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Ming Liu

@mingpapilio.bsky.social
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Postdoc at Oxford with Kevin Foster | PhD from West group | Theoretical Biologist | Eco-evolutionary dynamics, microbial communities, cooperation, and fluctuating selection mingpapilio.github.io

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Ming Liu @mingpapilio.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
New paper is out! Disease is often seen as a cost of social life. But can it also shape how complex societies evolve? Here, we use mathematical models to study social immunity: collective disease defence in ants, termites, bees and other group-living insects. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Ming Liu @mingpapilio.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
It was a pleasure to do some cool modelling with this fascinating brood parasite system, check it out on PLoS Biol!
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Ming Liu @mingpapilio.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
How do temperature regimes shape trait diversity in communities? Does variability promote more specialists or more generalists? Our new Nature Communications paper tackles this with eco-evo simulations + 653 moth species across latitudinal and elevational gradients. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Warmer environments harbor greater thermal trait diversity in moth assemblages - Nature Communications
Climate limits where insects can live and which species can coexist. Using thermal tolerances of 653 moths on Asian mountains, this study shows warmer temperatures broaden thermal tolerance traits div...
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Ben Jenkins @benkinsjenkins.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
@mingpapilio.bsky.social shaking up evolutionary theory at #eseb2025 Models linking species diversity with ecological stability may not be as straightforward as we thought! Amazing talk
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Ming Liu @mingpapilio.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Excited to see our latest work published on GEB! We comprehensively compared various environmental predictability measures, their impact on statistical analyses and their global patterns 🤩
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uclcber.bsky.social @uclcber.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
A couple of weeks ago Dr Ming Liu from Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford gave a very insightful External CBER Seminar on ‘Warmer environments harbor greater thermal trait diversity’ @mingpapilio.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @dunnschool.bsky.socia
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Ming Liu @mingpapilio.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
[Postdoc opportunities] Are you interested in (1) gut microbiome competition, or (2)developing vaccines to suppress bacterial pathogens? Join us at Oxford! www.fosterlab.uk/vacancies
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