A good coffee it’s always a great moment!

The “Formigas do Brasil" course has allowed aspiring Latin researchers to achieve the dream of becoming myrmecologists. However, the course was severely affected by the federal policy of cutting resources. Please, contribute and spread our campaign! vakinha.com.br/3170752

Happy to see the chapter of my PhD thesis out. It was a long and hardworking process. Thanks to astrid boehne and Walter Salzburger Lab for all the learning during this process. 😃

Are you interested in ants and do you speak English, Spanish or Portuguese? You still have time to register as attendant (deadline 1st May) or speaker (deadline 28 Febr) in the 2nd Ibero-American Symposium on Myrmecology. sibermirmeco.wixsite.com/2dosibermirmeco

The four hippopotamuses smuggled in by drug lord Pablo Escobar in the 1970s are now more than 130. They’re devouring plant life, crowding out native animals, polluting water and threatening people. wapo.st/3SOsi0g

Technical article by LinaMa 🐜 et al. and #openaccess too! The authors developed and tested a new setup for keeping ants or similar sized insects in small groups. It is quick to build, cheap and with reusable materials. rdcu.be/dfwpJ #artificialnest #behavior #plaster

Solo veo un desconocimiento de nuestra mega diversidad y la investigación que se ha hecho, se hace y se podría hacer. Por favor escuchen a los investigadores de nuestro país!!! No más proyectos de ley ignorantes!!! camara.gov.co/experimentacio…

#ICN Presentamos a la sociedad nuestra posición académica respecto a las iniciativas legislativas en torno al "uso de animales en investigación, educación y estudios biológicos" en Colombia. Invitamos a una construcción colaborativa de P. Ley fundamentada en evidencia científica.

First call for the next IUSSI meeting of the Seccion Andina y del Caribe! ⏰ August 14-16th 2024 📍Bogotá, Colombia

🆕#blogpost: Phil Hoenle Phil shares amazing pictures of "the astonishing #diversity of Papua New Guinea" 🐜 Check it out! #insects #research blog.myrmecologicalnews.org/2023/11/02/the…

1/ 🤖 New paper hot off the press 🐜 Automated behavioural analysis using machine learning is great, but still needs lots of effort to curate training data. What if a computer could generate that data for you? Say hello to replicAnt nature.com/articles/s4146… #OpenSource

🆕#blogpost: "Long live the queen". In most organisms, reproduction usually leads to a shorter lifespan. However, in eusocial insects the queen lives much longer than the worker #ants. However, when the queen dies in Harpegnathos, some workers can ... blog.myrmecologicalnews.org/2023/11/15/lon…

At the end of the year, Myrmecological News Blog & its editorial team want to thank all our readers, followers, and contributors and wish you a #happynewyear2024! So, thank you to all who contributed, read, revised, produced, and read posts on our blog.🥳 blog.myrmecologicalnews.org/2023/12/31/hap…

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Felicitaciones a Andrea Paz, PhD y Carolina Pardo por esta publicación del estado de la participación de las mujeres en ciencia en Colombia!!! journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

Very Happy to have successfully defended my PhD last Monday! 💪🏼🐜

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