New 3D printed ant head by Julian Katzke

Thanks for the great company and all your help, Doug! It's been such a fun and productive field trip; I'm not ready to get out of CR yet :)

Our lab's computing tech Kosmas wrote this and it matters informationmatters.org/2022/06/wikis-…

Our planet is positively teeming with “little things that run the world”-invertebrates. Yet, it has been a challenge to see the big picture of how invertebrate diversity is distributed around the globe. Happy to share that, finally, we have a detailed view for one group: ants.

🆕paper: "Wonderfully weird: the head anatomy of the armadillo #ant, Tatuidris tatusia, with evolutionary implications" by Adrian Richter Adrian Richter, Brendon Boudinot B. E. Boudinot, Francisco Hita Garcia Paco Hita-Garcia, Johan Billen, Evan Economo & Rolf Beutel myrmecologicalnews.org/cms/index.php?…

Very happy: final paper of my PhD out in Myrmecological News today! Check out their twitter thread, blog entry and of course the original article for the deeds on head anatomy of the wonderfully weird ant Tatuidris tatusia, "poneroid" evolution and mandible mechanics.

Tenure-track job at the Natural History Museum Berlin. Let´s use robotics, imaging, machine learning, and MinION sequencing for tackling the taxonomy of hyperdiverse taxa that are disease vectors or live in soil/leaf litter. Deadline: 30.04.2023. tinyurl.com/yck68e4z EvolDir

Job alert! New tenure-track researcher position open at @mfnberlin! We are looking for a specialist on soil-dwelling or vector arthropods to help us develop innovative strategies of integrative taxonomy. Come work with us! jobs.museumfuernaturkunde.berlin/jobposting/058…

OPEN POSITION - Join our team Shmoopy and Uni Hohenheim for the development of #robotics to enable serial #xray #tomography. If you are interested, check out the #joboffer: lnkd.in/eS7g52sR #joboffers #jobsuche #roboter #robotik #automatisierungstechnik #automation

Happy to share our NatureEcoEvo paper: 20 insect families account for most of species diversity in Malaise traps, but continue to be highly neglected. It incidentally became a COVID project with sequencing finishing just before the lock down. doi.org/10.1038/s41559…

New work led by Lazzat Aibekova with some great collaborators investigating a rare trait in ants: the ability to jump. Thanks to [email protected] we were able to include abstracts in Uchinaaguchi (Okinawan) and Kazakh, languages not typically seen in the scientific literature.

Delighted to share the second chapter of my Ph.D. thesis. Moreover, I am grateful for the chance to collaborate with such an outstanding group of experts. Here is the link to the article: doi.org/10.1093/iob/ob…

[#entomology] Afrotropical Ceraphronoidea (Insecta: Hymenoptera) put back on the map with the description of 88 #newspecies ! ✒️ Tobias Salden & Ralph S. Peters from @mfnberlin DOI: doi.org/10.5852/ejt.20… #Insecta #Hymenoptera #taxonomy #parasitoidwasps #hymenopterist

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! @Dorylophile Julian Katzke Paco Hita-Garcia Shûhei Yamamoto & Evan Economo

Check out our full study for more details! doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2… #Insects #Olfaction #Evolution #Entomology

Evolution of odorant receptor repertoires across Hymenoptera – including bees, wasps and ants - is not linked to the evolution of eusociality: ow.ly/xK0150Tvbv6 #ProcB #OpenAccess Shubham Gautam @Dorylophile Julian Katzke Paco Hita-Garcia Evan Economo

Glad to share that our flagship paper of the GAGA project "The Adaptive Radiation and Social Evolution of the Ants" is now available as a preprint at ssrn.com/abstract=50550…

🚫 Farewell to species descriptions with consensus barcodes ✨ Hello to Diagnostic Molecular Combinations (DMCs) ✅ State-specific ✅ Contrastive ✅Publication-ready Now even easier with the latest UITOTO, our updated user-friendly software; Preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025.0…

The top 10 flying insect clades rule the skies—but defy the rules. Weak or inverted latitudinal diversity gradients leave biogeographers puzzled. Entomologists? Mildly amused. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Our article about the adaptive radiation and social evolution of the ants is now out in Cell! We analyze 163 ant genomes to explore the evolution of these amazing social insects 🐜 Check it out: doi.org/10.1016/j.cell…