Kendrick Nakamura
@soulsynapse.bsky.social
PhD student @ ASU's Social Insect Research Group 🐜🐝 ants, bees, wasps, social behavior, phylogenetics, evolutionary game theory
❤️ Community science, documenting the natural history of ants @ AntSciHub.com, discord.gg/antkeeping, reddit.com/r/antkeeping
❤️ Community science, documenting the natural history of ants @ AntSciHub.com, discord.gg/antkeeping, reddit.com/r/antkeeping
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What a spectacular way to end the trip. Seeing my friend and colleague @soulsynapse.bsky.social at the social insect research group at ASU for showing me around their labs and facilities on my way out of Arizona. Really cool work with social behavior and it was amazing to see their ant colonies.
July 11, 2025 at 12:42 AM
What a spectacular way to end the trip. Seeing my friend and colleague @soulsynapse.bsky.social at the social insect research group at ASU for showing me around their labs and facilities on my way out of Arizona. Really cool work with social behavior and it was amazing to see their ant colonies.
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I've seen folks talk about how "in four years" they'll be able to get back to their planned projects and I really don't think that's going to work out. People & projects losing funding now will not be able to hit pause and come back once funding is restored. Hard-won progress & capacity will be lost
I worry that not enough of a big deal is being made about how long-term the devastation of these budget cuts to our scientific and health agencies will be, beyond the absolute ruin they will cause in the acute period.
June 3, 2025 at 8:51 PM
I've seen folks talk about how "in four years" they'll be able to get back to their planned projects and I really don't think that's going to work out. People & projects losing funding now will not be able to hit pause and come back once funding is restored. Hard-won progress & capacity will be lost
Deflate style hand vacuum as an electronic aspirator. Best of both worlds. Needs a pooter with a filter built in. #entomology #antkeeping #ants
May 5, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Deflate style hand vacuum as an electronic aspirator. Best of both worlds. Needs a pooter with a filter built in. #entomology #antkeeping #ants
Interestingly weavers can climb up a thin oil film alone
May 5, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Interestingly weavers can climb up a thin oil film alone
Corn starch baby powder works great as an ant barrier. Comes off easily but at least it's not a known carcinogen 😅
May 4, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Corn starch baby powder works great as an ant barrier. Comes off easily but at least it's not a known carcinogen 😅
A seed passes inspection (Pogonomyrmex barbatus)
April 7, 2025 at 8:22 PM
A seed passes inspection (Pogonomyrmex barbatus)
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Fantastic piece (doi.org/10.1073/pnas...) by @tlinksvayer.bsky.social on @arthurmatte.bsky.social and my recent paper in PNAS (doi.org/10.1073/pnas...). He really pulls together the threads of how we believe that socially transferred materials #socialfluids entrenched social complexity in ants. 1/2
Social control drove ant evolution | PNAS
Social control drove ant evolution
doi.org
March 25, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Fantastic piece (doi.org/10.1073/pnas...) by @tlinksvayer.bsky.social on @arthurmatte.bsky.social and my recent paper in PNAS (doi.org/10.1073/pnas...). He really pulls together the threads of how we believe that socially transferred materials #socialfluids entrenched social complexity in ants. 1/2
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We don't know much about these odd-looking Zasphinctus ants, except they seem to raid other ant nests, steal their larvae and eat them... Their narrow elongated bodies probably help them enter small galleries.
#ants #myrmecology non #armyants #fourmis #science
#ants #myrmecology non #armyants #fourmis #science
March 29, 2025 at 2:50 AM
We don't know much about these odd-looking Zasphinctus ants, except they seem to raid other ant nests, steal their larvae and eat them... Their narrow elongated bodies probably help them enter small galleries.
#ants #myrmecology non #armyants #fourmis #science
#ants #myrmecology non #armyants #fourmis #science
Finally taking the time to learn Fusion360. Design for a co2 hose that will make noise (so people don't forget to turn it off) but diffuses the flow to knock out ants.
March 29, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Finally taking the time to learn Fusion360. Design for a co2 hose that will make noise (so people don't forget to turn it off) but diffuses the flow to knock out ants.
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Today, the USDA lost experts in Psylloidea, Thysanoptera, Cerambycidae, Hymenoptera, Pseudococcidae, and Malacology. This is a devastating loss of expertise, occuring without warning. Their union's official statement on the issue can be found here: aginspectors.org/2-14-2025-a-... #entomology 🧪
February 14, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Today, the USDA lost experts in Psylloidea, Thysanoptera, Cerambycidae, Hymenoptera, Pseudococcidae, and Malacology. This is a devastating loss of expertise, occuring without warning. Their union's official statement on the issue can be found here: aginspectors.org/2-14-2025-a-... #entomology 🧪
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High quality An't 🖤
Gelis species ichneumonid wasp.
Gelis species ichneumonid wasp.
December 21, 2024 at 4:01 AM
High quality An't 🖤
Gelis species ichneumonid wasp.
Gelis species ichneumonid wasp.
A timely assist.
December 4, 2024 at 6:49 PM
A timely assist.
Pretty happy with this feeder. Ants seem to like it too.
November 28, 2024 at 3:16 AM
Pretty happy with this feeder. Ants seem to like it too.
Currently figuring out how to print this in high enough quality that it does it justice
We’ve got a new phylogeny of the ants out as a preprint! It’s been an exciting collaboration with some awesome 🐜 people for the past few years, led by Marek Borowiec and @corriemoreau.bsky.social:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 28, 2024 at 2:12 AM
Currently figuring out how to print this in high enough quality that it does it justice
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#PhD Advert: Please share! Are you looking for a PhD studentship in comparative- or population-genomics, using 300+ species of #Drosophila and 1000+ genomes of #melanogaster? #Entomology #Genomics #PopGen #Phylogenetics
November 27, 2024 at 4:23 PM
#PhD Advert: Please share! Are you looking for a PhD studentship in comparative- or population-genomics, using 300+ species of #Drosophila and 1000+ genomes of #melanogaster? #Entomology #Genomics #PopGen #Phylogenetics
Pheidole rhea annoyed that I'm looking at em.
November 22, 2024 at 3:07 AM
Pheidole rhea annoyed that I'm looking at em.
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No, YOU'RE making increasingly elaborate conceptual diagrams instead of grading papers
November 21, 2024 at 12:42 AM
No, YOU'RE making increasingly elaborate conceptual diagrams instead of grading papers
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Gonna repost this every so often until it's full:
If you're into ecological niche modeling / species distribution modeling (ENM or SDM), here's a starter pack for you! And if you're an investigator in the field and you'd like to be added, please let me know in the replies.
bsky.app/starter-pack...
If you're into ecological niche modeling / species distribution modeling (ENM or SDM), here's a starter pack for you! And if you're an investigator in the field and you'd like to be added, please let me know in the replies.
bsky.app/starter-pack...
November 19, 2024 at 8:08 AM
Gonna repost this every so often until it's full:
If you're into ecological niche modeling / species distribution modeling (ENM or SDM), here's a starter pack for you! And if you're an investigator in the field and you'd like to be added, please let me know in the replies.
bsky.app/starter-pack...
If you're into ecological niche modeling / species distribution modeling (ENM or SDM), here's a starter pack for you! And if you're an investigator in the field and you'd like to be added, please let me know in the replies.
bsky.app/starter-pack...
Cephalotes clypeatus?! 🤯 via @alexwild.bsky.social
November 20, 2024 at 9:07 PM
Cephalotes clypeatus?! 🤯 via @alexwild.bsky.social
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I'm doing a Reddit AMA tomorrow 1:30-3:30 Eastern. Looking forward to answering some questions!
www.reddit.com/r/askscience...
www.reddit.com/r/askscience...
November 19, 2024 at 10:36 PM
I'm doing a Reddit AMA tomorrow 1:30-3:30 Eastern. Looking forward to answering some questions!
www.reddit.com/r/askscience...
www.reddit.com/r/askscience...
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We strongly suggest that academic publishers and other platforms that host research rapidly implement a Share to Bluesky button for their articles. Here's how:
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#AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics
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#AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics
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November 18, 2024 at 2:48 PM
We strongly suggest that academic publishers and other platforms that host research rapidly implement a Share to Bluesky button for their articles. Here's how:
docs.bsky.app/docs/advance...
#AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics
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#AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics
Well, it is sufficiently costly for scientists to be wrong. It is not sufficiently costly for news orgs to spread lies. The voters eat the cost of those lies; temporal discounting alone makes it hard for any reasonable string of accountability, à la an iterative prisoners dillema.
Scientists are inherently self-critical. If an experiment fails, our first thought is usually "did I do something wrong?" So when disinformation is everywhere, some of us think "did we communicate science wrong??" No, it's not your fault. There are billionaires funding propaganda who are to blame
November 16, 2024 at 7:27 AM
Well, it is sufficiently costly for scientists to be wrong. It is not sufficiently costly for news orgs to spread lies. The voters eat the cost of those lies; temporal discounting alone makes it hard for any reasonable string of accountability, à la an iterative prisoners dillema.
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I agree with this article. It is time for scientists to build trust - we only do it by bringing everyone in and teaching the scientific method. We only beat misinformation and authoritarianism with the freedom that science brings. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Science is neither red nor blue
Long before the 5 November US presidential election, I had become ever more concerned that science has fallen victim to the same political divisiveness tearing at the seams of American society. This i...
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November 16, 2024 at 4:31 AM
I agree with this article. It is time for scientists to build trust - we only do it by bringing everyone in and teaching the scientific method. We only beat misinformation and authoritarianism with the freedom that science brings. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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