Check out this special feature of #ProcB edited by @bkoskella @gut_health and me. Thanks to the authors for their excellent article contributions - and all articles are #freetoread. Hopefully there is something of interest for all #microbiome researchers here @RSocPublishing

Application of ecological and evolutionary theory to microbiome community dynamics across systems | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences https://t.co/LzzUDDE7Qg @jamesemcdonald
@gut_health
@bkoskella
@RSocPublishing
Transmission efficiency drives host–microbe associations | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences https://t.co/bBdGS1XdTo
@PhilipLeftwich
Matthew P. Edgington
and Tracey Chapman
Host–microbiota–insect interactions drive emergent virulence in a complex tree disease | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences https://t.co/RpwpxgHgY4
@clydeandforth1
Martin Broberg
Sandra Denman
@jamesemcdonald
A game theory model for gut bacterial nutrient utilization strategies during human infancy | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences https://t.co/o3kIzv0ZbR
Inga Leena Angell
Knut Rudi
Disruption of cross-feeding interactions by invading taxa can cause invasional meltdown in microbial communities | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences https://t.co/DXxkyswaBn
@CristinaHerren
The role of the gut microbiome in sustainable teleost aquaculture | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences https://t.co/9zNtdIj4hp
@WillPerryMEFGL
Elle Lindsay, Christopher James Payne, Christopher Brodie and Raminta Kazlauskaite
A bird's-eye view of phylosymbiosis: weak signatures of phylosymbiosis among all 15 species of cranes | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences https://t.co/k4dfmPTXkS
@BrianTrevelline Jahree Sosa, Barry K. Hartup and
@KevinDKohl
An introduction to phylosymbiosis | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences https://t.co/Tqgf5HEur3
Shen Jean Lim and @Symbionticism
Microbial and volatile profiling of soils suppressive to Fusarium culmorum of wheat | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences https://t.co/wsqe2KT5c0
Adam Ossowicki, Vittorio Tracanna, Marloes Petrus, @GillesvanWezel Jos Raaijmakers, Marnix Medema @PaolinaGarbeva
Into the wild: microbiome transplant studies need broader ecological reality | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences https://t.co/JGRDh76HWt
@cgreysongaito, Timothy Bartley, Karl Cottenie, Will Jarvis, @Newman_lab and @M_Stothart
Microbial evolution and ecological opportunity in the gut environment | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences https://t.co/m1FJRZcgmJ
@PaulineDScanlan
It's what's on the inside that counts: stress physiology and the bacterial microbiome of a wild urban mammal | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences https://t.co/0flhlcEii0
@M_Stothart
Rupert Palme
@Newman_lab
Sorry if I missed any authors' Twitter handle - please tag them in!
Big thanks also to the manuscript reviewers for their insightful and helpful comments, and @RSocPublishing for their excellent support. Please consider #ProcB or the other @RSocPublishing journals for your next #microbiome #microbiology submission!

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Hugh Everett's birthday! Pioneer of the Many-Worlds Interpretation of quantum mechanics. Let us celebrate by thinking about ontological extravagance. I will do so by way of analogy, because I have found that everyone loves analogies and nobody ever willfully misconstrues them.


We look at the night sky and see photons arriving to us, emitted by distant stars. Let's contrast two different theories about how stars emit photons.

One theory says, we know how stars shine, and our equations predict that they emit photons roughly uniformly in all directions. Call this the "Many-Photons Interpretation" (MPI).

But! Others object. That is *so many photons*. Most of which we don't observe, and can't observe, since they're moving away at the speed of light. It's too ontologically extravagant to posit a huge number of unobservable things!

So they suggest a "Photon Collapse Interpretation." According to this theory, the photons emitted toward us actually exist. But photons that would be emitted in directions we will never observe simply collapse into utter non-existence.

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