Nicolas Galtier

Nicolas Galtier

@nicolasgaltier.bsky.social

Molecular evolution and publication ethics at ISEM (CNRS Montpellier)

703 Followers 550 Following 106 Posts Joined Dec 2024
4 days ago

3/3 This is our ⭐️133rd⭐️recommendation! We will continue to transparently peer-review your manuscripts and make them free to publish / free to read pieces of citable academic work! Try us, this is the way to go in 2026! #OpenScience #openaccess

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Stand Up for Science plans second rally on March 7 Public health chaos and research funding cuts are inspiring nationwide pro-science protests against the Trump administration

National Day of Action, this Saturday March 7, with dozens of events taking place in communities nationwide.

New reporting via @meghanbartels.bsky.social with key quotes from @cdelawalla.bsky.social & @mtosterholm.bsky.social on the moment we face.

www.scientificamerican.com/article/stan...

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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

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I like taking pauses between working sessions but the idea of a timer ticking near me is stressful. What if I was in productive mode when it rings?

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starting March 1, 2026, researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences are prohibited from using central government funds to pay Article Processing Charges for high-priced OA journals, specifically Nature Communications and Science Advances.

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3 weeks ago

Our paper on convergent regressive evolution of genes involved in oral anatomy of myrmecophagous mammals is now officially published @molbioevol.bsky.social

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag009

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Pseudogenes document protracted parallel regression of oral anatomy in myrmecophagous mammals Abstract. Adaptation to ant and/or termite consumption (myrmecophagy) in mammals constitutes a textbook example of convergent evolution, being independentl

Emerling, @freddelsuc.bsky.social et al. investigated candidate genes related to dentition, gustation, and mastication in nine convergent myrmecophagous mammalian lineages, finding that convergent evolution of myrmecophagy was a protracted process.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag009

#evobio #molbio

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1 month ago

Agreed!
Note that, unlike Meselson's effect, our "claim" is actually kind of anecdotical - we were lucky to spot a weird species of ant. No "Romiguier effect" intended here! :)

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You never know, but I would be very surprised (and excited!) if our claim was once contradicted.
@selfishmeme.bsky.social

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If you are a scientist, working on biology, wondering where to submit your manuscript given the current issues with the academic publishing system, check out wheretopublish.github.io!
We did this thinking change is possible. Let’s make it happen!

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Biodiversity in equations - Sciencesconf.org Welcome

Great opportunity to interact with the French Community of Ecological Theory: "Biodiversity in Equations" Conference in Montpellier, France on April 9 and 10, 2026, organized by GDR TheoMoDive and SFE2.
Registration is free! Find more info here: biodiveq.sciencesconf.org?forward-acti...

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Replication studies: a win-win for early-career training and behavioral ecology Replicating previous research builds confidence that results are real and meaningful. But close replications are rare due to limitations in resources and d

How do we know our research results are REAL? We replicate them! Most folks agree but lament on how hard it is to publish these replications.

My dearest gentle reader, lament no more! Delighted to unveil: Replication Studies, a new section of Behavioral Ecology 1/

academic.oup.com/beheco/artic...

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Where to Publish?

Dear all, I'm happy to present you a side project done with @diegoharta.bsky.social @phylogenetrips.bsky.social & Lucas Baudouin regarding the publication landscape in Biology: wheretopublish.github.io 1/4

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Determinants of mutation load in birds Abstract. Many mutations have detrimental effects. The mutation load in a population depends on the efficacy of purifying selection in removing deleterious

@jochenwolflab.bsky.social
Where do potentially harmful mutations accumulate? We have an answer in birds. Congratulations Fidel for wonderful paper!

doi.org/10.1093/gene...

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A new preprint with Beatriz Vicoso, where we highlight that a common observation in molecular evolution—X chromosomes adapting faster than autosomes—doesn't quite add up. So we tested a new theory (www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...) in fruit flies, mice and humans...

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Why not publish your research with a Society Journal? 🧪🌍

The Linnean Society is committed to publishing high-quality and ground-breaking scientific research across the four themes of botany, zoology, biology and evolution, striving to make these accessible & engaging to a global audience. 🧵(1/4)

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exactly the kind of data missing from DAFNEE, because not public

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95% papers free of charge is an impressive figure for a learned society! Where does money come from?

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Recovered helicase loader *dciA* reshapes replication-initiation... At the onset of bacterial chromosome replication initiation, replicative helicases are loaded onto DNA, a process requiring helicase loaders. While organisms documented as lacking a helicase loader…

📑 New @genomics.peercommunityin.org recommendation, by @gecko1990.bsky.social
genomics.peercommunityin.org/articles/rec...

On the work of Pierre Brézellec (2025) The identification of the replicative helicase loader gene dciA within the Helicobacter pylori genome...

#OpenAccess #Bioinformatics

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1 month ago

Not needed in my ms actually. However I basically deleted the Acknowlegments and Data availability sections for anonimity reasons.

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same; also sentences like "We recently suggested that ... (Myself et al. 2020)" to be rephrased

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Thanks. I suppose that's the best one can do (until anonymous preprints become a thing)

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Just starting to realize that double-blind reviewing (which is good) kind of conflicts with preprint publishing (which also is good). Has this been discussed?
#ScientificPublishing

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Also now featuring @seantattan.bsky.social!

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Une fierté pour l'ISEM bien-sûr. On ne sait pas si c'est son héritage scientifique ou son rôle de modèle comme femme de science qui nous auront le plus marqués. Les deux sont toujours palpables aujourdhui.

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How come that the median reviewing time has become so stable after 2000?

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Great move, congrats!

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Biogeography Biogeography is an academic-owned, diamond Open Access journal, published by the academic, non-profit, Stanford University Press (SUP), using the Public Knowledge Project’s Open Journal Systems platfo...

Back from holiday and it's finally time to post about this. I am taking on a section editor role for the new diamond open access journal Biogeography, put together by @biogeographyjfab.bsky.social. That means that it's free to publish and free to read. (thread)

biog.journals.sup.org/index.php/bi...

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you guys musn't stop doing/propagating science; that would be his victory; we stand with you

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The PCI-PCJ 2025 recap is here! ✨ Dive into the events of 2025 👀: peercommunityin.org/2026/01/07/p... Huge thanks to everyone who contributed to an amazing year! 🙏 #PCI2025 #Highlights

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