They kindly host not only our primary data, but also a fully interactable mode of it, too. See here for data and play around! insectbraindb.org/app/species/33… and see here for all those larval tracts - clickable and all!! insectbraindb.org/app/connectomi… 4/9

Dearest Students, I don't want to hear a single word of complaint from you EVER, about ANYTHING. #AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter

🚨 Not only #insects 🐝 but even #Taxonomists 👩‍🔬 are in danger!⚠️ According to the first-ever study that applies the IUCN Red List 🔴 methodology to #scientists, 40% of the insect's orders lack expertise! Full story ➡️ bit.ly/3UWHVCp Full report ➡️op.europa.eu/s/xinQ

PhD position available in our lab in Halle, please RT! If interested in studying host-parasite interactions in a super cool system 🐜🍄 just hit us up. Link for details: zoologie.uni-halle.de/allgemeine_zoo…

Tenía mucho tiempo sin hacer trabajo de campo y apenas ayer pude volver a explorar un poco En el camino me encontré con este nido de Trigona fulviventris. Algo particular con Trigona es que anidan en el suelo y no en grietas o árboles como la mayoría de los Meliponini.

A Jackson Pollock painting has more global structure than this.

¡Por fin una Guía de campo de las hormigas de le península Ibérica y Baleares! Gracias a Fede García y Javi Arcos tendremos 500 páginas con descripciones, fotografías y claves de identificación de más de 300 especies. Pronto será la campaña de preventa (crowfunding).

When you’re alone in the lab during the weekend

Life is all about choices: in this case about columns versus rows

It takes bravery for James and others to call out powerful, problematic scientists. Thanks for sharing your story. I hope it will help people avoid toxic lab environments. And hopefully it can chip away at some of these dodgy power structures in academia.

For non-scientists: A fun part of writing papers is that I don’t make anything to write or review papers. Journal gets my labor for free or better yet I pay them extra for open access. I wonder why fewer PhDs want to be academics?

Leaf #insects are fascinating, but pretty uniform. Their eggs are remarkable in regard to their morphological diversity. Happy to spread the news our manuscript investigating the #evolution and functional #morphology of these eggs has been published today. doi.org/10.1186/s12862…

The diversity of botanical collections is higher in countries that have formerly held colonizing power and lower in countries that were formerly colonized, but the opposite pattern is seen in natural environments, according to a paper in Nature Human Behaviour. go.nature.com/3CtsFpG

Natural science PhD students in Germany: Vote! A law is proposed that would restrict postdoc time to 4 years. Thereafter you either get a tenure track position or you are out. What does that to you? wisszeitvg.limesurvey.net/256713?lang=en Share your thoughts! #ichbinraus

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

Them: how’s the writing? Me: all on track thanks! The track:

Have you ever cancelled your fieldwork because your menstrual pain was so strong that you could not even move? I have and believe that it's good to start talking about #menstruation and fieldwork without taboos. A very good initiative from Asociación Española de Ecología Terrestre (AEET) and Mujeres con los Pies en la Tierra. #11F

The Many Shapes of Bacteria #Bacteria #Infographic #science #art #microbes #microbiology #sciart #vizscicomm #scicomm

Identifying #bees is now easier! 🐝 #DNAbarcodes are short sequences of genetic material that allow us to distinguish #species. An international team has now revealed the DNA barcodes of Iberian bees, an essential monitoring tool.👏 Visit: biodiversitygenomics.eu/2024/03/06/ide… European Research Executive Agency

It took me SEVEN years to figure out that you can save a ggplot as a vectorized .svg file ggsave("file.svg"). The svg file can be opened on powerpoint and it will be completely vectorized, even text are still recognized as text boxes! No more recreating plots on illustrator!!!!!