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Dr Elodie Chabrol @eloscicomm.bsky.social · 15d

👩‍🔬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 · 16d

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

m.youtube.com

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Jonathan Romiguier @selfishmeme.bsky.social · 23d

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 · 26d

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 · 26d

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...

www.nature.com

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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

su.varbi.com/what:job/job...

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

www.inaturalist.org

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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Pollinator plantings in the intensively farmed Midwest (U.S.A.) support a core set of common bee species, regardless of local and landscape controls

Amidst widespread habitat loss and homogenization of landscapes, pollinator plantings can provide bees with a diversity of foraging resources. Yet, plantings may fall short of restoring historical be...

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Arvid Ågren @arvidagren.bsky.social · Aug 20

Finally had time to watch John Welch’s excellent AV Hill lecture Recent Controversies in Evolutionary Theory.

youtu.be/iOnpLT8p500?...

Dr John Welch - A V HILL Lecture – Recent controversies in evolutionary theory

YouTube video by Cambridge Philosophical Society

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Matt Berry @matthewberry.bsky.social · Aug 16

Robber fly (Polyphonius laevigatus) in Greece 🇬🇷

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Dr. Serge Zaka @sergezaka.bsky.social · Aug 15

Les images aériennes de nombreuses forêts françaises nous offrent une leçon implacable sur les limites de l’adaptation végétale face au changement climatique. Du Périgord aux Alpes du Sud, des Pyrénées au Massif Central, les clichés affluent de toutes parts. Oui, la réalité est dérangeante.

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Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · Aug 7

If someone you know buys into claims about "genetic optimization" of embryos using polygenic scores of cognition, just send them our 2024 paper on Beethoven & musicality. We wrote it to help communicate limits of individual-level genetic predictions & complexity of links between DNA & behaviour. 🧪👇

Notes from Beethoven’s genome

Wesseldijk et al. compare the genomic information collected from Ludwig van Beethoven with population-based datasets used to quantify musical achievement.

www.cell.com

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Thibault (Tibo) Leroy @tiboleroyinen.bsky.social · Aug 13

Now, proud to announce that our work is published in #GENETICS (@genetics-gsa.bsky.social). Currently available as an "advance article" : doi.org/10.1093/gene...

As a PhD student in genetics, I dreamed of publishing a paper in Genetics, MBE & Mol Ecol. It took me 15 years to complete that list!

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Thomas Lenormand @thomaslenormand.bsky.social · Jul 12

Interested to know more about a new theory relating the #evolution of #sexchromosomes to the rules of #speciation? Check out this paper that we published with Denis Roze in the last issue of #Science. PDF here: www.science.org/stoken/autho...

A single theory for the evolution of sex chromosomes and the two rules of speciation

Sex chromosomes are involved in three major empirical patterns: (i) Y (or W) chromosomes are often nonrecombining and degenerate; (ii) heterogametic offspring (XY or ZW) from interspecific crosses are...

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Anne Roulin @anneroulin.bsky.social · Jun 24

Running a test on the DAFNEE database will only take a few minutes of your time. It's a must-do. 👇

Nicolas Galtier @nicolasgaltier.bsky.social · Jun 24

New preprint: we advertise DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly eco-evo-archaeo journals. 1/6
#AcademicPublishing #ecoevo #archaeology #EthicalPublishing #SocietyJournals #DiamondOpenAccess
doi.org/10.32942/X24...

Time to publish ethically: DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly journals in ecology and evolutionary biology.

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Alain Queffelec @alainqueffelec.bsky.social · Jun 25

New preprint out !!

We show that publishing in ethical journals is equally visible for your career and also cheaper (if you really want to pay... But there are free alternatives you know!)

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Nicolas Galtier @nicolasgaltier.bsky.social · Jun 24

New preprint: we advertise DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly eco-evo-archaeo journals. 1/6
#AcademicPublishing #ecoevo #archaeology #EthicalPublishing #SocietyJournals #DiamondOpenAccess
doi.org/10.32942/X24...

Time to publish ethically: DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly journals in ecology and evolutionary biology.

doi.org

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