Benoit Nabholz
Evolutionary biologist at umontpellier.fr and isem-evolution.fr .
Molecular-evolution and PopGen
Insects; orthoptera; hymenoptera; diptera
Birds & mammals
OpenScience
Teacher at biologie-ecologie.com/departement/
- Reposted by Benoit Nabholz🎙️ #PODCAST — De la beauté dans le monde animal. Darwin, ornements sexuels, perception de la beauté chez les animaux… Avec Julien Renoult (Centre d’Écologie Fonctionnelle et Évolutive), explorons le rôle biologique de la beauté dans l’évolution 👉 smartlink.ausha.co/a-l-um-la-sc...
- Reposted by Benoit Nabholz#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
- Reposted by Benoit Nabholz"Morituri te salutant" : les universitaires se battent encore pour une université qui se meurt... La courageuse lettre ouverte de Mme Anne Fraïsse, présidente de l'U de Montpellier-Paul Valéry www.univ-montp3.fr/fr/communiqu...
- Reposted by Benoit NabholzThis paper is a great for teaching phylogenetic trees. "Ancient DNA reveals elephant birds and kiwi are sister taxa and clarifies ratite bird evolution" Clearly written. It discusses hypotheses of relatedness among species via continental drift vs genetic data. 🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Reposted by Benoit Nabholz"The coevolution of colour patterns and hindwing shapes on a large phylogenetic scale reveals predation-driven adaptive syndromes in swallowtail butterflies" Puissant, A., Chotard, A., Condamine, F. L., @vincentdebat.bsky.social & Llaurens, V. 🦋 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
- Reposted by Benoit NabholzTrop tard, chers amis allemands ! On a déjà recruté tous les meilleurs chercheurs du monde grâce #MakeOurPlanetGreatAgain, #AI4Humanity et #BienvenueEnFrance, tellement qu'il n'y en avait déjà plus pour #ChooseFranceForScience Et on a fait tout ça avec dix fois moins d'argent ! #STARTUPNATION 🚀
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- JOB ALERT: Deux postes de Maitre.sse de Conférences / septembre 2026 /LEHNA / Lyon 1 : - écologie avec un profil enseignement en Biologie végétale et écologie. - écologie et évolution avec un profil en Biologie animale et écologie. umr5023.univ-lyon1.fr/lehna/actual...
- Reposted by Benoit NabholzMeiotic drive has long been considered as a genetic curiosity. Genomic "footprints" suggest otherwise. Check out our new review doi.org/10.1093/molb..., a cross-taxa synthesis arguing that recurrent drive is a pervasive and underappreciated force in genome evolution.
- Assessing the accuracy of species tree reconstruction using dependent gene trees evolbiol.peercommunityin.org/PCIEvolBiol/... New recommandation made by Hirohisa Kishino from PCI evolutionary Biology : evolbiol.peercommunityin.org/PCIEvolBiol www.biorxiv.org/lookup/doi/1...
- Reposted by Benoit NabholzImportant milestone for the project and huge amount of work by @lvandenabeele.bsky.social to set up a pipeline for both investigating the systematics and characterising structuring reticulation events across the diversification of bee orchids (Ophrys): www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
- Cool study on Mediterranean Ophrys: Phylotranscriptomics Allows Distinguishing Major Gene Flow Events from Incomplete Lineage Sorting in Rapidly Diversifying Mimetic Orchids (Genus Ophrys) Vandenabeele et al. doi.org/10.64898/202...
- Reposted by Benoit NabholzInterested in adaptive genomics, genomic offset and simulations? This seems to be an extraordinary opportunity to work with Thibaut Capblancq and Olivier François, two excellent experts in the field (and also great people)
- Postdoc opportunity in ecological genomics at Université Grenoble Alpes focuses on gene-environment interactions under climate change. Duration 18 mont… academicpositions.com/ad/universite-greno… #postdoc
- Reposted by Benoit NabholzThe Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology in Plön, Germany, seeks expressions of interest for open Max Planck Director positions. For details: evolbio.mpg.de/3856225/Directors. #job
- Reposted by Benoit NabholzTwo-way native-invasive introgression and structural variants in invasive moth species. Admixture and exchange of adaptive alleles can facilitate adaptation, but this is also true for pests. Amazing work by @henrylnorth.bsky.social, @chrisjiggins.bsky.social and others, with a lot to think about.
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- Reposted by Benoit Nabholz🚨 PhD offer (please share) Fascinated by bird migration and movement ecology? 🦜🌍 Join us at @vogelwarte.bsky.social to study annual cycle energetics with multi-sensor loggers in multiple species Deadline: 20 Feb 2026 Starting: June 2026 Supervision: Martins Briedis & me Info: tinyurl.com/2dbv9nzh
- Reposted by Benoit NabholzNew paper out: “allopatric” Drosophila species aren’t so allopatric after all. We show that most currently allopatric species pairs probably overlapped in the past and exchanged genes at levels similar to sympatric pairs. @evolletters.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/evle... [1/6]
- PCI and Peer Community Journal Highlights of 2025 peercommunityin.org/2026/01/07/p... peercommunityin.org/2026/01/14/p...
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I am looking for a postdoc to develop high-performance algorithms in computational genomics. Email or DM me if interested. For more information, see hlilab.github.io/vacancies. RTs appreciated! - Reposted by Benoit Nabholz📣 𝐃𝐞́𝐜𝐫𝐲𝐩𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐞 : 𝐂𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐝 𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐞𝐥𝐬 Le Covid long et la vaccination peuvent-ils réellement affecter le cycle menstruel et la fertilité des femmes ? Une chercheuse en biologie de la reproduction de l'ISEM, nous aide à mettre les fake news en quarantaine. urlr.me/gYQweB
- Reposted by Benoit NabholzWant to study the genomics of repeated adaptation with data from hundreds of species? New funding for non-Canadians @ grad or postdoc level. Internal competition at UCalgary with very short deadline so please get in touch ASAP!! sshrc-crsh.canada.ca/en/funding/o...
- Reposted by Benoit NabholzDespite decades of effort, scientists have still not discovered a foolproof way to evaluate colleagues’ work that doesn’t involve reading the paper
- Reposted by Benoit NabholzBIG FIGHT AT POLAND’S WROCLAW ZOO!!!
- Reposted by Benoit NabholzIn a new GBE Review, @david-peede.bsky.social et al. overview the SMC model and extensions, discuss examples of discoveries made with the help of SMC-based inference, and comment on the assumptions, benefits, and drawbacks of various methods. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/... #genome #evolution #compbio
- Reposted by Benoit Nabholz08-Jan: Born on this day in 1823, the man who independently of Darwin came up with the idea of natural selection, Alfred Russel Wallace. Here’s a post I wrote about Darwin’s and Wallace’s friendship… friendsofdarwin.com/articles/dar... #HistSci
- Reposted by Benoit NabholzGenomic prediction of traits is less accurate when predictions are made in one population based on genetic associations in a second population, and less accurate when those two populations are less closely related buff.ly/BTZQ9nE
- Reposted by Benoit NabholzI think this is an incredibly important point this doesn't mean that you have to keep doing the exact kind of work you did as a student/postdoc for the rest of your career but it does mean you have to keep learning, pushing through the discomfort of not being good at something right away
- Reposted by Benoit NabholzHaller, Ralph & Messer present SLiM 5, a major extension of the SLiM simulation framework for simulating multiple chromosomes, enabling a heightened level of realism for full-genome simulations. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf313 #evobio #molbio #compbio
- Reposted by Benoit NabholzCongratulations to the winners of the 2025 Genomic History Inference Strategies Tournament challenges! Among the 9 challenges, we had five winners: @alwaysrong.bsky.social, @adaigle.bsky.social, @andrewhvaughn.bsky.social, @thymelicus.bsky.social, @rgollnisch.bsky.social
- Reposted by Benoit NabholzLooking for a post doc on cutting-edge methods in genomics? Contact Hannes Becher #pgg59 #popgrouo59
- Reposted by Benoit NabholzFinally out! We studied the retinas of the longest-living vertebrate, the Greenland shark, and found that the retinas remain remarkably healthy in animals around 150 years old. What is the mechanism? It may be a highly efficient DNA repair system. Enjoy! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Benoit NabholzGreat new paper! Many stinging wasps, bees, and ants have controlled the sex of their developing eggs for millions of year using an ancient segment of their genome- always the same segment- but what's weird is, *the exact DNA sequence of that segment doesn't seem to matter*.
- New work from @miyapan.bsky.social and our team, bringing ant, bee, and wasp labs together. @chuanxinyu.bsky.social shows that the ANTSR locus we discovered in ants has determined sex for 150+ My across bees and stinging wasps 🐜🐝, despite virtually no sequence conservation 😮 doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
- More Painted lady research! García-Berro, A., Shipilina, D., Backström, N. et al. A north-south hemispheric migratory divide in the butterfly Vanessa cardui. Nat Commun 16, 11341 (2025). doi.org/10.1038/s414...
- Reposted by Benoit NabholzPlease help! We are looking for tissue-specific RNA-seq datasets or pubs with both male and female individual gene expression data, not pooled, from animal species. If you know of any relevant resources, please drop a link in the comments or send me a DM. Also, please help spread the word - thanks!
- Reposted by Benoit Nabholzand the winner of the "2025 best thing on Internet" has just arrived neal.fun/size-of-life/ @carlbergstrom.com
- Reposted by Benoit NabholzTrop nombreuses, frauduleuses ou écrites par intelligence artificielle générative : les critiques à l’égard des publications scientifiques s’accumulent à l’heure de leur surproduction. Faut-il dès lors en faire le deuil ?
- Reposted by Benoit NabholzGene annotations matter for downstream analyses: different structural gene-annotation pipelines yield markedly different orthology calls. We compare four strategies across species and argue for standards & QC before inference. Work led by @silviaprietob.bsky.social. Paper: doi.org/10.1093/bioi...
- Reposted by Benoit NabholzApennine brown bear #genomic diversity - comparing whole #genome resequencing data from Apennine, Central European, and North American brown bears academic.oup.com/mbe/article/... #biodiversity #genomics
- Reposted by Benoit Nabholz@cademirch.bsky.social @erikenbody.bsky.social TB Sackton & @russcd.bsky.social introduce Callable Loci And More (clam), a tool that leverages callable loci to accurately estimate population genetic statistics (π, dxy, and FST). 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf282 #evobio #molbio #compbio
- Reposted by Benoit Nabholz@julietteluiselli.bsky.social et al. introduce a mathematical model of genome size evolution, showing that the noncoding fraction of the genome is shaped by biases in mutational neutrality, and robustness selection arising from structural mutations 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf315 #evobio #molbio
- Reposted by Benoit NabholzCollecting tons of data (e.g. specimens) is actually pretty easy. It's a lot harder making sure that it's kept safe and used well. Quote: "The collection contains 12.5 million pinned specimens, and one million papered specimens housed in 80,000 drawers. There are 125,000 type specimens." 🪲🪳🐝🦋🕷️🦟🐞🪰🦗
- Reposted by Benoit NabholzArticle about scientists leaving (or not leaving) the US - including me! I landed in a truly great spot - but what's happening in the US is messed up. @isemevol.bsky.social @sfstatebio.bsky.social @umontpellier.bsky.social
- Amid talk of a brain drain, some scientists leave U.S. behind www.statnews.com/2025/12/17/r...
- Reposted by Benoit NabholzI'm excited to present this new model to detect positive selection on regulatory sequences, which has been 3 years in the making! Thanks to Alexandre Laverré and @Phylogenetrips for their amazing work on this project. 😃 doi.org/10.1101/2025.11.26.… […] [Original post on ecoevo.social]
- Reposted by Benoit NabholzHappy to hare that the preprint I was advertising below has been published by the Journal of Evolutionary Biology: academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-... Thanks @jevbio.bsky.social for supporting responsible publishing!
- New preprint: we advertise DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly eco-evo-archaeo journals. 1/6 #AcademicPublishing #ecoevo #archaeology #EthicalPublishing #SocietyJournals #DiamondOpenAccess doi.org/10.32942/X24...
- Reposted by Benoit NabholzNew paper out. If you like colorful birds, hybridization, and phylogenetics, read on! 🧵https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3003501
- Reposted by Benoit NabholzPendant que la coord rurale veut faire la peau aux écolos et va intimider la @lpofrance.bsky.social , @fne.asso.fr et l'ofb, il existe d'autres voix. A Réensauvager la ferme, on démontre au quotidien à quel point biodiversité et agriculture sont imbriquées: reensauvagerlaferme.fr/lannee-agricol…
- Reposted by Benoit NabholzConcours CNRS 2026 #ESR CRCN l'arrêté est enfin sorti ! www.legifrance.gouv.fr/jorf/id/JORF...
- Reposted by Benoit NabholzLosses of specialist and expansion of thermophilic generalist macro-moths in nature reserves of Central Europe: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Reposted by Benoit NabholzThis controversy is such a rollercoaster... Yet, I'm hopeful we will come to a resolution soon-ish. People are coming up with bold new approaches (linkage, integrative phylogenomics), and while it takes inevitable time to identify their own pitfalls and artifacts, this is what progress looks like.
- Some more shenanigans on the Ctenophora Porifera debate from @rcply.bsky.social academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-...
- Reposted by Benoit NabholzParantica melaneus, a widespread Danaid #butterfly species in SE Asia, bringing some light in these dark winter days. Nam Nao NP, Thailand, oct 2024
- Reposted by Benoit NabholzNow published in Peer Community Journal, #evolutionarybiology section: Increased clonality and genetic differentiation across the Arctic Ocean in tetraploid sea anemone Aulactinia stella
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- Reposted by Benoit NabholzIf you're bored and use iNaturalist, here's a link to a tool that displays which of your observations were the first recorded for a taxon. I apparently have 16 (out of 3,395). I need to get out more. 🌿 #inaturalist #nature #insects #spiders glauberramos.github.io/inat/first-o...
- Reposted by Benoit NabholzWe are thrilled to announce the first official release (v0.1.8) of #𝗯𝗲𝗱𝗱𝗲𝗿, the successor to one of our flagship tool, #𝗯𝗲𝗱𝘁𝗼𝗼𝗹𝘀! Based on ideas we conceived of long ago (!), this was achieved thanks to the dedication of Brent Pedersen. 1/n
