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#AECInTheNews Too hot and heavy to buzz? stalbertgazette.com/local-news/too… via St Albert Gazette

Very excited about this soil ecology board game!!

An illustrated introduction to the autocorrelation function, with monster generations 👾💙🩵 🧵1/9

Our first neurogenetic study of ants survived peer review and just appeared OA in its final form Cell Cell Press: cell.com/cell/fulltext/…. Taylor & team Rockefeller University created the first transgenic ants and identified a sensory hub for alarm behavior. 1/8

We are now advertising for a grant funded staff position to work with ants in the southeastern United States. Apply below. #ants #entomology #biodiversity #InvasiveSpecies #Taxonomy #Ecology explore.msujobs.msstate.edu/cw/en-us/job/5…

Ever spot a bee in your yard that you can't quite name? Look no further. 🔍🐝 Check out Extension's trusty identification guide on the bees of North Carolina to find out who exactly is perusing your perennials: ncst.at/QqVY50P0ZKl

Bird nests made from anti-bird spikes! 🤯 Even for me as a nest researcher, these are the craziest bird nests I've ever seen. Today my paper came out on this rebellious behaviour. And it's like telling a joke... A thread. 🧵

Attn #taxonomy ppl: How do I cite keys for community-level work? I want to acknowledge the value of taxonomy, but I don't have the space for 22 citations. I can include a supplemental list, but those citations don't count towards h-indexes... Any advice? #entomology #ants

The lab will be open between 12-3 for BugFest on Sat, Sept 16th. Come by, say hi, and get some free buttons!

The front page of tomorrow's The Daily Tar Heel – I shed many tears while typing up these heart-wrenching text messages sent and received by UNC students yesterday. Our campus was on lockdown for more than three hours. Beyond proud of this cover and the team behind it.

When you win the NCSU Entomology & Plant Pathology student and staff awards in excellence, the big boss Carolyn Anne Young takes you out to lunch! Congratulations everyone.

🚨New paper! I climbed up a tree, found a rare species of ant, and @Bertonemyia took some gorgeous photos, including the first-ever images of the males, juveniles, and intercastes of the species! Check it out: doi.org/10.4289/0013-8… Big thanks to Bonnie Blaimer & Elsa Youngsteadt!

🔊 First 🐜- 🦇💩#guano interaction described in epigean environments. 7⃣ different species of 🐜collected droppings from #Greater #Noctule and #Soprano #Pipistrelle in Doñana National Park. Ecological Entomology 🔎 ➡️resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ee…

A researcher studying arboreal insects found a surprise high up in the canopy of a North Carolina forest: the elusive ant Aphaenogaster mariae. 🔗 Hiding Above Our Heads: Rare Ant Species Found in North Carolina Treetops /by Michelle Kirchner NCSU Entomology & Plant Pathology entomologytoday.org/2024/01/03/rar…

Paper🚨Ecography Extending a classic #macroecological hypothesis (Janzen 1967) to🌳&⛰️: arboreal ants (from ⬆️climate variability habitat) have lower rates of species turnover across mountains than ground ants (from⬇️climate variability habitat) nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ec…

🎺𝐏𝐡𝐃 𝐞𝐱𝐢𝐭 𝐬𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐫 𝐨𝐧 𝐓𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝟒/𝟏𝟖 𝐚𝐭 𝟒𝐩𝐦 𝐄𝐓! If you want to join, comment below or shoot me a DM with your email address, and I'll send you the details! Come watch me talk for an hour about what I've been busy doing for the last 5 years!🐜🌳

We have a 3-month field technician position open for work on pollinators and landscape corridors. starts in July careers.msu.edu/en-us/job/5182… Katherine Hulting The Corridor Project

Check out my newest paper! We found 18 species of ants in the forest canopy of NC! resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ic…