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Ja ho tenim tot preparat pel Bioblitz del 26 de maig! Hora de trobada: 9 h Punt de trobada: ctra. Granollers-Sant Celoni km 8,3 (entre el restaurant Can Martin i la rotonda de l'esportiu). Ja hi veureu la carpa de benvinguda. Què és un Bioblitz? 🧵👇

Again encountering and reporting new/spreading #alien #ant species established in #Italy, some with a worrying invasive potential. This time about #Brachyponera chinensis and #Nylanderia vividula. Researchgate: tinyurl.com/sm5bn9cb

🐜 The Asian needle ant (Brachyponera chinensis), a potential threat to ecology and public health, has now been found near Lake Como in northern Italy, representing its second European record. ➡ Find out more: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.12… #invasivespecies #alienspecies #ants

Last Friday I defended my PhD, a big thank you to everyone who supported me on this journey!

New paper! Using pollen DNA metabarcoding, citizen science and remote sensing we track origin and movements of the massive 2019 #PaintedLady butterfly outbreak. 🦋🌍 #ButterflyMigration #InsectMigration #vanessacardui #PhyloMigrationLab Institut Botànic de Barcelona

Today at #IUSSI2024 I am presenting “The genetic maps of European ants: a roadmap for phylogeography and species discovery”. If you like ants and maps come to the Amphitheatre B at 11:00!

#IUSSI2024 has been such a fantastic congress! Great to meet again friends and collaborators in a wonderful location like Lausanne. Thanks to all the organisers for making it a successful event full of great science, fun, and #ants!

📕 Alien ants spreading through Europe! 🐜🌍 Lake Como's stunning scenery is now home to two invasive ant species: the Asian needle ant and the Nylander's crazy ant. Discover the study led by Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE). 🧵 #ConservingBiodiversity #InvasiveSpecies 👉doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.12…

📢PhD Position available! Our lab Institut Botànic de Barcelona is recruiting a PhD student to work on Butterfly Migration Genomics 🦋🌍 📝Apply by: 15th September 2024 🔬Lab: phylomigrationlab.com ℹ️More details: ibb.csic.es/en/2024/08/phd…

New letter Conservation Biology, on the problematic misrepresentation of #invasive species in the mass media with images of unrelated organisms, e.g.: invasive fire ants misportrayed by images of weaver ants in The Guardian & The Telegraph. #Conservation #Ecology conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Congrats to Scott Loarie & Ken-ichi Ueda! 2024 #HeinzAward for Environment🍃iNaturalist is the world’s largest citizen science project. It connects millions of people to nature, crowdsourcing one of the most extensive biodiversity databases on the planet. bit.ly/3B0GzCq

How did the Quaternary ice ages shape W Palearctic biodiversity? Using 31,000+🧬sequences of ~500 butterfly🦋 species we objectively identified glacial refugia, colonization routes, and dispersal barriers at an unprecedented level! Out in Science Advances! doi.org/10.1126/sciadv…

🦋 How butterflies survived the Ice Age reveals clues about their future in the face of #climatechange. 📕 The #IBE study uncovers the effects of climate changes on #biodiversity in the past and how they might impact its future. 🧵  👉ibe.upf-csic.es/news/-/asset_p…

🚨ANOTHER JOB ALERT!🚨 Love insect physiology and how it links to species coexistence in wild places? Come and work with me, charlene, Rebecca Senior (rebeccasenior.bsky.social) and Andrew Davies at UCT! 🐜🐜🐜❄️🔥 This is our second ant-facing postdoc funded by HFSP. Please share and apply!

Our Observation of the Day is the first Sri Lankan Relict Ant (Aneuretus simoni) posted to iNaturalist! Seen in Sri Lanka by clurarit. This species is listed as Critically Endangered by IUCN Red List: iucnredlist.org/species/1290/3… More details at: inaturalist.org/observations/2…

Subiendo ahora fotos de nuevas concentraciones contra el genocidio en otros centros CSIC. Aquí lxs compañerxs del Instituto de Biología Evolutiva de Barcelona (CSIC-UPF). Bravo!!!! ✊✊✊

It’s not the head, it’s the butt! Meet a completely unknown organism: a blow fly (Calliphoridae) that evolved social integration in termite nests using a false termite head in the posterior part of the body. Current Biology cell.com/current-biolog… 👇

Thrilled to receive the #MSCA grant with the AntTRAILS project!🐜 I will explore the genomic legacy of human transitions in Mediterranean ants across history at Bonnie Blaimer's lab (Center for Integrative Biodiversity Discovery) and with Pablo Librado (Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE)). Lots of ants and fun ahead! Now at🦋site!