🚨 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!!!

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! www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-coll... ...from wasp researchers behind #WorldOfWasps @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social... @cintiaoi.bsky.social @idrisadams.bsky.social

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!!

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...

@waspwoman.bsky.social @ionace.bsky.social @cintiaoi.bsky.social

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

Wasps, hydrocarbons and brood - review by @mischocarvalhus.bsky.social #wasplove www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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

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

What is the first thing you see?? 1-ball; 2-shoe; 3-wasp nest Photo taken by Aude Vuilli. #wasplove