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📊 Post engagement
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Avg engagement / post
1.3%
Engagement vs followers
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: 🚨 New Paper Alert! 🚨 🐜 How did ants evolve their highly speciali · 12 likes + reposts
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Posting cadence
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Mostly images
Recent: 6 text · 6 image · 0 video.
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🚨 New Paper Alert! 🚨
🐜 How did ants evolve their highly specialized queens and workers?
With Arthur Matte, we reveal a key evolutionary innovation: adult control over larval feeding unlocked extreme caste dimorphism and complex societies. 🧵👇
🔗 Read in @pnas.org: https://doi.or…
If you are from the US and interested in applying for a PhD with me (or anyone else @camzoology.bsky.social @cambridgebiosci.bsky.social), your deadline for the gates scholarship is October 15!
(You’ll need to write a research proposal, so…
Ants are full of surprises. Congrats @SelfishMeme and team!
From: @alexwild
https://mastodon.online/@alexwild/115142401997135299
9/ I am super proud of Arthur and what he achieved. He began this during a 3-month masters internship he did in my lab in 2022. It turned into this beautiful paper.
Fascinating results when you view as #socialevolution tension between #in…
8/ Our study provides a macroevolutionary perspective on caste determination, offering insights into how ants became the ecological engineers we know today.
📖 Read the full study in @pnas.org: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2413742122.
Ne…
7/ Take-home message:
The evolution of strong caste differences and complex ant societies wasn’t just about colony size or genetics—it was about who fed the larvae and how.
6/ This shift in developmental control mirrors key transitions in evolution, such as the emergence of multicellular life, where individual cells lost autonomy to function as part of a larger organism! 🤯 🐜🐜🐜=🦠🦠🦠
5/ Our causal models suggest:
🔹 More controlled feeding of larvae = More morphological specialization
🔹 Adult-controlled feeding enabled extreme caste differences, which in turn reinforced colony-level social complexity.
4/ Why does larval feeding matter?
Larvae are inherently *unruly*, always trying to secure as much food as possible from the colony. By taking full control of larval nutrition, adult ants were able to sculpt extreme queen-worker differenc…
3/Using comparative phylogenetics, we identified a major evolutionary shift:
The transition from self-feeding larvae to passive larvae receiving processed food by adults facilitated greater queen-worker differentiation, larger colonies, a…
2/ We digitized larval morphology for 700+ ant species, measured caste dimorphism in nearly 400 species, and compiled data on diets, larval feeding behaviors, and social traits across ant diversity.
1/ Ant colonies function as superorganisms—queens reproduce while workers handle all other tasks. But why do some ants have highly specialized castes, while others have queens and workers that look nearly identical? 🤔 We figured that the k…
7/ Take-home message:
The evolution of strong caste differences and complex ant societies wasn’t just about colony size or genetics—it was about who fed the larvae and how.
6/ This shift in developmental control mirrors key transitions in evolution, such as the emergence of multicellular life, where individual cells lost autonomy to function as part of a larger organism! 🤯 🐜🐜🐜=🦠🦠🦠
5/ Our causal models suggest:
🔹 More controlled feeding of larvae = More morphological specialization
🔹 Adult-controlled feeding enabled extreme caste differences, which in turn reinforced colony-level social complexity.
4/ Why does larval feeding matter?
Larvae are inherently *unruly*, always trying to secure as much food as possible from the colony. By taking full control of larval nutrition, adult ants were able to sculpt extreme queen-worker differenc…
3/Using comparative phylogenetics, we identified a major evolutionary shift:
The transition from self-feeding larvae to passive larvae receiving processed food by adults facilitated greater queen-worker differentiation, larger colonies, a…
2/ We digitized larval morphology for 700+ ant species, measured caste dimorphism in nearly 400 species, and compiled data on diets, larval feeding behaviors, and social traits across ant diversity.
1/ Ant colonies function as superorganisms—queens reproduce while workers handle all other tasks. But why do some ants have highly specialized castes, while others have queens and workers that look nearly identical? 🤔 We figured that the k…
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Joined in the Twitter-exodus wave of late 2022 — part of the migration that made Mastodon a real destination.
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🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2022 — 3 years ago.
👁️Averages 5 views per post.
📤Posts about 0.4× per week.
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Credibility score
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- Est. 97% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Strong engagement (~1.3% of followers engage each post) — an active, real audience.
- Established account (3+ years old).
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About
Associate Professor, Lab of Social Fluids at University of Cambridge
Ponderer of the #behavior of myself & other organisms. #SocialInsects / #CollectiveBehavior / #ComputationalBiology
https://leboeuflab.com/
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