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Gema Trigos-Peral
@trigos-peral.bsky.social
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Researcher at Museum and Institute of Zoology (PAS) @mizpas• Ants • Urban ecology • Conservation • Biodiversity • Wood Ants• Social evolution
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trigos-peral.bsky.social
📢I would like to share with you two opportunities to work in urban ecology with birds. The urban group at University of Granada is looking for a PhD candidate and a postdoc. More info in the attachments! #urbanEcology #birds #PhDcandidate #Postdoc #ResearchOpportunities
November 24, 2025 at 7:57 PM
trigos-peral.bsky.social
Thanks @igue-aeet.bsky.social for this opportunity to show my research! #ants #urbanization #adaptations
igue-aeet.bsky.social Iberian Group of Urban Ecology @igue-aeet.bsky.social · 7d
You can already watch (or watch again) the seminar given by @trigos-peral.bsky.social from @mizpas.bsky.social in our #UrbanEcology seminar series.
Would you like to know more about how urbanization (♨️💡) shapes ant 🐜 performance and behaviour?
Have a look here: youtu.be/G8N-bkMA-oA?...
IGUE - Gema Trigos Peral: Background mechanisms shaping ant communities in urban ecosystems
YouTube video by Iberian Group of Urban Ecology
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November 20, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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igue-aeet.bsky.social
You can already watch (or watch again) the seminar given by @trigos-peral.bsky.social from @mizpas.bsky.social in our #UrbanEcology seminar series.
Would you like to know more about how urbanization (♨️💡) shapes ant 🐜 performance and behaviour?
Have a look here: youtu.be/G8N-bkMA-oA?...
IGUE - Gema Trigos Peral: Background mechanisms shaping ant communities in urban ecosystems
YouTube video by Iberian Group of Urban Ecology
youtu.be
November 20, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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mizpas.bsky.social
🌿🐜 Don’t miss it this Thursday - 16:30h!
Join our colleague Gema Trigos-Peral (MIZ, @trigos-peral.bsky.social ) for an online seminar on urban ant ecology organized by @igue-aeet.bsky.social . Discover how these tiny creatures play a big role in shaping our cities!
🔗 rb.gy/hvikb1
November 17, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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aim-mirmecologia.bsky.social
🐜 Hormigas al descubierto: ¡Una tetera… convertida en hormiguero!

🔍 Nuestra socia Gema Trigos-Peral ha colaborado en un estudio tan curioso como revelador sobre #Camponotus nicobarensis...
November 11, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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mizpas.bsky.social
The flightless beetles of the tribe #Dorcadionini (Col: Cerambycidae) in #CentralAsia are similar but not closely related. Their first phylogeny is now out in a paper led by @ceramb.bsky.social of MIZ PAS. Environmental adaptation could play a key role here. @ncn.gov.pl
👉https://tinyurl.com/yy9kp2ab
November 3, 2025 at 12:19 PM
trigos-peral.bsky.social
Do we really know how plastic ant species are to accurately determine their capacity of stablishing in a new habitat? The curious journey of an ant colony in our new paper

👉🏼 zenodo.org/records/1751...

🐜🐜🐜 #ants #pets #formicarium #ecology #animal_trade
November 3, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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mizpas.bsky.social
💡 New paper co-auth. by MIZ!
By altering the physical and chemical properties of the soil, soil-nesting ants can shape the biodiversity of soil microarthropods — a key role for conserving urban biodiversity. 🐜More info 👉 www.mdpi.com/3547020
#UrbanEcosystems #Ants #SoilMicroarthropods #Conservation
October 30, 2025 at 11:37 AM
trigos-peral.bsky.social
Getting the nest ready during rainy days... Gomiomma hispanicum in Espartinas, Seville, Spain
#nesting #ants #after_rain #iberian_ants
November 1, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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igue-aeet.bsky.social
The next IGUE #UrbanEcology seminar will take place in three weeks' time, on 20 November at 16:30 CET. It will be delivered by @trigos-peral.bsky.social 🐜🌇 from @mizpas.bsky.social

Scan the QR to save the event in your calendar or save the link:
teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi...
October 27, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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mizpas.bsky.social
Hidden in museum drawers for 100+ years, Africa’s mysterious Eurynotina beetles finally tell their story - uncovered by our researchers, Marcin Kamiński and Ryan Lumen, using DNA from century-old specimens. 🧬🪲
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/syen...
#taxonomy #beetles #ancientDNA
October 22, 2025 at 2:37 PM
trigos-peral.bsky.social
Did you know that soil-nesting ants can reshape the soil they live in? 🐜 By changing its physico-chemical properties of the soil properties, they help sustain urban microfauna. 📢 Info in our new publication 👉 www.mdpi.com/3547020 #urban_ecosystems #ants #soil_microarthropods #conservation
October 17, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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igue-aeet.bsky.social
Save the event in your calendar!
drive.google.com/file/d/18Bk2...
igue-aeet.bsky.social Iberian Group of Urban Ecology @igue-aeet.bsky.social · Sep 23
In exactly one month (23 October), the Iberian Group of Urban Ecology kicks off a series of #UrbanEcology seminars!

We have the pleasure of welcoming Dr. Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo from @irnase.bsky.social for the first session.

Add the event to your calendar: drive.google.com/file/d/18Bk2...
October 14, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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oriollapiedra.bsky.social
We have an open PhD student position in evolutionary ecology in our lab @creaf.cat in Barcelona! 🦎 🌳 🦆 🐍

Applications open until Nov. 10th, 2025. Please help us spread the word!

Link to position description and requirements:
creaf.factorialhr.com/job_posting/...

Lab website:
oriollapiedralab.com
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October 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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mizpas.bsky.social
Darwin posited that innate and learned signals could be evolutionarily related. A new paper in @natecoevo.nature.com, co-authored by Alfredo Attisano, Roman Gula & Jörn Theuerkauf of @mizpas.bsky.social, demonstrates that a learned brood parasite vocalisation induces an innate response in the host.
Learned use of an innate sound-meaning association in birds - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Over 20 species of geographically and phylogenetically diverse bird species produce convergent whining vocalizations towards their respective brood parasites. Model presentation and playback experiments across multiple continents suggest that these learned calls provoke an innate response even among allopatric species.
doi.org
October 6, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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mizpas.bsky.social
Join the upcoming on-line MIZ PAS seminar!
👉When: 10th Oct (Friday), 12:00 pm CET
👉Speaker: Dr Grzegorz Neubauer, MIZ PAS @mizpas.bsky.social
👉Title: "50 years of Białowieża Forest bird studies: past, present, future”
👉Link: tinyurl.com/3jztwhyk
Everyone is welcome!
#ornithology #forest
Białowieża Forest, Poland
October 6, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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corriemoreau.bsky.social
UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
ecoevojobs.net 2025-26
docs.google.com
September 19, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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alexwild.bsky.social
A textbook image I did a few years ago showing a trap-jaw ant (Odontomachus rixosus) with her mandibles held open and trigger hairs forward, and then in the closed position.

The snapping shut of the trap is one of the fastest measured animal movements.
A split-screen image showing (top) a face view of an elongated ant standing on a reflective surfave, facing us with toothy brown jaws held 180 degrees open, and (bottom), the same ant with jaws closed, the bluntly toothed tips held together.
October 8, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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woodwideants.bsky.social
1/2🧵In 2024 we took the first photo shoot ever of the #ant Formica parlaugubris, in order to support our #SciComm activity 🐜📸 A huge thank to the naturalistic photographer ©Iacopo Nerozzi for these outstanding pics. #bugsky @ergabiodiv.bsky.social @biogeneurope.bsky.social @sib.swiss
An extreme close-up macrophotograph the ant Formica paralugubris, engaged in predation. The ant's head, antennae, and reddish-brown thorax are in sharp focus. Its mandibles are clamped onto the bright green body of a caterpillar, which is large, out-of-focus, and curves out of the foreground. The image powerfully captures the ant's predatory action. The background is a mix of blurred dark brown and reddish-brown earth/detritus. A small credit is visible at the bottom: "© Iacopo Nerozzi | Unaesthetic Fauna". A macrophotograph of the ant Formica paralugubris, adopting a defensive or aggressive posture. The ant has a reddish-brown head and thorax, a darker brown abdomen, and long, slender legs and antennae. It is standing on a dense, vibrant green bed of moss. The ant is rearing up, holding its head high and its mandibles open and ready, suggesting a defensive or threat display. The background is a softly blurred dark green and black. A small credit is visible at the bottom: "© Iacopo Nerozzi | Unaesthetic Fauna".
October 4, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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krapfpatrick.bsky.social
(1) So happy to share our recent work on Finish wood ants 🐜🧬🥳
"Evidence for climate-mediated range expansion of hybrid wood ants"
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
@helsinki.fi & @uvapress.bsky.social
This integrative project was funded by the Research Council Finland & #MSCA of the European Comission
Evidence for climate-mediated range expansion of hybrid wood ants
Climate change challenges many species. To persist, species can shift ranges, respond plastically, and adapt. Yet, these responses require variation - often limited in natural populations. While hybri...
www.biorxiv.org
September 28, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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ceiussi.bsky.social
Here are the Kutter price winners for the 2025 meeting of the Central European IUSSI #CEIUSSI25:
Best talk: Marie Christine Seidel, Julius Kühn Institut
Best poster: Devashree Joglekar, University of Regensburg

Congratulations to both of you!
2025 CE IUSSI Kutter price winners MC Seidel and D Joglekar, with the price committee
September 1, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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ceiussi.bsky.social
#CEIUSSI25 day three: Plenary by Olli Loukola
Olli Loukola
August 29, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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ceiussi.bsky.social
#ceiussi25 is off to a good start: Magdalena Witek gives a plenary talk on Myrmica parasites
Magdalena Witek
August 28, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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ceiussi.bsky.social
The Central European IUSSI meeting is on its way - first plenary by Eva Schultner
#ceiussi25
Eva Schulter during her plenary talk
August 27, 2025 at 12:18 PM
trigos-peral.bsky.social
One of the largest longhorn beetles in Europe was showing up today during the field work! Prionus coriarius (tanner beetle). 🪳🪳🪳 Id. Karol Szawaryn
July 24, 2025 at 7:40 PM