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The XIII AISASP student meeting was full of fascinating projects on behavior and conservation of social insects 🐝🐜 Thanks to the participants for their interest and contribution, CIMeC UniTrento for hosting us, and FMuseoCivicoRovereto for showing the entomological collections!🎉

Exciting fully funded PhD opportunity! Interested in #biopesticides, #ecotoxicology, wild #pollinators' #health and #cognition? Join the CBE Lab (davidbaracchi.wixsite.com/beelab) at University of Florence! Apply by August 11th, 2023 Application details: unifi.it/p12402.html Pls RT!

Excited to share our latest research led by Elisa Pasquini showing that #microplastics find their way into the brain and affect #honeybee cognition! Check out the preprint for an in-depth exploration of our findings! Thanks to Eva Crane Trust for supporting us biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Just released in Science of the Total Environment! 3D brain imaging unveiled 1–5 μm #microplastics breaching the #honeybee brain. PS & PMMA #synergistically affect sucrose responsiveness and hinder learning & memory. Thanks to Eva Crane Trust Università di Firenze Elisa Pasquini sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Our new preprint on #bioRxiv shows how #microplastics made of different polymers work in synergy to negatively affect the survival, immune system, chemical profile and social interactions of #honeybees. With Elisa Pasquini Federico Ferrante Federico Cappa biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Our new paper on a potentially pain-linked behaviour in insects is out! Bees seemingly ‘rub it better’ like we do: (1/7)

Anticipazione su ilGiornale del mio intervento Pazza Idea Festival (Luna Scarlatta) a Cagliari

Check out my first #PhD paper! Out in iScience journal! With Jochem Brouwer, Victor Di Rollo, David Baracchi , Andrea Messina and Elisa Frasnelli

First evidences that GABA modulates centrally nocifensive behaviors in #bumblebees, suggesting that insects may possess mechanisms for #pain modulation that go beyond simple peripheral responses. With Elisa Pasquini Elisa Frasnelli doi.org/10.1016/j.isci…