Bacteria with more variable lifestyles have more fluid pangenomes. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… Anna Dewar Chunhui Hao Dr Laurie Belcher Melanie Ghoul

🦠 Lifestyle plays a key role in shaping bacterial pangenomes 🦠 New research in PNASNews shows that species which live in more variable environments have more fluid pangenomes 👇 bit.ly/3wC8M0w

Chunhui Hao from Nanjing University, presenting his work from his PhD with Stuart West on exploring bacterial life-history evolution through a genomic lens including their recently published PNAS on how life style shapes the pangenomes pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… #NanjingPlantMicro

New and powerful method to control for phylogeny when looking for gene co-occurrence (avoidance) in bacteria. (Thanks Dr Laurie Belcher) biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Priyanga Amarasekare has set up a website to fully describe her experience at UCLA since 2022 and the charges brought against her. pamarasekare.org

Staff at Nature journals on strike over pay and working conditions nuj.org.uk/resource/journ… . An open letter which can be signed at: docs.google.com/file/d/1ThQM_P…

What has 40 years of research on Darwin's Finches shown us about adaption and diversification? academic.oup.com/evolinnean/adv…

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

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Melittobia team meeting! Ryosuke Iritani

If you think we do good work, please nominate us for this grant! Thank you Harriet from all of us!

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 Philip Downing

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