My new book, Phylogenetic Biology, is now published. Available online for free at dunnlab.org/phylogenetic... . Physical copies can be purchased at shop.lightningsource.com/b/085?params... or your favorite bookstore.

Weevils, weevils, weevils ... again this year! Online, free, and always exciting and illuminating :)

Jakob Jilg@weevil-see.bsky.social · 4w ago

Spread the word! The Weevil Workers meetings consist of a series of presentations on any aspect of the study of weevils (Curculionoidea). Topics include systematics, faunistics, biogeography, evolution, biology, ecology, pests/biological control agents, etc. www.curculionoidea.org/weevil-worke...

The #Ento26 Programme is now live! 🦋 Explore the schedule, discover when your favourite sessions are taking place & browse an exciting line-up of exhibitions, plenary talks, symposia, workshops, presentations & more from across the entomological community. 📖 View the programme: buff.ly/vYXqXuC

🚨Job alert🚨: Research Group Leader position in Entomology 🪰🦗 @smnstuttgart.bsky.social naturkundemuseum-bw.helixjobs.com/_/jobad?prj=...

Gruppenleiter*in (m/w/d) für die Systematik der Insekten (Diptera, Hemiptera oder Orthoptera) – Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart

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A video of my recent talk at HFSP meeting presenting our project on the coevolution of flight, iridescence and colour vision in Morpho butterflies youtu.be/yb2YcltUKC0?...

Blue iridescence coevolves with colour vision and flight in morpho butterflies

YouTube video by HFSP

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The official link to apply for a post-doc position on transposable elements dynamics in palms is live. Located in Montpellier, Southern France, 18 months. Feel free to contact me for more information. emploi-recrutement.ird.fr/offre-de-emp...

Japan has now joined Horizon Europe. Japan’s researchers can now partner with teams across the EU. Together, we will advance global research in health, digital technologies, and climate neutrality ↓ link.europa.eu/YP7MtB

our #ANR project led by @tonyrobillard.bsky.social @isyeb.mnhn.fr just got funded! 🙌 We are going to investigate the diversification and the evolution of communication systems in a speciose insect group with #genomics #transcriptomics #biomechanics & #macroevolutionary_analyses

#HelloESR Voici un kit de démarrage de chercheuses et chercheurs en écologie-évolution en poste en France go.bsky.app/HM6CfJ5 Aidez-moi à le compléter ! Une contrainte : une auto-nomination de chercheur doit s'accompagner d'une nomination de chercheuse

I’ve seen trees you people wouldn’t believe. Deep branches collapsing off the shoulder of a saturated site, unresolved. I watched long-branch attraction glitter in the dark near the root of the Archaea. All those topologies will be lost in time… like tips in a polytomy.

Our new commentary rdcu.be/ftx6h in @natecoevo.nature.com written with folks from @inaturalist.bsky.social and @cornellbirds.bsky.social shows that use of AI to manipulate existing or create new wildlife images undermines the huge value of vast citizen science databases. 🌍🪰🪶 #Ornithology 🧵 1/10

Citizen science platforms must mitigate against the threat of generative AI

Nature Ecology & Evolution - Citizen science platforms must mitigate against the threat of generative AI

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another great teamwork @cbgpmontpellier.bsky.social led by Léa Genty and @cnmeynard.bsky.social !! Part of our #ANR projet #AgriBiodiv focusing on #Metacommunities and #plant-insect interactions across an agricultural intensification gradient (in 500 French parcels ) @inrae-dpt-spe.bsky.social

Christine N Meynard@cnmeynard.bsky.social · last mo.

Happy to share another great publication lead by Lea Genty @cbgpmontpellier.bsky.social showing direct and indirect effects of agricultural practices on surrounding coleopteran communities. 🌐🧪 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I’m recruiting a PhD student to join our lab in the fall of 2027. If you’re excited about phylogenetics, comp bio, paleobiology, stats theory, macroevolution, etc. please get in touch! Folks at #Evol2026, you can talk to @brpetrucci.bsky.social & @sigournie.bsky.social to learn more about our lab

Repeated evolution of iridescence and hindwing tails is associated with morphometric flight proxies in skipper butterflies academic.oup.com/evolut/artic...

Repeated evolution of iridescence and hindwing tails is associated with morphometric flight proxies in skipper butterflies

Abstract. Phenotypic evolution is shaped by phylogenetic history, ecology and biomechanical constraints. Butterfly wings offer an ideal system to explore t

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An enigmatic rarely collected South African species and an undescribed mystery species from South America turn out to belong to a new Lepidoptera family in the superfamily Geometroidea! Museomics solves the mystery! doi.org/10.1111/syen...

Two Southern Hemisphere species on two continents, one rarely collected, one undescribed, form a moth family without hearing organs (Lepidoptera, Geometroidea, Apoprogonidae stat. rev.)

The systematic placement of the South African Apoprogones hesperistis Hampson and southern South American Ona australis gen. et sp. n. has been controversial. Based on mitogenomes, phylogenomic data...

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📢 Approaches in Entomology, our new #OpenAccess journal, is open for submissions! 🎉 It will publish innovative & exciting advances to methods & techniques, including ethics and philosophies, across the breadth of entomology. 🔬 Learn more and submit your work here! ⬇️ buff.ly/ZwzAiMK #EntoMethods

📢 Approaches in Entomology, our new #OpenAccess journal, is open for submissions! 🎉 It will publish innovative & exciting advances to methods & techniques, including ethics and philosophies, across the breadth of entomology. 🔬 Learn more and submit your work here! ⬇️ buff.ly/ZwzAiMK #EntoMethods

Un nouveau poste CDI technicien·ne en écologie des interactions @cbgpmontpellier.bsky.social, pour une personne motivée par l’entomologie appliquée, le biocontrôle et le travail expérimental en équipe. Plus d'informations ici: recrutement.cirad.fr/offre-de-emp...

Another chapter of my thesis is out! We used genomic data generated from across the range of the Western Balkan highland endemic beetle Calosoma pentheri support the recognition of two distinct species. Biogeography, divergence estimates, phylo & population genetics, etc.

Botanical parasitism of an insect by a parasitic plant: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...

Botanical parasitism of an insect by a parasitic plant

Egan et al. report the discovery of a new trophic interaction in nature whereby a parasitic plant attacks multiple species of insects that manipulate plant tissue when the two co-occur on a shared pri...

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Merci pour la vulgarisation de notre étude sur cette tribu de #coccinelles (majoritairement) aphidophages ! parue dans @ecol-evol.bsky.social ! @cbgpmontpellier.bsky.social @isyeb.mnhn.fr

INRAE Département SPE@inrae-dpt-spe.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🐞 Les #coccinelles ne mangent pas que des #pucerons ! 👨‍🔬 Une étude #INRAE révèle comment leur #alimentation a guidé leur expansion à travers le monde. 💡 Comprendre leur évolution, c’est mieux anticiper leur rôle en #agriculture et dans les #écosystèmes. 👉 www.inrae.fr/actualites/c...

great opportunity to do interesting museomics work on Lepidoptera !

Maria Heikkilä@mariaheikkila.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Open position: Postdoctoral Researcher, IsoMuseomics for a fixed-term period of three years. The work will be based at the Finnish Museum of Natural History LUOMUS at the University of Helsinki, Finland. jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

Ever wondered what drives the Editors-in-Chief of our journals? Why not learn a bit more about our own #RESSystematicEnt EiC, Emmanuel Toussaint, and how they got into entomology? www.royensoc.co.uk/news/meet-th... #StandTallForTheSmall @royentsoc.bsky.social

Paper alert! 📣 Really cool study stemming from the Master thesis of #Benjamin_Zelvelder @cbgpmontpellier.bsky.social @inrae-dpt-spe.bsky.social with @remiallio.bsky.social #insect host-shifts between #parasitic and non-parasitic plants! #Proc.B @royalsocietypublishing.org doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

Issue 51(1) of Systematic Entomology has now closed up! 📢 View the contents here ⬇️ resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/13653113... Don't forget to keep an eye on the next issue for new #InsectScience! @royentsoc.bsky.social @wileyecology.bsky.social #ContinuousPublication

Open postdoc position in my lab at Cornell, conducting comparative and experimental studies on transcriptomic responses to diet and toxins, utilizing the milkweed-insect community. Background in molecular bio & herbivory desired. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31867

📣 paper alert 😀 Our study on the evolutionary history of true #ladybirds 🐞 #Coccinellini is out today in @ecol-evol.bsky.social ! #OA Another great collab with @isyeb.mnhn.fr and other colleagues! @cbgpmontpellier.bsky.social / @inrae-dpt-spe.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Reçu aujourd'hui, tous frais sortis de l'imprimante ! 😁 @cbgpmontpellier.bsky.social @g-fried.bsky.social @gkergoat.bsky.social

Paul Ehrlich has died. Most will remember him for "The Population Bomb." But for many of us, Ehrlich and Raven 1964 was a foundational read that influenced our careers. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

BUTTERFLIES AND PLANTS: A STUDY IN COEVOLUTION

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I’m looking for a post doc (up to five years) interested in phylogenetics and earth systems - please spread the word!

Barbara Kleine-Marshall@barbaraikm.bsky.social · 6mo ago

We are looking for 6 motivated Postdocs interested in various aspects of Earth system sciences. More information here: fau-earth-system-science.github.io #geochemistry