2.5 years in the making, we tighten the last screw on the new storage facility for the insect collections of the National Museum of Natural History & Science (MUHNAC). A nice news story about it on this link (in Portuguese, paid) and a thread here. publico.pt/2023/12/10/loc…

In a heroic effort, Zach Griebenow and Ziv Lieberman documented the genitals of male ants in the subfamily Leptanillinae; For some of the weirdest genital modifications seen in ants, terminology, and evolutionary hypotheses, see the article! I helped too. arthropod-systematics.arphahub.com/article/104810…

Today I’m talking about Strumigenys ants metamorphosis here at #SICB2024!

📢Fresh from the press: Lots of fieldwork and bitten fingers lead to a #biteforce database of 654 #insect species! Check out the results of the great team effort of the BlankeLab Scientific Data: nature.com/articles/s4159… #Rstats #DataScience European Research Council (ERC) Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn Universität zu Köln

Understanding ant bodies: One scan at a time The head anatomy of #Tatuidris was this year's #BestPaper, as voted on by the Myrmecological News community. Here, first author Adrian Richter talks about his academic journey and how to untangle ant evolution. Adrian Richter

Some of my ant photos.

🚨 Open postdoctoral position in our lab Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology! Clonal ants, social glands, behaviour and chemistry. More details here: bit.ly/3IBA6OO and on ulrichlab.com. Please RT!

Our paper revising the classification and describing new Cretaceous fossils of Megalyridae wasps is finally out in Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny 🥳 🔗 arthropod-systematics.arphahub.com/article/111148/

New fossil ants, insight into ant faunal turnover, and the persistence of the "platonic ant body plan"! Our paper on the youngest-yet stem ants from the Cretaceous, preserved in ~77 Ma North Carolina amber, is now out in Current Biology doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.…

Preparándonos para el próximo #EncuentroMirmecológicoGEHN con Adrian Richter y su charla "The potencial of studying ant morphology using micro-CT" 🐜🐜🐜🤩🤩🤩 Te esperamos!!! 🗓️ 25 de abril (Jueves) 🕖 19:00 h COL (UTC-5) ONLINE!!!!

Started off as an #amber found at the Phyletisches Museum, turned out to be African copal, and even younger! Whole thing was a big process, from grinding, polishing, thoughts on amber, his history to new discoveries: dez.pensoft.net/article/112433/ Thanks everyone for their contribution...

Te presentamos a Adrián Richter, con quién vamos a estar el jueves en el #EncuentroMirmwcológicoGEHN con Adrian Richter 🐜🤩❤️ 🇲🇽 18:00 🇨🇴 19:00 🇧🇷🇦🇷 21:00 Te esperamos!!!

new *paper* together with Johan Billen: The original histological sections of myrmecophilous and termitophilous #beetles of Erich Wasmann (1859–1931) doi.org/10.1007/s00040… Insectes Sociaux

Closing after a great European Ant course! Learned lots of taxonomy! Priscila Hanisch 🐜🇦🇷🇩🇪💚 LinaMa 🐜 Eduarda 🐜 Michele Bertoncini Abel Bernadou and more!

Te presentamos a la Dra. Jill Oberski, Ph.D. 🐜 que nos acompañará mañana en el #EncuentroMirmecológicoGEHN y con quién vamos aprender sobre las hormigas Dorymyrmex 🐜❤️ Te esperamos!!!!

How is this not trending right now??? These are images of newly discovered trilobite fossils preserved in fine pyroclastic ash at the Lemdad Valley of Morocco! They are never-before-seen details on the soft tissues normally not preserved in trilobites.

The Macroecology Lab is hiring a postdoc. Applicants should be proficient in species distribution modeling, GIS, and R. Those who want to do research in an international env. are esp. welcome. If interested, please DM or email me. Details in link below. jrecin.jst.go.jp/seek/SeekJorDe…

What is the #ant Temnothorax unifasciatus? Great phenotypic variation, wide distribution range, and very interesting intraspecific patterns connected to glacial refugia - and some taxonomic misunderstandings Researchgate: tinyurl.com/5bfxs5d6 doi.org/10.1111/zsc.12…

New research article!📰 Khalife et al. studied intercastes in A. rugulosa, finding unique intermediate forms between workers and queens, which sheds light on the evolution of ant division of labor.🐜 doi.org/10.1007/s00040… #Insectessociaux #Socialinsects #Intercastes #Ergatoid