So excited about this species description! New eusocial shrimp just dropped 🦐🦐🦐

A new eusocial species of snapping shrimp, Synalpheus idelisae n. sp. (Decapoda, Alpheidae), with a review of caste differentiation in eusocial shrimp

Snapping shrimp in the genus Synalpheus Spence Bate, 1888 are the only marine organisms known to exhibit eusociality, a social structure characterized by colony-living and a reproductive division of l...

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What an amazing conference! Had the best time at @uissi-social.bsky.social presenting some work on snapping shrimp in Freiburg 🦐🦐🦐

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Had the best time at #entsoc25 in Portland! So many cool interesting talks and great people (and a 75 year old karaoke tiki bar)

the Shrimps is Bugs faction has fully infiltrated ESA, with a nifty talk from Kristina Camia finding that social shrimp got tiny eyes

Sun's up in Portland! Talks you might want to check out if you're into fossils, ants, extinction, eusociality, or comparative morphology. I'm giving a talk today as well called "The diversity and longevity of the earliest ants" at 1:40pm in B113. #Entsoc25

Press release out today on our new paper detailing the convergent origins of obligate ant and termite eating in mammals!

Mammals Evolved into Ant Eaters 12 Times Since Dinosaur Age, Study Finds

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Our architectural symmetry paper made the cover of Current Biology! Congrats to @smithbeelab.bsky.social and the team. Check out the form, function, and evolutionary origins of honeybee nest symmetry here: www.cell.com/current-biol...

Had an amazing time at the IUSSI European meeting! Such a lovely conference and excited to share some of my research project I’m working on for my PhD 🦐🦐🦐

Excited to announce my first paper! I looked at how honeybees continuously reduce their comb area after nest expansion & the fine-scale detailing that goes into it. Very thankful for everyone at the Smith Bee Lab, and excited to share some fun results! link.springer.com/article/10.1...