Tandem running in 🐜 is a fascinating communication behaviour & is often considered a case of animal teaching.

But what do follower ants actually learn?👇
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Great work by @ainacolovila.bsky.social, Tara Williams and Simone Glaser 👏👏

New blogpost:
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the fallout from the Francesca Gino research misconduct scandal isn't over. @engber.bsky.social writes about how an effort by some of her colleagues to self-audit their work with her ended up raising even more questions — for them personally and their whole field www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

🐝 We're currently advertising three PhD projects to study bees at Bristol University, UK. Two focus on foraging behaviour, ecology & nutrition, one on parasitic bees and their impact on indigenous stingless beekeeping in Peru.

Feel free to share: www.socialinsect-research.com/opportunitie...

Dr. Nadezhda Ladygina-Kohts (1889-1963) was a comparative psychologist who founded the Zoopsychology dept of the Darwin Museum in Moscow in 1911. Several of her research methods became foundational in the study of animal behaviour 1/6

#WomenInScience 🧪

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Have any of y'all ever seen Google Scholar randomly spell out the number of citations for a single paper?

The program of the Northwest European IUSSI Winter meeting is now live. So many exciting talks:
socialinsects.wixsite.com/iussi2023

In person registration is closed but we'll leave registration for online participation open for a little longer if you still want to join!