Betul Kacar Read the full article from Jasna Hodžić: bigthink.com/life/the-lab-r…

Antarctica never ceases to amaze me. These are the ‘Blood Falls’ located at the Taylor Glacier. It's not actually blood, but iron-rich water flowing from a sub-glacial lake 🧊🩸 📸: Alasdair-Turner

When a tree falls in a forest, what happens to it? Check out my Knowable Magazine story republished by Smithsonian Magazine: smithsonianmag.com/science-nature…

An Artificial Intelligence system has learned how to cheat while playing chess. A good reminder of a universal law of evolving complex systems: cheaters are an expected outcome of complexity. Wonder how this will unfold. technologyreview.com/2025/03/05/1...

I put a video of this event on YouTube that included a second run of the event slowed down to 1/4 time. The lunge *still* looks fast. youtube.com/watch?v=2Lt8s1…

If you are interested in experimental evolution studies of adaptations to larval and adult crowding in fruitflies, and its impact on population dynamics and/or theory around selection/heritability/fitness, please apply. More on our work and approach: sites.google.com/view/ebl-jncas…

How do cheater-cooperator payoff matrices evolve with time? On Tue, 18th, Supreet Saini will be talking about our experiments with yeast to answer this question at the ICTS school on decisions, games, and evolution. School schedule: icts.res.in/program/DGE2025

Lovely review James T. Stroud & Will Ratcliff Long-term studies provide unique insights into evolution nature.com/articles/s4158…

Here's my interview with Steven Strogatz on Quanta Magazine's Joy of Why podcast. This was *so much fun*. I was nervous going into it (I really look up to Steve!), but I had a blast and I think this is the best interview I've ever done. Thanks for having me on, folks!

A PNASNews study co-led by Biology Professor Joshua Weitz (Joshua Weitz) found that microbes divvy nutrients over time, reducing competition for limited resources. Read about what this finding reveals about #OceanChemistry and microbial life ⤵️ go.umd.edu/sargasso

In our latest work, we show how hybridization dictates fate of a cheater-cooperator game in yeast. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Excited to share a new Big Think + John Templeton Foundation interview featuring work from our lab: “Meet the survivors of Earth’s worst days.” Betul Kacar unpacks how life persisted through catastrophe! Big Think John Templeton Foundation Watch here: bigthink.com/the-well/earth…

!! Humans have nasal respiratory fingerprints: Current Biology cell.com/current-biolog…

We have paid JRF openings to work on problems in: -extinction -epistasis -protein evolution -HGT Looking for motivated candidates with a GATE score & background in micro/mol bio. Interested candidates should write to Supreet with their CV sites.google.com/view/esmlab/co…

In the early 1990s, a small team tried to survive in a hermetically sealed space containing replicas of Earth's ecosystems. Their trials and discoveries still have repercussions today, I report for BBC Future: bbc.com/future/article…

All updates about ISEB6 - the Indian Evolutionary Biology conference will be posted on the official website: sites.google.com/iiserbpr.ac.in… #ISEB6

Applications for the D.D. Joshi Best Thesis Award for theses defended in 2024 are now open at the ISEB website.

New post! Our summer edition of What's new in biology: The first gonorrhea vaccination program, contact lenses that see infrared light, the protein behind sweet tastes, baby cured with gene therapy, gene-editing breakthroughs & new cholesterol drugs worksinprogress.news/p/whats-new-in…

Registration to #iseb6 is now open. Please register and also spread the word. Check out: sites.google.com/iiserbpr.ac.in…

Cells are so tiny that measuring their weight seems, at first blush, like an impossible task. But back in 1953, two biologists from Southern Illinois University — supported, in part, with funding from Anheuser-Busch! — invented a super clever method for figuring out the weight