Corentin Jouault
@cocomacro.bsky.social
Entomologist, Evolutionary Biologist, Paleoentomologist / Ph.D. from
@mnhn.fr / Research Fellow at @morethanadodo.bsky.social #fossilinsects 🇫🇷🇨🇱
@mnhn.fr / Research Fellow at @morethanadodo.bsky.social #fossilinsects 🇫🇷🇨🇱
First paper from our 2025 beamtime at Synchrotron SOLEIL ✨
📄Synchrotron X-ray tomography reveals a new genus of tropiduchid planthopper (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha) from Eocene Baltic amber
🔗https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5739.1.10
Led by @mat-bod-evo-23.bsky.social
📄Synchrotron X-ray tomography reveals a new genus of tropiduchid planthopper (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha) from Eocene Baltic amber
🔗https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5739.1.10
Led by @mat-bod-evo-23.bsky.social
Synchrotron X-ray tomography reveals a new genus of tropiduchid planthopper (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha) from Eocene Baltic amber
| Zootaxa
doi.org
December 31, 2025 at 8:50 AM
First paper from our 2025 beamtime at Synchrotron SOLEIL ✨
📄Synchrotron X-ray tomography reveals a new genus of tropiduchid planthopper (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha) from Eocene Baltic amber
🔗https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5739.1.10
Led by @mat-bod-evo-23.bsky.social
📄Synchrotron X-ray tomography reveals a new genus of tropiduchid planthopper (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha) from Eocene Baltic amber
🔗https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5739.1.10
Led by @mat-bod-evo-23.bsky.social
Just published 📄
A special volume of Journal of Insect Biodiversity:
"Fossil insects from the Cretaceous of East Asia" with the description of new Ghilarellinae (Symphyta) from Jinju Formation
🔗 doi.org/10.12976/jib...
@nozomuoyama.bsky.social
A special volume of Journal of Insect Biodiversity:
"Fossil insects from the Cretaceous of East Asia" with the description of new Ghilarellinae (Symphyta) from Jinju Formation
🔗 doi.org/10.12976/jib...
@nozomuoyama.bsky.social
December 31, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Just published 📄
A special volume of Journal of Insect Biodiversity:
"Fossil insects from the Cretaceous of East Asia" with the description of new Ghilarellinae (Symphyta) from Jinju Formation
🔗 doi.org/10.12976/jib...
@nozomuoyama.bsky.social
A special volume of Journal of Insect Biodiversity:
"Fossil insects from the Cretaceous of East Asia" with the description of new Ghilarellinae (Symphyta) from Jinju Formation
🔗 doi.org/10.12976/jib...
@nozomuoyama.bsky.social
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New Job opportunity at the University of Georgia Department of Entomology! Come work a dream job in beautiful Athens!
www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/463...
www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/463...
Assistant Professor: Insect Ecologist
The Department of Entomology at the University of Georgia invites applications for a tenure-track position (9-months) in insect ecology, to be based on the Athens campus at the Assistant Professor ran...
www.ugajobsearch.com
December 30, 2025 at 4:38 PM
New Job opportunity at the University of Georgia Department of Entomology! Come work a dream job in beautiful Athens!
www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/463...
www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/463...
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📢 I'm hiring! 3-year postdoc in theoretical evolutionary ecology at University of Helsinki 🇫🇮 Apply: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki-Postdoctoral-Researcher-in-Theoretical-Evolutionary-Biology/1348955157/
#AcademicJobs #Postdoc #EvolutionaryEcology #TheoreticalEcology #ScienceJobs #AcademicChatter
#AcademicJobs #Postdoc #EvolutionaryEcology #TheoreticalEcology #ScienceJobs #AcademicChatter
Postdoctoral Researcher in Theoretical Evolutionary Biology
Postdoctoral Researcher in Theoretical Evolutionary Biology
jobs.helsinki.fi
December 29, 2025 at 11:43 AM
📢 I'm hiring! 3-year postdoc in theoretical evolutionary ecology at University of Helsinki 🇫🇮 Apply: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki-Postdoctoral-Researcher-in-Theoretical-Evolutionary-Biology/1348955157/
#AcademicJobs #Postdoc #EvolutionaryEcology #TheoreticalEcology #ScienceJobs #AcademicChatter
#AcademicJobs #Postdoc #EvolutionaryEcology #TheoreticalEcology #ScienceJobs #AcademicChatter
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“The rate at which new species are formally described is an essential but relatively understudied aspect of biodiversity.”
The past and future of known biodiversity: Rates, patterns, and projections of new species over time | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The past and future of known biodiversity: Rates, patterns, and projections of new species over time | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The past and future of known biodiversity: Rates, patterns, and projections of new species over time
The number of known species on Earth is increasing rapidly, suggesting unexpectedly large numbers of many groups.
www.science.org
December 28, 2025 at 3:31 PM
“The rate at which new species are formally described is an essential but relatively understudied aspect of biodiversity.”
The past and future of known biodiversity: Rates, patterns, and projections of new species over time | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The past and future of known biodiversity: Rates, patterns, and projections of new species over time | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Glad to share this paper out today on the biogeography and diversification history of carpet sharks (Orectolobiformes) using fossils & molecular phylogenies, which supports the hopping hotspot model
doi.org/10.1111/jbi....
doi.org/10.1111/jbi....
Hopping Hotspots Shaped the Global Biogeography and Diversification of Orectolobiform Sharks
Aim In marine biogeography, many clades exhibit their greatest species richness in the Central Indo-Pacific region, which includes the Indo-Australian Archipelago. However, there is no consensus tha...
doi.org
December 27, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Glad to share this paper out today on the biogeography and diversification history of carpet sharks (Orectolobiformes) using fossils & molecular phylogenies, which supports the hopping hotspot model
doi.org/10.1111/jbi....
doi.org/10.1111/jbi....
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#Mesozoic vol.2(4)
"The sixth representative of the endemic Cretaceous Burmese amber family Burmaeshnidae (Odonata: Aeshnoptera)"
#Insecta #mid-Cretaceous #new_species #diversification
Nel,A., @isyeb.mnhn.fr , @cocomacro.bsky.social @morethanadodo.bsky.social & Azar,D.
➡️ mapress.com/mz/article/v...
"The sixth representative of the endemic Cretaceous Burmese amber family Burmaeshnidae (Odonata: Aeshnoptera)"
#Insecta #mid-Cretaceous #new_species #diversification
Nel,A., @isyeb.mnhn.fr , @cocomacro.bsky.social @morethanadodo.bsky.social & Azar,D.
➡️ mapress.com/mz/article/v...
The sixth representative of the endemic Cretaceous Burmese amber family Burmaeshnidae (Odonata: Aeshnoptera)
| Mesozoic
mapress.com
December 22, 2025 at 1:22 PM
#Mesozoic vol.2(4)
"The sixth representative of the endemic Cretaceous Burmese amber family Burmaeshnidae (Odonata: Aeshnoptera)"
#Insecta #mid-Cretaceous #new_species #diversification
Nel,A., @isyeb.mnhn.fr , @cocomacro.bsky.social @morethanadodo.bsky.social & Azar,D.
➡️ mapress.com/mz/article/v...
"The sixth representative of the endemic Cretaceous Burmese amber family Burmaeshnidae (Odonata: Aeshnoptera)"
#Insecta #mid-Cretaceous #new_species #diversification
Nel,A., @isyeb.mnhn.fr , @cocomacro.bsky.social @morethanadodo.bsky.social & Azar,D.
➡️ mapress.com/mz/article/v...
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New paper in Science Advances!
Ants traded strength for numbers, and it worked 🐜
Our study comparing 500+ ant species shows how the evolution of cheaper workers fueled bigger colonies and faster diversification, shaping ants’ rise across the planet.
🔗To read here: doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adx8068
Ants traded strength for numbers, and it worked 🐜
Our study comparing 500+ ant species shows how the evolution of cheaper workers fueled bigger colonies and faster diversification, shaping ants’ rise across the planet.
🔗To read here: doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adx8068
December 21, 2025 at 6:19 PM
New paper in Science Advances!
Ants traded strength for numbers, and it worked 🐜
Our study comparing 500+ ant species shows how the evolution of cheaper workers fueled bigger colonies and faster diversification, shaping ants’ rise across the planet.
🔗To read here: doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adx8068
Ants traded strength for numbers, and it worked 🐜
Our study comparing 500+ ant species shows how the evolution of cheaper workers fueled bigger colonies and faster diversification, shaping ants’ rise across the planet.
🔗To read here: doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adx8068
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🚨 Tenure-track professorship at Goethe University of Frankfurt, Germany, with a focus on evolutionary ecology of social hymenoptera 🐝🐜
Initially for 6 years:
www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/pr...
Initially for 6 years:
www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/pr...
Goethe University Frankfurt hiring Professur (W1 mit Tenure Track) für Evolutionäre Ökologie der Hymenopteren in Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany | LinkedIn
Posted 11:13:19 PM. Die Professur wird zunächst auf sechs Jahre befristet besetzt, nach erfolgreicher Evaluation…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.
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December 20, 2025 at 4:43 PM
🚨 Tenure-track professorship at Goethe University of Frankfurt, Germany, with a focus on evolutionary ecology of social hymenoptera 🐝🐜
Initially for 6 years:
www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/pr...
Initially for 6 years:
www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/pr...
🚨 New paper! Excited to share a discovery from my recent visit to NIGPAS, kindly supported by my friend Prof. Diying Huang 🙏 We describe the sixth representative of the endemic Cretaceous Burmese amber family Burmaeshnidae (Odonata: Aeshnoptera).
doi.org/10.11646/mes...
@morethanadodo.bsky.social
doi.org/10.11646/mes...
@morethanadodo.bsky.social
December 17, 2025 at 11:52 PM
🚨 New paper! Excited to share a discovery from my recent visit to NIGPAS, kindly supported by my friend Prof. Diying Huang 🙏 We describe the sixth representative of the endemic Cretaceous Burmese amber family Burmaeshnidae (Odonata: Aeshnoptera).
doi.org/10.11646/mes...
@morethanadodo.bsky.social
doi.org/10.11646/mes...
@morethanadodo.bsky.social
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We're looking for a new colleague at Asssoc Prof level! Come join us in the Zoology Department at Stockholm University. A teaching profile in ecology, faunistics and/or physiology is beneficial. Find the full job advertisemnt here: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Associate Professor in Zoology with focus on ecology and evolution
Department of Zoology at Stockholm University includes ca. 80 employees counting researchers, PhD students, and administrative staff. Research and education at the department occurs in an internatio
su.varbi.com
December 15, 2025 at 11:12 AM
We're looking for a new colleague at Asssoc Prof level! Come join us in the Zoology Department at Stockholm University. A teaching profile in ecology, faunistics and/or physiology is beneficial. Find the full job advertisemnt here: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
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🧪🐠 I am hiring a postdoc! Work will be on patterns of biodiversity across phylogenetic scales using teleost fishes as a model. Apply by end of Jan 2026 for full consideration apply.interfolio.com/179070 I encourage folks to reach out with any questions. Please Share!
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December 15, 2025 at 4:02 PM
🧪🐠 I am hiring a postdoc! Work will be on patterns of biodiversity across phylogenetic scales using teleost fishes as a model. Apply by end of Jan 2026 for full consideration apply.interfolio.com/179070 I encourage folks to reach out with any questions. Please Share!
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We are currently hiring for a Digital Assets Management System (DAMS) Manager.
They will be responsible for ensuring that the museum’s digital assets are managed and used effectively for collections management, research, teaching, and public engagement.
Apply now!
oumnh.web.ox.ac.uk/dams-manager
They will be responsible for ensuring that the museum’s digital assets are managed and used effectively for collections management, research, teaching, and public engagement.
Apply now!
oumnh.web.ox.ac.uk/dams-manager
DAMS (Digital Asset Management System) Manager
Oxford University Museum of Natural History is seeking a dynamic and approachable individual to manage our new Digital Asset Management System (DAMS), which is due to go live in November with over 175...
oumnh.web.ox.ac.uk
November 25, 2025 at 11:27 AM
We are currently hiring for a Digital Assets Management System (DAMS) Manager.
They will be responsible for ensuring that the museum’s digital assets are managed and used effectively for collections management, research, teaching, and public engagement.
Apply now!
oumnh.web.ox.ac.uk/dams-manager
They will be responsible for ensuring that the museum’s digital assets are managed and used effectively for collections management, research, teaching, and public engagement.
Apply now!
oumnh.web.ox.ac.uk/dams-manager
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A new #PhD opportunity supervised by @drmambobob.bsky.social and me at the @uniofreading.bsky.social on dragonfly and damselfly evolution!
It is competition funded through the CROCUS partnership, and involves a mix of palaeontology and comparative biology.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
It is competition funded through the CROCUS partnership, and involves a mix of palaeontology and comparative biology.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
November 22, 2025 at 1:26 PM
A new #PhD opportunity supervised by @drmambobob.bsky.social and me at the @uniofreading.bsky.social on dragonfly and damselfly evolution!
It is competition funded through the CROCUS partnership, and involves a mix of palaeontology and comparative biology.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
It is competition funded through the CROCUS partnership, and involves a mix of palaeontology and comparative biology.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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WE GOT COCKROACHES.
Learn to love them -- I promise -- with #Blattodeologist Dr. Dominic Evangelista.
STUNNING emerald green ones, glowing roaches, teeny ones that ride flying ants, clean-up helpers, and medical mysteries.
They just want love & garbage. 🖤
www.alieward.com/ologies/blat...
Learn to love them -- I promise -- with #Blattodeologist Dr. Dominic Evangelista.
STUNNING emerald green ones, glowing roaches, teeny ones that ride flying ants, clean-up helpers, and medical mysteries.
They just want love & garbage. 🖤
www.alieward.com/ologies/blat...
Blattodeology (YES, COCKROACHES) with Dr. Dominic Evangelista — alie ward
Dazzling colors. Remote habitats. Gentle parenting. Fantastic genitalia. And yeah, swimming through sewers to surprise you. It’s cockroaches and I promise you will find something to love about them in...
www.alieward.com
October 16, 2025 at 7:37 PM
WE GOT COCKROACHES.
Learn to love them -- I promise -- with #Blattodeologist Dr. Dominic Evangelista.
STUNNING emerald green ones, glowing roaches, teeny ones that ride flying ants, clean-up helpers, and medical mysteries.
They just want love & garbage. 🖤
www.alieward.com/ologies/blat...
Learn to love them -- I promise -- with #Blattodeologist Dr. Dominic Evangelista.
STUNNING emerald green ones, glowing roaches, teeny ones that ride flying ants, clean-up helpers, and medical mysteries.
They just want love & garbage. 🖤
www.alieward.com/ologies/blat...
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Earth history and trait innovation drive the global radiation of modern #toads #ProcB #OpenAccess #Evolution royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
October 17, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Earth history and trait innovation drive the global radiation of modern #toads #ProcB #OpenAccess #Evolution royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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Excited to share our new paper where we find that the rise, decline and fall of clades is not explained by the usual suspects (diversity-dependence, ecological opportunities) but rather by species' insidious loss of macroevolutionary fitness: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/3
Loss of macroevolutionary species fitness explains the rise and fall of clades - Nature Ecology & Evolution
The interplay between speciation and extinction rates shapes clade diversity dynamics. Using a novel phylogenetic model that includes living and fossil lineages, the authors estimate speciation and ex...
www.nature.com
October 17, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Excited to share our new paper where we find that the rise, decline and fall of clades is not explained by the usual suspects (diversity-dependence, ecological opportunities) but rather by species' insidious loss of macroevolutionary fitness: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/3
🚨 New paper! The first Cixiidae from the Jinju Formation (Republic of Korea) is now formally described!
📄 The first cixiid planthopper (Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae) from the Lower Cretaceous Jinju Formation (Republic of Korea)
doi.org/10.1016/j.as...
📄 The first cixiid planthopper (Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae) from the Lower Cretaceous Jinju Formation (Republic of Korea)
doi.org/10.1016/j.as...
September 18, 2025 at 3:15 PM
🚨 New paper! The first Cixiidae from the Jinju Formation (Republic of Korea) is now formally described!
📄 The first cixiid planthopper (Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae) from the Lower Cretaceous Jinju Formation (Republic of Korea)
doi.org/10.1016/j.as...
📄 The first cixiid planthopper (Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae) from the Lower Cretaceous Jinju Formation (Republic of Korea)
doi.org/10.1016/j.as...
The only thing I really expect from academia is to have fun. 🎉
This paper is pure fun: it started with a BBQ brainstorming, turned into a project with friends, and ended with a super-talented friend making the cover photo. What a combo! 🔥📚📸
doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
@mat-bod-evo-23.bsky.social
This paper is pure fun: it started with a BBQ brainstorming, turned into a project with friends, and ended with a super-talented friend making the cover photo. What a combo! 🔥📚📸
doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
@mat-bod-evo-23.bsky.social
September 17, 2025 at 2:32 PM
The only thing I really expect from academia is to have fun. 🎉
This paper is pure fun: it started with a BBQ brainstorming, turned into a project with friends, and ended with a super-talented friend making the cover photo. What a combo! 🔥📚📸
doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
@mat-bod-evo-23.bsky.social
This paper is pure fun: it started with a BBQ brainstorming, turned into a project with friends, and ended with a super-talented friend making the cover photo. What a combo! 🔥📚📸
doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
@mat-bod-evo-23.bsky.social
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Plus de 300 millions d’années que les #cigales nous cassent les oreilles !!!
Jolie étude chapeautée par @cocomacro.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
Jolie étude chapeautée par @cocomacro.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
Bayesian modelling of the fossil record enlightens the evolutionary history of Hemiptera | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Hemiptera, the fifth most diverse insect order, are characterized by their high diversity
in deep time, with 145 known extinct families. However, the precise timing of the
origin of Hemiptera lineages...
doi.org
September 17, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Plus de 300 millions d’années que les #cigales nous cassent les oreilles !!!
Jolie étude chapeautée par @cocomacro.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
Jolie étude chapeautée par @cocomacro.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
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In Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 292(2054)20251133 #OpenAccess
"Bayesian modelling of the fossil record enlightens the evolutionary history of Hemiptera"
#bayésienBrownianBridge
@mat-bod-evo-23.bsky.social ., Peng,A., Nel,A.
@isyeb.mnhn.fr et al.
➡️ doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
"Bayesian modelling of the fossil record enlightens the evolutionary history of Hemiptera"
#bayésienBrownianBridge
@mat-bod-evo-23.bsky.social ., Peng,A., Nel,A.
@isyeb.mnhn.fr et al.
➡️ doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
September 15, 2025 at 8:13 AM
In Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 292(2054)20251133 #OpenAccess
"Bayesian modelling of the fossil record enlightens the evolutionary history of Hemiptera"
#bayésienBrownianBridge
@mat-bod-evo-23.bsky.social ., Peng,A., Nel,A.
@isyeb.mnhn.fr et al.
➡️ doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
"Bayesian modelling of the fossil record enlightens the evolutionary history of Hemiptera"
#bayésienBrownianBridge
@mat-bod-evo-23.bsky.social ., Peng,A., Nel,A.
@isyeb.mnhn.fr et al.
➡️ doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
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Excited to share a new paper! "Sorting of ancestral polymorphism and its impact on morphological phylogenetics and macroevolution". Part of some work I've been doing on modelling the evolution of polymorphic traits in fossil echinoderms.
academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...
academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...
Sorting of ancestral polymorphism and its impact on morphological phylogenetics and macroevolution
Abstract. Intraspecific phenotypic variation provides the basic substrate upon which the evolutionary processes that give rise to morphological innovation,
academic.oup.com
September 5, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Excited to share a new paper! "Sorting of ancestral polymorphism and its impact on morphological phylogenetics and macroevolution". Part of some work I've been doing on modelling the evolution of polymorphic traits in fossil echinoderms.
academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...
academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...
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The actual research article is #openaccess and free to read here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
One mother for two species via obligate cross-species cloning in ants - Nature
In a case of obligate cross-species cloning, female ants of Messor ibericus need to clone males of Messor structor to obtain sperm for producing the worker caste, resulting in males from the same moth...
www.nature.com
September 3, 2025 at 11:03 PM
The actual research article is #openaccess and free to read here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Exciting find from last year’s Maliau Basin (Borneo) collections—a specimen of the rare ant genus Ishakidris! 🐜✨
August 23, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Exciting find from last year’s Maliau Basin (Borneo) collections—a specimen of the rare ant genus Ishakidris! 🐜✨
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