This male Heliophanus cupreus (the small one) offered a prey to feed the female before mating. This gift reduces his risk of being cannibalized right after mating.
Arnaud Badiane
@arnaud-badiane.bsky.social
CNRS researcher at IGFL, ENS-Lyon. Ecology-Evolution-Development Nature Photography website: https://arnaudbadiane.com/
Decapitated fly. The culprit left a signature in the silk lines...
🧪 Happy @sciencecharles.bsky.social that this study made it to @pnas.org , it was a real conundrum to solve and it all begun with poster by @abalosaurus.bsky.social 🦎🦎🦎. Good job @premdaguilar.bsky.social and many thanks to @evolgen.bsky.social and Ethology Lab @uv.es. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
A transcription factor modulates dermal architecture to generate structural and pigment color diversity in lizards | PNAS
The way organisms perceive the world influences their evolution. Many animals detect ultraviolet (UV) light invisible to humans, creating sensory c...
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New paper out suggests there are a LOT more species of insects in the world. Their estimate: 20.3 million species, of which we have described 5% 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...
Scientists have only discovered a tiny fraction of living insect species
About 1 million insect species have been described, but a new analysis suggests tens of millions more may be out there
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A type of natural selection known as negative frequency dependent selection is thought to be a major force promoting genetic diversity in important traits. Read research in a new issue of #PhilTransB: buff.ly/bOhpNlE
Inspiring plenary talk on variation in water striders by Abdou Khila at the EuroEvoDevo conference in Glasgow. #EED2026
NEWS: The ERC Scientific Council has listened to the concerns from members of the research community about changes to the re-submission rules, intended to manage the surge in demand for grants. The Scientific Council will readjust some of the changes: link.europa.eu/TBqRQJ
ERC Scientific Council readjusts rules for reapplication
The ERC Scientific Council has listened to the concerns from members of the research community about the recent announcement on changes to the re-submission rules. The changes, intended to manage the ...
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Quand une maladie inventée piège l’intelligence artificielle et s’invite dans une revue médicale A lire sur 'Réalités Biomédicales' www.lemonde.fr/realites-bio...
Quand une maladie inventée piège l’intelligence artificielle et s’invite dans une revue médicale
En quelques mois, une maladie entièrement fictive s’est glissée dans les réponses de chatbots d’IA conversationnels, avant de faire irruption dans une revue médicale. Une dérive qui rappelle plusieurs...
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📰 La France doit privilégier la conservation des #pollinisateurs plutôt que l’utilisation des #pesticides Cette lettre publiée dans la revue @science.org et rédigée par un consortium d’écologues est une incitation à refuser l’usage de deux #néonicotinoïdes #Duplomb 👉 iees-paris.fr/science-la-f...
Just discovered the wonderful covers of 'Genes to Cells', the journal of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan @mbsj-official.bsky.social – absolutely beautiful! here some examples inspired by mitosis, CRISPR, the DNA helix, and plant pigments
We've got ISSUES. Literally. We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do? arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563 A 🧵 1/n
Great new study about the loss of a colour morph in Common Wall Lizards (Podarcis muralis) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Adaptive spread of a sexually selected syndrome eliminates an ancient color polymorphism in wall lizards
Genetically determined color morphs are found in many animals. Polymorphism can be maintained by social selection if competitive interactions allow each morph to increase in frequency when rare. This ...
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Human long-distance runners struggle with dehydration after losing 2% body mass, but common lizards still run well after losing 30% of their body mass. However, cold (20C) lizards are only half as fast as 35C lizards, so temperature impacts them more journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
How iNaturalist, a citizen-science platform, led to the rediscovery of a species thought to be extinct. These platforms are powerful tools for the monitoring of biodiversity. www.cell.com/current-biol...
Rediscovery of the greater chestnut weevil highlights the power of digital platforms in biodiversity research and conservation
Charles et al. rediscover the presumed-extinct greater chestnut weevil (Curculio caryatrypes) in the eastern US via iNaturalist, and genomic data and field surveys confirm identity and active reproduc...
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🦣🧬🦣🤯💥We are pleased to share our new paper about ancient RNA expression profiles from the Woolly Mammoth, now published in Cell @cellpress.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... If you want to know more, read the 🧵 below:
Researchers immunized an alpaca and a llama with snake venoms, and combined some of the antibodies produced into a potent cocktail go.nature.com/47LQB8d
Single antivenom protects against 17 different snakebites
Researchers immunized an alpaca and a llama with snake venoms, and combined some of the antibodies produced into a potent cocktail.
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Nice video clip about one of our amazing study species. Those locomotory abilities are incredible! youtu.be/CrXqqX-ta5I
How these aquatic insects skate across the surface with ease
YouTube video by Science Magazine
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Two large Beetles (Coleoptera) that can be found in Portugal. Always an impressive sight!
This stinkbug makes an alliance with a fungus to fight its enemy, a parasitic wasp. An evolutionary arms race taken to the next level. www.science.org/content/arti...
These stinkbugs coat their eggs in fungi to protect them from parasitic wasps
An unusual relationship could shed light on how insects choose their partners
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We are also deeply saddened that the Madeiran Large White, Pieris wollastoni, is now officially extinct: it was last seen in 1986. The full report can be downloaded here www.bc-europe.eu/documents/68...
Safe to say that this cricket (Sphingonotus imitans) is right in its habitat. The precision of camouflage will never cease to amaze me.
This article is a couple of years old but still worth sharing given the spectacular diversity of phasmid eggs. Impressive! www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...
These insects are masters of disguise—even before hatching
At every stage in their lives, from egg to adult, leaf and stick insects prove to be prey that can trick their predators.
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Quite interesting! journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
Recent extinctions of plant and animal genera are rare, localized, and decelerated
Recent research claims that extinctions of tetrapod genera are rapidly accelerating and threaten human survival. This study shows, through an analysis of recent extinctions, across plant and animal ge...
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We’re offering a fully funded 4 yr PhD position to work on Sexual selection in complex environments at the @uv.es. Co-supervised by @dbergerbiol.bsky.social. Find details below 👇
If you want to walk on water, it helps to have fancy feet.
Frilly bug feet inspire a water-striding robot
Ripple bugs’ nimble movements on the surface of water inspired a robot with automatically unfurling fans on its feet.
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Caudal fins show great variation in shape between diverse fish species. New research reveals that #developmental cues in embryonic tissues involving the Sonic hedgehog pathway imprint fin #morphology, highlighting a critical window for modulating appendage morphology. 🧪 plos.io/4mydLnA
"While present in all mammals, the HAR123 enhancer rapidly evolved since humans diverged from chimpanzees. Human HAR123 uniquely regulates many genes involved in neural differentiation. HAR123-knockout mice exhibit impaired cognitive flexibility & shifts in neural-glia ratios in the hippocampus." 👇🧪
An ancient enhancer rapidly evolving in the human lineage promotes neural development and cognitive flexibility
HAR123 is a conserved enhancer rapidly evolving in the human lineage that exerts neural functions.
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Introducing "The SORTEE Guidelines for Data and Code Quality Control in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology" The first standardised set of data editor guidelines. Led by SORTEE with input from numerous data editors across ecology and evolution. 🔗 doi.org/10.32942/X24...
The SORTEE Guidelines for Data and Code Quality Control in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
This is a Preprint and has not been peer reviewed. This is version 1 of this Preprint.
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The appearance of large language models caused a drastic shift in the vocabulary of academic writing, according to an analysis in #ScienceAdvances of more than 15 million biomedical abstracts published from 2010 to 2024. Learn more:
Delving into LLM-assisted writing in biomedical publications through excess vocabulary
Large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT can generate and revise text with human-level performance. These models come with clear limitations, can produce inaccurate information, and reinforce existing biases.
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