Wanted - a Phd student in a biology/social sciences project on cooperation, evolution and resource management! luhaproject.wordpress.com/2019/02/01/fou…

Ant larvae might protect their nests from intruders! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

50 Years of the Price Equation special volume out in PhilTrans! royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/375/1…

If ant societies are superorganisms, then males are their sperm and queens are their eggs. Do the laws of anisogamy hold then? Well, yes and no. A paper out with Jussi Lehtonen, check it out! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

Got this paper on the recent kin selection debate out with Heikki Helanterä some time ago. Do check it out. Pernu, T.K. & Helanterä, H. (2019). “Genetic relatedness and its causal role in the evolution of insect societies”. Journal of Biosciences 44:107. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

New paper out! Ant queens ramp up their egg laying when exposed to a competing egg layer - except when the competitor is close kin! Formica fusca really seems pretty accurate in their recognition abilities. academic.oup.com/beheco/advance…

New paper: Ant larvae as players in social conflict: relatedness & individual identity mediate cannibalism intensity jstor.org/stable/10.1086…

New paper out on native ant supercolonies - they are complicated. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/me…

The hottest topic there is! #superorganisms x.com/Padraig_Kenned…