Thank you so much for this award Hector Fellow Academy and the funding to study how ants care for the wounds of their host plants! looking forward to the results of this exciting new phd project in the coming years 🐜🚑🌴

How are the extreme morphological castes among workers in social insects produced? Here, we show that the co-evolution of larval signalling and worker behaviour may lead to the evolution of distinct worker body sizes 🧵(1/6)

Applications for #HRCDA are now open! Support for W1 Assistant Professors & Jr. Research Group Leaders in Science, Medicine, & Psychology. 25K funding, PhD position, & 5-year #HFA network membership. 📢 Apply by October 30, 2024!📢 More info 👉 hector-fellow-academy.de/en/career-deve…

Great new preprint by Nathalie Stroeymeyt et al. on changes in nest construction after pathogen exposure and as always a great catch by New Scientist. Their policy to always ask scientists (who were not involved) to comment on preprints is essential and I was happy to play my part here.