We're looking for a postdoc and a scientist to work on social behaviour in clonal raider ants Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology. Join us! Please RT. Postdoc: tinyurl.com/25263c44 Scientist: tinyurl.com/2p9ca9wh (photo by Anna Schroll)

Myxococcus xanthus is a social and predatory soil bacterium. Researchers have just discovered the molecular machinery that lets it kill on contact elifesciences.org/articles/72409…

Our cell tracking software, FAST, is now publicly available! Watch our summary video below for a quick rundown of its design and capabilities: youtu.be/9rDLSZ2AcQ0

Bacterial Multicellularity Tips

Aggregative #multicellularity has been described in a few taxa but it is present in all eukaryotic superclades. It seems like an uncommon type of multicellularity. Yes, it does. However, I bet it will be less and less uncommon the more we study different #protists along the tree.

Very happy to share: #Grainyhead-1, evolutionarily conserved, #drug-inducible #transcription factor linked to #insulin signaling and #lifespan Thanks everyone who participated for the shared effort! nature.com/articles/s4146…

Finally out! ‘A limit on the evolutionary rescue of an Antarctic bacterium from rising temperatures’ fcld.ly/qnehems, with Miriam Olombrada, Francesc Castro-Giner and Andreas Wagner

Hey folks, if you are interested in reading our new book on the evolution of multicellularity, but you don't have a spare $200- this is for you! We collected the unformatted chapters (copyright belongs to the authors) in the link below. SCIENCE FOR THE PEOPLE!

Does morphology of microbial development evolve latently, and how? In our recent study nature.com/articles/s4200… together with Olaya Rendueles, we try to address this question using #Myxo.

MediaDive: the expert-curated cultivation media database academic.oup.com/nar/advance-ar…

Our latest review paper by picot, Shota Shibasaki and Oliver Meacock is out! We discuss how to couple experiments and models when measuring inter-species interactions in microbes (1/3) sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

📕 New book out! Evolvability: A Unifying Concept in #Evolutionary Biology? 🌱 Read the latest addition to the Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology from the MIT Press open access: kli.ac.at/en/the_kli/new…

When it comes to publishing, a young scientist can listen to science twitter that talks about the DORA declaration, preprints, & post publication peer review. Or they can listen to ERC consolidator grant reviewers who mostly rewarded people w/ multiple Nature & Cell family pubs.

This is great stuff! Is embryonal-like multicellular development ancestral to animals? Is (crazy) convergent evolution due to the inherent properties of cellular multicellularity? It's fascinating, and it raises so many questions! x.com/dudin_o/status…

It is ONLINE!🥳 myxoEE.org is for those interested in evolution. It showcases past, present, and future evolution experiments run with #Myxobacteria. Social selection, microbial development, predation, evolutionary dynamics, and much more. Enjoy and share!

I had quite some fun drawing this cover for GBE (Genome Biology and Evolution) linked to the recent paper from @SWielgoss and colleagues on M. xanthus mutation rate and effective population size. Read more about it here doi.org/10.1093/gbe/ev…

Hi Friends, I'm excited to announce that I set up a crowdfunding campaign for my sugar selection system for antibiotic-free cloning! Finally formalizing this project; it's been a dream for too long now. Every penny counts; please RT! 💚🍬🦠 experiment.com/projects/towar…

We're recruiting! Multiple postdoc and PhD positions at the University of Lausanne. Official adverts will be out soon, but you can have a sneak peek. Informal enquires are encouraged - if you like our papers, we want to hear from you! sites.google.com/view/sonjaleht…

This year #E3B seminar series at ETH Zurich/Universität Zürich ended with an amazing talk from Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo on animals' origin. It was a blast haiving Iñaki here, sharing scientific ideas and career experiences. Looking forward to get to know the #magnificent8!