It's almost the weekend! 🥳

If you're looking for something for you and/or your kids to do, I've recently re-uploaded my arthropod coloring guide 🎨

Please feel free to share, print, and [definitely] have fun with it!!!

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New article from the lab out today, in which we discuss how social behavior evolves at the molecular level. From parenting across the animal tree of life to caste systems in social insects, it’s all connected (and, therefore, slowly starts to make sense)…

@idrisadams.bsky.social's 1st wasp paper! Although written for & reviewed by kids, it's good for wasp-wary adults too!
And a perfect companion for a visit to the @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social #WorldOfWasps free exhibition www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-coll...
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We are looking for curious undergrads to join our research team next summer!

If you study in the UK, USA, or Canada, you might be eligible for the DAAD-RISE program 🇩🇪🧬

Learn more 👉 www.izmb.uni-bonn.de/en/pbb/news#DR
Come do science in Bonn next summer!
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Fiji ant study provides new evidence of insects’ decline on remote islands www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I am recruiting PhD students to join my lab at Wake Forest University Fall 2026. Current projects focus on the neurobiology, behavior, and development of identity processing in paper wasps. Contact me if interested. Deadline to apply is Dec. 15th 2025. Please share!
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The weird new ant paper that shows queens laying eggs of a completely different species has me thinking that more species are probably cloning sperm in their spermathecae than we’d thought.

After all, most queens only mate once and cloning would be a great mechanism for keeping the party going.

A favorite bug photo from last summer. Yes, it's a Polistes fuscatus wasp on goldenrod, but if you look long enough, you'll see another insect. (Indiana Dunes National Park)

I spent a bit of time this weekend trying to put a name on this Polyrhachis worker from the Eyre peninsula in south Australia, but I'm up against the taxonomic impediment: there are no published resources and no taxonomic synthesis. No one even knows what the species are.

So it stays "indet"

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Mystified why I never worked up this 2012 Cephalotes basalis-group turtle ant photo- the only one I have of this species- until now. Here, belatedly, an ant from central Colombia, from over a decade ago.

So pretty. So weird. Ant diversity is just amazing.