scientist, writer, rider, swordfighter. studying microbial eco-evo, experimental evolution, and microbial community interactions. she/her. 🏳️🌈.
Joined March 2015
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18 Apr 2024
Excited to announce our lovely new website showcasing the experimental evolution work with Myxococcus xanthus, a social and predatory soil bacterium. It's a great resource for anyone interested in microbial ecology/evolution or social evolution: myxoee.org
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12 Mar 2024
This is fascinating- same paper sent out to huge pool of reviewers under different names. 23% recommended “reject” when a prominent researcher was the only author shown, 48% when the paper was anonymized, and 65% when a little-known author was the only author shown
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29 Jan 2024
Why is microbial ecology the worst of all scales? Microbiologists don't have to ask how trophic chains influence community structure. Ecologists don't have to ask how sensory signal cascades influence single-cell gene regulatory changes. (And why do I still love it so much?)
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9 Jan 2024
Enjoying the first day of talks @MEEhubs 24 virtual! So grateful I don't have to travel 🙏
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8 Jan 2024
Check out my new preprint on how resource history impacts cheating and facultative exploitation in Myxococcus xanthus!
Ecological histories determine the success of social exploitation biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
with an AI summary: sciencecast.org/casts/paevzn…
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28 Sep 2023
Registration is now open for the 2024 Predator-Prey Interactions Gordon Research Conference and Seminar! If you are an early-career researcher, make sure to apply for both meetings (GRC GRS, which is specifically for ECRs). Links in the following tweet:
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15 Sep 2023
What I see vs what my bacteria see 🧫
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29 Aug 2023
Lovely trip to Nohoval Cove after #MENI2023 I will definitely be coming back to Ireland!
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1 Aug 2023
I hate it so much. What are "tweets" supposed to be called now? Please help.
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3 May 2023
Verifying myself: I am kaschaal on Keybase.io. lnXS-A9iUdxF1c82MZgQDocabOfqBlCY_ZFt / keybase.io/kaschaal/sigs/lnX…
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9 Jan 2023
We are looking for a motivated PostDoc to study with us how the metabolic and physiological states of bacteria influence their susceptibility to chemical compounds
jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stelle…
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3 Oct 2022
🆕 I’m recruiting a postdoc! This is for a new @The_MRC project with @UKHSA and @jymaillard, looking at Pseudomonas evolution, ecology, and horizontal gene transfer in the hospital sink drain microbiome. Deadline 28th October. 🧵
my.corehr.com/pls/ulivrecrui…
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22 Aug 2022
Check out our new preprint about how antagonistic pleiotropy isn't the only type of pleiotropy relevant for microbial cheaters!
Antagonistic, synergistic, and social pleiotropy in microbial cheaters biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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23 Jun 2022
Successfully defended my thesis on "Ecology and Evolution in Microbial Food Webs" 🥳🥳
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23 Jun 2022
Successfully defended my PhD! 🥳 In the same week, learned that my last round of fellowship applications all failed 😅 If you know of any cool funded postdocs in microbial eco-eco, predator-prey, adaptation to changing env, please send them my way 🤗
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17 May 2022
I'm happy for feedback on my first solo review! Microbes can be useful tools for predator-prey biologists; this is meant to be an intro primer on the major system.
13 May 2022
Microbial Models for the Evolution of Predator-Prey Interactions preprints.org/manuscript/202… #BioPreprints #PreprintsOrg @evokait
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14 Mar 2022
Another remarkable example of tool use in ants: fire ants “paving” sticky surfaces. I’ve seen signs of this behavior, but I didn’t expect it to be so robust until my friend told me about it (Wang et al., 2021 Insect Science).
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