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MAGALI PROFFIT
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Researcher in chemical ecology of plant-insect interactions @cefemontpellier @cnrs
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Rendez-vous au Salon de la Biodiversité cette semaine Porte de Versailles à Paris!
November 16, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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Amis Toulousains : C'est demain ! Venez nombreuses et nombreux 😄👍🐛
Je donnerais une conférence grand public sur les perce-oreilles à Toulouse.

Venez découvrir les secrets de ces petits insectes discrets, souvent mal-aimés, mais à la vie sociale fascinante.

📅 Samedi 15 nov. 2025 à 14h.

➡️ Infos & inscription via l’affiche ci-dessous

#Conférence #Insectes #Nature
November 14, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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Elle est petite, noire, brillante… et elle conquiert l’Europe 🐜
Découvrez notre article dans The Conversation sur Tapinoma magnum 👉 theconversation.com/ce-que-lon-s...
Ce que l’on sait de « Tapinoma magnum », la fourmi noire et brillante qui envahit l’Europe
La fourmi noire « Tapinoma magnum », dont l’invasion en Europe aurait été facilitée par le changement climatique, inquiète. Voici comment l’identifier et comment bien réagir si vous suspectez sa prése...
theconversation.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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Head over to the methods blog and check out our new post!

Read about how Daniel Souto-Vilarós and his team processed arthropod bulk-collections from seven different protocols with DNA metabarcoding 🐛🐜👇
10,000 Arthropods in a Hectare: What We Found Crawling, Flying, and Hiding in Panama’s Rainforest
Post provided by Daniel Souto-Vilarós. I’m a molecular ecologist who currently works as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Utah, with a long-standing obsession with biodiversity. While …
buff.ly
September 22, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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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.
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🔗 DOI: doi.org/10.5852/ejt....
#weevils
September 18, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Great work by soon-to-be Dr Dewaele, who is paving the way for research into the effect of phthalates on pollinators! 🐝
📢NEW PAPER OUT! We investigated the short-term impact of exposure to field-realistic doses of phthalates DnBP and DEHP on the survival of Bombus terrestris workers 🐝
Find our work here: doi.org/10.1016/j.en...
September 16, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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A wonderful article by Omnia Saed partly based on our work on atmospheric pollutants (funded by @kavlifoundation.org, @angiemicha.bsky.social, and NSF)

atmos.earth/science-and-...
When the World Stops Smelling Like Itself | Atmos
Climate change is erasing the aromas of daily life. Farmers say the loss is already here—from Grenada’s cocoa to Egypt’s jasmine—and affecting relationships between all living things.
atmos.earth
September 17, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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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
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📢NEW PAPER OUT! We investigated the short-term impact of exposure to field-realistic doses of phthalates DnBP and DEHP on the survival of Bombus terrestris workers 🐝
Find our work here: doi.org/10.1016/j.en...
September 15, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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When It Gets Too Hot, Insects Move Too: New Study on Thermal Preferences
Summary & Analysis by Patrick Stillson of "Thermal preference plasticity in ectotherms: Integrating temperature affinity and thermoregulation precision" by Deconninck et al.
amnat.org/an/newpapers...
www.amnat.org
September 15, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Connecting optical #RemoteSensing of plant #photosynthesis with biogenic volatile organic compound #emissions

#Viewpoint by Zhang, et al.

📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#PlantScience
September 7, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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🪻Lavenders are small shrubs that grow naturally in dry or arid environments, often at altitude (up to 1800 m).

They cover around 40 wild species a few spontaneous hybrids and two species cultivated on a large scale for their essential oils.

Read more ⬇️
September 8, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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How is this possible?

This ant can lay eggs of two different species, birthed by the same mother
September 3, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Excited to share the first article from the #Ecotron 's #Mesocosms platform! 🎉 Based on a 4+ year experiment manipulating soil macrofauna diversity in large #lysimeters under #drought. #Macrofauna matters!

Huge thanks to @UFZ_de & @CEFE_CNRS. More coming soon!

🔗 www.frontiersin.org/journals/mic...
June 24, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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Happy to announce that @ajblake05.bsky.social’s JEB paper was selected as this month’s Editors Choice article. This article discovered that mosquito color/wavelength preferences shift depending on the odor they experience.
September 2, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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BeeFunc, une base de données dédiée aux traits des #abeilles en France pour mieux comprendre leur vulnérabilité face aux pressions humaines. Avec Benoit Geslin du labo ECOBIO.
@rennesuniv.bsky.social / @cnrsecologie.bsky.social / @cnrs-bretagneloire.bsky.social
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August 27, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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🌊🧪 Big day at #chemecol2025!
I presented my talk:
“Chemical cues & larval behaviour in the tunicate Ciona intestinalis 🪸✨

I had the pleasure of chairing the Aquatic Chemical Ecology session — featuring amazing talks on annelids, cnidarians, oysters, and red algae. 🌿🦪🪼🪱
August 20, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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JOIN US WEDNESDAY, Aug. 20, 2025, @eseb2025.bsky.social ! 🚪 Room 120–121 🕑 2:00–5:40 PM
🔥 Satellite Symposium “Ecological Genomics of Coevolution”
Keynote speakers:
⭐ Ellen Leffer
⭐Joy Bergelson (NYU)
💡 Young Researcher Talks on host–pathogen dynamics, symbiosis, adaptation!
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August 18, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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🎬 ACTION! The curtain rises…
So pumped for a whole week of chemical ecology adventures here in Christchurch, NZ 🇳🇿 with @chemicalecology.bsky.social!

Expect plenty of land drama 🌱🌿🐝🦟🪲
…and some splashy aquatic cameos too 🪸🪼🦪💦

Let the #chemecol2025 show begin! 🎉
August 19, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Isce meeting in Christchurch New Zealand
August 18, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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JOIN US WEDNESDAY, Aug. 20, 2025, @eseb2025.bsky.social ! 🚪 Room 120–121 🕑 2:00–5:40 PM
🔥 Satellite Symposium 🔥 “Ecological Genomics of Coevolution”
Keynote speakers:
⭐ Ellen Leffer
⭐Joy Bergekson @bergelsonlab.bsky.social
💡 Young Researcher Talks on host–pathogen dynamics, symbiosis, adaptation!
August 18, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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Thank you to Irene Teixidor-Toneu for opening the ecology and society session this afternoon : « Human-nature relationships through the lens of reciprocity : insights from indigenous and local knowledge systems »
August 12, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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📖Published📖

Gekière et al. demonstrate the applicability of the synergyfinder method in ecotoxicology and environmental research using a model pollinator, the buff-tailed bumblebee (Bombus terrestris) and two major environmental pollutants 🐝 🌍 🧪

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August 11, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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𝐋𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐮𝐱 𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐬, 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐝𝐞 𝐥𝐚 𝐦𝐞𝐫
David Grémillet, biologiste au Centre d’écologie fonctionnelle et évolutive (Cefe), nous explique comment les oiseaux marins nous renseignent sur les changements globaux affectant les océans.
Article 👉 lejournal.cnrs.fr/articles/les...
📷 ©David Grémillet
August 11, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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Attending #ESEB2025 in Barcelona? Check out our Equal Opportunity initiatives eseb2025.com/inclusivity-...
& join our #inclusivity mixers in the social corner (EXPO area):
Mon 18 9h45🌈LGBTQ+ mixer

Tues 19 10h15♿Disability mixer

Wed 20 9h45🌍Global South mixer
Pass the word ! #InclusiveScience
Inclusivity Initiatives – ESEB 2025. Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology. Barcelona. Spain
eseb2025.com
August 8, 2025 at 9:21 AM