Adria LeBoeuf

Come join the @socialfluids.bsky.social lab in Cambridge to study the evolution of Socially Transferred Materials! Fun new HFSP project btwn UK, NL and Costa Rica! Deadline September 7th #Postdoc #JobAlert #Evolution #Bioinformatics #STM #socialfluids www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc... leboeuflab.com

It is great to hear and see the peaceful protests in France and all around the US ❤️ The world today is wrong in so many ways, especially for young people, women, people of color, artists, immigrants, knowledge workers and basically anyone who is not a billionaire. There is a lot to protest.

Brava! I love this. Especially when she relates it to the conversations she is having in public spaces.

Lovely heart-felt essay about neurodivergence, accommodations, support, empathy and growing up in this weird time

As a PhD student designing my first survey, I added what I thought was a throwaway question at the end. To my surprise, thousands of academics answered it! The paper is out today: doi.org/10.1093/pnas...

“…our investigations make abundantly clear that these attacks often align with a coordinated transnational networked agenda to supplant university leaders, stifle lines of scholarship and silence scientific discourse.”

Ants are incredible

Looks a lot like theory that can be applied to the evolution of #socialtransfers and #sociallytransferredmaterials Nice! @socialtransfernet.bsky.social ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

“This recent dump of papers on Tuesday destroyed the careers of early-career mathematicians. We've had whole research programs wiped out on Tuesday by their dump … they have all the mathematicians research programs in their training data” - Tristan Buckmaster on OpenAI solving unsolved math problems

1. CRISPR came from basic research on bacteria. 2. Optogenetics started with a discovery in algae. 3. The GFP protein comes from jellyfish. The biggest breakthroughs all trace to scientists following their curiosity, and this is one huge reason why we must keep funding basic research!

Great video explainer of the evolution of multicellularity. I look forward to reading the review! I think there are some important bits that haven’t been considered yet, and yes I need to write about them.

📢 We are pleased to announce the final session of the 2026 @cambridgeflyclub.bsky.social seminar series, taking place on the 7th of October at 4 PM in the Gurdon Institute tea room.

We have a new branch in the family tree of animals: Atreyea- a previously unrecognized lineage among the closest unicell relatives of animals. Led by @konsmitsi.bsky.social & @freejakoba.bsky.social together with a fantastic team of collaborators. 🔗 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... #protistsOnSky

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #Ants #Genomics 🐜

#lipidtime: It's a lipid universe. Today in Nature we publish the Lipid Brain Atlas, the first map of membrane lipid composition across the entire mouse brain, a layer of organisation that cell-type and transcript maps had left out. #lipidomics #neuroscience #BrainAtlas

Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends. The one person he told was a ProPublica reporter. (Published Jan. 2025)

pls note the bats have been carefully depicted HANGING FROM THEIR LITTLE BRANCHES on this radial phylogeny (bats drawn by Fiona Reid, whose portfolio is here --> fionareid.ca)

Ten years ago Tami, Roy, and I released a movie we made of antibiotic resistance evolving in real time. I thought maybe a couple thousand people tops would see it. I couldn't have imagined it would be seen millions of times, and be taught from middle school through the graduate level worldwide

This is interesting. You get assigned to being born at a random place and time in history, to see what a typical person's life might have been like then. Unfortunately I was born in 1403 in the valley of Mexico and died at age 4 from dysentery.

Great talks this morning at #ecbb2026 at our symposium on evolution and behavior around #sociallytransferredmaterials @socialtransfernet.bsky.social @elvarobinson.bsky.social @arthurmatte.bsky.social Kat Bebbington and Francisco Ruiz-Raya

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!

This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.

Cory Doctorow offers an explanation of what happens when machines give orders to people verses when people give orders to machines. (7/29/26) @doctorow.pluralistic.net

I saw a talk at SMBE by @joannamasel.bsky.social with the dual origins idea but coming from a perhaps different perspective. Super interesting!

#iussi26 #iussi2026 was such a pleasure. So many great talks, posters, friends and colleagues. #socialinsects ❤️ looking forward to Cape Town in 4 years!

I have been tasked by @markjfbrown.bsky.social with making sure that all social insect groups go up on the map. If for some inexplicable reason you're not yet on the map, be warned - I might ambush you in the IUSSI poster session 🤣 #IUSSI2026

#iussi2026 @joanstrassmann.bsky.social “if what you love changes, go with it” “there’s nothing worse than stopping enjoying what you do”

Useful understanding of the way US is underdeveloping itself: "Anti-vaccine sentiment is a lot like climate change denial ... follow the money ... follow the culture war" insidestory.org.au/the-rise-of-...

Great article about how research and mentoring are changing. Lots of food for thought!

The #LondonEvoDevo goes to Cambridge! Kindly hosted by @emiliapsantos.bsky.social, mark on your calendars *October 2nd* at the Main Theatre in the Department of Zoology (Cambridge). Registration (£0.00): docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F.... All welcome to present: #PI #PhD #PostDocs, submit abstracts!

New report highlights the urgent threat posed by contamination from "forever chemicals." Conservatively estimates that current levels of exposure to PFAs could cost approximately €440 billion by 2050 in the EU alone. environment.ec.europa.eu/news/new-stu...

As Britain swelters through another heatwave, few people will have heard that ministers have quietly dropped plans for solar carports. Cars cooler in summer. Shelter from the rain in winter. Clean electricity all year round. A missed opportunity? @eastangliabylines.co.uk

Biology is once again full of surprises most if us couldn’t dream up if we tried.

🎨 job alert 🐠 Come join us! We have two positions open! These are part of our @erc.europa.eu funded project on the mechanisms underpinning convergence of colour patterns in cichlid fishes! Closing date: 16th August. Postdoc: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc... Technician: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

Join our HFSP team on this amazing project! This will be an experimental postdoc position based in Amsterdam. There will be a more bioinformatic/evolutionary postdoc position based in Cambridge coming up soon. #socialfluids

If you’re thinking of applying for Senior Research Fellowships to be hosted at a UK university, check out our sponsorship scheme @camzoology.bsky.social Don’t contact me about the scheme, I won’t be able to help. Follow the instructions on the webpage instead 😉 www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/senior-...

Do you study #socialfluids? How do you see this network evolving? Join us tomorrow!

Just had an absolutely fantastic #HFSPmtg2026. Such fun science! So diverse! My favorite part though was that most everyone I met was just so curious, joyful and enthusiastic with each their own unique view on the natural world.

“I’ve often been told to narrow focus and specialise. But I believe my role in science is to connect different systems and synthesise across them. The fact that HFSP funds this blue‑sky, integrative science means the world to me.” Thank you @hfspo.bsky.social www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/news/egg-yol...

Interested in a postdoc position? Olfaction in poison frog tadpoles! Based in Germany with some field work in Costa Rica (bilateral funding, 3 years). Please share with your froggie and neuro/behavior contacts 🐸 www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...

At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/

On Friday I went and spoke to a class of 7 year olds about ants and flying ant day and this weekend, as if on cue, the Lasius flew en masse at the school’s summer fete. I had an army of motivated kids joyously helping me collect queens ❤️