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...

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...

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.

Via Lee Dugatkin, some very cool evolutionary biology.

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

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

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/...

« 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 ...

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

Evolution of plasticity and character displacement in a fluctuating environment

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...

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.

Rehearsal of an IRD interview by Angelique Bultelle of our team. These ant nest casts could go straight to the museum.

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...

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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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...

Trump seeks to end climate research at premier U.S. climate agency White House aims to end NOAA’s research office; NASA also targeted

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

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.

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

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.

reporterre.net/Low-tech-com...

📢 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 👇

The anal novelty

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

Imagine if those funds went to paying students, technicians, or postdocs to do more research. 🧪

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

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! 🧪🌎

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...

Synergies and environments in the radiation of anglerfishes. Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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Great to read, AI scientists and Cargo Cult, love that....

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

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

🥳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-...

Check this meeting, which looks interesting...virtual participation is an option

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.

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

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...

We managed to update our webpage, now it shows what's keeping us busy for the next few years: iees-paris.fr/teams/variab...