1/ New paper: doi.org/10.1126/scia... 🐜🧬 Ants exploded into >15,000 species just after the dinosaur-killing asteroid hit Earth. We think we've found one catalyst behind that radiation: transposable elements. With @jannelrinke.bsky.social, @esthervandenbos.bsky.social & others not on here. 🧵1/11

If you are interested in the evolution of superorganismality, come join my talk on how the developmental robustness of queens and workers is analogous to the development of metazoan germline and soma, today at 17:00 in K8 #IUSSI2026

ze ant love ze larva baby.

Daniel Kronauer@danielkronauer.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Postdoc Yannick Günzel, who studies how clonal raider ants interact with their larvae, went to a comedy show in NYC. Now he’s famous… 🤪 youtube.com/shorts/ZETUy...

Apply for a PhD position in the Pan lab @miyapan.bsky.social at MPI Biology 🇩🇪 to study the molecular mechanisms and evolution of sex determination in haplodiploid insects 🐜🐝.

A young PI here in Mainz has a fabulous PhD position that will be filled soon! By you? Keywords: Social insects, ageing, gene expression. www.blogs.uni-mainz.de/fb10-evoluti...

Unpaid advertisement! If you are at the #DZG meeting in Berlin @dzg2025berlin.bsky.social and are interested in the evolution of the superorganism (like ants) come listen to my talk @12:30 in the EVO session, Hörsaal 2.

Come find me at #SMBE2025 to chat about transposable elements in ants 🧬🐜 S15 - P8

Worker ants increase their reproductive success by caring for their siblings instead of producing their own offspring. An international research team has now uncovered the genetic basis of ant evolution. (Orig. publ. doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...) #ants #phylogenomics #evolution

New study provides deep insights into the genomes of superorganisms

Worker ants increase their reproductive success by caring for their siblings instead of producing their own offspring. An international research team, including Dr. Lukas Schrader from the University ...

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Always a pleasure hanging out with ant enthusiasts 🐜 @jaimesnino.bsky.social @jannelrinke.bsky.social @haplodiploid.bsky.social @mlitto.bsky.social @clariona.bsky.social @bchitadze.bsky.social #cologneinternationalforum

Save the date! The Cologne International Forum invited Mohammed Errbii and Luisa Jaimes Nino for the next SALON event: The Fascinating World of Ants – The Little Things that Run our Planet, 06.06., 6 PM. Admission is free! More info: cif.uni-koeln.de/events/salon or www.instagram.com/reel/DKRZK3d...

New research article! 📰 @jaimesnino.bsky.social & Oettler discovered that ant queens show no heritability in fertility/lifespan, but reveal surprising anti-aging mechanisms ⏳ 🔗https://doi.org/10.1007/s00040-025-01032-2 #InsectesSociaux #SocialInsects #Genetics #EvolutionaryBiology #Heritability

🐜🐝🐛Social insect researchers - conference alert!🐜🐝🐛 Registration for the Central European IUSSI conference is now open. The CE IUSSI meetings are invariably lovely: interesting, warm, friendly, and fun. I cannot recommend this conference enough! ce-iussi-meeting-szeged2025.iussi.de Please repost