Ben Pyenson (he/him)

Ants, Bees, but not Bears. Habs fan always.

[Ben Pyenson (he/him) @BPyenson]

Hi everyone, the work with @sanrehan @JesseHuisken and nandini gupta published the first single-nucleus brain atlas of a subsocial insect. Open access: @ResearchGate: https://t.co/10n9FI9vQp

[Ben Pyenson (he/him) @BPyenson]

Very happy to read this interesting study from my colleagues Xiaohui Guo, Colin Lynch, Jon Harrison, and Jennifer Fewell at ASU: https://t.co/MDQglNzu2d

[Ben Pyenson (he/him) @BPyenson]

Juvenile hormone in a facultatively-social bee is associated with development and reproduction, but not sociality https://t.co/jrGP7bv5QH #EntSoc24

[Ben Pyenson (he/him) @BPyenson]

AI and modern CV in the insect laboratory: Discovering important behaviors in ants and deep faking wasps https://t.co/DnylR7YIch #EntSoc24

[Journal of Experimental Biology @J_Exp_Biol]

Recently, JEB broadened its scope to include research that is non-hypothesis driven. In his new Perspective, @tubuleguy discusses why he thinks this is wonderful news as novel insights can sometimes come from idea-led experiments

https://t.co/HeUnmYfAz0

[Kara Layton | @molluscular.bsky.social @molluscular]

📢 The Layton Lab @UTMBiology and @eebtoronto is recruiting new students for 2025! Please see the ad below and reach out to hear more about our work and research culture 🐚🧬🤿

[Genome Journal @GenomeJournal]

🐝✨ How do #insects like #bees, #ants, and #wasps decide who does what in their colonies? It’s in their #genes! @BPyenson @sanrehan cover how gene networks and epigenetic factors drive insect social organization. #InsectWorld #Genomics
https://t.co/WcYl5Jo1N7

[Ben Pyenson (he/him) @BPyenson]

@com_ecology @uarizona do you mean @ASU ?

[HHMI | Janelia @HHMIJanelia]

✨ New research from the Hermundstad & Jayaraman labs @HHMIJanelia suggests how two different learning systems in the fly brain work together with hardwired circuit architectures to enable rapid flexibility. (1/11)

➡️ https://t.co/FijU5H6G9V

[Behind The Mask @BTMhockey]

This market can and will support an NHL team. Youth hockey has never been stronger. Our footprint is stamped all over the NHL. We deserve better.

[Peter T. Rühr @peter-t-ruehr.bsky.social @Peter_Th_R]

I just uploaded a printable meshed lid for 50 ml Falcon tubes to keep #insects in an aerated container when collecting in the field!

Check it out @printablescom:
https://t.co/lG0cq3xcDX
#entomology #collection #3dprint

[Arcadia Science @ArcadiaScience]

Think the phenotype-o-mat would be useful for your lab? Let us know! We’re considering hosting a workshop if that would be beneficial for the community. 👇
https://t.co/pmoPXfYM4R

[BarDown @BarDown]

The Canes brought out the cooperalls and headbands for Whalers night 🔥

(🎥: @CanesOnBally)

[Ben Pyenson (he/him) @BPyenson]

3 areas are worthy of more investigation: 1) effects of social contexts on gene expression; 2) gene knockdown/knockouts to identify the role of specific genes in a social phenotype; 3) location in individuals (tissue, cell) of transcriptomic differences.

[Ben Pyenson (he/him) @BPyenson]

Want to know which insect should be the focus of your next transcriptomic study? @sanrehan and I summarize insect sociogenomic trends for you. Open-access and freely available! It's not just bees. 🐝🪲🐜. 🧵below https://t.co/lsnMcItTKY

[Ben Pyenson (he/him) @BPyenson]

We then summarize the trends from species whose transcriptomes are available, finding that some theory has support across multiple lineages and also species with different levels of social complexity within the same lineage.

[Jean-Philippe Lessard (he/him/his) @bugEcology]

Support Canadian bumble bee researcher Dr. Sheila Colla through her cancer treatment:
https://t.co/5ru4dJJtnl

[NFL @NFL]

Yessir, Joe Brr.

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