@hweimer Thanks for sharing your opinion. Reviewer 2 or not, citing this paper while ignoring others still contributes to the bias, which in turn creates a skewed view of the literature.

I’m surprised by how many people mention that paper to me, without realizing that I know it better than they think! And, more importantly, without knowing that most of its conclusions have since been invalidated... It’s unfortunate, especially in a period where quality science is supposed to be a priority.

My small contribution to the discussion on scientific ethics, by highlighting a typical case of citation bias. Here is the citation trajectory I retrieved for the Monroe et al. paper, despite multiple reanalyses revealing critical flaws. 😔

Feel free to be as depressed as I am right now! 😉

Liang et al. assembled 22 Quercus variabilis genomes, identifying variants associated with local adaptation. A region of Chr9 had evidence of introgression from Q. acutissima, supporting a role for structural variants in oak adaptation.

🔗 https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf088

#molbio #evobio #oak #evolution

A PhD position in plant evolutionary genomics is available at the University of Vienna 🇦🇹

Focus: genomic drivers underlying the diversification of Tillandsia 😍.

Funded by a project between France & Austria (ANR-FWF project RadiaSpe).

Bonus: your office would be on Rennweg street, just a two-minute walk from the impressive Belvedere Palace!

Come join the team!

More information: https://thibaultleroyfr.github.io/pdf/Univie_RadiaSpe_PhDposition.pdf

[Boosts welcome !]

The Population Genomics course with @TiBoLeroyInEn and @yannbourgeois

https://www.physalia-courses.org/courses-workshops/population-genomics/

In this course @TiBoLeroyInEn & Yann Bourgeois offer a comprehensive introduction to key population genomics concepts and methods— from population structure, introgression, demographic modeling, genome scans, and landscape genomics.
https://www.physalia-courses.org/courses-workshops/population-genomics/

"La vie secrète des arbres : la théorie s’effondre"
Enfin un article de débunkage sur le Wood Wide Web de Wohlleben & co: https://www.epsiloon.com/tous-les-numeros/n42/la_vie_secrete_des_arbres/
👏 aux collègues (INRAE notamment) pour cet effort de vulgarisation

De quoi me réconcilier avec Epsiloon? Pas encore tout à fait... mais ça va dans le bon sens!

PS: de notre côté, on prépare un débunkage sur le sujet des mutations somatiques des plantes! Ca sera dans un autre journal de vulgarisation. Restez connectés!😉

PS: article publié en nov 2024

Projet de thèse sur l'histoire évolutive et la génomique de la conservation des abeilles noires

Co-direction: Pierre Faux et moi-même
Localisation: GenPhySE, centre INRAE Toulouse
+ d'infos: https://thibaultleroyfr.github.io/pdf/Annonce_these_GenomiqueAbeillesNoires_FR.pdf

(Merci par avance pour vos RT et la diffusion à vos M2 😉)

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 😉)

🌹 🧬
Proud to announce that our preprint on the history of rose breeding is now recommended by @PeerCommunityIn (PCI) Evolutionary Biology !

Manuscript (latest version): https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.06.22.546162v5
Recommendation: https://evolbiol.peercommunityin.org/articles/rec?id=793
Dedication: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2025/02/01/2023.06.22.546162/DC1/embed/media-1.pdf?download=true
Former thread: https://ecoevo.social/deck/@TiBoLeroyInEn/110612722811582924

Many thanks to our PCI recommender Mathieu Gautier (@mg34), and our three reviewers (Pierre Nouhaud, Vincent Segura and 1 anonymous reviewer) for all the constructive remarks.

Big up PCI

Comment les humains ont bouleversé l’histoire et la diversité des abeilles à miel?
🐝🍯🧬🌍

Article de vulgarisation publié sur TheConversationFr sur l'histoire des abeilles à miel, l'apiculture, la diversité génétique, la conservation... Bref, un résumé très accessible de nos recherches récemment publiées dans MBE!
Bonne lecture!

Article à retrouver ici: https://theconversation.com/abeilles-a-miel-comment-les-humains-ont-bouleverse-leur-histoire-et-leur-diversite-247707

My two Twitter accounts (one in French and one in English) are now deactivated. It’s a day I would have loved to celebrate by jumping for joy, but unfortunately, due to a misstep while running, I have to remain quiet. 🩼 Still, the inner joy of leaving the empire of fake news remains immense!

Here are some 2024 highlights of PCI and Peer Community Journal.📊 Grateful to everyone who contributed to this success🦸. We're excited and prepared for an amazing 2025🤩!

🚨 Registrations Open! 🚨

Join the 2nd edition of our Population Genomics Course (5 days, online) with @TiBoLeroyInEn & @yannbourgeois. Learn key concepts & techniques: bioinformatics, population structure, introgression, genome scanning & more!
https://www.physalia-courses.org/courses-workshops/population-genomics/

There are now 19 thematic PCIs but many disciplines remain to be covered! We are therefore making a call for the creation of new thematic PCIs and giving some information on how to start:https://buff.ly/40azLuY

"The costs of competition in distributing scarce research funds" PNAS
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2407644121

Over the last two years, I lost ~6 months (full time equivalent) for a SINGLE application. And at the end? A rejection. 6 months of research lost + a decision that is even more difficult to accept given I consider it unethical. 🤷‍♂️

Happy new year to us, it's finally out 🎊🥳🎊
https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.17637

Thx Gonçalo :) Yes, the results from your aDNA study and our demographic inferences on present-day samples indeed align well to support this reduction of diversity. By the way, it is possible that I will perhaps come one or two weeks in Portugal in 2025 to visit Alice Pinto's lab. It could be great to meet you in Porto during that time.

Happy to see our work on honey bees now published in MBE, one of my preferred journals:
https://academic.oup.com/mbe/article/41/12/msae249/7927660?searchresult=1
🎁🎄

Former thread: https://ecoevo.social/deck/@TiBoLeroyInEn/113105973335181067

New version available for our preprint on the history of rose breeding during the 19th century:
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.06.22.546162v4

Our manuscript has been further improved thanks to our PCI reviewers. As you might know, the past few weeks have been particularly sad for us, especially the colleagues of the GDO team (IRHS) in Angers. Naturally, the ms is fully dedicated to the memory of Laurence. 🌹

More information:
See our former thread at https://ecoevo.social/deck/@TiBoLeroyInEn/110612722811582924