Vincent Debat
Evolutionary biologist at Paris museum of natural history
Interested in butterfly evolution, wing shape, colors and flight, morphometrics, plasticity/canalization
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- A new paper on the genetics of fluctuating asymmetry... An old collaborative work finally published!! Thanks to Fred Peronnet and co and reviewer Ian Dworkin academic.oup.com/genetics/art...
- Reposted by Vincent DebatInterested 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
- Great new paper from Agathe Puissant's PhD in Ecology Letters: predation‐driven adaptive syndromes combining wing shape and colour patterns in Swallowtail Butterflies onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
- Reposted by Vincent DebatNew 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]
- Reposted by Vincent DebatTwo slots are available for the "Geometric Morphometrics for Beginners" course, focusing on biological shape variation. For details, visit: transmittingscience.com/courses/geometric-m… #course
- Reposted by Vincent DebatPlease share: Last week to apply for a PhD position on butterfly evolution at high elevations in our lab 🦋
- New PhD position: Butterfly Evolution at High Elevations 🦋⛰️ The project aims to understand the rapid evolution and adaptation of white butterflies at high elevations. DEADLINE: January 11, 2025 More info: pavelmatos.wordpress.com/join-us/
- Reposted by Vincent DebatCome 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: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:8…
- Reposted by Vincent DebatSuper cool new study from Talavera lab on migratory divide between painted lady (Vanessa cardui) populations north of the equator and south of the equator! They find a candidate gene that might be associated with the differenc ein behaviour. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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- Reposted by Vincent DebatArthropod Photo of the Week: December 24, 2025 Leaffooted bug and ant Chariesterus moestus Hemiptera: Coreidae By Alberto Sánchez Herrera, Guanacaste, Costa Rica #arthropodPOTW
- Reposted by Vincent DebatJOB KLAXON! The @nhm-london.bsky.social is recruiting a micro-CT specialist! jobs.nhm.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
- Reposted by Vincent DebatHow do genetic variances and covariances evolve over deep time? This paper unifies quantitative genetics and macroevolution with analytical models for G-matrix evolution on phylogenies, enabling new tests of multivariate trait evolution. academic.oup.com/evlett/artic...
- Reposted by Vincent Debat🚨RA/PhD position available in evolutionary neurobiology 🚨 Working on a deep dive into circuit changes during mushroom body expansion in Heliconius butterflies @camzoology.bsky.social - employment benefits - 4 years funding - 1000% fun Deadline: 14/1/2026 Details: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
- Reposted by Vincent DebatThe CNRS is breaking free from the Web of Science www.cnrs.fr/en/update/cn...
- Reposted by Vincent DebatTime to publish responsibly: DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly journals in ecology and evolutionary biology url: academic.oup.com/jeb/article/...
- Reposted by Vincent DebatNew PhD position: Butterfly Evolution at High Elevations 🦋⛰️ The project aims to understand the rapid evolution and adaptation of white butterflies at high elevations. DEADLINE: January 11, 2025 More info: pavelmatos.wordpress.com/join-us/
- Reposted by Vincent DebatThe orchid mantis’ petal-shaped legs allow it to glide 50% to 200% farther than other invertebrates. #ScienceMagArchives scim.ag/44wjOC4
- Reposted by Vincent DebatFirst paper from #TanguyMuller, PhD student in @cbgpmontpellier.bsky.social: Population genomics of incipient allochronic divergence in an infamous moth. #WGS #demography #inbreeding #mutation-load #genome-scan onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
- Reposted by Vincent DebatSeeking a postdoc position? Balancing selection is a fascinating process: malaria resistance, self-incompatibility,etc. Yet, countless examples remain hidden in genomes! If this question intrigues you, the project led by Laure Segurel and Violaine Llaurens (Paris + Lyon) is perfect! urlr.me/Huj2De
- Just for fun: a Morpho theseus juturna from north Peru
- Reposted by Vincent DebatVery excited to release our new paper ! We characterized the thermal and temporal niches of a community of closely related Morpho butterflies, and found very significant ties between micro-habitat and thermal traits. nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
- Looks amazing ! Congrats Allowen Evin ! The emergence and diversification of dog morphology | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Reposted by Vincent DebatLooking for a PhD opportunity? I'm hoping to recruit someone to my group at Durham University to work on a project combining fieldwork and labwork to study speciation in rubyspot damselflies: iapetus.ac.uk/studentships... Get in touch if you want to chat!
- Reposted by Vincent DebatHow to use and interpret the #adaptationinertia framework of #phylogenetic comparative methods based on the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process to study adaptation: doi.org/10.1093/jeb/... Pienaar et al. 2025
- Finally out in Elife @elife.bsky.social : well done @joledamoisel.bsky.social ! Convergent iridescence and divergent chemical signals in sympatric sister-species of Amazonian butterflies doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
- Nice paper showing a major effect of wing morphology on diptera flight by Camille Le Roy, Florian Muijres and collegues! doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
- A few close up videos of Morpho flight. We will aim at capturing wing deformation during wingbeat
- Reposted by Vincent DebatDoes phenotypic plasticity promote (Baldwin effect) or hinder (Mayr) genetic adaptation? Lambert et al. mathematically show that when adaptive plasticity increases, the Baldwin effect increases, peaks then decreases as plasticity begins to mask selection. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
- Reposted by Vincent DebatHybridization and introgression are major evolutionary processes. Since the 1940s, the prevailing view has been that they shape plants far more than animals. In our new study (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... ), we find the opposite: animals exchange genes more, and for longer, than plants
- Reposted by Vincent DebatHow many chromosomes can an animal have? In our paper out now in @currentbiology.bsky.social we show that the Atlas blue butterfly has 229 chromosome pairs- the highest in diploid Metazoa! These arose by rapid autosome fragmentation while sex chromosomes stayed intact. www.cell.com/current-biol...
- Reposted by Vincent DebatYou may have missed this #ant poster at #ESEB2025, but be sure not to miss the article just published in #openacess in @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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- Reposted by Vincent DebatI'm hiring a postdoc... By combining samples that are more than a million years old with the short generation time of small rodents, we hope to gain a unique window into evolution unfolding across millions of generations!
- 🚨JOB ALERT!🚨 Postdoc position at #CpgSthlm on Microtine Palaeogenomics! Join our deep-time genomics project, funded by @erc.europa.eu, and help us explore lemming and vole evolution using ancient DNA from fossils spanning the last 2.6 million years 🐭🦴🧬 Apply here: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
- Reposted by Vincent Debat🚨 Hiring! We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher with expertise in computational fluid dynamics and structural simulations to investigate biomechanics and mechanosensory feedback in insect flight. Extreme agility ✔️ Morphological computing ✔️ Meshes! ✔️ jobs.rvc.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
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- Super nice study by @titouanbouinier.bsky.social on niche partitioning in Morpho butterflies! Oikos - Wiley Online Library nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
- Hmm the illustration doesn't match the title :)
- Reposted by Vincent DebatWas great to be involved in such an interesting paper, now published in @ecol-evol.bsky.social! dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3...
- Reposted by Vincent DebatABBA / BABA
- Reposted by Vincent DebatNew PhD position: Butterfly Conservation Genomics 🦋 The project focuses on threatened butterflies in Czech dry grasslands and steppes. Deadline: September 12, 2025 More info: pavelmatos.wordpress.com/join-us/
- Reposted by Vincent DebatA PhD position is open at the Teotónio lab in Paris to study genetic assimilation in C. elegans. Applicants with a master's in evolutionary biology are preferred. Apply by 19 Sept 2025. More info: ibens.bio.ens.psl.eu/?rubrique28 #phd
- Reposted by Vincent DebatGregarious behaviour in butterfly larvae has evolved multiple times - Cicconardi, @ebablab.bsky.social et al. use genome data of 60 Heliconiini species, identifying signatures of convergent molecular evolution, on both coding and noncoding loci. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf179 #evobio #molbio
- Reposted by Vincent DebatAnother paper on polyommatine blue butterflies just published in @genomebiolevol.bsky.social. Blues have high chromosome numbers associated with increased diversification and their karyotypes reveal strategies to maintain genomic integrity amidst profound karyotypic changes doi.org/10.1093/gbe/...
- Reposted by Vincent DebatÀ la découverte du pika « chou », un animal étonnant menacé par le changement climatique Un article de Violaine Nicolas-Colin de l'@isyeb.mnhn.fr dans @france.theconversation.com theconversation.com/a-la-decouve...
- Reposted by Vincent DebatAmong insects, lepidoptera 🦋 show one of the most diverse photoreceptor types 👁, explaining diverse spectral sensitivities including a convergent evolution of red vision. Lu & Kronforst review the lepidopteran eye evolution. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
- Reposted by Vincent Debat... sur la structuration génétique de cette espèce et son comportement de migration. "A genomic test of sex-biased dispersal in white sharks." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(32), e2507931122. doi.org/10.1073/pnas... Laso-Jadart, R., Lesturgie, P., Mona, S. @isyeb.mnhn.fr et al.
- Reposted by Vincent DebatMore bad news for butterflies. Our new paper led by Wendy Leuenberger shows common species are declining even more rapidly than rare ones. @ZipkinLab Three decades of declines restructure butterfly communities in the Midwestern United States | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2501340122
- Reposted by Vincent DebatOur false head work is out! By analysing ~1000 #butterflies, we found many traits at posterior end of hindwings evolved correlatedly, likely forming a trait complex w/adaptive function to dupe predators into thinking these traits together are actual head!! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
- Reposted by Vincent DebatA new study tracks the recent and rapid diversification of glasswing butterflies, which evolved within the last two million years in the tropics of South America. Story: www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/geno... Study: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
- Reposted by Vincent DebatWhy do treehoppers look so weird?! Our latest paper, out this week in @pnas.org, suggests a perhaps unexpected reason - static electricity ⚡ We show that treehoppers can detect the electrostatic cues of predators and that their crazy shapes may boost their electrosensitivity! doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
- Congrats to Violaine for this well deserved prize!! Champagne! sfecologie.org/2025/07/16/p...
- Reposted by Vincent DebatCats like to sleep on the left www.cell.com/current-biol...
- doi.org/10.5802/crbi... A synthesis of our recent work on Morpho butterflies evolution
- Reposted by Vincent Debat#Comptes_Rendus_Biologies (348) @academiesciences.bsky.social "Convergences et divergences évolutives chez les espèces sympatriques..." @vincentdebat.bsky.social ,López-Villavicencio,M. & Llaurens,V. @isyeb.mnhn.fr #Evolution#Speciation#Flight 🦋 comptes-rendus.academie-sciences.fr/biologies/ar...
- Reposted by Vincent DebatOur paper on evolution of plasticity and character displacement in a fluctuating environment is now published as early view in Evolution. Check it out if you're interested in eco-evolutionary dynamics, coevolution... and plasticity of course! academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...
- Reposted by Vincent DebatAre you interested in muscle #biomechanics and looking for #postdoc opportunities? If you have skills in (statistical) shape modelling, advanced data analyses or 3D imaging/model reconstructions, get in touch with me! I will be at #SEB2025 (Antwerp), #CNB2025 (Helsinki), and #ISB2025 (Stockholm).
- Reposted by Vincent DebatVery glad to see the second chapter of my PhD published in JEB and feel honored that it has been picked as this month's issue "Editor's choice" and cover image! It's been a long and important team effort leading up to these results!
- Reposted by Vincent Debat👩🏾💻 It’s finally here! 👩🏾💻 We’re excited to announce the launch of our official website for Cost Action 10kLepGenomes: www.10klepgenomes.eu 🦋 We invite you to explore and stay updated with our progress in Lepidoptera genomics! 🧬 #10kLepGenomes #Lepidoptera #Genomics
- Reposted by Vincent DebatThrilled about our new mechanistic and population study on damselfly visual tuning & morph discrimination #procB Evolution tinkering with perception? 👀 doi.org/10.1098/rspb.... Led by former postdoc Natalie Roberts @lundvision.bsky.social & with Erik Svensson @EvolOdonata.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy
- Reposted by Vincent DebatAwesome, thanks ! Also don't miss the irreplaceable www.phylopic.org
- Reposted by Vincent DebatThe top 10 flying insect clades rule the skies—but defy the rules. Weak or inverted latitudinal diversity gradients leave biogeographers puzzled. Entomologists? Mildly amused. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
