MEGHA MAJOE

PhD(one) exploring ageing in ants. Now re-engaged in trying to understand everything else.

[MEGHA MAJOE @Ants_ee_thesis]

Seen: workers, sexuals. The workers would raise the queen's offspring into sexuals (females) in her absence but if nothing works, workers CAN lay unfertilised eggs producing winged sons to spread genes #ameisenareamazing #haplodiplody #antyouglad you know?

[MEGHA MAJOE @Ants_ee_thesis]

My blog post feat. some other 🆒 (get it? cool...because fanning... Yeah okay thanks) work done by the 'Bee'ple under @PhDBee 's guidance

[Insectes Sociaux @InsSociaux]

Come join the FAN-dom: Wing-fanning presents an underexplored avenue in social insects 🌬️

@Ants_ee_thesis shows how a simple wing movement opens a window onto some of the biggest questions in social insect biology.

https://t.co/CgMNKrleRd

#SocialInsects #Thermoregulation

[MEGHA MAJOE @Ants_ee_thesis]

Fanning is 'cool' . More of us should study it and it's nuances across many species

[Insectes Sociaux @InsSociaux]

New review article! 📚

@Ants_ee_thesis & @PhDBee argue that wing-fanning is a plastic behaviour that can serve as a model system to understand how insect societies respond to the environment 🌬️
🔗 https://t.co/3SBv2THSeQ

#SocialInsects #Plasticity #Thermoregulation #Biology

[MEGHA MAJOE @Ants_ee_thesis]

Thanks a lot to @PhDBee for sowing the seed and help me streamline the ideas we were able to present through this article. https://t.co/ev0861supQ #socialinsects #bees #wings

[MEGHA MAJOE @Ants_ee_thesis]

Join the ‘Fan’dom: My initiation into Postdoc & into the world of flying social insects was @MarquetteU 's Cook lab. This review in @InsSociaux -summarizes what we know and all that we don't about wing-fanning in social insects

[Chelsea Cook @PhDBee]

We (me and @njdowdy1) are hiring a graduate student! This is a fast turnaround, so apply this week!

We seek a PhD student to investigate the evolution of acoustic behavior in Lepidoptera within a comparative evolutionary framework...

https://t.co/G4hRBjIvKn

[Luisa Jaimes, PhD @luisamjaimesn]

SAVE THE DATE! Join us in Mainz for the first German Evolution Meeting 2027! A great opportunity to discuss with evolutionary biologists of several fields! For more information, visit https://t.co/9F0QfiARE4

[John Attridge @John_Attridge]

What if the real conclusion was the paragraphs I wrote along the way

[MEGHA MAJOE @Ants_ee_thesis]

The study highlights the nuances of group living and how many factors interact to shape the life-history traits of queens and workers. 8/8

[MEGHA MAJOE @Ants_ee_thesis]

The range of social complexity in colonies gives us a great opportunity to test the life history trade-offs across ages, castes & fecundities. To that effect-Meet Tapinoma magnum, highly polygynous species with facultatively sterile workers. 1/8

[MEGHA MAJOE @Ants_ee_thesis]

Queen presence didn’t affect the oxidative stress resistance though inside workers showed better resistance than outside ones. The former also had more developed ovaries ; expressed genes associated with fertility & oxidative stress resistance (Vitellogenins, SOD). 7/8

[Lancesico 🇱🇨 @Bornakang]

This probably the best use of AI I have seen

[MEGHA MAJOE @Ants_ee_thesis]

Here is one of two essays that I entered in a national writing contest and had the honour of winning third place. It was inspired by me finding a well-preserved specimen for my insect collection. #cicada https://t.co/dSQqHuVSQ9

[Benjamin @bschne]

ok this is the best one I've seen yet

[MEGHA MAJOE @Ants_ee_thesis]

Got the opportunity to meet students from across India via a webinar about my interests in #naturalscience #Biology and more

https://t.co/yF9RfMbTgM