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Abel Bernadou @abelbernadou.bsky.social · 2d

L'étude publiée dans @cp-iscience.bsky.social :
www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

Abel Bernadou @abelbernadou.bsky.social · 2d

🐜🥛 Des scientifiques ont « ressuscité » une ancienne recette des Balkans et de Turquie : le yaourt aux fourmis ! Leur étude, publiée dans la revue iScience, révèle que les #fourmis rousses (Formica spp.) possèdent un ensemble de ferments permettant de transformer le lait en yaourt 😆

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Abel Bernadou @abelbernadou.bsky.social · 4d

Carreaux d'arbalète, chaussures tressées, cuir de mouton décoré… Un véritable musée naturel accroché aux falaises !

L'étude publiée dans Ecology:
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Abel Bernadou @abelbernadou.bsky.social · 4d

🦅⛰️ Surprenantes découvertes : les gypaètes barbus ne se contentent pas de construire des nids, ils créent de véritables capsules temporelles. En Espagne, des chercheur·se·s ont découvert que certains nids pouvaient contenir des artefacts humains vieux de... 600 à 700 ans !

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 7d

Breaking News: Jane Goodall, one of the world’s most revered conservationists, died at 91. Her discoveries in the 1960s about how chimpanzees behaved in the wild broke new ground and represented what was called “one of the Western world’s great scientific achievements.” nyti.ms/42kpGxt

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Kate Jeffery @katejj.bsky.social · 7d

The University of Glasgow groundspeople are going to be quite annoyed when they come in to work tomorrow...

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Marshal Hedin @mhedin.bsky.social · 16d

let me share a little story about a remarkable wasp that I encountered yesterday in our local deserts

I stumbled across her, and scrambled to get a few crappy photos .... but then realized that she had a burrow, perhaps a better photo op was possible ??

here she is at her burrow entrance.

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Abel Bernadou @abelbernadou.bsky.social · 13d

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 14d

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 15d

Opinion: As human–AI interdependence deepens, could they form an integrated evolutionary individual, subject to collective selection? Explore this perspective in PNAS Front Matter: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

#AI #evolution #singularity #ChatGPT #LLM #MajorEvolutionaryTransition

An illustration of a human and a robot watering a tree together.
Image credit: Dave Cutler (artist).

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Audrey Dussutour @docteur-drey.bsky.social · 15d

Départ pour Le Havre demain, rdv au festival sur les épaules des géants lehavre.fr/sur-les-epau...

💛 Le blob sera à l'honneur pour tous les publics avec 4 rencontres prévues 💛

1️⃣ Jeudi je débute avec deux conférences pour 300 élèves du CE1 eu CM2...Désolé les parents... Blobs offerts à l'adoption.

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The Linnean Society of London @linneansociety.bsky.social · Sep 5

Today is #AmazonRainforestDay! Home to 47 million people and around 10% of all species on Earth, this incredible ecosystem is under threat from mass deforestation and climate change. You can visit buff.ly/D6xZCkJ to learn more about how to help the Amazon Rainforest.

An aerial view of a rainforest with a river running through it. Text on top reads "Amazon Rainforest Day".

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Nature @nature.com · Sep 3

A common type of ant in Europe breaks a fundamental rule in biology: its queens can produce male offspring that are a whole different species

go.nature.com/4mOb5T9

‘Almost unimaginable’: these ants are different species but share a mother

Ant queens of one species clone ants of another to create hybrid workers that do their bidding.

go.nature.com

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Abel Bernadou @abelbernadou.bsky.social · Sep 3

This is just... 🤯🤯🤯

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

‘Almost unimaginable’: these ants are different species but share a mother

Ant queens of one species clone ants of another to create hybrid workers that do their bidding.

www.nature.com

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Central European section of IUSSI @ceiussi.bsky.social · Jan 15

The 2026 international conference of the IUSSI will be in Freiburg, Germany, August 16th – 20st
iussi2026.org

International Union for the Study of Social Insects

International Congress of the Insternational Union for the Study of Social Insects

iussi2026.org

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Insectes Sociaux @insectessociaux.bsky.social · Dec 11

New short communication!📄

Satizabal‑Niemeyer, @abelbernadou.bsky.social et al. showed that urban structures are poor substitutes for natural habitats and unlikely to maintain gene flow 🌆
doi.org/10.1007/s000...

#InsectesSociaux #SocialInsects #AntResearch #UrbanEcology #Nest #Fragmentation

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Abel Bernadou @abelbernadou.bsky.social · Dec 11

These two papers aim to study the population structure of the #ant Temnothorax nigriceps in a highly anthropised environment, and investigated whether this reduces genetic exchange between populations.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Absence of genetic isolation across highly fragmented landscape in the ant Temnothorax nigriceps - BMC Ecology and Evolution

Background Human activities, including changes in agricultural landscapes, often impact biodiversity through habitat fragmentation. This potentially reduces genetic exchange between previously connect...

link.springer.com

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Abel Bernadou @abelbernadou.bsky.social · Dec 11

Very happy to see this paper published in #InsectesSociaux!

This study is a continuation of a story we published two years ago 😉 with @marioncordonnier.bsky.social

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Insectes Sociaux @insectessociaux.bsky.social · Dec 11

New short communication!📄

Satizabal‑Niemeyer, @abelbernadou.bsky.social et al. showed that urban structures are poor substitutes for natural habitats and unlikely to maintain gene flow 🌆
doi.org/10.1007/s000...

#InsectesSociaux #SocialInsects #AntResearch #UrbanEcology #Nest #Fragmentation

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · Dec 5

Ants of the Amazon Rainforest, a photo gallery.

Ants of the Amazon Rainforest - Alex Wild

A sampling of one of the world's most diverse ant faunas

www.alexanderwild.com

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Laurie Belcher @lauriebelch.bsky.social · Nov 27

go.bsky.app/QKajPgc
A starter pack for social evolution! Lots of space left for anyone who would like to be added

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Audrey Dussutour @docteur-drey.bsky.social · Dec 3

Le CRCA – @cbitoulouse.bsky.social
Recrute un.e Ingénieur.e d’Etude en Techniques Biologiques Campagne MOBILITE 2024-2025 CNRS
(Modèles étudiés : souris, fourmis, araignées, abeilles, blob !)
Déposer votre candidature jusqu’au 16 janvier 2025
mobiliteinterne.cnrs.fr emploi.cnrs.fr

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Nicky Bay @nickybay.bsky.social · Dec 1

Phrictus quinquepartitus is what I'd call the dragon-headed lantern bug with the multiple tubercles lining its snout, or apical process.

Photographed in Belize

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Pedro Peres-Neto @comecology.bsky.social · Nov 27

Here's a starter pack for assembling a versatile collection of Ecology and Evolution journals. Feel free to share suggestions! Bookmark it in your Browser for quick access to explore publications in the field or find outlets for your work:

go.bsky.app/TivtkJn

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Frank Ashwood @frankashwood.bsky.social · Nov 27

There’s loads of invertebrate macrophotographers on Bsky now, so I’ve whipped up a starter pack to make it easy to fill your feed with excellent bug photos!

#Invertebrate #Macrophotography 🧪

go.bsky.app/5CHHo2r

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Audrey Dussutour @docteur-drey.bsky.social · Nov 30

L'odyssée des fourmis en version Coréenne 🥰

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Jane Waters 🏳️‍⚧️🐜🇵🇸 @lovetheants.bsky.social · Nov 21

Welcoming @joanieking.bsky.social @meganbarkdull.bsky.social @docteur-drey.bsky.social and @mischocarvalhus.bsky.social to our growing community of amazing ant scientists here on bsky! 🩵🐜🩷

go.bsky.app/zo95qR

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