Guess I'm back. First things I did was block the owner and his favourite politician. Can't guarantee I'll stick around either :')

NEMO (Dutch science museum) interviewed me and virologist Mark Zwart on trying to design a pathogen-free planet B. It's fun how both Mark and I responded by saying: what a bad idea ;) nemokennislink.nl/publicaties/no…

Dreamjob alert !!! In my research group, the position of a permanently employed staff scientist is available. The position includes both research and teaching (in German). Please RT Deadline: 25.08.24 More infos: shorturl.at/k9cM7

Only 6 more days to apply to this PhD position in my group. 👇 Please RT

Spatial propagation of temperate phages within and among biofilms | bioRxiv biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

🧵 New preprint! 🚨 Turns out that space (my obsession 😜) makes public goods way more interesting: “Interaction range of common goods shapes Black Queen dynamics beyond the cheater-cooperator narrative.” doi.org/10.1101/2024.0… 🦠🔬 #Microbiology #EvolutionaryBiology

To enthuse students into modelling, I'm gamifying a model of foraging ants. 🐜 I haven't figured out yet what the best combination of traits is, but let me know if you find anything interesting (or more likely: a bug). Go check it out! 💻 bramvandijk88.github.io/cacatoo/ant_ba…

I reactivated my Twitter account a few weeks back. Every time I log in (every couple of days), a new set of random fake people followed my account. How is this place so broken? (Rhetorical question, nvm 🫠)