The final part of the story: "The arduous path to obligate asexuality in Daphnia" is out in #ProcB 🥳 royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article.... 1. Instead of comparing long-established asexuals to sexuals, we generated new asexual lineages to observe the transition in action.
I am hiring a Postdoc (18 months contract in Montpellier, France) to study how polyploidy affects sex chromosomes in the plant Silene latifolia, using bioinformatic analyses of RNA-seq and DNA-seq data. Deadline for applications March 24th. euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/412961
The most beautiful cover I have seen lately 🤩 congrats for this great piece of work! @camilagoldy.bsky.social @mc-caillaud.bsky.social @rdplab.bsky.social
Quand Marie Curie prend la tête de son laboratoire en 1906, une chose est exceptionnelle : elle ouvre largement ses portes aux femmes, à contre-courant des usages universitaires.
➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/7Kj
![Comic. [2x2 chart. Top left quadrant: seem like dinosaurs x are dinosaurs. Silhouettes of dinosaurs stegosaurus, triceratops, tyrannosaurus, velociraptor, and long-neck dinosaur. Top right quadrant: seem like dinosaurs x are not dinosaurs. Silhouettes of mosasaur, quetzalcoatlus, dimetrodon, plesiosaur, and pteranodon. Bottom left quadrant: don’t seem like dinosaurs x are dinosaurs. Silhouettes of penguin, egret, ostrich, pigeon, falcon. Bottom right: don’t seem like dinosaurs x are not dinosaurs. Silhouettes of squirrel, stapler, plant, person, and bicycle.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreihcxd5wcrrf5nxz3g4riglsrccbucmdns6kxrtmtj6gjgwqibp3fi@jpeg)
Comic. [2x2 chart. Top left quadrant: seem like dinosaurs x are dinosaurs. Silhouettes of dinosaurs stegosaurus, triceratops, tyrannosaurus, velociraptor, and long-neck dinosaur. Top right quadrant: seem like dinosaurs x are not dinosaurs. Silhouettes of mosasaur, quetzalcoatlus, dimetrodon, plesiosaur, and pteranodon. Bottom left quadrant: don’t seem like dinosaurs x are dinosaurs. Silhouettes of penguin, egret, ostrich, pigeon, falcon. Bottom right: don’t seem like dinosaurs x are not dinosaurs. Silhouettes of squirrel, stapler, plant, person, and bicycle.]
Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs
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Not something you see in textbooks very often: tripolar mitosis.
Save the Date: World Petunia Days 2026!
Join us in Rome, June 3-5, for an inspiring scientific gathering amidst historic landmarks. Exchange innovative ideas in a collegial atmosphere. More details coming soon! We can't wait to welcome you to the Eternal City. #WPD2026 #Rome #ScienceMeetsHistory
This is worth reading! A beautiful testimony of remembering why we chose to do science in the first place: curiosity and excitement, not pressure to publish and secure grants. Even if the research system always tells us otherwise!
In celebration of #BlackHistoryMonth let’s learn more about Marie Taylor, a plant biologist and chair of Howard University’s Botany Department. Love her focus on photomorphogensis and using light microscopy on living plants! 🌱 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_T...
The August issue is now fully online, with a beautiful cover that might be a nostalgia trigger for some of us (young people can find an explanation in the Editorial):
www.nature.com/nplants/volu...
Génial ! C'est bien senti et très drôle. Et ça donne envie de bosser dans ton équipe ;)
À quoi ressemble le quotidien dans un laboratoire de recherche ?
En 2025, Arthur Monternier, étudiant en art, a passé six mois dans notre laboratoire. Il raconte son expérience dans cette bande dessinée.
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Out in @science.org this week: SIPS binds to a conserved region of SRK to control interspecies incompatibility in Brassicaceae. This contrasts with SRK's variable region, which is involved in self-incompatibility interactions.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#plantscience
Looks very much like a Jackson Pollock painting to me!
Our paper on the mysterious Devonian organism Prototaxites has now finally been published! See the paper here (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...) and our explainer thread below!
Prototaxites reconstruction by Matt Humpage
Stéphanie Barbez recevant sa médaille
- la Médaille de Cristal du CNRS à Stéphanie Barbez @stefbarbez.bsky.social , responsable communication au sein de la Délégation régionale CNRS Hauts-de-France
Hooray! Check out this special issue for some fantastic new work on flower color!
Happy to present our latest: Evolutionary adaptations to the hormonal regulation of vascular tissue development | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/.... Work by Wei Xiao and funded by @erc.europa.eu
📢 Open faculty position – Origins of Life
We have an opening in our section at the University of Geneva! 🧬🚀
SPREAD THE WORD
Apply here: jobs.unige.ch/www/wd_porta...
More than 400 million years ago, during the Silurian Period, an evolutionary event led to the later emergence of spiders’ spinnerets—the abdominal organs that make silk—according to new #ScienceAdvances research. https://scim.ag/4sFX3pJ
Why I’m genetically engineering a rainbow flower…
And how a Russian fairy tale inspired the idea 🧵
That is beautiful ! At first I thought they were transgenics and thinking "how can he achieve single petal expression in petunia flowers that are mostly symmetrical?", but now I saw the little infiltration spots ;) well done, that looks amazing and a cool resource both for teaching and research
New paper from our lab @jxbotany.bsky.social about auxin and cytokinin interactions during carpel initiation in Arabidopsis
Led by @andreagomezfe.bsky.social in collaboration with @defolter-lab.bsky.social
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Sign up date coming quickly!
Come join us in beautiful Roscoff for this Conference Jacques Monod on Developmental regulation: from molecular to ecological niches
May 18-22, 2026 Roscoff, France
Abstract deadline: January 31, 2026
Apply here: cjm.sb-roscoff.fr/en
@yu1cheng.bsky.social, in collaboration with Filip Kolar and me, published an article looking at how the genetic architecture of unreduced gametes and environmental factors can affect autopolyploidy evolution.
Congrats Yu!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Yes it's a delicate matter, and even more so when you have a single position to fill (like most professor positions). It pushes this idea "she got it because she's a woman" whereas men get it because of merit... whereas all the top applicants are anyway super good at this stage!
Très belle introduction à l'étude de mes collègues lillois
@crouxevo.bsky.social, François Monnet, @zopos.bsky.social, Christelle Fraisse Xavier Vekemans et Pascal Touzet, qui remet en question une idée reçue -mais fausse- sur l'évolution des plantes.
www.inee.cnrs.fr/fr/cnrsinfo/...
Tagging along people and institutions who might be interested in this thread @cnrs.fr @agencerecherche.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu @rdplab.bsky.social @mc-caillaud.bsky.social @awisnational.bsky.social @lucievirevolte.bsky.social
Please forward!
So please STOP circulating this idea that it is now easier for women to succeed in science : this is not true and only encourages imposter syndrome (16/n)
