Anna Dornhaus

Anna Dornhaus

@dornhaus.bsky.social

scientist, science communicator, mom, prof, desert dweller - not always in this order

1.1K followers420 following14 posts

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D.
@sarahmackattack.bsky.social

We have *six days* left until the Academy of Natural Sciences, North America's oldest Natural History museum, is scheduled to close it's doors. Here are *six reasons* why we cannot - and will not- let that happen.

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Don Moynihan
@donmoyn.bsky.social

Replying to @donmoyn.bsky.social

Research units from across government have been gutted. More than 10,000 PhDs have left government. For example the research arm of the Department of Education lost 90% of their staff and the research office for the Secretary of Health and Human Services lost an estimated 60% of their staff.

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Ed Hagen
@edhagen.net

From Tinbergen (1963), where he puts forward his famous four questions 🧪 #BioAnth

Anna Dornhaus
@dornhaus.bsky.social

Looking forward to visiting beautiful Freiburg, seeing old friends and colleagues, and hearing cool and new insights about social insect research!

iussi-nas.bsky.social@iussi-nas.bsky.social

📢 Introducing @uissi-social.bsky.social, the Bluesky home of the XX International Congress of the IUSSI. The Congress runs 16–20 August 2026 in Freiburg, Germany, hosted by the University of Freiburg. Tag your posts, abstracts, and travel plans with #IUSSI26 so we can find each other.

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Dirk Gütlin
@gutlin.bsky.social

The US is now officially, as a nation, trying to pull the Russia move of attacking the EU by shoving money into "aligned" groups such as the far-right and Anti-EU AfD party in Germany.

Finbarr Bermingham@fbermingham.bsky.social

The US state department is offering grants of up to $3mn for Maga-aligned European groups that combat “censorship” and develop “civilisational bonds” between the US and the continent. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

giftarticle.ft.comUS to fund Trump-aligned Europeans building ‘civilisational bonds’State department grants of up to $3mn are designed to boost groups pushing Maga-style policies
Anna Dornhaus
@dornhaus.bsky.social

Many species on Earth can learn & do many of the things we think of as 'intelligent'. None have the language and abstract thinking skills of humans, and we have no idea what would lead to evolution of human intelligence. Astrobiology & anthropology are both failing to tackle this problem.

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Animal Behaviour Live
@animalbehaviour.live

📣 SEMINAR SERIES 2026 📣 Our first seminar of the year is coming up fast! 🐜🐝 🎥 Check out this teaser! Come listen to Dr. Anna Dornhaus ( @dornhaus.bsky.social ) to hear about “What we learned about the world from studying collective behavior: algorithms, replicators, and strong inference”

Anna Dornhaus
@dornhaus.bsky.social

The classic role of models in physics is to derive predictions from an already-quantitative hypothesis. This is NOT what most models in biology do! In biology, models far more often prove a general principle that was not intuitive from a verbal hypothesis alone.

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Chinmay Hemant Joshi
@chjoshi.bsky.social

Paper alert 🚨🐜! Fire ant foraging looks remarkably robust until you perturb their communication. @dornhaus.bsky.social and I tested how fire ants respond to disruptions in pheromone trail communication during foraging. More in the thread below 🧵(1/6). link.springer.com/article/10.1...

link.springer.comPersist or give up? Fire ants motivated to search for a high-quality food source even if they don’t know how to find it - Insectes SociauxInsectes Sociaux - Finding resources for the colony is one of the most difficult and risky tasks for a social insect worker. A worker on a foraging trip can face a number of challenges, including...

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