Final version just published of our review on the ecological and evolutionary consequences of cooperation www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... @ryosukeiritani.bsky.social @annadewar.bsky.social @asgriffin.bsky.social @lauriebelch.bsky.social @asn-amnat.bsky.social

Great summary of our haplodiploidy paper! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Women haven’t always had equal space in learned societies, yet most of our staff are women. For #IWD2026, we celebrate the colleagues who help make the Society what it is today. We invited them to reflect on this year's theme of justice and action and the barriers women still face: buff.ly/oY03aSN

New paper showing that bacteria with more genes for cooperation can live in a broader range of habitats and that genes for cooperation are more more likely to be in the accessory genome www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... @lauriebelch.bsky.social

Thank you to Doug Emlen and Matthias Fischer for the wonderful images we used in this figure, illustrating the parallels of studying adaptation across scales of visibility: scarab beetles and giant viruses www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... @stuwest.bsky.social

Why and how to study adaptation in invisible things. A follow up from @asgriffin.bsky.social 's talk at the 2024 @isbe2026.bsky.social meeting www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

🚨JOB alert🚨 We have three (yes, THREE) 🌟lectureships🌟 advertised in the School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol. Broad remit, including #AnimalBehaviour & #GlobalChangeBiology ⏱️Deadline: 8th March 2026 🙏Please circulate widely 😊Come join us! Full #job details: tinyurl.com/y3us95rc

ASN Address: The Evolutionary and Ecological Consequences of Cooperation Available now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

My interview with @manymindspod.bsky.social! Come for a deep dive into the evolution of kissing 💋, stay for the earth-shattering insights 🤯 "fish don't run" 🐠🏃 "monkeys tend to loll around quite a lot" 🙈 "chimps have moved on to grass-in-bumhole behaviour" 🍑🌱 disi.org/origins-of-t...

Delighted to have been a part of this. It's a very exciting area in the field of social evolution and beyond!

Does haplodiploidy - a method of sex determination seen in bees and ants among other animals - promote eusociality? New research from @rbonifacii.bsky.social and @stuwest.bsky.social enters evidence into this long debate that - despite popular belief - this is not the case 👇 bit.ly/4qEoEWm

We understand a great deal about how and why cooperation evolves, but what about its long-term consequences? Great to see our new review on this out now in @asn-amnat.bsky.social!

Oh I’m excited to dig into this! I especially love that figure with the environment & behavioral variables mapped onto the phylogeny! In my grad work, I found that nutrient stress intensifies selection against a selfish mtDNA… can’t help but wonder if it was a molecular case of a similar phenomenon.

Huge thanks to @asn-amnat.bsky.social for inviting our review on the evolutionary and ecological consequences of cooperation. @annadewar.bsky.social @asgriffin.bsky.social @lauriebelch.bsky.social www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Comparative analysis across 5,678 insect species shows that, when you control for phylogenetic bias, eusociality has not evolved at a faster rate in haplodiploid species. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Applications for our Fellowship Mentorship Programme are open! The programme supports promising early career researchers to submit fellowship applications and move towards research independence. Find out more ⬇️ https://bit.ly/BioIRF

A super handy database to help support academic society journals and other ethical publishing. academic.oup.com/jeb/article/...

HBES newsletter on what experimental replication does and doesn't do www.hbes.com/what-the-rep...

Robots, fungal growth strategies, and proportional resource exchange between mycorrhizal fungi and plants www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.... @spun.earth @tobykiers.bsky.social

Want to join us in Biology at Oxford? The next round of our fellowship mentoring scheme has just opened www.biology.ox.ac.uk/fellowships

The Nowak-Epstein emails reminded us about the genius summary of that strange paper, which has better stood the test of time 😂 youtube.com/watch?v=oE6I...

Gonna borrow this for my next response to rejection letter.. “127. einstein only got 100. Bring me my bow of burning gold Bring me my arrows of desire Bring me my spear - oh clouds unfold Bring me my chariot of fire”

Congratulations to the recipients of the 2025 Rosemary Grant Advanced Awards! www.evolutionsociety.org/news/display...

Strange discovery that an email about inclusive fitness was forwarded to Jeffrey Epstein, with the emailer quoting Jerusalem and comparing themself to Einstein. Are you one of the >100 evolutionary biologists now in the Epstein files? www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

Good to know that Martin Nowak was keeping Jeffrey Epstein abreast of developments in our field www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

Very happy to share that I just published a new paper from my thesis! 🎉 We analysed 546 species of ant to understand how extreme specialisation into reproductive and non-reproductive roles evolved.  Key discoveries in thread🧵 👇 Full paper here: academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...

In our new study we were the first to experimentally simulate the origin of sociality! By controlling how many wasp 🐝daughters could help their mom, we found that early helpers don't just add to colony success—they multiply it!

Elegant experiment-theory mix, showing increasing returns from helping in a cooperative wasp

Great video, covering a lot of non-trivial stuff very nicely!

Putting on my hat as @asn-amnat.bsky.social ASN President for announcements, please share widely!!! 3. The ASN Conceptual Unification of Biological Sciences award is for a late career investigator www.amnat.org/announcement...

Putting on my hat as @asn-amnat.bsky.social ASN President for announcements, please share widely!!! 3. The ASN Distinguished Naturalist award is for a mid career investigator (<= 20 years from PhD). Go here to nominate someone: nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Putting on my hat as @asn-amnat.bsky.social ASN President for announcements, please share widely!!! 2. ASN Early Career Investigator awards are now open for application. Self-nominations okay! Due Jan 5 nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Putting on my hat as @asn-amnat.bsky.social ASN President for a minute for a string of announcements, please share widely!!! 1. Student research awards are open for applications, to fund research expenses for 10 graduate students ($2000 each) nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Want to join us at Oxford? This is a great Royal Society fellowship scheme to bring early career researchers from abroad. royalsociety.org/grants/newto...

Out today! Innovations in Decolonising the Curriculum: Multidisciplinary Perspectives. I am happy (with @kztwyman.bsky.social & Jasmeen Kanwal) to have contributed a chapter – "Teaching the Science of Race and Racism" – to this important book that "moves beyond debate to action" Please do read.

A pictorial guide to parasitoids (11/11). Parasitoid population dynamics can be studied with modelling. Silwood Park, 1992.

The book has so many great contributors. To name a few: @amyboddy.bsky.social @martijnschenkel.bsky.social @stuwest.bsky.social @reallymccoy.bsky.social @tomwscott.bsky.social @ellenclarke.bsky.social @laurarossevo.bsky.social @philippehune.bsky.social Very excited that it's finally coming out!

@natecoevo.nature.com making this free to read in front of the paywall for a month. Thanks guys!

Brings back happy memories of ISBE 2024 where the conversation about this paper began.. great to see it out in @natecoevo.nature.com. Thanks to co-authors and to the organisers of that brilliant conference 🙏🏽. @bbmwong.bsky.social @stuwest.bsky.social, Suzanne Alonzo🫶, Sasha Dall, “Dr Cunningham”

I was interviewed by Newsweek about the backlash to my DPhil announcement. You can read it here: www.newsweek.com/gen-z-woman-...

Behavioural ecology in the 21st century..... www.nature.com/articles/s41... @asgriffin.bsky.social

Strong response to the pathetic trolling of Juliet. www.thepoke.com/2025/11/19/t...

New research shows that kissing evolved in the common ancestor of humans and other large apes around 21 million years ago, and Neanderthals likely engaged in kissing too 💋 New study from @matildabrindle.bsky.social @stuwest.bsky.social 👇

Kissing evolved at least 21 million years ago. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @matildabrindle.bsky.social

So cool to see ಕನ್ನಡ (Kannada) -- my native language in @asn-amnat.bsky.social 😍

Congratulations Juliet! Very well deserved for a brilliant body of research. Thank you to Shigeto Dobata and @timbarra.bsky.social for their time and being a great examiner team. 🥂 @biology.ox.ac.uk @newcollegeoxf.bsky.social

POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success

I passed my viva! 🎊 I’m very happy to share that yesterday, after ~4 years of research, I successfully defended my DPhil thesis and will be awarded the title of doctor 😎 Thank you to my examiners, supervisors, and collaborators for all the advice and support given along the way.

Leaf? 🍃 Or katydid? 🦗 Our new @plosbiology.org paper sheds light on how these incredible mimics evolved their disguises, and what this reveals about how complex adaptations arise. We find that coordinated evolution between traits might be the answer… plos.io/4oUE741 1/n

Amazing leaf camouflage experiments paired up with phylogeny showing how they got there. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... @benitoexplains.bsky.social