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Ricardo Caliari Oliveira @ricaliari.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

🐜 New paper out in Insectes Sociaux led by my student @pgonzalezlleida.bsky.social!

Ricardo Caliari Oliveira @ricaliari.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

🧵 1/10 New paper out in Behav Ecol Sociobiol! We investigated how ant queens use hormones to cheat their nestmates — and how workers fight back. Saureu et al. 2026 @danisaureu.bsky.social

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Evolution Letters @evolletters.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Early-season helping in Polistes wasps shows increasing returns - more helpers lead to convex gains in sexual productivity, resolving a key paradox in the origins of eusociality. academic.oup.com/evlett/artic... @ricaliari.bsky.social @twenseleers.bsky.social

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Ricardo Caliari Oliveira @ricaliari.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

I'm really happy that this paper is finally out. We combined experimental and theoretical data to study how helper behaviour may have facilitated the onset of eusociality. Check it out in the thread!! 🐝

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Dani Saureu @danisaureu.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Had an absolute blast sharing our research on juvenile hormone & caste fate conflict in the Argentine ant at this year's NW IUSSI @iussi-nwes.bsky.social Always an amazing chance to talk science with some of the best minds in the field 🐜⚔️🐜 #IUSSI #IUSSI2024 #ants

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FLOWer Lab 🌸🍒 🐝 🪰🔬🧬 @flowerlab.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

📚🐝 Discover the new book on the bees of Portugal! The book "Chaves Dicotómicas dos Genneros de Abelhas de Portugal" has been published by the UC Press. Coordinated by Hugo Gaspar from the FLOWer Lab, you can download the book in here (in PT): monographs.uc.pt/iuc/catalog/...

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Volker Nehring @volkernehring.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

#Ants hold a grudge – they remember who attacked them and fight back harder against those enemy colonies! Our new paper led by Melanie Bey is now published @currentbiology.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Associative learning of non-nestmate cues improves enemy recognition in ants

Recognition protects biological systems at all scales, from cells to societies. Social insects recognize their nestmates by colony-specific olfactory …

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Ricardo Caliari Oliveira @ricaliari.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

I asked ChatGPT to create a LEGO scene based on what it knows about me. Love the results! I wish my lab were this cool, though 🙃

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