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Care to join us for a two part discussion of Robin Wall Kimmerer's "The Serviceberry"? Our Disaster Reading Group, which has been meeting since shortly after Hurricane Helene, has picked this essay-length book on mutuality in nature for the May 12th and June 2nd meetings! This is a perfect chance for new folks to jump in 
As Kimmerer explains, “Serviceberries show us another model, one based upon reciprocity, where wealth comes from the quality of your relationships, not from the illusion of self-sufficiency.”
"The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World" is a bold and inspiring vision for how to orient our lives around gratitude, reciprocity, and community, based on the lessons of the natural world. This series is co-facilitated by Lauren Miller.
On May 12th, we're discussing pages 1 through 50 but you're welcome to join us even if you can't complete the reading! Learn more and find discounted copies of the book at https://firestorm.coop/events/3392-the-serviceberry-a-disaster-reading-group.html
#AllFlourishingIsMutual #MutualAid #TheServiceberry #HurricaneHelene #GiftEconomy #Mutualism #FeministBookstore #FirestormCoop (- L)
Aaron Koek
When is the best partner not the best choice? Considering a multispecies mutualism in a variable environment, Stevens et al. demonstrate the potential benefits of supporting a diversity of partners equally in spite of differences in quality.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/733224
Finally, Felix‘ #ecoevo paper is back from #PeerReview:
"…this manuscript is an important contribution that almost uniquely explores the evolutionary transitions between #mutualism through #commensalism and on to #antagonism, and vice versa. […] Not only are the results strong, but some of them are surprising, and in interesting ways that will be worth exploring in future years"
Thank you! 
The #preprint is available here:
bioRxiv · From friend to foe and back - Coevolutionary transitions in the mutualism-antagonism continuumInterspecific interactions evolve along a continuum ranging from mutualism to antagonism. Evolutionary theory so far focused mostly on parts of this continuum, notably on mechanisms that enable and stabilise mutualism. These mechanisms often involve partner discrimination ensuring that interaction intensity is higher with more cooperative partners. However, the gradual trajectory of coevolutionary transitions between mutualism and antagonism remains unclear. Here, we model how discrimination ability in one partner coevolves with cooperativeness in the other and analyse the resulting evolutionary trajectories in the mutualism-antagonism continuum. We show that strong ecological change, such as a radical host shift or colonisation of a new environment, can trigger transitions in both directions including back-and-forth transitions between antagonism and mutualism. Moreover, we find an evolutionary tipping point: a stable mutualism may break down to antagonism if the cost of either mutualistic service or discrimination ability gradually increases above a threshold beyond which this transition cannot be reversed by reducing costs again. Our study provides a new perspective on the evolution of biotic interactions and hence on the dynamic structure of ecological networks.
### Competing Interest Statement
The authors have declared no competing interest.
MUTUAL AID / LA:
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️The People’s Struggle functions as a “grassroots 911 dispatch” center, Galper said. Donations totaled more than $2,500, which organizers used to secure materials requested by evacuation shelters, such as toys for children or sanitary products for women.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DEk3nrKyYl2/
️“We’ve already seen how crucially underprepared the city government is in dealing with social service,” said Savannah Boyd, a co-founder of All Power Books, which is based in the West Adams neighborhood. “We knew we were going to have to start organizing for mutual aid."
https://ko-fi.com/allpower
️It’s Bigger Than Us, a Black-led non-profit based in Inglewood, delivers water and resources to first responders while also running a distribution hub.
https://www.itsbiggerthanusla.org/
️The National Day Laborer Organizing Network is raising money for immigrant workers affected by the fires.
https://ndlon.org/
️Lagartijas Climbing Crú, a collective of Black, Latino, Asian and Indigenous rock climbers, created a crowdsourced spreadsheet to connect people with evacuees who need supplies including blankets and clothes.
https://www.lagartijascc.com/
️Pasadena Humane, which is accepting donations, has been evacuating and housing animals injured and displaced by the fires. The shelter has taken in more than 100 animals for emergency boarding.
https://pasadenahumane.org/
️The charity Baby2Baby has provided more than 1m emergency supplies, including diapers and formulas, for displaced children and families.
https://baby2baby.org/
️Malibu Foundation is offering food, shelter and mental health support to vulnerable populations like seniors, low-income families, people with disabilities and uninsured households.
https://www.themalibufoundation.org/january-2025-wildfires
️CORE, Community Organized Relief Effort, is distributing masks, go-kits, hygiene kits and other protective resources to impacted areas.
https://www.coreresponse.org/southern-california-wildfires/
️This Is About Humanity has launched a fund supporting front and second-line migrant farm workers, day laborers, and other essential workers and their families severely impacted by the recent fires in Los Angeles. Through Jan. 31, TIAH is matching up to $50,000 in donations to provide critical relief, housing support, food assistance and essential resources.
https://icfdn.org/donate/?form=FUNDCBAXBVV
️Community Resource Spreadsheet on Google Docs: Over 400 Local Resources from Phone charging to shelter.
Sources: Social Media, TheGuardian, Axios
InstagramPS-SFV on Instagram: "Updated: if you have signal please join the chat to voice your needs to see if we can respond. If you need goods or people transported to evacuation zones, locate us. If you don’t have signal app and need help, message us on instagram DMs"1,225 likes, 57 comments - peoplesstrugglesfv on January 8, 2025: "Updated: if you have signal please join the chat to voice your needs to see if we can respond. If you need goods or people transported to evacuation zones, locate us. If you don’t have signal app and need help, message us on instagram DMs".
MSc defence by Léini Vaessen @Mol_Ecol @uniinnsbruck "How carton-nest fungi of the ant Lasius fuliginosus interact with each other and with the root-rot fungus Armillaria mellea"
Congrats to you, MSc Léini, and thanks to examiners Julia Seeber and Martin Kirchmair!
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@rowan_johnson @ianb @boffbowsh
The Co-Op does exist. Co-Operative food shops are a set of individual local mutual societies, only loosely federated for branding and some collective power (as @wild1145 recently discovered).
www.coop.co.ukPardon Our Interruption
Cruel and ineffective policies and the culture of inaction from neoliberal governments often leave people to fend for themselves.
#FluConf2025 has a dedicated track for Solidarity Networks and Community Health, through which we aim to promote bottom-up efforts to organize our own social safety nets.
We want to hear from people raising awareness about policy vacuums, building coalitions between adjacent camps, and working at the margins to address underserved demographics. Share your stories about public infrastructure, mutual aid, boycotts, unionization, strikes, legal defense, debt-forgiveness, and other forms of collective action.
How are you countering misinformation about public health topics? How do we build resilience in our communities and welcome newcomers? How can we take care of each other in the wake of wars, climate disasters, lgbtq persecution, and unnecessary poverty.
Apply up until midnight, January 19th, 2025 (anywhere on Earth)
fluconf.onlineSubmit a proposalSubmit your proposal for FluConf 2025 until the end of January 19th, 2025
The #communitygarden in #aberdeenwa is coming along nicely. My brain is thinking that urban gardening is some punk move, but my heart says to just end up feeling mushy <3
Today's rainy and blech outside, but hey there's still time to repair the gate at the community garden right?
#cultivating #roots #communitygarden #gardening #mutualism #mutualaid
There is a third option beyond state ownership and shareholder owned corporations; it's worker and consumer cooperatives. #communism #capitalism #mutualism #workercoop #workerowned #anarchism #socialism #marketsocialism
interesting article on #mutualism in this interesting news site, Non-Profit Quarterly
https://nonprofitquarterly.org/how-to-restore-community-economies-reestablishing-the-right-to-associate/
Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly · How to Restore Community Economies: Reestablishing the Right to Associate - Non Profit News | Nonprofit QuarterlyGrowing US corporate economic control has impeded people’s capacity to self-organize. The time to rebuild community-scale economic institutions is now.
Although the Nonprofit Industrial Complex has some sophisticated gatekeepers barring access, I've renewed my efforts to find San Francisco Bay Area cooperators interested in my proposed nonprofit for unique S.T.E.A.M.-focused ArtScience demonstration projects that serve the common good.
While general participants are welcome, I need the commitment of board-level founders.
#SFBA, #EastBay, #NonProfit, #Research, #Design, #Development, #CitizenScience, #Science, #Technology, #Engineering, #Arts, #Math, #Cooperative, #Mutualism, #Prefigurative
Fast prey: Even non-attacking predatory #fish benefit from group hunting at high speed https://phys.org/news/2024-10-fast-prey-predatory-fish-benefit.html
Evidence for a by-product #mutualism in a group hunter depends on prey movement state https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2435.14638
"the faster the prey school moves, the higher the capture rate of the #StripedMarlin. This is because if the prey school is moving fast, individual prey fish are more likely to become isolated from the swarm"
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@AnarchoNinaAnalyzes nodds in agreement
#SystemChangeNotClimateChange also means to foster a climate of #mutualism and #care instead of #distrust and #greed...