Jean R. David (1931-2021) Jean David, research director at CNRS, passed away on June 19, 2021 at the age of 90. Jean was one of the last active members of this generation of French researchers who made Drosophila melanogaster a model of evolutionary genetics in the 1970s / 1980s. He has thus contributed to providing

Clément Gilbert (Pôle génomes) was interwiewed in Quantamagazine, a e-journal, for a outreach article on gene transfer between animals. To read the article: https://www.quantamagazine.org/dna-jumps-between-animal-species-no-one-knows-how-often-20210609.

The european project SafeAgroBee, founded by the research program H2020 PRIMA from European Union, and in which Fabrice Requier (Pôle Ecologie) is partner, just began. The project aims to preserve the resilience of agroecosystems in the climatic change thanks to an efficient pollinisation and sustainable bee-keeping. More: https://www.era-learn.eu/network-information/networks/prima/section-2-call-2020-multitopic/preserver-la-resilience-des-agroecosystemes-face-au-changement-climatique-grace-a-une-pollinisation-efficace-et-une-apiculture-durable.

Paul-André Calatayud (Pôle Ecologie) wrote an outreach article on plant-insect interaction in the Journal des anciens et amis du CNRS.

Gérard Arnold wrote an article published in Current Opinion in Insect Science that deals with the reviewing of the scientific litterature to write the first version of the IPBES report on pollinisators. This first version was partially corrected following independent peer review by external experts. Abstract: To understand the real causes of disorders and abnormal