Ants normally use about 24% of their energy for brain functions, but when food-deprived, this percentage nearly doubles to 45%. Preferential energy allocation to the brain has previously been found in humans and other mammals. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/kVkU50ZwbrB

#ResultatScientifique🔎| Dans le microbiote aussi, le collectif dépasse l’individu ! @acabirol.bsky.social montrent que les effets du microbiote intestinal sur le cerveau dépendent de l’ensemble de la communauté microbienne et non de bactéries isolées. 👋 @cbitoulouse.bsky.social

Les bactéries intestinales agissent en communauté pour influencer les capacités cognitives des abeilles

Dans le microbiote aussi, le collectif dépasse l’individu. Dans une étude publiée dans PNAS, des scientifiques montren

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👀 Retrouvez également l'article vulgarisé en français www.unil.ch/news/fr/1779... @acabirol.bsky.social @nathalieisorce.bsky.social

Les bactéries intestinales agissent en communauté pour influencer les capacités cognitives

Une étude publiée par l’Unil dans la revue «PNAS» révèle que les effets du microbiote intestinal sur le cerveau dépendent de l’ensemble de la communauté microbienne et non d’espèces bactériennes isolé...

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Really happy to see our paper finally published in PNAS 🎉 We used honey bees to study how gut microbiota shape cognition and found that learning benefits only appear when the full microbial community is present — not with individual bacterial species alone. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

What a great way to end the week! Thanks @jfcryan.bsky.social for the fantastic talk and discussion ! We are all delighted here @cbitoulouse.bsky.social

🚨 Tenure-track professorship at Goethe University of Frankfurt, Germany, with a focus on evolutionary ecology of social hymenoptera 🐝🐜 Initially for 6 years: www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/pr...

Parental care, and more complex cooperative systems of care, have independently evolved in hundreds of animal lineages. In an article published today, we explore how these behaviors evolve 𝘢𝘵 𝘢 𝘮𝘰𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘳 𝘭𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘭l shorturl.at/g5OPw /1

Convergent evolution of a conserved molecular network underlies parenting and sociality - Nature Reviews Genetics

Kay et al. review evidence that parental care, and more complex social behaviour based on parental care, evolved in multiple species through the repeated co-option of members of a pleiotropic molecula...

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🐝🦠 New paper: rdcu.be/eOf7A Phages may drive microbial diversity, yet we often don’t even know how phages & bacteria correlate in nature. Our new study tackles this in the honeybee gut, thanks to the great work of PhD student @malickndiaye.bsky.social at @dmf-unil.bsky.social @fbm-unil.bsky.social

Phage diversity mirrors bacterial strain diversity in the honey bee gut microbiota - Nature Communications

Authors analyse paired viral and bacterial shotgun metagenomics data from individual honeybee guts, revealing modular, nested phage–bacteria networks, with viral diversity mirroring bacterial strain c...

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PhD position in Magnetoreception Research!🐝🧠🔬 📍 Center for Mind/Brain Sciences #cimec_unitreno, University of Trento #unitrento, Italy Reception🦟,Neural processing🧠🔬,Behaviour🌀 🌐 Apply: phd.unitn.it/drcimec/116/... 📅 Deadline: June 5, 2025 📩 Contact: albrecht.haase@unitn.it 🌍 Please spread the word!

Open university professor (W3) position for #BehavioralPhysiology in Würzburg, Germany @uni-wuerzburg.de: ↘️ www.nature.com/naturecareer... ↙️ Share or apply 🤗 #InsectResearch 🧪🐝🐜🦟

University Professor (m/w/d) for Behavioral Physiology (grade W3) - Würzburg (Stadt), Bayern (DE) job with Julius-Maximilians-University of Würzburg - Faculty of Biology | 12839249

The University of Würzburg is offering a position of a University Professor (m/w/d) for Behavioral Physiology (grade W3) (Chair of Zoology II).

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#Communiqué 🗞️ Le CNRS exprime sa solidarité avec les scientifiques exerçant aux États-Unis, où la liberté académique est aujourd'hui mise à l’épreuve. 👉 www.cnrs.fr/fr/presse/le...

L'Europe a "un rôle à jouer pour proposer une vision alternative, fondée sur le savoir et les connaissances, pour proposer un avenir émancipateur" www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/...

La recherche "dans un moment orwellien" aux Etats-Unis, regrettent plusieurs scientifiques français

Les scientifiques français Valérie Masson-Delmotte, Olivier Berné et Alain Fisher évoquent le contexte de la recherche américaine, dont les budgets sont en train d'être rabotés et les sujets de travai...

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We are looking for a bioinformatician with expertise in microbiome data analysis join our team at the University of Lausanne. The successful candidate will lead and support research projects within nccr-microbiomes.ch. More details here: shorturl.at/mC46o . Please share with potential candidates.

Open positions in our lab. Just sayin…

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📢Please share: We're now accepting applications for our #PhD and #MDPhD programs! 🧬Join us in Basel, Europe's #LifeScience hub, and unleash your potential in a vibrant, international and supportive environment. 📅Apply by May 1 at www.fmi.ch/education-ca...

Dear colleagues fascinated by olfaction and taste! 👃🏾👅 We’ll organize the next ESITO (Symposium of Insect Taste and Olfaction) from September 19-24 2025 in Sardinia at the beautiful Hotel Cormoran again. We are currently updating the website and will start the registration soon! Please stay tuned!

🐝 3-year Postdoc position 🐝 Join us @bristolbiosci.bsky.social to study the impacts of parasitic bees on tropical bee communities using eDNA, SNPs & field-based surveys. 📅 Deadline: 23 Feb 2025 💃Vibrant city 🌎 Collaboration with USP 🇧🇷 🐝 Details here: tinyurl.com/586u7vau @leverhulme.bsky.social

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

International Union for the Study of Social Insects

International Congress of the Insternational Union for the Study of Social Insects

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