Anna Dornhaus
@dornhaus.bsky.social
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scientist, science communicator, mom, prof, desert dweller - not always in this order
New preprint - essay - orphaned book chapter? Thinking about thinking aliens. How can we estimate how likely it is that life evolves 'intelligence'?
ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
This is probably the article that got me on Netflix in 'Alien Worlds'... Where should I submit this 'for real'?
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Aliens Are Likely to Be Smart But Not “Intelligent”: What Evolution of Cognition on Earth Tells Us about Extraterrestrial Intelligence
https://ecoevorxiv.org/repository/view/12630/
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Animal Behaviour Live
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📣 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
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Preprint: What good is modeling? Introducing biology students to theory -
arxiv.org/abs/2604.13344
- how to teach and think about what modeling contributes to science. How does it fit into the scientific method? This is often misunderstood.
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What good is modeling? Introducing biology students to theory
Theory and empirical science should be in constant dialogue, but often find it hard to understand one another. Here we describe a graduate-level university course we developed to improve matters. The ...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.13344
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Paper alert 🚨🐜! Fire ant foraging looks remarkably robust until you perturb their communication.
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and I tested how fire ants respond to disruptions in pheromone trail communication during foraging. More in the thread below 🧵(1/6).
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Persist or give up? Fire ants motivated to search for a high-quality food source even if they don’t know how to find it - Insectes Sociaux
Insectes Sociaux - Finding resources for the colony is one of the most difficult and risky tasks for a social insect worker. A worker on a foraging trip can face a number of challenges, including...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00040-026-01089-7
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Ricard Solé
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Do primate brains and social insect colonies make decisions in similar ways? As shown in this
@royalsocietypublishing.org
paper, both share competing populations that accumulate evidence until a threshold is reached.
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Animal Behaviour Live
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📣SEMINAR SERIES 2026📣 Our 1st seminar of this year ! 📆Tuesday 28th April 2026 at 2pm GMT on Youtube: Dr. Anna Dornhaus (
@dornhaus.bsky.social
) on “What we learned about the world from studying collective behavior: algorithms, replicators, and strong inference” 🐜 🔗
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oioL...
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Seminar Series 2026: 1. Dr. Anna Dornhaus
YouTube video by Animal Behaviour Live
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oioL9fRzcI0
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@lovetheants.bsky.social
convinced me to engage on social media again. So, here. What starter packs should I follow? I already followed her myrmecologists group.
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I am at ESA! I would love to talk to students interested in coming to lovely Arizona for work on collective behavior, ant or bee cognition, or similar topics!
www.annadornhaus.net
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Dornhaus Lab
https://www.annadornhaus.net/
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Hello all! Just made my account. Where are my peeps? #arizona #entomology #bees #science
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