"Animal Behaviour Live" is back! This time, the Annual Online Congress will be live streamed via YouTube on 17-18 November 2022. You can find more information in animalbehaviour.live/aoc.html To attend, register here (registration is free): docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Chemical Ecology of alpine #bumblebees - really cool talk by Sabine Nooten showing the effects of climate on cuticular traits #dzg22

There are a lot of ants Patrick Schultheiss Sabine Nooten newscientist.com/article/233842…

Was a delightful collaboration where I filmed tiny #nocturnal #spiders that specialise hunting ants Macquarie University School of Natural Sciences Most painful part was watching #ants killed. Most challenging aspect was filming outdoors & to get the perfect IR light setup to capture the attack in profile Science and Engineering @ MQU

Want to know what I have been up to the last couple of years and what the plans are for the future of my new group? Check out this article! idw-online.de/en/news801280

Great new #ant #ecology study from Hong Kong #HKU

Arthropod Photo of the Week: November 23, 2022 Marauder ants Carebara sp. Hymenoptera: Formicidae By Francois Brassard (@myrmecofrank) Hong Kong, China #arthropodPOTW

Our recent study doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2… tallied the world's #ants: 20 quadrillion. Finding this hard to visualise? The gifted Wren Weichman Wren turned it into a stunning video, and the result is shocking! youtube.com/watch?v=OPoMww…

Exciting new paper on the global biomass of wild mammals pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…, put into context in this weeks’ Science News science.org/doi/epdf/10.11… by Elizabeth Pennisi Elizabeth Pennisi

Fantastic talks and posters at #ICIV2023 to capture the diversity of visual systems across invertebrates. Kudos to Lund Vision Group group for their wonderful organisation. Conference ended with a bang!

New paper on wound care in ants! Here we show that nestmates treat infected wounds more than sterile ones and that they use a battery of antimicrobial compounds to do so! This was a massive interdisciplinary project so let me tease it apart: (1/9) rdcu.be/duJDN