Excited to share my @currentbiology.bsky.social dispatch on the beautiful work from Tiphaine Bailly, @danielkronauer.bsky.social, @etf1989.bsky.social, and collaborators. They used the clonal raider ant to study how ants develop and maintain tolerance to non-nestmates. www.cell.com/current-biol...

Ants are experts at telling nestmates from foreigners via subtle differences in odor profiles. In this new paper, we explore the conditions under which ants develop and maintain tolerance to foreigners. Turns out the ant recognition system is surprisingly plastic. www.cell.com/current-biol...

🐜 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 🌿🏞️

How fun! I was invited to write a "Species Spotlight" for Nature Ecology & Evolution @natecoevo.nature.com and I chose my favorite species the Florida turtle ant Cephalotes varians! rdcu.be/e5EZK Including a stunning photo of ants I collected by @alexwild.bsky.social

📄 A parasitic, parthenogenetic ant with only queens and without workers or males 🐜 ⬇️ www.cell.com/current-biol...

Dinomyrmex gigas, the giant forest ant (large workers are ca. 28mm) dissolves territorial disputes with other colonies via a ritualized behavior called “front leg boxing”. This allows the ants to maintain territorial boundaries while avoiding escalated conflict. Danum Valley, Sabah, Borneo.

Meet the Dracula ant Myopopone castanea, the only extant species in its genus. Like other ants in the subfamily Amblyoponinae, the workers pierce the larvae with their mandibles and drink the oozing hemolymph. Hence the name “Dracula ant”. Danum Valley, Sabah.

J'ai participé en tant que consultante scientifique sur ce film pour le Nikon Film Festival. Vous pouvez le visionner ici : www.festivalnikon.fr/video/2025/2... Ça a été l'occasion hier de faire une intervention avec @ssaft.com et @francois-lasserre.bsky.social sur la perception des insectes

her highness sleeps Ammophila wasp on brittlebush (Encelia) distal twigs at night take a close look ... she is SPECTACULAR!

🐜🥛 Des scientifiques ont « ressuscité » une ancienne recette des Balkans et de Turquie : le yaourt aux fourmis ! Leur étude, publiée dans la revue iScience, révèle que les #fourmis rousses (Formica spp.) possèdent un ensemble de ferments permettant de transformer le lait en yaourt 😆

🦅⛰️ Surprenantes découvertes : les gypaètes barbus ne se contentent pas de construire des nids, ils créent de véritables capsules temporelles. En Espagne, des chercheur·se·s ont découvert que certains nids pouvaient contenir des artefacts humains vieux de... 600 à 700 ans !

Breaking News: Jane Goodall, one of the world’s most revered conservationists, died at 91. Her discoveries in the 1960s about how chimpanzees behaved in the wild broke new ground and represented what was called “one of the Western world’s great scientific achievements.” nyti.ms/42kpGxt

The University of Glasgow groundspeople are going to be quite annoyed when they come in to work tomorrow...

let me share a little story about a remarkable wasp that I encountered yesterday in our local deserts I stumbled across her, and scrambled to get a few crappy photos .... but then realized that she had a burrow, perhaps a better photo op was possible ?? here she is at her burrow entrance.

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Opinion: As human–AI interdependence deepens, could they form an integrated evolutionary individual, subject to collective selection? Explore this perspective in PNAS Front Matter: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #AI #evolution #singularity #ChatGPT #LLM #MajorEvolutionaryTransition

Départ pour Le Havre demain, rdv au festival sur les épaules des géants lehavre.fr/sur-les-epau... 💛 Le blob sera à l'honneur pour tous les publics avec 4 rencontres prévues 💛 1️⃣ Jeudi je débute avec deux conférences pour 300 élèves du CE1 eu CM2...Désolé les parents... Blobs offerts à l'adoption.

Today is #AmazonRainforestDay! Home to 47 million people and around 10% of all species on Earth, this incredible ecosystem is under threat from mass deforestation and climate change. You can visit buff.ly/D6xZCkJ to learn more about how to help the Amazon Rainforest.

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

This is just... 🤯🤯🤯 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The 2026 international conference of the IUSSI will be in Freiburg, Germany, August 16th – 20st iussi2026.org

New short communication!📄 Satizabal‑Niemeyer, @abelbernadou.bsky.social et al. showed that urban structures are poor substitutes for natural habitats and unlikely to maintain gene flow 🌆 doi.org/10.1007/s000... #InsectesSociaux #SocialInsects #AntResearch #UrbanEcology #Nest #Fragmentation

Very happy to see this paper published in #InsectesSociaux! This study is a continuation of a story we published two years ago 😉 with @marioncordonnier.bsky.social 1/2

Ants of the Amazon Rainforest, a photo gallery.

go.bsky.app/QKajPgc A starter pack for social evolution! Lots of space left for anyone who would like to be added

Le CRCA – @cbitoulouse.bsky.social Recrute un.e Ingénieur.e d’Etude en Techniques Biologiques Campagne MOBILITE 2024-2025 CNRS (Modèles étudiés : souris, fourmis, araignées, abeilles, blob !) Déposer votre candidature jusqu’au 16 janvier 2025 mobiliteinterne.cnrs.fr emploi.cnrs.fr

Phrictus quinquepartitus is what I'd call the dragon-headed lantern bug with the multiple tubercles lining its snout, or apical process. Photographed in Belize

Here's a starter pack for assembling a versatile collection of Ecology and Evolution journals. Feel free to share suggestions! Bookmark it in your Browser for quick access to explore publications in the field or find outlets for your work: go.bsky.app/TivtkJn

There’s loads of invertebrate macrophotographers on Bsky now, so I’ve whipped up a starter pack to make it easy to fill your feed with excellent bug photos! #Invertebrate #Macrophotography 🧪 go.bsky.app/5CHHo2r

L'odyssée des fourmis en version Coréenne 🥰

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