Excited to share an awesome piece by @drdavidhu.bsky.social in @currentbiology.bsky.social @cellpress.bsky.social about our latest paper! Curious to know how weaver #ants achieve superefficiency when working together? Check it out! 🐜🐜🐜 www.cell.com/current-biol...

Cooperative behavior: Superefficient weaver ants

Teamwork has long faced a dilemma: as team members are added, the effectiveness of each individual decreases — a phenomenon known as ‘Ringelmann’s effect’. A new study shows that weaver ants in pullin...

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MELA — a short documentary on the Mating Ecology of Lek Breeding Antelope — takes you behind the scenes of an interdisciplinary #UniKonstanz @cbehav.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social research journey. This film reveals how science is done, shared, and lived: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5i4d...

And here's our piece on @theconversation.com for our recent Current Biology paper on #teamwork in ants!

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Here's a quick explainer that Dan and I wrote for our paper out today in Current Biology (tinyurl.com/3jnnevfn) on weaver ant pulling chains. theconversation.com/as-human-tea... via @ConversationEDU

Excited to see our paper being featured on @science.org News! Thanks to @erikstokstad.bsky.social for putting this piece together. www.science.org/content/arti...

‘Superefficient’ weaver ants show remarkable strength in numbers

Unlike people, these nest-building insects pull harder in teams

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Curious about how #ants cracked teamwork? Listen now to my interview on All Things Considered @npr.org! Massive thanks to hosts Avery Keatley and Christopher Intagliata for inviting me. t.co/xOfsdKszhF

In humans, bigger teams often mean less effort per person — the #Ringelmann effect. Weaver #ants 🐜 flip the script: #teamwork makes them superefficient! Video + paper out now in Current Biology! @cellpress.bsky.social tinyurl.com/44yrvp6m tinyurl.com/3jnnevfn

Superefficient teamwork in weaver ants / Curr. Biol., Aug. 12, 2025 (Vol. 35, Issue 17)

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What's in the box!? In my postdoc at @uni-konstanz.de @cbehav.bsky.social I am looking at locusts' phase transition through massive swarm experiments, virtual reality and genetics 🧠🦗 Come to see my poster at NWG 25 @neurowissg.bsky.social!

PAPER ALERT! 🐜🐜 Did you know that #humans and #ants are the only animals to routinely display #cooperative transport?? We coordinate with each other by talking, but how can ants achieve #consensus? Read about it in our new paper! https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2023.2367

Super excited to start my postdoc at @UniKonstanz @CBehav to study locusts' collective behaviour and social plasticity with @einatcouzin and colleagues! Looking forward to do some awesome science together 😎

I DID IT! After 3+ years of #PhD, I submitted my thesis🎉 I'm now looking for a #postdoc from Feb '24 or after! If you have vacancies or want to discuss funding options, please reach out! Check out my website for info about me, my CV and cool #ant videos! http://danielecarlesso.com

I was on TV! Check out my live TV interview with @ChildsRos on @ABCaustralia @abcnews about our new paper, published today in @PNASNews. Link to the paper: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2216217120 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-11/what-can-ants-teach-us-about-problem-solving/1025...

Interested in #collectivebehaviour, #decisionmaking, and #ants? Check out my first #PhD paper, out today in @PNASNews! @ChrisRReid1, @sjmgarnier, Chris Lustri, @MarineMcnab, and I studied how colonies of ants make decisions when facing an uncertain task https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.221...

Check out also my conversation article about the paper! @ConversationEDU https://theconversation.com/humans-set-budgets-when-facing-an-uncertain-future-so-do-ants-209327?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1689022919-1

Hey #Honeybees people! Can someone explain me what are these bees doing? Are they collecting pollen/nectar from fallen stems? Is this a common behaviour?

Interested in #plant and #pollinator interactions? Check out our new paper on the impact of nectar #NPAAs on #nectar palatability, #learning and #memory in #bees! @David_Baracchi https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-90895-z#Abs1

Glad to share my first #preprint w/ @David_Baracchi on #bioRxiv! Here we show that some nectar non-protein amino acids (NPAAs) impact #bee #learning and #memory without altering #nectar palatability. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.04.407734v1

Awesome on-demand talks at the #ABS2020 conference! Are you interested in how weaver ants forage using their nestmates as a ladder? Come check out our work in the Predation & Foraging 3 session! @AnimBehSociety

Bumblebees are amazing!