An ant colony has memories that its individual members don’t have – aeon.co/ideas/an-ant-c… via Aeon Magazine

"While the actual modification of the environment to counteract selective pressures is an important component of agricultural sequences, the feedback loops created by these actions are what create evolutionary trajectories and are often unrecognized" extendedevolutionarysynthesis.com/niche-construc…

Renee Duckworth: “It is the short-term flexibility of organisms that may provide the mechanism for understanding patterns of evolution on the longest timescale.” #evoevolving

Tardigrades! You love them. We love them. Let's spend the next 13 minutes staring at their cute faces! youtu.be/kux1j1ccsgg

An old post, but these are still three of my favorite careers #withaphd. Doesn't matter what the PhD is! Academic Chatter™ #phdchat roostervane.com/3paths/

Community context matters: Antibiotic effect on single-bacterial species cultures can be reversed when co-cultured "Antithetic population response to antibiotics in a polybacterial community" by Letícia Galera-Laporta & Garcia-Ojalvo in Science Advances advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/10/e…

Check out the new research from the #metaanalysis project! Massive congratulations to the team.

One day to go until our workshop on niche construction and other mechanisms in ecology and evolution. Interesting questions, great speakers, and a diverse audience. Don't forget to brew your coffee in advance! ecoevomechanisms2020.wordpress.com

How does an insect keeps its house clean? Joachim Kurtz shows us the red flour beetles' anti-microbial compounds, a great example of niche construction. NC3

**Funded PhD and PostDoc offer** NC3 We offer exciting projects to study the ecological and evolutionary consequences of host-parasite interactions from the individual to the ecosystem level. See uni-muenster.de/Evolution/anim…

Happy to share our ideas how to combine aspects of plant chemodiversity with niche theory and trait-based ecology, just published together with Robert R. Junker in New Phytologist. #NC3Niche #chemodiversity nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np…

Congratulations to @ana_korsa and Nic Schröder for their latest publications on changes in Tribolium microbiome upon immune priming (doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.…) and adaptation of human probiotic Escherichia coli Nissle 1917 in Tribolium (doi.org/10.1093/emph/e…).

Finally...last story from my PhD out in Insect Molecular Biology with the help of great co-authors Fakry Mohamed, Lai Ka Lo, @robertpeuss, Maike de Buhr and Joachim Kurtz!

Come check out our work at the poster session this Thursday at #ESEB2022 ! 📢Below the posters, you will find details about openings for a Professor and a PhD position in the Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity at the University of Muenster, Germany.

🔴We are hiring!🔴 If you are into #ecology and intraspecific variation, apply for our #PhDposition funded by DFG public | @[email protected] & NC3! Salary: 65% TVL 13 Place: Jena, Germamy More info: uni-jena.de/ioepmedia/pdf-… [You can also DM me] Please RT!

New preprint from the lab, in which nematodes related to C. elegans ambush ants, infect their head, and change their behavior. tinyurl.com/yckek3fu. Lead by Zimai Li 荔枝麦, with Erik Frank, T. Schmitt, Arilab, F. Azuma, Darren J. Parker, T. Oliveira-Honorato, V. Bachmann

Apparently, the proposal for #WissZeitVG did not go through BUT this 🧵 by Gregor Kalinkat @[email protected] is worth reading to understand some of the bizarre things of the German academic system (despite the many ➕ too). #AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter #academia #ichbinhanna

In Sachsen werden Busse in Leipzig und Dresden für die Anreise nach #Berlin bereitgestellt! 👇 #WissZeitVG #BMBF @NGA_Wiss

A new paper on species coexistence and ontogenetic niche shifts in Trinidadian streams is out now! We tested a theory on how species reduce interactions and promote coexistence through trophic shifts. Check out our findings in Journal of Animal Ecology tinyurl.com/2e6mjbnd