there are sheep, and there are wolves

Listen up brine shrimps - have you considered hosting tapeworm larvae? Con: You turn bright red and is more likely to be eaten by a bird Pro: You become more resistant to arsenic #Invertebrate 🧪 dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2016/03/conf...

🐜🐜🐜Fans of Myrmicinae! New paper in Syst Biol in collaboration with C. Rabeling🐜🐜🐜 doi.org/10.1093/sysb...

Wel, no surprise that Coyne used his blog (whyevolutionistrue) to argue with the SSE/SSB/ASN letter about definitions of sex. I'm not going to engage deeply with the letter here. Like any committee-drafted text it reflects compromises; I agree with some phrasing but some could have been clearer 1/N

One more shot of her before I have to let her go...

One of my roles at Arizona State University is building the Social Insect Biodiversity Repository. My intention with this collection is to provide a taxonomic reference for the ants of southwestern U.S.A. and northwestern Mexico. ecdysis.org/collections/...

My lab has a new paper in @insectessociaux.bsky.social. We found that alleculine beetle larvae consume most insect prey collected by Florida harvester ant workers, and occur in up to 63% of nests. 1/n

Our paper on the phylogeny of Nematoda 🪱came out on the last day of 2024 in @systbiol.bsky.social. Well at least the link is, the PDF will come later... What started off as a collaboration invitation to design UCE probes snowballed building a phylogeny of the whole phylum using BUSCOs...

*Be my new work supervisor!* Arizona State University is hiring a new Director of the ASU Biocollections with a concurrent appointment as a tenured associate or full professor. *I'd really love for this person to be an entomologist so ento friends, please share!* apply.interfolio.com/159166

Emergent collective behavior evolves more rapidly than individual behavior among acorn ant species #pnas www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Since you all seemed to enjoy the last video, here is more Ostracod-y goodness for #Crustmas :) #nverts #BugSky #PondLife #UKWildlife #Ostracod #Freshwater

Taking Bluesky for a spin. New phd and new platform! I recently completed my masters in Montana and moved to Czech Republic to join the Insect Symbiosis Lab! Check out some of the beetles I’m working with - they’re crazy looking. Beetle left, termite right. bucek-lab.org/projects/Ale...

In Australia, some #ants are specialised #termite hunters. Their paralysing venom and extreme speed are essential to escape the sharp mandibles of soldier termites. This was really difficult to film, their sting is very painful ! #insects #nature #science #macro #macrophotography #myrmecology

We’ve made a starter pack, to help you find people actively working with insect collections. Get in touch if you’d like to be added. 🦋 Entomological Collections Crew go.bsky.app/C5VpWiw

Still my favourite strand line discovery to date - a female Phronima sedentaria (‘monster in a barrel’) - Isles of Scilly, October 2023! An amphipod crustacean, she parasitises salps, devouring them from the inside, forming a vessel to raise her young 👽 #MarineLife 🦑 #ukwildlife

A thread of Katydids from the Northern Territory! LETS DO IT!! 🥳💚 First off, is my absolute FAVOURITE! Built like a tank, Armadillagraecia mataranka is found during the wet seasons feeding on tall grass in savannas! 🌱

I'm pleased to report that we now have a name for an eastern US ant species: introducing Temnothorax caryaluteus! These little creatures nest arboreally, and are apparently fairly common inhabitants of oak and hickory trees. doi.org/10.5852/ejt.... #taxonomy #ants #insects

when the tide pool looks back at you

Exciting news to add to the feed—my second dissertation chapter was recently published in Systematic Entomology! doi.org/10.1111/syen... 🐜

🐜some recent ants 😎

We’ve got a new phylogeny of the ants out as a preprint! It’s been an exciting collaboration with some awesome 🐜 people for the past few years, led by Marek Borowiec and @corriemoreau.bsky.social: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Manica parasitica was thought to be a species of social parasite ant which lives by freeloading off its host ant species - Manica bradleyi. Turns out those "Manica parasitica" are just Manica bradleyi ants that have been infected with tapeworms #虫 #昆虫 🧪🐜 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....

Temnothorax quercicola with featherweight forceps for scale

We're back in business! For our post today, an 18th-century German philosopher would like a word about ants... 🐜🐜🐜 dailyant.com/2024/11/22/p...

Welcoming @joanieking.bsky.social @meganbarkdull.bsky.social @docteur-drey.bsky.social and @mischocarvalhus.bsky.social to our growing community of amazing ant scientists here on bsky! 🩵🐜🩷 go.bsky.app/zo95qR

Good morning!

Flipping rocks, I've been finding these tiny blindsnakes in my neighborhood more and more. About 3 inches long, look like earthworms at first glance.

Conservation management increasingly makes use of genetics and genomics, but access to data, technologies, resources, and training is biased. This paper highlights steps the #ConservationGenetics community can take to facilitate broad and pragmatic integration of molecular data into conservation 🧬🧪

Please share this Summer 2025 PAID INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH OPPORTUNITY w/ undergraduate students! Bee-HERO gives students the chance to study bee parasites/viruses at the Centre for Honey Bee Research in Uppsala, Sweden. See 🧵 and Bee-HERO website for details - www.sacredheart.edu/academics/co... 🧪🐝

The Institute of #ecology and #evolution at @unibern.bsky.social is looking for two tenure-track assistant professors (APTT): APTT Mathematical or Computational Ecology 👩‍💻 APTT #Conservation #Biology 👨🏾‍🔬 More info: tinyurl.com/IEEjobs Application deadline: 1 March 2025

I am accepting graduate students this year. Please contact me if you are interested in joining our PhD and Masters program fantastic program in beautiful #Tucson

We’re looking for an assistant professor in urban entomology at New Mexico State University: careers.nmsu.edu/jobs/assista... Please apply if interested and do share! 🐜🪰🪳🦟🦗🦂

The California Academy of Sciences @calacademy.bsky.social is looking for a new curator of botany! This is an endowed position (McAllister Chair) and our herbarium and botany department are world class. Check it out and feel free to send questions my way! us242.dayforcehcm.com/CandidatePor...

Not sure what is happening here, but it looks like Pogonomyrmex rugosus workers have been stunned by Liometopum apiculatum. Both species had dense populations at this site. I saw this interaction several times over the course of an evening. Three Rivers Campground, NM.

🦗We are #hiring 🦗 Open position Curator #Entomology with focus on #Hemimetabola at the @leibnizlib.bsky.social, #MuseumofNatureHamburg. Make a difference in the #biodiversity world. 👉 Apply now 8101202752.karriereportal.cloud/job/2024-20-... #Insects #Collection #Jobs #MuseumofNatureHamburg

A memory from summer 2020

Temnothorax stenotyle is a rarely seen creature. What we know: it nests under stones in pine forest in the Chiricahuas… and that’s about it. I found this lil nest under a stone in the Sierra San Diego of northern Sonora.

Searching for ants along the Three Rivers trail in the White Mountain wilderness of New Mexico. We had four rattlesnake encounters in a single day!