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Chinmay Hemant Joshi

@chjoshi.bsky.social

Behavioral ecologist | Currently looking for Postdoc positions | PhD from @uofa-eeb.bsky.social‬ and MS from IISER-Trivandrum | Robustness of collective foraging, animal contest, and evolution of eusociality Website: chinmayhemantjoshi.wordpress.com

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Adria LeBoeuf@adriatica.bsky.social · 10h ago

Come join the @socialfluids.bsky.social lab in Cambridge to study the evolution of Socially Transferred Materials! Fun new HFSP project btwn UK, NL and Costa Rica! Deadline September 7th #Postdoc #JobAlert #Evolution #Bioinformatics #STM #socialfluids www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc... leboeuflab.com

Research Associate (Fixed Term)

A Research Associate position is available in the Social Fluids Lab, led by Dr. Adria LeBoeuf, in the Department of Zoology. The post is funded by a new 3-year international Human Frontier Science Pro...

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Chinmay Hemant Joshi@chjoshi.bsky.social · last wk.

Pre-print alert 🚨🐜🐝! Social insect foraging is far from perfect. @dornhaus.bsky.social and I designed an agent-based model to examine how different error types affect collective foraging outcomes and whether communication mitigates or exacerbates these effects. See the thread below! (1/6).

Frequent errors are the worst: robustness to individual failures in collective foraging

The collective behavior of complex systems emerges from the actions and interactions of their individual components. But what if these individuals make mistakes, or deviate from behavior tuned to lead...

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Avery Russell@draverbee.bsky.social · last mo.

Would love to support a Smith Fellowship #postdoc application for projects on our Southwest #Missouri #Prairies! Incredible #pollinator & flowering #plant diversity, & thus lots of possible topics! Years of experience & collab with conservation agencies on these prairies to help scholars network 😇

Low horizon view of a Southwest Missouri Prairie, with flowers in the foreground (red paintbrush in the center) and blue, cloud-spotted sky in the background
Society for Conservation Biology@society4conbio.bsky.social · last mo.

Applications are open for the 2027 Smith Conservation Research Fellowship! This postdoc supports early-career scientists advancing innovative, applied conservation research across the U.S. & territories. conbio.org/publications/scb-news-blog/smith-fellows-2027-call-for-proposals-announced

Daniel Kronauer@danielkronauer.bsky.social · last mo.

Our lab at Rockefeller University is looking for a Research Technician to help with our studies of ant social behavior and evolution. 🐜 🧠 🐜 🧬 🐜 Please share and apply here if interested: hhmi.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...

Research Technician I - Kronauer Lab

Primary Work Address: 1230 York Avenue, New York, NY, 10065 Current HHMI Employees, click here to apply via your Workday account. About the Role: The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) is seeking ...

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Erica Maul@ericamaul.bsky.social · 2mo ago

My first first-author paper is now published online at Insectes Sociaux! I loved this project and sharing it with y’all at IUSSI-NAS and ABS. Check it out! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Honey bees actively process dead mice inside their nests - Insectes Sociaux

Honey bee nests are warm and resource-rich, making them attractive targets for animal intruders during winter, including mice. Beekeepers often protect their nests from mice, but have also documented ...

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Chelsea Cook@phdbee.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We (me and @njdowdy.bsky.social) are hiring a PhD student! Come work with us! We seek a PhD student to investigate the evolution of acoustic behavior in Lepidoptera within a comparative evolutionary framework... Job closes this week! Apply ASAP! njdowdy.gitlab.io/balogh-fello...

Kenneth F. Balogh Graduate Student Fellowship

A PhD position investigating the evolution of acoustic behavior in Lepidoptera, co-advised by Dr. Nicolas J. Dowdy (Milwaukee Public Museum) and Dr. Chelsea Cook (Marquette University). Apply by June ...

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Chinmay Hemant Joshi@chjoshi.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Check out my interview with Insectes Sociaux! This gave me a chance to reflect on my journey, my fascination with ants and the things that keep me going! ICYMI, link to my recent paper: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Interview with a social insect scientist: Chinmay Joshi

Chinmay Joshi grew up photographing insects in India and never really stopped. Now a fresh PhD from the University of Arizona, he studies how ant colonies hold together when things go wrong. A rese…

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Insectes Sociaux@insectessociaux.bsky.social · 3mo ago

New interview with a social insect scientist! 🎙️ Chinmay (chjoshi.bsky.social) has spent years figuring out how ant colonies keep it together when everything goes wrong.... 🐜 insectessociaux.wordpress.com/2026/05/06/i... #SocialInsects #Ants #BehavioralEcology #FieldWork #ScienceLife

Rebecca Wang 王思寧@rebeccawang.bsky.social · 3mo ago

For Day 1 of #Invertefest - I'm (once again) highlighting the Hong Kong Biodiversity Museum @hkbm.bsky.social! 🏛️ Specifically it's wonderful "Meet Your Neighbors / 左蟲右里" series on BSky (as well as IG and FB) that showcases some of the stunning insects 🇭🇰 has to offer!

Hong Kong Biodiversity Museum@hkbm.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Because they process so much sugar, 𝘗𝘺𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘴 𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘢 excrete a sweet, sticky substance known as honeydew. In the delicate ecosystem of Hong Kong’s village edges, this waste product becomes a sought-after resource, often attracting swarms of ants and even certain species of moths.

Rebecca Wang 王思寧@rebeccawang.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Day 2 of #Invertefest! Amplifying some cool insect papers that have crossed my feed recently!📣 ~~ Q: Why do rewardless flowers still exist, rather than being shed? 🌺 A: 🤷‍♀️ We still don't know, but this test with bees & fake flowers show it's probably not "decoy" effects! doi.org/10.1111/een....

Tomer J. Czaczkes (@tomerczaczkes.bsky.social)

Some plants change the colour of flowers which were already pollinated, and are now rewardless. We thought perhaps they were using a behavioural economic trick - the decoy effect - to make the…

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Chinmay Hemant Joshi@chjoshi.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I took this modeling course in 2022 and really enjoyed it! The course provided me with a great framework to understand modeling papers. So if you are interested in modeling in biology in any capacity, check out the pre-print below!

Anna Dornhaus@dornhaus.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Preprint: What good is modeling? Introducing biology students to theory - arxiv.org/abs/2604.13344 - how to teach and think about what modeling contributes to science. How does it fit into the scientific method? This is often misunderstood.

Chinmay Hemant Joshi@chjoshi.bsky.social · 4mo ago

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...

Persist or give up? Fire ants motivated to search for a high-quality food source even if they don’t know how to find it - Insectes Sociaux

Insectes Sociaux - Finding resources for the colony is one of the most difficult and risky tasks for a social insect worker. A worker on a foraging trip can face a number of challenges, including...

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Anurag Agrawal@anurag-asclepias.bsky.social · 4mo ago

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

Cornell University, CALS Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Job #AJO31867, WDR-00057721 Postdoctoral Associate, CALS Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, US

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Universität Wien / University of Vienna@univie.ac.at · 5mo ago

📣 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: ⤵️

Call for Applications: Doctoral Positions in the Life Sciences and Natural Sciences

Ambitious candidates with a strong academic track record who wish to pursue their doctorate in one of the research areas listed below.

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Abel Bernadou@abelbernadou.bsky.social · 5mo ago

🐜 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 🌿🏞️

Richard Lenski@relenski.bsky.social · 6mo ago

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).

The Burmeister Lab: Studying Microbial Evolution and Extinction

​Our research integrates evolutionary biology and microbiology, using bacteria and phage as study systems to address fundamental questions in both fields. ​ ​We study microbial evolution, a...

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Adria LeBoeuf@adriatica.bsky.social · 6mo ago

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.

Research Laboratory Technician (Part Time, Fixed Term)

An 80% FTE Research Technician position is available in the Social Fluids Laboratory, led by Dr Adria LeBoeuf, in the Department of Zoology at the University of Cambridge. This position is part of a

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Chinmay Hemant Joshi@chjoshi.bsky.social · 6mo ago

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

Tomer J. Czaczkes@tomerczaczkes.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Urban ants are less picky than rural ants when it comes to sugar solution. Maybe the aphids in cities produce poorer honeydew, reflecting the stress they, or their tree hosts are under? New paper, with Stanislav Stukalyuk and @trigos-peral.bsky.social. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Chinmay Hemant Joshi@chjoshi.bsky.social · 6mo ago

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 !

GitHub - chjoshi24/t-maze-laser-cricut-designs: This repository contains designs for T-mazes with different stem and arm lengths. You can use it to create T-mazes using different materials for your wo...

This repository contains designs for T-mazes with different stem and arm lengths. You can use it to create T-mazes using different materials for your work. - chjoshi24/t-maze-laser-cricut-designs

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Alizée Vernouillet@vernouilleta.bsky.social · 7mo ago

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

Alizée Vernouillet@vernouilleta.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Excited to announce that Eli Garcia-Pelegrin and I are co-editing a special collection for Animal Cognition on "Social Cognition in a Human World". Do you study how urbanization, pollution, heat stress, fragmentation, ... affects cognition? We want to hear from you! link.springer.com/collections/...