Finding your niche

And NUH is the letter I use to spell Nutches  Who live in small caves, known as Niches, for hutches. These Nutches have troubles, the biggest of which is  The fact there are many more Nutches than Niches. Each Nutch in a Nich knows that some other Nutch Would like to...

Parasites inside your body could be protecting you from disease

It’s fair to say parasites are generally bad for their hosts. Many cause disease and death so, like most species, we humans usually try to avoid infection at all costs. But it turns out that some parasites, although potentially harmful in isolation, can in fact help...

Guest blog for Retraction Watch

Following my tweets on the Kokko & Wong (2007) retraction story which generated a fair amount of interest, Retraction Watch invited me to blog about my role as a reviewer in this saga: “The decision by the journal Evolution to retract a 2007 paper after one...

Guest blog for Sunday Assembly Bristol

Last weekend, the nice people at Sunday Assembly Bristol invited me to give a talk about Asking for Evidence. I followed this up with a guest blog on their site, which I’ve reproduced below: “Not a day goes by without supposedly scientific claims being made...

Guest blog for iScience

I recently wrote the following guest blog for iScience about my recent paper in PNAS on the co-evolution of host mating strategies and parasite virulence