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🔥Fantastic paper!🔥

TE with a role in vegetative phase change and gametogenesis, mediated by 24-nt siRNAs acting in trans to a wide range of genes. Found by GWAS in A. thaliana 🌱. Congratulations to the authors! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
#epigenetics #plantscience
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

We're thrilled to announce the Ctrl-Z Award, a US$2,500 prize for researchers “who discover substantial errors in their published work and take meaningful steps to correct the scientific record."
Covered by @nature.com today; read more here: centerforscientificintegrity.org/2026/03/10/a...

Genome features and evolution of two Hippophae genomes.

Heteromorphic XY chromosomes with pericentromeric recombination suppression in Hippophae (Elaeagnaceae)

Yiling Li, et al.

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/8BPWVJ...

#PlantScience

With @saramitri.bsky.social, @sonjalehtinen.bsky.social and L. Lehmann we’ve launched the UNIL Center for Theory in Ecology and Evolution @unil.bsky.social🇨🇭

To kick things off, we’re offering short visiting fellowships for theorists in ecology & evolution. Apply & pls RP 😀

tinyurl.com/2wem36zz

Grizzlis, oiseaux, crapauds, fourmis, baleines… Tous les animaux s’hybrident. Les biologistes révèlent l’ampleur de ce phénomène longtemps méprisé, qui remet en cause bien des idées reçues. Et jusqu’à notre vision de l’évolution des espèces. Sur epsiloon.com et chez les marchands de presse.

La Biodiversite en Infographies sort ce jeudi 12 mars! Pour comprendre l'effondrement du vivant, pourquoi c'est un grave problème et ce qu'on peut faire de vraiment efficace, avec des données scientifiques représentées clairement..aux editions Tana

Evolutionary emergence and preservation of microproteins encoded by upstream ORFs https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.05.709866v1

couverture du livre introduction à la statistique bayésienne avec R

📘 Nouveau livre !

Introduction à la statistique bayésienne avec le logiciel R

Découvrez pas à pas la statistique bayésienne et sa mise en œuvre dans R : théorème de Bayes, MCMC, priors, régression, GLM/GLMM et comparaison/validation de modèles.

Aux éditions Quae 🙏

📷 Crédit photo : Yann Raulet

EPIPLANT conference

🌱 You like plants and epigenetics?
Explore mechanisms of chromatin regulation & epigenetics in Nantes, France!
🎤 Great speakers + oral & poster slots from selected abstracts.
22-24 June 2026
Abstract submission deadline: 24 April 2026.
epiplant-2026.sciencesconf.org

New Heredity Podcast! 🎙️ 📻 🔊

In the second episode from @popgroup2026.bsky.social in Lille, plenary speakers @clairemerot.bsky.social & Denis Roze tell us about their talks and their experience at the conference.

👂 Listen here: shows.acast.com/heredity-pod...

@gensocuk.bsky.social

The core-pivotal index: a geometry-first approach to academic impact The defining goal of the academic endeavor is to establish a single perfect value that completely summarizes entire careers’ achievements. Such an index wo

@russcd.bsky.social ushers in a new era of academic metrics with the core-pivotal author index, which assigns all credit to authors that occupy the exact center of the author list, while non-central peripheral authors receive no credit whatsoever.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag026

#evobio #molbio

A Global Genomic Resource for Outcrossing Arabidopsis lyrata and Arabidopsis arenosa https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.02.709016v1

📣📣 repro highlights alert! If you want to discover our network's scientific productions for 2025, selected by our steering committee, click below! gdr-repro.cnrs.fr/les-derniere... #reproduction

Very happy about this nice piece of work by @eugeniapitsili.bsky.social on developmentally controlled cell death in plants @dev-journal.bsky.social‬ !
Special thanks also to @ingridtsang.bsky.social for a terrific editorial job bringing out the best of this manuscript!!
doi.org/10.1242/dev....

We are offering a fully funded two-year postdoctoral position focused on sex chromosome evolution and speciation in the *Jaera albifrons* species complex. Please find the advertisement attached. We welcome applications from interested candidates. Join us :-)

Now published in Perception (@pec-ipe.bsky.social)!

Schulz-Hildebrandt, H. (2026). When purple perceived only at fixation: A fixation- and distance-dependent color illusion. Perception, 0(0). doi.org/10.1177/0301...

Acceleration hotspots of North American birds’ decline are associated with agriculture Human activities might have accelerated declines of population abundance, but this acceleration remains underexplored. Using 1033 North American Breeding Bird Survey routes, we analyze abundance chang...

Thrilled to share our new paper out in @science.org, led by François Leroy and Petr Keil! Using the Breeding Bird Survey, we document not only a continent-wide decline in bird abundance since the 1980s — but, crucially, the acceleration of these declines over time. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Paralog interference contributes to the preservation of genetic redundancy Duplicated self-interacting proteins can interact and interfere with each other’s function. Cisneros, Mattenberger, et al. show that selection against interfering loss-of-function alleles extends the ...

New paper alert: Paralog interference contributes to the preservation of genetic redundancy www.cell.com/current-biol...

Budget des universités : Les facs se noient avec les moyens du bord | Le Canard enchaîné Inflation non compensée, postes gelés, explosion des droits d’inscription pour les étudiants extracommunautaires… Malmenées par la radinerie de l’Etat, les…

Malmenées par un Etat radin, les universités sont à sec. 100% d'entre elles ont voté un budget 2026 en deficit. Pour faire face, le personnel est prié de se plier en quatre.

Le pire et le meilleur stylo (vidéo n°532) YouTube video by Julien Bobroff

Vous avez un briquet et un congelo ? Voici comment devenir agent secret !

Le pire et le meilleur stylo (vidéo n°532)
youtube.com/shorts/xyxgI...

We are happy to announce that the Internal Conflicts and Organismal Adaptation STN has funding available to support several small travel grants for early-career researchers to enable them to visit another laboratory. What is this for? This funding is intended to enable early-career researchers – PhD students, postdocs, and junior research fellows – to visit another laboratory. In so doing, they can learn a new method or approach and/or initiate novel collaborations in the form of manuscripts, grants, or fellowship proposals. We envision that these visits are short stays (a week up to a month) but longer stays are also permitted. Who can apply? Early-career researchers, i.e. PhD students, postdoctoral researchers, and up to junior research fellows (i.e., those in tenure-track positions but not tenured yet). Priority will be given to ESEB members and to trips that reflect novel collaborations (i.e., between people who have not previously collaborated, defined by co-authorship). ESEB membership is cheap (€40 annually, €20 for students) and discounts are available for residents of low to upper-middle economy countries (see ESEB website for details). Membership also comes with additional benefits such as reduced fees for conference attendance. What can be requested? Applicants can request funding to support a short research visit at another institution. The maximum amount of support that can be requested is €1.000, to be used for travel and accommodation. The provided funding cannot be used to cover research costs, wages, and/or stipends. ESEB policy states that we should minimize the environmental impact of e.g. travel; therefore, we will only support travel by airplane if the distance travelled exceeds 500 km and the travel time with alternative forms of transport would be more than 6 hours. How to apply: Download the application form and fill it out. Obtain two short letters of support, one from your supervisor/line manager and one from the host research group explai…

Are you an early career researcher who want to visit another lab to collaborate on a project on internal conflicts?

Apply for our ECR Research Visit Grant!

Deadline is April 30.

seminar announcement with photos of speakers and talk titles

The integration of speciation seminar series is restarting, with the first session coming up on *Tuesday March 3rd @ 5pm CET*, featuring two talks by @naturalselection.bsky.social and @andreaestandia.bsky.social + career Q&A with @markravinet.bsky.social as part of the ECR in Speciation theme.

Should biology put complexity first? The dictum “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler” poses a problem for biology. How simply can it be told without doing dama…

Should biology put complexity first? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... - excellent essay by @philipcball.bsky.social. I would add epistasis to polygenicity and pleiotropy as a ubiquitous and fundamental phenomenon, not some optional complication that we can try to account for afterwards

Interested in the molecular mechanisms and evolution of atypical reproductive modes ? Since 2025, we are running a (bi)-monthly online series. You can join us to watch or present!

More information : tinyurl.com/EvoRepro
Sign-up to our mailing list : go.unil.ch/QYYNa

Post doc position in Evolutionary biology and bioinformatics - work environment: This postdoctoral position will be supervised by Aline Muyle and hosted at the Institute of Evolutionary Sciences of Montpellier (ISEM), within the CHANGE department and the Plant ...

I am hiring a Postdoc (18 months contract in Montpellier, France) to study how polyploidy affects sex chromosomes in the plant Silene latifolia, using bioinformatic analyses of RNA-seq and DNA-seq data. Deadline for applications March 24th. euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/412961

Encore une superbe découverte du JWST, une étoile observée avant qu'elle n'explose en supernova dans une galaxie à 40 millions d'années-lumière.

Crédits et infos : esawebb.org/news/weic2604/

Snow-covered historical University Hall building in the Harvard yard, framed by bare trees during a winter snowfall, with John Harvard statue and pathways partially buried in snow.

I feel you, buddy...
But it was your idea to establish a university in Boston!
@harvard.edu

🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: Contrasting effects of pollinators on the pollination success of floral morphs of a distylous bowl-shaped flower
doi.org/10.1093/aob/...

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