Nicolas Bierne

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Text from an FAQ in Okbay et al 20222: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-022-01016-z a similar same statement is made in an FAQ in 2025: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.14.653986v1.supplementary-material Text reads: "The results of SSGAC studies have sometimes been used by online platforms, including some companies, to predict individual outcomes. We recognize that returning individual genomic “results” can be a fun way to engage people in research and other projects and to feed or stoke their interest in genomics. But it is important that participants/users understand that these individual results are not meaningful predictions and should be regarded essentially as entertainment. Failure to make this point clear risks sowing confusion and undermining trust in genetics research"

It is depressing, but all too predictable, how swiftly we’ve gone from the Social Science Genetic Association Consortium offering reassurances about the uses of behavioural polygenic scores to one of their lead authors marketing embryo selection for IQ

Still no good evidence that inversions dominate evolution.

Still no good evidence that hybridization facilitates invasions

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Still no good evidence for homoploid hybrid speciation in nature

Advancing cancer research via comparative oncology - Nature Reviews Cancer Comparative oncology combines evolutionary biology, ecology, veterinary medicine and clinical oncology to better understand cancer, for example, by identifying the molecular and cellular mechanisms un...

Enjoyed this @natrevcancer.nature.com article on comparative oncology - how we can learn from other species 🐘🐋🦜🐍 about ways to prevent (& possibly treat) cancer. Both a review and a call to action for the research community. www.nature.com/articles/s41... @atjcagan.bsky.social @cmaley.bsky.social

Urban Life Shapes Genetic Diversity in the Green Anole, Anolis carolinensis Urbanisation presents unique environmental pressures that drive rapid evolutionary adaptations, particularly in species inhabiting fragmented and anthropogenised landscapes. In this study, we investi....

Where we look at anoles in the city doi.org/10.1111/mec....

La fétuque paniculée - Comment le vivant peut nous sauver (3/6) Sandra Lavorel, médaille d’or du CNRS en 2023 passe ses jours et ses nuits au col du Lautaret (Hautes-Alpes) à regarder comment la biodiversité est essentielle ...

Et encore un épisode génial de la série "Comment le vivant peut nous sauver" du podcast chaleur humaine. Toute la série est vraiment excellente pour l'instant:
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Complex patterns of hitchhiking mutation load among stickleback populations Positive selection causes beneficial alleles to rapidly rise to high frequency in a population. This can cause linked genetic variation to "hitchhike", and thereby also rise in frequency. This linked ...

working link: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

YouTube video by Université de Montpellier Seahorses, Speciation and Biodiversity

A fun video about biodiversity and speciation with curly the seahorse as a star #outreach
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La moule de rivière - Comment le vivant peut nous sauver (2/6) Vincent Prié, spécialiste des mollusques et directeur de projets au sein du laboratoire Spygen est au micro pour nous raconter sa plongée dans le monde méconnu ...

Excellente émission avec Vincent Prié.

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Crédit photo et vidéo : © Drop of Curiosity Accès à la vidéo https://youtu.be/HpW7_MYAQwY

🦋 𝐋𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐞̀𝐧𝐞 𝐝𝐮 𝐩𝐚𝐩𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐧 𝑯𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒖𝒔 𝒏𝒖𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒂
𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐮 𝐉𝐨𝐫𝐨𝐧 𝐝𝐮 𝐂𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐞 𝐝'𝐞́𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐞 𝐞𝐭 𝐞́𝐯𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞(CEFE) étudie la capacité de ce papillon à arborer une multitude de motifs différents
Article👉https://lejournal.cnrs.fr/nos-blogs/focus-sciences/video-le-supergene-du-papillon-heliconius-numata

Phylogenomics of Messor harvester ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Stenammini) unravels their biogeographical origin and diversification patterns Phylogenomic analysis of 2524 ultraconserved-element loci from 58 Messor harvester ant species helps in redefining taxonomic groups of the genus. Messor ants emerged in the Irano-Indian area around ...

New article about Messor harvester ant phylogeny and evolution funded by @erc.europa.eu in @isemevol.bsky.social resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

[Prix Recherche SFE²] Lauréate 2025 - Violaine Llaurens - sfecologie.org Toutes nos félicitations à Violaine Llaurens (DR CNRS, CIRB & ISYEB, Paris & Université des Antilles), lauréate du Prix Recherche SFE² 2025.

[Prix Recherche SFE2 2025] Félicitations à Violaine Llaurens (@cnrsecologie.bsky.social‬, @cirbcdf.bsky.social‬ & @isyeb.mnhn.fr‬, Paris & Université des Antilles), pour sa nomination et attribution de notre Prix Recherche 2025.
Pour en savoir plus ➡️ sfecologie.org/2025/07/16/p...

We considered this. Only a fraction of cells, variable between individuals, are aneuploid. Aneuploidy should makes <2X coverages and intermediate coverages between 2X, 3X and 4X. We have clear 3X and 4X coverages. Our results call for more dedicated investigation with karyotypic analyses, though.

Here our sample size is N=5. Yes we expect heterozygote excess, and ngsparalog/paramask to identify them when the 2-copy allele has sufficient frequency. However, as the 2-copy allele most often segregates at low frequency we expect popgen data to remain polluted by PSVs. The consequence is unclear.

Novel major loci shape habitat-associated flowering time variation in Yellowstone monkeyflowers ### Competing Interest Statement The authors have declared no competing interest. National Science Foundation, DEB-1457763, OIA-1736249

Novel major loci shape habitat-associated flowering time variation in Yellowstone monkeyflowers www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

100 000 signatures sont dépassées. Ces la pétition la plus populaire sur la plateforme ! Allez!

Congrats Violaine Llaurens [Prix Recherche SFE²] Lauréate 2025 - Violaine Llaurens - sfecologie.org share.google/EgLTxOou2fbX...

A single theory for the evolution of sex chromosomes and the two rules of speciation Sex chromosomes are involved in three major empirical patterns: (i) Y (or W) chromosomes are often nonrecombining and degenerate; (ii) heterogametic offspring (XY or ZW) from interspecific crosses are...

Interested to know more about a new theory relating the #evolution of #sexchromosomes to the rules of #speciation? Check out this paper that we published with Denis Roze in the last issue of #Science. PDF here: www.science.org/stoken/autho...

Skeleton shrimps dancing in the docks (make me think about baby groot). #MarineLife #PortBiodibersity

3-year #postdoc position at Centre de synthèse et d'analyse de la biodiversité (CESAB) in Montpellier to work on how taking intraspecific diversity and evolutionary processes into account in translocation-based programs. Please share widely #PopGen #NbS

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Job opportunities - Fondation pour la recherche sur la biodiversité Créée en 2008, la FRB recherche régulièrement de nouveaux collaborateurs. Elle constitue un point de convergence entre la science et la société, autour des défis que doit aujourd’hui relever la recher...

3-year #postdoc position at Centre de synthèse et d'analyse de la biodiversité (CESAB) in Montpellier to work on how taking intraspecific diversity and evolutionary processes into account in translocation-based programs. Please share widely #PopGen #NbS
www.fondationbiodiversite.fr/en/about-the...

Yes, the aim of prepa is to get into (in French we say "intégrer") the best school, which is Polytechnique and which nickname is x. Second year students are called 3/2, because you integrate x from 1 to 2, and third year students are called 5/2 because you integrate x from 2 to 3. Now that's France!

The countdown has its logic. The baccalauréat was quite a thing in France you know, and so 6 years before the baccalauréat, 5 years before the baccalauréat and so on. But wait until you find out what 3/2 and 5/2 mean in preparatory classes...

Excited to advertise a shared PhD position at KU Leuven (Belgium) and Mondsee (Austria) with @markusmoest.bsky.social on the genetic basis, plasticity and evolution of melanization in Daphnia from alpine lakes. Apply here: www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

Le monde des revues scientifiques au bord de l’asphyxie Plus de 3 millions d’articles sont publiés chaque année dans les revues scientifiques, les chercheurs étant incités à les multiplier pour se distinguer. Une logique économique perverse s’est installée...

Merci David Larousserie du @lemonde.fr pour cet article sur la publication scientifique en asphyxie
www.lemonde.fr/article-offe...

Wonderful work led by @zoe-meziere.bsky.social , @kepra3.bsky.social, Marine Lechene, Renata Ferrari, & Iva Popovic. Corals can differ in their connectivity, a lot! #Coralsky #CoralReefs #MarEvol

Connectivity differs by orders of magnitude among co-distributed corals, affecting spatial scales of eco-evolutionary processes Dispersal and gene flow differ among corals of the Great Barrier Reef, affecting genetic diversity and adaptive responses.

Interested in coral ecological and evolutionary connectivity? Check out our new paper in Science Advances!

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