1/ In our new paper, we explored whether obligate mutualisms can survive abrupt stress via evolutionary rescue. We found that evolutionary rescue is possible—but it comes at the cost of mutualism. @jfriedman.bsky.social #microsky #evosky #mevosky

I just posted "Some Experiments Work, and Some Don't." It features this new paper from Paul Rainey's group, along with a *failed* experiment that Paul Sniegowski and I ran in the 1990s trying to test the same idea. telliamedrevisited.wordpress.com/2025/02/21/s...

Happy to share our latest manuscript we we study evolutionary rescue in a bacterial mutualism: Reversion to metabolic autonomy underpins evolutionary rescue of a bacterial obligate mutualism shorturl.at/tFNTw