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Researcher in chemical ecology of plant-insect interactions @cefemontpellier @cnrs

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L’Espagne dit non à Trump et à la guerre En dénonçant une action illégale et en refusant l’utilisation par Washington de deux bases militaires de la péninsule, le chef du gouvernement de Madrid, Pedro Sánchez, affirme la singularité de son pays. La France, elle, a autorisé le transit d’avions états-uniens sur la base d’Istres.

L’Espagne dit non à Trump et à la guerre

Par @bougon.bsky.social et @fabienescalona.bsky.social

05.03.2026 18:44 👍 122 🔁 24 💬 2 📌 0
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Post doc position in Evolutionary biology and bioinformatics - work environment: This postdoctoral position will be supervised by Aline Muyle and hosted at the Institute of Evolutionary Sciences of Montpellier (ISEM), within the CHANGE department and the Plant ...

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

24.02.2026 15:57 👍 18 🔁 36 💬 0 📌 0
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Join our online course on Multivariate Data Analysis with R led and vegan by @gsimpson.bsky.social , 4–7 May, and gain practical skills to analyse and interpret multivariate ecological and biological datasets.

www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

#Rstats #veganPackage

24.02.2026 17:55 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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Prairies sous Plexiglas, images satellite, équations… comment les scientifiques prédisent les effets du changement climatique sur les écosystèmes Expérimentations à ciel ouvert avec des anneaux en carbone de 25 mètres, utilisations de données historiques, suivis depuis l’espace… les méthodes sont nombreuses et souvent complémentaires.

theconversation.com/prairies-sou...

21.02.2026 11:50 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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About the museum Natural History Museum Denmark is beautifully located in the corner of the Botanical Garden near Nørreport Station. Until October 2022 the museum also welcomed guests at the Zoological Museum at Østerbro, which is now closed to the public in order to prepare for the new museum building that will open in the Botanical Garden in a few years time.

The Natural History Museum Denmark seeks a Tenure Track Assistant Professor and Curator of Lepidoptera. Candidates should have a strong research background in Lepidoptera. Applications due March 22, 2026. Info: https://snm.dk/en/about-museum. #job

15.02.2026 11:17 👍 30 🔁 33 💬 0 📌 1

#voxprimato #master #neuroethologie
les inscriptions pour le M2 Neuroscience des Systèmes à Paris Saclay sont ouvertes! De la cellule au cerveau, explorez les mécanismes sous-jacents au comportement animal et les différentes approches expérimentales pour les étudier
date limite 04/04/2026
détails 👇🏽

13.02.2026 20:31 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Four reddish-brown ants work together to carry a small white feather across a mossy surface against a dark background.

Four reddish-brown ants work together to carry a small white feather across a mossy surface against a dark background.

Arthropod Photo of the Week: February 11, 2026
Weaver ants
Oecophylla sp.
Hymenoptera: Formicidae
Observed in West Bengal, India
By Sekhar Bandyopadhyay, West Bengal, India
#arthropodPOTW

11.02.2026 20:05 👍 25 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
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We are hiring Tenure-track Assistant Professor and Curator in Bryology at Natural History Museum Denmark, Copenhagen.

Duties are collection-based research, curation of >350.000 bryophytes, university teaching and public engagement.

Deadline 23 March 2026. Start Jan 2027. lnkd.in/eEaXnNnb

11.02.2026 08:43 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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Notre tribune de scientifiques pour alerter sur les dangers de la nouvelle loi d'urgence pour l'agriculture: la science montre que l'urgence est au contraire de transformer le système agricole pour préserver notre santé, la fertilité des sols, une eau disponible et non polluée, et la biodiversité.

10.02.2026 11:46 👍 220 🔁 128 💬 5 📌 7
New species of Endaeus Schoenherr, 1826 (Curculionidae: Curculioninae: Ochyromerini) associated with Annonaceae and Clusiaceae | European Journal of Taxonomy

1/ New weevil #brood-pollinator species described within the frame of the highly collaborative #ANR project #POLLIDIV, led by @remiallio.bsky.social and #Julien_Haran @cbgpmontpellier.bsky.social 🪲🌳

europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ej...

09.02.2026 16:19 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Biodiversité dans les vignobles : retours sur la journée de partage – DEFI CLE : Octaave

octaave.univ-toulouse.fr/biodiversite...

07.02.2026 19:47 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Researcher with a petri dish, in which ozonated ants were presented to nest mates. 
CREDIT: Markus Knaden

Researcher with a petri dish, in which ozonated ants were presented to nest mates. CREDIT: Markus Knaden

Ants recognize their nestmates by their distinctive hydrocarbons, including alkenes. Ozone pollution can degrade these alkene compounds, leaving these social insects stranded in a world of strangers . In PNAS: https://ow.ly/qrCn50Yaq1f

07.02.2026 01:00 👍 10 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 1

😱⏰Only 2 days left! Submit your abstract and get the early bird rate for the XIII European Congress of Entomology (29 June – 3 July 2026, Tours, France)! 🪲🦋🐜🪰

All details and submission: ➡️https://www.ece2026.org/

@irbi-tours.bsky.social
@ece2026tours.bsky.social
@royentsoc.bsky.social

29.01.2026 13:43 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1
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#FemmesEnScience 🎉 Fierté pour l'UM! Isabelle Olivieri figure parmi les 72 femmes scientifiques proposées pour être inscrites sur la tour Eiffel. 1ère professeure de génétique des populations à #Montpellier, son parcours d’exception est aujourd’hui reconnu à l’échelle nationale @isemevol.bsky.social

27.01.2026 16:30 👍 18 🔁 9 💬 2 📌 0
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Le retour de la loutre d’Europe

La loutre d’Europe, qui a quasi disparu dans les années 1970 à cause de la chasse et de la pollution, fait son retour dans une grande partie de la France. Mais quels sont les indices de sa présence ? Reportage sur le Lez, le fleuve qui traverse Montpellier, en partenariat avec Le Monde.

24.01.2026 23:34 👍 33 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 0

🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: The diversity of Ficus
doi.org/10.1093/aob/...

#PlantScience

17.01.2026 12:04 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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The PCI-PCJ 2025 recap is here! ✨ Dive into the events of 2025 👀: peercommunityin.org/2026/01/07/p... Huge thanks to everyone who contributed to an amazing year! 🙏 #PCI2025 #Highlights

15.01.2026 12:52 👍 18 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 1
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Sesquiterpene diversity and TPS-a gene characterization in the pelargonium genus Sesquiterpenes are key molecules nurturing the complex and subtle base notes of pelargonium fragrances. Yet, their contribution to the essential oil o…

[📰 Paper] Sesquiterpene diversity and TPS-a gene characterization in the 𝑝𝑒𝑙𝑎𝑟𝑔𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑢𝑚 genus

Read the article: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

@cnrs.fr @cnrs-rhoneauvergne.bsky.social

#Biochemicalcharacterization #Multiomic #pelargonium #sesquiterpenes #terpenediversity #TPS

12.01.2026 07:37 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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La science contemple enfin les paysages odorants Les écologues s’intéressent désormais au rôle clé joué par les odeurs dans les interactions entre vivants, notamment entre plantes et insectes.

Les écologues s’intéressent désormais au rôle clé joué par les odeurs dans les interactions entre vivants, notamment entre plantes et insectes.

Par @ysciama.bsky.social‬

10.01.2026 13:57 👍 43 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 1
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Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Biodiversity The Department of Biology was established in 2010 through the merger of the Departments of Ecology, Cell and Organism Biology, Biological Undergraduate Education, and the Biological Museums. The depar

Come and join me and my colleagues at the Department of Biology, #LundUniversity in #sweden! We have am open position as Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Biodiversity.

Apply here no later than February 11 2026:

https://lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:848749/type:job/where:4/apply:1

20.12.2025 15:58 👍 77 🔁 117 💬 0 📌 1
Nectar collecting at the tip of the stigma in Agapetes lacei (Ericaceae).

Nectar collecting at the tip of the stigma in Agapetes lacei (Ericaceae).

This #VirtualIssue captures the breadth and momentum of current research in #nectar and nectary biology, spanning ecology, evolution, development, and physiology 👇

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...

#PlantScience

04.01.2026 12:00 👍 19 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 1
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26.12.2025 09:27 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

🎉🆕📰🎉: Subtle ecophysiological divergences in a deceptive strategy to attract the same pollinators in two sympatric Arum
doi.org/10.1093/aob/...

23.12.2025 19:02 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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#114 : La dominance sexuelle mise à mal La dominance sexuelle mise à mal Cette semaine dans A l’UM la science Elise Huchard de l’Institut des sciences de l’évolution de Montpellier (Isem (https://isem-evolution.fr/actualites-accueil/)) nous...

#Podcast 🎙️ La domination sexuelle est-elle vraiment une loi de la nature ? Dans À l’UM la science, l’éthologue Élise Huchard ( #ISEM ) bouscule les idées reçues sur les primates 🐒🔍 Un épisode passionnant 🎧 À écouter 👇
smartlink.ausha.co/a-l-um-la-sc...

18.12.2025 14:30 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

In short, we will be seeking a candidate with a strong international research background in plant biochemistry and plant enzyme discovery. You should have a keen interest in plant biochemistry, focused on volatile/semi-volatile terpenoids.

14.12.2025 10:42 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Such a collaborative adventure! Thanks a lot to all co-authors! @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social @urgi-inrae.bsky.social @inrae-toulouse.bsky.social @univparissaclay.bsky.social @nyuad-oaa.bsky.social 👏👏👏

14.12.2025 15:04 👍 10 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1
Infographic showing how a blown-out candle can relight when a match is held in its smoke trail. The “smoke” is wax vapour that ignites. An example wax combustion equation is also shown.

Infographic showing how a blown-out candle can relight when a match is held in its smoke trail. The “smoke” is wax vapour that ignites. An example wax combustion equation is also shown.

Infographic about Swedish lussekatter saffron buns. Saffron gives colour via crocin and flavour from picrocrocin and safranal, the molecular structures of which are shown.

Infographic about Swedish lussekatter saffron buns. Saffron gives colour via crocin and flavour from picrocrocin and safranal, the molecular structures of which are shown.

St Lucia's Day links day 13 of #ChemAdvent: The saint is often depicted with a wreath of candles around her head, and in Sweden they celebrate with saffron buns (lussekatter)

#ChemSky 🧪

13.12.2025 09:15 👍 55 🔁 24 💬 1 📌 0

Excellent course! I highly recommend it!

11.12.2025 20:17 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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🚨Our December issue is out!🚨

This month’s cover features a young mandrill being groomed by its mother 🐒 Renoult et al. present an artificial intelligence model capable of estimating the age of mandrills using nothing more than a photograph of their face 📸 🐵

Read the issue here 👇

buff.ly/rQnc4PX

03.12.2025 14:30 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Time to publish responsibly: DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly journals in ecology and evolutionary biology Abstract. The current economics of scientific publishing reveal a profound imbalance: academia pays prices far exceeding the actual costs of publication. R

Time to publish responsibly: DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly journals in ecology and evolutionary biology url: academic.oup.com/jeb/article/...

01.12.2025 21:01 👍 43 🔁 24 💬 0 📌 1