Luisa Jaimes
@jaimesnino.bsky.social
Entomologist and Evolutionary biologist at JGU | Postdoc | Life-history evolution in ants
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Harmony in the hive? Think again! 🐝⚔️
Insect societies are famous for cooperation, but beneath the surface lies a brutal conflict over who gets to wear the crown!
Our new review in Biological Reviews explores the evolutionary battleground caused by such caste fate conflict. 🧵
Insect societies are famous for cooperation, but beneath the surface lies a brutal conflict over who gets to wear the crown!
Our new review in Biological Reviews explores the evolutionary battleground caused by such caste fate conflict. 🧵
November 24, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Harmony in the hive? Think again! 🐝⚔️
Insect societies are famous for cooperation, but beneath the surface lies a brutal conflict over who gets to wear the crown!
Our new review in Biological Reviews explores the evolutionary battleground caused by such caste fate conflict. 🧵
Insect societies are famous for cooperation, but beneath the surface lies a brutal conflict over who gets to wear the crown!
Our new review in Biological Reviews explores the evolutionary battleground caused by such caste fate conflict. 🧵
I just found out: The University in Mainz where I work for the last two years as postdoc has the Universidad del Norte in my home country as a sister university! The Colombian flags made me notice! What a nice surprise #cienciacriolla
November 18, 2025 at 4:25 PM
I just found out: The University in Mainz where I work for the last two years as postdoc has the Universidad del Norte in my home country as a sister university! The Colombian flags made me notice! What a nice surprise #cienciacriolla
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As part of @react-enlight.bsky.social we have a public lecture next Thursday on the evolution of ageing across the tree of life by @yagmurerten.bsky.social, come along! 👇
October 31, 2025 at 12:44 PM
As part of @react-enlight.bsky.social we have a public lecture next Thursday on the evolution of ageing across the tree of life by @yagmurerten.bsky.social, come along! 👇
We are hiring!! #job Interested in #Ageing #Evolution #Ants #Single-cell 🐜🧬 Check our call, we offer a PhD position at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz! check the link
www.blogs.uni-mainz.de/fb10-evoluti...
www.blogs.uni-mainz.de/fb10-evoluti...
Behavioural Ecology and Social Evolution
www.blogs.uni-mainz.de
October 27, 2025 at 4:03 PM
We are hiring!! #job Interested in #Ageing #Evolution #Ants #Single-cell 🐜🧬 Check our call, we offer a PhD position at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz! check the link
www.blogs.uni-mainz.de/fb10-evoluti...
www.blogs.uni-mainz.de/fb10-evoluti...
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💥BREAKING: Birds in a tropical pluvial rainforest of the Chocó have been quietly changing in morphology for 109 years. Some have shrunk, others grown. Tails grew longer, bills grew deeper. Even in forests with continuous cover, climate change may be rewriting evolution in real time.
September 29, 2025 at 7:16 PM
💥BREAKING: Birds in a tropical pluvial rainforest of the Chocó have been quietly changing in morphology for 109 years. Some have shrunk, others grown. Tails grew longer, bills grew deeper. Even in forests with continuous cover, climate change may be rewriting evolution in real time.
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If you are from the US and interested in applying for a PhD with me (or anyone else @camzoology.bsky.social @cambridgebiosci.bsky.social), your deadline for the gates scholarship is October 15!
(You’ll need to write a research proposal, so contact PIs now) www.gatescambridge.org/programme/th...
(You’ll need to write a research proposal, so contact PIs now) www.gatescambridge.org/programme/th...
Postgraduate Cambridge University Scholarship | Gates Cambridge
A fully funded graduate education for future leaders committed to improving the lives of others.
www.gatescambridge.org
September 20, 2025 at 3:35 PM
If you are from the US and interested in applying for a PhD with me (or anyone else @camzoology.bsky.social @cambridgebiosci.bsky.social), your deadline for the gates scholarship is October 15!
(You’ll need to write a research proposal, so contact PIs now) www.gatescambridge.org/programme/th...
(You’ll need to write a research proposal, so contact PIs now) www.gatescambridge.org/programme/th...
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Coca-Cola bajo la lupa 🚨: en La Calera la empresa habría cubierto con cemento siete manantiales de los que capta agua desde 1983. La representante María del Mar Pizarro denunció que la CAR permitió a la multinacional explotar el recurso por más de 40 años, a pesar de las irregularidades. 🤯
September 17, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Coca-Cola bajo la lupa 🚨: en La Calera la empresa habría cubierto con cemento siete manantiales de los que capta agua desde 1983. La representante María del Mar Pizarro denunció que la CAR permitió a la multinacional explotar el recurso por más de 40 años, a pesar de las irregularidades. 🤯
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Abstract submissions are now open for the 20th IUSSI Congress in Freiburg, Germany, from 16-20 August 2026. Submit by 31 Dec 2025. More info: https://iussi2026.org/ #conference
International Union for the Study of Social Insects – International Congress of the Insternational Union for the Study of Social Insects
International Union for the Study of Social Insects – International Congress of the Insternational Union for the Study of Social Insects
iussi2026.org
September 12, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Abstract submissions are now open for the 20th IUSSI Congress in Freiburg, Germany, from 16-20 August 2026. Submit by 31 Dec 2025. More info: https://iussi2026.org/ #conference
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Look at this crazy thing!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
One mother for two species via obligate cross-species cloning in ants - Nature
In a case of obligate cross-species cloning, female ants of Messor ibericus need to clone males of Messor structor to obtain sperm for producing the worker caste, resulting in males from the same moth...
www.nature.com
September 3, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Look at this crazy thing!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The Central European IUSSI meeting is on its way - first plenary by Eva Schultner
#ceiussi25
#ceiussi25
August 27, 2025 at 12:18 PM
The Central European IUSSI meeting is on its way - first plenary by Eva Schultner
#ceiussi25
#ceiussi25
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Thanks to Sofia and May Sheday for the courageous and inspiring talks! The scientific world cannot remain silent @eseb2025.bsky.social #ESEB2025 #inclusivity 🏳️🌈 #transrights 🏳️⚧️ #freepalestine 🇵🇸
August 22, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Thanks to Sofia and May Sheday for the courageous and inspiring talks! The scientific world cannot remain silent @eseb2025.bsky.social #ESEB2025 #inclusivity 🏳️🌈 #transrights 🏳️⚧️ #freepalestine 🇵🇸
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Last round of posters for our group today at @eseb2025.bsky.social ! Go and check for Clarita (@clariona.bsky.social) a the poster 047, you will found out more about cool ant brains! She will be there from 5 pm onwards! Bring a glass of sangria and your questions! 🐜🧠🍷 #ESEB #ESEB2025
August 21, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Last round of posters for our group today at @eseb2025.bsky.social ! Go and check for Clarita (@clariona.bsky.social) a the poster 047, you will found out more about cool ant brains! She will be there from 5 pm onwards! Bring a glass of sangria and your questions! 🐜🧠🍷 #ESEB #ESEB2025
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Hey everybody! @drjuliawester.bsky.social and I have a new paper!
We surveyed over 800 scientists, science communicators, and science educators who use social media.
Conclusion: Scientists no longer find Twitter useful or pleasant, and many have switched to Bluesky! 🧪🌎🦑
doi.org/10.1093/icb/...
We surveyed over 800 scientists, science communicators, and science educators who use social media.
Conclusion: Scientists no longer find Twitter useful or pleasant, and many have switched to Bluesky! 🧪🌎🦑
doi.org/10.1093/icb/...
Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky
Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For
doi.org
August 19, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Hey everybody! @drjuliawester.bsky.social and I have a new paper!
We surveyed over 800 scientists, science communicators, and science educators who use social media.
Conclusion: Scientists no longer find Twitter useful or pleasant, and many have switched to Bluesky! 🧪🌎🦑
doi.org/10.1093/icb/...
We surveyed over 800 scientists, science communicators, and science educators who use social media.
Conclusion: Scientists no longer find Twitter useful or pleasant, and many have switched to Bluesky! 🧪🌎🦑
doi.org/10.1093/icb/...
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Join the GUTENBERG WORKSHOP on the Evolution of Ageing!
Organizers: Margaux Bieuville, @kokkonut.bsky.social and Victor Ronget @unimainz.bsky.social, and eivimeycook.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social
Info at gutenberg-workshops.uni-mainz.de/evolution-ag...
#ageing #evolution #lifesciences
Organizers: Margaux Bieuville, @kokkonut.bsky.social and Victor Ronget @unimainz.bsky.social, and eivimeycook.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social
Info at gutenberg-workshops.uni-mainz.de/evolution-ag...
#ageing #evolution #lifesciences
July 14, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Join the GUTENBERG WORKSHOP on the Evolution of Ageing!
Organizers: Margaux Bieuville, @kokkonut.bsky.social and Victor Ronget @unimainz.bsky.social, and eivimeycook.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social
Info at gutenberg-workshops.uni-mainz.de/evolution-ag...
#ageing #evolution #lifesciences
Organizers: Margaux Bieuville, @kokkonut.bsky.social and Victor Ronget @unimainz.bsky.social, and eivimeycook.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social
Info at gutenberg-workshops.uni-mainz.de/evolution-ag...
#ageing #evolution #lifesciences
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Our fellow PhD students Clarita Mendes (@clariona.bsky.social), Giulia Blasi and Amirhossein Karimizadeh, and Dr. Tom Sistermans will be there at the poster session in the Expo area at @eseb2025.bsky.social. Go and check their posters! #ESEB #ESEB2025 More details below👇
August 18, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Our fellow PhD students Clarita Mendes (@clariona.bsky.social), Giulia Blasi and Amirhossein Karimizadeh, and Dr. Tom Sistermans will be there at the poster session in the Expo area at @eseb2025.bsky.social. Go and check their posters! #ESEB #ESEB2025 More details below👇
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@jaimesnino.bsky.social, @giuliascarparo.bsky.social and Susanne Foitzik from our group @unimainz.bsky.social will give a talk at @eseb2025.bsky.social. Check the calendar below for more details! #ESEB2025 #ESEB 🐜🐜🐜
August 18, 2025 at 12:14 PM
@jaimesnino.bsky.social, @giuliascarparo.bsky.social and Susanne Foitzik from our group @unimainz.bsky.social will give a talk at @eseb2025.bsky.social. Check the calendar below for more details! #ESEB2025 #ESEB 🐜🐜🐜
Come and see my talk at the #ESEB2025 next Tuesday 3:15 PM (ROOM 129+130), on our efforts to understand reproduction and aging in ant colonies!
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August 15, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Come and see my talk at the #ESEB2025 next Tuesday 3:15 PM (ROOM 129+130), on our efforts to understand reproduction and aging in ant colonies!
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Breaking news: Álvaro Uribe, one of the most influential leaders in Colombian history, was found guilty of bribery in criminal proceedings, becoming the country’s first former president to be convicted in a criminal trial.
Álvaro Uribe, Colombia’s former president, found guilty in bribery trial
The influential and controversial Uribe was found guilty in a witness tampering case and is the country’s first former president to be convicted in a criminal trial.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 29, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Breaking news: Álvaro Uribe, one of the most influential leaders in Colombian history, was found guilty of bribery in criminal proceedings, becoming the country’s first former president to be convicted in a criminal trial.
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Do you know that cuticular hydrocarbons (CHCs) viscosity in ants is bi-phasic? It might help to maintain both communication and waterproofing function when temperature changes! Check out a new paper from our group @unimainz.bsky.social ❄️🐜🐜☀️ royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
The importance of being heterogeneous: the complex phase behaviour of insect cuticular hydrocarbons | Journal of The Royal Society Interface
Global warming dramatically increases desiccation risk for insects. To avoid water
loss, terrestrial insects are covered with a thin, chemically complex layer of cuticular
hydrocarbons (CHCs), which a...
royalsocietypublishing.org
July 1, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Do you know that cuticular hydrocarbons (CHCs) viscosity in ants is bi-phasic? It might help to maintain both communication and waterproofing function when temperature changes! Check out a new paper from our group @unimainz.bsky.social ❄️🐜🐜☀️ royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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Over 50 researchers from over 25 countries have made this possible. Almost 10 years of work. I have 23,062 emails on this project.
It is wonderful to see this published and I hope you enjoy it.
There’s a lot on genome evolution in ants and much much more.
It is wonderful to see this published and I hope you enjoy it.
There’s a lot on genome evolution in ants and much much more.
Now online! Adaptive radiation and social evolution of the ants
Adaptive radiation and social evolution of the ants
Comparative analyses of 163 ant genomes reveal extensive genome rearrangements, context-specific gene family expansion patterns, and selection on conserved pathways that together underpin the evolution and diversification of social traits and caste differentiation in ants.
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June 16, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Over 50 researchers from over 25 countries have made this possible. Almost 10 years of work. I have 23,062 emails on this project.
It is wonderful to see this published and I hope you enjoy it.
There’s a lot on genome evolution in ants and much much more.
It is wonderful to see this published and I hope you enjoy it.
There’s a lot on genome evolution in ants and much much more.
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Spontaneous field trip to Leiden, Netherlands to collect Cardiocondyla obscurior 🐜. We hit the jackpot with >20 colonies in the botanic gardens 😍. Also this cool frog! @jaimesnino.bsky.social @mlitto.bsky.social
June 14, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Spontaneous field trip to Leiden, Netherlands to collect Cardiocondyla obscurior 🐜. We hit the jackpot with >20 colonies in the botanic gardens 😍. Also this cool frog! @jaimesnino.bsky.social @mlitto.bsky.social
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How C. elegans feels in @odedrechavi.bsky.social 's lab:
@odedrechavi.bsky.social says he wants to change science for the better.
How? I’m still not quite sure. But 1.5 days into #TCTeAC, the plan seems to involve, among other things, walk-up songs, jumping, dancing, and a hefty serving of joy.
How? I’m still not quite sure. But 1.5 days into #TCTeAC, the plan seems to involve, among other things, walk-up songs, jumping, dancing, and a hefty serving of joy.
June 11, 2025 at 2:24 PM
How C. elegans feels in @odedrechavi.bsky.social 's lab:
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Always a pleasure hanging out with ant enthusiasts 🐜
@jaimesnino.bsky.social @jannelrinke.bsky.social @haplodiploid.bsky.social @mlitto.bsky.social @clariona.bsky.social @bchitadze.bsky.social #cologneinternationalforum
@jaimesnino.bsky.social @jannelrinke.bsky.social @haplodiploid.bsky.social @mlitto.bsky.social @clariona.bsky.social @bchitadze.bsky.social #cologneinternationalforum
June 7, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Always a pleasure hanging out with ant enthusiasts 🐜
@jaimesnino.bsky.social @jannelrinke.bsky.social @haplodiploid.bsky.social @mlitto.bsky.social @clariona.bsky.social @bchitadze.bsky.social #cologneinternationalforum
@jaimesnino.bsky.social @jannelrinke.bsky.social @haplodiploid.bsky.social @mlitto.bsky.social @clariona.bsky.social @bchitadze.bsky.social #cologneinternationalforum
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New research article! 📰
@jaimesnino.bsky.social & Oettler discovered that ant queens show no heritability in fertility/lifespan, but reveal surprising anti-aging mechanisms ⏳
🔗https://doi.org/10.1007/s00040-025-01032-2
#InsectesSociaux #SocialInsects #Genetics #EvolutionaryBiology #Heritability
@jaimesnino.bsky.social & Oettler discovered that ant queens show no heritability in fertility/lifespan, but reveal surprising anti-aging mechanisms ⏳
🔗https://doi.org/10.1007/s00040-025-01032-2
#InsectesSociaux #SocialInsects #Genetics #EvolutionaryBiology #Heritability
May 13, 2025 at 12:47 PM
New research article! 📰
@jaimesnino.bsky.social & Oettler discovered that ant queens show no heritability in fertility/lifespan, but reveal surprising anti-aging mechanisms ⏳
🔗https://doi.org/10.1007/s00040-025-01032-2
#InsectesSociaux #SocialInsects #Genetics #EvolutionaryBiology #Heritability
@jaimesnino.bsky.social & Oettler discovered that ant queens show no heritability in fertility/lifespan, but reveal surprising anti-aging mechanisms ⏳
🔗https://doi.org/10.1007/s00040-025-01032-2
#InsectesSociaux #SocialInsects #Genetics #EvolutionaryBiology #Heritability
Join us in #Köln! @Simo and @jaimesnino.bsky.social will be discussing what makes #ants such an interesting taxa! And insights on our own research on #socialevolution, #genome #evolution, #aging, and #developmental processes! 6 June 2025 - 6 p.m - International House cif.uni-koeln.de/events
May 15, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Join us in #Köln! @Simo and @jaimesnino.bsky.social will be discussing what makes #ants such an interesting taxa! And insights on our own research on #socialevolution, #genome #evolution, #aging, and #developmental processes! 6 June 2025 - 6 p.m - International House cif.uni-koeln.de/events