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Applications open for undergraduate students to do paid summer research internships remotely with researchers University of Oxford. Some fantastic projects across a range of disciplines (incl. MPLS project 16 with me) ox.ac.uk/admissions/gra… UNIQ

Very excited that my first paper is available as a preprint! We found that, across 51 bacterial species, plasmids were not more likely to carry genes for extracellular proteins, which often act as cooperative ’public goods’. (1/3) researchsquare.com/article/rs-257…

It's that time again Panini UK & Ireland #GotGotNeed

Want to know how much it really costs to complete your Euro 2020 sticker collection? Panini UK & Ireland #GotGotNeed goodscienceblog.wordpress.com/2021/03/25/foo…

Story of a 66-year-old researcher, an immigrant, who rarely got grants, never got her own lab, never earned more than $60K. For four decades, she kept working on mRNA—a path considered foolish. Her work is the basis for the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines. nytimes.com/2021/04/08/hea…

Absolutely delighted that our review on ‘next-generation microbiology’ is out in Genome Biology!! 🥳🥳 Joint effort with Andrew K Fenton and Sheppard Lab, thank you! The Florey Institute @SheffieldMBB Milner Centre for Evolution @BiosciencesBath genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

“I am too busy with lab work, I cannot attend today’s seminar”… hey, there are free drinks and snacks afterwards

Exciting postdoc position available to work on greenbeards and social signals: bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy.a… Milner Centre for Evolution Evolution Students EvolDir

Evolutionary robustness of killer meiotic drives onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10… New Evolution Letters by Philip Madgwick & Jason Wolf #Genes #MeioticDrive #Evolution

My first paper has been published today in NatureEcoEvo! We used comparative genomics and theory to test whether horizontal gene transfer via plasmids could stabilise cooperation in bacteria. nature.com/articles/s4155… (1/5)

Excited to have our review on viral cooperation and cheating out this morning Nature Communications We find that both cooperation and cheating are particularly common in viruses, offering many opportunities for evolution & virology nature.com/articles/s4146… Stuart West Melanie Ghoul

✨✨New Package✨✨ Happy to announce that I am soft launching my R color palette package {MetBrewer} today! Currently has over 30 palettes inspired by works at the The Metropolitan Museum of Art and expanding! Download Instruction and Palettes here: bit.ly/3GDIj1N #r4ds #dataviz #rstats

Finally managed to book a booster jab after following an online tip to use incognito mode when accessing the NHS website. Coincidence? Or something to do with 🍪?

Abstract submissions for ESEB now open! Why not submit an abstract to our Comparative Genomics symposium

📜 Paper published today 📜 Kin selection for cooperation in natural bacterial populations. 🧬 with Anna Dewar Melanie Ghoul Stuart West pnas.org/content/119/9/…

Our new review out today takes a cell's eye view of adaptation within organisms. Lots of fun to write! VolkswagenStiftung Rink Lab BoWangLab Oxford Biology Multicellularity in animals: The potential for within-organism conflict pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

New preprint, looking for signatures of kin selection in a natural population of the bacteria Bacillus subtilis. Spoiler alert - we found them. biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Dr Laurie Belcher Anna Dewar Chunhui Hao Melanie Ghoul

Looking for a summer internship? The University of Oxford is offering 7-week paid internships (£££ + free accommodation). Exciting projects in biology (including the evolution of cooperation with me & Stuart West) ox.ac.uk/admissions/gra… Deadline 17th Feb Oxford Biology UNIQ

Very happy to have our latest work out – some theory and data on the evolution of multipartite viruses. plos.io/3Lshrax

New paper from my PostDoc Signatues of kin selection in a natural population of Bacillus subtilis academic.oup.com/evlett/advance…