When I interviewed at #WCU, I was inspired by the Biology corridor filled with students’ published papers. I dreamed of seeing one of my own students there one day. Today it happened with 2 papers!🌟 Proud of Lily Kelleher—the first of many from the #RamalhoLab! #ProudPI #PUI 🐜

Hey #Mirmeco2025! My talk is ready! 🫶❤️🐜 Save the date!

On my way to Myrmecology meeting Recife Brazil! Partiu Mirmeco! #MIRMECO2025 🐜🐜

Paper cake time at #RamalhoLab 🐜❤️🫶 We celebrated Lily Kelleher’s paper at today’s lab meeting! What a privilege to be surrounded by such amazing people! 🫶🥰🐜 #WCU💜💛🐑

Lily Kelleher & @manuramalho.bsky.social show that important bacteria associated with Aphaenogaster ants change in warmer temperatures, with a depletion of important bacteria that help with their growth, development and vitamin B synthesis. doi.org/10.1242/bio....

To know more about this research, read our 'First person' interview with Lily Kelleher, who conducted the research described in this article while a Master's student in Manuela Ramalho's @manuramalho.bsky.social lab at West Chester University, USA. doi.org/10.1242/bio....

"We need groundkeepers, not gatekeepers." My favorite sentence in @berondam.bsky.social's book "Lessons from Plants." (Go read it! Follow her here, get her 2nd & very soon upcoming book, aaaand keep eyes out for her current @rad-institute.bsky.social's work too): www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

Recent conversation with Luis De Luna Valdez post-doctoral researcher @ucriverside.bsky.social & Features Editor for @theplantjournal.bsky.social 10 questions about my academic work at interface of plant boo, leadership, mentoring & institutional change: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/AKQTDG....

So excited with this seminar! 🐜🐜 #RamalhoLab

Another massive movement of migratory birds underway tonight — nearly 1 Billion Birds! With the full moon, you might be able to see some silhouettes zipping by. You can make your own flow maps here (just hit record): aeroecolab.com/uslights

Nominations are now open for the Dobzhansky Prize, which recognizes the accomplishments and future promise of an outstanding early-career evolutionary biologist. The award includes $5000 and an award talk at the in-person Evolution meeting. Deadline: December 1 shorturl.at/p70wY

🔬🦠🧫🧪 #MicroSky This is the most fantatic video I've ever seen: a Tardigrade strolling on a Volvox by Penny Fenton #NikonSmallWorld #DarkField www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/20...

Although I heard them speak separately at a book festival, what a joy to experience @aleliabundles.bsky.social (author of Joy Goddess: A'Lelia Walker and the Harlem Renaissance) & @dolenperkinsvaldez.bsky.social (author of Happy Land) in convo on their biography and historical fiction, respectively.

To the Full Professors out there who actually lift people up, advocate for those with less power and voice, and who care about colleagues and trainees doing well over arbitrary gatekeeping... I see you and am grateful for you.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPrize in Chemistry to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal–organic frameworks.”

Have you seen our regularly updated job opportunities page? Visit our website for some open entomology-related jobs 🔽 buff.ly/IZnKojI If you have an #insect-related job opportunity, please send us the details [email protected] #Education #Research #Science #InsectJobs #InsectCareers #Jobs

A textbook image I did a few years ago showing a trap-jaw ant (Odontomachus rixosus) with her mandibles held open and trigger hairs forward, and then in the closed position. The snapping shut of the trap is one of the fastest measured animal movements.

A gallery of ant queens from around the world.

Chocolate with “lemon ants”! I bet is Atta sexdens! Thanks Jess Sowa! 🥰🥰🐜🐜

When I interviewed at #WCU, I was inspired by the Biology corridor filled with students’ published papers. I dreamed of seeing one of my own students there one day. Today it happened with 2 papers!🌟 Proud of Lily Kelleher—the first of many from the #RamalhoLab! #ProudPI #PUI 🐜

#RamalhoLab team! 🫶🐜🥰 I love so much! #WCU 💛🐏💜 #Ant #PUI

So excited that @corriemoreau.bsky.social will be giving a tangled banks seminar at NHMO today!! www.nhm.uio.no/english/rese... join us (also on zoom!)

🚨🚨TT Job! Please help spread the word!

🚨🚨TT Job! Please help spread the word!

Science starts at school! Volunteered at a public school in Guaraci, Brazil 🇧🇷 We talked about science, 🐜 ants, and becoming a scientist 👩🏽‍🔬 Ran an experiment and explored biodiversity! School and university should always walk together 🌱 #ScienceInSchool #Ant #RamalhoLab

Job alert! 🚨

Come to join us! 🎉🫶 The Department of Biology invites applicants for a tenure-track, Assistant Professor of Biology position! Learn more about the Department of Biology here: www.wcupa.edu/sciences-mat..., and apply online at www.schooljobs.com/careers/wcup...

If you like good people, want to live in excellent SE PA, and ❤️ PUIs… 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇

Come to join us! 🎉🫶 The Department of Biology invites applicants for a tenure-track, Assistant Professor of Biology position! Learn more about the Department of Biology here: www.wcupa.edu/sciences-mat..., and apply online at www.schooljobs.com/careers/wcup...

Happy Pride!

10 years ago: I came to the U.S. to learn this powerful machine and explore endless research possibilities 🤓🐜 Today: My students using it in my lab 😭💥💜🤩 Full circle! Heart = FULL 🫶✨ #ProudPI #RamalhoLab

Career day! #ants rule! 🐜🥰 At Nicky’s school! ♥️ #RamalhoLab

So excited for this paper by the Insect Loss RCN led by Chris Halsh! #insectloss @cbahlai.bsky.social academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

I usually associate phasmids with the tropics, but it turns out there are two species native to New York. Here is the common walkingstick, Diapheromera femorata, which enjoys the oak trees in my garden. Small nymphs appear in May, and adults, like this one, in late summer. Woodstock, NY.

A young queen of the American carpenter ant (Camponotus americanus) with a mite attached to its thorax. The mites associated with ants are highly diverse and vastly understudied. Woodstock, NY.

🦒🧬 New preprint🦒🧬 We investigated the degree of admixture, genetic diversity and inbreeding in ex situ giraffes using WGS data from the famous Marius, 12 zoo giraffes, and a data set from 71 wild giraffes. #ConsGen #PopGen #Genomics #Giraffes #Marius www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

❣️ Community ❣️ I need your help! Does your department do "intro" videos where each faculty has a short video on who they are and what their research/teaching is? Or have you seen something like this? If so, can you share it here? THANK YOU!

Arthropod Photo of the Week: April 16, 2025 Eggplant horned planthopper Leptocentrus taurus Hemiptera: Membracidae By Vijin Varghese, Kerala, India #arthropodPOTW

Congratulations to Dr. Leland Graber @bug4bug.bsky.social who did an excellent job defending his Ph.D. today! #MoreauLab #ProudPI @cornellentomology.bsky.social

Forthcoming articles cont'd: 2. "Ecosystem Assessment & Translating a Groundskeeping Framework into Practice for Promoting Systemic Change in Higher Education" in Frontiers in Education (www.frontiersin.org/journals/edu...) Collaborative work by @berondam.bsky.social & @sherilynnblack.bsky.social

Today we are at #ESA Mid-Atlantic at Longwood Gardens! More poster, talks and fun at the #RamalhoLab! 🫶🐜 Great Science and great people! #ProudPI #WCU 💜🐏💛

Research Day at #WCU💜🐏💛 and #RamalhoLab 🐜❤️ #ProudPI #PUI

We love this! 💚

Happy 91st birthday to Dr. Jane Goodall! A true inspiration for future generations of women in science! 🎂🔬🧬🧫👩‍🔬! @janegoodall.org @janegoodallcan.bsky.social @janegoodallespana.bsky.social #WomenInScience #GirlsInStem

Interested in ancient food webs? Check out our new study on the paleoecology of the Pliocene large carnivore guild at Hadar (Lower Awash Valley, Ethiopia): www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A 🆕 Meeting Review in the ESA Bulletin: Lessons from the Diversity Forum at the 2023 Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America doi.org/10.1002/bes2...

❗ New paper ❗ 🐤 Bird communities change differently depending on distance to protected area and habitat type, indicating edge effects in climate change responses. This work was part of Leena Hintsanen's PhD thesis 👏 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 📸 @aksulehikoinen.bsky.social

Cornelian cherry, Cornus mas, N. European #dogwood (Cornaceae), ornamentally planted as an early spring flowering small tree, with edible fruit in autumn - very tannic red flesh is only enjoyable when mushy #WildflowerHour #bloomscrolling #botany

Science and art offer complementary approaches to achieving a deeper understanding of life, and the exchange between the two can be very fruitful. Check out the fantastic work of Maximilian Prüfer, who lets insects express themselves in his art: maximilian-pruefer.com

Circumpolar Marsh Marigold, Caltha palustris #Ranunculaceae, a #buttercup that makes a lactone-based poison protoanemonin... Like glucosinolates and cyanogenic glycosides In other families, the toxin is not unveiled until tissue maceration #WildflowerHour #bloomscrolling #botany