Evolutionary Biologist
Lecturer/Maître de conférences
Institut de Recherche sur le Biologie de l’Insecte, Université de Tours, France.
📢 New paper out in Ecotoxicology! 🪲🌿
We tested whether a common glyphosate-based weed killer harms European earwigs.
🧪 Despite exposure to high doses, we found no major effects on maternal care, development, or immunity.
This surprising resilience raises new questions: Why are earwigs so tolerant to chemical pollution?
Read more:
🔗 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10646-025-02912-w
#Ecotoxicology #Insects #Glyphosate #Pesticides #Earwigs #Science #PollutionResilience
Save the date: We organise the next European Congress of Entomology from June 29 to July 3 2026 in Tours, France. More than 50 symposiums on almost all aspects of insects, including parental care !! @irbi-tours.bsky.social
📅 Registration opens 10 July 2025
🔗 Stay tuned at www.ece2026.org
Just out in @journal_evo: "Testing for age- and sex- specific mitonuclear epistasis in Drosophila"
https://academic.oup.com/evolut/advance-article/doi/10.1093/evolut/qpaf096/8129707
Hundreds of thousands of Computers won't be able to upgrade to Windows 11, but that shouldn't make them eWaste.
Kudos to the @kde team for this amazing initiative!
📚✨ Curieux·se de découvrir ce que c'est de faire une thèse sur les perce-oreilles ? Plongez dans cette BD illustrée par Pellichi, qui met en lumière le travail de thèse de Laura Pasquier dans mon équipe. Une superbe façon de rendre la science accessible !
5 #NeuroJobs in #Glasgow !! Please share!
Appointments can range from Grade 7-9 (Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in the UK; assistant/associate professor in the US) to Grade 10 (full Professor)
Closing Date: 12 May 2025
Un chercheur français du CNRS refoulé des Etats-Unis pour avoir exprimé "une opinion personnelle sur la politique menée par Trump". Ce chercheur dans le domaine spatial a subi un contrôle aléatoire à son arrivée à l'aéroport, au cours duquel son ordinateur et son téléphone personnel ont été fouillés. Le FBI a ouvert une enquête contre lui, depuis abandonnée. Les Etats-Unis ne sont plus une démocratie https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2025/03/19/etats-unis-un-chercheur-francais-refoule-pour-avoir-exprime-une-opinion-personnelle-sur-la-politique-menee-par-l-administration-trump_6583618_3210.html
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Come work at the U. of Oslo. We are advertising a 3-year postdoc in Evolutionary and Comparative Genomics. If working with plant evolution in the Galápagos, pangenome and structural variants sounds exciting for you - this may be your chance!
In our latest preprint, we showcase how to use a phylogenetic meta-analysis of variance to test evolutionary hypotheses across species.
We collected data for 172 birds (314 populations) to test patterns of stabilising selection and canalisation for wing length.
Given it’s international women’s day, I’d like to encourage you all, but especially Dutch men to read these ‘anti-acknowledgments’ in a PhD thesis. This is not from somewhere else, it’s from Delft. And it’s not from the 1950s, but from the present. Unfortunately what academic life and culture in The Netherlands is still like. The author is just one of the few who actually spoke up about it, but there are many stories like it.
(Alt at https://pastebin.com/cqLvxX1f)
La SFE2 soutient l'appel du Collège des Sociétés Savantes Académiques de France à participer au Mouvement Stand Up for Science !
RDV le 7 mars pour soutenir nos collègues qui font face à des dérives particulièrement préoccupantes aux Etats-Unis.
*** Vous retrouverez tous les événements ici: https://standupforscience.fr/tous-les-evenements/?fbclid=IwY2xjawI2azhleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHcq1b0NYPd9nXa-KONOD-fe2WXdtH-N6cQq7CNM_8la6iXWkAHZPaV9gmA_aem_LhlvtuZ4Qr3P6oZjSlVbHQ
*** Vous trouverez le communiqué de presse de soutien ici: https://societes-savantes.fr/soutien-du-college-au-mouvement-stand-up-for-science-aux-usa-et-en-france/?fbclid=IwY2xjawI2azVleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHQUQb3UkIdRFsdgJNOzxKLgeA_pqYoKhWI3JYV7B76pQSIrhNlB6aQL8Fw_aem_ZhZ6E3Z3DTBAgS_p3fkkVQ
Six researchers share their personal experiences of part-time work in academia, discuss the benefits and barriers, and outline what individual academics, universities and funders can do to encourage and support part-time working patterns.
https://elifesciences.org/articles/106336?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic_features
PhD thesis proposal in our lab:
"Evolutionary history and conservation genomics of black honey bees"
Supervision: Pierre Faux and I
Location: GenPhySE, INRAE Toulouse, France
More information: https://thibaultleroyfr.github.io/pdf/Annonce_these_GenomiqueAbeillesNoires_EN.pdf
(thanks in advance for your boosts and for sharing with your students 😉)
A specialist in the #genomics of crop #PlantDomestication and adaptation, Maud Tenaillon has been elected Editor-in-Chief of the journal Genome Biology and Evolution (GBE) by the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE).
More information : https://moulon.inrae.fr/en/news/2025/02/maud-tenaillon-editor-in-chief-of-the-journal-genome-biology-and-evolution-from-january-2025/
#maudtenaillon @GenomeBiolEvol @officialSMBE @cnrs @cnrsbiologie #ideev
A new #preprint #OpenScience #PeerReview by @PCIEvolBiol: Pierre de Villemereuil, Luis-Miguel Chevin (2025) Partitioning the phenotypic and genetic variances of reaction norms. https://doi.org/10.32942/X2NC8B Recommended by Staffan Jacob for @PCIEvolBiol based on published reviews by Jarrod Hadfield and Thibaut Morel Journel #OpenScience https://doi.org/10.24072/pci.evolbiol.100708
Our revised preprint following peer-review: “Why did the human brain size evolve: a way forward”. We suggest a simulation-based inference approach to infer why the human brain size evolved.
https://ecoevorxiv.org/repository/view/7598/
Illustrating this approach, we analyse a model that recovers major patterns of human development and evolution.
We discuss how, counter-intuitively, the human brain size, seemingly one of the most extraordinary existing adaptations, is not an adaptation in the model but a spandrel or by-product of selection for something else.
This finding refers to what the human brain size is in *this* model, not necessarily in reality. We suggest that a simulation-based inference approach could now be pursued to inferring what the human brain size is in reality, not just in one model.
17th Ecology and Behaviour annual meeting
11-15 August 2025, Montpellier France
Abstract submission deadline - March 28th
Registration is free
"Ecology & Behaviour (E&B) is a scientific symposium focused on the themes of ecology, evolutionary biology, and animal behaviour, organised by doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers."
In their Review, Alex Little and Frank Seebacher reveal that true costs of plasticity are rare, which challenges existing evolutionary theory and emphasizes the need for clearer definitions and a broader research focus in the plasticity field
All three books I've co-authored are freely available online for non-commercial use:
#Bayesian Data Analysis, 3rd ed (aka BDA3) at https://stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/book/ and lectures plus #rstats, #Python and #Stan code at https://avehtari.github.io/BDA_course_Aalto/
#Regression and Other Stories at https://avehtari.github.io/ROS-Examples/ including #rstats and #Stan code
Active Statistics at https://avehtari.github.io/ActiveStatistics/
The websites also have links to the publishers' web stores if you prefer hard copies of these
[Infos/Rappel] N'oubliez pas l'AG du 22 Janvier, en présentiel à Paris, ou en distanciel (voir événement).
Ce sera l'occasion du renouvellement partiel du CA.
==> pour plus d'informations pour candidater : https://sfecologie.org/2025/01/03/ag-candidatez-au-ca-de-la-sfe2/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR3GM1cXjvTMzqnmlKBKNTVgjQ5rF8ZdaD9DSsjFMA66CiiKVGGUr3UssdY_aem_XbAtoj6uj4BYhpz52VyDZg
N'hésitez pas !
En espérant vous y voir nombreux.
