How do Leaf-cutting Ants Recognize Antagonistic Microbes in their Fungal Crops? frontiersin.org/article/10.338…

Here’s your animal role model, an #AnimalThatStaysHome Leafcutter ant minim garden workers are too small to cut leaves, they mostly just #StayHome and do stuff in the fungus! Be like them, #StayHome Reply, RT w/ your own favorite #AnimalThatStaysHome

Sooo happy! 🥳😀 My first manuscript is finally online at Frontiers - Ecology & Evolution. If you're interested in how leaf-cutting ants might recognize pathogens in their fungi crops, check it on! Andre Rodrigues Pepijn Kooij (he/him/his) frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

New Research: How Do Leaf-Cutting Ants Recognize Antagonistic Microbes in Their Fungal Crops?: Leaf-cutting ants employ diverse behavioral strategies for promoting the growth of fungal cultivars in a structure known as fungus garden. As a… frontiersin.org/articles/10.33… #Ecology

@fanny_teamo :# Não sabia que vc tinha virado ... Na escola te decho em paz de uma vez, Ok ? :s

@fanny_teamo Vc acabo de dize ? Pra Dani.Souza *

@fanny_teamo Tá; Desculpe interferir ''__''

Foi uma das melhores matérias opcionais que fiz no bacharel. Acho que a dificuldade em entende-la é por causa da formação complementar que tivermos ter sido muito fragmentada, impossibilitando a gente conectar uma coisa com a outra

Nao sabia dessa possibilidade taxonomica em icnofosseis! Obrigado 🤗

Olha a AUDÁCIA dos bonitos: #ubirajarabelongstoBR Corre lá flodar: instagram.com/p/CTmi6nVM6TW/…

New paper out in Ecology and Evolution led by Aryel C. Goes showing that leaf-cutting ants respond differently to various pathogens onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ec… Andre Rodrigues #leafcuttingants #science #pathogens #fungi #atta

Postdoc is conceptually different from a #PhD position. Below are some key points to keep in mind before starting postdoc. 1️⃣ The harsh reality of being a postdoc: 1. Postdoc is a contractual (not educational) position. Your postdoc duties are defined by your contract &

Ants that farm fungus to eat must weed out pathogenic fungi that contaminate their food supply. A study shows that a class of metabolites called peptaibols produced by the unwanted fungus Trichoderma induces an ant-weeding response. In PNAS: ow.ly/5Sa450OUOAm

If you make all the panels in R, you can actually make the entire figure in R with the patchwork package (github.com/thomasp85/patc…).

Every day I am in awe of international students. Doing a PhD in your native language and home country is hard. Doing it in a non-native language, in a different country and different culture is so much harder. You are not stupid. You are legends.

Costasiella kuroshimae (leaf sheep), is a sea slug performing 'kleptoplasty' = retaining the chloroplasts from the algae it eats, so that they can be used for photosynthesis. Yes, animals but living with photosysnthesis [📹Catrin Pichler]

#QuartoTipOfTheDay ➡️Use tabs to organise your results! (Only 2️⃣ lines of code required!!! 😍) 🔗productive-r-workflow.com/quarto-tricks#…

Immunology is for everyone! Excited to share "Exploring new perspectives in immunology" with Ruslan Medzhitov in Cell. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

🥳🐜New paper out in The Royal Society B: Exploring immune memory traits in the social immunity of a fungus-growing ant | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

@thejasonspevack you will be attending the season 3 of Dino Dan?