L’appel à l’aide du Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, très délabré : « Les ossements minéralisés explosent littéralement » Moisissures dans les collections, bibliothèque inondée, fissures dans les murs… Alors que l’établissement célèbre ses 400 ans, fort d’une importante fréquentation et d’une renommée scientifique intern...

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Luca a-t-il vraiment existé ? Le terme de Luca signifie : the Last Universal Common Ancestor ; en français, le dernier ancêtre universel commun à tous les êtres vivants connus. Le mot « dernier » signifie qu'en remontant le temps,...

The "Last Universal Common Ancestor", Luca, en français, est le "dernier" ancêtre universel commun à tous les êtres vivants connus. Que représente Luca?
Pour en savoir+ l'article de Guillaume Lecointre zoologiste & systématicien @isyeb.mnhn.fr paru sur le site @mnhn.fr
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Le marsouin du Yangzi, dernier cétacé d’eau douce chinois, sauvé de l’extinction grâce à l’interdiction de pêcher sur toute la longueur du fleuve La population de l’animal, surnommé « l’ange souriant du Yangzi », repart à la hausse, avec 177 individus supplémentaires recensés par rapport à 2022.

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Postdoctoral Position – EmerCoV Project (ANR) / Postdoctorat – Projet EmerCoV (ANR)​ We seek a highly motivated postdoctoral researcher for the ANR-funded EmerCoV Project studying emergence dynamics and virus-host interactions of sarbecoviruses in bats to join a multidisciplinary team...

Postdoctoral Position SARS-CoV evolution in bats. Caen university France
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Sorry, just retry and it is working with pip. This time it has downloaded phykit-2.1.28-py2.py3-none-any.whl and not a .egg

yes doing it, thanks.

And pip install in wsl ubuntu work but it is 2.1.5
Git clone and make work for the last version, but have to use phykit-runner.py

Tried to install last version in a micromamba env using pip. But failed only have pk_ and a .egg no phykit.

Thanks for your useful tools! I am confused with the different version. On conda the last one is 2.1.5 but github 2.1.27. Will you add the last version to Conda too?

Fourmis : ces reines qui se passent de mâles et d’ouvrières Des chercheurs décrivent une organisation sociale déroutante chez une espèce de fourmi japonaise qui ne produit que des reines.

Fourmis : ces reines qui se passent de mâles et d’ouvrières
A lire sur 'Réalités Biomédicales'
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Hiring for 3 positions: Research Assistant, Field Research Coordinator, and Postdoc I am looking to hire 3 people into my lab this year. I am still doing the paperwork to get the jobs officially posted but I want to send the word out and screen potential applications right away. R…

I am hiring a research assistant (vampire bats), a Panama fieldwork coordinator (vampire bats), and also considering postdoc apps (social behavior, any species): socialbat.org/2026/02/19/h...

En Guinée, un crapaud vivipare, des chimpanzés et des chauves-souris face à la mine de fer des monts Nimba Au cœur du site classé au Patrimoine mondial de l’Unesco en 1981, la Société des mines de fer de Guinée s’apprête à lancer la première phase d’un chantier d’exploitation qui menace des écosystèmes d’u...

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6 incredible new dinosaurs we discovered in 2025 Palaeontologists reported some remarkable dinosaur fossils this year, including a Velociraptor relative, a dome-headed pachycephalosaur and one of the most heavily armoured creatures that ever lived

Palaeontologists reported some remarkable dinosaur fossils this year, including a Velociraptor relative, a dome-headed pachycephalosaur and one of the most heavily armoured creatures that ever lived

William Bond, grasslands researcher who reminded conservation that context matters, has died Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. In recent years, one of the loudest ideas in environmental policy…

William Bond challenged the idea that forests are nature’s default, arguing grasslands & savannas are ancient ecosystems.

As mass tree-planting boomed, he warned that blanket afforestation can harm biodiversity and water systems. His work pushed conservation to start with how landscapes function.

Chauve-souris en vol dans la nuit devant un champ d'éoliennes avec leurs feux rouges de balisage allumés.

Une étude du @cesco-lab.bsky.social confirme que les #chauves-souris sont attirées par les feux rouges de balisage nocturne des #éoliennes. Un balisage circonstancié permettrait de réduire les risques pour la faune volante, tout en maintenant la sécurité aérienne 👉 www.mnhn.fr/fr/actualite...

Meet the Tiny Bat That Hunts Like a Lion In Panama’s forests, researchers discovered that tiny fringe-lipped bats hunt with the patience and precision of big cats.

🦇 in the news.

#bats #lovebats #nature #wildlife

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Photo montage of Tinamus resonans sp. nov., a new species of tinamou from the montane forests of the Serra do Divisor, western Amazonia, Brazil. The species is distinguished by a unique combination of plumage pattern, vocal repertoire, and ecological characteristics, including a conspicuous dark slate facial mask, vivid rufous-cinnamon underparts, and a uniform brownish-gray back. Its vocalizations are remarkable, consisting of long and powerful songs that echo strikingly across the steep montane slopes, producing a characteristic resonant effect. The species was documented exclusively at higher elevations within a transitional zone between submontane and stunted forests, where the understory is densely structured by root mats. A preliminary population estimate, based on field detections and spatial extrapolation, suggests approximately 2,106 individuals restricted to the Serra do Divisor massif. Although no immediate anthropogenic pressures were observed within its range, the species may be highly vulnerable to climate change and to proposed infrastructure projects that threaten the integrity of this federally protected region. The discovery of T. resonans highlights the biological uniqueness of the Serra do Divisor, reinforces its status as a center of montane endemism, and underscores the critical importance of maintaining its long-term conservation.

Huge News from the Western Amazon: it's the year 2025 and we are still describing entirely new, strikingly-distinctive large-bodied bird species! Behold Tinamus resonans sp. nov. the Slaty-masked Tinamou mapress.com/zt/article/v... #Ornithology @tetzoo.bsky.social 🪶

LorMe: a streamlined and interoperable R framework for end-to-end microbiome analysis www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #Rstats 🧬🖥️🧪 github.com/wangnq111/Lo...

Ensembl 2026 Abstract. The Ensembl project (https://www.ensembl.org) is a public and open resource providing access to genomes, annotations, high-quality tools, and met

Our Ensembl 2026 paper is out!
Learn about 1,900+ new genomes, expanded pangenome support, new regulation interfaces, and what’s coming in our 2026 releases.
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L’ARN d’un mammouth laineux conservé dans le pergélisol refait surface après 40 000 ans Pour la première fois, des fragments d’ARN ont été extraits et caractérisés dans des carcasses de mammouths préservées dans le nord-est sibérien. Une avancée qui élargit considérablement le champ de l...

Accéder à l’expression des gènes d’un mammouth vieux de près de 40 000 ans : c’était inimaginable.
L’ARN de Yuka raconte pourtant l’activité d’un muscle figé dans le pergélisol. Une plongée rare dans la biologie du passé.
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#paleogenetique #paleobiologie #paleontologie

ORKCA, un projet de réensauvagement africain d’une ampleur inédite Au cours du siècle dernier, la vie sauvage dans le sud de la Namibie a chuté de 90%. Aucune autre région de l’Afrique sub-saharienne n’a connu autant d’extinctions, et l’on ne compte plus que 30 giraf...

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New in #Systematic_Biology, syaf082 #OpenAccess
"PhyloCNN: Improving tree representation and neural network architecture for deep learning from trees in phylodynamics and..."
Perez, M.F., & Gascuel, O. @isyeb.mnhn.fr
#tree_models #diversification #HIV #primates
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PhyloWeaver – Interactive phylogenetic tree editor Edit and visualize phylogenetic trees directly in your browser. PhyloWeaver lets you interactively rearrange tree topologies and export high-quality figures for publications and presentations.

I’ve released a tool to sketch and edit phylogenetic trees!
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Load a Newick file and intuitively add/remove/resize branches.
Useful for quick conceptual trees, extracting subtrees, or turning ideas into Newick.

Philippe Taquet, chasseur de dinosaures et ancien directeur du Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, est mort Destiné à reprendre l’industrie textile familiale, cet esprit libre a préféré la vie de chercheur d’os, découvrant plusieurs espèces d’animaux disparus, tout en menant une carrière institutionnelle de...

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NEW pub in @science.org 🥳

Is it sponges (panels A & B) or comb jellies (C & D) that root the animal tree of life?

For over 15 years, #phylogenomic studies have been divided.

We provide new evidence suggesting that...

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Phylogenomic Discordance: Patterns, Processes, and Solutions Phylogenomics, the study of evolutionary relationships using genomic data, has revolutionized our understanding of the Tree of Life. As a field, phylogenomics h

If you're interested in understanding discordance in phylogenomic analyses, the @evojlinnsoc.bsky.social's special issue 'Phylogenomic Discordance: Patterns, Processes, and Solutions' is for you!

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I'll be sharing a few articles a week until we're through the issue! (1/n)🧪

Faces of different guenon species to show their morphological differences

If you like genomics, speciation, and primates, this PhD position is for you! Unraveling the genomic architecture of speciation and gene flow in guenons, a diverse group of African monkeys. Funding through DTP. Do reach out with questions! #genomics #genome_assembly
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A new era in natural history publishing begins. 🐢✨

Introducing the Handbook of the Reptiles of the World!

My lab is hiring a 2-yr hummingbird evolution and genomics postdoc and a 1-yr salaried research and lab tech. Both with full U. Wyoming benefits. Please spread the word! Info below. Best consideration date Nov 1, start dates early Spring 2026.

And then there were none: Australia’s only shrew declared extinct The tally of Australian mammals extinct since 1788 is now 39 species – far more than for any other country

As I argue in #PlatypusMatters, Australia has the world's best mammals, but is sadly the worst place on Earth to be a mammal, with the planet's worst #extinction rate.
The Christmas Island shrew is now the latest species to be officially declared extinct.
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