What's the working routine of a researcher? Posing for photoshoots is a possibility! We just had a photo session to portait some key aspects of WoodWideAnts research: #bioinformatics, #wetlab & #taxonomy 🖥️🧬🐜 This is part of our commitment to #SciComm to bring science to the public! #bugsky

These wood ants are edge specialists... but not all edges are equal. Jacob Podesta used a decade of population expansion data to show that wood ants spread more quickly along certain edges, depending on the edge orientation. Currently available open access here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

An impressive review on classification and study of #ants, taken from an historical perspective 🖥️🧬🐜 includes also loads of insightful sections 👀 #bugsky #phylogenetics academic.oup.com/isd/article/...

Join the 𝐄𝐂𝐒𝐀 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐩 “𝑺𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑶𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝑨𝒓𝒕𝒔” for a creative online workshop with 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐝 𝐆𝐞𝐞𝐥𝐬, storyteller, writer and citizen science practitioner. 🗓 𝑊𝑒𝑑𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑑𝑎𝑦, 26 𝑁𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟 2025 | 13:00–14:00 𝐶𝐸𝑇 | Zoom 🔗 𝐑𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫: eu01web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Day 3 of Genomics for Biodiversity Conference! It starts at 12.30 CET. Find the zoom links for today's sessions in the programme. 👉 www.erga-biodiversity.eu/post/genomic... @ergabiodiv.bsky.social @horizoneu.bsky.social

Yesterday @fghiselli.bsky.social and Enrico Strada presented WWA and all of our activities at the #biodiversity #genomics conference by @biogeneurope.bsky.social @sib.swiss @ergabiodiv.bsky.social 🖥️🧬🌐 Check out our contribution on the YT rec below (starting ~3:07:00) 🫶🐜 #bugsky

Quick thread of the many crabs named for Halloween related topics. This one is Gecarcinus quadratus, aka THE Halloween crab 🦀 1/

1/2 🧵 What's spookier than a swarm of hungry #ants feasting on your body?! 🐜👻 #bugsky Probably, a swarm of hungry *alien* ants feasting on your body! 💀 HAPPY HALLOWEEN FROM WWA 🎃🐜 Find out more about this terrifying story on our website: tinyurl.com/59fmcxsk

What do u get when you seclude 200 science comms in a small town in Northern Italy for 72 hh? You get Folle di Scienza & Strambinaria, two fantastic events by Frame Divagazioni Scientifiche. We attended last weekend and got the chance to talk about WWA with many colleagues 🥹🫶🐜🖥️🧬 #SciComm #bugsky

2/2🧵But lets showcase an outstanding project about #ant #genomics: @woodwideants.bsky.social #bugsky🖥️🧬 Have a look at our social profiles and website: loads of science, #SciComm & teaching! And for the #invertober community, a little EXTRA for Day13: Formica paralugubris, or the red wood ant!

⏰ It's the last day to submit your abstracts for the chance to share your research at the Outreach, Culture & Education SIG! If you're interested in #InsectScience and outreach, get involved and submit your papers today. Abstract submissions deadline: 17:00 (GMT) Friday 17 Oct 🔽

1/3 Excited that my final PhD MS is online! Big thanks to Ullasa (PI) (vanasiri.in) & collaborators Freerk and Urszula. Turns out humidity, not just temperature, plays a major role in butterfly eyespot plasticity. doi.org/10.1101/2025...

#invertober 13, banded sugar ant 🐜 #invertober2025

Accounting for systematic phylogenetic bias led to a revised view of #mosquito #evolution, including the nonmonophyly of subfamily Culicinae, and the origin of mosquitoes to ~106 Mya, 100 My younger than previous estimates www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

One of the WWA missions is to bring research into high schools—sharing #biodiversity #genomics, #myrmecology, #entomology & #CitizenScience straight with students!📚🐜🧬🖥️ Learn more about our school programmes in the link in bio🌐🔗 #OpenScience #bugsky @ergabiodiv.bsky.social @biogeneurope.bsky.social

1/2🧵In 2024 we took the first photo shoot ever of the #ant Formica parlaugubris, in order to support our #SciComm activity 🐜📸 A huge thank to the naturalistic photographer ©Iacopo Nerozzi for these outstanding pics. #bugsky @ergabiodiv.bsky.social @biogeneurope.bsky.social @sib.swiss

That's a wrap! Had a great time at the European Researchers' Night #ERN25 by @ec.europa.eu in Bologna🇮🇹! #SciComm #OpenScience @fghiselli.bsky.social & Enrico Strada entertained loads of ppl with #ants, #genomics and all of our work 🐜🖥️🧪🧬 @sib.swiss @biogeneurope.bsky.social @ergabiodiv.bsky.social

🇪🇺Getting ready for today's European Researchers' Night 2025 #ERN25 by @ec.europa.eu #SciComm #OpenScience #bugsky 🧪🖥️🧬🐜WWA will be present in Bologna to talk about #biodiversity #genomics, #ants & #entomology @sib.swiss @biogeneurope.bsky.social @ergabiodiv.bsky.social

Everything is getting ready for #ERN2025 European Researchers Night tomorrow at @casacienciasevcsic.bsky.social , where we are going to present our workshop "Insects - witnesses of the past", dealing with #fossils, palaeoclimate reconstruction and ecological physiology of insects

New publication: The European Reference #Genome Atlas: piloting a decentralised approach to equitable #biodiversity genomics, by @KvanOers and others. #genomics #eukaryote #sequencing https://doi.org/10.1038/s44185-024-00054-6

1/3🧵Kicking off on #bugsky today & introducing Wood Wide Ants, aka WWA! We're researchers studying the #evolbio of the #ant Formica paralugubris and its kin, through #genomics, #SciComm & #CitizenScience📚🐜🧪🧬🖥️ #insects #mirmecology @sib.swiss @biogeneurope.bsky.social @ergabiodiv.bsky.social