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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Heard of the haplodiploid hypothesis (=¾ relatedness hypothesis)? It’s long been a staple of biology textbooks – you may’ve run into it in Intro Biology, Genetics, Evolution, or Behavior. It’s also been very influential on social evolution theory, yet surprisingly, it long remained untested.🧵

My first first-author paper from my Ph.D., with @tlinksvayer.bsky.social y.social, is out in @currentbiology.bsky.social y.bsky.social!! We find that haplodiploidy alone does not explain the evolution of eusociality in insects. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Fantastic piece (doi.org/10.1073/pnas...) by @tlinksvayer.bsky.social on @arthurmatte.bsky.social and my recent paper in PNAS (doi.org/10.1073/pnas...). He really pulls together the threads of how we believe that socially transferred materials #socialfluids entrenched social complexity in ants. 1/2

Social control drove ant evolution | PNAS

Social control drove ant evolution

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Excited to share this preprint with @tlinksvayer.bsky.social where we use phylogenetic comparative methods to empirically test the association between haplodiploidy and eusociality on a species-level insect phylogeny! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Eusociality evolved at a much higher rate in haplodiploid insects

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I was looking for an #Entomology Starter Pack but I couldn't find one - so I started to build one! It's already morphing into more of a list of invertebrate aficionado/lovers. Did I miss you? Aplogies! Reply to this post and I'll remedy that! #StarterPack #Invertebrate go.bsky.app/7CaCbMC

A starter pack for myrmecologists and our allies 🩵🐜🩷 go.bsky.app/zo95qR

This ant sees what you’ve done. (Gigantiops destructor, from the Amazon rainforest)

Thank you @drawstickpeople.bsky.social and @karenpercy.bsky.social! Excited that I'm here and looking forward to connecting with more people.

DSP💙#🟦✡️@drawstickpeople.bsky.social · 3y ago

Pls give a warm Bluesky welcome @sachi1n.bsky.social who has just arrived on bluesky! Special thanks to @KarenPercy.Bsky.social for sharing her invite so that more ppl can be here. @drruth.bsky.social @bossett.bsky.social @danirabaiotti.bsky.social Science Feed that you may want to be added to