Benjamin Adroit

🎙️Nouvel épisode de notre podcast AprèsLaThèse !

Ce mois-ci on parle de santé mentale avec Stéphanie.
Un sujet dont on parle trop peu, alors que burnout et dépression frappent durement étudiant·e·s et chercheur·e·s. Il était temps d’en discuter ensemble.

Bonne écoute 🎧 et prenez soin de vous 🫶

29.10.2025 17:46 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Frontiers | Litter leaves misrepresent plant–insect interactions in standing vegetation IntroductionEvidence of insect herbivory on fossilized leaves is widely used to ascertain the evolution of feeding strategies, and trophic changes in respons...

New BIG paper out! 🔔 This one has been a long journey
Everyone praises interdisciplinarity, but when it comes down to practice… well, it’s a challenge 😅
Very happy on that one, thank you to all my co-authors, reviewers and editor !

www.frontiersin.org/journals/eco...

18.09.2025 08:58 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

1️⃣Litter underestimates diversity of leaf herbivory damages
2️⃣Galls can be reliable proxies for paleoenvironmental studies
3️⃣These findings remind us to rethink how fossil leaves are used to reconstruct past ecosystems, accounting for biases from decay and selective preservation

18.09.2025 08:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Frontiers | Litter leaves misrepresent plant–insect interactions in standing vegetation IntroductionEvidence of insect herbivory on fossilized leaves is widely used to ascertain the evolution of feeding strategies, and trophic changes in respons...

New BIG paper out! 🔔 This one has been a long journey
Everyone praises interdisciplinarity, but when it comes down to practice… well, it’s a challenge 😅
Very happy on that one, thank you to all my co-authors, reviewers and editor !

www.frontiersin.org/journals/eco...

18.09.2025 08:58 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

3/ Parrotia’s two species now thrive in sharply different climates—subtropical forests for P. subaequalis, temperate (even near mediterranean biome) for P. persica.
I’m currently modeling Parrotia’s ecological niche across time, from present to deep past… more soon 😉

29.07.2025 08:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

2/ We detected clear signatures of divergent selection and local adaptation, especially in genes linked to stress resistance, growth, and floral development. Local adaptation involves many genes related to stress tolerance, pathogen defense, flowering, and photosynthesis!

29.07.2025 08:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

1/ Parrotia challenges the idea of evolutionary stagnation—our results reveal a complex adaptive history.
We show that its two species diverged around 19.6 million years ago, each adapting to very different environments despite their similar morphology.

29.07.2025 08:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Evolutionary legacy of the “living fossil” genus Parrotia (Hamamelidaceae): genomic insights into species divergence and polygenic adaptation Parrotia is a Tertiary relict “living fossil” tree genus with two extant species (P. subaequalis and P. persica) exhibiting a disjunct distribution between East Asia and West Asia. Despite their long....

🎉 Excited to share our new paper on the genetics of #Parrotia is finally out!
See in @theplantjournal.bsky.social

This project was a long journey with a fantastic team, shedding new light on the evolution of this “living fossil.”

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

29.07.2025 08:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

🌳 3 days offline, deep in the Massane forest 🌳
Tracking oak and beech seedlings across permanent plots — July campaign complete!
Collaborative fieldwork with @isemevol.bsky.social folks, great weather, great data, and great laughs.

@cnrs.fr @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @osuoreme.bsky.social

11.07.2025 10:07 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

When people ask what I do for a living.
www.benjaminadroit.com

27.05.2025 08:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Step into a visual time machine with my latest #MuseumMonday feature!
The Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle has given its centuries-old seal a très chic makeover.
It's a (r)evolution of style that even Marianne would approve of! #MNHN
medium.com/theymakedesi...

11.11.2023 19:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Oh, interesting! I'll take a look at the galling aspects of this article right away!

08.11.2023 08:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

OMG...
(this is not an OMG = amazing; that's more an OMG = I'm scarred 😅🫢)

30.10.2023 08:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I/We have to be fair and change the wording.

From Plant-Insect interactions ➡️ To Plant-Arthropod interactions.

The challenge is that this topic has been indexed as "plant-insect interactions" within the fossil record studies. How should we deal with it? 💭🤔

23.10.2023 13:33 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Here I am:

🔬 I'm postdoc at the Swedish Museum of Natural History, working on paleoecosystems evolution. (partly-hosted at IMBE, Aix-en-Pce)

🎙️ I co-create the podcast "AprèsLaThese": linktr.ee/apreslathese

📝 I write about branding about scientific institutions: medium.com/@benjaminadr...

21.10.2023 11:18 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

My first…’sky’ 🤷🏻‍♂️
How do we call that here? 😅

20.10.2023 20:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0