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Max Bolder

@boldest-ant.bsky.social
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PhD | Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz | Social Evolution| Reproductive division of labor| Poneroids |🐜

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Luisa Jaimes @jaimesnino.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Our work on ants rescue behaviour highlighted in our university press and in www.vbio.de/aktuelles/de... !!
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Warum nicht jede Ameise ihren Nestgenossinnen hilft
Warum helfen manche Ameisen ihren Nestgenossinnen in Not und andere nicht? Eine aktuelle Studie zeigt, dass Helferverhalten von Ameisen mit Unterschieden in der Genaktivität im Nervensystem zusammenhä...
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Luisa Jaimes @jaimesnino.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
#iussi2026 #ants at the conference @boldest-ant.bsky.social is looking for a job! Look for the job hunter!
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Luisa Jaimes @jaimesnino.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
@jexpbiol.bsky.social / @biologists.bsky.social published our paper on Rescue behaviour in desert ants 🐜🤝🐜! Check it out here journals.biologists.com/jeb/article-... and the ERC spotlight 💡https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/229/14/jeb253034/372247/ECR-Spotlight-Luisa-Maria-Jaimes-Nino
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ECR Spotlight – Luisa Maria Jaimes-Nino
ECR Spotlight is a series of interviews with early-career authors from a selection of papers published in Journal of Experimental Biology and aims to promote not only the diversity of early-career res...
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Max Bolder @boldest-ant.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
When a small side project about the observation of "queens" going outside the artificial nest turns into a full story featuring the elusive vampire ant Stigmatomma pallipes: doi.org/10.1111/mec.... Very grateful to have one of my PhD chapters published. More to come!
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Unmated Queens Show Worker‐Like Behaviour and Gene Expression in Polygynous Colonies of the Ant Stigmatomma pallipes
Insect societies show a reproductive division of labor between egg-laying queens and workers that fulfil all non-reproductive tasks. Polygyny, the coexistence of several queens in a colony, has evolv...
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