The Social Fluids Lab
@socialfluids.bsky.social
We study socially transferred materials, metabolic division of labour, and the evolution of cooperation. Mostly ants, sometimes microbes, sometimes vertebrates.
PI = @adriatica.bsky.social, Lab is @camzoology.bsky.social at University of Cambridge.
PI = @adriatica.bsky.social, Lab is @camzoology.bsky.social at University of Cambridge.
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A stochastic ratchet during genome streamlining can commit insect endosymbionts to a parasitic or mutualistic fate
Many arthropods, including insects, harbor endosymbiotic bacteria. As bacteria transitioned to live inside host cells, free-living bacterial ancestors of endosymbionts reduced their genomes in a proce...
doi.org
Hello World! The Social Fluids Lab as arrived.
☀️Come to the Socially Transferred Materials symposium at #ESEB2025 in August.
Read our preprints: 🦠 doi.org/10.1101/2025...
& 🪲 doi.org/10.1101/2024...
OR recent papers: 🐜 🍼 doi.org/10.1073/pnas... & 🐜🌱 doi.org/10.1038/s420...
☀️Come to the Socially Transferred Materials symposium at #ESEB2025 in August.
Read our preprints: 🦠 doi.org/10.1101/2025...
& 🪲 doi.org/10.1101/2024...
OR recent papers: 🐜 🍼 doi.org/10.1073/pnas... & 🐜🌱 doi.org/10.1038/s420...
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Made it to Barcelona for #ESEB2025! Really looking forward to:
• Internal Conflicts STN workshop tomorrow
• The STN @socialtransfernet.bsky.social Symposium and get together on Thursday!
Come for #socialfluids, #IGEs, #behavior & #innovation, stay for the overwhelming awesomeness.
(1/3)
• Internal Conflicts STN workshop tomorrow
• The STN @socialtransfernet.bsky.social Symposium and get together on Thursday!
Come for #socialfluids, #IGEs, #behavior & #innovation, stay for the overwhelming awesomeness.
(1/3)
August 16, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Made it to Barcelona for #ESEB2025! Really looking forward to:
• Internal Conflicts STN workshop tomorrow
• The STN @socialtransfernet.bsky.social Symposium and get together on Thursday!
Come for #socialfluids, #IGEs, #behavior & #innovation, stay for the overwhelming awesomeness.
(1/3)
• Internal Conflicts STN workshop tomorrow
• The STN @socialtransfernet.bsky.social Symposium and get together on Thursday!
Come for #socialfluids, #IGEs, #behavior & #innovation, stay for the overwhelming awesomeness.
(1/3)
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🚨 Exciting news for #ESEB2025!
Join us in Barcelona for our symposium:
Cooperation, Conflict & the Evolution of Socially Transferred Materials (S08)
📅 Thursday, 21 Aug 2025
🕥 10:30–12:30 | 🕔 17:00–19:00 (Poster Session)
Join us in Barcelona for our symposium:
Cooperation, Conflict & the Evolution of Socially Transferred Materials (S08)
📅 Thursday, 21 Aug 2025
🕥 10:30–12:30 | 🕔 17:00–19:00 (Poster Session)
August 13, 2025 at 8:36 AM
🚨 Exciting news for #ESEB2025!
Join us in Barcelona for our symposium:
Cooperation, Conflict & the Evolution of Socially Transferred Materials (S08)
📅 Thursday, 21 Aug 2025
🕥 10:30–12:30 | 🕔 17:00–19:00 (Poster Session)
Join us in Barcelona for our symposium:
Cooperation, Conflict & the Evolution of Socially Transferred Materials (S08)
📅 Thursday, 21 Aug 2025
🕥 10:30–12:30 | 🕔 17:00–19:00 (Poster Session)
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🌐 Welcome to the Social Transfer Network (STN) on Bluesky! We’re an interdisciplinary community exploring how materials/signals (from molecules to microbes) transfer between individuals and shape health, behavior, and evolution. #STM
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doi.org
July 22, 2025 at 12:03 PM
🌐 Welcome to the Social Transfer Network (STN) on Bluesky! We’re an interdisciplinary community exploring how materials/signals (from molecules to microbes) transfer between individuals and shape health, behavior, and evolution. #STM
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As a professor, I can confidently attest that a reliable hallmark of AI-written term papers are messed-up citations:
RFK Jr's "MAHA" report is filled with references to studies that literally do not exist, or that completely misinterpret the studies' findings.
“We did not publish a paper.. on this topic with that co-author group, or with that title,” says one cited researcher.
www.notus.org/health-scien...
“We did not publish a paper.. on this topic with that co-author group, or with that title,” says one cited researcher.
www.notus.org/health-scien...
The MAHA Report Cites Studies That Don’t Exist
The Trump administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” report misinterprets some studies and cites others that don’t exist, according to the listed authors.
www.notus.org
May 29, 2025 at 4:55 PM
As a professor, I can confidently attest that a reliable hallmark of AI-written term papers are messed-up citations:
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Choose Science. Choose Europe.
A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open.
With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond.
Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF
A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open.
With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond.
Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF
May 8, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Choose Science. Choose Europe.
A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open.
With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond.
Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF
A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open.
With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond.
Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF
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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
doi.org/10.1093/evol...
@journal-evo.bsky.social #Image: #ChatGPT #Evolution #OA
May 7, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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
doi.org/10.1093/evol...
@journal-evo.bsky.social #Image: #ChatGPT #Evolution #OA
Hello World! The Social Fluids Lab as arrived.
☀️Come to the Socially Transferred Materials symposium at #ESEB2025 in August.
Read our preprints: 🦠 doi.org/10.1101/2025...
& 🪲 doi.org/10.1101/2024...
OR recent papers: 🐜 🍼 doi.org/10.1073/pnas... & 🐜🌱 doi.org/10.1038/s420...
☀️Come to the Socially Transferred Materials symposium at #ESEB2025 in August.
Read our preprints: 🦠 doi.org/10.1101/2025...
& 🪲 doi.org/10.1101/2024...
OR recent papers: 🐜 🍼 doi.org/10.1073/pnas... & 🐜🌱 doi.org/10.1038/s420...
A stochastic ratchet during genome streamlining can commit insect endosymbionts to a parasitic or mutualistic fate
Many arthropods, including insects, harbor endosymbiotic bacteria. As bacteria transitioned to live inside host cells, free-living bacterial ancestors of endosymbionts reduced their genomes in a proce...
doi.org
May 7, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Hello World! The Social Fluids Lab as arrived.
☀️Come to the Socially Transferred Materials symposium at #ESEB2025 in August.
Read our preprints: 🦠 doi.org/10.1101/2025...
& 🪲 doi.org/10.1101/2024...
OR recent papers: 🐜 🍼 doi.org/10.1073/pnas... & 🐜🌱 doi.org/10.1038/s420...
☀️Come to the Socially Transferred Materials symposium at #ESEB2025 in August.
Read our preprints: 🦠 doi.org/10.1101/2025...
& 🪲 doi.org/10.1101/2024...
OR recent papers: 🐜 🍼 doi.org/10.1073/pnas... & 🐜🌱 doi.org/10.1038/s420...