Our bacterial community breeding experiment is now published Nature Communications! doi.org/10.1038/s41467… Huge congratulations on making a very ambitious project a reality Flora Arias and Björn W! In short: you can select communities to improve pollutant degradation (with caveats)

📢Molecular microbiologists, plant pathologists, microbial ecologists, I am recruiting! Four-year post doc position available at UWE, Bristol working on quorum sensing in acute oak decline bacteria 🌳🦠🔬. Please share! ce0164li.webitrent.com/ce0164li_webre…

Another guide which makes it all feel a bit more manageable: global.oup.com/ukhe/product/s… Stuart West

🐦Is altruism more likely to evolve if it reduces the unpredictability of a relative’s ability to reproduce? This new study found little support for the theory but it is still good news for breeding at times of environmental change. ⬇️ bit.ly/4daZNT2

Great to meet you today, thanks for coming. Hope to see you back here one day as students in the course!

Thank you Arvid Ågren for the opportunity to contribute - such a great collection of papers!

Check out our contribution to special feature of Royal Society Publishing. Early germ-soma commitment beats single-cell bottlenecks hands down for predicting organism complexity! With Jack Howe and Charlie Cornwallis #procb Oxford Biology

Perfect end to a brilliant plenary ISBE2024 Thank you Prof Ashleigh Griffin, I fully agree - the WHY questions are essential & often overlooked, as are behavioural ecologists!#ISBE2024

Can’t think of better way to kick off a sabbatical year than a week ISBE2024 at Melbourne. Inspiring talks, great company and the best conference vibe. Thank you to the organisers for the invitation! 🙏🏽 (photo from brilliant talk today by @naomilangmore)

Thanks Rachel - I want to point out that this is me stealing one of Johns slides for my talk! 🫶

Thanks, I think!

Thank you Christina - we make it look easier than it is!

Great talk Francesca Angiolani!

So proud to see not one but two New College, Oxford biology alumni presenting their research ISBE2024 in Melbourne this week! Will Lunt and Ginny Greenway #ISBE2024 Oxford Biology

Had such a blast giving this talk 🌮🍆💦👋🦧! What an awesome conference #ISBE2024 has been!

🧵1/4. Transcript of Bob Wong (@bbmwong.bsky.social) conference closing remarks in full: At the start of this week, we were entertained by the sounds of a didgeridoo played by a man who also challenged us to speak from the heart, to engage with each other with authenticity.

This is eugenics. As President of the American Genetics Association and a human, I reject this. We are better than this. cnn.com/2024/10/07/pol…

Welcome to our new grad students who you may have seen rushing around the department and Oxford University Museum of Natural History on a treasure hunt today. Well done on finding the 🐻

Stuck for Christmas shopping ideas? Who wouldn't want to find Rosemary Grant's memoir under the tree? Read my review in Bioscience out this week tinyurl.com/m92tr7w9