Age-related differences in learning, memory and brain plasticity in workers of the common wasp Vespula vulgaris Learning, memory, and brain plasticity are thought to play an important role in regulating behavioural roles in social insects, as workers perform different tasks as nurses, builders, foragers and def...

🚨 New paper out in @jexpbiol.bsky.social by Mattens et al @cintiaoi.bsky.social @twenseleers.bsky.social on "Age-related differences in learning, #memory and #brain #plasticity in workers of the common #wasp Vespula vulgaris" 🧠🐝
↘️ doi.org/10.1242/jeb.... ↙️

Check out our interview to UCL!! @idrisadams.bsky.social @waspwoman.bsky.social

Thanks @tannisdavidson.bsky.social !! Great to see all the effort for the World of Wasps!! I’ve been living a dream!!!

A rewilded Grant Museum of Zoology with wildflowers and wasps. Still image from VR experience created by Datascape Realities.

World of Wasps exhibition dream team pictured in front of paper nest sculptures by Peter Ayres. Lourenco Viveiros, Sylvia Kluczewski, George Paris, Tannis Davidson, John Zhang, Hannah Cornish, Peter Ayres, Seirian Sumner, Cintia Oi.

World of Wasps @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social is open! Over a year in the making by this incredible team, the exhibition features displays, virtual reality, projections and paper sculptures drawing upon @uclcber.bsky.social research @waspwoman.bsky.social @cintiaoi.bsky.social @idrisadams.bsky.social

Huge thanks to @tannisdavidson.bsky.social and team for making the impossible dream come true:

THE WORLD'S FIRST ART-SCIENCE WASP EXHIBITION!
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...from wasp researchers behind #WorldOfWasps @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social...

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Took home 2nd place at #Entofashion!!

At #Ento25, I signed The Obligation Book as I became a fellow at RES @royentsoc.bsky.social! Same book is signed by Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace! Such an Honour!

I had a fantastic time this week at #Ento25 in Glasgow organized by @royentsoc.bsky.social. I presented a poster based on data generated our PhD student @femi-benny.bsky.social (with @waspwoman.bsky.social)! Thank to @ucl.ac.uk and @uclcber.bsky.social for the funding Research Progression Grant!

Amazing of what this tiny wasps can do! thanks for the incredible footage @whistlingjoe.bsky.social!!

Happy to be back at Manaus to present my work, participate in a workshop, see my friends, find some wasps and visit the FOREST!!! #wasplove @uclcber.bsky.social

happy to be part at @uclcber.bsky.social and spread #wasplove!!

https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammophila_pubescens#/media/Fil:Ammophila_pubescens_-_Kulna.jpg

1/2 Episodic memory in parasitoid wasps

Although traditionally associated with large-brained animals, Ammophila pubescens females have memory of the three key elements: who, when and where characteristic of episodic memory.

(paper) www.cell.com/current-biol...

Scientists discover dinosaur-era wasp that used its rear end to kill The parasitic wasp has been found encased in 99-million-year-old amber

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Scientists as political advocates Science, both teaching and doing, is under attack. The recent US presidential election of a person and platform with anti-science bias exemplifies this. The study of climate processes and patterns and...

Scientists as political advocates | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The multifaceted role of brood communication in wasp societies The family Vespidae represents a key group to understand the evolutionary trajectory of social behavior in insects, as these wasps display the entire …

Wasps, hydrocarbons and brood - review by @mischocarvalhus.bsky.social

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Visit our updated lab website: sumnerlab.co.uk and get to know more about our research at @uclcber.bsky.social

Bittern on Ice YouTube video by Steve “Whistling Joe” Everett

Lovely to see some of my ice-skating Bittern footage from @rspbminsmere.bsky.social shown on @bbcspringwatch.bsky.social tonight. Can't believe poor @jabaddams.bsky.social still hasn't seen one!
youtu.be/4k9Nach2NZc

#waspday at @NHM London!! look this amazing Polybia nest!!! thanks @gavinbroad.bsky.social with @waspwoman.bsky.social @femi-benny.bsky.social @ionace.bsky.social

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