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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/...

It was a pleasure to do some cool modelling with this fascinating brood parasite system, check it out on PLoS Biol!

How do temperature regimes shape trait diversity in communities? Does variability promote more specialists or more generalists? Our new Nature Communications paper tackles this with eco-evo simulations + 653 moth species across latitudinal and elevational gradients. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Warmer environments harbor greater thermal trait diversity in moth assemblages - Nature CommunicationsClimate limits where insects can live and which species can coexist. Using thermal tolerances of 653 moths on Asian mountains, this study shows warmer temperatures broaden thermal tolerance traits div...www.nature.com

Excited to see our latest work published on GEB! We comprehensively compared various environmental predictability measures, their impact on statistical analyses and their global patterns 🤩

[Postdoc opportunities] Are you interested in (1) gut microbiome competition, or (2)developing vaccines to suppress bacterial pathogens? Join us at Oxford! www.fosterlab.uk/vacancies