The Social Fluids Lab

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.

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.

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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)

🌐 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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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...

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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...

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...