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Gael Kergoat
@gkergoat.bsky.social
Evolutionary Biologist & Entomologist

Research Director @inrae-france.bsky.social @cbgpmontpellier.bsky.social

Co-Editor in chief - Systematic Entomology @royentsoc.bsky.social / FRES
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Je cherche un.e étudiant.e de M2 pour travailler sur des SDM et les ravageurs de la vigne @cbgpmontpellier.bsky.social à Montpellier, en collaboration avec @arusch.bsky.social. Plus d'infos ici: sfecologie.org/offre/modeli...
Modélisation de la répartition potentielle des principaux ravageurs de la vigne en France - sfecologie.org
Titre du stage : Modélisation de la répartition potentielle des principaux ravageurs de la vigne en France Nom du responsable du stage : Christine N Meynard (UMR CBGP), Adrien Rusch (UMR SAVE), Lionel...
sfecologie.org
November 4, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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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
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FYI: Despite recent info suggesting otherwise, my lab at CU Boulder is in fact accepting grad students fall 2026! Reach out if interested in insect systematics, phylogenetics, life history, insect-plant interactions.
September 22, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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➡ EJT Vol. 1014 (2025) #openaccessjournal
Published: 2025-09-16

➡️ A monograph of Afrotropical and Mediterranean Derelomus Schoenherr, 1825 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) with the descriptions of 14 #newspecies

✒ Julien M. Haran et al.
@gkergoat.bsky.social
🔗 DOI: doi.org/10.5852/ejt....
#weevils
September 18, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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To celebrate the genomes for 1,000 (!) species of Lepidoptera in Europe, Project Psyche has released a preprint outlining our ambitions to jointly sequence & leverage genomes of all 11,000 species in Europe to propel science, conservation & society.

This was a joy to write together as a community!
(6/6)📄 In our new whitepaper (EcoEvoRxiv) we discuss our aims to coordinate this collaborative analysis of Lepidoptera genomes, turning data into impact for science, conservation and society.
Now available at 👉 ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

#ProjectPsyche #Genomics
Project Psyche: Generating and utilising reference genomes for all Lepidoptera in Europe
ecoevorxiv.org
September 18, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Our monograph (128 pages!) of the brood-pollinator #weevil genus #Derelomus is now out in @ejtaxonomy.bsky.social ! 😃 #OA

Huge revision work led by #Julien_Haran @cirad.bsky.social / @cbgpmontpellier.bsky.social with some #integrative_taxonomy approaches to help clarifying some species complexes!
September 17, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Proud & delighted about the coming defense of our grad student #Benoit_Penel - co-supervised with @cnmeynard.bsky.social & #Julien_Haran - who did a terrific job characterizing and analyzing field margin #beetle communities responses to #agricultural practices at very large scales throughout France!
📢 soutenance de thèse CBGP, Jeudi 18/09, 14h!

par #Benoît_Penel @inrae-dpt-spe.bsky.social

"Suivi à large échelle des effets non intentionnels des pratiques agricoles sur la biodiversité des coléoptères et leur potentiel régulateur"

A suivre en direct sur YT : www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQkq...
September 11, 2025 at 4:05 PM
This week, I had the honor of signing the historical #Obligation_book of the @royentsoc.bsky.social as a newly appointed Fellow of the RES

It is quite intimidating to sign a book that has been signed by the likes of Darwin, Wallace and Queen Elisabeth II !

Great venue too ! #Glasgow_City_Chambers
September 11, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Really nice to be there at #Ento25 in #Glasgow ! @royentsoc.bsky.social

Fantastic plenary this morning by #Christiane_Weirauch from @ucriverside.bsky.social on the systematics and evolution of assassin and plant bug!
September 10, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Will be at #Ento25 next week in #Glasgow!

I will give a talk on some overlooked #pollinators (based on results we got @cbgpmontpellier.bsky.social)

Will also be there as EIC of #Systematic_Entomology @royentsoc.bsky.social; do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions about the journal!
September 4, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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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
‘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
Our study on the origin of the disjunct distribution of Paleotropical Eneopterinae crickets is out!

#Zoologica_Scripta #OA

2nd study by our PhD. student #Zheyuan_Yu (co-supervised with @tonyrobillard.bsky.social)

@cbgpmontpellier.bsky.social @isyeb.mnhn.fr

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
August 27, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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🐜⚡ La #fourmi électrique, espèce invasive classée préoccupante par l’UE, progresse en Europe.

🔬 Une étude #INRAE réalisée sur plus de 6000 fourmis dans le monde révèle ses voies d'introduction et appelle à mieux surveiller les foyers pour prévenir sa propagation 🌎

👉 www.inrae.fr/actualites/i...
August 7, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Smithsonian is hiring a Museum Specialist in Entomology! Great opportunity in Washington DC. Pay: $69,923–$90,898 per year. Apply by August 19 or when 200 applications are received.

Apply here: trustcareers.si.edu/postings/a15...
#Entomology #sciencejobs #science 🧪
Museum Specialist (Zoology), IS-1016-09
Job Opening: Museum Specialist (Zoology), IS-1016-09 at National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC.
trustcareers.si.edu
August 6, 2025 at 10:52 PM
vulgarisation de notre étude récente parue dans
@consbiog.bsky.social (doi.org/10.1111/ddi....) sur l'invasion de la #fourmi_électrique 🐜⚡ en Europe du Sud (dont la #France) :

www.inrae.fr/actualites/i...

@inrae-dpt-spe.bsky.social / @cbgpmontpellier.bsky.social
August 5, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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The Centre for Biodiversity Genomics (CBG) is seeking ten taxonomic specialists in Collembola or any of the following insect orders - Blattodea, Ephemeroptera, Hemiptera, Hymenoptera, Lepidoptera, Orthoptera, Trichoptera!

graduatestudies.uoguelph.ca/postdoctoral...
Arthropod Taxonomic Specialists (10 positions) | Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies
graduatestudies.uoguelph.ca
August 2, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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New species of giant stick insect found in the Australian wet tropics. We are still living in the age of discovery!

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Supersized stick insect discovered in high-altitude trees in Australia
The 40cm-long insect, named Acrophylla alta, weighs slightly less than a golf ball and may be the heaviest insect in Australia
www.theguardian.com
July 31, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Happy about our grad. student #Zhe-Yuan_Yu (@cbgpmontpellier.bsky.social &
@isyeb.mnhn.fr) 1st paper, where she &
@tonyrobillard.bsky.social
described a new 🦗 species from Madagascar 😀

A follow-up study, focusing on the historical biogeography of the genus Xenogryllus should come very soon !!
July 26, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Our study on the recent invasion of the Little Fire #Ant in Southern Europe (including France!) was published today in Diversity & Distribution @consbiog.bsky.social #OA

great collaborative work led by @cbgpmontpellier.bsky.social
@inrae-dpt-spe.bsky.social

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
July 23, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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#ERGAReads | Comparative analysis of 163 ant genomes uncovers how #genome rearrangements, gene family expansions and selection shaped the evolution of caste systems and social complexity in ants 🐜🧬

🔗 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

@cellpress.bsky.social
#ants #evolution #socialevolution
July 16, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Non-profit publishers (PLoS, Oxford, Cambridge) and publishers partnering a lot with academia (Wiley) are much more committed to open science than the others - MDPI being the worst by large. (4/5)
July 17, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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With one month left to join the entomological community this September, we are excited to invite you to #Ento25 🦋

Programme coming soon - Register now 🔽

buff.ly/TMMzh4o

#StrathLife @unistrathclyde.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social #Glasgow #Entomology #InsectDecline #ClimateChange #PhD #STEM
Ento25 - Royal Entomological Society
Join entomologists from around the world to present your work, meet new contacts, and build on your career. We are delighted to be holding Ento25 at the University of Strathclyde in the city centre…
www.royensoc.co.uk
July 16, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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BEAST X v10.5.0 finally released – you can't just do beta releases forever. github.com/beast-dev/be...

Details and instructions for installing on the BEAST website: beast.community
July 2, 2025 at 8:32 PM