Abel Bernadou
@abelbernadou.bsky.social
@cbitoulouse | Major evolutionary transitions • Division of labour • Social evolution • insects • ants
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her highness sleeps
Ammophila wasp on brittlebush (Encelia) distal twigs at night
take a close look ... she is SPECTACULAR!
Ammophila wasp on brittlebush (Encelia) distal twigs at night
take a close look ... she is SPECTACULAR!
October 27, 2025 at 3:06 PM
her highness sleeps
Ammophila wasp on brittlebush (Encelia) distal twigs at night
take a close look ... she is SPECTACULAR!
Ammophila wasp on brittlebush (Encelia) distal twigs at night
take a close look ... she is SPECTACULAR!
🐜🥛 Des scientifiques ont « ressuscité » une ancienne recette des Balkans et de Turquie : le yaourt aux fourmis ! Leur étude, publiée dans la revue iScience, révèle que les #fourmis rousses (Formica spp.) possèdent un ensemble de ferments permettant de transformer le lait en yaourt 😆
October 6, 2025 at 11:17 AM
🐜🥛 Des scientifiques ont « ressuscité » une ancienne recette des Balkans et de Turquie : le yaourt aux fourmis ! Leur étude, publiée dans la revue iScience, révèle que les #fourmis rousses (Formica spp.) possèdent un ensemble de ferments permettant de transformer le lait en yaourt 😆
🦅⛰️ Surprenantes découvertes : les gypaètes barbus ne se contentent pas de construire des nids, ils créent de véritables capsules temporelles. En Espagne, des chercheur·se·s ont découvert que certains nids pouvaient contenir des artefacts humains vieux de... 600 à 700 ans !
October 4, 2025 at 11:40 AM
🦅⛰️ Surprenantes découvertes : les gypaètes barbus ne se contentent pas de construire des nids, ils créent de véritables capsules temporelles. En Espagne, des chercheur·se·s ont découvert que certains nids pouvaient contenir des artefacts humains vieux de... 600 à 700 ans !
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Breaking News: Jane Goodall, one of the world’s most revered conservationists, died at 91. Her discoveries in the 1960s about how chimpanzees behaved in the wild broke new ground and represented what was called “one of the Western world’s great scientific achievements.” nyti.ms/42kpGxt
October 1, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Breaking News: Jane Goodall, one of the world’s most revered conservationists, died at 91. Her discoveries in the 1960s about how chimpanzees behaved in the wild broke new ground and represented what was called “one of the Western world’s great scientific achievements.” nyti.ms/42kpGxt
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The University of Glasgow groundspeople are going to be quite annoyed when they come in to work tomorrow...
October 1, 2025 at 5:59 PM
The University of Glasgow groundspeople are going to be quite annoyed when they come in to work tomorrow...
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let me share a little story about a remarkable wasp that I encountered yesterday in our local deserts
I stumbled across her, and scrambled to get a few crappy photos .... but then realized that she had a burrow, perhaps a better photo op was possible ??
here she is at her burrow entrance.
I stumbled across her, and scrambled to get a few crappy photos .... but then realized that she had a burrow, perhaps a better photo op was possible ??
here she is at her burrow entrance.
September 23, 2025 at 1:25 AM
let me share a little story about a remarkable wasp that I encountered yesterday in our local deserts
I stumbled across her, and scrambled to get a few crappy photos .... but then realized that she had a burrow, perhaps a better photo op was possible ??
here she is at her burrow entrance.
I stumbled across her, and scrambled to get a few crappy photos .... but then realized that she had a burrow, perhaps a better photo op was possible ??
here she is at her burrow entrance.
😮🤯
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
September 25, 2025 at 6:45 AM
😮🤯
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Opinion: As human–AI interdependence deepens, could they form an integrated evolutionary individual, subject to collective selection? Explore this perspective in PNAS Front Matter: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
#AI #evolution #singularity #ChatGPT #LLM #MajorEvolutionaryTransition
#AI #evolution #singularity #ChatGPT #LLM #MajorEvolutionaryTransition
September 23, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Opinion: As human–AI interdependence deepens, could they form an integrated evolutionary individual, subject to collective selection? Explore this perspective in PNAS Front Matter: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
#AI #evolution #singularity #ChatGPT #LLM #MajorEvolutionaryTransition
#AI #evolution #singularity #ChatGPT #LLM #MajorEvolutionaryTransition
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Départ pour Le Havre demain, rdv au festival sur les épaules des géants lehavre.fr/sur-les-epau...
💛 Le blob sera à l'honneur pour tous les publics avec 4 rencontres prévues 💛
1️⃣ Jeudi je débute avec deux conférences pour 300 élèves du CE1 eu CM2...Désolé les parents... Blobs offerts à l'adoption.
💛 Le blob sera à l'honneur pour tous les publics avec 4 rencontres prévues 💛
1️⃣ Jeudi je débute avec deux conférences pour 300 élèves du CE1 eu CM2...Désolé les parents... Blobs offerts à l'adoption.
September 23, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Départ pour Le Havre demain, rdv au festival sur les épaules des géants lehavre.fr/sur-les-epau...
💛 Le blob sera à l'honneur pour tous les publics avec 4 rencontres prévues 💛
1️⃣ Jeudi je débute avec deux conférences pour 300 élèves du CE1 eu CM2...Désolé les parents... Blobs offerts à l'adoption.
💛 Le blob sera à l'honneur pour tous les publics avec 4 rencontres prévues 💛
1️⃣ Jeudi je débute avec deux conférences pour 300 élèves du CE1 eu CM2...Désolé les parents... Blobs offerts à l'adoption.
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Today is #AmazonRainforestDay! Home to 47 million people and around 10% of all species on Earth, this incredible ecosystem is under threat from mass deforestation and climate change. You can visit buff.ly/D6xZCkJ to learn more about how to help the Amazon Rainforest.
September 5, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Today is #AmazonRainforestDay! Home to 47 million people and around 10% of all species on Earth, this incredible ecosystem is under threat from mass deforestation and climate change. You can visit buff.ly/D6xZCkJ to learn more about how to help the Amazon Rainforest.
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A common type of ant in Europe breaks a fundamental rule in biology: its queens can produce male offspring that are a whole different species
go.nature.com/4mOb5T9
go.nature.com/4mOb5T9
‘Almost unimaginable’: these ants are different species but share a mother
Ant queens of one species clone ants of another to create hybrid workers that do their bidding.
go.nature.com
September 3, 2025 at 3:34 PM
A common type of ant in Europe breaks a fundamental rule in biology: its queens can produce male offspring that are a whole different species
go.nature.com/4mOb5T9
go.nature.com/4mOb5T9
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The 2026 international conference of the IUSSI will be in Freiburg, Germany, August 16th – 20st
iussi2026.org
iussi2026.org
International Union for the Study of Social Insects
International Congress of the Insternational Union for the Study of Social Insects
iussi2026.org
January 15, 2025 at 1:33 PM
The 2026 international conference of the IUSSI will be in Freiburg, Germany, August 16th – 20st
iussi2026.org
iussi2026.org
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New short communication!📄
Satizabal‑Niemeyer, @abelbernadou.bsky.social et al. showed that urban structures are poor substitutes for natural habitats and unlikely to maintain gene flow 🌆
doi.org/10.1007/s000...
#InsectesSociaux #SocialInsects #AntResearch #UrbanEcology #Nest #Fragmentation
Satizabal‑Niemeyer, @abelbernadou.bsky.social et al. showed that urban structures are poor substitutes for natural habitats and unlikely to maintain gene flow 🌆
doi.org/10.1007/s000...
#InsectesSociaux #SocialInsects #AntResearch #UrbanEcology #Nest #Fragmentation
December 11, 2024 at 12:33 PM
New short communication!📄
Satizabal‑Niemeyer, @abelbernadou.bsky.social et al. showed that urban structures are poor substitutes for natural habitats and unlikely to maintain gene flow 🌆
doi.org/10.1007/s000...
#InsectesSociaux #SocialInsects #AntResearch #UrbanEcology #Nest #Fragmentation
Satizabal‑Niemeyer, @abelbernadou.bsky.social et al. showed that urban structures are poor substitutes for natural habitats and unlikely to maintain gene flow 🌆
doi.org/10.1007/s000...
#InsectesSociaux #SocialInsects #AntResearch #UrbanEcology #Nest #Fragmentation
Very happy to see this paper published in #InsectesSociaux!
This study is a continuation of a story we published two years ago 😉 with @marioncordonnier.bsky.social
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This study is a continuation of a story we published two years ago 😉 with @marioncordonnier.bsky.social
1/2
New short communication!📄
Satizabal‑Niemeyer, @abelbernadou.bsky.social et al. showed that urban structures are poor substitutes for natural habitats and unlikely to maintain gene flow 🌆
doi.org/10.1007/s000...
#InsectesSociaux #SocialInsects #AntResearch #UrbanEcology #Nest #Fragmentation
Satizabal‑Niemeyer, @abelbernadou.bsky.social et al. showed that urban structures are poor substitutes for natural habitats and unlikely to maintain gene flow 🌆
doi.org/10.1007/s000...
#InsectesSociaux #SocialInsects #AntResearch #UrbanEcology #Nest #Fragmentation
December 11, 2024 at 5:54 PM
Very happy to see this paper published in #InsectesSociaux!
This study is a continuation of a story we published two years ago 😉 with @marioncordonnier.bsky.social
1/2
This study is a continuation of a story we published two years ago 😉 with @marioncordonnier.bsky.social
1/2
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Ants of the Amazon Rainforest, a photo gallery.
Ants of the Amazon Rainforest - Alex Wild
A sampling of one of the world's most diverse ant faunas
www.alexanderwild.com
December 5, 2024 at 3:42 PM
Ants of the Amazon Rainforest, a photo gallery.
Reposted by Abel Bernadou
go.bsky.app/QKajPgc
A starter pack for social evolution! Lots of space left for anyone who would like to be added
A starter pack for social evolution! Lots of space left for anyone who would like to be added
November 27, 2024 at 2:19 PM
go.bsky.app/QKajPgc
A starter pack for social evolution! Lots of space left for anyone who would like to be added
A starter pack for social evolution! Lots of space left for anyone who would like to be added
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Le CRCA – @cbitoulouse.bsky.social
Recrute un.e Ingénieur.e d’Etude en Techniques Biologiques Campagne MOBILITE 2024-2025 CNRS
(Modèles étudiés : souris, fourmis, araignées, abeilles, blob !)
Déposer votre candidature jusqu’au 16 janvier 2025
mobiliteinterne.cnrs.fr emploi.cnrs.fr
Recrute un.e Ingénieur.e d’Etude en Techniques Biologiques Campagne MOBILITE 2024-2025 CNRS
(Modèles étudiés : souris, fourmis, araignées, abeilles, blob !)
Déposer votre candidature jusqu’au 16 janvier 2025
mobiliteinterne.cnrs.fr emploi.cnrs.fr
December 3, 2024 at 4:12 PM
Le CRCA – @cbitoulouse.bsky.social
Recrute un.e Ingénieur.e d’Etude en Techniques Biologiques Campagne MOBILITE 2024-2025 CNRS
(Modèles étudiés : souris, fourmis, araignées, abeilles, blob !)
Déposer votre candidature jusqu’au 16 janvier 2025
mobiliteinterne.cnrs.fr emploi.cnrs.fr
Recrute un.e Ingénieur.e d’Etude en Techniques Biologiques Campagne MOBILITE 2024-2025 CNRS
(Modèles étudiés : souris, fourmis, araignées, abeilles, blob !)
Déposer votre candidature jusqu’au 16 janvier 2025
mobiliteinterne.cnrs.fr emploi.cnrs.fr
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Phrictus quinquepartitus is what I'd call the dragon-headed lantern bug with the multiple tubercles lining its snout, or apical process.
Photographed in Belize
Photographed in Belize
December 1, 2024 at 2:35 PM
Phrictus quinquepartitus is what I'd call the dragon-headed lantern bug with the multiple tubercles lining its snout, or apical process.
Photographed in Belize
Photographed in Belize
Reposted by Abel Bernadou
Here's a starter pack for assembling a versatile collection of Ecology and Evolution journals. Feel free to share suggestions! Bookmark it in your Browser for quick access to explore publications in the field or find outlets for your work:
go.bsky.app/TivtkJn
go.bsky.app/TivtkJn
November 27, 2024 at 2:02 AM
Here's a starter pack for assembling a versatile collection of Ecology and Evolution journals. Feel free to share suggestions! Bookmark it in your Browser for quick access to explore publications in the field or find outlets for your work:
go.bsky.app/TivtkJn
go.bsky.app/TivtkJn
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There’s loads of invertebrate macrophotographers on Bsky now, so I’ve whipped up a starter pack to make it easy to fill your feed with excellent bug photos!
#Invertebrate #Macrophotography 🧪
go.bsky.app/5CHHo2r
#Invertebrate #Macrophotography 🧪
go.bsky.app/5CHHo2r
November 27, 2024 at 12:09 AM
There’s loads of invertebrate macrophotographers on Bsky now, so I’ve whipped up a starter pack to make it easy to fill your feed with excellent bug photos!
#Invertebrate #Macrophotography 🧪
go.bsky.app/5CHHo2r
#Invertebrate #Macrophotography 🧪
go.bsky.app/5CHHo2r
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L'odyssée des fourmis en version Coréenne 🥰
November 30, 2024 at 3:39 PM
L'odyssée des fourmis en version Coréenne 🥰
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Welcoming @joanieking.bsky.social @meganbarkdull.bsky.social @docteur-drey.bsky.social and @mischocarvalhus.bsky.social to our growing community of amazing ant scientists here on bsky! 🩵🐜🩷
go.bsky.app/zo95qR
go.bsky.app/zo95qR
November 21, 2024 at 3:15 AM
Welcoming @joanieking.bsky.social @meganbarkdull.bsky.social @docteur-drey.bsky.social and @mischocarvalhus.bsky.social to our growing community of amazing ant scientists here on bsky! 🩵🐜🩷
go.bsky.app/zo95qR
go.bsky.app/zo95qR