Thrilled to share this pre-print from an exciting collaboration with @bnashby.bsky.social, @asherleeks.bsky.social and @bramvandijk.bsky.social! Viral cheats that emerge through social evolution, under vertical transmission as proviruses, become defense systems to their hosts.

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New preprint from our lab, with @sultannazir.bsky.social! 🚨 Defense systems in pro- and eukaryotes are often derived from the very parasites they now defend against. Here we show how this all starts with the emergence of cheaters in parasite populations! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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We moesten een filmpje opnemen in het grote-dieren-depot. Elke kans om daar een selfie te maken grijp ik aan.

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Windswept trees, moors & barns - a look at a collection of my observational pencil sketches and drawings from my sketchbook ✍️ Hand-drawn and created with pencil and paper ✏️ 📖 #pencildrawing #sketchbook #worksonpaper #traditionalart #observationaldrawing

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Pleased that the second paper from my PhD is now out at ISME Comms @isme-microbes.bsky.social 🦠🧫 We looked at how bacteria-phage interactions are obscured by the host environment by injecting 4,608 Galleria mellonella larvae with 64 diverse Staphylococcaceae isolates +/- the phage ISP... 🧵 1/4

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