Zimai Li 荔枝麦

Complex systems intriguer. PhD student @MPI_CE with 🐜. @MEME_evobio @HyenaProject 🐾 alumnus. Views are my own.

[Zimai Li 荔枝麦 @ZimaiLi]

🚨Happy that our paper on ants 🐜 and worms 🪱 is out! https://t.co/5VcZTuuPYZ Great team effort by @Bhoomika_Ashok @ETF1989 Thalita Oliveira-Honorato, Fumika Azuma, Valérie Bachmann, @EvanEconomo @DarrenJParker, Thomas Schmitt & @YukoUlrich!

[Santa Fe Institute @sfiscience]

📚 Paul Smaldino’s (@psmaldino) new book, “Modeling Social Behavior.” explores the power of computational modeling to understand why misinformation spreads, cooperation falters, and vaccination hesitancy persists.

https://t.co/FhMkFQxngo

[Nature Communications @NatureComms]

Behaviour drives infection risk in social groups. Li et al. show that depending on behavioural role, genetically identical ants face vastly different risks of parasitic nematode infection.

@ZimaiLi @YukoUlrich @MPI_CE
https://t.co/s5rINkJeK4

[Zimai Li 荔枝麦 @ZimaiLi]

@TCSEngl @Bhoomika_Ashok @ETF1989 @EvanEconomo @DarrenJParker @YukoUlrich Thanks Tobi!

[Zimai Li 荔枝麦 @ZimaiLi]

🚨Happy that our paper on ants 🐜 and worms 🪱 is out! https://t.co/5VcZTuuPYZ Great team effort by @Bhoomika_Ashok @ETF1989 Thalita Oliveira-Honorato, Fumika Azuma, Valérie Bachmann, @EvanEconomo @DarrenJParker, Thomas Schmitt & @YukoUlrich!

[Yuko Ulrich @YukoUlrich]

Now out @NatureComms! https://t.co/VMXC7CyloN Lead by @ZimaiLi w/ @Bhoomika_Ashok @ETF1989 @EconomoLab @DarrenJParker, F. Azuma, T. Schmitt, T. Oliveira-Honorato, V. Bachmann, work done over 5 institutions @MPI_CE @usys_ethzh @DEE_UNIL @OIST @Uni_WUE (and 1 pandemic)

[Zimai Li 荔枝麦 @ZimaiLi]

Checkout this earlier thread for a small summary https://t.co/nUKKZSAecV

[Zimai Li 荔枝麦 @ZimaiLi]

Ant-ics🐜on the outbreak front! Our latest preprint https://t.co/sKNHDKJxEX explores the wild world of infection risk in clonal ant colonies. Buckle up for some gnarly #nematode🪱vs. #ant action💥(1/6) #Individuality #Infection #epidemiology #parasites

[Zimai Li 荔枝麦 @ZimaiLi]

Great advisors and incredibly neat dataset to work with 😍

[Hyena Project 🐾 @HyenaProject]

🚨We’re hiring🚨

Join us for a PhD to study "Dominance styles in spotted #hyenas" #BehavioralEcology
Great topic. Great dataset. Great team😉

Based @BerlinIZW. Possibility of fieldwork!
Don’t be shy. Apply! (by 10th March)

Details here: https://t.co/HMctp4PfbZ
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[Zimai Li 荔枝麦 @ZimaiLi]

@mliebeke @benebio3D Thanks for the suggestion on MS! Though the nematodes are infecting not the brain, but the pharyngeal gland, which has lots of cool functions in the ants https://t.co/yAkNv2Ohyy

[Zimai Li 荔枝麦 @ZimaiLi]

Ant-ics🐜on the outbreak front! Our latest preprint https://t.co/sKNHDKJxEX explores the wild world of infection risk in clonal ant colonies. Buckle up for some gnarly #nematode🪱vs. #ant action💥(1/6) #Individuality #Infection #epidemiology #parasites

[The PhD Place @ThePhDPlace]

Finishing your masters to start a PhD

[Zimai Li 荔枝麦 @ZimaiLi]

And 🍒 on top of this study @YukoUlrich
, @ETF1989, Thalita Oliveira-Honorato, Fumika Azuma, Valérie Bachmann, @DarrenJParker, @Thomas Schmitt, @EvanEconomo and I from @MPI_CE, @usys_ethzh, @DEE_UNIL, @Uni_WUE, @BangorSNS, @OISTedujoined joined forces to make this happen. (6/6)

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Now we know some! Infections affect many aspects of ant biology: survival, gene expression, chemical profile, division of labour...Pic is an appetizer of trajectories of uninfected vs. infected ants produced by automated #tracking. Find out more in the preprint @bioRxiv! (5/6)

[Robin Schimmelpfennig @schimmelrob]

Behavioral science and nudging haven’t always been among the most popular policy- and management tools.
1 How did we get there?
2 What are the challenges?
3 What is the natural next step?
New 📰 with @mmuthukrishna out in @BPPjournal
👉https://t.co/egS5nfkWkI
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[Guy Theraulaz @GTheraulaz]

Our symposium on Nest architecture and collective building in social insects organized with @_A_Perna_ and Christian Jost at EU-IUSSI 2021 will be online on October 26 from 12:00 to 15:00 (UK time). We will have the pleasure to listen 15 talks: https://t.co/i3gxaRvALb

[Zimai Li 荔枝麦 @ZimaiLi]

@thebugchef Thank you so much for sharing!

[Zimai Li 荔枝麦 @ZimaiLi]

It takes 2 to make a 3!

[Hyena Project 🐾 @HyenaProject]

📢 JUST CONFIRMED: #hyena triplets survive to independence 📢

This is very rare - in 25yrs + 1287 litters this is only the 4th triplet litter that made it! 💪

Why so rare? Because hyena moms only rarely have triplets, only have 2 functioning teats - hyena cubs are HUNGRY 😬!