseraie Loubert.🌹 Read the full issue: buff.ly/BYzknt9

📸: @tiboleroyinen.bsky.social

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Genetics Society of America @genetics-gsa.bsky.social · 1d

The October #GENETICS cover shows phenotypic variation in rose flowers across different periods of 19th-century breeding history, illustrated with some of the rose varieties preserved in the ancient rose garden Roseraie Loubert.🌹 Read the full issue: buff.ly/BYzknt9

📸: @tiboleroyinen.bsky.social

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Bertrand Bed'Hom @bedhom.bsky.social · 1d

Retour à l’état sauvage : l’étonnante histoire des vaches de l’île Amsterdam perdue dans l’océan Indien
theconversation.com/retour-a-let...

Retour à l’état sauvage : l’étonnante histoire des vaches de l’île Amsterdam perdue dans l’océan Indien

L’étude génétique de cette population a permis de répondre à plusieurs questions : d’où venaient ces vaches ? Comment ont-elles pu s’établir sur une île déserte ?

theconversation.com

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Astropierre @astropierre.com · 2d

Le suivi de ~4 000 doctorants issus de 107 pays différent montre les sujets d'inquiétudes de ces jeunes scientifiques

Les préoccupations financières viennent en 1er
(les ♂️ plus que les ♀️)
Puis vient la santé mentale & le syndrome de l'imposteur
(les ♀️ plus que les ♂️)

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

Tableau récapitulant les sujets d'inquiétude des doctorant(e)s issus de 107 pays dans le monde

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Thibault (Tibo) Leroy @tiboleroyinen.bsky.social · 3d

The good thing about not having a government in France right now is that we avoid all the awkward moments in which French ministers praise the so-called "French excellence" after a Nobel Prize goes to a French scientist who is working abroad since several decades.

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German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG) @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social · 3d

W3-Professur: Evolution und Biodiversität der Pflanzen
@humboldtuni.bsky.social

Start: 1 Oktober 2026
Deadline: 24 Oktober 2025

haushalt-und-personal.hu-berlin.de/de/personal/...

W3-Professur für „Evolution und Biodiversität der Pflanzen“

haushalt-und-personal.hu-berlin.de

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Thibault (Tibo) Leroy @tiboleroyinen.bsky.social · 21d

Fifteen 2-year postdoc fellowships available at U. Toulouse 😍 through a MSCA-COFUND (AToUT tiris.univ-toulouse.fr/en/programs/...)

Interested to apply for a postdoctoral research project focusing on the genomics of farm animals or pollinators? Let me know!

Eligibility: <1 yr in 🇫🇷 in the last 3 yrs

AToUT – TIRIS – Toulouse's Science In and For Society

tiris.univ-toulouse.fr

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Thibault (Tibo) Leroy @tiboleroyinen.bsky.social · 8d

Annulation de la Nuit des chercheur·es à Toulouse... deux jours avant l'évènement. 😭

Prévue depuis un an aux halles de la cartoucherie, les autorisations n'ont finalement pas été accordées...

Pour une des principales métropoles de France et un haut lieu de la recherche nationale, quelle déception.

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Bertrand Bed'Hom @bedhom.bsky.social · 9d

Un article sur le frelon asiatique dans @france.theconversation.com

theconversation.com/quels-risque...

Quels risques le frelon « asiatique » à pattes jaunes fait-il courir à la santé humaine et aux abeilles ? Comment s’en protéger ?

Le frelon à pattes jaunes originaire d’Asie est désormais bien implanté en France hexagonale. On fait le point sur les risques qu’il fait peser sur l’humain comme sur l’abeille domestique.

theconversation.com

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Thibault (Tibo) Leroy @tiboleroyinen.bsky.social · 10d

Depuis que j’ai renommé le dossier "Bureaucratie" en "Administratif", lors d’une initiative perso d'essai du langage ESR politiquement correct, je me sens:
1) vendu, semblant accepter le système
2) perdu, à toujours essayer de me souvenir comment j'ai bien pu renommer ce maudit dossier Bureaucratie!

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Collège des Sociétés savantes académiques de France @societessavantes.bsky.social · 10d

Le premier ministre planche sur le budget 2026, alors voici un petit rappel de l'évolution du financement de la recherche publique (DIRDA en jargon admin.) depuis 2017. Stabilité DIRDA/PIB (très inf. au 1% de la stratégie de Lisbonne), mais décrochage de DIRDA/budget État. Recherche≠priorité

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POPGROUP59 @popgroup2026.bsky.social · 11d

Exciting news!
The next #PopGroup meeting will take place in Lille 🍟, France, 7–9 January 2026 – just 1 hour by train from London, Brussels, and Paris.

This year, PopGroup will also host ALPHY, the annual meeting of Evolutionary Genomics.

More info: populationgeneticsgroup.org.uk

See you there !

Population Genetics group 59

populationgeneticsgroup.org.uk

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Thibault (Tibo) Leroy @tiboleroyinen.bsky.social · 10d

A new step in Emmanuel Macron’s policy of flying ever more planes and increasing France’s carbon emissions. The responsibility of our political class in the lack of a change of course regarding the current climate and biodiversity crisis is immense.

www.railtech.com/night-trains...

ÖBB blames ‘French partners’ for death of Berlin, Vienna sleepers to Paris

Austria’s ÖBB has placed responsibility for the end of its Paris night trains from Berlin and Vienna squarely on SNCF and France’s Transport Ministry, saying the flagship services…

www.railtech.com

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Francis M. Martin @fmartin54.bsky.social · 11d

Éloge des feuilles mortes, carburant indispensable des écosystèmes
theconversation.com/eloge-des-fe...

Éloge des feuilles mortes, carburant indispensable des écosystèmes

Indispensables à la bonne santé des sols comme à la séquestration du carbone, hôtes d’une biodiversité aussi diverses que cryptiques, les feuilles mortes sont un véritable carburant des écosystèmes.

theconversation.com

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David Monniaux @monniauxd.bsky.social · 11d

Vous pouvez soutenir ma proposition à la Cour des Comptes d'examiner les marchés publics de voyagistes, notamment dans l'enseignement supérieur et la recherche :
participationcitoyenne.ccomptes.fr/processes/co...

#esr #TeamESR #HelpESR

Les marchés publics de voyagistes - Contributions - 2025 - Aidez-nous à enrichir notre programme de travail - Plateforme de participation de la Cour des Comptes

Corps de la contributionLes administrations et opérateurs publics, notamment ceux de l'enseignement supérieur et de la recherche, font appel à des agences de voyage (FCM, TravelPlanet…) pour l'hôtelle...

participationcitoyenne.ccomptes.fr

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Thibault (Tibo) Leroy @tiboleroyinen.bsky.social · 12d

We had World War I, then World War II. After that, we had the Cold War. Now, with all the provocations, the violations of European territory, the Russian agression and war in Ukraine, and so on, we have to accept that we have entered the Cold War II.

Thibault (Tibo) Leroy @tiboleroyinen.bsky.social · 17d

Not sure what saddens me more, seeing Trump as anti-science or as anti-women, in favor of their pain.

"no robust evidence or convincing studies to suggest there is any causal relationship. Conclusions drawn to the contrary are unsupported by the most robust methods"
➡️ www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Trump links autism and Tylenol: is there any truth to it?

The US president repeatedly advised people, “Don't take Tylenol,” but scientists say that strong evidence between the medication and autism is lacking.

www.nature.com

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Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 18d

I beg of you please, please please stop using PAML, it ignores synonymous rate variation across sites and multi-nucleotide mutations. The results of your selection tests will be uninterpretable; use HyPhy instead…
🧬 💻 🧪

academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Synonymous Site-to-Site Substitution Rate Variation Dramatically Inflates False Positive Rates of Selection Analyses: Ignore at Your Own Peril

Abstract. Most molecular evolutionary studies of natural selection maintain the decades-old assumption that synonymous substitution rate variation (SRV) ac

academic.oup.com

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Thibault (Tibo) Leroy @tiboleroyinen.bsky.social · 21d

Fifteen 2-year postdoc fellowships available at U. Toulouse 😍 through a MSCA-COFUND (AToUT tiris.univ-toulouse.fr/en/programs/...)

Interested to apply for a postdoctoral research project focusing on the genomics of farm animals or pollinators? Let me know!

Eligibility: <1 yr in 🇫🇷 in the last 3 yrs

AToUT – TIRIS – Toulouse's Science In and For Society

tiris.univ-toulouse.fr

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Borja Milá @borjamila.bsky.social · 21d

PhD position available in my lab at @mncn-csic.bsky.social in Madrid to study speciation in oceanic islnd birds with phenotypic and genomic data.
💰4-year contract
🎓Biol, Genetics, Msc, English
📆 Apply by October 15th
👉CV & letter to [email protected]

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Genome Biology and Evolution @genomebiolevol.bsky.social · 21d

The recent GBE Review on approaches to phylogenetic genotype to phenotype mapping is the focus of a new Highlight.

Highlight: Leveraging Phylogenomics to Uncover the Loci of Repeated Evolution

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf164

#genome #evolution #phylogenetics

GBE | Highlight: Leveraging Phylogenomics to Uncover the Loci of Repeated Evolution

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