Léo Laborieux
@6legsandup.bsky.social
Wanderer and wonderer. Proud MEME Programme alumnus.
Find out more at leolaborieux.com !
Find out more at leolaborieux.com !
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A common type of ant in Europe breaks a fundamental rule in biology: its queens can produce male offspring that are a whole different species
go.nature.com/4mOb5T9
go.nature.com/4mOb5T9
‘Almost unimaginable’: these ants are different species but share a mother
Ant queens of one species clone ants of another to create hybrid workers that do their bidding.
go.nature.com
September 3, 2025 at 3:34 PM
A common type of ant in Europe breaks a fundamental rule in biology: its queens can produce male offspring that are a whole different species
go.nature.com/4mOb5T9
go.nature.com/4mOb5T9
Absolute honor to hop onto @newspeciespodcast.bsky.social to talk science, bugs and field anecdotes. Thank you Zoe! 🦂
Armed with not much more than a phone camera and some long foreceps, Léo Laborieux described a new species of toxungenous scorpion! @6legsandup.bsky.social thanks for sharing your knowledge, experience, and deep love for scorpions on the podcast!
episode: spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/zS4ns5K2HTb
episode: spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/zS4ns5K2HTb
A New Toxungenous Scorpion with Léo Laborieux by New Species
“Serendipity is a real grabbing force of science,” says Léo Laborieux as he shares his experience describing his new species of scorpion. While at a remote research station in the Colombian rainforest...
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May 31, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Absolute honor to hop onto @newspeciespodcast.bsky.social to talk science, bugs and field anecdotes. Thank you Zoe! 🦂
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🚨 Postdoc Opportunity in Quantitative & Population Genetics!
We’re hiring a 2-year postdoc at CBGP (INRAE, Montpellier, France) to work on quantitative and population genetics applied to Drosophila biarmipes.
📍 More details: umr-cbgp.fr/rejoindre-le...
#Postdoc #Genetics #Drosophila
We’re hiring a 2-year postdoc at CBGP (INRAE, Montpellier, France) to work on quantitative and population genetics applied to Drosophila biarmipes.
📍 More details: umr-cbgp.fr/rejoindre-le...
#Postdoc #Genetics #Drosophila
April 2, 2025 at 2:32 PM
🚨 Postdoc Opportunity in Quantitative & Population Genetics!
We’re hiring a 2-year postdoc at CBGP (INRAE, Montpellier, France) to work on quantitative and population genetics applied to Drosophila biarmipes.
📍 More details: umr-cbgp.fr/rejoindre-le...
#Postdoc #Genetics #Drosophila
We’re hiring a 2-year postdoc at CBGP (INRAE, Montpellier, France) to work on quantitative and population genetics applied to Drosophila biarmipes.
📍 More details: umr-cbgp.fr/rejoindre-le...
#Postdoc #Genetics #Drosophila
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I am somehow for the first time ever reviewing for PNAS and their reviewer instructions include this BANGER of a line:
"The purpose of peer review is not to demonstrate proficiency in identifying flaws"
Print it in eleventy point font and hang it from the hillside. Scream it from the rooftops.
"The purpose of peer review is not to demonstrate proficiency in identifying flaws"
Print it in eleventy point font and hang it from the hillside. Scream it from the rooftops.
March 13, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I am somehow for the first time ever reviewing for PNAS and their reviewer instructions include this BANGER of a line:
"The purpose of peer review is not to demonstrate proficiency in identifying flaws"
Print it in eleventy point font and hang it from the hillside. Scream it from the rooftops.
"The purpose of peer review is not to demonstrate proficiency in identifying flaws"
Print it in eleventy point font and hang it from the hillside. Scream it from the rooftops.
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OPEN biodiversity DATA ALERT: iNaturalist has released range data for 100k+ taxa: www.inaturalist.org/posts/106918 🌍🧪
Celebrating 100,000 Modeled Taxa with the iNaturalist Open Range Map Dataset
A Major Milestone for Biodiversity Mapping We passed a major milestone with today’s update to iNaturalist’s Computer Vision and Geomodel—100,000 modeled taxa! To mark this achievement, we’re excited t...
www.inaturalist.org
March 6, 2025 at 5:53 PM
OPEN biodiversity DATA ALERT: iNaturalist has released range data for 100k+ taxa: www.inaturalist.org/posts/106918 🌍🧪
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New writing! For @sciam.bsky.social, I talk about misleading memes.
If you understand evolution enough to know this already, great! But memes/youtubes/etc reach folks with no biology background. Science has been twisted to justify bad things, such as eugenics, before. NOT IN CRABS' NAME.
🦀🧪🦑⚒️
If you understand evolution enough to know this already, great! But memes/youtubes/etc reach folks with no biology background. Science has been twisted to justify bad things, such as eugenics, before. NOT IN CRABS' NAME.
🦀🧪🦑⚒️
Crab Memes Amplify Mistaken Ideas about Evolution
Memes about repeated evolution of crabs have been co-opted to joke about technology and “ultimate forms.” They’re hilarious, but they oversimplify natural variation, giving bad arguments a scientific ...
www.scientificamerican.com
February 27, 2025 at 1:15 PM
New writing! For @sciam.bsky.social, I talk about misleading memes.
If you understand evolution enough to know this already, great! But memes/youtubes/etc reach folks with no biology background. Science has been twisted to justify bad things, such as eugenics, before. NOT IN CRABS' NAME.
🦀🧪🦑⚒️
If you understand evolution enough to know this already, great! But memes/youtubes/etc reach folks with no biology background. Science has been twisted to justify bad things, such as eugenics, before. NOT IN CRABS' NAME.
🦀🧪🦑⚒️
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Upon learning that yesterday would be my last day as a program officer at the National Science Foundation, I shared this parting message with my colleagues. The next few months will be frenetic and stressful for them. Here are some things that you can do to help them with the mission ahead. (1)
February 19, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Upon learning that yesterday would be my last day as a program officer at the National Science Foundation, I shared this parting message with my colleagues. The next few months will be frenetic and stressful for them. Here are some things that you can do to help them with the mission ahead. (1)
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Where do species come from? where and when did they meet and exchange genes? find it out with our new R tool for historical biogeography, RRphylogeography is published:
doi.org/10.1111/2041...
doi.org/10.1111/2041...
January 31, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Where do species come from? where and when did they meet and exchange genes? find it out with our new R tool for historical biogeography, RRphylogeography is published:
doi.org/10.1111/2041...
doi.org/10.1111/2041...
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The majority of people who responded to a poll in Nature say they’re now using Bluesky. They’re using it to connect with other scientists, keep up to date with other research or researchers, and promote their own research. 🧪
Bluesky’s science takeover: 70% of Nature poll respondents use platform
Roughly 6,000 readers answered our poll, with many declaring that Bluesky was nicer, kinder and less antagonistic to science than X.
go.nature.com
January 24, 2025 at 6:06 PM
The majority of people who responded to a poll in Nature say they’re now using Bluesky. They’re using it to connect with other scientists, keep up to date with other research or researchers, and promote their own research. 🧪
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Our paper with #postdoc Michael Roswell is out!
TLDR: We test regionally on plants and insects a machine learning protocol originally developed to predict global conservation needs.
The tool performs even better at this scale & can readily assist conservation decision-making. doi.org/10.1111/ddi....
TLDR: We test regionally on plants and insects a machine learning protocol originally developed to predict global conservation needs.
The tool performs even better at this scale & can readily assist conservation decision-making. doi.org/10.1111/ddi....
Global Conservation Prioritisation Approach Provides Credible Results at a Regional Scale
Aim Conservationists and managers must direct resources and enact measures to protect species, despite uncertainty about their present status. One approach to covering the data gap is borrowing info...
doi.org
January 24, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Our paper with #postdoc Michael Roswell is out!
TLDR: We test regionally on plants and insects a machine learning protocol originally developed to predict global conservation needs.
The tool performs even better at this scale & can readily assist conservation decision-making. doi.org/10.1111/ddi....
TLDR: We test regionally on plants and insects a machine learning protocol originally developed to predict global conservation needs.
The tool performs even better at this scale & can readily assist conservation decision-making. doi.org/10.1111/ddi....
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500 million years before humanity ever existed, the world was spectacular.
There are too many horrors to look at right now. Help sustain your soul by remembering what was/is/will be beautiful.
Thank you @cenospire.bsky.social for creating this. SOUND ON.
There are too many horrors to look at right now. Help sustain your soul by remembering what was/is/will be beautiful.
Thank you @cenospire.bsky.social for creating this. SOUND ON.
Cambrian, Cradle of the Phanerozoic
YouTube video by CenospireAnimation
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January 21, 2025 at 2:34 PM
500 million years before humanity ever existed, the world was spectacular.
There are too many horrors to look at right now. Help sustain your soul by remembering what was/is/will be beautiful.
Thank you @cenospire.bsky.social for creating this. SOUND ON.
There are too many horrors to look at right now. Help sustain your soul by remembering what was/is/will be beautiful.
Thank you @cenospire.bsky.social for creating this. SOUND ON.
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Arachnologist Lauren Esposito develops community platforms to share LGBTQ+ voices and wants to shed light on the overlooked intersectional barriers affecting queer people of colour.
https://go.nature.com/4jiW1vi
https://go.nature.com/4jiW1vi
Championing queer scientists of colour: ‘I don’t think we’ve scratched the surface on systemic exclusion’
Arachnologist Lauren Esposito develops community platforms to share LGBTQ+ voices and wants to shed light on the overlooked intersectional barriers affecting queer people of colour.
go.nature.com
January 16, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Arachnologist Lauren Esposito develops community platforms to share LGBTQ+ voices and wants to shed light on the overlooked intersectional barriers affecting queer people of colour.
https://go.nature.com/4jiW1vi
https://go.nature.com/4jiW1vi
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The insanity of being a fire ecologist in the epicenter of a major fire event, bags packed and ready to evacuate, watching active fire from my window, while taking media requests and explaining to the public, for the 100,000th time how climate change is largely responsible for this
January 8, 2025 at 7:52 PM
The insanity of being a fire ecologist in the epicenter of a major fire event, bags packed and ready to evacuate, watching active fire from my window, while taking media requests and explaining to the public, for the 100,000th time how climate change is largely responsible for this
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Our genome assembly of Hylesia metabus published in Journal of Heredity. A collaboration between CBGP, PHIM, LEEISA, CNRGV, BIPAA IGEPP, SEAG, FUNDSALUD and MGX @cbgpmontpellier.bsky.social @phimresearch.bsky.social
Repetitive elements play a key role in the evolution of this species. This is a valuable resource for population & comparative genomics! #OpenAccess #JHered
Read it here: doi.org/10.1093/jher...
Corresponding author: sites.google.com/sit...
2/2
Read it here: doi.org/10.1093/jher...
Corresponding author: sites.google.com/sit...
2/2
Transposable element accumulation drives genome size increase in Hylesia metabus (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae), an urticating moth species from South America
Abstract. We present the first nuclear genome assembly and a complete mitogenome for Hylesia metabus (Arthropoda; Insecta; Lepidoptera; Saturniidae). The a
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January 8, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Our genome assembly of Hylesia metabus published in Journal of Heredity. A collaboration between CBGP, PHIM, LEEISA, CNRGV, BIPAA IGEPP, SEAG, FUNDSALUD and MGX @cbgpmontpellier.bsky.social @phimresearch.bsky.social
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Species concepts in conservation biology — some thoughts derived from our 2023 paper advocating a retrospective reproductive community concept.
waynemaddison.wordpress.com/2024/12/28/s...
#conservationbiology #evolbio #philbio #philsci #hpbio #SpeciesSaturday @jeannettewhitton.bsky.social
waynemaddison.wordpress.com/2024/12/28/s...
#conservationbiology #evolbio #philbio #philsci #hpbio #SpeciesSaturday @jeannettewhitton.bsky.social
Species concepts in conservation biology
When Jeannette Whitton and I were writing our 2023 paper on species1, we were acutely aware that, for species concepts, the “rubber hits the road” in conservation biology. What concept …
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December 28, 2024 at 11:09 PM
Species concepts in conservation biology — some thoughts derived from our 2023 paper advocating a retrospective reproductive community concept.
waynemaddison.wordpress.com/2024/12/28/s...
#conservationbiology #evolbio #philbio #philsci #hpbio #SpeciesSaturday @jeannettewhitton.bsky.social
waynemaddison.wordpress.com/2024/12/28/s...
#conservationbiology #evolbio #philbio #philsci #hpbio #SpeciesSaturday @jeannettewhitton.bsky.social
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Ok people. I’m drawing silhouettes this afternoon. If you have a paper coming up and you are in need of a #silhouette please let me know and I will have it ready today. As always I upload all my silhouettes to phylopic.org
I also have tutorials on how to put a silhouette in a plot in R.
I also have tutorials on how to put a silhouette in a plot in R.
PhyloPic
PhyloPic is an open database of free silhouette images of animals, plants, and other life forms, available for reuse under Creative Commons licenses. Download silhouettes for use in educational materi...
phylopic.org
December 26, 2024 at 6:47 PM
Ok people. I’m drawing silhouettes this afternoon. If you have a paper coming up and you are in need of a #silhouette please let me know and I will have it ready today. As always I upload all my silhouettes to phylopic.org
I also have tutorials on how to put a silhouette in a plot in R.
I also have tutorials on how to put a silhouette in a plot in R.
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🚨 Don't eat uncooked snake! Your eyes & lungs can be parasitized by pentastomids, which are a CRUSTACEAN. Adults lack so many features that they weren't believed to be arthropods at all until their DNA was sequenced (and sperm morphology, but that was not widely accepted). Yet, they are!
#Crustmas 🧪
#Crustmas 🧪
December 21, 2023 at 4:38 PM
🚨 Don't eat uncooked snake! Your eyes & lungs can be parasitized by pentastomids, which are a CRUSTACEAN. Adults lack so many features that they weren't believed to be arthropods at all until their DNA was sequenced (and sperm morphology, but that was not widely accepted). Yet, they are!
#Crustmas 🧪
#Crustmas 🧪
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📢 Soutenance de thèse de #Louise_Camus, Jeudi 19 Déc. à 14h00
"Prédiction génomique du potentiel adaptatif de populations dans un nouvel environnement : application aux espèces envahissantes"
Thèse co-encadrée par @mgda76.bsky.social & #Simon_Boitard
Zoom: tinyurl.com/yszp3wmw
Mdp: n1.Czm.dxT
"Prédiction génomique du potentiel adaptatif de populations dans un nouvel environnement : application aux espèces envahissantes"
Thèse co-encadrée par @mgda76.bsky.social & #Simon_Boitard
Zoom: tinyurl.com/yszp3wmw
Mdp: n1.Czm.dxT
December 18, 2024 at 5:12 PM
📢 Soutenance de thèse de #Louise_Camus, Jeudi 19 Déc. à 14h00
"Prédiction génomique du potentiel adaptatif de populations dans un nouvel environnement : application aux espèces envahissantes"
Thèse co-encadrée par @mgda76.bsky.social & #Simon_Boitard
Zoom: tinyurl.com/yszp3wmw
Mdp: n1.Czm.dxT
"Prédiction génomique du potentiel adaptatif de populations dans un nouvel environnement : application aux espèces envahissantes"
Thèse co-encadrée par @mgda76.bsky.social & #Simon_Boitard
Zoom: tinyurl.com/yszp3wmw
Mdp: n1.Czm.dxT
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New Cases of Teratology, Albinism, Abnormal Pigmentation, Gynandromorphism, and Injury Healing in Scorpions.
A great collaborative effort between mostly independant researchers and students and my most recent publication for your interest :
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
A great collaborative effort between mostly independant researchers and students and my most recent publication for your interest :
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
(PDF) New Cases of Teratology, Albinism, Abnormal Pigmentation, Gynandromorphism, and Injury Healing in Scorpions (Arachnida: Scorpiones)
PDF | Eighteen new cases of teratology and other abnormalities within scorpions are presented, representing new cases of metasomal duplication,... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on Re...
www.researchgate.net
December 17, 2024 at 4:30 PM
New Cases of Teratology, Albinism, Abnormal Pigmentation, Gynandromorphism, and Injury Healing in Scorpions.
A great collaborative effort between mostly independant researchers and students and my most recent publication for your interest :
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
A great collaborative effort between mostly independant researchers and students and my most recent publication for your interest :
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
MASSIVELY excited to see Tityus achilles, South America's first #venom spraying #scorpion, finally described in
@zoojlinnsoc.bsky.social !
This new species from #Colombia can spray venom at potential predators, a striking case of convergent #evolution 🧵 (1/n)
academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...
@zoojlinnsoc.bsky.social !
This new species from #Colombia can spray venom at potential predators, a striking case of convergent #evolution 🧵 (1/n)
academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...
December 17, 2024 at 3:17 PM
MASSIVELY excited to see Tityus achilles, South America's first #venom spraying #scorpion, finally described in
@zoojlinnsoc.bsky.social !
This new species from #Colombia can spray venom at potential predators, a striking case of convergent #evolution 🧵 (1/n)
academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...
@zoojlinnsoc.bsky.social !
This new species from #Colombia can spray venom at potential predators, a striking case of convergent #evolution 🧵 (1/n)
academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...
Who dis ?
Meet Acanthops #mantises! (fam. Acanthopidae, here an unidentified species). These count among the few mantis genera in which adults retain the high abdomen flexure so often seen in juveniles. Can you make out this adult female's wings?
Photographed in #Colombia.
Meet Acanthops #mantises! (fam. Acanthopidae, here an unidentified species). These count among the few mantis genera in which adults retain the high abdomen flexure so often seen in juveniles. Can you make out this adult female's wings?
Photographed in #Colombia.
December 12, 2024 at 7:20 PM
For #crustmas, let's pop the hood on an #isopod!
This 3D render, which shows the animal's trunk anatomy in intricate detail, was generated based on micro-CT data.
Sarah Losso, @invertebratepal.bsky.social and I had a blast making this (and more) over the summer @harvardoeb.bsky.social!
This 3D render, which shows the animal's trunk anatomy in intricate detail, was generated based on micro-CT data.
Sarah Losso, @invertebratepal.bsky.social and I had a blast making this (and more) over the summer @harvardoeb.bsky.social!
December 5, 2024 at 6:04 PM
For #crustmas, let's pop the hood on an #isopod!
This 3D render, which shows the animal's trunk anatomy in intricate detail, was generated based on micro-CT data.
Sarah Losso, @invertebratepal.bsky.social and I had a blast making this (and more) over the summer @harvardoeb.bsky.social!
This 3D render, which shows the animal's trunk anatomy in intricate detail, was generated based on micro-CT data.
Sarah Losso, @invertebratepal.bsky.social and I had a blast making this (and more) over the summer @harvardoeb.bsky.social!