David Duneau

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I generally study why certain individuals die from an infection when other individuals suffer mild or no symptoms from the same infection.
I am particularly interested in understanding why male and female differ when facing the same infectious disease.
I study general evolutionary principle and proximal causes using a wide range of methods often with Drosophila melanogaster and bacterial infections as model system.
David DuneauMay 3, 2024

What if seminal fluid proteins on #sperm would not be the ground for #evolutionary sexual #conflicts but rather the mean of a good communication between males and females?

First paper on #bioRxiv of my co-supervised #PhD students Piotr Michalak, we are very excited. 🙂

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.04.26.591243v1.abstract

David DuneauSep 21, 2023
MAHansonSep 21, 2023

Wow. Ok. Normally I feel like it's a bit overplayed to individually comment on #MDPI in the whole #AcademicChatter conversation, but this is really a must-see:

A Special Issue where the guest editors are lead or senior author on 27 of the 28 papers it published. Were they also their own reviewers!? Like... that sounds like I'm taking the piss, but... no seriously were they?
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/processes/special_issues/Biologics_Botanicals

I guess this is a preview to an upcoming post. Look forward to it...

Processes

Processes, an international, peer-reviewed Open Access journal.

David DuneauSep 18, 2023
MAHansonSep 18, 2023

Okay, a bit of a heavy topic today...

This question affects our clarity of communication, presentation, and writing style. It also affects our clarity of communication, presentation and writing style.

Please boost generously... #AcademicChatter

Yes to Oxford/Serial comma!!!
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No to Oxford/Serial comma!!!
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God this is pineapple on pizza all over again
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David DuneauJun 16, 2023
Peer Community InJun 16, 2023
This morning Thomas Guillemaud will present Peer Community In and Peer Community Journal at Université Côte d'Azur in the meeting of the OPTIMA project - “Open Practices, Transparency and Integrity for Modern Academia" - during the #digitalweek #OpenScience https://lpnu.ua/en/optima
OPTIMA | Lviv Polytechnic National University

David DuneauJun 11, 2023
flypapersJun 11, 2023
📰 "Developmental heat stress interrupts spermatogenesis inducing early male sterility in Drosophila melanogaster"
by 🔬 Berta Canal Domenech, Claudia Fricke
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37300998/ #DrosophilaMelanogaster
#Drosophila
Developmental heat stress interrupts spermatogenesis inducing early male sterility in Drosophila melanogaster - PubMed

Thermal stress leads to fertility reduction, can cause temporal sterility and thus results in fitness loss with severe ecological and evolutionary consequences, e.g., threatening species persistence already at sub-lethal temperatures. For males we here tested which developmental stage is particularl …

PubMed
David DuneauJun 4, 2023
Show threadGiorgio GilestroJun 4, 2023
We found that all species sleep in a similar way, although for very different lengths of time. In almost all species, sleep is sexually dimorphic: females sleep only at night and males sleep in the afternoon too. Except for D. virilis: a cosmopolitan species believed to have arisen in the Miocene in the deserts of Afghanistan. Interestingly, this is something found in other desertic species. You probably don't want to be flying around in the desertic afternoon! 11/ https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.05.27.542279v1
David DuneauJun 4, 2023
Show threadGiorgio GilestroJun 4, 2023

That is why I am chuffed to introduce our most recent work, about the evolution of sleep in the Drosophila genus. Non peer-reviewed pre print available on biorXiv. Let me tell you what we did and what we found. 6/24

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.05.27.541573v1

David DuneauMay 24, 2023
Peer Community InMay 24, 2023
Many thanks to the University of Glasgow @UofGlasgow @uofglibrary for becoming a new supporter of Peer Community Journal! #openscience https://buff.ly/433S5pM
Peer Community Journal

David DuneauMay 12, 2023
Samuel AlizonMay 12, 2023

RT @[email protected]

We’re looking for a postdoc in microbial ecology/evolution.
The lab is interested in cooperation / communication / conflict,
virulence, drug resistance and community / biofilm dynamics. We use a
mix of expmt, theory and bio-inf approaches. Please re-tweet, DM if interested.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/sambrownlab/status/1656778544029245441

Sam Brown on Twitter

“We’re looking for a postdoc in microbial ecology/evolution. The lab is interested in cooperation / communication / conflict, virulence, drug resistance and community / biofilm dynamics. We use a mix of expmt, theory and bio-inf approaches. Please re-tweet, DM if interested.”

Twitter
David DuneauMay 12, 2023
Carl T. BergstromMay 12, 2023

This week, Science published a stunningly irresponsible news story entitled "Fake scientific papers are alarmingly common" and claiming that upward of 30% of the scientific literature is fake.

https://www.science.org/content/article/fake-scientific-papers-are-alarmingly-common

Below, the first two paragraphs of the story.

Headline and intro notwithstanding, the story itself later notes that the detector doesn't actually work and flags nearly half of real papers as fake. Does the reporter just not understand that?

h/t @Hoch

Fake scientific papers are alarmingly common

But new tools show promise in tackling growing symptom of academia’s “publish or perish” culture