englishse.bsky.social
Interested in early-life and parental effects, climate change, infectious diseases. Likes insects, theory and comparative studies. Professor of Life History Evolution & Wuebben Fellow, JGU Mainz Leads EVE lab www.evelab.org Academic mama, from Zimbabwe
👤 Joined on 15 November 2023
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@englishse.bsky.socialI didn't even realize that partner ads in local news papers were still a thing. What can I say: with the patchy internet coverage in southern Bavaria, online dating isn't for everyone.
Show PostHome office day with my son, who was sick today. He invented a game: coloring in all letters in the local news paper. Great. Gave me 2h to review a proposal. At dinner he's listing all the local 60 yo folks looking for partners, including names, jobs and hobbies. Whoops 🤭. Different game tomorrow.
Show PostApplications due Thursday for the International Event Grants! These grants support symposia, workshops, courses, and other evolutionary biology events, including virtual events. Learn more and apply now: shorturl.at/ru0lG
Show PostNew paper in Theoretical Population Biology with Laurent Lehmann: “Life history evolution and uninvadable mortality schedules with and without intergenerational energy transfers” 🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Show PostExcited to see our work out in @pnas.org! We asked how mobile genetic elements generate functional diversity in symbionts and found a plasmid that protects aphids from lethal pathogens, helping to explain variation in defence across natural aphid populations. See @ben-parker.bsky.social thread👇
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