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The Graduate Program in Ecology and Conservation from UFPR suspended its activities until CAPES pay the stipends of Brazilian researches. #PagueMinhaBolsa

A final act from the current and defeated Brazilian government was to freeze the resources from our ministry of education, which results in more than 200 thousand researchers without their stipends #PagueMinhaBolsa

Head shape can have important effects on bite mechanics, at least among Pheidole ant workers. Check out our preprint authorea.com/users/583182/a… Marcio Pie Alexandre Casadei-Ferreira

4-year-PhD available: Investigate the impact of climate change and forest management on leaf-litter fauna. Please RT.

Semana que vem ocorrerá o Pint of Science. Estarei em Florianópolis pra falar sobre formigas (e beber) no Boteco Bacana!

New ant biomechanics paper, led by Cristian Klunk and Alexandre Casadei-Ferreira. We use FEA to test if ants at the edge of morphospace are under particular biomechanical constraints. #ants #biomechanics #FEA onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ec…

Pessoal do Brasil: aviso que ainda oriento no Brasil (remotamente) na Zoologia UFPR e PPGEco UFPR e estou pensando em recrutar alguem para um MSc ou DSc. Se você tiver interesse, por favor, envie DM ou e-mail

Hey folks, next Monday (14th August) I will defend my doctorate thesis "Biomechanics of ant bite: effects of mandible and head morphology". For the ones interested in taking a look at it, the disputation will be entirely in English and on zoom. Just chat me for the link.

Estamos trabalhando no diagnóstico das espécies de formigas invasoras no Brasil. Caso possa nos enviar amostras de formigas exóticas (ver foto), por favor entre em contato! Está indo pro Mirmeco esse ano? Ótimo, estaremos lá! Ficaremos gratos se puderem nos levar espécimes!

Variation in cuticle material properties can have important consequences for the mechanical responses of mandibles to bite loading in an ant species. Michael Heethoff 📯 @[email protected] Mechanical and elemental characterization of ant mandibles: consequences for bite mechanics biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Ant mandible cuticle varies in its mechanical properties and shows heterogeneity in transition metal accumulation, with consequences to stress distribution. Thanks Michael Heethoff 📯 @[email protected], Wencke Krings, Stas Gorb and Jörg Hammel for this incredible collaboration. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

Ant head shape evolved to compromise bite-induced mechanical demands. New study led by Cristian Klunk and Alexandre Casadei-Ferreira biorxiv.org/content/10.110…