New preprint from our lab www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...! Andrea Dos Santos and Clément Vulin combine experiments and models showing how adding glucose can strengthen negative interactions between microbial species. This can be used in tandem with antibiotic treatment to inhibit pathogens!

Tony Burnetti and I recorded this super fun podcast in which we rank evolution's craziest adaptations. I think it turned out great! I might make this an exercise for one of my final evolution lectures next time I teach (dynamically rank / debate in class!).

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSum...

#ThursdayThoughts I will never understand the hate theoretical biophysicists have for students with a biology background trying to do theory. "You will never be able to do theory," is something I have heard very often from them.

We just released a new major version of TrackMate (v8), the cell and organelle tracking plugin of Fiji.

It ships many new features, detailed below, but that are articulated around the following:

Dang, hard disagree. The best papers to write and read are works of art, not merely a list of data and statements.

Don’t let LLMs take this away too, for gods sake.

Interesting cancer grand challenges just announced. Funders looking for interdisciplinary & international teams. I'm an outsider, but fascinated that some of them have clear eco-evo cell-population dynamical component.

finance.yahoo.com/news/cancer-...
@cancergrand.bsky.social @cancerresearchuk.org

Do you want to #model quantitative trait #evolution? Do you like #SPDEs? Happy to say my first solo author paper, now out in Theoretical Population Biology, is about just this! Check it out here:

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

I'm super proud of this y'all :')

#scisky 🧪 🧬 #mathsky #physics

What if, instead of sampling hundreds of phages, we could just make the right ones glow? Enter Phage Discovery by Co-culture (Phage DisCo)! Simply, this method combines two strains: a wildtype and a modified strain, each fluorescently tagged. Now, fluorescent signal will mark plaques of interest. 3/

Phages! At the Disco!

Here's Ellie (the first author's) thread on our new preprint on how to discover weird new phages using glowing bacteria:

I recently resurrected my website and added a space for me to dump all my harebrained ideas out into the void in case someone else with more free time stumbles upon them and wants a free harebrained idea. Anyway, here's one. magaro.net/cressida/por...

Incredible graphic - the myriad of ways that bacteria defend themselves against antibiotics.

14 resistance mechanisms, summarised by Idan Yelin & Roy Kishony in Cell

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

Geometriphylogenetics xkcd.com/3010

Hi #SciSky I am a BS-MS student at IISER Thiruvananthapuram interested in microbial #evolution, evolution of #multicellularity, genome evolution, theoretical evobio and bioinformatics. Currently a student in the lab of @yashrajchavhan.bsky.social to understand more about evolution & multicellularity