‪ 🌳 Do you want to contribute to research on how humans perceive forests? Take this quick, anonymous 10-min survey 🌲 👉 www.biodiful.org#/forest This will help us explore how people experience forest biodiversity! Please share on 🦋 & tag @biodiful.bsky.social to reach more participants 🙏💚 🌐🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪

Hey IQTree3 paper is out. Bread and butter for tree building anything in my workflow. They have a pretty standout documentation too. 🖥️🧬 academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

IQ-TREE 3: phylogenomic inference software using complex evolutionary models

Abstract. IQ-TREE (https://iqtree.github.io/) is a widely used open-source software tool for efficiently inferring phylogenetic trees under maximum likelih

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Don't miss it! It's a really nice conférence, with and great organization team

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Worried you might miss the EMPSEB 31 abstract submission deadline? Fret not, because we have decided to extend the deadline! Send us your abstracts till February 15, 2026! Mark this one on your calendars so you don't forget!

#cjm25 It's already over (sniff), with a final day of fascinating talks and interesting discussions Goodbye Roscoff

🧬✨ It’s official! EMPSEB31 is coming to Germany, June 2026! Europe’s friendliest evolution meeting returns, organized by PhD students, for PhD students. Expect inspiring research, new connections, and a mix of science + fun, the EMPSEB way! 📍Save the date & follow us for updates! Link in Bio 🌍

Second day at the Speciation Jacques Monod conference #cjm25, it goes so fast, amazing talks about the biogeography of speciation and hybridization

Some free time on the Brittany coast, at Roscoff, dedicating to naturalist inventories Few nice Polyplacophora, Acanthochitona crinita & Acanthochitona fascicularis

Here you go!

Marine origins and freshwater radiations of the otophysan fishes

Otophysans, known for their enhanced hearing enabled by the complex Weberian apparatus, comprise two-thirds of extant freshwater fish species. Previously, they were thought to have originated in fresh...

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What a nice start and amazing first day of Jacques Monod conference on bridging the micro macroevolution gap #cjm25 plenty of fascinating talks and posters Didn't react quickly enough to illustrate all of them, just catch a few

First paper just accepted in @ecol-evol.bsky.social, we will soon talk about fish 🐟 and biogeography

First talk to kick off this Jacques Monod conference on a multidimensional view of speciation: bridging micro and macro-evolution by Daniel Rabosky. The demography of speciation and its implications for macroevolutionary dynamics Really exciting talk!

Really amazing dragonfly in Africa, Palpopleura portia (♀️)

Swiss glaciers have lost 3% of their ice volume in 2025! 🔥 ...and ONE QUARTER only over the last 10 years! 📈 2025 is the 4th most disastrous loss ever measured (after absolute record years 2022 and 2023)! JUST CRAZY… 😱 Full report: doi.glamos.ch/pubs/annualr... Data @matthias-huss.bsky.social

#SpeciesID Any idea of what could be the species of this moth caterpillar? Observed in Tanzania in september near the Tanganyika lake coast in Kagunga (northern part close to Burundi)

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Writing: just add coffee **Hey, my new book comes out on Tuesday! 👉 amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1419764063

What’s happening to the UK’s woods? We’re proud to partner with the Woodland Trust, who have published their State of the UK’s Woods and Trees 2025 report, putting woodlands back under the microscope to check up on their health and see what’s changed. bit.ly/3USkOeC Image: John Bridges WTML

Heads up: ignore samtools dot org, similarly minimap2 dot com and likely others. It's owned by a known phishing site and while the binaries they offer look valid currently (but note they may be serving us different binaries to others), that could change. Ie: it's not us (Samtools team)! Be warned

Introducing PhenoLearn! An open-source toolkit to annotate and analyse 2D specimen images using deep learning—without the need for coding expertise: #DeepLearning #Biodiversity #Phenotyping #OpenSource He et al: doi.org/10.1093/jeb/... @gavinhthomas.bsky.social @stevemaddock.bsky.social

PhenoLearn: a user-friendly toolkit for image annotation and deep learning-based phenotyping for biological datasets

Abstract. The digitization of natural history specimens has unlocked opportunities for large-scale phenotypic trait analysis. In recent years, deep learnin

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EMPSEB30 has come to an end, but we’re thrilled by the many enthusiastic volunteers eager to organize EMPSEB31. Next stop could be France 🇫🇷, Germany 🇩🇪, or Denmark 🇩🇰… we’ll see! Wishing all future organizers the best of luck!💫

Last day of the conference @empseb30.bsky.social, thank you for this great week and all these exchanges on our sciences topics

Again an nice day with great talks at @empseb30.bsky.social

I finally found the species I was looking for here in Czech Republic He's soooo cute, he looks like a waterbear Tetrodontophora bielanensis

Fascinating talk by @bruzos.bsky.social on cancer transmission in bivalves at @empseb30.bsky.social

Next is a great talk about evolutionary genomics of pesticide resistance in Daphnia magna: a population, comparative and functional approach by Alexandros Kourtidis @alexkourt.bsky.social. #empseb30 #conference #phdstudent #evolution #Daphnia #genomics

Great talk of @achillelenglin.bsky.social at @empseb30.bsky.social !!

Achille Lenglin is interested in the phylogeny and evolution of Afrotropical viviparids in the East African Rift System!🐚 Thank you for amazing closing talk of Session 2A, @achillelenglin.bsky.social 👏!

End of this second day with a lot of fascinating subject @empseb30.bsky.social

First day of presentation yesterday, full of super interesting talks and posters, can't wait to find out more the rest of the week with @empseb30.bsky.social