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In the very best sense of the phrase, this was a fishing expedition, producing a rich catch of fascinating hypotheses. Congrats Joao Ascensao

The evolution of minimalistic communities keeps surprising us. Thanks to Joao Ascensao's eagle eyes for spotting rediversification events.

Wastewater holds great promise as an emerging public health tool, but ~20% of households in the US are not connected to public sewers. Who is not connected to sewers, and what does this mean for equity? medrxiv.org/content/10.110… 🧵👇

Perspective: Proliferating active matter By Oskar Hallatschek, Sujit S. Datta Datta Lab, Knut Drescher, Jörn Dunkel, Jens Elgeti, Bartek Waclaw & Ned S. Wingreen rdcu.be/ddqwS

Seen on a bus in Stockholm and wondering whether “Emergency exit” is part of the ad.

Very excited our recent work with Daniel Fisher and Devaki Bhaya on long-term coevolution of natural cyanobacteria is up on bioRxiv. Instead of diverging into specialist strains, we find different species slowly merge on timescales of 100k years. (1/n) doi.org/10.1101/2023.0…

Happy to say that our work on how microbial communities rediversify after a perturbation is now published! authors.elsevier.com/c/1iYm63QW8S6D… 🧵from the preprint👇

Grateful to have had the opportunity to write a Current Biology Dispatch on Joao Ascensao et al's fascinating recent study on the re-emergence of ecological diversification in the Long-Term Evolution Experiment! authors.elsevier.com/a/1ifo63QW8S2T… cell.com/current-biolog…

Do you enjoy mysterious population stochasticity, chaotic dynamics, and/or popgen? Then this preprint might be for you! Super excited to share a project that has been an exciting journey, and a fun blend of theory and experiment! Oskar Hallatschek biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Excited to share that our work on inferring genetic drift in SARS-CoV-2 transmission using lineage frequency time series is now published in PLoS Pathogens! journals.plos.org/plospathogens/… w/Oskar Hallatschek, Joao Ascensao, Takashi Okada, erik m volz, and Olivia Boyd

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We usually think of genetic drift as the stochastic force in evolving populations. But working with model microbial populations, we found a distinct source of stochasticity that scales (and behaves) differently than drift Learn more in our new paper 👉 rdcu.be/d07Np