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Anna Dornhaus

@dornhaus.bsky.social

scientist, science communicator, mom, prof, desert dweller - not always in this order

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Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 18h ago

Research units from across government have been gutted. More than 10,000 PhDs have left government. For example the research arm of the Department of Education lost 90% of their staff and the research office for the Secretary of Health and Human Services lost an estimated 60% of their staff.

figure shows dramatic cut in research staff
Anna Dornhaus@dornhaus.bsky.social · last mo.

Looking forward to visiting beautiful Freiburg, seeing old friends and colleagues, and hearing cool and new insights about social insect research!

@iussi-nas.bsky.social · last mo.

📢 Introducing @uissi-social.bsky.social, the Bluesky home of the XX International Congress of the IUSSI. The Congress runs 16–20 August 2026 in Freiburg, Germany, hosted by the University of Freiburg. Tag your posts, abstracts, and travel plans with #IUSSI26 so we can find each other.

Dirk Gütlin@gutlin.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The US is now officially, as a nation, trying to pull the Russia move of attacking the EU by shoving money into "aligned" groups such as the far-right and Anti-EU AfD party in Germany.

Finbarr Bermingham@fbermingham.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The US state department is offering grants of up to $3mn for Maga-aligned European groups that combat “censorship” and develop “civilisational bonds” between the US and the continent. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Anna Dornhaus@dornhaus.bsky.social · 5mo 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.

What good is modeling? Introducing biology students to theory

Theory and empirical science should be in constant dialogue, but often find it hard to understand one another. Here we describe a graduate-level university course we developed to improve matters. The ...

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