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Esther van den Bos

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Interested in ants, TEs, cryptic variation, and rapid adaptation. Also good tee. https://scholar.google.de/citations?user=KtFmcBIAAAAJ https://www.uni-muenster.de/Evolution/molevolsocbio/esthervandenbos.shtml

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ze ant love ze larva baby.

25.01.2026 17:45 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Apply for a PhD position in the Pan lab @miyapan.bsky.social at MPI Biology πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ to study the molecular mechanisms and evolution of sex determination in haplodiploid insects 🐜🐝.

30.12.2025 03:35 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Behavioural Ecology and Social Evolution

A young PI here in Mainz has a fabulous PhD position that will be filled soon! By you? Keywords: Social insects, ageing, gene expression. www.blogs.uni-mainz.de/fb10-evoluti...

29.10.2025 08:36 πŸ‘ 23 πŸ” 27 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Unpaid advertisement!
If you are at the #DZG meeting in Berlin @dzg2025berlin.bsky.social and are interested in the evolution of the superorganism (like ants) come listen to my talk @12:30 in the EVO session, HΓΆrsaal 2.

10.09.2025 08:47 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Come find me at #SMBE2025 to chat about transposable elements in ants 🧬🐜
S15 - P8

22.07.2025 02:49 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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New study provides deep insights into the genomes of superorganisms Worker ants increase their reproductive success by caring for their siblings instead of producing their own offspring. An international research team, including Dr. Lukas Schrader from the University ...

Worker ants increase their reproductive success by caring for their siblings instead of producing their own offspring. An international research team has now uncovered the genetic basis of ant evolution. (Orig. publ. doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...) #ants #phylogenomics #evolution

24.06.2025 14:18 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Always a pleasure hanging out with ant enthusiasts 🐜
@jaimesnino.bsky.social @jannelrinke.bsky.social @haplodiploid.bsky.social @mlitto.bsky.social @clariona.bsky.social @bchitadze.bsky.social #cologneinternationalforum

07.06.2025 06:56 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Save the date! The Cologne International Forum invited Mohammed Errbii and Luisa Jaimes Nino for the next SALON event: The Fascinating World of Ants – The Little Things that Run our Planet, 06.06., 6 PM. Admission is free! More info: cif.uni-koeln.de/events/salon or www.instagram.com/reel/DKRZK3d...

30.05.2025 13:48 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Any chance to join via zoom? :)

21.05.2025 13:50 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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New research article! πŸ“°

@jaimesnino.bsky.social & Oettler discovered that ant queens show no heritability in fertility/lifespan, but reveal surprising anti-aging mechanisms ⏳
πŸ”—https://doi.org/10.1007/s00040-025-01032-2

#InsectesSociaux #SocialInsects #Genetics #EvolutionaryBiology #Heritability

13.05.2025 12:47 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
8th CE IUSSI Meeting – 8th CE IUSSI Meeting

πŸœπŸπŸ›Social insect researchers - conference alert!πŸœπŸπŸ›

Registration for the Central European IUSSI conference is now open. The CE IUSSI meetings are invariably lovely: interesting, warm, friendly, and fun. I cannot recommend this conference enough!

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12.05.2025 09:11 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0