Fantastic news - the Springer Nature pay dispute ends. The #NUJ and Springer Nature have issued a joint statement as the two sides reach an agreement 👋#SpringerNatureStrike #JoinAUnion nuj.org.uk/resource/sprin…

Tell California Lawmakers to Intervene in UCLA’s Mistreatment of Distinguished Scientist - Sign the Petition! chng.it/JtBqgbzsCd via Change.org UK

Dr Ming gets the champagne

Social evolution in termites: sterility, colony size, worker castes and more! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs… Lewis Revely

Dr Louis! Huge thanks to Prof Seirian Sumner and Chris Pull and cake team (Rosa Leena Bonifacii Anna Dewar Juliet Turner)

Congratulations Louis! 🎉 & to top it off, our paper has just been accepted for publication (details to follow soon 👀) This 👇 is what some of us from the social behaviour lab spent the morning working on yesterday and personally I think it was time very well spent

Don’t miss us at ICOM!

Melittobia team meeting! Ryosuke Iritani

Superb new review of why and how to phylogenetic comparative methods just out in Annual Reviews EES annualreviews.org/content/journa… Ashleigh Griffin Charlie Cornwallis

Larger colony sizes favoured the evolution of more worker castes in ants nature.com/articles/s4155… Gijsbert Werner Laura Ross Juliet Turner @philiBeeDowning

Larger ant colonies have favoured the evolution of more worker castes 🐜 New research in NatureEcoEvo on these 'superorganisms' could help us learn more about the evolution of complexity in multicellular organisms 👇 bit.ly/3AGVUrL

No consistent support from theory or bird data for the hypothesis that cooperation can be favoured to reduce variation in fitness (altruistic bet-hedging) pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… Ashleigh Griffin @Mig_mds @philiBeeDowning Charlie Cornwallis

At #ISBE2024 next week? Come see my first ever conference poster. (I'm cheating - it is a slight update of an awesome poster by Anna Dewar )

🚨Dive into multispecies urbanism with Nishant Kumar's upcoming new booklet, "आओ झाँके … बन्दर के अंदर" (Dividing South Asian cities between spaiens and simiens). Hindi UG students explored the fascinating world of Rhesus macaques and human interactions, sharing their insights

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

New Doctoral Training School at Oxford to fund PhDs: ilesla.ox.ac.uk

Do you like this now type of short? I could do hundreds of these! Fun side note: The animation I originally did on Major Transitions was with Stuart West and I just noticed (when editing this new vid) that one of the two papers I used here happened to be his as well.

Victor!

Bacteria produce an enzyme that functions after they die, to break up proteins and altruistically release nutrients to living cells. nature.com/articles/s4146…