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Hugo Darras @hugodarras.bsky.social · 9d

@AntCommunity 🐜 🐜 Chengyuan Liu found a Camponotus ant colony where all sexual larvae have red spots of various sizes, but worker larvae don’t. Any idea what this is?🤔 Video in the comment.

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Tom Wenseleers @twenseleers.bsky.social · 15d

Very happy to see our new study on the evolution of eusociality come out in Evolution Letters! Our study is the first to experimentally manipulate the proportion of females that stay and help to simulate incipient sociality & assess fitness impact of helping. 🧵

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IUSSI-NWES @iussi-nwes.bsky.social · 25d

We are delighted that our Winter Meeting 2025 in Leuven 🇧🇪 is approaching!

Abstract submissions now open: www.iussi-nweurope.org/meetings

Date: December 18-19
Abstract deadline: October 15
Host: Laboratory of Socioecology and Social Evolution at KU Leuven
Plenary: Ido Pen & @rmash.bsky.social

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Chris Jernigan @chrisjernigan.bsky.social · Aug 25

I am recruiting PhD students to join my lab at Wake Forest University Fall 2026. Current projects focus on the neurobiology, behavior, and development of identity processing in paper wasps. Contact me if interested. Deadline to apply is Dec. 15th 2025. Please share!
#PhDposition #PhD #wasplove

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Animal Behaviour Live @animalbehaviour.live · Aug 19

#ABL2025 Plenary Spotlight: Dr Floria Mora-Kepfer Uy ⭐

Join us on Nov 13-14 to learn how @avispatica.bsky.social Dr Mora-Kepfer Uy’s team uncovered captivating ways in which parasites reprogram the behaviour and lifespan of insects. 🐝🪱

Learn more about the conference: ablaoc25.sciencesconf.org

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E. Yağmur Erten @yagmurerten.bsky.social · Aug 19

MEME alumni (www.evobio.eu) at #ESEB2025! We span so many generations now, from the first cohort (graduated in 2012) to those who are still studying, with master students, PhD students, postdocs, and PIs among us! So happy to get together in every ESEB 🤩

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Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · Aug 18

How I’m thinking about students having AI do their assigned work.

I think we need to ask why they make this choice. Those answers can help us be more effective instructors.

Science For Everyone @hormiga.scienceforeveryone.science.ap.brid.gy · Aug 18

How I am thinking about GenAI in the classroom

Student use of GenAI is not the problem, it's a symptom of bigger problems.

scienceforeveryone.science

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MERGE - Master of Global Change Ecology @merge-master.bsky.social · Jul 21

We’re excited to launch our Double Degree Master’s in Global Change Ecology – a unique collaboration between the University of Würzburg (Germany) and the University of Bergen (Norway)! Passionate about biodiversity🐛, ecosystems🗻, and today’s urgent environmental challenges🌍? This program is for you!

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Suegene Noh @suegenenoh.bsky.social · Apr 16

Undergrad students often forget about genetic drift as an evolutionary process/ force. If you've also experienced this, we might have a solution for you! Our RIE2 (resources for inclusive evolution education) working group just published a week-length drift module: qubeshub.org/publications...

Teaching genetic drift: new approaches to encourage non-deterministic thinking about evolution

This teaching module is designed to help undergraduate students dismantle preconceived notions about evolution and deepen their understanding of genetic drift as a non-deterministic evolutionary proce...

qubeshub.org

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Juan J. Lagos-Oviedo @jjlagosoviedo.bsky.social · Aug 8

Today, we close the first week of the course. I'm excited for the upcoming lecture and practical on phylogenetic comparative methods this afternoon.

EvoBio Crash Course @evobiocc.bsky.social · Jun 4

Please share widely!
We are offering the 4th iteration of our free & online crash course in Evolutionary Biology, catered to students in the Global South! Join us this summer for an incredible line of up classes & tutorials from amazing graduate student researchers, covering a vast array of topics!

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Juliana Rodríguez-Fuentes @julianaxrf.bsky.social · Aug 5

Really excited to share my first PhD paper about fitness effects of chromosomal inversions!

Using an experimental approach we explored if inversions involved in ecotype divergence in threespine stickleback affect fitness-proxies 1/🧵

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@heredityjournal.bsky.social

Experimental test of the fitness effects of divergent marine–freshwater chromosomal inversions in stickleback under different salinity conditions - Heredity

Heredity - Experimental test of the fitness effects of divergent marine–freshwater chromosomal inversions in stickleback under different salinity conditions

www.nature.com

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Chaitanya Gokhale @gokhalecs.bsky.social · Jul 25

🎮🧠 Theory meets reality @uni-wuerzburg.de Informatics Expo. Our group collaborates with the GamesLab to ask two questions through interactive play:

1️⃣ Game Theory in the Uncanny Valley and

2️⃣ EcoSims: managing an ecosystem

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Global Change Ecology group @uniwuerzburg.bsky.social @globalchangeeco.bsky.social · Jul 23

Congratulations to our colleague @sabinenooten.bsky.social from the Chemical Ecology group at @ecoresearchzoo3.bsky.social on receiving the Marcella Boveri Prize of the @uni-wuerzburg.de Biocenter, and on her great presentation of her work on insect #ecology and #biogeography

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Gaurav Athreya @gauravathreya.bsky.social · Jul 23

Interested in host-symbiont interdependence, eukaryogenesis, and evolutionary transitions in individuality? my first paper just came out! With @gokhalecs.bsky.social and Pete Czuppon, we study when & how individuality emerges in a host-endosymbiont collective doi.org/10.1086/737588 a short thread🧵:

figure 1 from https://doi.org/10.1086/737588 describing (a) our conceptualisation of an evolutionary transition in individuality, (b) an interpretation of the traits that we consider in our mathematical model, and (c) a graphical representation of the population dynamics in the model.

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Cell - a Cell Press journal @cp-cell.bsky.social · Jun 16

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.

dlvr.it

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EvoBio Crash Course @evobiocc.bsky.social · Jun 4

Please share widely!
We are offering the 4th iteration of our free & online crash course in Evolutionary Biology, catered to students in the Global South! Join us this summer for an incredible line of up classes & tutorials from amazing graduate student researchers, covering a vast array of topics!

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Juan J. Lagos-Oviedo @jjlagosoviedo.bsky.social · Jun 2

More information about the course at the Consortium webpage: evobiocrashcourse.github.io

+ Other initiatives such as:

Mentorship programme 🧑🏽‍🔬
Mini-grants 🌻

Evolutionary Biology Crash Course

evobiocrashcourse.github.io

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Juan J. Lagos-Oviedo @jjlagosoviedo.bsky.social · Jun 2

We are launching the Fourth Edition of the Evolutionary Biology Crash Course ⭐ @evobiocc.bsky.social ⭐. There will be three weeks covering a myriad of topics in evolutionary biology with many practicals.

Please RT to reach as many students as possible.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Ted Pavlic (he/him/his) @tedpavlic.bsky.social · Jun 1

TL;DR. ChatGPT, can you summarize?

"Generalization bias in large language model summarization of scientific research"
by Peters and Chin-Yee (2025, RSOS)
doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

Generalization bias in large language model summarization of scientific research | Royal Society Open Science

Artificial intelligence chatbots driven by large language models (LLMs) have the potential to increase public science literacy and support scientific research, as they can quickly summarize complex sc...

doi.org

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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · May 24

Reminder that SSE members in Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, India, and 152 low-income countries around the world can still get FREE registration for the virtual Evolution meeting! Please share with your colleagues: www.evolutionsociety.org/index.php?mo...

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Juan J. Lagos-Oviedo @jjlagosoviedo.bsky.social · May 2

Con el bicho mirándonos y preguntándonos si las hormigas iban a trabajar o no 😊

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Juan J. Lagos-Oviedo @jjlagosoviedo.bsky.social · May 1

A cool part of expending hours quietly in front of a bivouac is that one experiences non-common encounters. Here there is a Rufous-vented ground cuckoo who is one of the many army ants followers.

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Juan J. Lagos-Oviedo @jjlagosoviedo.bsky.social · Apr 20

Three humble army ants followers waiting for them to hunt. It seems that army ants take Easter seriously. New insights the following year

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Juan J. Lagos-Oviedo @jjlagosoviedo.bsky.social · Mar 28

I just got back to fieldwork. I am exploring trails and searching for ants. Got lucky on finding a nest of Eciton hamatum inside a log. It is one of their favourite places when the colonies are stationary.

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Daniel Kronauer @danielkronauer.bsky.social · Mar 8

An army ant colony splitting into two is a rare but spectacular event. Here, two Eciton burchellii males walk in an emigration column as their mother colony fissions. In a few days, the males will fly off to look for a young queen to mate with. La Selva Biological Station, Costa Rica.

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