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Science Magazine @science.org · 09/01/2026
Two new Science studies on lizard coloration reveal how a delicate interplay of genetics, environment, and social dynamics can either preserve or erase polymorphic diversity in species. 📄: scim.ag/4srYKHi 📄: scim.ag/4qCcsWn
Throat coloration in common wall lizards (Podarcis muralis). From top to bottom: White morph with the characteristic green and black coloration of the nigriventris syndrome; White morph with the ancestral brown phenotype; yellow and orange morphs from populations where individuals show varying expression of the nigriventris characters.
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vpa-paris.bsky.social @vpa-paris.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Nicolas Denize-Proust getting ready for his PhD defense on "Comparative analysis of the evolution of water balance along aridity gradients in Squamate lizards". @ieesparis.bsky.social
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vpa-paris.bsky.social @vpa-paris.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
letter to a young data analyst: learning before leaning on AI url: academic.oup.com/jmammal/arti...
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A letter to a young data analyst: learning before leaning on AI
Abstract. Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly reshaping research, from coding to data analysis and manuscript preparation. For early-career researchers
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Souleyman Bakker @souleymanbakker.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Our article is now out in Oikos! If you are interested in exploring extinction probabilities in small populations ⬇️ @thomastully.bsky.social @ieesparis.bsky.social @vpa-paris.bsky.social @oikosjournal.bsky.social nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Effects of environmental and individual variation on time patterns of extinction in small experimental populations
Predicting the fate of small populations is essential in ecology, epidemiology and conservation biology. Small populations can go extinct quickly or can develop into large established populations. Th...
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Margaret Evans @mekevans.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
New paper out on the dangers of using patterns across spatial climate gradients to predict what will happen with changing climate. That includes species distribution modeling. Space-for-time substitution can be misleading in sign, not just the magnitude of effects. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Reconsidering space-for-time substitution in climate change ecology - Nature Climate Change
Ecologists often leverage patterns observed across spatial climate gradients to predict the impacts of climate change (space-for-time substitution). We highlight evidence that this can be misleading n...
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 01/08/2025
Via Lee Dugatkin, some very cool evolutionary biology. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Figure 1. Photograph of Airamanna columbia depicting the five false head traits characterized in this study. Photo by Mark Eising (https://www.markeisingbirding.com/): reproduced here with permission.
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Journal of Evolutionary Biology @jevbio.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
How can you determine to which environments an organism might be adapted? This is explained and worked out for seasonal environments using an example of annual killifish embryonic life histories. Tom Van Dooren @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @sorbonne-universite.fr doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...
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Embryonic life histories in annual killifish: adapted to what?
Abstract. Given a strategy, we want to know in which environments it might be adapted. Annual killifish embryos can arrest development, survive desiccation
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iEES Paris @ieesparis.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Des scientifiques de @sorbonne-universite.fr @ieesparis.bsky.social ont montré la présence massive de #microplastiques dans les sols agricoles en France.🌱 www.ouest-france.fr/environnemen... @ouest-france.fr
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« La pollution plastique des sols est colossale » : ces chercheurs plaident pour un traité ambitieux
Des scientifiques de Sorbonne Université ont montré la présence massive de microplastiques dans les sols agricoles en France. Ils espèrent que les négociations internationales, qui rependront du 5 au ...
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Luis-Miguel Chevin @lmchev.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Our paper on evolution of plasticity and character displacement in a fluctuating environment is now published as early view in Evolution. Check it out if you're interested in eco-evolutionary dynamics, coevolution... and plasticity of course! academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...
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Evolution of plasticity and character displacement in a fluctuating environment
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MissReadsALot @theresjustnopo1.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
I reeeeally want to drop this article into Teams at work. Might just do it. They're all in on tools like Grammarly and other AI potential uses. It's sheer idiocy given our work is supposed to be about responsible use of public lands.
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vpa-paris.bsky.social @vpa-paris.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Rehearsal of an IRD interview by Angelique Bultelle of our team. These ant nest casts could go straight to the museum.
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Sally Aitken 🇨🇦 @sallyaitken.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Brilliant new paper by Jill Anderson and colleagues using 9 years of transplant experiments and integral projection models to predict the capacity of populations for adaptation and persistence under new climates in Boechera stricta. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Adaptation and gene flow are insufficient to rescue a montane plant under climate change
Climate change increasingly drives local population dynamics, shifts geographic distributions, and threatens persistence. Gene flow and rapid adaptation could rescue declining populations yet are seld...
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Pierre de Villemereuil @pdevillemereuil.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
👋 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...
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ERC-funded PhD position available – Pierre de Villemereuil
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Science Magazine @science.org · 11/04/2025
Breaking news: President Donald Trump’s administration is seeking to end nearly all of the climate research conducted by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency, one of the country’s premier climate science agencies, according to an internal budget document seen by Science. scim.ag/4ctpT4Z
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Trump seeks to end climate research at premier U.S. climate agency
White House aims to end NOAA’s research office; NASA also targeted
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Swift Science Writing @swiftsciencewriting.co.uk · 05/04/2025
Want to find out if Meta has used* your work as part of LibGen to train its AI models? @alexreisner.bsky.social has a super easy to use search tool for that: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a... @theatlantic.com Then, get angry & sign this petition to stop it: www.change.org/p/protect-au... *stolen
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Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
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Amaury Lambert @yruama.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
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Low-tech : comment le design peut rendre le numérique écolo
Moins d'images sur le web, éviter l'obsolescence des appareils, limiter le recours aux serveurs... Le numérique peut être plus écologique. De nombreux leviers low-tech existent.
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Le Galliard lab @jflegalliard.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
📢 Post-doctoral contract in Thermal Ecology and Conservation Biology (2 years). We are looking for a candidate to lead the project “Thermal ecology for conservation: taking microclimates into account in risk analysis and assessment of solutions”. More details at lizard.ecology.org. Deadline May 5 👇
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vpa-paris.bsky.social @vpa-paris.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
The anal novelty
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vpa-paris.bsky.social @vpa-paris.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
This Monday @souleymanbakker.bsky.social from our team has defended his PhD thesis on extinction probabilities in changing environments with succes. Congratulations! @ieesparis.bsky.social
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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Imagine if those funds went to paying students, technicians, or postdocs to do more research. 🧪
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Today, a broad coalition of scientific professional societies who represent over 92,000 scientists are speaking out against the politicization and demonization of Federally funded science and government scientist jobs. It was an honor to help the Union of Concerned Scientists with this! 🧪🌎
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48 Scientific Societies Representing Almost 100,000 Scientists Ask Congress to Protect the Future of Science
48 scientific societies representing almost 100,000 scientists signed on to a letter asking Congress to protect the future of science
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vpa-paris.bsky.social @vpa-paris.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Synergies and environments in the radiation of anglerfishes. Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Synergistic innovations enabled the radiation of anglerfishes in the deep open ocean
Brownstein et al. reconstruct the evolutionary history of anglerfishes and show how complex trait evolution, including the origins of sexual parasitism, facilitated the invasion of this clade into the...
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British Ecological Society @britishecologicalsociety.org · 18/02/2025
How do we value our land?🌾 Join us on 19-20 June for the 2025 BES Symposium: Nature, Food & Farming, exploring the connection between agriculture, biodiversity, and food systems through evidence-led discussions.
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Will Ratcliff @wcratcliff.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
I am reeling from the cuts at NSF- a close friend and colleague, who was an outstanding PO and absolute asset to the evolutionary biology community, was just fired. This is simply because he COULD be- he was still in the 2 year probationary period after changing jobs at NSF. Goddamn it.
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Astropierre @astropierre.com · 08/02/2025
En raison des dérives de X, dont l'algo semble rendre complètement inopérant le partage d'informations scientifiques & la confrontation sereine des idées, le Conseil Scientifique du @cnrs.bsky.social invite les instituts & laboratoires affiliés à évaluer la pertinence de leur présence sur X. 1/2
Communiqué du Conseil Scientifique du CNRS recommandant aux institutions et laboratoires de recherche affiliés à évaluer la pertinence de leur présence sur une plate-forme aussi toxique que X.
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vpa-paris.bsky.social @vpa-paris.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
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“A New Academic Publishing Model”: Right-Wing Dark Money Group Launches Fringe Medical Journal
The right-wing RealClear Foundation’s foray into public health has been called “a mockery of scientific process.”
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vpa-paris.bsky.social @vpa-paris.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Great to read, AI scientists and Cargo Cult, love that....
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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
I usually reserve this account for my personal views; but today I want to represent my position as President of @asn-amnat.bsky.social to post a message that will shortly go out to the membership of the American Society of Naturalists from the ASN Executive Council
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Walid Mawass @wmawass.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
🥳My work on the reliability of pedigrees used in quantitative genetic estimations of the genetic basis of phenotypic trait is out now in @jevbio.bsky.social! It also serves as a good intro for the use of pedigrees to infer genetic signals of phenotypes in populations academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-...
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Assessing the impact of pedigree attributes on the validity of quantitative genetic parameter estimates
Abstract. Investigating the evolution of complex traits in nature requires accurate assessment of their genetic basis. Quantitative genetic (QG) modeling i
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vpa-paris.bsky.social @vpa-paris.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Check this meeting, which looks interesting...virtual participation is an option
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Kaj Embren @kajembren.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
USDA orders removal of climate change mentions from public websites via ABC News bit.ly/40HN6eh #ClimateChange #agriculture #adaptation #mitigation #science #ClimateCrisis #democracy @climatechangepost.bsky.social @coveringclimatenow.org @climatenews.bsky.social
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USDA orders removal of climate change mentions from public websites
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has directed officials to remove content related to climate change from its public websites, according to emails obtained by ABC News.
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vpa-paris.bsky.social @vpa-paris.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
We managed to update our webpage, now it shows what's keeping us busy for the next few years: iees-paris.fr/teams/variab...
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Team Phenotypic variability and adaptation "VPA" - iEES Paris
Team news Team publications Team members Our research aims to understand the ecological and evolutionary causes of phenotypic variability. We investigate the consequences of this variability for demog...
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