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

royal food of termites shows king and queen specificity | PNAS Nexus | Oxford Academic academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/adva…

Now online!! The evolutionary ecology of nests! royalsocietypublishing.org/journal/rstb

Another mithondrial anecdote from stingless bees: In a single individual we found 6 different control regions! In this new paper led by Elaine Françoso we show evidences of multiple mtgenome haplotypes in a single bee doi.org/10.1016/j.gene…

How hard is it to do science in a language that’s not your first language? We quantified the severity of #languagebarriers for non-native English speakers when reading/publishing papers and attending/presenting at international conferences. doi.org/10.1371/journa… 1/9

Our latest paper (plos.io/43FqBGg) reports a strikingly strong association between social network position and brain-wide patterns of gene expression in a species of carpenter ant (📸 @bartjzijlstra)

The ant we would not have liked to discover: the fire ant Solenopsis invicta arrived in Europe! Check out our article just published in Current Biology: tinyurl.com/yc63tzz2 doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.… #IAS #invasive #ant

Nature research paper: Projected decline in European bumblebee populations in the twenty-first century go.nature.com/3sWU1mY

Ant phylogenomics reveals a natural selection hotspot preceding the origin of complex eusociality: Current Biology cell.com/current-biolog…

Ant workers exhibit stress-related behaviour and quickly die when they are socially isolated (😢🐜☠️). New research led by Akiko Koto shows why - nature.com/articles/s4146… 1/3

Mating without intromission in a bat: Current Biology cell.com/current-biolog…

Our paper on how ants regulate transcription of odorant receptor genes at large genomic tandem arrays is featured on the cover of Current Biology today. cell.com/issue/S0960-98…

Six days remaining to apply! PhD position available on the evolution and organization of olfactory systems in ants 🐜🧬

Disruption of an ant-plant mutualism shapes interactions between lions and their primary prey | Science science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Preprint alert! 🐜 🧬 The first from my PhD with Daniel Kronauer, with an assist from Taylor. We discovered an unusual case of “unselfish” meiotic drive while studying asexual reproduction and its genomic consequences in the clonal raider ant. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Invasive #termites may soon threaten homes around the world as climate change and globalisation push them into new territories. 🌎 🔗 Read more on the Pensoft blog: blog.pensoft.net/2024/04/30/ter… #invasivespecies

Google's new AI search results are having quite the week. Here's a thread with some of my favorite answers:

LncRNA gene ANTSR coordinates complementary sex determination in the Argentine ant | Science Advances science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

The Biggest Surprise of the Paris Olympics: Even the French Have Nothing to Complain About - WSJ wsj.com/sports/olympic…