I've now shared the experience in a short article 😇 Had to fail to make it to Nature 🤣 My paper was proved wrong. After a sleepless night, here's what I did next nature.com/articles/d4158… Thank you so much to Jack Leeming Senior careers editor nature for his tremendous help 😉

"The solutions are known, the technology is readily available, what we lack is political will and leadership. "To fail the Amazon is to fail the biosphere, and fail to act at our period."

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Our last publication is online in Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society! Contrasting patterns of differentiation among three taxa of the rapidly diversifying orchid genus Ophrys sect. Insectifera (Orchidaceae) where their ranges overlap academic.oup.com/botlinnean/art… Université Perpignan LGDP ANR - Agence nationale de la recherche

By analyzing transcriptomes of termites and other Blattodea, we show in Peer Community Journal that eusociality reduces the effective population size, weakening natural selection. Social complexity in termites further amplifies this effect peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10.24… #evolution #termites

Happy to share this publication with Camille Roux in PCI Evolutionary Biology We showed that termites have reduced efficiency of natural selection compared to non-social relatives. Interestingly, this effect increases with the level of social complexity. peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10.24…

Today, a new report documenting 15 years of the illegal killing of birds of prey has been published, and the findings are shocking. The Birdcrime report reveals from 2009-2023 there were 400 confirmed incidents of bird of prey persecution in Scotland. Birds such as Golden

Over 1000 shearwaters in this group: 90% Cory’s, rest Great Shear, and a few Scopoli’s, off Scilly today. What is going on? Cory’s used to be strictly July/August off Scilly.

A study finds native corn earworms in Colorado have hybridized with invasive Old World bollworms, gaining insecticide-resistant genes from their relatives. 🔗 Introgression: How the Corn Earworm Borrowed Insecticide Resistance From an Invasive Cousin entomologytoday.org/2024/10/23/int…

On se dirige vers un monde à +3.1°C de réchauffement mondial soit au moins +4°C degrés en France. On ne s'adaptera pas à un monde pareil. Combien de temps allons nous regarder ces gouvernements criminels mettre en péril notre survie sans réagir ?

Le Plan National d'Adaptation au Chgment Climatique #PNACC sort ajd. C'est un élément de langage (👋 journalistes!) d'annoncer qu'il prépare au "scenario du pire" ❌Faux! Il correspond a notre trajectoire actuelle de réchauffement, la version optimiste d'un scenario réaliste Un🧵

Ha bon? Les taxes sur l’électricité étaient de 32 €/MWh avant crise et le projet du gouvernement est de pouvoir monter jusqu’à… 50 €/MWh !! Même revenir à la situation antérieure de taxation sur l’électricité n’a pas de sens alors qu’il faut encourager l’électrification

I'm excited to announce a tenure track faculty position in conservation genomics in EEB UCLA! We're looking for candidates who use genomic tools to study evolutionary processes related to conservation. Note, the actual application deadline is Nov 29. recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF09875

What are the dynamics of #hybridisation between the Critically Endangered Balearic shearwater and the closely related Yelkouan shearwater? Check out our new preprint out on bioRxiv where we investigate the causes/consequences of pervasive gene flow between these species.

Check out my #EntSoc24 talk today (2:54pm, room 129B) on hover fly migration! I’ll be discussing our recent review published in Ecological Entomology. Come see the wonderful illustrations by co-author @EntoSamm! ESA Early Career Professionals Committee Entomological Society of America Andrew D Young Illinois State School of Biological Sciences at Illinois State

Super excited to give a talk today Eco and Evo Biology on the evolution of mammalian tooth classes and novelties using bats as a model system 🦇🦷European Research Council (ERC) Thanks Molly C. Womack for the invitation!

With the adoption of the Nature Restoration Law last summer the Grassland Butterfly Index (GBI) is one of the indicators for biodiversity in agricultural ecosystems (art. 11). The GBI for both EU27 and NL show a marked decline after 2012 with no sign of slowing down.

Another illustration of why RFK Jr. is a dangerous idiot. He knows nothing about medicine and health–worse, most of what he thinks he knows is flat-out false–and if he gets to make changes at NIH or FDA, he will do great harm to public health

Un enseignant-chercheur fait acheter depuis 2010 par les formations de sa propre université (dont certaines qu'il dirige lui-même) les business games mis au point par… son épouse et lui-même. #howtogetrich mediapart.fr/journal/france…

Once the Small Pearl-bordered Frit (B selene) was widespread in NL, but already when I started butterflying it was rare and local. Almost all small populations are gone now with only two large clusters remaining.