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Adria LeBoeuf @adriatica.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

There are a couple more days to apply for this postdoc role in the @socialfluids.bsky.social lab: we are looking for a computational biologist interested in how socially transferred proteins evolve. Is this you? Apply! Make sure to address all the criteria in your application!

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Adria LeBoeuf @adriatica.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

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.

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Research Laboratory Technician (Part Time, Fixed Term)

An 80% FTE Research Technician position is available in the Social Fluids Laboratory, led by Dr Adria LeBoeuf, in the Department of Zoology at the University of Cambridge. This position is part of a

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Adria LeBoeuf @adriatica.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

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. (1/3)

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Social Transfer Network @socialtransfernet.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

🚨 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)

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Social Transfer Network @socialtransfernet.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

🌐 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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Navin Pokala 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱 @navinpokala.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

As a professor, I can confidently attest that a reliable hallmark of AI-written term papers are messed-up citations:

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European Commission @ec.europa.eu · 08/05/2025

Choose Science. Choose Europe. A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open. With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond. Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF

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Andy Gardner @andygardner.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

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... @journal-evo.bsky.social #Image: #ChatGPT #Evolution #OA

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The Social Fluids Lab @socialfluids.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

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...

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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...

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