Ashleigh Griffin

This is well-deserved @karenlloyd.bsky.social book Intraterrestrials is absolutely brilliant - made me realise how little I actually knew about biology! 🙃

So well deserved! One of the best science books I’ve read ❤️

New paper showing that bacteria with more genes for cooperation can live in a broader range of habitats and that genes for cooperation are more more likely to be in the accessory genome www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... @lauriebelch.bsky.social

Sounds perfect apart from the bit about Endnote. Zotero all the way!

This week's EGI seminar will be given by Prof Hanna Kokko @kokkonut.bsky.social from Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz @unimainz.bsky.social on the role of time in avian trade-offs. All welcome in person in LT1 in LaMB @biology.ox.ac.uk 3.30pm on 6 March. Also live-streamed: details available ⬇️

Thank you to ISBE for inviting me to present this paper in 2024 in Melbourne and to my fellow delegates for inspiration and encouragement to put it down in print. @isbe2026.bsky.social

Why and how to study adaptation in invisible things. A follow up from @asgriffin.bsky.social 's talk at the 2024 @isbe2026.bsky.social meeting
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Studying adaptation at the invisible scale | PNAS In order to understand adaptation by natural selection, it is necessary to observe organisms in their natural habitat. For this reason, the field o...

Thank you to Doug Emlen and Matthias Fischer for the wonderful images we used in this figure, illustrating the parallels of studying adaptation across scales of visibility: scarab beetles and giant viruses www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... @stuwest.bsky.social

Studying adaptation at the invisible scale | PNAS In order to understand adaptation by natural selection, it is necessary to observe organisms in their natural habitat. For this reason, the field o...

How to study adaptation in organisms that we can’t see, living in environments that we can’t visit? Some thoughts in our perspective piece out today in @pnas.org www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... @biology.ox.ac.uk @stuwest.bsky.social

🚨JOB alert🚨

We have three (yes, THREE) 🌟lectureships🌟 advertised in the School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol.

Broad remit, including #AnimalBehaviour & #GlobalChangeBiology

⏱️Deadline: 8th March 2026
🙏Please circulate widely

😊Come join us!

Full #job details: tinyurl.com/y3us95rc

So nice to see this coming out (nearly). It always feels special to publish in @asn-amnat.bsky.social. Such classy formatting.. brings me back to scanning every new paper edition cover-to-cover as soon as it came out when we students. Congratulations again @stuwest.bsky.social on your ASN Award!

How insects’ sex is determined is unlikely to be what makes them so social

Does haplodiploidy - a method of sex determination seen in bees and ants among other animals - promote eusociality?

New research from @rbonifacii.bsky.social and @stuwest.bsky.social enters evidence into this long debate that - despite popular belief - this is not the case 👇
bit.ly/4qEoEWm

I'm hiring a technician! www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

An 80% role in a 4-yr BBSRC project and hopefully beyond. Looking for someone to support the @socialfluids.bsky.social 🧪our ants 🐜 and our projects.

Looking for someone kind + conscientious + reliable who takes pride in a job well done.

Thanks to @ryosukeiritani.bsky.social and iTHEMS @RIKEN for hosting us while we were working on this manuscript. 🙏🏽🇯🇵❤️🇬🇧

the evolutionary and ecological consequences of cooperation

the evolutionary and ecological consequences of cooperation

Huge thanks to @asn-amnat.bsky.social for inviting our review on the evolutionary and ecological consequences of cooperation. @annadewar.bsky.social @asgriffin.bsky.social @lauriebelch.bsky.social www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Eusociality has independently evolved in multiple arthropod lineages

Eusociality has independently evolved in multiple arthropod lineages

Comparative analysis across 5,678 insect species shows that, when you control for phylogenetic bias, eusociality has not evolved at a faster rate in haplodiploid species. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

The diversity of nationalities on our Ecology Masterclass field course has captured the imagination of TikTok viewers. This video by Betty – a student from Kenya - has just reached 100k views!

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@britishecologicalsociety.org ; @mpalarc.bsky.social

As proud members of the TBA @biology.ox.ac.uk students are eligible for a discount. Strongly encourage anyone interested in tropical biology and conservation to apply.

Yes, I realised that and couldn’t work out how to change. 😬 However, the cringe-factor of comparing himself to Einstein remains…

Gross

Looking forward to seeing it with you!

Strange discovery that an email about inclusive fitness was forwarded to Jeffrey Epstein, with the emailer quoting Jerusalem and comparing themself to Einstein. Are you one of the >100 evolutionary biologists now in the Epstein files? www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

Gonna borrow this for my next response to rejection letter..

“127. einstein only got 100.

Bring me my bow of burning gold
Bring me my arrows of desire
Bring me my spear - oh clouds unfold
Bring me my chariot of fire”

Simon KA Robson

I know! And MN’s response to criticism is to compare his IQ with Einstein, like an insecure schoolboy…

Text: Society for the Study of Evolution Graduate Research Excellence Grants, Rosemary Grant Advanced Award, 2025 Recipients: Diego Beltran, Josh Felton, Brian Kirz, Stephen Kupchella, Hossein Madhani, Catherine Ogoma, Gabriel Priesing, Yanã Rizzieri, Juliana Rodriguez Fuentes, Wyatt Toure, Hannah Walton.

Congratulations to the recipients of the 2025 Rosemary Grant Advanced Awards!
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Good to know that Martin Nowak was keeping Jeffrey Epstein abreast of developments in our field www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

Audience sitting down during a talk

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I made this for my interview with Dr. Juliet Turner. Video is out soon!

@natecoevo.nature.com making this free to read in front of the paywall for a month. Thanks guys!