Today I obtained my habilitation degree! 🎉 I am truly happy and grateful to everyone who accompanied me throughout this journey 💖

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New paper accepted in Proc B! 🎉 We disentangled how heatwaves affect maternal egg care in earwigs. We found that mothers adjust care depending on both their own heat stress and the stress of their eggs, but these effects act independently rather than interactively. doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

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Inspired by @flygirlnhm.bsky.social, I should probably post this one in my main stream as well. This neat model of Tapinoma nigerrimum s.l. was based on a bunch of focus stacks I made of an individual from a nearby colony. Resin printed in parts. Seen many talks over the last couple of years!

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🧵 1/10 New paper out in Behav Ecol Sociobiol! We investigated how ant queens use hormones to cheat their nestmates — and how workers fight back. Saureu et al. 2026 @danisaureu.bsky.social

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Ants are experts at telling nestmates from foreigners via subtle differences in odor profiles. In this new paper, we explore the conditions under which ants develop and maintain tolerance to foreigners. Turns out the ant recognition system is surprisingly plastic. www.cell.com/current-biol...

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