PhD offer at The Valencian Institute for Agricultural Research (IVIA). Fully funded four-year contract. Design and evaluation of novel Intregrated Pest Management strategies for Scirtothrips dorsalis and Scirtothrips aurantii on citrus. Contact Dr. César Monzó Ferrer befor 5th May. shorturl.at/aa4iA

Cross-ecosystem linkages between freshwater insects and riparian birds across the USA - Nature Ecology & Evolution Aquatic insects such as mayflies, stoneflies and caddisflies are widely used for freshwater biomonitoring and could provide resource pulses to terrestrial insectivores. Here the authors show a positiv...

Cross-ecosystem linkages between freshwater insects and riparian birds across the USA 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New paper out! How do species coexist through invasion cycles (like the classic✂️🪨📄) in nature? We introduce a general framework linking the structure of species interactions to the emergence of complex ecological cycles
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Two new calls: FRB-Cesab 2026 synthesis call for proposals, which will support two general projects, and a thematic marine project #FRB-Cesab, #Motpellier
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Resurrecting habitat fragmentation as a process over time Habitat loss and fragmentation occur over time. Despite this truism, understanding the effects of habitat fragmentation has, in recent years, predominantly focused on interpreting snapshots of current...

Excited to share a new article from the lab & wonderful co-authors.

We argue that habitat fragmentation research needs to be recalibrated to focus on changes over time.

We hope that doing so will advance understanding, isolate attribution, and diminish heated debate.

www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

Inducible Defenses, Chemical Aposematism, and the Spatial Ecology of Plant-Herbivore Interactions in Tall Goldenrod André Kessler, Katja Poveda This is a plain language summary of a Functional Ecology research article which can be found here. Plants are not passive victims of herbivores. When attacked, they can …

📰Published📰Inducible defenses, chemical aposematism, and the spatial ecology of plant-herbivore interactions in tall goldenrod🪲

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Resource Availability Overrides Predator Presence in Mosquito Oviposition Habitat Selection Gravid Culex quinquefasciatus balance predation risk against resource availability when selecting oviposition sites. In outdoor mesocosms, we factorially manipulated sugarcane jaggery (resource) and ...

Resource Availability Overrides Predator Presence in Mosquito Oviposition Habitat Selection
#OpenAccess
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Cellular remodeling of ovarian follicular epithelial cells transmits an obligate nutritional #endosymbiont in a #scaleInsect

#Insignibacter tubulum, novel nutritional endosymbiont of #Insignorthezia insignis

doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

#SymbioSky

Consumption competition by a parasitoid wasp opens a window of survival under intraguild predation Our study reveals a previously overlooked mechanism enabling coexistence under intraguild predation. Using long-term experiments and behavioural tests, we show that consumption rates and aggressive b...

New paper published: aggressive ladybirds, slow-eating lacewings, and parasitoids greedy for resources. #BES #JAE besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Consumption competition by a parasitoid wasp opens a window of survival under intraguild predation Our study reveals a previously overlooked mechanism enabling coexistence under intraguild predation. Using long-term experiments and behavioural tests, we show that consumption rates and aggressive b...

New paper published: aggressive ladybirds, slow-eating lacewings, and parasitoids greedy for resources. #BES #JAE besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A new journal on insect-plant-microbe interactions research. Go PAMI go!

Photo of ship at sea with seagulls around it Text reads: Greenpeace will join the next global Sumud Flotilla to help break the siege on Gaza

Greenpeace's ship Arctic Sunrise will join the Global Sumud Flotilla leaving Barcelona on 12 April, to help break the siege on Gaza

1000+ people on 70+ vessels will show the world's solidarity with the people of Gaza, while governments have failed to uphold international law and prevent genocide

An insect that cooperates like bacteria | PNAS An insect that cooperates like bacteria

Read our perspective piece on a brilliant new piece of work out in @pnas.org studying public goods in an insect. Congratulations to the team! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... @caritalindstedt.bsky.social @stuwest.bsky.social

Pablo Villar et al discover male octopus mating arms are sensory organs used to find females, navigate internally to the oviduct & deliver sperm. From behavior to structure, these findings offer a framework for how sensory systems shape reproduction & species barriers
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I invite applications for a PhD position. Join our team exploring how rapid evolution in communities allows maintenance of genetic variation and species diversity! Application deadline is 7th May 2026. See lab.hrcek.net

A paper that blurs "the bacteria-organelle boundary"

📣 paper alert 😀

Our study on the evolutionary history of true #ladybirds 🐞 #Coccinellini is out today in @ecol-evol.bsky.social ! #OA

Another great collab with @isyeb.mnhn.fr and other colleagues!

@cbgpmontpellier.bsky.social / @inrae-dpt-spe.bsky.social

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Mediterranean skipper (Gegenes nostrodamus). Picture of Jordi Corbera.

Southern scarce swallowtail (Iphiclides podalirius). Picture of Jordi Corbera.

False ilex hairstreak (Satyrium esculi). Picture of Jordi Corbera.

High brown fritillary (Fabriciana adippe). Picture of Jordi Corbera.

Did you know we also record butterfly–flower interactions? 🦋🌸

Three decades of observations show how species loss limits the capacity of communities to reorganize their interactions in response to environmental change.

📄Read the scientific article: l1nq.com/L5wls

SypC, a symbiont outer membrane vesicle protein, impacts the development of the squid–vibrio partnership | PNAS Bacterial outer membrane vesicles (OMVs) and the cargo they carry are increasingly recognized as a means of communication between microbial symbion...

#SymbioSky #MicroSky

Open postdoc position in my lab at Cornell, conducting comparative and experimental studies on transcriptomic responses to diet and toxins, utilizing the milkweed-insect community. Background in molecular bio & herbivory desired. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31867

Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content “In recent months, more and more administrative reports centered on LLM-related issues, and editors were being overwhelmed.”

after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

The key result: suppressing insects with bifenthrin, a synthetic pyrethroid insecticide, suppresses plant diversity.

Unfortunately, with this poison there are knock-on effects to the animal's evolutionary sister group: fungi.

So if 10 years of insecticide is also killing beneficial fungi...

The recording of the panel discussion on "Rethinking Peer Review" is available here: youtu.be/Icr04Gbvqj0?...
#peerreview#academicpublishing

Concours de recrutement d'enseignants-chercheurs La première session 2026 du concours de recrutement d’enseignants-chercheurs est ouverte.

quatre postes d'enseignants chercheurs ouverts (deux MdC deux PR) à l' #Institut_Agro de #Montpellier

Date limite pour le dépôt des dossiers : 17 avril 2026

#Adaptation_ligneux_fruitiers #Bioclimatologie #œnologie #Ecologie_fonctionnelle

www.institut-agro-montpellier.fr/recrutement-...

Experimental designs to help bring community context to experimental evolution. The figure shows 4 different designs: community manipulation, modular subsets, environmental manipulation, and coevolution control.

New paper out in Evolution: Experimental evolution in communities: beyond pairwise interactions

DOI: doi.org/10.1093/evol...

with @janhrcek.bsky.social

Reçu aujourd'hui, tous frais sortis de l'imprimante ! 😁 @cbgpmontpellier.bsky.social
@g-fried.bsky.social
@gkergoat.bsky.social

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🌳 Do you want to contribute to research on how humans perceive forests? Take this quick, anonymous 10-min survey 🌲

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This will help us explore how people experience forest biodiversity!

Please share on 🦋 & tag @biodiful.bsky.social to reach more participants 🙏💚

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This week, PCI is attending the Researcher to Reader Conference 2026 (r2rconf.com) in London. Thomas Guillemaud joined a panel on independent peer review models, featuring Katherine Brown from The Company of Biologists, Peter Rodgers from eLife, and moderated by Jonny Coates of Rippling Ideas.

A must read for field ecologists!

Degradation of fish food webs in the Anthropocene The decrease in body size driven by the selective species turnover is widely altering fish food web topology and function.

New paper out examining fish food web degradation in the Anthropocene. We show the structure of aquatic food webs are changing-- even when species richness doesn’t. These signals are strongly associated with decreases in body size within fish communities. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🌐🐠🐡🦈🐟