🧵 New paper w/ Guillaume Cheikbossian: "Evolutionary branching of social preferences in a public good provision game" (ideas.repec.org/p/tse/wpaper...). Can behavioural heterogeneity in cooperation be an adaptive outcome? We think the answer is yes.
Can multicellularity evolve without direct benefits? A new theoretical study suggests it can — through ecology.
www.evolbio.mpg.de/3874781/news...
#Evolution #Ecology
Interested in predicting the dynamics of antibiotic resistance? Come work with us! We're looking for two postdocs to develop predictive models of resistance. We're interested in a range of approaches (mathematical & statistical modelling, causal inference, machine learning).
tinyurl.com/6c4y3jke
PhD-position ALERT! 🧪🪲 🧬
Interested in studying the genomics of local adaptation and niche breadth using long-term experimental evolution?
Come join me and @gmkov.bsky.social at @animecol-uu.bsky.social, Uppsala Univ. Read more and apply here: uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Deadline 22nd of May!
Reward-based learning paradigm with effort manipulation. Top: Participants made a series of choices between two abstract stimuli by applying physical force to a pair of hand-held dynamometers. One stimulus required a negligible amount of force to select (low effort stimulus; >5% MVC) and the other a greater amount of force (high effort stimulus; >44% MVC). Participants, therefore, had to balance an aversion to the high effort stimulus against their desire to maximize reward. Bottom: Stimulus-reward contingencies across a single block of 150 trials. The probability of reward upon selecting a given stimulus was either P = 0.7 or P = 0.3. These contingencies reversed every 12 or 24 trials, and reversals were not signaled to participants.
Dopamine is implicated in effort & reward #learning, but how do these interact? @huwjarvis.net @trevorchong.bsky.social &co show that #dopamine supports the relationship between effort & learning, revealing how we learn from the consequences of our actions @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/41FqSdX
Predicting competition & substrate preferences for targeted #microbiome alteration.
Microbial interaction & niche determination (MIND) infers microbial niches from mRNA translation to predict competition & guide interventions.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #microbiota #MicroSky
Coexistence of Photosynthetic Marine Microorganisms, Viruses and Grazers: Towards Integration in Ocean Ecosystem Models enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Join us for a seminar by Dr. Francois Mallard (Institute de Biologie, École Normale Supérieure, Paris-France) about 'The genetic architecture of phenotypic plasticity' on 30th April, 2026, 3 pm CET. Zoom link here: polygenic-adaptation-network.org/seminars/
Multiple fully funded PhD/postdoc positions available: experimental evolution of tumour suppression, egalitarian & fraternal ETIs, jumbo phage ecology & genetics. Related EoIs welcome.
Email CV/statement of motivation written in own words. Open until filled.
Grateful for reposting 🙏
Very excited with the online publication of our modeling work on the evolution of sexual reproduction during obligate endosymbiosis: doi.org/10.1098/rstb.... The first publication of Alkmini Zania 🎉; together with Paulien Hogeweg.
I just published Don’t Perish! A Step-by-Step Guide to Writing a Scientific Paper (2026 edition)
Great science deserves to be read—not buried under unclear writing. This is the updated 2026 edition of your favorite guide to writing scientific papers.
medium.com/p/dont-peris...
@shrylishreekar.bsky.social and me wrote a commentary on Chunhui Hao's and @stuwest.bsky.social et al.'s recent paper
"Cooperation and the evolution of bacterial niche breadth"
in PNAS.
Please find our commentary here:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Pace of life shapes parasite defense. Fast living guppies invest less in resistance and fecundity tolerance but not mortality tolerance. Now out in Evolution Letters, by Sadie Evanov and @jfstep.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/evle... Image Credit: J Mank
Talk Alert!
3rd talk in the series "Understanding Evolution"!
Featuring Arjun Dhati, BSMS at IISER Pune.
He will present a model on the evolution of bacterial growth strategies in fluctuating environments.
📆 15th April 2026 | ⏱️ 9:30 PM IST
Link: northeastern.zoom.us/j/9832742702...
#Evolution
New Evolution Digest out! 🎉
Does balancing selection maintain fitness variance? Yes, when drift and environmental fluctuations are in play!
I discuss why this matters for plant adaptation to climate change. 🌱🌡️
doi.org/10.1093/evol...
@sse-evolution.bsky.social
@journal-evo.bsky.social
Happy to share our paper from my postdoc time at the @w-u-r.bsky.social showing that specialist vs generalist pathogen transmission depends strongly on the plants present.
A reminder that belowground interactions shape biodiversity in ways we are only starting to understand. 🍄🌱
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Congrats to Chase Morgan @phagemorgan.bsky.social and the phage team!
Very excited to announce our new review accepted at Phil. Trans. B. (in press)!
This project started after a journal club I presented this time last year (!) sparked some lab discussions and it's been so much fun seeing it become a paper. Big thanks to all my co-authors for making it happen :)
We’ve been talking in our lab meetings about sexual conflict and sexual dimorphism, and have some thoughts. What if animal genomes are far more sex-specific and less cosntrained than we assume? @linley-sherin.bsky.social pulled it all together here www.zoology.ubc.ca/mank-lab/pdf... 1/n
How diverse is bacterial immunity ?
We report in @science.org how language models allowed us to predict 2.4M antiphage proteins spanning >23K novel potential systems.
👏 @emordret.bsky.social, @alexhv.bsky.social & al doi.org/10.1126/scie...
Explore them here defensefinder.mdmlab.fr/wiki/refseq_...
I'm looking for a lovely, talented PhD student, working on my ERC-funded project investigating the links between sexual selection and epidemic dynamics. The project uses guppies, worms, behaviour tracking, big experiments, and maths.. email me! Must have a masters! su.varbi.com/what:job/job...
Finally! Here is our perspective on why cooperation maximizes diversity and how it promotes additional coexistence mechanisms that do not occur under competition
journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
This is a hard topic with strong opinions... Thanks @asn-amnat.bsky.social for publishing it! 🧵👇
This paper started as an idea @albertomarina.bsky.social had many years ago… which of course means he was right all along 😄. Some of us just needed a few years (and a lot of experiments) to catch up.
Grateful (and slightly humbled) to be part of this. Thanks Alberto!
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
New study on honeybee gut microbiota!
It shows how priority effects allow first-arriving strains to dominate their niche, creating unique microbial profiles even in identical environments. Cool Study!
@aiswarya.bsky.social, @pengellab.bsky.social, @dmf-unil.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1093/isme...
Join us on Tuesday, April 7 at 11am PDT to hear Kamila Naxerova @naxerova.bsky.social from Harvard Medical School in the next installment of the Mathematical and Computational Modeling of Cancer Seminar. Livestream link to follow shortly.
New paper alert!
Are you looking for a PhD position, hoping to learn sexual selection theory from one of the true experts in the field? Lehtonen's work is awesome - Look at this and apply!
ats.talentadore.com/apply/doctor...
Phd Position alert 🚨
Join our project ASTRAfun (Adaptation and Starship Traffic in Root-Associated fungi), in which we will use computational models to unveil the hidden dynamics of fungal evolution.
It’s not going to be just regular fun. It’s going to ASTRAfun. 🤓
www.uu.nl/en/organisat...
