Volker Nehring
@volkernehring.bsky.social
May contain ants
http://evolution.vnehring.de | Behaviour, Evolution, Ecology | Assistant Prof@Uni Freiburg, Germany | AE @PlosONE | Secretary Central European IUSSI
http://evolution.vnehring.de | Behaviour, Evolution, Ecology | Assistant Prof@Uni Freiburg, Germany | AE @PlosONE | Secretary Central European IUSSI
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New preprint from our lab: When #ants habituate to non-nestmate odour, their odorant receptor profile changes predictably. Could this be a mechanism for pre-filtering cues in nestmate #recognition? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Someone is having a stroke, is it me?
November 27, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Someone is having a stroke, is it me?
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I was interviewed by Newsweek about the backlash to my DPhil announcement. You can read it here:
www.newsweek.com/gen-z-woman-...
www.newsweek.com/gen-z-woman-...
November 25, 2025 at 12:14 PM
I was interviewed by Newsweek about the backlash to my DPhil announcement. You can read it here:
www.newsweek.com/gen-z-woman-...
www.newsweek.com/gen-z-woman-...
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Der Fall einer Doktorandin, die letztes Jahre auf X rasend beschimpft wurde, war ein deutliches Zeichen dafür, wohin sich die Plattform entwickelt hatte. Hier habe ich darüber geschrieben.
uebermedien.de/101549/eine-...
uebermedien.de/101549/eine-...
"Höllenplattform": Warum man X nicht mehr nutzen kann | Kolumne
Konflikte und Gemeinheiten sind schon immer Teil öffentlicher Diskurse gewesen. Doch auf Elon Musks "X" nimmt die politische Aggression überhand.
uebermedien.de
November 26, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Der Fall einer Doktorandin, die letztes Jahre auf X rasend beschimpft wurde, war ein deutliches Zeichen dafür, wohin sich die Plattform entwickelt hatte. Hier habe ich darüber geschrieben.
uebermedien.de/101549/eine-...
uebermedien.de/101549/eine-...
Completely forgot to announce it - I'm hosting @realscientists.de this week - in case you need another ant overdose
November 26, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Completely forgot to announce it - I'm hosting @realscientists.de this week - in case you need another ant overdose
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PhD position - How jumping spiders see
- Put cute spiders on trackballs!
- Program fancy automated experiments!
- Do cutting edge research!
- Hang out in beautiful Italian cities!
- Be supervised by a super nice chap!
Like invertebrate behaviour and computation stuff? You'll love this.
Link in 🧵
- Put cute spiders on trackballs!
- Program fancy automated experiments!
- Do cutting edge research!
- Hang out in beautiful Italian cities!
- Be supervised by a super nice chap!
Like invertebrate behaviour and computation stuff? You'll love this.
Link in 🧵
November 21, 2025 at 3:48 PM
PhD position - How jumping spiders see
- Put cute spiders on trackballs!
- Program fancy automated experiments!
- Do cutting edge research!
- Hang out in beautiful Italian cities!
- Be supervised by a super nice chap!
Like invertebrate behaviour and computation stuff? You'll love this.
Link in 🧵
- Put cute spiders on trackballs!
- Program fancy automated experiments!
- Do cutting edge research!
- Hang out in beautiful Italian cities!
- Be supervised by a super nice chap!
Like invertebrate behaviour and computation stuff? You'll love this.
Link in 🧵
This is so depressing and it got worse when I clicked on the Trivers link. How could I have possibly missed this?
Mainstream news covered the Jeffrey Epstein emails related to ppl like Trump. Today, I want to take a look at Epstein's correspondence with prominent atheist and physicist Lawrence Krauss, who asked the pedophile's advice on responding to accusations of sexual assault skepchick.org/2025/11/so-i...
So I’m in the Epstein Files
Transcript: Look. I know that on this channel, I often criticize prominent people for actions that I find detestable: accepting dark money and failing to disclose it, producing propaganda for Big O…
skepchick.org
November 21, 2025 at 8:06 AM
This is so depressing and it got worse when I clicked on the Trivers link. How could I have possibly missed this?
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📢 Check out our GEvol inspired Special Issue in JEZ-B:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15525015... 🚨
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15525015... 🚨
Genomic Basis of Evolutionary Innovations in Insects: Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution: Vol 344, No 7
The Journal of Experimental Zoology – B (JEZ-B): Molecular and Developmental Evolution covers the structure & evolution of animal & non-animal organisms.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 3, 2025 at 7:41 AM
📢 Check out our GEvol inspired Special Issue in JEZ-B:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15525015... 🚨
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15525015... 🚨
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🎉We are happy to announce that our wonderful GEvol SPP will be funded by @dfg.de for another 3 years. Included are 17 great projects all over Germany with amazing people. You want to be part of this fantastic community? Soon you can find new PhD/Post-Doc positions here & on our website. Stay tuned🎉
November 10, 2025 at 11:39 AM
🎉We are happy to announce that our wonderful GEvol SPP will be funded by @dfg.de for another 3 years. Included are 17 great projects all over Germany with amazing people. You want to be part of this fantastic community? Soon you can find new PhD/Post-Doc positions here & on our website. Stay tuned🎉
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Gab es nicht mal irgendwo eine Grafik, die die verschiedenen (sehr unübersichtlichen) Karrierewege in der Wissenschaft visualisiert hat? Weiß noch jemand, wo das war? #IchBinHanna
November 4, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Gab es nicht mal irgendwo eine Grafik, die die verschiedenen (sehr unübersichtlichen) Karrierewege in der Wissenschaft visualisiert hat? Weiß noch jemand, wo das war? #IchBinHanna
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#microsky #mevosky @spp2389.bsky.social
A PhD position is available in my lab to work on:
Emergence and self-organisation of bacterial metabolism in consortia of cross-feeding bacteria.
Please RT
Deadline: 12.11.25
More infos 👇
shorturl.at/rAKAT
A PhD position is available in my lab to work on:
Emergence and self-organisation of bacterial metabolism in consortia of cross-feeding bacteria.
Please RT
Deadline: 12.11.25
More infos 👇
shorturl.at/rAKAT
October 30, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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A young PI here in Mainz has a fabulous PhD position that will be filled soon! By you? Keywords: Social insects, ageing, gene expression. www.blogs.uni-mainz.de/fb10-evoluti...
Behavioural Ecology and Social Evolution
www.blogs.uni-mainz.de
October 29, 2025 at 8:36 AM
A young PI here in Mainz has a fabulous PhD position that will be filled soon! By you? Keywords: Social insects, ageing, gene expression. www.blogs.uni-mainz.de/fb10-evoluti...
It's time to update the lecture. As of yesterday, I know that current MSc students no longer recognise John Travolta, let alone know who he is.
October 22, 2025 at 8:36 AM
It's time to update the lecture. As of yesterday, I know that current MSc students no longer recognise John Travolta, let alone know who he is.
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🚨 Still 10 days left to submit an abstract for our IUSSI winter meeting in beautiful Leuven, 18-19 December;
🚨 Registration is now open: www.iussi-nweurope.org/meetings
🚨 Registration is now open: www.iussi-nweurope.org/meetings
October 4, 2025 at 7:49 AM
🚨 Still 10 days left to submit an abstract for our IUSSI winter meeting in beautiful Leuven, 18-19 December;
🚨 Registration is now open: www.iussi-nweurope.org/meetings
🚨 Registration is now open: www.iussi-nweurope.org/meetings
How much for shipping to Europe?
It looks like Dinosaur Field Station of NJ is closing and selling their Dino sculptures
September 26, 2025 at 1:27 PM
How much for shipping to Europe?
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record 17,058 Marie Curie proposals in 2025 vs. 10,360 in 2024!!! the reason is pretty obvious, but wow that is a huge jump marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/news/msca-po...
MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 receives record number of 17,058 proposals
This year’s annual MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships call has attracted considerable interest from the research community with 17,058 proposals submitted.
marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu
September 13, 2025 at 6:04 PM
record 17,058 Marie Curie proposals in 2025 vs. 10,360 in 2024!!! the reason is pretty obvious, but wow that is a huge jump marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/news/msca-po...
Preview of my talk today at 12 in the ecology section #dzg2025 on invasive Tapinoma ants
In the pic you see a new way of visualising networks of ant colonies in ecological space
In the pic you see a new way of visualising networks of ant colonies in ecological space
September 10, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Preview of my talk today at 12 in the ecology section #dzg2025 on invasive Tapinoma ants
In the pic you see a new way of visualising networks of ant colonies in ecological space
In the pic you see a new way of visualising networks of ant colonies in ecological space
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Liebe #IchBinHanna Community, 1 Frage: Wie viele Professuren werden in D in Eurem Bereich pro Jahr ausgeschrieben, auf die Ihr Euch bewerben könnt(et)? Laut #BuWiK2025 ist nur jede 21. Bewerbung erfolgreich (s. S. 183) & mich interessiert, wie oft es in Eurem Fach (gern nennen) diese 'Chance' gibt!
September 8, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Liebe #IchBinHanna Community, 1 Frage: Wie viele Professuren werden in D in Eurem Bereich pro Jahr ausgeschrieben, auf die Ihr Euch bewerben könnt(et)? Laut #BuWiK2025 ist nur jede 21. Bewerbung erfolgreich (s. S. 183) & mich interessiert, wie oft es in Eurem Fach (gern nennen) diese 'Chance' gibt!
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Many thanks to all GEvol members for a truly wonderful annual meeting. It was really great to catch up with you all again.
September 5, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Many thanks to all GEvol members for a truly wonderful annual meeting. It was really great to catch up with you all again.
New preprint from our lab: When #ants habituate to non-nestmate odour, their odorant receptor profile changes predictably. Could this be a mechanism for pre-filtering cues in nestmate #recognition? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
September 2, 2025 at 9:39 AM
New preprint from our lab: When #ants habituate to non-nestmate odour, their odorant receptor profile changes predictably. Could this be a mechanism for pre-filtering cues in nestmate #recognition? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Biologists visiting a cathedral (first picture) and the cathedral itself (second pic). Priorities at #ceiussi25
September 1, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Biologists visiting a cathedral (first picture) and the cathedral itself (second pic). Priorities at #ceiussi25
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#CEIUSSI25 day three: Plenary by Olli Loukola
August 29, 2025 at 8:49 AM
#CEIUSSI25 day three: Plenary by Olli Loukola
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#ceiussi25 is off to a good start: Magdalena Witek gives a plenary talk on Myrmica parasites
August 28, 2025 at 8:38 AM
#ceiussi25 is off to a good start: Magdalena Witek gives a plenary talk on Myrmica parasites