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Judith Mank @judithmank.bsky.social · Aug 22

Many of us are using LLMs in coding and scientific writing. They are very helpful tools, but we need to be thoughtful as we integrate them into our work flows to preserve accountability, voice and trust. academic.oup.com/evlett/advan.... An editorial at @evolletters.bsky.social for discussion:

Editorial: Accountability, voice, and trust - responsible use of GenAI in scientific publishing

Over the last few years, the development and rapid advancement of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) and Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatG

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Andy Gardner @andygardner.bsky.social · Aug 19

Join us for Part 2 of the "Advances" symposium today, from 11am in Room 129+130. #ESEB2025

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Andy Gardner @andygardner.bsky.social · Aug 18

And Chedhawat Chokechaipaisarn, whose poster "The consequences of constrained sex allocation under local mate competition" (P02.036) is in Tuesday's session.

This is based on his recent paper in Journal of Evolutionary Biology:

doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...

@jevbio.bsky.social @eseb2025.bsky.social

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Andy Gardner @andygardner.bsky.social · Aug 18

Two other members of the research group have successfully made it to @eseb2025.bsky.social ahead of me.

Look out for @kztwyman.bsky.social, whose poster "A formal theory of group-level adaptation for obligate eusociality" (P01.068) is in this evening's session.

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Andy Gardner @andygardner.bsky.social · Aug 18

Finally on my way to #ESEB2025, a day late, following flight cancellation...

Disappointed to miss 1st day of talks, but happy that S03.01 "Advances in technology..." is in @ju-morimoto.bsky.social's safe hands.

Starting 10.30am, Meeting Room 129+130, with invited talk by @kokkonut.bsky.social.

Programme for Part I of the Symposium "Advances in technology, mathematical and statistical models and their application in evolutionary ecology: the dawn of a new era", including talks by Hanna Kokko, Szymon Drobniak, Aurelien Tellier, Yuxin Ning and Md Ruhul Armin.

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Andy Gardner @andygardner.bsky.social · Jul 9

New paper: "The consequences of constrained sex allocation in diploids and haplodiploids under local mate competition", with Chedhawat Chokechaipaisarn:

doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...

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Figure 1. Unbeatable sex allocation strategy of unconstrained females (r*) as a function of proportion of constrained females (p) under local mate competition with two foundresses colonising the patch. Shown are the result for Godfray’s (1990) erroneous diploidy solution (dashed grey line), our corrected diploidy solution (solid grey line), and our haplodiploidy solution (solid black line). Overlaid are results from individual-based simulations (discs).

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Kalyani Twyman @kztwyman.bsky.social · Jun 26

Now all typeset and pretty! A little summary:

Kalyani Twyman @kztwyman.bsky.social · May 8

Very excited to share that our paper, ‘The clonality window: relatedness and the group covariance effect in the evolution of division of labour’, is out now in @journal-evo.bsky.social advances. With @andygardner.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1093/evol...

#OpenAccess #Evolution #Multicellularity

The clonality window: relatedness and the group covariance effect in the evolution of division of labour

Abstract. Cellular division of labour is closely associated with the emergence of organismality in the evolution of obligate multicellularity. Michod has s

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Andrew Mongue @ajmongue.bsky.social · Jun 11

It's finally out! This paper took quite a while but I'm so excited to share now! For anyone who studies sex chromosomes, take note: we found a rare "slower X"! (dN/dS_X < dN/dS_Autos) 👀

Andy Gardner @andygardner.bsky.social · Jun 11

New paper: "Faster adaptation but slower divergence of X chromosomes under paternal genome elimination" (Open Access)

w/ Robert Baird, @imprintedgene.bsky.social‬, Jan Ševčík, Katy Monteith, @laurarossevo.bsky.social‬ & @ajmongue.bsky.social‬

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Faster adaptation but slower divergence of X chromosomes under paternal genome elimination - Nature Communications

X chromosomes evolve faster than autosomes, but confounding factors make this a difficult phenomenon to study. Utilising the unusual sex determination system of Sciaridae flies, this study finds a slo...

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Andy Gardner @andygardner.bsky.social · Jun 11

New paper: "Faster adaptation but slower divergence of X chromosomes under paternal genome elimination" (Open Access)

w/ Robert Baird, @imprintedgene.bsky.social‬, Jan Ševčík, Katy Monteith, @laurarossevo.bsky.social‬ & @ajmongue.bsky.social‬

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

‪@natcomms.nature.com‬

Faster adaptation but slower divergence of X chromosomes under paternal genome elimination - Nature Communications

X chromosomes evolve faster than autosomes, but confounding factors make this a difficult phenomenon to study. Utilising the unusual sex determination system of Sciaridae flies, this study finds a slo...

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Kalyani Twyman @kztwyman.bsky.social · May 8

Very excited to share that our paper, ‘The clonality window: relatedness and the group covariance effect in the evolution of division of labour’, is out now in @journal-evo.bsky.social advances. With @andygardner.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1093/evol...

#OpenAccess #Evolution #Multicellularity

The clonality window: relatedness and the group covariance effect in the evolution of division of labour

Abstract. Cellular division of labour is closely associated with the emergence of organismality in the evolution of obligate multicellularity. Michod has s

doi.org

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Andy Gardner @andygardner.bsky.social · May 7

New paper: “The clonality window: relatedness and the group covariance effect in the evolution of division of labour”, with @kztwyman.bsky.social #OpenAccess

doi.org/10.1093/evol...

@journal-evo.bsky.social #Image: #ChatGPT #Evolution #OA

AI-generated image using the paper's title and abstract as input.

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · May 4

Sex-ratio optima for haplodiploid parents converge in viscous populations when dispersal is density-dependent. Read 'Density-dependent dispersal reduces conflict over the sex ratio': royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #BiologyLetters #evolution

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Tom Scott @tomwscott.bsky.social · Apr 11

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...

Kin-discriminating partner choice promotes the evolution of helping

Abstract. Kin selection theory predicts that individuals should evolve to help relatives, either by helping indiscriminately in a population where they do

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Andy Gardner @andygardner.bsky.social · Feb 17

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

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Bing Dong董冰 @bingdongevo.bsky.social · Jan 15

My paper is out! "Kin competition drives the evolution of earlier metamorphosis" (#OpenAccess), with @andygardner.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1002/ece3.70806

Kin Competition Drives the Evolution of Earlier Metamorphosis

We develop a mathematical model to investigate how kin selection shapes the optimal timing of metamorphosis. We consider the full range of larval competition intensities and the full range of related...

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Andy Gardner @andygardner.bsky.social · Jan 15

New paper: "Kin competition drives the evolution of earlier metamorphosis", with @bingdongevo.bsky.social.

doi.org/10.1002/ece3...

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Kalyani Twyman @kztwyman.bsky.social · Nov 29

Hello - how nice to be off twitter!
I'm a PhD student at the University of St Andrews studying evolutionary theory (my research profile: tinyurl.com/kztwyman).
Would love to connect with anyone working in evolution, theory, social behaviour etc.!

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Afra Salazar @salazarafra.bsky.social · Nov 8

Join us for our satellite event on selfish genetic elements!

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Andy Gardner @andygardner.bsky.social · Nov 7

Chedhawat (Tim) has given an online seminar about this sex-ratio work, here:

cassyni.com/events/K7vsZ...

A slide from Tim's talk, featuring a schematic showing how haplodiploid inheritance works, with mothers contributing genes to sons and daughters, and fathers contributing genes only to daughters.

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Andy Gardner @andygardner.bsky.social · Oct 30

New paper: "Density-dependent dispersal reduces conflict over the sex ratio" (OpenAccess), w/ Chedhawat Chokechaipaisarn.

doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...

Sex-ratio optima for haplodiploid parents converge in viscous populations when dispersal is density-dependent.

A portion of the title page of the paper. The Abstract reads:

Haplodiploids—in particular, wasps—are the workhorses of sex-allocation research. This is owing to their unusual system of sex determination, which provides a ready means of sex ratio adjustment. Notably, their sexually asymmetrical mode of genetic inheritance leads mothers and fathers to come into conflict over the sex ratio of their offspring. In the simplest outbreeding scenario, a mother is favoured to employ an even sex ratio while a father prefers that all his mate’s offspring are female. An important modulator of evolutionary conflict between mating partners is genetic relatedness, raising the possibility that this sex ratio conflict is reduced in low-dispersal settings with mating occurring between relatives. However, the impact of population viscosity on sex ratio conflict in haplodiploids remains unknown. Here, we develop and analyse a kin-selection model to investigate how the rate of dispersal modulates sex ratio conflict in a haplodiploid, viscous population setting. We find that population viscosity is associated with a reduction in the extent of sex ratio conflict—the effect being very weak under density-independent dispersal and much stronger under density-dependent dispersal.

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Andy Gardner @andygardner.bsky.social · Oct 1

One of my undergraduate students, Callum Ferrando, has just published a comic in Journal of Evolutionary Biology. You can find "Taylor's famous result" here:

doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...

@jevbio.bsky.social @uniofstandrews.bsky.social

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Andy Gardner @andygardner.bsky.social · Oct 1

One of my undergraduate students, Callum Ferrando, has just published a comic in Journal of Evolutionary Biology. You can find "Taylor's famous result" here:

doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...

@jevbio.bsky.social @uniofstandrews.bsky.social

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Andy Gardner @andygardner.bsky.social · Aug 27

New paper: "Kin selection as a modulator of human handedness: sex-specific, parental & parent-of-origin effects" (#OpenAccess), with Bing Dong & Silvia Paracchini (@silparacchini.bsky.social):

doi.org/10.1017/ehs....

#OA #Image commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cu...

Rock art at Cueva de las Manos, Santa Cruz Province. From Wikipedia: "Cueva de las Manos (Spanish for Cave of the Hands or Cave of Hands) is a cave and complex of rock art sites in the province of Santa Cruz, Argentina, 163 km (101 mi) south of the town of Perito Moreno. It is named for the hundreds of paintings of hands stenciled, in multiple collages, on the rock walls."

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Andy Gardner @andygardner.bsky.social · Nov 29

New paper: "Transmission of social status drives cooperation and offspring philopatry", with Antonio Rodrigues (Open Access)

doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

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Andy Gardner @andygardner.bsky.social · Nov 22

New paper: "Sexual antagonism in sequential hermaphrodites", w/ Thomas Hitchcock (@imprintedgene.bsky.social) *Open Access*

doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

Image: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Am...

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