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Our *Functional Morphology* session will feature Oliver Betz as keynote speaker & many more talks on the mechanics, ecology & evolution of endless forms most beautiful 🐞🐌🪱e.g. Dr. Jessica Goodheart Julian Katzke @sci_SB Florian Braig Alejandro Damian-Serrano Ph.D. (he/him/él/ell) Sanja Jasek ...

Thrilled to share the result of a massive effort conducted by more than 40 colleagues on the Brazilian ant fauna! 🇧🇷🐜 Ants of Brazil: an overview based on 50 years of diversity studies tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

Thank you @NicolettaML and Journal of Experimental Biology for these great features about our latest J. Experimental Biology paper with Robot Form and Function Lab Sarah Bergbreiter Adam P. Summers @ChifromT journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/22… livescience.com/trap-jaw-ants-…

Dear students and colleagues, after a two year break, you can plan again for the Phylogenetic Symposium! 18th to 20th of November 2022 at the University of Bonn. Check out and register at: evolution.uni-bonn.de/en/phylogeneti…

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.

cool insights about Strumigenys metamorphosis today’s afternoon with Julian Katzke 🐜 - an ant inside an ant

Check out our latest publication @PNAS, in which we calculate the number of #ants on Earth. pnas.org/doi/full/10.10… Patrick Schultheiss, Runxi WANG 王润玺, Mark Wong, @MyrmecoFrank, Benoit Guénard

Pleased to announce that our new paper (and my first published PhD chapter) is out in the world this week! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/13…

Divulgando a nova data do Mirmeco 2023! Alteramos as datas para evitar sobreposição com o Entomology 2023. Announcing the new date for Mirmeco 2023! We changed the dates to avoid overlapping with Entomology 2023. #MirmecoAmazonia #Mirmeco2023

i spent 2 hours curating a twitter blue screenshot storyline for my parents so here u go, for your own offline friends that want to have fun: DAY 1 – ARRIVAL

Colleagues. Luke Harmon & I will be teaching a workshop on Phylogenetic Comparative Methods in #Rstats from Mar. 2-5, 2023 at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Travel & lodging expenses paid for all selected workshop participants. Please RT. phytools.org/umb2023/.

Very happy: final paper of my PhD out in Myrmecological News today! Check out their twitter thread, blog entry and of course the original article for the deeds on head anatomy of the wonderfully weird ant Tatuidris tatusia, "poneroid" evolution and mandible mechanics.

Alright, GoodFibes (detection of muscle fibers from diceCT scans in R) has been submitted to CRAN. Fingers crossed that there are no hiccups, but if you want to install locally the tarball is here: tinyurl.com/3xs537u2. #diceCT #SICB2023 SICB DCB-DVM

New paper, hot off the press! We study the relation between bite force & mandibular opening angle in insects. Ever tried to bite off more than you can chew? You are not alone. Work led by Freddie Pueffel, collab with Prof Richard Johnston, and supported by HFSP & European Research Council (ERC). 🧵1/n

I'll be one of the instructors at this cool workshop at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) in Japan this October, co-organized by Dan Warren & Evan Economo. Applications are open & I understand there are even some need-based travel scholarships available! More information here 👉 groups.oist.jp/evomorph

This is going to be fun. We have a great instructor lineup coming including Liam Revell , Luke Harmon, Prof. Anjali Goswami, Peter Wainwright, Sam Price, Emma Sherratt, Haruki Tatsuta.

Our 🆕 study on insect declines in German forests confirm a trend shown by Sebastian Seibold et al. 2019 (nature.com/articles/s4158…) We show that the majority of forest insects 🪳🐞declined consistently over 10 years. Led by Michael Staab (not on twitter) (1/5)

HELL ANTS IN T-4 HOURS

Pleased to share the first paper from my PhD at OIST, showing that #eusociality did not drive the expansions in the number of odorant receptors in #Hymenoptera! 🐜🐝 Big thanks to all my co-authors! @Dorylophile Julian Katzke Paco Hita-Garcia Shûhei Yamamoto & Evan Economo