Announcing the Social Lives of Viruses 2024! Do you study social evolution in viruses? Do you want to? Join us in Puerto Rico this June for a 50-person meeting dedicated to viral sociality. All costs covered. Apply here: forms.gle/sHTEcHJjryDh...#ViroSky#MicroSky#EvoSky#SocialViruses
Important so please help spread the word... Interested in postgrad research? Maybe do a PhD? Oxford runs a summer internship scheme for UK students from under-represented and disadvantaged backgrounds Stipend, free accommodation, mentoring... Deadline 21 Feb www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/g...
Finally published! We show that host metabolites facilitate gutcolonization of a symbiont of social bees. Huge congrats to co-lead authors @andrewhq9.bsky.social & Yassine El Chazli. Super collabo with NanoSIMS expert Anders Meibom EPFL and our Electron Microscopy Facility FBM_UNIL 🐝 🧪
Comparative metabolomics and NanoSIMs reveal that the honey bee symbiont Snodgrassella alvi uses host-derived metabolites to colonize the gut, indicating adaptation to a specific metabolic niche in it...
From tiny to huge, soft to spiky, ants are incredibly diverse and have many impacts on the environment around them. DPhil student @juliet_turner6 has reflected on a recent field course in Papua New Guinea and the complexity of these creatures in a new blog: bit.ly/48NVpYD
Beginning my journey to PopGroup57 (Oxford -> St Andrews, via London and Edinburgh) 🚂 I'll be presenting on our new method for finding social genes 🦠 Looking forward to all things evolutionary biology (and my first ever trip to Scotland 🏴) Not looking forward to my longest time away from my son 👼
Our new tool 'SOCfinder' to find social genes in bacteria is out now, in Microbial Genomics 🦠 www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
Bacteria cooperate by working collaboratively to defend their colonies, share nutrients, and resist antibiotics. Nevertheless, our understanding of these remarkable behaviours primarily comes from stu...
Study finds that plants, fungi, and microorganisms are underrepresented in the available emojis on social media. But diversity has been increasing over the past years. I would love to see emojis for mosses, slime molds, gingkos and lichen in the future! #PhilSky#FungiFriends#Plants#Botany
Emojis enable direct expressions of ideas and emotions in digital communication, also contributing to discussions on biodiversity conservation. Nevert…
I love society journals because of the other great things they support, like conferences and travel grants. Looking forward to seeing more research in this area, particularly looking at more continuous variation in “impact factor”, rather than just publications in Cell, Nature, or Science. 4/3
Anyway, both of my first-author publications this year are in society journals. I love society journals! But I don’t publish there because I think it gives me the best chance of snaffling a permanent position. 3/3
… which isn’t much of a surprise. You don’t NEED a “high impact” paper to get a job, but it certainly helps (as shown by this/these data). 2/3