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Tom Scott

@tomwscott.bsky.social

Evolutionary theory, cooperation, conflict. U. Oxford https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=2YZbCPwAAAAJ&hl=en

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Stu West@stuwest.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Social insects tackle pathogens with behaviours like grooming and the removal of infected individuals. These behaviours facilitate the evolution of larger more complex societies. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... @mingpapilio.bsky.social @georgeshillcock.bsky.social @tomwscott.bsky.social

Social immunity can be a consequence and cause of social evolution | PNAS

Many social insects respond to pathogens in ways that reduce pathogen transmission within their social groups, with behaviors such as grooming or r...

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Ming Liu@mingpapilio.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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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Amy Leedale@amyleedale.bsky.social · 2y ago

I'm excited to share our review on the #Evolution of kin discrimination, out now in @annualreviews.bsky.social! We aim to showcase the breadth of #KinRecognition mechanisms across diverse taxa, and explore life-history and ecological processes that promote #KinDiscrimination. doi.org/10.1146/annu...

The Evolution of Kin Discrimination Across the Tree of Life | Annual Reviews

Kin discrimination, the differential treatment of conspecifics based on kinship, occurs across the tree of life, from animals to plants to fungi to bacteria. When kin and nonkin interact, the ability ...

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Tom Scott@tomwscott.bsky.social · 2y ago

Write-up of our new paper on information transfer in plant-fungal networks: "Study shows plants are more likely to be ‘eavesdroppers’ than altruists when tapping into underground networks". www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-01... @tobykiers.bsky.social @stuwest.bsky.social

Study shows plants are more likely to be ‘eavesdroppers’ than

A new study led by the University of Oxford has used a modelling approach to show that it is unlikely that plants would evolve to warn other plants of impending attack. Instead of using their

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Stu West@stuwest.bsky.social · 2y ago

Evolutionary theory suggests that plants are unlikely to warn other plants about herbivore attack, via routes such as shared fungal networks (the 'wood wide web'). www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... @tobykiers.bsky.social @tomwscott.bsky.social

The evolution of signaling and monitoring in plant–fungal networks | PNAS

Experiments have shown that when one plant is attacked by a pathogen or herbivore, this can lead to other plants connected to the same mycorrhizal ...

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