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 🇫🇷🇨🇱
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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,
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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! 🐜✨
Reposted by Corentin Jouault
Reposted by Corentin Jouault
Paru dans #Annales_de_la_Société_entomologique_de_France
(N.S) 1-7 #Full_Access
"Le troisième Asilidae (Diptera : Asiloidea) de l’ambre du Kachin du Crétacé moyen"
Miquel,M., Jouault,C., Huang,D., & Nel,A. @isyeb.mnhn.fr
#n.gen. #n.sp.
#assassin_fly #taxonomy #diversity
🪰 doi.org/10.1080/0037...
(N.S) 1-7 #Full_Access
"Le troisième Asilidae (Diptera : Asiloidea) de l’ambre du Kachin du Crétacé moyen"
Miquel,M., Jouault,C., Huang,D., & Nel,A. @isyeb.mnhn.fr
#n.gen. #n.sp.
#assassin_fly #taxonomy #diversity
🪰 doi.org/10.1080/0037...
June 2, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Paru dans #Annales_de_la_Société_entomologique_de_France
(N.S) 1-7 #Full_Access
"Le troisième Asilidae (Diptera : Asiloidea) de l’ambre du Kachin du Crétacé moyen"
Miquel,M., Jouault,C., Huang,D., & Nel,A. @isyeb.mnhn.fr
#n.gen. #n.sp.
#assassin_fly #taxonomy #diversity
🪰 doi.org/10.1080/0037...
(N.S) 1-7 #Full_Access
"Le troisième Asilidae (Diptera : Asiloidea) de l’ambre du Kachin du Crétacé moyen"
Miquel,M., Jouault,C., Huang,D., & Nel,A. @isyeb.mnhn.fr
#n.gen. #n.sp.
#assassin_fly #taxonomy #diversity
🪰 doi.org/10.1080/0037...
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Thrilled to see my first PhD paper finally out in @pnas.org !!!
We investigated the macroevolutionary dynamics of South American #Mammals across the Eocene-Oligocene Transition (~34 millions of years ago) 🦥❄️
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
We investigated the macroevolutionary dynamics of South American #Mammals across the Eocene-Oligocene Transition (~34 millions of years ago) 🦥❄️
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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May 5, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Thrilled to see my first PhD paper finally out in @pnas.org !!!
We investigated the macroevolutionary dynamics of South American #Mammals across the Eocene-Oligocene Transition (~34 millions of years ago) 🦥❄️
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
We investigated the macroevolutionary dynamics of South American #Mammals across the Eocene-Oligocene Transition (~34 millions of years ago) 🦥❄️
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Do you use Darwin Tree of Life (DToL) genomes for your work or grant applications? If so, can you please fill out this form? docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... We are gathering info on how DToL genomes are used. It will help us raise money to continue producing publicly available high-quality genomes.
Darwin Tree of Life Impact Assessment
This form is used to share information within DToL about case studies, ongoing research, and funding awards that demonstrate the impact the Darwin Tree of Life consortium project has had on Global and...
docs.google.com
February 24, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Do you use Darwin Tree of Life (DToL) genomes for your work or grant applications? If so, can you please fill out this form? docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... We are gathering info on how DToL genomes are used. It will help us raise money to continue producing publicly available high-quality genomes.
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Here’s a second, ridiculous litter monster ant (Myrmoteras sp.) from leaf litter samples in a secondary forest in Borneo, this time a much better photo. It has eyes which look like they might cry any time soon…
April 9, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Here’s a second, ridiculous litter monster ant (Myrmoteras sp.) from leaf litter samples in a secondary forest in Borneo, this time a much better photo. It has eyes which look like they might cry any time soon…
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New paper in @commsbio.bsky.social using @gbif.org mediated data:
Phylogenetic history and temperature adaptation contribute to structural and functional stability of proteins in marine mollusks
#CiteTheDOI: ❌
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-025-07881-8
Phylogenetic history and temperature adaptation contribute to structural and functional stability of proteins in marine mollusks
#CiteTheDOI: ❌
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-025-07881-8
Phylogenetic history and temperature adaptation contribute to structural and functional stability of proteins in marine mollusks - Communications Biology
A comparative analysis between the phylogenetic relationships and functional as well as structural stabilities at protein and mRNA levels of cytosolic malate dehydrogenase orthologs of 41 marine mollu...
www.nature.com
April 9, 2025 at 2:28 PM
New paper in @commsbio.bsky.social using @gbif.org mediated data:
Phylogenetic history and temperature adaptation contribute to structural and functional stability of proteins in marine mollusks
#CiteTheDOI: ❌
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-025-07881-8
Phylogenetic history and temperature adaptation contribute to structural and functional stability of proteins in marine mollusks
#CiteTheDOI: ❌
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-025-07881-8
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Do you love #fossil plants? Are you searching for a #PhD position? I am recruiting a doctoral student to join my group at the Senckenberg Research Institute in Frankfurt/M! Deadline on the 11th of May
#paleobotany #paleontology #plants #botany
www.senckenberg.de/en/career/sc...
#paleobotany #paleontology #plants #botany
www.senckenberg.de/en/career/sc...
Jobs for Scientists | Senckenberg Society for Nature Research
www.senckenberg.de
April 1, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Do you love #fossil plants? Are you searching for a #PhD position? I am recruiting a doctoral student to join my group at the Senckenberg Research Institute in Frankfurt/M! Deadline on the 11th of May
#paleobotany #paleontology #plants #botany
www.senckenberg.de/en/career/sc...
#paleobotany #paleontology #plants #botany
www.senckenberg.de/en/career/sc...
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Very interesting read!
Bayesian Selection of Relaxed-Clock Models: Distinguishing between Independent and Autocorrelated Rates
Abstract. In Bayesian molecular-clock dating of species divergences, rate models are used to construct the prior on the molecular evolutionary rates for br
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April 4, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Very interesting read!
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🐜🐜🐜Fans of Myrmicinae! New paper in Syst Biol in collaboration with C. Rabeling🐜🐜🐜
doi.org/10.1093/sysb...
doi.org/10.1093/sysb...
April 4, 2025 at 1:23 AM
🐜🐜🐜Fans of Myrmicinae! New paper in Syst Biol in collaboration with C. Rabeling🐜🐜🐜
doi.org/10.1093/sysb...
doi.org/10.1093/sysb...
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Notre article sur la délimitation des espèces de tatous du genre Dasypus est désormais publié dans Systematic Biology (doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syae027) officialisant ainsi le tatou à long museau de Guyane (Dasypus guianensis) comme une nouvelle espèce endémique du plateau des Guyanes
Une nouvelle espèce de tatou découverte en Guyane
On connait actuellement une vingtaine d'espèces de tatous, ces mammifères emblématiques de l’Amérique du Sud. La plus répandue aurait été le tatou à neuf bandes, qui s'est révélée être en réalité un g...
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April 3, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Notre article sur la délimitation des espèces de tatous du genre Dasypus est désormais publié dans Systematic Biology (doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syae027) officialisant ainsi le tatou à long museau de Guyane (Dasypus guianensis) comme une nouvelle espèce endémique du plateau des Guyanes
Reposted by Corentin Jouault
In @currentbiology.bsky.social #OpenAccess
"The radiation of Hymenoptera illuminated by Bayesian inferences from the fossil record"
By @cocomacro.bsky.social @morethanadodo.bsky.social Legendre, F. @isyeb.mnhn.fr et al.
#flowering_plants #macroevolution #paleoenvironment
➡️ doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...
"The radiation of Hymenoptera illuminated by Bayesian inferences from the fossil record"
By @cocomacro.bsky.social @morethanadodo.bsky.social Legendre, F. @isyeb.mnhn.fr et al.
#flowering_plants #macroevolution #paleoenvironment
➡️ doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...
March 31, 2025 at 7:07 AM
In @currentbiology.bsky.social #OpenAccess
"The radiation of Hymenoptera illuminated by Bayesian inferences from the fossil record"
By @cocomacro.bsky.social @morethanadodo.bsky.social Legendre, F. @isyeb.mnhn.fr et al.
#flowering_plants #macroevolution #paleoenvironment
➡️ doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...
"The radiation of Hymenoptera illuminated by Bayesian inferences from the fossil record"
By @cocomacro.bsky.social @morethanadodo.bsky.social Legendre, F. @isyeb.mnhn.fr et al.
#flowering_plants #macroevolution #paleoenvironment
➡️ doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...
Reposted by Corentin Jouault
Cool paper by @cocomacro.bsky.social et al. showing the diverse diversification history of hymenoptera in the fossil record!
doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...
#macroevolution #evolution #paleobiology @morethanadodo.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...
#macroevolution #evolution #paleobiology @morethanadodo.bsky.social
March 28, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Cool paper by @cocomacro.bsky.social et al. showing the diverse diversification history of hymenoptera in the fossil record!
doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...
#macroevolution #evolution #paleobiology @morethanadodo.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...
#macroevolution #evolution #paleobiology @morethanadodo.bsky.social
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Out now in @pnas.org , we study the recovery dynamics of biodiversity across the Cretaceous–Paleogene mass extinction. We quantify how species-area relationships – how diversity scales with geographic area – have changed for dinosaurs, mammals and others: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
doi.org
March 26, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Out now in @pnas.org , we study the recovery dynamics of biodiversity across the Cretaceous–Paleogene mass extinction. We quantify how species-area relationships – how diversity scales with geographic area – have changed for dinosaurs, mammals and others: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...