Fieldwork to survey snapdragon plants and evaluate their ability to adapt looking more and more like a western movie in a desert, with more and more dead plants, and friendly spiders protecting us from horse flies. #CRIOBE #SEE-Life www.inee.cnrs.fr/fr/see-life-...

Are city birds genetically adapting to urban life? A common garden experiment in great tits reveals hidden evolutionary changes masked by environmental effects in the wild. doi.org/10.1093/evle... Image by G. Laurent, wikimedia

Welcome to the Anthropocene 🔥

Our paper is out! 📣 we find that molecular measures of genetic variation do not predict heritable genetic variation across species - important implications for the application of genomic data for conservation! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Nucleotide diversity is a poor predictor of short-term adaptive potential | PNAS

The capacity to adapt is essential for a population to avoid extinction in a changing world and is recognized as a global conservation priority. Ad...

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A new group dedicated to evolutionary ecology! This is an opportunity to have a permanent community space for the field, as well as ensure regular conferences like #ExE2026. But it needs your help 👇

BES Evolutionary Ecology Group@bes-evolecol.bsky.social · last mo.

We’re now looking for evolutionary ecologists to join our committee to build #ExE2026 into the start of something great, not just a one-off. Details here: www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/evol...

Evolution and Ecology meet in talks of the #ExE2026 conference from the microbiome to behaviour. Great contributions to the understanding to the ability of wild species to adapt by using quantitative genetics. Looking forward to 2027 edition

🌍 Read the #GlobalAssessment:

Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services | IPBES secretariat

IPBES is to perform regular and timely assessments of knowledge on biodiversity and ecosystem services and their interlinkages at the global level. Also addressing an invitation by the Conference of the Parties of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) to prepare a global assessment of biodive...

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To slow down and adapt to climate changes with concrete actions, we need actionable knowledge at the local scale, in touch with the real world! That's why in the South of France Occitanie region, we built a regional panel of experts on climate change grec-o.org

How do plants grow in space? Thanks to @soph-astro.esa.int we started an experiment that compares Arabidopsis plants sown in schools down on earth and on the International Space Station!

Our latest publication on planktivorous fishes! In this article, we highlight the long-term stability of these fishes to fluctuations in coral cover at Mo’orea, French Polynesia. #fish #coralreefs #MarineEcology @benoitpujol.bsky.social @renatoamorais.bsky.social

Planktivorous fishes withstand 20 years of major coral cover oscillations - Coral Reefs

Planktivorous fishes play a crucial role in coral reef ecosystems by converting pelagic planktonic resources into reef biomass. They serve as key vectors of energy transfer from the pelagic zone to the reef, thereby enhancing overall reef productivity. However, the habitats supporting planktivorous fishes are under unprecedented stress imposed by global changes, foremost of which is widespread warming-induced coral mortality. We analyzed 20 years (2004–2024) of benthic and fish monitoring data around Mo’orea Island (French Polynesia, South Pacific) across three reef types (fringing reef, back reef, and fore reef). Our results show that planktivorous fish density was positively but weakly correlated with coral cover. On the fore reef, planktivorous fish communities were more responsive to disturbances affecting coral cover (e.g., heatwaves, cyclones, or crown-of-thorns starfish outbreaks). There, fishes responded by exhibiting relatively large fluctuations in density and community composition; the opposite was true for the back reef and fringing reef. Indeed, zones characterized by low coral cover (< 25%) that initially supported few planktivorous fishes, showed a moderate but detectable increase in density after successive disturbances. We show that oscillations in coral cover driven by these disturbances may have long-term cascading effects on associated fish assemblages, as evidenced by the gradual decline of Pycnochromis vanderbilti unveiled in our study. Collectively, our findings imply a relative resilience of planktivorous fishes facing repeated and severe coral cover decline and rebound.

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"Scientists surveying the area found three times more seabed organisms and twice as many species compared to nearby unprotected waters" news.mongabay.com/short-articl...

Seabed life triples after bottom trawling ban in Scotland protected area

Nearly a decade since Scotland established the South Arran Marine Protected Area and banned bottom trawling across much of it, life on the seafloor has thrived, a new study has found. Scientists surve...

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#Podcast Et pour (ré)écouter la chronique #AvecSciences du jour > Face aux changements climatiques, Arabidopsis thaliana évolue vite et de façon prévisible Par @alexandradelbot.bsky.social via @franceculture.fr #ScienceCQFD www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...

Face aux changements climatiques, Arabidopsis thaliana évolue vite et de façon prévisible

Arabidopsis thaliana, plante modèle en biologie végétale, a été semée sur 43 sites, du désert du Néguev à la banlieue de Montpellier. Résultat de cette grande étude : dans des climats similaires, les ...

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New paper out: Artificial selection for increased reproductive effort accelerates actuarial senescence and reduces lifespan in a precocial bird url: royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article... @uniexecec.bsky.social @erikpostma.bsky.social @joelpick.bsky.social y.social @oscarvedder.bsky.social

JOB OPPORTUNITY: SeaSim Technical Officer - Australian Institute of Marine Science Application deadline 26th April 2026 Learn more here: careers.aims.gov.au/page.php?pag... #coralreefs #jobs #jobopportunity #australia #seasim #coralresearch #careers #careerdevelopment #coralreefscience

Les suivis de la capacité d'adaptation des plantes c'est toute l'année, même quand il faut traverser l'eau en waders avec un vent à décorner les boeufs ! Merci à mon complice de toujours Fabien Morat, et à SEE-Life CNRS d'avoir labelliser notre suivi de plus de 15 ans

Bienvenue à la Z’API ! 🥳 Cette nouvelle Zone Atelier vise à accompagner sur le long terme la gestion durable des socio-écosystèmes insulaires coralliens de la Polynésie française. 🪸🏝️🐠

CNRS@cnrs.fr · 6mo ago

#Communiqué 🗞️ Le CNRS crée une nouvelle zone de recherche en Polynésie française en collaboration avec des partenaires locaux, nationaux et internationaux, afin de répondre aux principaux défis environnementaux et sociétaux du territoire. 🪸🏝️🐠 👉 www.cnrs.fr/fr/presse/le...

NEW PAPER: During three years, we selected Arabidosis plants with the same DNA sequence to be taller, amongst other things. We sequenced their DNA and methylations. We obtained bigger plants and observed changes in epigenetic frequencies. Quantifying the epigenetic response to selection: done!

The CNRS is breaking free from the Web of Science www.cnrs.fr/en/update/cn...

The CNRS is breaking free from the Web of Science

From January 1st 2026, the CNRS will cut access to one of the largest commercial bibliometric databases, Clarivate Analytics'

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Grente: killing wolves reduces livestock attacks in France, with much variability. Attack reduction is usually over short temporal (2-3 mo) and spatial (a few km) scales. Much stronger effects of multiple VS single removals. peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10....

Merci au journal LeMonde d'avoir mis en avant mon programme de recherche sciences société et fondamentales sur la capacité d'adaptation de la renaturation dans l'espace urbain www.lemonde.fr/sciences/vid...

Vidéo. Canicule : mauvaises herbes à la rescousse

Vidéo - Le Monde.fr - 1er site d’information sur l’actualité. Retrouvez ici une info de la thématique Sciences du 29 août 2025 sur le sujet Canicule : mauvaises herbes à la rescousse

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👋 Interested in working on the evolution of genetic architecture 🧬 of complex traits using linked-read sequencing of thousands of common lizards 🦎 from a wild population and common garden experiment? #evolution #genetics Well, I have a PhD offer for you 👇 devillemereuil.legtux.org/erc-funded-p...

This could be helpful for educators, activists, advocates and many others... #OpenPlanet is a video library that show nature, environmental changes and climate footage (that isn’t AI-generated!)

Discover world-class footage of our changing planet.

Open Planet is a global library of high-quality climate and nature footage. It is free to use for educational, environmental and impact storytelling.

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IPBES@ipbes.net · last yr.

Looking for high quality free videos?🎥 Introducing: Open Planet! 🧪🌍 A rich free-to-use video library to help storytellers create impactful content for our planet. Find world-class footage to tell your stories about #biodiversity & nature ⤵️🌿 openplanet.org #ForNature

In our new preprint lead by @pietropollo.bsky.social we show how to use meta-analysis to compare not sample means but also kurtosis & skewness, as well as within-group covariance between multiple groups. The era of meta-analyzing whole distributions is here ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

Tout le monde a une histoire en lien avec les mathématiques. 📢 Donnez votre point de vue en participant à la consultation citoyenne "Aux maths citoyennes, citoyens !", organisée jusqu'au 30 avril 2025 par le @cnrs.fr. 👉 consultation-maths.fr

Our new research paper out today peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10.... clownfish fitness: driven by host anemone species, spatial distribution, and NOT driven by host anemone depth and density as thought before #OpenScience #clownfish #marinelife #CRIOBE #adaptation

📖This issue features our Calow-Grace review, by @annecharmantier.bsky.social and team! The review evaluated the peer-reviewed literature for studies that measured and compared natural selection in urban versus non-urban habitats🏙️ Read it here👇 buff.ly/3VthUxB 🧵2/3 🧪🌍

Is natural selection really stronger in cities?

Anne Charmantier, Tracy Burkhard, Laura Gervais, Charles Perrier, Albrecht I. Schulte-Hostedde, Megan J. Thompson This is a plain language summary for the 2024 Calow-Grace review which can be found…

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🚨 Postdoc alert! 🚨 Come and work with Alastair Wilson, @bfraser.bsky.social and myself @exetercec.bsky.social on a NERC- funded project that combines behavioural ecology, quantitative genetics and genomics in guppies. And all that in beautiful Cornwall🏖️🏄‍♂️⛵️! More info t.co/xFh8RNpoO6

Corals can adapt to warming oceans, but not fast enough – new research theconversation.com/corals-can-a...

Corals can adapt to warming oceans, but not fast enough – new research

Natural selection won’t keep pace with global warming if the Paris climate agreement isn’t realised.

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