Woohoo! My summer friends have arrived! I can be the crazy chicken lady again ♥️🐔♥️
New research finds that nursing carpenter ants apply their venom to their brood to prevent fungal infections, highlighting peptides’ role in colony hygiene and social immunity.
Learn more in this week’s issue of #ScienceAdvances: https://scim.ag/3PfGh24
#ProcB in @theguardian.com | Flexible self-protection as evidence of pain-like states in house crickets: doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
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I have read 33 of these, and several of them are on my list of 'if I was on a desert island with only this book, I would teach myself origami using the pages, rather than ever read it again'.
📰Published📰Snakes take thermal risks to reproduce: How behavior and physiology help them balance survival and mating🐍
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🚨Job claxon🚨
4-year #Postdoc available in our lab in @camzoology.bsky.social developing molecular and anatomical approaches to mapping evolutionary changes in the brain, using #Heliconiini butterflies.
Come join us, we are nice. 🧪
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Excited to share this new pre-print from the fantastic @kelsiehunnicutt.bsky.social! Kelsie put together a thoughtful and thorough review on hybridization in animal evolution: ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v.... She tracks notable shifts in perspectives on the study of hybridization through time.