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The Social Fluids Lab

@socialfluids.bsky.social

We study socially transferred materials, metabolic division of labour, and the evolution of cooperation. Mostly ants, sometimes microbes, sometimes vertebrates. PI = @adriatica.bsky.social, Lab is @camzoology.bsky.social at University of Cambridge.

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Adria LeBoeuf@adriatica.bsky.social · 4w ago

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!

Adria LeBoeuf@adriatica.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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

Adria LeBoeuf@adriatica.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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

Research Associate (Fixed Term)

A Research Associate position is available in the Social Fluids Lab, led by Dr. Adria LeBoeuf, in the Department of Zoology. The post is funded by a new 3-year international Human Frontier Science Pro...

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Adria LeBoeuf@adriatica.bsky.social · 8mo ago

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.

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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Navin Pokala 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱@navinpokala.bsky.social · last yr.

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

Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · last yr.

RFK Jr's "MAHA" report is filled with references to studies that literally do not exist, or that completely misinterpret the studies' findings. “We did not publish a paper.. on this topic with that co-author group, or with that title,” says one cited researcher. www.notus.org/health-scien...

European Commission@ec.europa.eu · last yr.

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

A graphic for the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA), showing a historical portrait of Marie Skłodowska-Curie overlaid with an image of four young researchers walking down a hallway. The European Commission logo is in the top left. Text reads: "Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions – €404.3 million to support postdoctoral researchers”
The Social Fluids Lab@socialfluids.bsky.social · last yr.

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...

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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