📣 Western U (London, Canada) has funding opportunities for PhD students feeling uneasy about studying in the US. We have launched a program for folks studying at, considering an offer from, or having lost an offer from a PhD program at a top-100 US university (QS or THE). grad.uwo.ca/finances/wes...

We're super excited to introduce a new article category for @asn-amnat.bsky.social: Inspiring perspectives. In a nutshell, we want these articles to spark lively scientific debates that will inspire future research directions in biology. More info here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....

New paper with @andygardner.bsky.social and @geoffwild.bsky.social in which we ask whether the ability to recognise relatives causes individuals to be more or less cooperative overall. doi.org/10.1093/evol...

Thank you to everyone at University of Western Ontario, Department of Biology; especially David Coltman💋 and @geoffwild.bsky.social for hosting us on sabbatical. Crazy weather, crazy times: Never 51! 🇨🇦❤️ @stuwest.bsky.social

New paper: "Kin-discriminating partner choice promotes the evolution of helping" with Tom Scott (@tomwscott.bsky.social) & Geoff Wild (@geoffwild.bsky.social) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/evol... @journal-evo.bsky.social #Image: #ChatGPT #Evolution #OA

New paper with @tobykiers.bsky.social and @stuwest.bsky.social on whether plants send signals through fungal networks to warn other plants of impending attack – theory suggests unlikely. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

My second paper, written with @geoffwild.bsky.social, has been published in @journal-evo.bsky.social ! Title: Selective advantage of redirected helping in a viscous population: doi.org/10.1093/evol....

Great day with our visitor from Integrative Biology at the @uofguelph.bsky.social, Cortland Griswold, who shared his work on ancestral graphs, pop gen, and community ecology.

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

Any E&E folks with a strong interest in teaching and #SoTL consider joining a great group of Biologists at Western University. Consideration of applications for the 🚨 full-time faculty position🚨 begins Nov 15. www.uwo.ca/facultyrelat...

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