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Léo Laborieux

@6legsandup.bsky.social
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Wanderer and wonderer. Proud MEME Programme alumnus. Find out more at leolaborieux.com !

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Richard Merrill @dickmerrill.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Really excited to see @borreroja.bsky.social’s tour de force exploring the behavioural consequences of coordinated visual adaptations in *Heliconius*, and how these may break down in hybrids, out in the world. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Nature @nature.com · 03/09/2025
A common type of ant in Europe breaks a fundamental rule in biology: its queens can produce male offspring that are a whole different species go.nature.com/4mOb5T9
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‘Almost unimaginable’: these ants are different species but share a mother
Ant queens of one species clone ants of another to create hybrid workers that do their bidding.
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Léo Laborieux @6legsandup.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Absolute honor to hop onto @newspeciespodcast.bsky.social to talk science, bugs and field anecdotes. Thank you Zoe! 🦂
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Mathieu Gautier @mgda76.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
🚨 Postdoc Opportunity in Quantitative & Population Genetics! We’re hiring a 2-year postdoc at CBGP (INRAE, Montpellier, France) to work on quantitative and population genetics applied to Drosophila biarmipes. 📍 More details: umr-cbgp.fr/rejoindre-le... #Postdoc #Genetics #Drosophila
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Dr. Becca @docbecca.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
I am somehow for the first time ever reviewing for PNAS and their reviewer instructions include this BANGER of a line: "The purpose of peer review is not to demonstrate proficiency in identifying flaws" Print it in eleventy point font and hang it from the hillside. Scream it from the rooftops.
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Rachel Neugarten @rachelneugarten.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
OPEN biodiversity DATA ALERT: iNaturalist has released range data for 100k+ taxa: www.inaturalist.org/posts/106918 🌍🧪
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Celebrating 100,000 Modeled Taxa with the iNaturalist Open Range Map Dataset
A Major Milestone for Biodiversity Mapping We passed a major milestone with today’s update to iNaturalist’s Computer Vision and Geomodel—100,000 modeled taxa! To mark this achievement, we’re excited t...
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Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
New writing! For @sciam.bsky.social, I talk about misleading memes. If you understand evolution enough to know this already, great! But memes/youtubes/etc reach folks with no biology background. Science has been twisted to justify bad things, such as eugenics, before. NOT IN CRABS' NAME. 🦀🧪🦑⚒️
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Crab Memes Amplify Mistaken Ideas about Evolution
Memes about repeated evolution of crabs have been co-opted to joke about technology and “ultimate forms.” They’re hilarious, but they oversimplify natural variation, giving bad arguments a scientific ...
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Jeremy Koster @jeremykoster.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Upon learning that yesterday would be my last day as a program officer at the National Science Foundation, I shared this parting message with my colleagues. The next few months will be frenetic and stressful for them. Here are some things that you can do to help them with the mission ahead. (1)
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Raia Lab @raialab.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Where do species come from? where and when did they meet and exchange genes? find it out with our new R tool for historical biogeography, RRphylogeography is published: doi.org/10.1111/2041...
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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 24/01/2025
The majority of people who responded to a poll in Nature say they’re now using Bluesky. They’re using it to connect with other scientists, keep up to date with other research or researchers, and promote their own research. 🧪
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Bluesky’s science takeover: 70% of Nature poll respondents use platform
Roughly 6,000 readers answered our poll, with many declaring that Bluesky was nicer, kinder and less antagonistic to science than X.
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Anahí Espíndola (she/ella) @analyssi.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Our paper with #postdoc Michael Roswell is out! TLDR: We test regionally on plants and insects a machine learning protocol originally developed to predict global conservation needs. The tool performs even better at this scale & can readily assist conservation decision-making. doi.org/10.1111/ddi....
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Global Conservation Prioritisation Approach Provides Credible Results at a Regional Scale
Aim Conservationists and managers must direct resources and enact measures to protect species, despite uncertainty about their present status. One approach to covering the data gap is borrowing info...
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Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
500 million years before humanity ever existed, the world was spectacular. There are too many horrors to look at right now. Help sustain your soul by remembering what was/is/will be beautiful. Thank you @cenospire.bsky.social for creating this. SOUND ON.
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Cambrian, Cradle of the Phanerozoic
YouTube video by CenospireAnimation
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Nature @nature.com · 16/01/2025
Arachnologist Lauren Esposito develops community platforms to share LGBTQ+ voices and wants to shed light on the overlooked intersectional barriers affecting queer people of colour. go.nature.com/4jiW1vi
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Championing queer scientists of colour: ‘I don’t think we’ve scratched the surface on systemic exclusion’
Arachnologist Lauren Esposito develops community platforms to share LGBTQ+ voices and wants to shed light on the overlooked intersectional barriers affecting queer people of colour.
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Morgan Tingley @mwtingley.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
The insanity of being a fire ecologist in the epicenter of a major fire event, bags packed and ready to evacuate, watching active fire from my window, while taking media requests and explaining to the public, for the 100,000th time how climate change is largely responsible for this
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Charles Perrier @charles-perrier.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Our genome assembly of Hylesia metabus published in Journal of Heredity. A collaboration between CBGP, PHIM, LEEISA, CNRGV, BIPAA IGEPP, SEAG, FUNDSALUD and MGX @cbgpmontpellier.bsky.social @phimresearch.bsky.social
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Léo Laborieux @6legsandup.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
#microCT is awesome.
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Wayne Maddison @waynemaddison.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Species concepts in conservation biology — some thoughts derived from our 2023 paper advocating a retrospective reproductive community concept. waynemaddison.wordpress.com/2024/12/28/s... #conservationbiology #evolbio #philbio #philsci #hpbio #SpeciesSaturday @jeannettewhitton.bsky.social
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Species concepts in conservation biology
When Jeannette Whitton and I were writing our 2023 paper on species1, we were acutely aware that, for species concepts, the “rubber hits the road” in conservation biology. What concept …
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Gabby Palomo, PhD @gabspalomo.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Ok people. I’m drawing silhouettes this afternoon. If you have a paper coming up and you are in need of a #silhouette please let me know and I will have it ready today. As always I upload all my silhouettes to phylopic.org I also have tutorials on how to put a silhouette in a plot in R.
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PhyloPic
PhyloPic is an open database of free silhouette images of animals, plants, and other life forms, available for reuse under Creative Commons licenses. Download silhouettes for use in educational materi...
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Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · 21/12/2023
🚨 Don't eat uncooked snake! Your eyes & lungs can be parasitized by pentastomids, which are a CRUSTACEAN. Adults lack so many features that they weren't believed to be arthropods at all until their DNA was sequenced (and sperm morphology, but that was not widely accepted). Yet, they are! #Crustmas 🧪
Adult male (small) and female (large) of Armillifer sp. Looks like a big and small crinkle cut french fry, also with paired hooks at the front. 

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https://journals.plos.org/plosntds/article?id=10.1371/journal.pntd.0000320Adult female Linguatula serrata. Looks like a wrinkly tube, a bit wider at the front and tapering to a tail. There are some hooklike bits at the front.
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Centre de Biologie pour la Gestion des Populations @cbgpmontpellier.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
📢 Soutenance de thèse de #Louise_Camus, Jeudi 19 Déc. à 14h00 "Prédiction génomique du potentiel adaptatif de populations dans un nouvel environnement : application aux espèces envahissantes" Thèse co-encadrée par @mgda76.bsky.social & #Simon_Boitard Zoom: tinyurl.com/yszp3wmw Mdp: n1.Czm.dxT
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Julien Tchilinguirian @jtchi.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
New Cases of Teratology, Albinism, Abnormal Pigmentation, Gynandromorphism, and Injury Healing in Scorpions. A great collaborative effort between mostly independant researchers and students and my most recent publication for your interest : www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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(PDF) New Cases of Teratology, Albinism, Abnormal Pigmentation, Gynandromorphism, and Injury Healing in Scorpions (Arachnida: Scorpiones)
PDF | Eighteen new cases of teratology and other abnormalities within scorpions are presented, representing new cases of metasomal duplication,... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on Re...
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Léo Laborieux @6legsandup.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
MASSIVELY excited to see Tityus achilles, South America's first #venom spraying #scorpion, finally described in @zoojlinnsoc.bsky.social ! This new species from #Colombia can spray venom at potential predators, a striking case of convergent #evolution 🧵 (1/n) academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...
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Léo Laborieux @6legsandup.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Who dis ? Meet Acanthops #mantises! (fam. Acanthopidae, here an unidentified species). These count among the few mantis genera in which adults retain the high abdomen flexure so often seen in juveniles. Can you make out this adult female's wings? Photographed in #Colombia.
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Léo Laborieux @6legsandup.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
For #crustmas, let's pop the hood on an #isopod! This 3D render, which shows the animal's trunk anatomy in intricate detail, was generated based on micro-CT data. Sarah Losso, @invertebratepal.bsky.social and I had a blast making this (and more) over the summer @harvardoeb.bsky.social!
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Léo Laborieux @6legsandup.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Up close and personal with a #scorpion from #Colombia. Tityus (Atreus) icarus, which I had the privilege of describing (and naming!) earlier this year. Yes, I like Greek mythology...
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Eddy Mendoza @eddymendoza.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Want to teach kids how evolution works? 🧒🏽🧒 With @eseb.bsky.social's generous support, my fellow Tate Yawitz and I have designed "Gene Bingo!" 🧬🎱 A fun game that has convinced many kids in the US and Mexico that evolution is important and cool! 1/3
Kids from rural Mexico having some fun and learning evolutionary concepts with Gene Bingo!Gene Bingo cards and what they represent
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Léo Laborieux @6legsandup.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
To kick things off, here's a sneak peek at my current work: species delimitation in South African pest weevils ! We're looking for signals of admixture between sympatric Phlyctinus populations (Entiminae) and potential signatures of selection following host shifts. Powered by phytools! ⬇️
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