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Yichao Zeng

@yichaozeng.bsky.social
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曾逸超, Postdoc at École Normale Supérieure (Paris) Université PSL - Paris Sciences et Lettres - Junior Research Chair Fellow Species interactions | Macroevolution | Evolutionary community ecology. yichaozeng.github.io

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Michael Hickerson @hickerlab.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
How much of the tree of life did you eat? Phylodiet scores a meal by phylogenetic diversity: type what you ate and it builds the dated tree of the organisms in it, from ~3,300 edible eukaryotes, back 2 billion years. Last night's dinner, below. 🧵 mjhickerson.github.io/phylodiet/app/phylodiet.html
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Prof. Jeff Ollerton @jeffollerton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Want to conserve #birds, #mammals and other vertebrates? Then don’t forget their #insects. Our new Nature Reviews Biodiversity paper explores the many ways vertebrates depend on insects — for food, shelter, protection and much more. I’ve written about it here: jeffollerton.co.uk/2026/09/30/w...
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Want to conserve birds and mammals? Then conserve their insects – our new paper in Nature Reviews Biodiversity sets out the details
It’s sometimes easy to forget quite how much of the living world depends upon insects. That might seem an odd thing for someone who has spent much of his career studying insects and their relations…
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Catherine Sheard @sheardcat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I cannot even begin to stress how important mentors have been for my career thus far, especially informal and/or peer mentorship. Sometimes mentoring is from your supervisor, or a formal programme, but more often it's a diffuse network of people in your corner. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Successful early-career scientists rely on network of mentors
Large networks are particularly beneficial to researchers in under-represented groups.
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heerens.bsky.social @heerens.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
👀📄 Happy to share a major effort, by +50 (early) career scientists, arguing that todays academia is holding back scientific creativity and the development/pursuit of high risk and bold ideas! Those particularly burdend? Early-career researchers!
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Nature Ecology & Evolution @natecoevo.nature.com · 14/09/2026
Obituary: Robert Ricklefs (1943–2026) www.nature.com/articles/s41... Polymath ecologist whose research and textbooks integrating ecology and evolution have inspired generations of students. Free to read: rdcu.be/D33fLgYcv4Ba
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Robert Ricklefs (1943–2026) - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Polymath ecologist whose research and textbooks integrating ecology and evolution have inspired generations of students.
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Cristian Román-Palacios @cromanpa.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
When two clades evolve together, can the trees alone tell you how often they cospeciated, and how often the symbiont switched hosts? We think so! Our paper, led by @yichaozeng.bsky.social, shows that branch length differences in the cophylogeny are informative enough to estimate six rates at once
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Yichao Zeng @yichaozeng.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Just out in Syst Biol! What are the macroevolutionary rates of species interactions such as mutualisms and antagonisms? @cromanpa.bsky.social We developed a new Approximate Bayesian Computation approach to estimating speciation and extinction rates from cophylogenies. doi.org/10.1093/sysb...
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Yichao Zeng @yichaozeng.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Congratulations!! 🎉 Celebrations have begun in China, France, and the US
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
Graphs showing 25 years of budgets for the National Institute of Health, NASA, and the NSF. In all cases, the proposed budget for next year is far, far below any year of the previous quarter century.
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Benoît Perez-Lamarque @bperezlamarque.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
New preprint reexamining codiversification in mycorrhizal symbioses! 🌱🍄 Spoiler: We found evidence of coevolution, but not cospeciation/codiversification. Congrats Fantine for your great work! 😁
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Adam Hasik @hasikadam.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
It is with SUPREME pleasure that I can finally share my most recently-published paper in @natrevbiodiv.nature.com ! www.nature.com/articles/s44... We outline a framework for linking the microevolutionary effects of parasites to the macroevolutionary dynamics of their hosts (1/2).
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Parasitism as a driver of host diversification - Nature Reviews Biodiversity
Parasites and their hosts can have complex ecological interactions and evolutionary histories. This Perspective argues that parasites are a major driver of host speciation and outlines an empirical fr...
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Dr. Elizabeth Santos @lizmillermacroevo.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
I am pleased to announce The Macroevolution Lab at Ohio State opens this August! We will be housed in the Museum of Biological Diversity 🐟🐠🐡
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Niles Eldredge @nilese.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
My Obituary of Elisabeth Vrba—out today in Nature in read-only format: rdcu.be/ediyO
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Elisabeth Vrba obituary: palaeontologist who solved a problem that vexed Darwin | Nature
The biologist’s theories about how environments prompt rapid species evolution and extinction propelled her onto the world stage. The biologist’s theories about how environments prompt rapid species evolution and extinction propelled her onto the world stage.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 12/02/2025
Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025! Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide! #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
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Lisa Grossman @astrolisa.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
I went to AAAS this weekend and talked to lots of scientists about how they're feeling In These Times www.sciencenews.org/article/defu...
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The mood is ‘uncertain, anxious’ at 2025’s first big U.S. science meeting
Scientists are losing funding and even their jobs under the new Trump administration. Researchers at the AAAS meeting shared fears and coping strategies.
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Wayne Maddison @waynemaddison.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
A careful dose of ignorance — a story of how my not reading two papers, many years ago, was vital to my career's path. waynemaddison.wordpress.com/2024/12/05/a...
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Yichao Zeng @yichaozeng.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
I'm excited to see our paper being part of this special issue!
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European Society for Evolutionary Biology @eseb.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
New Special Issue from our flagship journal @jevbio.bsky.social! This arose from a symposium at ESEB2022 in Prague - we are delighted to see it come to fruition! Well done to the Guest Eds and all contributing authors 👏 #macroevolution #microevolution #speciation #evolution #diversification
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Masahito Tsuboi @masahitotsuboi.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Now our special issue on the relationship between microevolution and macroevolution is online @jevbio.bsky.social! We hope that it marks the beginning of a new era of exciting discoveries. link to the issue: ow.ly/LHol50UjJql link to the editorial: doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...
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Volume 37 Issue 12 | Journal of Evolutionary Biology | Oxford Academic
Journal of Evolutionary Biology
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University of Arizona EEB @uofa-eeb.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
If you are looking for a graduate program in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, please considering joining us in Tucson, AZ! Our deadline is December 2 this year for admission to our Fall 2025 cohort. You can find out more about EEB and applying to our program here: eeb.arizona.edu/graduate/pro...
Saguaros and other Sonoran Desert plans stand in front of a purple and gray sky with a column of monsoon rain and rainbow in the distance.
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Yichao Zeng @yichaozeng.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Symbionts, whether mutualistic or antagonistic, rely on their hosts for survival. In this paper with David Hembry, I show how the distinction between host and symbiont lifestyles could impact diversification through selection for & against phenotypic novelty. doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...
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