Volker Nehring
@volkernehring.bsky.social
May contain ants
http://evolution.vnehring.de | Behaviour, Evolution, Ecology | Assistant Prof@Uni Freiburg, Germany | AE @PlosONE | Secretary Central European IUSSI
http://evolution.vnehring.de | Behaviour, Evolution, Ecology | Assistant Prof@Uni Freiburg, Germany | AE @PlosONE | Secretary Central European IUSSI
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New preprint from our lab: When #ants habituate to non-nestmate odour, their odorant receptor profile changes predictably. Could this be a mechanism for pre-filtering cues in nestmate #recognition? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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PhD position - How jumping spiders see
- Put cute spiders on trackballs!
- Program fancy automated experiments!
- Do cutting edge research!
- Hang out in beautiful Italian cities!
- Be supervised by a super nice chap!
Like invertebrate behaviour and computation stuff? You'll love this.
Link in 🧵
- Put cute spiders on trackballs!
- Program fancy automated experiments!
- Do cutting edge research!
- Hang out in beautiful Italian cities!
- Be supervised by a super nice chap!
Like invertebrate behaviour and computation stuff? You'll love this.
Link in 🧵
November 21, 2025 at 3:48 PM
PhD position - How jumping spiders see
- Put cute spiders on trackballs!
- Program fancy automated experiments!
- Do cutting edge research!
- Hang out in beautiful Italian cities!
- Be supervised by a super nice chap!
Like invertebrate behaviour and computation stuff? You'll love this.
Link in 🧵
- Put cute spiders on trackballs!
- Program fancy automated experiments!
- Do cutting edge research!
- Hang out in beautiful Italian cities!
- Be supervised by a super nice chap!
Like invertebrate behaviour and computation stuff? You'll love this.
Link in 🧵
This is so depressing and it got worse when I clicked on the Trivers link. How could I have possibly missed this?
Mainstream news covered the Jeffrey Epstein emails related to ppl like Trump. Today, I want to take a look at Epstein's correspondence with prominent atheist and physicist Lawrence Krauss, who asked the pedophile's advice on responding to accusations of sexual assault skepchick.org/2025/11/so-i...
So I’m in the Epstein Files
Transcript: Look. I know that on this channel, I often criticize prominent people for actions that I find detestable: accepting dark money and failing to disclose it, producing propaganda for Big O…
skepchick.org
November 21, 2025 at 8:06 AM
This is so depressing and it got worse when I clicked on the Trivers link. How could I have possibly missed this?
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AI slop gracing the cover of Royal Society B. Not only in AI yellow but scientifically nonsensical. Come on. I'm certain human photographs and artworks were ignored to platform ... this.
November 18, 2025 at 10:49 AM
AI slop gracing the cover of Royal Society B. Not only in AI yellow but scientifically nonsensical. Come on. I'm certain human photographs and artworks were ignored to platform ... this.
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📢 Check out our GEvol inspired Special Issue in JEZ-B:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15525015... 🚨
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15525015... 🚨
Genomic Basis of Evolutionary Innovations in Insects: Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution: Vol 344, No 7
The Journal of Experimental Zoology – B (JEZ-B): Molecular and Developmental Evolution covers the structure & evolution of animal & non-animal organisms.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 3, 2025 at 7:41 AM
📢 Check out our GEvol inspired Special Issue in JEZ-B:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15525015... 🚨
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15525015... 🚨
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🎉We are happy to announce that our wonderful GEvol SPP will be funded by @dfg.de for another 3 years. Included are 17 great projects all over Germany with amazing people. You want to be part of this fantastic community? Soon you can find new PhD/Post-Doc positions here & on our website. Stay tuned🎉
November 10, 2025 at 11:39 AM
🎉We are happy to announce that our wonderful GEvol SPP will be funded by @dfg.de for another 3 years. Included are 17 great projects all over Germany with amazing people. You want to be part of this fantastic community? Soon you can find new PhD/Post-Doc positions here & on our website. Stay tuned🎉
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Gab es nicht mal irgendwo eine Grafik, die die verschiedenen (sehr unübersichtlichen) Karrierewege in der Wissenschaft visualisiert hat? Weiß noch jemand, wo das war? #IchBinHanna
November 4, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Gab es nicht mal irgendwo eine Grafik, die die verschiedenen (sehr unübersichtlichen) Karrierewege in der Wissenschaft visualisiert hat? Weiß noch jemand, wo das war? #IchBinHanna
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#microsky #mevosky @spp2389.bsky.social
A PhD position is available in my lab to work on:
Emergence and self-organisation of bacterial metabolism in consortia of cross-feeding bacteria.
Please RT
Deadline: 12.11.25
More infos 👇
shorturl.at/rAKAT
A PhD position is available in my lab to work on:
Emergence and self-organisation of bacterial metabolism in consortia of cross-feeding bacteria.
Please RT
Deadline: 12.11.25
More infos 👇
shorturl.at/rAKAT
October 30, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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A young PI here in Mainz has a fabulous PhD position that will be filled soon! By you? Keywords: Social insects, ageing, gene expression. www.blogs.uni-mainz.de/fb10-evoluti...
Behavioural Ecology and Social Evolution
www.blogs.uni-mainz.de
October 29, 2025 at 8:36 AM
A young PI here in Mainz has a fabulous PhD position that will be filled soon! By you? Keywords: Social insects, ageing, gene expression. www.blogs.uni-mainz.de/fb10-evoluti...
It's time to update the lecture. As of yesterday, I know that current MSc students no longer recognise John Travolta, let alone know who he is.
October 22, 2025 at 8:36 AM
It's time to update the lecture. As of yesterday, I know that current MSc students no longer recognise John Travolta, let alone know who he is.
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🚨 Still 10 days left to submit an abstract for our IUSSI winter meeting in beautiful Leuven, 18-19 December;
🚨 Registration is now open: www.iussi-nweurope.org/meetings
🚨 Registration is now open: www.iussi-nweurope.org/meetings
October 4, 2025 at 7:49 AM
🚨 Still 10 days left to submit an abstract for our IUSSI winter meeting in beautiful Leuven, 18-19 December;
🚨 Registration is now open: www.iussi-nweurope.org/meetings
🚨 Registration is now open: www.iussi-nweurope.org/meetings
How much for shipping to Europe?
It looks like Dinosaur Field Station of NJ is closing and selling their Dino sculptures
September 26, 2025 at 1:27 PM
How much for shipping to Europe?
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record 17,058 Marie Curie proposals in 2025 vs. 10,360 in 2024!!! the reason is pretty obvious, but wow that is a huge jump marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/news/msca-po...
MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 receives record number of 17,058 proposals
This year’s annual MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships call has attracted considerable interest from the research community with 17,058 proposals submitted.
marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu
September 13, 2025 at 6:04 PM
record 17,058 Marie Curie proposals in 2025 vs. 10,360 in 2024!!! the reason is pretty obvious, but wow that is a huge jump marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/news/msca-po...
Preview of my talk today at 12 in the ecology section #dzg2025 on invasive Tapinoma ants
In the pic you see a new way of visualising networks of ant colonies in ecological space
In the pic you see a new way of visualising networks of ant colonies in ecological space
September 10, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Preview of my talk today at 12 in the ecology section #dzg2025 on invasive Tapinoma ants
In the pic you see a new way of visualising networks of ant colonies in ecological space
In the pic you see a new way of visualising networks of ant colonies in ecological space
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Liebe #IchBinHanna Community, 1 Frage: Wie viele Professuren werden in D in Eurem Bereich pro Jahr ausgeschrieben, auf die Ihr Euch bewerben könnt(et)? Laut #BuWiK2025 ist nur jede 21. Bewerbung erfolgreich (s. S. 183) & mich interessiert, wie oft es in Eurem Fach (gern nennen) diese 'Chance' gibt!
September 8, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Liebe #IchBinHanna Community, 1 Frage: Wie viele Professuren werden in D in Eurem Bereich pro Jahr ausgeschrieben, auf die Ihr Euch bewerben könnt(et)? Laut #BuWiK2025 ist nur jede 21. Bewerbung erfolgreich (s. S. 183) & mich interessiert, wie oft es in Eurem Fach (gern nennen) diese 'Chance' gibt!
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Many thanks to all GEvol members for a truly wonderful annual meeting. It was really great to catch up with you all again.
September 5, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Many thanks to all GEvol members for a truly wonderful annual meeting. It was really great to catch up with you all again.
New preprint from our lab: When #ants habituate to non-nestmate odour, their odorant receptor profile changes predictably. Could this be a mechanism for pre-filtering cues in nestmate #recognition? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
September 2, 2025 at 9:39 AM
New preprint from our lab: When #ants habituate to non-nestmate odour, their odorant receptor profile changes predictably. Could this be a mechanism for pre-filtering cues in nestmate #recognition? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Biologists visiting a cathedral (first picture) and the cathedral itself (second pic). Priorities at #ceiussi25
September 1, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Biologists visiting a cathedral (first picture) and the cathedral itself (second pic). Priorities at #ceiussi25
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#CEIUSSI25 day three: Plenary by Olli Loukola
August 29, 2025 at 8:49 AM
#CEIUSSI25 day three: Plenary by Olli Loukola
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#ceiussi25 is off to a good start: Magdalena Witek gives a plenary talk on Myrmica parasites
August 28, 2025 at 8:38 AM
#ceiussi25 is off to a good start: Magdalena Witek gives a plenary talk on Myrmica parasites
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#ThrowbackThursday: In 1980 the 🌍🌎🌏 was declared #smallpox free, thanks to mass vaccination efforts.
Smallpox was an acute contagious disease caused by the variola virus. It was one of the most devastating diseases known to humanity. #VaccinesWork
Smallpox was an acute contagious disease caused by the variola virus. It was one of the most devastating diseases known to humanity. #VaccinesWork
August 28, 2025 at 9:17 AM
#ThrowbackThursday: In 1980 the 🌍🌎🌏 was declared #smallpox free, thanks to mass vaccination efforts.
Smallpox was an acute contagious disease caused by the variola virus. It was one of the most devastating diseases known to humanity. #VaccinesWork
Smallpox was an acute contagious disease caused by the variola virus. It was one of the most devastating diseases known to humanity. #VaccinesWork
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The Central European IUSSI meeting is on its way - first plenary by Eva Schultner
#ceiussi25
#ceiussi25
August 27, 2025 at 12:18 PM
The Central European IUSSI meeting is on its way - first plenary by Eva Schultner
#ceiussi25
#ceiussi25
Almost there @ceiussi.bsky.social #ceiussi25
August 27, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Almost there @ceiussi.bsky.social #ceiussi25
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Happy #WorldAntDay!
Ants are the little things that run the world. How little you ask?
Here is an old photo of two ants from the same patch of Costa Rican rainforest.
Left: a tiny Solenopsis. It is straddling a piece of heavy paper.
Right: the foot of Paraponera. Her sting packs a wallop.
Ants are the little things that run the world. How little you ask?
Here is an old photo of two ants from the same patch of Costa Rican rainforest.
Left: a tiny Solenopsis. It is straddling a piece of heavy paper.
Right: the foot of Paraponera. Her sting packs a wallop.
August 5, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Happy #WorldAntDay!
Ants are the little things that run the world. How little you ask?
Here is an old photo of two ants from the same patch of Costa Rican rainforest.
Left: a tiny Solenopsis. It is straddling a piece of heavy paper.
Right: the foot of Paraponera. Her sting packs a wallop.
Ants are the little things that run the world. How little you ask?
Here is an old photo of two ants from the same patch of Costa Rican rainforest.
Left: a tiny Solenopsis. It is straddling a piece of heavy paper.
Right: the foot of Paraponera. Her sting packs a wallop.