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Julien Foucaud
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Evolutionary biologist
plasticity♻️, cognition🧠 and adaptation🧬
in ants🐜 beetles🐞 and flies🪰
@ CBGP, INRAE, Montpellier
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stefanlucien.bsky.social
1er jour de #gelée blanche en région parisienne. La vue de #Meteosat est explicite. On distingue même de 36 000 km quasiment toutes les vallées fluviales et leurs affluents sur cette image. On voit la neige sur les Pyrénées et Alpes sur les Données @eumetsat.int #SDK #Arcgis
November 18, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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isyeb.mnhn.fr
In @biolinvasions.bsky.social 27(10)
"Co-occurrence patterns of introduced terrestrial flatworms in metropolitan France revealed by citizen science"
Fourcade,Y., @jean-lou-justine.bsky.social @isyeb.mnhn.fr
et al.
#Platyhelminthes
#Citizen_science
#Invasion
#Soil_ecosystems
🪱 doi.org/10.1007/s105...
Co-occurrence patterns of introduced terrestrial flatworms in metropolitan France revealed by citizen science - Biological Invasions
Terrestrial flatworms are a group of successful carnivorous invaders that have been introduced to many regions outside their native range. In France, six different species have been recorded in signif...
doi.org
October 20, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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anticorruption.bsky.social
Transparency International strongly condemns the recent attacks against our chapter in Brazil. www.transparency.org/en/press/tra...
Transparency International faces new attacks in Brazil - Press
Transparency International is the global civil society organisation leading the fight against corruption.
www.transparency.org
October 18, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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peercommunityin.bsky.social
📣 Save the date for the 12th PCI webinar on September 18, 2025, at 4 PM CET!! Dorothy Bishop (@deevybee.bsky.social) will present "Editors matter: How negligent publishers subvert quality control in scientific publishing ". For more details and registration, visit:
PCI Webinar Series - Peer Community In
The PCI webinar series is a series of seminars on research practices, publication practices, evaluation, scientific integrity, meta-research, organised by Peer Community In
peercommunityin.org
August 22, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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ergabiodiv.bsky.social
As a community, it’s wonderful to meet in person after so many online meetings!
📸 Here are some of the many #ERGA members at #ESEB2025.

Thank you to everyone who stopped by our booth to say hi and learn more about ERGA!
#GenomesForBiodiversity
August 21, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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gkergoat.bsky.social
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/...
Wasmaniia auropunctata queen
July 23, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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inrae-dpt-spe.bsky.social
🐜⚡ 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...
Nid de fourmis électriques, Wasmannia auropunctata, d'une population envahissante en Nouvelle-Calédonie. Photo : INRAE, Gaël Kergoat
August 7, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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hormiga.bsky.social
It's official, I'm off Substack and done with the Nazis. I've moved over to Ghost!

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Science For Everyone
This site is focused on practical challenges we face as human beings doing science. The process of science, academic job market, publishing, getting funded, mentoring, equity and justice, collaboratio...
scienceforeveryone.science
August 6, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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echtzeitkultur.org
Bravo, les ami .es français.es ! 🤩
[FR] www.arte.tv/fr/videos/12...
Cooler Arte-Tracks-Beitrag über Livecoding, Algraves und unsere Freunde vom Cookie Collective!
[DE] www.arte.tv/de/videos/12...
Tracks - Algorave : la teuf en open source ? - Regarder l’émission complète | ARTE
Ils contrôlent ce que vous voyez passer sur vos réseaux sociaux, avec qui vous ferez votre prochain date ou encore la marque de votre future paire de baskets… Difficile d’imaginer les algorithmes sort...
www.arte.tv
August 6, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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peercommunityin.bsky.social
PCI was interviewed by Damon Orion, a writer for the Local Peace Economy media. Don’t miss the fantastic blog article here! 👇

observatory.wiki/How_Academic...
How Academics Are Pushing Back on the For-Profit Academic Publishing Industry
These scholars are fighting the rampant exploitation and high article processing charges in traditional academic publishing.
observatory.wiki
June 27, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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robsonfletcher.com
"AllTrails has a new generative AI feature that can be asked to 'shorten my route' or 'make this more scenic.'

But the people in charge of searching for lost hikers say the feature is going to exacerbate an issue they’ve been warning about for years: hiking apps providing false information."
AllTrails launches AI route-making tool, worrying search-and-rescue members
One of the world’s most popular hiking apps has a new generative AI feature that can be asked to "shorten my route" or "make this more scenic." But the people in charge of searching for lost hikers sa...
www.nationalobserver.com
June 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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tjalamont.bsky.social
🐙🌿🐍🐛 Nope, it's not a snake - it's the caterpillar of a sphinx moth (Hemeroplanes sp.)., found by our guides in Corcovado Natl. Park., Costa Rica. Normally the caterpillars blend with the vegetation, but if disturbed they twist their head upside down to reveal a "snake," and even wave around to--
A photo of what looks a lot like a mottled brownish, olive green, and white snake hanging out in the vegetation, with leaves in the background. But a closer look reveals that it's actually a caterpillar with markings that mimic a snake's face and eyes. The caterpillar has twisted its body so that its head is upside down, revealing false eyes on the underside. It has even flared its thorax to create the illusion of a snake's triangular, tapered head.
June 13, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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hormiga.bsky.social
What's happening in LA? Here's what I see.

scienceforeveryone.science/p/a-quick-re...
A quick report from Los Angeles
Immigrants and the rule of law in the world's 4th largest economy
scienceforeveryone.science
June 11, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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occrp.org
Cypriot political parties received more than 1m euros in donations connected to the country’s “golden passport” program, which was later shut down amid corruption allegations, according to audits.

The 3 larger parties said there was nothing wrong or illegal about the donations.
May 29, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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ellamchawk.bsky.social
Today is National Biscuit Day, and it’s about time that I populated this account with biscuit (cookie) sets from the past few years. Here are some of my favourites. 🧵

First up, a set inspired by the delicious designs of William Morris and John Henry Dearle.
A set of eight rectangular cookies arranged on a square white plate against a dark wooden background. Each cookie is inspired by a wallpaper design by Morris & Co. The patterns represented feature different floral and leaf shapes in shades of baby blue, soft pink, leafy green, mustard yellow, cream, and dark grey.
May 29, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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apsciencebylyn.bsky.social
#BugSex
It's leptogaster (robberfly) sex
Two slender brown robberflies with a damselfly-ish body plan; female at rest on a dried stalk, male attached to her, ass to ass, just hanging there, legs flailing
May 21, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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alexwild.bsky.social
Model and mimic: a clever longhorn beetle (Euderces reichei, at right) tries its best to look like a local carpenter ant, Campontous decipiens, as they both feed on a spring dogwood flower. Brackenridge Field Laboratory, Texas.
Macro photograph, in top view, of two insects standing on a cluster of small, 4-petalled white flowers. Both insects have a red head and thorax and black at their back ends. The beetle on the right is slightly broader, and has a narrow white line separating the red and black parts of its body, as to suggest a narrow ant waist.
May 20, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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jencross.bsky.social
Holy smokes! I've got the male too! I'm tearing up. Just heard from the scientist that described the new species and this handsome lad is the male. So awesome!
(Chrysometa chuchaqui)
A skinny spider with swirly light sockets for pedipalps, a tan cephalothorax, cone shaped abdomen with shiny plates. He is sitting on a leaf.
May 21, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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purpletiger.bsky.social
ICYMI. @standupforscience.bsky.social #academicsky #science #resist #HandsOff
Poster with images of test tubes and atoms. It says: Hello, my name is Science (Inigo Montoya is crossed out). You killed my Funding (Father is crossed out). Prepare to Die."
May 3, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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edhawkins.org
87 years ago.

In April 1938, Guy Callendar published the first evidence from thermometer observations that the world’s land areas were warming.

He also linked the observed warming to the increase in atmospheric CO₂ from burning coal.

87 years ago.

rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
A hand drawn graph showing the rise in global land temperatures published in 1938.
April 17, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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peercommunityin.bsky.social
🤓 Ever heard of PCI-friendly journals? These journals either ✅ directly accept preprints or registered reports recommended by PCI, or ✉️ provide an answer (accept, reject, review) within 5-10 days. For more details and the list of these 💯 journals 👉 buff.ly/lNn7rPx
April 16, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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bikesnfoodnbeer.bsky.social
This seems relevant:
A two panel cartoon. Panel one shows a man telling a woman “A.I. Turns this single bullet point into a long email I can pretend I wrote.” Panel two shows a woman telling a man “A.I. Makes a single bullet point out of this long email I can pretend I read.” Credit to marketoonist.com
April 15, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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c0nc0rdance.bsky.social
In 2016, the Kishony Lab at Harvard Medical School put together this demonstration of acquired antibiotic resistance in E. coli bacteria, creating a mega-Petri dish (2' x 4') with a stepped gradient of antibiotic.

Seeing the mutants emerge & spread is an elegant demo of evolutionary change.
The Evolution of Bacteria on a “Mega-Plate” Petri Dish (Kishony Lab)
YouTube video by Harvard Medical School
youtu.be
April 13, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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olimould.bsky.social
The UK car industry contributes £22bn to the economy and employs c 35k people.

Universities contribute £265bn and employ nearly 400k, over 10x as much.

Yet he seems ok to let that sector implode.
adambienkov.bsky.social Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · Apr 7
"My choice in these volatile times is backing British brilliance," says Keir Starmer, who promises to deliver "British cars for British workers"
April 9, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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brilliantmaps.bsky.social
How many freestanding structures and/or buildings has each country had that, at some point since 4000 BC, held the title of the tallest in the world?

Full list: brilliantmaps.com/tallest-b...
April 10, 2025 at 7:01 PM