New paper accepted in the BJPS with Paul Griffiths on the concept of mismatch in evolutionary medicine. Check out the thread below! ⏬⏬⏬⏬

As part of the series of themed collections by #MicrobioJ, we are pleased to launch the Antimicrobial Resistance collection, guest-edited by Professor Willem van Schaik and Dr Robert Moran. Learn more about the collection on our website: microb.io/3izDfRJ

"We know that the window of opportunity is closing and the only option is to do what science demands: eliminate fossil fuels and rebuild a flattened global economy."

Kōtare (sacred kingfisher) caught a small crab - their main diet in estuarine habitats. She’ll swallow the crab whole, then later spit out a pellet of the indigestible bits. #birds #NewZealand

Rosalind Franklin, the British scientist who first discovered the helix shape of DNA, was born #OnThisDay in 1920. Franklin used her knowledge of x-ray diffraction techniques to take the first photo of DNA, referred to as Photo 51. facebook.com/31648931505405…

Soil carbon is critical to soil health - it's the glue that helps hold the soil together. Soils contain a very large amount of carbon so even small changes affect CO₂ concentrations in the atmosphere. So, how do we get carbon in the ground? bit.ly/3x99xbr

She's brilliant. Saving this gem of a poem for my girls when they need it (and for the lads when they need it). 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Cool study showing that phage-based vaccines are stable at RT and can be produced cheaply at scale. Design and proof of concept for targeted phage-based COVID-19 vaccination strategies with a streamlined cold-free supply chain pnas.org/content/118/30…

Music to my ears: "Our ultimate aim is to test the anecdotal evidence and find out what is true or not."

Fascinating insights into #AMR & real-world collateral sensitivity networks; Identification of antibiotic pairs that evade concurrent resistance via a retrospective analysis of antimicrobial susceptibility test results - The Lancet Microbe thelancet.com/journals/lanmi…

A medium-sized whale shark (~6 m) can filter over 600,000 litres of seawater an hour. To put that in perspective, it’s (exactly) like 600,000 bottles of milk. That could make 40 million cups of tea. Enough to last the average British household about a week. Astonishing.

One of my personal favourites. A figure we did in Chapter 1 of #IPCC #ClimateReport showing the five considered scenarios, the timings peaking and halving CO2 emissions as well as when they reach net-zero. Together with Ed Hawkins beautiful stripes.

Hot off the Cambridge press! Nice work Pierrick Bourrat - huge congrats! Free to download for the next 14 days from here: Facts, Conventions, and the Levels of Selection cup.org/2WgmpzK

New preprint on Evolutionary Transitions in Individuality (ETIs)! biorxiv.org/content/10.110… (a thread) 1/8

Are you interested in the evolution of antibiotic resistance and want to do a PhD (in Auckland, NZ)? I have a Marsden funded project and am looking for an enthusiastic student. Please retweet, details here: findathesis.auckland.ac.nz/research-entry…

Check out our new work with Pierrick Bourrat Caroline Rose @RaineyLab and Katrin Hammerschmidt and go Beyond #fitness decoupling ! doi.org/10.1101/2021.0… (Not peer-reviewed yet). Quick teaser from a modeler's point of view: 1/7.

Thrilled about “trade-off breaking” as ETI-ID! @ experimentalists, modelers, philosophers of biology: tinyurl.com/3xxvhc9a Great collaboration with Pierrick Bourrat Frozen account of Guilhem Doulcier Caroline Rose @RaineyLab Check excellent threads: tinyurl.com/ywvbbyhj tinyurl.com/366xr6x4

The deadline for the application is next Sunday (31st of October). Please share widely.

How do we know that an evolutionary transition in individuality has taken place? Just out eLife - the journal elifesciences.org/articles/73715 in collaboration with Pierrick Bourrat Frozen account of Guilhem Doulcier Caroline Rose @RaineyLab For more see excellent thread below by the talented Frozen account of Guilhem Doulcier