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Daniele Carlesso

@danielecarlesso.bsky.social
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Postdoc at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behaviour and Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour. Humboldt fellow. Experimentalist and entomologist, studying insects' collective behaviour, interactions and cognition.

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Daniele Carlesso @danielecarlesso.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Excited to share an awesome piece by @drdavidhu.bsky.social in @currentbiology.bsky.social @cellpress.bsky.social about our latest paper! Curious to know how weaver #ants achieve superefficiency when working together? Check it out! 🐜🐜🐜 www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Cooperative behavior: Superefficient weaver ants
Teamwork has long faced a dilemma: as team members are added, the effectiveness of each individual decreases — a phenomenon known as ‘Ringelmann’s effect’. A new study shows that weaver ants in pullin...
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Universität Konstanz @uni-konstanz.de · 27/08/2025
MELA — a short documentary on the Mating Ecology of Lek Breeding Antelope — takes you behind the scenes of an interdisciplinary #UniKonstanz @cbehav.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social research journey. This film reveals how science is done, shared, and lived: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5i4d...
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Daniele Carlesso @danielecarlesso.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
And here's our piece on @theconversation.com for our recent Current Biology paper on #teamwork in ants!
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Daniele Carlesso @danielecarlesso.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Excited to see our paper being featured on @science.org News! Thanks to @erikstokstad.bsky.social for putting this piece together. www.science.org/content/arti...
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‘Superefficient’ weaver ants show remarkable strength in numbers
Unlike people, these nest-building insects pull harder in teams
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Daniele Carlesso @danielecarlesso.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Curious about how #ants cracked teamwork? Listen now to my interview on All Things Considered @npr.org! Massive thanks to hosts Avery Keatley and Christopher Intagliata for inviting me. t.co/xOfsdKszhF
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https://www.npr.org/2025/08/13/nx-s1-5501307/ants-could-teach-humans-a-thing-or-two-about-teamwork
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Daniele Carlesso @danielecarlesso.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
In humans, bigger teams often mean less effort per person — the #Ringelmann effect. Weaver #ants 🐜 flip the script: #teamwork makes them superefficient! Video + paper out now in Current Biology! @cellpress.bsky.social tinyurl.com/44yrvp6m tinyurl.com/3jnnevfn
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Superefficient teamwork in weaver ants / Curr. Biol., Aug. 12, 2025 (Vol. 35, Issue 17)
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Daniele Carlesso @danielecarlesso.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
What's in the box!? In my postdoc at @uni-konstanz.de @cbehav.bsky.social I am looking at locusts' phase transition through massive swarm experiments, virtual reality and genetics 🧠🦗 Come to see my poster at NWG 25 @neurowissg.bsky.social!
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Daniele Carlesso @danielecarlesso.bsky.social · 14/08/2024
PAPER ALERT! 🐜🐜 Did you know that #humans and #ants are the only animals to routinely display #cooperative transport?? We coordinate with each other by talking, but how can ants achieve #consensus? Read about it in our new paper! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1…
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Daniele Carlesso @danielecarlesso.bsky.social · 02/07/2024
Super excited to start my postdoc at @UniKonstanz @CBehav to study locusts' collective behaviour and social plasticity with @einatcouzin and colleagues! Looking forward to do some awesome science together 😎
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Daniele Carlesso @danielecarlesso.bsky.social · 23/10/2023
I DID IT! After 3+ years of #PhD, I submitted my thesis🎉 I'm now looking for a #postdoc from Feb '24 or after! If you have vacancies or want to discuss funding options, please reach out! Check out my website for info about me, my CV and cool #ant videos! danielecarlesso.com
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Daniele Carlesso @danielecarlesso.bsky.social · 11/07/2023
I was on TV! Check out my live TV interview with @ChildsRos on @ABCaustralia @abcnews about our new paper, published today in @PNASNews. Link to the paper: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.22162… www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-11/what…...
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Daniele Carlesso @danielecarlesso.bsky.social · 11/07/2023
Interested in #collectivebehaviour, #decisionmaking, and #ants? Check out my first #PhD paper, out today in @PNASNews! @ChrisRReid1, @sjmgarnier, Chris Lustri, @MarineMcnab, and I studied how colonies of ants make decisions when facing an uncertain task www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.221...
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Daniele Carlesso @danielecarlesso.bsky.social · 11/07/2023
Check out also my conversation article about the paper! @ConversationEDU theconversation.com/humans-set-budg…
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Daniele Carlesso @danielecarlesso.bsky.social · 18/03/2022
Hey #Honeybees people! Can someone explain me what are these bees doing? Are they collecting pollen/nectar from fallen stems? Is this a common behaviour?
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Daniele Carlesso @danielecarlesso.bsky.social · 03/06/2021
Interested in #plant and #pollinator interactions? Check out our new paper on the impact of nectar #NPAAs on #nectar palatability, #learning and #memory in #bees! @David_Baracchi www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-…
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Daniele Carlesso @danielecarlesso.bsky.social · 08/12/2020
Glad to share my first #preprint w/ @David_Baracchi on #bioRxiv! Here we show that some nectar non-protein amino acids (NPAAs) impact #bee #learning and #memory without altering #nectar palatability. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Daniele Carlesso @danielecarlesso.bsky.social · 28/07/2020
Awesome on-demand talks at the #ABS2020 conference! Are you interested in how weaver ants forage using their nestmates as a ladder? Come check out our work in the Predation & Foraging 3 session! @AnimBehSociety
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Daniele Carlesso @danielecarlesso.bsky.social · 11/12/2019
Bumblebees are amazing!
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