Paper alert 🚨🐜! Fire ant foraging looks remarkably robust until you perturb their communication. @dornhaus.bsky.social 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...

Two Masters thesis position openings up on the lab website: activesensingcollectives.com/openings Especially interesting perhaps if you're into acoustics, graphical design, realtime visualisations, and algorithms. Please do spread the word and forward in your circles.

Open postdoc position in my lab at Cornell, conducting comparative and experimental studies on transcriptomic responses to diet and toxins, utilizing the milkweed-insect community. Background in molecular bio & herbivory desired. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31867

It’s me!

Bumble bees that follow a stricter routine innovate less: Foraging behaviors, environmental complexity, and how they relate to novel problem solving https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.06.710156v1

📣 Call for Applications: The University of Vienna invites applications for more than 40 fully funded doctoral positions across a broad range of disciplines in Life Sciences and Natural Sciences. 👨‍🔬👩‍🔬 #PhDSky #PhD #univie 📅 Application period: 2 March – 27 March 2026, 12:00 CET More information: ⤵️

🐜 European Ant Identification Workshop 2026 🐜 📍 Banyuls-sur-Mer, France 📅 June 3–7, 2026 A hands-on workshop focused on European ant diversity, collection methods, and identification — set in the amazing Mediterranean–Pyrenean place of Banyuls-sur-Mer 🌿🏞️

Alita Burmeister (@aburmeister.bsky.social) is looking to hire a postdoc (or potentially a PhD student) for projects on phage resistance and evolution. The position description is posted to the Eco-Evo Jobs wiki and also available on her lab's website (arburmeister.weebly.com).

This looks very exciting! Hoping we can discover many many more cool insects than we ever dreamt of.

I'm hiring a technician! www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc... An 80% role in a 4-yr BBSRC project and hopefully beyond. Looking for someone to support the @socialfluids.bsky.social 🧪our ants 🐜 and our projects. Looking for someone kind + conscientious + reliable who takes pride in a job well done.

Fascinating findings! This is what I love about behavioral ecology experiments. Simple and clever experimental designs can elegantly answer important questions.

Looking to build T-mazes for behavioral experiments? I’ve shared open, fully editable designs on my GitHub repository linked below. I used these designs for my own experiments. Happy to chat if further if you have any questions !

There is still some time to submit for our Special Collection on social cognition and anthropogenic environments! We are looking forward to hear from you! link.springer.com/collections/... Please do get in touch if you have any questions. #openaccess #socialcognition

I am looking for a PhD working on tracking trait changes in insects/spiders at the Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity change @leibnizlib.bsky.social and the University of Hamburg. Apply here: www.uni-hamburg.de/en/stellenan...

Don't be put off by the ad saying "UK Students only" - a limited number of scholarships are available for international candidates. So please apply!

Pre-print alert 🚨🐜!!! I am really excited to share results from the first empirical chapter of my PhD. We ( @dornhaus.bsky.social and I) set out to examine how fire ants deal with perturbations to communication during foraging. Turns out their foraging is not robust to this perturbation. (1/5)

🚨 New postdoc opportunity in Aotearoa 🇳🇿 with @drhhnz.bsky.social RA / Postdoctoral Fellow in honeybee bacteriophages, microbial genetics & molecular evolution at the University of Canterbury (Christchurch). 3-year position, starts March 2026. 🔗 jobs.canterbury.ac.nz/jobdetails/a...

PhD position(s)🚨deadline 20th Jan 1-development of brain & behaviour in the precocial spiny mouse tinyurl.com/yaxhy5y2 2-social behaviour & neurophysiology in a menstruating rodent using AI tinyurl.com/ykv93cts apply ✍️ @ai4bicdt.bsky.social @sidb-edinburgh.bsky.social @edinunineuro.bsky.social

🐜 4-year #postdoc position in the @socialfluids.bsky.social lab @camzoology.bsky.social investigating metabolic cooperation between bodies in a BBSRC-funded project. www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/postdoc... #ants #socialtransfers #sociallytransferredmaterials #autophagy #socialinsects #aging #job (🧵1/n)

"Ultimately, good science is produced by the individual people and the small teams within larger systems."

Great perspective on why world needs behavioral ecology and behavioral ecologists !!! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The deadline to apply for PhD positions with me (or anyone in my department!) are coming up: Jan 7th. www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/study/postgr...

Are you an early-stage graduate student (2nd or 3rd year) or early-stage postdoc based in the US or Canada, working primarily in Drosophila? Would you like to help improve the experience of all trainees working in Drosophila research? If so, read on. (Please repost to reach a broad audience.)

Pre-print alert 🚨🐜!!! I am really excited to share results from the first empirical chapter of my PhD. We ( @dornhaus.bsky.social and I) set out to examine how fire ants deal with perturbations to communication during foraging. Turns out their foraging is not robust to this perturbation. (1/5)

New paper out in @royalsocietypublishing.org Biology Letters. We show that variability in contest behaviour can emerge from plastic responses to modest size differences between focal males and their rivals. #Drosophila #Diptera royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article...

Ancient Plants Used Infrared Radiation to Attract Their Pollinators #research 🧠 🧪🧬 #AcademicSky #higherEd www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @nbellono.bsky.social @rachellegaudet.bsky.social @harvardoeb.bsky.social @science.org

Please pass along - We've extended the CAMBIUM fellowship deadline to December 15! Our NSF NRT supports new grad students to harness biodiversity big data to adapt to & mitigate climate change impacts. Great fit for evolutionary genomics, bioinformatics, ecology & more. cambium.arizona.edu 🧬🌐🌎

I'm recruiting PhD students for the Barker Lab @uofa-eeb.bsky.social We study plant evolutionary genomics - polyploidy, hybridization & machine learning for genome evolution. Work with Selaginella, Xanthisma, Brassica & more. Funding available via CAMBIUM Fellowships. Reach out if interested! 🧬🌵🤖

A common type of ant in Europe breaks a fundamental rule in biology: its queens can produce male offspring that are a whole different species go.nature.com/4mOb5T9

I'm looking for a graduate student (either PhD or master's) to join my lab starting Jan 2026. If you know any students in social behavior and evolution (and termites!), please let them know!

go.bsky.app/8zZNEGV Great resource to connect early career folks with more senior scientists looking to hire postdocs! 🧪

I made one for PhD students as well and I'm recruiting to make ones for PIs! bsky.app/starter-pack...

Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution Award: $265,800 for 3 years worth of full time support Eligibility: entering or applying for Ph.D. programs in biology or a subfield of the life sciences during fall 2025 Deadline: LOI due July 31, 2025 www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons... 🧪 🧠

Hello World! After almost a month of starting a research group - finally the announcement :) We are the 'Active Sensing Collectives' group (tinyurl.com/yckehxys) at the CASCB in the University of Konstanz. We're still growing, see PhD position ad below. @cbehav.bsky.social @uni-konstanz.de z.de

Social insect and cognition postdocs, check these positions in Berlin, with super nice supervisor Tomer! :)

This one is also excellent go.bsky.app/2gr4VJ5

Dr. Burman accomplished what many conservationists around the world fail to do- involving community in the conservation process and making the bird a part of local cultural Zeitgeist! Hope her work inspires more such endeavors!

Ok, I made a new starter pack: Science Job Accounts! I want to try & collect together account that are likely to post jobs/internships/employment opportunities in science. It is heavily US/Ecology based (and would probably be better as a feed). Please suggest other accounts!! go.bsky.app/QPGnfWu

Great opportunity to get funding to come to Cambridge!

A bit more of my work... Hope that you enjoyed it! 🐜🌇🌃 #ants #UrbanTemperatures #AnimalsActivity In collaboration with @tomerczaczkes.bsky.social Graphical abstract by @theafenogaster.bsky.social Link 👉🏼 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Great paper from @tomerczaczkes.bsky.social, Federico-Javier Olivera-Rodriguez, and @curiousant.bsky.social! Individual ants modulate pheromone trail reinforcement w.r.t distance of the food source from the nest, but do not modulate compete against outdated trail.

At least in my experience, science discussions are increasingly becoming more transactional than conversational (Especially post-pandemic period). What do you think about this?

Very timely article on declining fieldwork experience among ecologists amidst changing natural and technological landscape! It would be interesting to further study if fieldwork is indeed declining or becoming hyper focused on a very few systems(in specific geographies). Soga and Gaston 2025.

Great read! This has given me a lot to think about! www.experimental-history.com/p/underrated...

Ants can hold grudges against their opponents! Bey et al. 2025: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Rescue behavior is more likely to be seen in ants if the workers are long-lived. Turza et al. 2024 academic.oup.com/beheco/advan...