Petrullo et al. in the Sweeny Lab at the University of Edinburgh argue that host-associated microbiomes can dynamically alter the allocation of resources among growth, maintenance, and reproduction, potentially reshaping fundamental life history trade-offs in hosts.
Trends in Ecology & Evolution
www.cell.com
September 13, 2026 at 1:05 AM
Just so my enemies understand
While you were wasting time in school
I was studying the blade
Now it’s time for some game theory
While you were wasting time in school
I was studying the blade
Now it’s time for some game theory
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July 10, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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#EnergyNetworkScience
#Math #Physics #Software
I have this private schema that I have never offered up for scrutiny that biology is information contained in life, culture is information created by life, and technology is information contained in things created by life.
I think it’s time…please scrutinize…
I think it’s time…please scrutinize…
June 9, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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#CollectiveUnconscious
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Life > death.
Love > hate.
Evolution is sometimes unbearably slow and messy but it happens.
Today, there are dinosaurs and neandertals walking the planet but their time will pass.
Love > hate.
Evolution is sometimes unbearably slow and messy but it happens.
Today, there are dinosaurs and neandertals walking the planet but their time will pass.
January 30, 2025 at 4:28 PM
The cleverness of evolution is a miracle to me
Bizarre and cool
Flies have stolen the gene encoding a toxin from bacteria and deployed it to survive predation by parasitic wasps, which in some flies can turn half of all fly larvae into surrogate wombs for baby wasps
@nkwhiteman.bsky.social lab at UC Berkeley recapitulates this in Drosophila.
Flies have stolen the gene encoding a toxin from bacteria and deployed it to survive predation by parasitic wasps, which in some flies can turn half of all fly larvae into surrogate wombs for baby wasps
@nkwhiteman.bsky.social lab at UC Berkeley recapitulates this in Drosophila.
December 25, 2024 at 3:30 PM
Darwin will win in the end.
November 4, 2024 at 1:27 PM
The heart wants what the heart wants. The stomach wants what the stomach wants. The head? Also very demanding. Face it. Our bodies are selfish pricks.
February 5, 2024 at 12:56 AM
Actually, they are probably the 4th generation. Just clarification.
November 18, 2023 at 2:58 AM
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September 24, 2023 at 2:55 PM
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September 24, 2023 at 2:54 PM
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