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Check out this 100-million year old ant brain preserved in amber with many neuroanatomical features visible!

Want to learn how nature can inspire new inventions? Join the OIST Foundation on Thursday, 12/2 @ 7:00 PM EST (Japan: 12/3 at 9:00 M JST) to learn about several technologies inspired by studying butterfly wing temperatures. Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Let us also remember EO Wilson, the ant taxonomist. Ed described 429 new species, 7 genera, 1 subgenus, and 1 subfamily. In his honor, 21 new species and 1 genus of ants have been described—this thread illustrates Wilson’s ants, starting with Pheidole eowilsoni Longino, 2009.

I'm very excited to announce that my new series, 'Why Insects Matter: Earth's Most Essential Species' is now available from @Wondrium! wondrium.com/why-insects-ma… #insects #entomology #bugs #biology #pestcontrol #arthropods #scicomm #streaming #lectures #audiobook #nature #science

Check out this beautie. Echinopla is one of my very favorite ant genera.

Please RT! Interested in #island #plants? Want to apply macroecological methods to unique databases to learn how floras assemble? We have a vacant, fully funded PhD position in functional island biogeography BioGeo Göttingen in the @DynaCom project. see: tinyurl.com/37svshas

Social Insects Researchers: Please fill this out and support this interesting project.

What can we learn about social behavior and evolution from fossils? Today I am very happy to share a new article on this question with Adrian Richter Julian Katzke Júlio Cézar Chaul @rkellerp Evan Economo & Shûhei Yamamoto! Let's dig in! 1/8 Open access: academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/adv…

What determines the number of species in a community? M.Ushio explores this question by reconstructing large interaction networks from quantitative DNA-based monitoring data and nonlinear time series analysis ow.ly/lWZO50I4aC4 #ProcB #OpenAccess

New post: All about those mandibles arilab.unit.oist.jp/?p=3212

Excited to share the first chapter of my PhD thesis, where we analyze the mesosomal #anatomy of a well-studied #ant species, Formica rufa in collaboration with B. E. Boudinot, Adrian Richter, Paco Hita-Garcia, @rkellerp, Rolf Georg Beutel and Evan Economo Open access: doi.org/10.1093/isd/ix…

Our planet is positively teeming with “little things that run the world”-invertebrates. Yet, it has been a challenge to see the big picture of how invertebrate diversity is distributed around the globe. Happy to share that, finally, we have a detailed view for one group: ants.

Myrmecina pierceae, a new species of ant described by MCZ Biodiversity Postdoc Fellow (applications for 2023 due Sept 30!) Cong Liu and colleagues, is dedicated to Curator of Lepidoptera & Harvard Organismic & Evolutionary Biology Prof Naomi E Pierce and her contributions to entomology and myrmecology.

Applications for the next Biodiversity Postdoctoral Fellow are due at the end of this month! This program supports postdoctoral researchers pursuing the discovery and formal taxonomic description of Earth’s animal species. More information at our website bit.ly/3G8IdAB

OEB seeks to appoint a tenured professor in Terrestrial Ecology to serve as Director of the Harvard Forest Harvard Forest bit.ly/3WYT8Vf

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…

GABI-I: The global ant biodiversity informatics-island database pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36576353/?utm_… #ants

Congratulations Naomi E Pierce

An ant brain detector. Happy to see our work on automated insect anatomical segmentation from tomographic scans out on the cover of Natural Sciences. Great collaboration led by Evropi Toukeridou, with Kenji Doya, Carlos Gutierrez, and Daniel Baum. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/nt…