Ricardo Caliari Oliveira

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.
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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!! 🐝

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

📚🐝 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/...

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 …

#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
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Hi, could you please add me to the list? Cheers!

Alright! Thanks!!

Amazing!! Same here! 😃

Looking good! Did you 3d-printed it? Would you mind sharing the file?

It knows too much!! 🤣

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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Hi, like a lot of people I'm new here! 🐝🐜