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Kendrick Nakamura @soulsynapse.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Sometimes you just try stuff for the love of the game. #3dprinting #entomology #antkeeping

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Kendrick Nakamura @soulsynapse.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Am I missing something or did jupytr book and woorkbookr got their lunch eaten by Quarto

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Kendrick Nakamura @soulsynapse.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Interesting supplement to sit-and-wait predation for some trapjaws.

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Kendrick Nakamura @soulsynapse.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Some species of ants may greatly benefit from substrate when hunting springtails. Interesting quirk for lab feeding. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Text in image of paper, last sentence highlighted: A transparent substrate (polystyrene scrap of chopped plastic bottles) was added to the containers to simulate forest litter. Methodological experiments revealed that, under these conditions, ants displayed hunting and searching behavior, whereas no such behavior was observed in containers with springtails but without litter-like substrate. It may be suggested that litter (or litter-like substrate) provides both shelter for prey and a system of hunting traps, thereby facilitating the prey-catching behavior of those predators who are capable of bringing potential prey to bay.

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Lior Pachter @lpachter.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

On Martin Nowak, the evolution of cooperation, Jeffrey Epstein, and the corruption of mathematicians. liorpachter.wordpress.com/2026/04/10/n...

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Kendrick Nakamura @soulsynapse.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

The paper is great because the story is now more like okay I'll play scissors... unless there are a lot of rock, and then I'll switch and play paper instead.

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Kendrick Nakamura @soulsynapse.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

It was great to catch up 😁 Lemme know if you're out my way again some time!!

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Armando Rosario-Lebrón @rosariolebronentomology.com · 11/07/2025

What a spectacular way to end the trip. Seeing my friend and colleague @soulsynapse.bsky.social at the social insect research group at ASU for showing me around their labs and facilities on my way out of Arizona. Really cool work with social behavior and it was amazing to see their ant colonies.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 03/06/2025

I've seen folks talk about how "in four years" they'll be able to get back to their planned projects and I really don't think that's going to work out. People & projects losing funding now will not be able to hit pause and come back once funding is restored. Hard-won progress & capacity will be lost

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Kendrick Nakamura @soulsynapse.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

I'd love to hear about the theoretical background here- I'll be looking through your prior work. I run two very large science-adjacent communities and at first blush this sounds like what we do.

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Kendrick Nakamura @soulsynapse.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Deflate style hand vacuum as an electronic aspirator. Best of both worlds. Needs a pooter with a filter built in. #entomology #antkeeping #ants

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Kendrick Nakamura @soulsynapse.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Interestingly weavers can climb up a thin oil film alone

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Kendrick Nakamura @soulsynapse.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Corn starch baby powder works great as an ant barrier. Comes off easily but at least it's not a known carcinogen 😅

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Kendrick Nakamura @soulsynapse.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

A seed passes inspection (Pogonomyrmex barbatus)

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Adria LeBoeuf @adriatica.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Fantastic piece (doi.org/10.1073/pnas...) by @tlinksvayer.bsky.social on @arthurmatte.bsky.social and my recent paper in PNAS (doi.org/10.1073/pnas...). He really pulls together the threads of how we believe that socially transferred materials #socialfluids entrenched social complexity in ants. 1/2

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Social control drove ant evolution | PNAS

Social control drove ant evolution

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Théotime Colin @theotimecolin.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

We don't know much about these odd-looking Zasphinctus ants, except they seem to raid other ant nests, steal their larvae and eat them... Their narrow elongated bodies probably help them enter small galleries. #ants #myrmecology non #armyants #fourmis #science

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Kendrick Nakamura @soulsynapse.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Finally taking the time to learn Fusion360. Design for a co2 hose that will make noise (so people don't forget to turn it off) but diffuses the flow to knock out ants.

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Armando Rosario-Lebrón @rosariolebronentomology.com · 14/02/2025

Today, the USDA lost experts in Psylloidea, Thysanoptera, Cerambycidae, Hymenoptera, Pseudococcidae, and Malacology. This is a devastating loss of expertise, occuring without warning. Their union's official statement on the issue can be found here: aginspectors.org/2-14-2025-a-... #entomology 🧪

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2/14/2025: A message from the NAAE about the mass termination notices – National Association of Agriculture Employees | NAAE

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Science and Bugge-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

High quality An't 🖤 Gelis species ichneumonid wasp.

Extremely ant-like dark-colored wasp with long antennae, on a dried leaf stem.

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Kendrick Nakamura @soulsynapse.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

This is a derivative work of a friend's that I'm not able to give out, but I'm making my own design and I'll tag you after I've tested it.

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Kendrick Nakamura @soulsynapse.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Pretty happy with this feeder. Ants seem to like it too.

Ant feeder top view with cute ant heads visible drinking

My hand holding a small liquid ant feeder with a 3D printer in the background

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Kendrick Nakamura @soulsynapse.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Currently figuring out how to print this in high enough quality that it does it justice

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Darren Obbard @darrenobbard.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

#PhD Advert: Please share! Are you looking for a PhD studentship in comparative- or population-genomics, using 300+ species of #Drosophila and 1000+ genomes of #melanogaster? #Entomology #Genomics #PopGen #Phylogenetics

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Kendrick Nakamura @soulsynapse.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Pheidole rhea annoyed that I'm looking at em.

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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 21/11/2024

No, YOU'RE making increasingly elaborate conceptual diagrams instead of grading papers

A figure panel titled Escape-and-radiate, showing a series of radiations in parallel plant and herbivore lineages, illustrated with Keynote silhouettes of a plant and a beetle, and with stars and arrows indicating the origins of novel anti-herbivore defenses and herbivores' counter-defenses

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Dan Warren @danlwarren.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Gonna repost this every so often until it's full: If you're into ecological niche modeling / species distribution modeling (ENM or SDM), here's a starter pack for you! And if you're an investigator in the field and you'd like to be added, please let me know in the replies. bsky.app/starter-pack...

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Evan Economo @economo.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I'm doing a Reddit AMA tomorrow 1:30-3:30 Eastern. Looking forward to answering some questions! www.reddit.com/r/askscience...

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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 18/11/2024

We strongly suggest that academic publishers and other platforms that host research rapidly implement a Share to Bluesky button for their articles. Here's how: docs.bsky.app/docs/advance... #AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics

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Action Intent Links | Bluesky

Authors, websites, and apps can use action intent links to implement "Share on Bluesky" buttons, or similar in-app actions. Logged-in users will be directed to the corresponding action view in the Blu...

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Kendrick Nakamura @soulsynapse.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Well, it is sufficiently costly for scientists to be wrong. It is not sufficiently costly for news orgs to spread lies. The voters eat the cost of those lies; temporal discounting alone makes it hard for any reasonable string of accountability, à la an iterative prisoners dillema.

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Chelsea Cook @phdbee.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

I agree with this article. It is time for scientists to build trust - we only do it by bringing everyone in and teaching the scientific method. We only beat misinformation and authoritarianism with the freedom that science brings. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Science is neither red nor blue

Long before the 5 November US presidential election, I had become ever more concerned that science has fallen victim to the same political divisiveness tearing at the seams of American society. This i...

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Kendrick Nakamura @soulsynapse.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

More reports out of the ant-keeping hobbyist community about canned crickets killing colonies. Latest: www.reddit.com/r/antkeeping... Previous: www.reddit.com/r/antkeeping... More: www.reddit.com/r/antkeeping...

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Kendrick Nakamura @soulsynapse.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

I would love to be a part of this!

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Jane Waters 🏳️‍⚧️🐜🇵🇸 @lovetheants.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

A starter pack for myrmecologists and our allies 🩵🐜🩷 go.bsky.app/zo95qR

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Kendrick Nakamura @soulsynapse.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

So icy and cool Cricket-cockroach I think not Grylloblattidae #insecthaiku #EntSoc24 (photo by Joyce Gross)

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Kendrick Nakamura @soulsynapse.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

Legend has it that if you cite all five Wheelers in one manuscript, you can slot them into the myrmecology gauntlet and solve eusociality with a snap of your fingers. This paper got pretty close..

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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 20/10/2024

Taking a stab at a starter pack of Evolutionary Biologists — this was trickier than expected both because of the interface setup and because of the 150-person limit go.bsky.app/TUNHbNu

A starter pack image for Evolutionary Biologists, with avatars of several people included

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iBartomeus @ibartomeus.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

I tried to build a starter pack for researchers in ecology sensu lato. Who am I missing? go.bsky.app/2MdGeqi I can add more people and spread it around.

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Kendrick Nakamura @soulsynapse.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

Temnothorax quercicola with featherweight forceps for scale

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Kendrick Nakamura @soulsynapse.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

It is amusing that all the new entom people joining here are being flooded with anime and stuff, but if that is you and you would like it to stop, follow this starter pack.

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Kendrick Nakamura @soulsynapse.bsky.social · 03/03/2024

But pessimistically they'll pull ad revenue and be a better skinner box for engagement if results are procedurally populated by the admins. Which begs the question of how it got off the ground to begin with. 2/2

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Kendrick Nakamura @soulsynapse.bsky.social · 03/03/2024

School admissions forums are an interesting game. The resources' value decays over time, but contributions aren't even necessarily valid. If I'm being optimistic, it feels like a producer/scrounger game running on empathy. 1/2

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Kendrick Nakamura @soulsynapse.bsky.social · 23/12/2023

Ornithology bsky punching air over the new icon 😤 Entomologists rise up

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