Geoff Wild

Doctoral Excellence Award Western University, in vibrant London, Ontario, delivers an academic and student experience second to none.

📣 Western U (London, Canada) has funding opportunities for PhD students feeling uneasy about studying in the US. We have launched a program for folks studying at, considering an offer from, or having lost an offer from a PhD program at a top-100 US university (QS or THE). grad.uwo.ca/finances/wes...

16.07.2025 19:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Introducing a New Article Type for The American Naturalist | The American Naturalist

We're super excited to introduce a new article category for @asn-amnat.bsky.social: Inspiring perspectives. In a nutshell, we want these articles to spark lively scientific debates that will inspire future research directions in biology. More info here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....

01.05.2025 14:49 — 👍 17    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 0

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

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...

11.04.2025 11:34 — 👍 15    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0

It was so great to have you both visit!

09.04.2025 13:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Profs David Coltman, Geoff Wild and Stuart West pose uncertainly in bold patterned shirts.

Thank you to everyone at University of Western Ontario, Department of Biology; especially David Coltman💋 and @geoffwild.bsky.social for hosting us on sabbatical. Crazy weather, crazy times: Never 51! 🇨🇦❤️ @stuwest.bsky.social

09.04.2025 13:12 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

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

17.02.2025 09:45 — 👍 22    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 0

PNAS Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

New paper with @tobykiers.bsky.social and @stuwest.bsky.social on whether plants send signals through fungal networks to warn other plants of impending attack – theory suggests unlikely.

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

21.01.2025 15:19 — 👍 18    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

Selective advantage of redirected helping in a viscous population Abstract. When a brood fails, the failed parent can help a neighbor rear its offspring. This behavior is known as redirected helping and occurs in various

My second paper, written with @geoffwild.bsky.social, has been published in @journal-evo.bsky.social
! Title: Selective advantage of redirected helping in a viscous population: doi.org/10.1093/evol....

05.01.2025 00:21 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

Title slide from Cortland Griswold's seminar. The slide reads, "Ancestral graph models and ecological communities." It also shows Griswold's affiliation with Integrative Biology at the University of Guelph (Canada).

Great day with our visitor from Integrative Biology at the @uofguelph.bsky.social, Cortland Griswold, who shared his work on ancestral graphs, pop gen, and community ecology.

29.11.2024 02:18 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

From the dining room table to the Galapagos If you are a biologist and spend your whole working life studying biology, surrounded by other biologists, you would be forgiven for not choosing to spend

Stuck for Christmas shopping ideas? Who wouldn't want to find Rosemary Grant's memoir under the tree? Read my review in Bioscience out this week tinyurl.com/m92tr7w9

07.11.2024 01:59 — 👍 9    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1

Faculty (UWOFA) Western University, in vibrant London, Ontario, delivers an academic and student experience second to none.

Any E&E folks with a strong interest in teaching and #SoTL consider joining a great group of Biologists at Western University. Consideration of applications for the 🚨 full-time faculty position🚨 begins Nov 15. www.uwo.ca/facultyrelat...

03.10.2024 14:32 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

At #ISBE2024 next week? Come see my first ever conference poster. (I'm cheating - it is a slight update of an awesome poster by @annadewar.bsky.social )

26.09.2024 07:53 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0