@chris_pull
 Oxford, England
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Aesthetically pleasing ants that we painted today…
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#ProcB Transcriptomic responses to location learning by #honeybee dancers are partly mirrored in the #brains of dance-followers ow.ly/ZvjU50Qkzmt #OpenAccess @ElliLeadbeater1 @yannick__ @WaspWoman @fmanfredini79
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The brains of bees who follow a dance have a similar molecular signature to the dancers they followed! 🐝🧠🧬 Extremely excited to see our research published in #ProcB today: here 👉🏽 royalsocietypublishing.org/d… with @ElliLeadbeater1, @yannick__ , @WaspWoman, @RSocPublishing
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Amazing conference @BristolBioSci! And I'm very proud of @OxfordBiology MBiol student @bizzell_flynn who won best student talk for his masters work!
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Anapids are tiny spiders that look like bald angry men.
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🎺🎺Post doc available 🎺 Modelling movement of released Gamebirds to understand their management & ecological effects (iSSF, ABM, spatial skills, conservation) Starting September. Advert out soon. DM me now to discuss I'm at #behaviour2023 so can chat F2F if you're there too
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Update on the weird fungus. It was plated up and took a few weeks, but today I noticed it's finally produced new "spores". Next step, can we infect the ants and replicate the same biting phenotype?
Chris Pull@chris_pull6 Jul 2023
Weird observation...these ants look like they're doing the biting death grip seen in "zombie" ants and they have an unusual, globular like fungus growth on them. @CharissaB/@another_ant_guy?
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This is what the "spores" look like. They are rather large. I have no idea what this stuff is 😂
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Really pleased to see our review on best practices for insect olfactometer experiments published today! This has been three years in the making and wouldn't have been completed without major contributions from @ipm_tom , @EdHarris9000 and @benclunie. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

Scents and sensibility: Best practice in insect olfactometer bioassays

Olfactometers have been used for more than 100 years and are integral to experimental design in chemical ecology. Studies utilising olfactometer bioassays form the foundation for understanding the...

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Another mating flight to tonight! Once fertilised, ant queens fall to the ground and snap off their wings before searching for a potential nest site 🐜
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Mating normally takes place on the wing and the male dies shortly after. This pair thought my arm was a good spot though...
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Our new paper is out today in @RSocPublishing Interface journal (@MarieRAttard @bowen_james @GroupBowen). All about eggshell surface texture. Paper link ⬇️. Thank you @LeverhulmeTrust for funding, & @NHM_Oology @NHM_Tring for samples! #birds #ornithology @RHULBioSci @RHULScience
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Planning on applying for a 2024 ERC Starting Grant? The call is now open! Application portal 👉 bit.ly/StGApply2024 ERC 2024 Work Programme 👉 bit.ly/ERC2024WP And remember, the deadline to apply for an #ERCStG is 24 October 2023!
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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 pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.22…

A simple mechanism for collective decision-making in the absence of payoff information | PNAS

Animals are often faced with time-critical decisions without prior information about their actions’ outcomes. In such scenarios, individuals budget...

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We finally finished setting up our queen experiments from the massive mating flight on Friday. Turns out the we collected 400+ queens!
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Almost 12 years ago a I started my final year research project with @sphaerularia collecting ant queens...tonight I'm back at it again! Must've collected a good 300-400!
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Weird observation...these ants look like they're doing the biting death grip seen in "zombie" ants and they have an unusual, globular like fungus growth on them. @CharissaB/@another_ant_guy?
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It’s Day 2 of our Open Days! We’re starting at 9am today with our ‘Oxford explained’ talk, with some of our student ambassadors. We’re really looking forward to meeting you all! 🦢🎉 #oxopenday #sthughsoutreach
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🐝👥🍻 Propose a topic group! = an informal 1-1,5h event during the conference, with drinks in a bar, about a specific theme (invasive ants, supergenes… social insect research on social media… WHATEVER you think could be interesting!). (@IUSSI_NWES @InsSociaux @MyrmecolNews)
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Looking at membership management software, e.g. mailing list, membership database, membership sign-up/renewals. Lots of options out there – does anyone have any they would recommend?
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After a lot of work and effort, I am very proud to announce that the research article of our video-tracking program AnimalTA has been published! 🍾🎉🥳
AnimalTA@_AnimalTA_17 May 2023
🎉AnimalTA's research article has been published!🥳 Follow the link to discover all the functionalities of our free and highly user-friendly video tracking program! We also released v2.2.3 (more info below)! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wi…
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