David Duneau

What kind of advice do you think decision makers are getting when half the guys in the room bet their mortgages on strikes happening 36 hours from now

So I pleased to announce the conceptual spawn of FigTree: PearTree (acronym still to be finalised). If you want to dive right in it is hosted as a web app here: artic-network.github.io/peartree (click the “Example...” button for immediate candy and then click every button you can find).

Institutions: get NIH grants!

NIH: nah

Are current methods inaccurate in quantifying ageing & selective disappearance? We compare methods using simulations, analytical solutions, and empirical data, across life histories & methodologies (eg incomplete data). Surprising results & several recommendations. ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

Un poste de Professeur des Universités va être ouvert lors de la campagne d’emploi 2026 à l’université Claude Bernard Lyon1 -
Profil Recherche : Biologie Moléculaire des Eucaryotes.
Profil Enseignement: Biologie Moléculaire.
Profil ci-joint.
Merci de diffuser dans vos réseaux.

🔴 Gallicagram v2, nous voici ! 🔴
Nouvelle interface en react vachement plus stable et rapide, nouveaux corpus (Mediapart, Libé, le Parisien, Le Figaro…), recherche contextuelle, comparaisons inter-corpus, filtre rubrique, bilingue, infinite scrolling... on vous explique tout !

📌 www.gallicagram.com

Not enough to target minorities, they target half of the population… 😕

This is an enormous victory for the Palestinian solidarity movement, for civil liberties and for our common humanity.

The real crime is this government’s complicity in genocide - and we will not rest until we have justice for the Palestinian people.

We Need to Tax Billionaires -- Gabriel Zucman

In bookstores in the UK on May 21

Very much looking forward to this

Eusociality has independently evolved in multiple arthropod lineages

Eusociality has independently evolved in multiple arthropod lineages

Comparative analysis across 5,678 insect species shows that, when you control for phylogenetic bias, eusociality has not evolved at a faster rate in haplodiploid species. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Fruit fly study reveals how mating triggers behavioural changes in females Researchers from The Universities of Manchester and Birmingham have identified the exact nerve cells in the brain that drive important behavioural changes in female fruit flies after they mate.The dis...

See our fantastic story in @elife.bsky.social from Karthik Nallasivan and @deepanshund.bsky.social well distilled by our press office champion Michel Addelman @mcf-uom.bsky.social @fbmh-uom.bsky.social
elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/f...

YouTube video by Science & Engineering Education Research & Innovation Hub Most important animal - fruit flies

Now on the GREAT SCIENCE SHARE: Reaching thousands of primary schools across the UK and far beyond talking about the importance of the fruit fly #Drosophila

youtu.be/7Q1cOtzMcqk?...

#PressRelease🗞️ A specific molecular mechanism has been identified as the cause of the most frequent genetic forms of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, also known as Charcot’s disease) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD).

👉 www.cnrs.fr/en/press/discov...

Well now, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.

When will funding agencies stop limiting space/ the number of characters/words for the list of references used in grant proposals?
I mean, we are not in the first round of this game, and it will never get useful… #GrantWriting #InefficientAcademia

Our lab will be boycotting biotech vendors that have contracts with ICE (e.g., Fisher, Agilent), and telling them why. If you google “vendorname usa spending”, you can see purchases for specific depts including ICE on usaspending.gov. Please talk to your labs and email your vendors!

C’est tellement nul que Science publie ça : appeler “intrinsèque ” une longévité obtenue en retirant les morts dues à l'environnement, c’est naturaliser les inégalités.

On efface le social, puis on s’étonne que le “biologique” prenne toute la place. Encore un glissement eugéniste.

The MRC has asked each of its grant review boards to recommend no more than 3 applications for funding, RPN has heard from multiple sources

Normally, boards recommend an average of 12-13 bids, so the success rate this year will be tiny

This affects applicant-led calls which closed in 2025...

An important study maps how nerves control the Drosophila male reproductive tract, revealing two types of glutamatergic neurons that also release serotonin or octopamine.

🔗 buff.ly/3PV2YQW

As a friend was telling me recently, be careful with who you talk about publishing in MDPI, because you often guess wrong on who is using this system of publish badly to publish fast/more. Thinking that everybody is obviously aware, or even against it, might not be wise.

Germany faces questions over publishing agreement with MDPI Landmark deal should raise questions about publisher’s practices on peer review, citations and special issues, say research sleuths

Plus, MDPI/Frontiers spend big money to convince governments they're not just legit, but leaders. Frontiers just sponsored WEF Davos, MDPI signed a deal with German national science agency.

🇩🇪+MDPI: www.timeshighereducation.com/news/germany...
Davos: sciencehouse.frontiersin.org/event/945d08...

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Latest from the lab. MS previously preprinted (see below) and finally published in print @dev-journal.bsky.social
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Review process via @reviewcommons.org and @dev-journal.bsky.social
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Davos 2026: Special address by Mark Carney, PM of Canada Canadian PM Mark Carney stressed the end of the rules-based international order and urged middle powers to act together to counter the great power rivalry.

Transcription complète du discours de Mark Carney, PM du Canada (en anglais)

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Just said goodbye to #PayPal.
My #Google account is next.

www.goeuropean.org

Looking for something new to integrate into an #evolution or #microbiology course? Useful for lectures, labs, homework?

Have a look at our STEPS program, which simulates bacterial evolution, including the #LTEE. Easy web-based interface & lab manual w/ exercises to help develop students' intuition.

Ongoing measles outbreaks in multiple parts of the country are threatening the United States’ status as a nation that has eliminated the virus’ spread, but a CDC leader said that the potential change is not a big concern. https://cnn.it/3Nuh5nc

New paper led by @hannasusi.bsky.social shows biodiversity responses to carbon farming are highly context-dependent—varying by management, index and taxa 🌱🪱🐞🐦.

Abundance is the most sensitive early indicator for detecting biodiversity impacts!

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Index Australians travelling to the USA and Canada - showing while travel to the US is falling it is rising to Canada

Australians are deciding USA is not a place to visit… oddly they still are going to Canada. Almost like there is something specific about the US..
#ThePoint

thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...

The question of my life time as a researcher

(As I hope we will also increase tariff if it happens)