📣 SEMINAR SERIES 2026 📣
Our first seminar of the year is coming up fast! 🐜🐝
🎥 Check out this teaser! Come listen to Dr. Anna Dornhaus ( @dornhaus.bsky.social ) to hear about “What we learned about the world from studying collective behavior: algorithms, replicators, and strong inference”
I completely agree with Marjorie Taylor Greene is a sentence I never thought I would ever write.
Slaughtering our golden goose: massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration www.nature.com/articles/d41...
A famous Cambodian mine-clearing rat, who was awarded a gold medal for his heroism, has been commemorated with a statue.
Using his acute sense of smell to detect a chemical compound within explosives, Magawa would then alert human handlers of mines.
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www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I defended my PhD 10 years ago today. That was the least remarkable thing that happened that day. Sharing something I wrote about it last year. Since then "the horrors persist but so do we." And with dignity.
Fantastic meeting full of amazing people and ideas! 🌟💡Thank you to everyone for the stimulating proposals and continued support.
🌟🌟Looking for a postdoc? Want to work with an amazing PI? 🐝
The mating of Stylops ater in the aggregation of Andrena vaga at the Institute for Bee Protection at the @jki-research.bsky.social in Braunschweig vaga is in full swing.
#BeesUp
Thank you to @animalbehaviour.live for the opportunity and their wonderful initiative to make conferences more accessible to all!
😆 Best pitch ever!
🌟🌟Interested in a postdoctoral project about host-parasite coevolution and/or underlying mechanisms? 🌟🌟
Check your eligibility for this fellowship & contact me. I am particularly interested in hosting scholars from the Global South (¡Arriba mi gente!). www.hfsp.org/funding/hfsp...
From cabinets to collectomics: discovering females and primary larvae of Strepsiptera in a historical collection nhcm.pensoft.net/articles.php...
Wonderful weird: 3D reconstruction of the tracheal system and balloon gut of the male Stylops ovinae. #Strepsiptera
Yatop Protected Area, the largest protected forest of the Solomon Islands
Introducing the Yato Protected Area -- the largest federally protected conservation area of the Solomon Islands! We are humbled to have been given the opportunity to partner with indigenous communities in Makira to save threatened ecosystems. #conservation #SolomonIslands #biodiversity
Our synthesis of the Strepsiptera fauna of the Nordic countries, led by Meri Lähteenaro, was published this week open acc. in Zootaxa. Illustrated keys, maps, new records & 2 new species described, Stylops sapmiensis on Andrena lapponica & S. serotinus on A. fuscipes.
mapress.com/zt/article/v...
POSTDOC ALERT🚨
Two exciting social evolution postdoc positions live today!
We're looking for two excellent field biologists. Join us to explore the evolution of sociality in wasps across Africa. Apply by 11th January.
Collaboration with
@dustinrubenstein.com
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
The final version of the clonal raider ant reference brain is now out OA in @currentbiology.bsky.social:
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www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Warm welcome to RJ Millena, pictured with some team wasp members!
Despite all challenges, I'm feeling so grateful for my team & their amazing research progress.
Also, thrilled that Dr. RJ Millena @entomolrj.bsky.social has joined #teamwasp as our inaugural departmental postdoc fellow! #wasplove #strepsipteralove
Best news ever!!
Want to work with an amazing new PI who is also a wonderful person? ⬇️ 🕸️🕷️
photograph of a round cake covered in chocolate crunchies with ice cream cone horns, eyes, a wide pink smile, little arms and a belly indicating a friendly little monster guy
photograph of the actual cake through a carvel box, the guy looks fuuuuucked upppppp. he looks surprised and disgusted
it's my daughter's birthday and I ordered her a monster cake from Carvel and this is the picture on the website and this is the picture of it in real life. please note: this is not a complaint. if this had been the picture on the website i would have paid more
I am thrilled to announce that I just opened my lab at New York University in @nyucns.bsky.social and Biology! Our work will explore the richness of animal behavior, dissecting the genetic and circuit mechanisms that shape its evolution.
Yes! We are always looking for observations from zombie hunters. Do reach out!
Our podcast is out! Check out our research @urochester.bsky.social that is decoding how true biohackers called twisted-winged insects control social wasps! #teamwasp #strepsiptera #zombiewasps 🐝🧟♀️ Please check out this fantastic initiative by @bugsneedheroes.bsky.social. Thank you for having me!
Our big review paper on strepsipteran systematics for Insect Systematics and Diversity is out! Hoping it's a helpful resource for anyone who needs it.
5/ Some wings have evolved strategies to help reduce damage resulting from collisions. For example, we learned a few years ago that wasp wings have a flexible joint that acts like a reversible crumple zone, allowing the wing tip to easily bend out of the way when it hits things...
I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN.
It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package.
Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats
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Nesting behaviour drives the evolution of heat tolerance and climate vulnerability in bees! Check out our pre-print on 95 species of Australian native bee across the latitudinal extent of Australia! 🐝 #nativebee #climateadaptation #heattolerance #plasticity #behaviour #bees #climatechange
📣📣Interested in writing a proposal to explore coevolution and/or mechanisms underlying parasitic manipulation? Check out our team’s current projects and emerging host-parasite system. If these align with your interests , please check eligibility per NSF guidelines and email me! #GRFP #zombiewasps
