Dr. Manu Ramalho
@manuramalho.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @WCUofPA / #NewPI /Genomics/ Microbiome/🐜Ant / Women in Science 🇧🇷! #RamalhoLab Follow @wds_science http://ramalholab.org/
⏳ One month to go until our next #InsectHour! Join us on 14 October for a fascinating journey into the strange sexual biology of stalk-eyed flies & discover why these unusual insects continue to captivate scientists around the world. 🎟️ Free registration buff.ly/WvWnrq0 #InsectScience #Evolution
Insect Hour: The Strange Sexual Biology of Stalk-Eyed Flies
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A plenary from @corriemoreau.bsky.social on day 2 of #ento26. Outstanding research and a dozen papers to go and read in detail. @royentsoc.bsky.social
Well #Ento26 thank you Excellent @royentsoc.bsky.social in Cardiff. @corriemoreau.bsky.social gave an excellent plenary - excellent scientist & communicator 200 years of the Entomology club - entomology then, now & in the future Then banquet with a Welsh choir! (There may have been pubs after)
🆕 in "Earth Stewardship": How can sea slugs spark stewardship? A new program builds connections between people and nature 📄Broadening the community of nudibranch enthusiasts through multilingual educational programming to increase climate advocacy engagement doi.org/10.1002/eas2...
📣 📣 📣 UPDATE: The 2026-2027 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resource! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
ecoevojobs.net 2026-27
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So deeply honored to be featured as part of the @NatGeo Women of Impact series - Meet the Woman Making Ants the Next Big Thing in Biology via @NatGeoScience www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti...
The hydrothermal vents we’re seeing today are beautiful underwater stalagmite castles 🤩🤩🤩 #SnailsRising #NSFfunded
Why to choose between ants and microbes when you can have both? @khadlily.bsky.social, @adriatica.bsky.social and co. have been diving into what's happening in the honeypot ant repletes for years, and the first papers are coming out 🎉 (photo copyright: Smithsonian Institution-NMNH-Insect Zoo)
bioRxiv Genomics@biorxiv-genomic.bsky.social · 5mo agoGenomic insights into bacterial isolates dominating honeypot ant crop microbiomes reveal metabolically distinct Fructilactobacillus sp. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.09.717501v1
When I interviewed at #WCU, I was inspired by the Biology corridor filled with students’ published papers. I dreamed of seeing one of my own students there one day. Today it happened with 2 papers!🌟 Proud of Lily Kelleher—the first of many from the #RamalhoLab! #ProudPI #PUI 🐜
Paper cake time at #RamalhoLab 🐜❤️🫶 We celebrated Lily Kelleher’s paper at today’s lab meeting! What a privilege to be surrounded by such amazing people! 🫶🥰🐜 #WCU💜💛🐑
Lily Kelleher & @manuramalho.bsky.social show that important bacteria associated with Aphaenogaster ants change in warmer temperatures, with a depletion of important bacteria that help with their growth, development and vitamin B synthesis. doi.org/10.1242/bio....
To know more about this research, read our 'First person' interview with Lily Kelleher, who conducted the research described in this article while a Master's student in Manuela Ramalho's @manuramalho.bsky.social lab at West Chester University, USA. doi.org/10.1242/bio....
"We need groundkeepers, not gatekeepers." My favorite sentence in @berondam.bsky.social's book "Lessons from Plants." (Go read it! Follow her here, get her 2nd & very soon upcoming book, aaaand keep eyes out for her current @rad-institute.bsky.social's work too): www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
Lessons from Plants — Harvard University Press
An exploration of how plant behavior and adaptation offer valuable insights for human thriving.We know that plants are important. They maintain the atmosphere by absorbing carbon dioxide and producing...
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Recent conversation with Luis De Luna Valdez post-doctoral researcher @ucriverside.bsky.social & Features Editor for @theplantjournal.bsky.social 10 questions about my academic work at interface of plant boo, leadership, mentoring & institutional change: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/AKQTDG....
In conversation with Dr. Beronda Montgomery
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Another massive movement of migratory birds underway tonight — nearly 1 Billion Birds! With the full moon, you might be able to see some silhouettes zipping by. You can make your own flow maps here (just hit record): aeroecolab.com/uslights
Nominations are now open for the Dobzhansky Prize, which recognizes the accomplishments and future promise of an outstanding early-career evolutionary biologist. The award includes $5000 and an award talk at the in-person Evolution meeting. Deadline: December 1 shorturl.at/p70wY
🔬🦠🧫🧪 #MicroSky This is the most fantatic video I've ever seen: a Tardigrade strolling on a Volvox by Penny Fenton #NikonSmallWorld #DarkField www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/20...
A tardigrade moving around a volvox algae colony | 2025 Small World in Motion Competition
Penny Fenton - A tardigrade moving around a volvox algae colony
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Although I heard them speak separately at a book festival, what a joy to experience @aleliabundles.bsky.social (author of Joy Goddess: A'Lelia Walker and the Harlem Renaissance) & @dolenperkinsvaldez.bsky.social (author of Happy Land) in convo on their biography and historical fiction, respectively.
To the Full Professors out there who actually lift people up, advocate for those with less power and voice, and who care about colleagues and trainees doing well over arbitrary gatekeeping... I see you and am grateful for you.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPrize in Chemistry to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal–organic frameworks.”
Have you seen our regularly updated job opportunities page? Visit our website for some open entomology-related jobs 🔽 buff.ly/IZnKojI If you have an #insect-related job opportunity, please send us the details info@royensoc.co.uk #Education #Research #Science #InsectJobs #InsectCareers #Jobs
Job opportunities - Royal Entomological Society
Job opportunities If you have an insect-related or entomology job opportunity please send us the details info@royensoc.co.uk Want to work with us? Keep an eye on our RES Vacancies page for any paid…
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A textbook image I did a few years ago showing a trap-jaw ant (Odontomachus rixosus) with her mandibles held open and trigger hairs forward, and then in the closed position. The snapping shut of the trap is one of the fastest measured animal movements.
A gallery of ant queens from around the world.
Queen Ants - Alex Wild
Images of the female reproductive caste.
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Chocolate with “lemon ants”! I bet is Atta sexdens! Thanks Jess Sowa! 🥰🥰🐜🐜
When I interviewed at #WCU, I was inspired by the Biology corridor filled with students’ published papers. I dreamed of seeing one of my own students there one day. Today it happened with 2 papers!🌟 Proud of Lily Kelleher—the first of many from the #RamalhoLab! #ProudPI #PUI 🐜
