Check out our new paper on how land-cover change affects seasonal patterns for Okinawan ants in #ProcB Royal Society Publishing! With OIST Arilab, OKEON, ESI, and collaborator Ian Donohue. Link: doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2… 🧵below

17 #alien species of ants on #Cyprus! Check them out 🐜⚠️🇨🇾 kelly Martinou, Christos Georgiadis, Evan Economo, Helen Roy NeoBiota, Biodiversity Challenge Funds, Enalia Physis ERC neobiota.pensoft.net/article/106750/

Now published in a food processing special issue at Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Evan Economo and my review of ant feeding structure and function. Open access! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

An ant brain detector. Happy to see our work on automated insect anatomical segmentation from tomographic scans out on the cover of Natural Sciences. Great collaboration led by Evropi Toukeridou, with Kenji Doya, Carlos Gutierrez, and Daniel Baum. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/nt…

It's taken a few days to recover, but I had an amazing time last week teaching in a workshop on Evolutionary Morphology at OIST organized by Evan Economo & Dan Warren. Thanks to the organizers, all my fellow instructors, & the excellent students! Until next time, Okinawa.

Excited to announce I'll be delivering a keynote at the 2024 Inclusive Communication Symposium by OIST. Join me and diverse minds in breaking down barriers to inclusion. Submit your proposals and register: groups.oist.jp/c-hub/inclusiv… #inclusion #neurodiversity

🌀New paper🌀 Great to see our new OKEON 美ら森プロジェクト paper out today in Global Change Biology! Using an acoustic sensor array 🎤🎵 🐦 across Okinawa island, we found that typhoons 🌀 elicit divergent ecological responses across the island: oist.jp/news-center/ne…

Using sound collected before/during/after super-typhoon Trami in 2018, OIST #researchers have discovered that Okinawan ecosystems are surprisingly resilient to extreme #weather. That may change as extreme weather events get worse due to #climatechange 🌀👉oist.jp/news-center/ne…

|| NEW RESEARCH || Divergent ecological responses to typhoon disturbance revealed via landscape-scale acoustic monitoring 📄 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… Dr Sam Ross OIST Zoology, Trinity College Dublin School of Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin Ian Donohue Dave Armitage Evan Economo

Ants recognize infected battlefield wounds of their nestmates and treat them with antibiotic secretions. New paper in Nature Communications

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New paper with Evan Economo about metacommunuty stability is now available as 'Just Accepted' by the American Naturalist! doi.org/10.1086/729601 (Proof to come in several weeks with the same DOI.) 1/

Added 61 3D models of ants! 3DAntModels has been moved to tunosemi. sketchfab.com/tunosemi/models

We're searching for a new Associate Dean for Recruiting and Evaluation at OIST. Come work with us in this important role recruiting and evaluating faculty. oist.jp/careers/associ…

Congrats to Evan Economo & Jamie M. Kass on winning Japan's National Champion title in the Frontiers Planet Prize for their pioneering paper in Science Advances, the first high-res global ant mapping! Three World Champions to be announced in June! bit.ly/3Wi3dP4

New wound care behavior in ants! Here we show how ants amputate the leg of injured conspecifics (a first in the animal kingdom)! Interestingly, amputations are not always the best strategy to care for a wound and ants have adapted their treatment accordingly. A 🧵... (1/6)

My 2nd work on ant biogeographic regions is now published in Nature Communications! nature.com/articles/s4146… We show the complex biogeographic relationships among different taxa and the value of including insect groups in global bioregionalizations! The University of Hong Kong HKU School of Biological Sciences

Pleased to share the first paper from my PhD at OIST, showing that #eusociality did not drive the expansions in the number of odorant receptors in #Hymenoptera! 🐜🐝 Big thanks to all my co-authors! Sean K McKenzie Julian Katzke Paco Hita-Garcia Shûhei Yamamoto & Evan Economo