#entsoc25

Group of people in the barden lab standing in front of a large ginkoberry statue

Person on a stage holding a red ribbon

Person at a podium with a slide of a shrimp on the screen

Group of people around a table in a tiki bar

Had the best time at #entsoc25 in Portland! So many cool interesting talks and great people (and a 75 year old karaoke tiki bar)

Slide from Kristina’s talk showing a big ol jar of pickled shrimp from AMNH

the Shrimps is Bugs faction has fully infiltrated ESA, with a nifty talk from Kristina Camia finding that social shrimp got tiny eyes

A list of talks for the Entomological Society of America meeting in Portland this week. There is a logo for the lab on top with a hell ant and the words BARDEN LAB. A morphological analysis of visual system complexity in eusocial arthropods Kristina Camia 8:00am Monday @B110-112 Estimating extinct ecological diversity with machine learning Luke Bitting 8:24am Monday @B110-112 Eusocial behavior in arthropods: Patterns of convergent evolution Claire Bailey 8:36am Monday @B113 The impact of extinction on biological communities through deep time Gianpiero Fiorentino 5:36pm Tuesday @C124 Extinction selectivity and niche evolution in Pseudomyrmex ants Lacie Newton 4:30pm Wednesday @F150 + posters on art, outreach, and education in the Formal and Informal Teaching session 1:00-2:00pm Tuesday @Exhibit hall

Sun's up in Portland! Talks you might want to check out if you're into fossils, ants, extinction, eusociality, or comparative morphology. I'm giving a talk today as well called "The diversity and longevity of the earliest ants" at 1:40pm in B113. #Entsoc25

Mammals Evolved into Ant Eaters 12 Times Since Dinosaur Age, Study Finds

Press release out today on our new paper detailing the convergent origins of obligate ant and termite eating in mammals!

Our architectural symmetry paper made the cover of Current Biology! Congrats to @smithbeelab.bsky.social and the team. Check out the form, function, and evolutionary origins of honeybee nest symmetry here: www.cell.com/current-biol...

Had an amazing time at the IUSSI European meeting! Such a lovely conference and excited to share some of my research project I’m working on for my PhD 🦐🦐🦐

Excited to announce my first paper! I looked at how honeybees continuously reduce their comb area after nest expansion & the fine-scale detailing that goes into it. Very thankful for everyone at the Smith Bee Lab, and excited to share some fun results!

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