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Gaurav Athreya

@gauravathreya.bsky.social

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maths, community & evolutionary ecology, evolution of cooperation. PhD-ing kokkonut in Mainz. amateur hiker and bread baker, professional stick insect parent. Previously: IISER Pune & the MPI for Evolutionary Biology

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Gaurav Athreya @gauravathreya.bsky.social · Jul 23

Interested in host-symbiont interdependence, eukaryogenesis, and evolutionary transitions in individuality? my first paper just came out! With @gokhalecs.bsky.social and Pete Czuppon, we study when & how individuality emerges in a host-endosymbiont collective doi.org/10.1086/737588 a short thread🧵:

figure 1 from https://doi.org/10.1086/737588 describing (a) our conceptualisation of an evolutionary transition in individuality, (b) an interpretation of the traits that we consider in our mathematical model, and (c) a graphical representation of the population dynamics in the model.

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Maria E. Orive @meorive.bsky.social · 1d

And this is a society journal - from the Society for Modeling and Theory in Biology @smtpb.bsky.social !

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Ben Allen @evodynamics.bsky.social · 1d

Looking forward to this! A non-Elsevier alternative to Theoretical Population Biology / Journal of Theoretical Biology

Stanford University Press @stanfordpress.bsky.social · 8d

Population Biology Modeling & Theory (PBMT) is a peer-reviewed journal reporting advances in modeling and theory within population biology. Its scope spans demography, ecology, epidemiology, evolutionary biology, population genetics, and phylogenetics. PBMT will be online soon.

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Journal of Evolutionary Biology @jevbio.bsky.social · 6d

Why is it so hard to detect fecundity-longevity #trade-offs in social insects? And what does this have to do with the Gospel of #Matthew??
Find out in our new paper with @kokkonut.bsky.social and Susanne Foitzik @mainzuniversity.bsky.social!

doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...

Luck can explain the positive link between fecundity and longevity: the Matthew effect in social insects and beyond

Abstract. The universality of the trade-off between fecundity and longevity in life-history theory is sometimes contested. Social insects present the argua

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Damien Farine @damienfarine.bsky.social · 8d

Want to get the low-down on vulturine guineafowl societies? Here's a summary of our knowledge so far:

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The multifaceted societies of vulturine guineafowl

Vulturine guineafowl, Acryllium vulturinum, are highly social birds that form stable identity groups (SIGs), corresponding to the concept of society p…

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E. Yağmur Erten @yagmurerten.bsky.social · 22d

New paper out! 🤩 "Shrinking to bird size with dinosaur-level cancer defences: Evolution of cancer suppression over macroevolutionary time" with @kokkonut.bsky.social and @marcanthonytollis.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1371/jour... A short thread:

Shrinking to bird size with dinosaur-level cancer defences: Evolution of cancer suppression over macroevolutionary time

Author summary Humans are not the only species suffering from cancer, yet cancer does not impact all life equally. Body size is relevant because maintaining a large number of cells in a tumour-free st...

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Hanna Johannesson @hannajohannesson.bsky.social · Aug 14

It started as a master thesis project by Markus Hiltunen, and ended up in this publication in Science. What a fun project to work on! Thanks Markus - and all other coauthors, too, for a great team work! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Early germline sequestration in a basidiomycete fungus

In sexual organisms, inheritance of new mutations is highly dependent on the timing of germline definition. Here, we used the fairy ring–forming fungus Marasmius oreades to challenge the general assum...

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Tilly S Scott @tillysscott.bsky.social · Sep 2

Here are all the talks I attended and sketched at #ESEB2025 ! Only a fraction of the 642 speakers at the conference 😮

I had an absolutely amazing week chatting about lots of fascinating science

#sciart #eseb #esebcongress @eseb2025.bsky.social

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Arvid Ågren @arvidagren.bsky.social · Aug 29

If you work on the internal conflicts, do consider proposing a paper for our upcoming special issue in the Journal of Evolutionary Biology.

More info here: internalconflictsstn.wordpress.com/special-issue/

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Dhanya Bharath @dhanyabharath.bsky.social · Aug 25

Some of the #Bengaluru representation at #ESEB2025 in Barcelona!

@shikharabhat.bsky.social @crazychipkali.bsky.social @vrindarvkm.bsky.social @gauravathreya.bsky.social @utharasrini.bsky.social

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Gaurav Athreya @gauravathreya.bsky.social · Aug 22

a bit unhappy that the talks about being trans & Palestinian in academia were concurrent with other science talks #ESEB2025. How will these inspiring people’s stories percolate / get everyone to reflect if the schedule selects for attendance only by those who are already sympathetic?

Giulia Scarparo @giuliascarparo.bsky.social · Aug 22

Thanks to Sofia and May Sheday for the courageous and inspiring talks! The scientific world cannot remain silent @eseb2025.bsky.social #ESEB2025 #inclusivity 🏳️‍🌈 #transrights 🏳️‍⚧️ #freepalestine 🇵🇸

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E. Yağmur Erten @yagmurerten.bsky.social · Aug 21

Great talk by @gauravathreya.bsky.social about his work on age-dependent facultative sex! It’s been a super fun and interesting project to work on 🤩 and a preprint will be coming soon! #ESEB2025

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Rob Noble @robjohnnoble.bsky.social · Aug 21

Is AI transforming science? Apparently not in evolutionary biology. Of nearly 1,700 abstracts at #ESEB2025, only four mention AI or artificial intelligence, another eight mention deep learning, and another two explicitly refer to AlphaFold.

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Gaurav Athreya @gauravathreya.bsky.social · Aug 20

with pleasure :)

Gaurav Athreya @gauravathreya.bsky.social · Aug 19

thanks for asking, this work isn’t submitted yet but there will be a preprint in the not too distant future!

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Tomos Potter @tomospotter.bsky.social · Aug 17

What if your family members turn out to be your worst enemies? Come see my talk at #eseb2025 on using pedigree and mark-recapture data to explore how relatedness structures competitive interactions, and whether this maintains variation! Thursday, 11am, S48.02, meeting room 122+123

The title slide of the talk I'll be giving. It reads: Are mitochondrial sisters their own worst enemies? Testing for negative frequency-dependent selection via resource competition in Trinidadian guppies. There is a depiction of a guppy family tree.

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Shikhara Bhat @shikharabhat.bsky.social · Aug 16

Hey #ESEB2025 folk! I'll be presenting my work on describing evolution in finite populations at 11:30 am on Tuesday in S-03. Drop by to learn how taking ecology and variable population size seriously changes classic pop gen descriptions like the Price eqn, revealing novel directional eco-evo forces.

An illustration with populations on the left and mathematical representations of these populations in terms of birth-death processes on the right

Stochastic differential equations for trait frequencies, mean value of a trait, and the variance of a trait in the population

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Gaurav Athreya @gauravathreya.bsky.social · Aug 16

hello to everyone going to #ESEB2025! want to hear about the consequences of age-dependent plasticity in reproducing via sex vs. asex? I will give a talk at 11:15am on Thursday in S15.02. come for the pretty Hydra illustrations, stay for the novel evolutionary insights on facultative sex!

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Tadashi Fukami @fukamit.bsky.social · Aug 6

Assistant Professor position in Traditional Ecological Knowledge at Stanford University. Applications due Sept 30, 2025

facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...

Stanford | Faculty Positions: Details - Assistant Professor in Traditional Ecological Knowledge

facultypositions.stanford.edu

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Flo Débarre @flodebarre.bsky.social · Aug 14

Folks going to #ESEB2025 : To help people connect on Bluesky, I've started making starter packs. Here is a first one with the names that were available when I started.

Ping me if you want to be included in the next one!

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Gaurav Athreya @gauravathreya.bsky.social · Aug 14

thanks for making this! i’d love to be added too :)

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Laurie Belcher @lauriebelch.bsky.social · Aug 12

Is there a single PDF with a list of talks/times for #ESEB2025 ? I don't get on well with conference apps

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Christian Kost @kostchristian.bsky.social · Aug 8

I am excited to announce that the position of a senior postdoc (3 +3 years) in the field of theoretical biology is available in my group.

The position provides the opportunity to closely interact with experimentalists and develop own research projects.

Please RT.

Details 👇:
shorturl.at/iiiOv

116 FB 5 Research Assistant (m/f/d) field of Theoretical Ecology and Evolution or Computational Biology: Uni Osnabrück

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Gaurav Athreya @gauravathreya.bsky.social · Aug 2

The first author @tarunyumnam.bsky.social is here on bluesky!

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Richard Lenski @relenski.bsky.social · Jul 28

Homeward Bound! Yes, the #LTEE is homeward bound. After a few thousand generations in Texas, the lines are coming back to #MSU, along with Jeff Barrick, and his team. telliamedrevisited.wordpress.com/2025/07/28/h...

Homeword Bound

With apologies to Rhymin’ Simon

telliamedrevisited.wordpress.com

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Gaurav Athreya @gauravathreya.bsky.social · Jul 23

Thanks again to coauthors, @mpi-evolbio.bsky.social where I did most of this work, and I have to say also @asn-amnat.bsky.social for an incredibly thorough review process!