Sometimes you just try stuff for the love of the game. #3dprinting #entomology #antkeeping

Am I missing something or did jupytr book and woorkbookr got their lunch eaten by Quarto

Jimmy Wales is doing a tour for his new book, the seven rules of trust. Related, anyone care to match my $5 donation? donate.wikimedia.org

Some species of ants may greatly benefit from substrate when hunting springtails. Interesting quirk for lab feeding. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

If you look around, it turns out this paper isnt very replicable, but it is well cited, so now I don't know what to believe www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Nonreplicable publications are cited more than replicable ones

Published papers that fail to replicate are cited more than those that replicate, even after the failure is published.

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I know the intern was having fun with the URL with this one www.sciencenews.org/article/wate...

Water beetles can live on after being eaten and excreted by a frog

After being eaten by a frog, some water beetles can scurry through the digestive tract and emerge on the other side, alive and well.

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On Martin Nowak, the evolution of cooperation, Jeffrey Epstein, and the corruption of mathematicians. liorpachter.wordpress.com/2026/04/10/n...

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Another reason to be skeptical of solutions to a 3 body problem.

The genetics, evolution, and maintenance of a biological rock-paper-scissors game

Side-blotched lizards (Uta stansburiana) play a biological rock-paper-scissors game in which three differently colored male morphs utilize alternative mating strategies. We identified the genetic basi...

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What a spectacular way to end the trip. Seeing my friend and colleague @soulsynapse.bsky.social at the social insect research group at ASU for showing me around their labs and facilities on my way out of Arizona. Really cool work with social behavior and it was amazing to see their ant colonies.

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I've seen folks talk about how "in four years" they'll be able to get back to their planned projects and I really don't think that's going to work out. People & projects losing funding now will not be able to hit pause and come back once funding is restored. Hard-won progress & capacity will be lost

Edward Nirenberg@enirenberg.bsky.social · last yr.

I worry that not enough of a big deal is being made about how long-term the devastation of these budget cuts to our scientific and health agencies will be, beyond the absolute ruin they will cause in the acute period.

Deflate style hand vacuum as an electronic aspirator. Best of both worlds. Needs a pooter with a filter built in. #entomology #antkeeping #ants

Interestingly weavers can climb up a thin oil film alone

Corn starch baby powder works great as an ant barrier. Comes off easily but at least it's not a known carcinogen 😅

A seed passes inspection (Pogonomyrmex barbatus)

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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We don't know much about these odd-looking Zasphinctus ants, except they seem to raid other ant nests, steal their larvae and eat them... Their narrow elongated bodies probably help them enter small galleries. #ants #myrmecology non #armyants #fourmis #science

Finally taking the time to learn Fusion360. Design for a co2 hose that will make noise (so people don't forget to turn it off) but diffuses the flow to knock out ants.

Today, the USDA lost experts in Psylloidea, Thysanoptera, Cerambycidae, Hymenoptera, Pseudococcidae, and Malacology. This is a devastating loss of expertise, occuring without warning. Their union's official statement on the issue can be found here: aginspectors.org/2-14-2025-a-... #entomology 🧪

Armando Rosario-Lebrón@rosariolebronentomology.com · 2y ago

As I see my colleagues at risk of job loss in the US government, I have been on the phone with people in tears over many concerns I won’t get into on this platform. I am doing my best for them behind the scenes. However, I will recall a passage from William M. Wheeler in 1970. #science #entomology

High quality An't 🖤 Gelis species ichneumonid wasp.

A timely assist.

Pretty happy with this feeder. Ants seem to like it too.

Currently figuring out how to print this in high enough quality that it does it justice

Miles Zhang | 张远濛@ymilesz.bsky.social · 2y ago

We’ve got a new phylogeny of the ants out as a preprint! It’s been an exciting collaboration with some awesome 🐜 people for the past few years, led by Marek Borowiec and @corriemoreau.bsky.social: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#PhD Advert: Please share! Are you looking for a PhD studentship in comparative- or population-genomics, using 300+ species of #Drosophila and 1000+ genomes of #melanogaster? #Entomology #Genomics #PopGen #Phylogenetics

Pheidole rhea annoyed that I'm looking at em.

No, YOU'RE making increasingly elaborate conceptual diagrams instead of grading papers

Gonna repost this every so often until it's full: If you're into ecological niche modeling / species distribution modeling (ENM or SDM), here's a starter pack for you! And if you're an investigator in the field and you'd like to be added, please let me know in the replies. bsky.app/starter-pack...

Cephalotes clypeatus?! 🤯 via @alexwild.bsky.social

I'm doing a Reddit AMA tomorrow 1:30-3:30 Eastern. Looking forward to answering some questions! www.reddit.com/r/askscience...

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