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Michael Baym Jason Munshi-South Joe Felsenstein has a long-standing rant for this. (felsenst.github.io/rants.html)

This is an astonishing piece of very high tech anatomy! Anna, Alexey, and co were able to separate and identify every cell in the chordotonal organ of an *extremely tiny* wasp! O_O!! Awesome!

Shazam! Here is the reveal: ant pupae secrete their molting fluid, and larvae and adults consume it. This creates interdependencies across different ant developmental stages. Thanks also to all our collaborators at the various resource centers Rockefeller University!

パラポネラは働きアリが頻繁に産卵します。 この卵は無精卵ですので、孵化して育てられればオスになりますが、巣の中に女王アリがいる場合は、この卵は育てられることはありません。 ↓自分で産んだ大切な卵をどうするのでしょうか？ blog.livedoor.jp/antroom/archiv…

Antfolk: What do we need to know the most about? Choose one of three! (And tell me why!)

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I love the massive pronotal spines of this Pheidole soldier! 🇵🇬

Over the moon to announce that I will be starting as full Professor in Evolutionary Biology at Durham University Durham BioSciences next March!    Will be recruiting two postdocs (4 & 2.5y) and a lab technician very soon too.   Looking very much forward to this new part of my academic journey!!

Did you guys need a longfacebug? A longfacewaterbug at that? Here you go! Thank you for sharing this goofy Schnabelweirdo with us, Tim! :D

It is official, Ant-y'all! First round of the "needs better study" poll: Larvae are on top with 36.6%, just barely eeking out a victory over Adults (35.2%). Apparently, pupae remain least interesting—for now!

I love this little alien of a beetle! O_O!

Maria Sibylla Merian’s book on the Insects of Suriname was a game changer - a book about the insects, their life cycles, their host plants, what they feed on & what feeds on them - 60 species & over 90 animals were studied. She was a #trailblazer & so had many critics 🧵Pt.1

Did you need a flatbug? Possibly not. But now you do. A crusty one at that! :D

Our lab (arilab.unit.oist.jp) is hiring multiple postdocs and a computing technician. Come join us and have some fun working on biodiversity in Okinawa! Postdoc: live-oist-main.pantheonsite.io/careers/postdo… Computing Technician: live-oist-main.pantheonsite.io/careers/resear…

AntFolk poll round 2: What stage of the ant life cycle deserves more attention? (Note: Poll limited to 4 choices. Also, "larvae" won by a little more than a percentage point in the prior iteration.)

I am recruiting a postdoc to work on an NSF-funded, multi-institutional collaborative project developing new computational approaches to understand the drivers of phenotypic innovation in Cretaceous plants!! Details here: eeb.utoronto.ca/wp-content/upl…

Dude, someone broke this beetle and pretended to fix it.

HOLY COW THIS IS AWESOME --- Goodbye Pteromalidae sensu lato!

イレコダニの仲間たち 丸いフォルムでゆっくり動く「 ボク わるいダニじゃないよ」という感じでかわいい。 脚を引っ込めてまるくなることができるとても良いダニ。

An illustrated guide for the identification of ant subfamilies and genera in Brazil doi.org/10.1163/187631…