Will Ratcliff

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17 October 2026 12:02

I was just reflecting on our field, and how cool it is that we just had a big review come out last week and ALREADY I am feeling like a new one needs to be written to include this brilliant recent work. The world has its problems, but it's still a great time to be an evolutionary biologist.

Will Ratcliff

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16 October 2026 09:26

1/ There are a ton of cool papers coming out on evolutionary transitions in individuality right now! Here are five recent ones I've really enjoyed, spanning Snowball Earth, volvocine algae, plasmids that fuse into a new individual, the relatives of animals, and... water kefir

Chaucer Doth Tweet

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14 October 2026 10:56

Brief, powirful, unforgettable - plese repost & share: "Do we acknowledge the necessity of the Humanities—history, art, literature, and all those things that make us human—or, do we fall prey to their erasure by those who benefit the most from them?" rolandbetancourt.substack.com/p/humanities...

Sophien Kamoun

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14 October 2026 10:45

The dismantling of USAID did not cause the Ebola outbreak, but it weakened disease surveillance, compromised early detection and undermined the capacity to contain outbreaks. Global health infrastructure is not charity. It is an investment in our collective security. www.kff.org/global-healt...

Florent Waltz

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05 October 2026 11:01

Huge congratulations to all three Nobel Laureates, and especially Peter Hegemann! 👏 His seminal work on the green alga Chlamydomonas 🦠 laid the foundation for optogenetics. Thank you for putting Chlamy in the spotlight! ✨ Proof that groundbreaking discoveries don't always come from animal models! 🔬