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Abel Bernadou

@abelbernadou.bsky.social
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@cbitoulouse | Major evolutionary transitions • Division of labour • Social evolution • insects • ants

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Abel Bernadou @abelbernadou.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Le meilleur piège ? Celui que la proie déclenche elle-même. 🕷️🕸️🐜 L'araignée australienne Propostira sp. a développé un piège en soie tendu comme un ressort, spécialisé dans la capture des fourmis tisserandes Oecophylla smaragdina. 1/2
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Steve @stevetypesstuff.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Another #ant from the #IUSSI workshop in Banyuls sur Mer and the Pyrenees. One of my favourites from my sorted specimens so far (and there are so many to do yet). This magnificent Messor barbarus major. 106 single frames stacked in Helicon. Zoom in for the detail! #entomology #macrophotography
A huge Messor barbarus ant major with a big red head. In lateral view mounted for the  reference collection.
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Steve @stevetypesstuff.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
On the #IUSSI @iussi-nwes.bsky.social field course on #ants in Southern France and Aphaenogaster senilis brought me a flower petal! #entomology #macrophotography
A black ant with silver hairs carries a pink flower petal
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Abel Bernadou @abelbernadou.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Excited to share my @currentbiology.bsky.social dispatch on the beautiful work from Tiphaine Bailly, @danielkronauer.bsky.social, @etf1989.bsky.social, and collaborators. They used the clonal raider ant to study how ants develop and maintain tolerance to non-nestmates. www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Tolerance toward foreigners in ants requires chronic exposure for establishment but only sporadic exposure for maintenance
Bailly et al. show that ants learn to tolerate genetically distinct non-nestmates through prolonged exposure. Once established, this tolerance persists with occasional re-encounters with ants of the s...
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Daniel Kronauer @danielkronauer.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Ants are experts at telling nestmates from foreigners via subtle differences in odor profiles. In this new paper, we explore the conditions under which ants develop and maintain tolerance to foreigners. Turns out the ant recognition system is surprisingly plastic. www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Tolerance toward foreigners in ants requires chronic exposure for establishment but only sporadic exposure for maintenance
Bailly et al. show that ants learn to tolerate genetically distinct non-nestmates through prolonged exposure. Once established, this tolerance persists with occasional re-encounters with ants of the s...
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Abel Bernadou @abelbernadou.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
🐜 European Ant Identification Workshop 2026 🐜 📍 Banyuls-sur-Mer, France 📅 June 3–7, 2026 A hands-on workshop focused on European ant diversity, collection methods, and identification — set in the amazing Mediterranean–Pyrenean place of Banyuls-sur-Mer 🌿🏞️
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Corrie Moreau @corriemoreau.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
How fun! I was invited to write a "Species Spotlight" for Nature Ecology & Evolution @natecoevo.nature.com and I chose my favorite species the Florida turtle ant Cephalotes varians! rdcu.be/e5EZK Including a stunning photo of ants I collected by @alexwild.bsky.social
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Florida turtle ant (Cephalotes varians)
Nature Ecology & Evolution - Corrie S. Moreau studies the evolution of extreme armour and gut microbiomes in turtle ants.
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Federico Lopez @flopezos.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
📄 A parasitic, parthenogenetic ant with only queens and without workers or males 🐜 ⬇️ www.cell.com/current-biol...
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A parasitic, parthenogenetic ant with only queens and without workers or males
Hamaguchi, Kinomura and colleagues describe an ant species that lacks workers and males and consists exclusively of queens.
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Daniel Kronauer @danielkronauer.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Dinomyrmex gigas, the giant forest ant (large workers are ca. 28mm) dissolves territorial disputes with other colonies via a ritualized behavior called “front leg boxing”. This allows the ants to maintain territorial boundaries while avoiding escalated conflict. Danum Valley, Sabah, Borneo.
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Daniel Kronauer @danielkronauer.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Meet the Dracula ant Myopopone castanea, the only extant species in its genus. Like other ants in the subfamily Amblyoponinae, the workers pierce the larvae with their mandibles and drink the oozing hemolymph. Hence the name “Dracula ant”. Danum Valley, Sabah.
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🔬Djigr🦖- D. Dabir-Moghaddam @djigr.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
J'ai participé en tant que consultante scientifique sur ce film pour le Nikon Film Festival. Vous pouvez le visionner ici : www.festivalnikon.fr/video/2025/2... Ça a été l'occasion hier de faire une intervention avec @ssaft.com et @francois-lasserre.bsky.social sur la perception des insectes
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Marshal Hedin @mhedin.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
her highness sleeps Ammophila wasp on brittlebush (Encelia) distal twigs at night take a close look ... she is SPECTACULAR!
a wasp with silver head and thorax, red legs and abdomen, grasps onto a dead twig with her mandibles while she sleeps at night in a desert shrub
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Abel Bernadou @abelbernadou.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
🐜🥛 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 😆
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Abel Bernadou @abelbernadou.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
🦅⛰️ 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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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 01/10/2025
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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Kate Jeffery @katejj.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
The University of Glasgow groundspeople are going to be quite annoyed when they come in to work tomorrow...
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Marshal Hedin @mhedin.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
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.
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Abel Bernadou @abelbernadou.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 23/09/2025
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
An illustration of a human and a robot watering a tree together. 
Image credit: Dave Cutler (artist).
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Audrey Dussutour @docteur-drey.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
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.
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The Linnean Society of London @linneansociety.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
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.
An aerial view of a rainforest with a river running through it. Text on top reads "Amazon Rainforest Day".
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Nature @nature.com · 03/09/2025
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
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‘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.
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Abel Bernadou @abelbernadou.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
This is just... 🤯🤯🤯 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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‘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.
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Central European section of IUSSI @ceiussi.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
The 2026 international conference of the IUSSI will be in Freiburg, Germany, August 16th – 20st iussi2026.org
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International Union for the Study of Social Insects
International Congress of the Insternational Union for the Study of Social Insects
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Insectes Sociaux @insectessociaux.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
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
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Abel Bernadou @abelbernadou.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
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
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Ants of the Amazon Rainforest, a photo gallery.
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Ants of the Amazon Rainforest - Alex Wild
A sampling of one of the world's most diverse ant faunas
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Laurie Belcher @lauriebelch.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
go.bsky.app/QKajPgc A starter pack for social evolution! Lots of space left for anyone who would like to be added
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Audrey Dussutour @docteur-drey.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
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
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Nicky Bay @nickybay.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
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
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Pedro Peres-Neto @comecology.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
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
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Frank Ashwood @frankashwood.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
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
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Audrey Dussutour @docteur-drey.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
L'odyssée des fourmis en version Coréenne 🥰
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Jane Waters 🏳️‍⚧️🐜🇵🇸 @lovetheants.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
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
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