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New post: Birds have beaks that are a compromise of many functions arilab.unit.oist.jp/birds-have-bea…

New post: New study on some mysterious Pheidole arilab.unit.oist.jp/new-study-on-s…

Alex Wild We also have that little cutie in #3D in our Arilab Sketchfab collection: skfb.ly/6UnUG

Gutted and reeling to learn of the passing of our great collaborator and friend, the brilliant myrmecologist Christian Peeters. Christian Peeters

Very sad day! Our friend & colleague Christian Peeters Christian Peeters passed away I will miss his passionate, enthusiastic, extremely honest, sometimes thickheaded, but always charming way of being! The last picture he sent me. Happy pulling ants from a trunk to send me.

Macroevolutionary integration of phenotypes within and across ant worker castes onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

Bittersweet to share our new paper in Frontiers of Zoology on how the loss of flight allowed for changes to the internal design of the ant thorax. The study was led by Christian Peeters (Christian Peeters), who passed away last month. frontiersinzoology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

The first checklist of ants in the Hengduan Mountains recording 130 spp. with 41 potentially new spp.! Supported by E. O. Wilson Biodiversity Postdoctoral Fellowship Museum of Comparative Zoology. New species descriptions are coming soon! Thank Arilab for all the help! zookeys.pensoft.net/article/55767/

Our new study on the evolution of trap-jaw ants is out in @PLoSBiology. Here's a thread about what we found. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar…

Preparing figures for #ESJ68: Ant Mandibles in all kinds of shapes segmented with #Biomedisa, arranged with #Blender Python using centroid size to adjust scale. Find your favs! Arilab #Ants #Morphology #PhD #3D #Blender3d

New post: Evan on Sabbatical arilab.unit.oist.jp/evan-on-sabbat…

New post: Mainland fieldwork tales: of ants, earthquake, and fish cake arilab.unit.oist.jp/mainland-field…

I’m stoked to advertise my first first-author PhD paper in 🧵 about the estimation of muscle architecture from CT data comparing various methods. Pavel Puchenkov, Heiko Stark, Evan Economo and I present workflows that worked for ant and bird muscle. doi.org/10.1093/iob/ob…

Got CT data? Want to estimate and visualize muscle architecture (volume, fiber number, pennation angles, etc.) for comparative morphology / biomechanics? See the comparisons and workflows by Julian Katzke out in Integrative Organismal Biology. Works for verts and inverts.

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

New post: Evan on Sabbatical arilab.unit.oist.jp/?p=3223

New post: Mainland fieldwork tales: of ants, earthquake, and fish cake arilab.unit.oist.jp/?p=3227

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.

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…

New post: Open positions in the Arilab! arilab.unit.oist.jp/open-positions…