Analysis of the DNA and proteins of a range of animals has revealed that sperm’s molecular toolkit arose in our single-celled ancestors, perhaps more than a billion years ago

Congrats @selfishmeme.bsky.social on revealing such a beautiful and bizarre system!

Surely one of the all-time best conference outreach activities: an evolution-inspired decorated street for Les Festes de Gràcia #ESEB2025

@arthurmatte.bsky.social describes the molecular evolution during the rise of #socialfluids #ESEB2025 @socialtransfernet.bsky.social @socialfluids.bsky.social

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Fantastic piece (doi.org/10.1073/pnas...) by @tlinksvayer.bsky.social on @arthurmatte.bsky.social and my recent paper in PNAS (doi.org/10.1073/pnas...). He really pulls together the threads of how we believe that socially transferred materials #socialfluids entrenched social complexity in ants. 1/2

New paper out ✍️ in @commsbio.bsky.social: Diversification and extinction of Hemiptera in deep time with my friends Mathieu Boderau and André Nel www.nature.com/articles/s42... @isyeb.mnhn.fr @isyebsp.mnhn.fr @morethanadodo.bsky.social

A little summary of @arthurmatte.bsky.social and my recent paper 🐜🍼👶 www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/news/how-ant...

🚨 New Paper Alert! 🚨 🐜 How did ants evolve their highly specialized queens and workers? With @adriatica.bsky.social, we reveal a key evolutionary innovation: adult control over larval feeding unlocked extreme caste dimorphism and complex societies. 🧵👇 🔗 Read in @pnas.org: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...