bardenlab

The Barden lab at @NJIT studies evolutionary biology and fossil amber, integrating concepts from paleontology, genomics, ecology and more.

[bardenlab @bardenlab]

@Aluckymyrmex @SysEB_Entsoc We debated it fiercely and ended up with a few extra options: what does ant Twitter think?

[Christine Sosiak @cesosiak]

Excited to share my first chapter now out in @FunEcology with advisor @Haidomyrmex: "Multidimensional trait morphology predicts ecology across ant lineages"! https://t.co/MasFuln43D

[Phil Barden @Haidomyrmex]

Congratulations Nitya Shah and Andre Pugliese for their excellent presentations today at the @NJIT Honors Summer Research Institute virtual conference! Congrats also to @solomonchak for working with Andre! Nitya and Andre are doing exciting remote science on ants and genomes.

[Phil Barden @Haidomyrmex]

Congratulations Christine Sosiak (@cesosiak) on picking up a new title this week: PhD candidate!!! Christine aced her qualifying exam and is one step closer to cracking some really cool questions in the lab! 🐜📜🔥🎉🥳

[Social Insects in the NE Regions Conference @bioSINNERS]

Due to the rapid increase of coronavirus cases in the New York metro area, SINNERS 2020 is cancelled. We solicited feedback from attendees and the great majority of registrants agree with this unfortunate call. #SINNERS2020

[Phil Barden @Haidomyrmex]

Hell ants (from 99-78 million year old amber) are stranger than we ever imagined and now have their own subfamily (Haidomyrmecinae). Check out some of the oldest, weirdest ants that ever lived in a new descriptive paper. With Vincent Perrichot and Bo Wang: https://t.co/CVNziRYQ08

[Social Insects in the NE Regions Conference @bioSINNERS]

Got some cool social insect science you can't wait to share? You have 3 more days to submit your abstract for #SINNERS2020 March 7-8 in Brooklyn NYC! Submissions close on February 1st at midnight EST. https://t.co/oB9ESetmHr

[bardenlab @bardenlab]

Come hang out with the Barden lab and other cool social insect researchers! Conference is March 7-8th @PioneerWorks_ in Brooklyn NYC.

[Social Insects in the NE Regions Conference @bioSINNERS]

One week left to submit your abstract for #SINNERS2020! Submit your abstract at the link below and don't forget to register as well! Submissions close Saturday Feb 1st at midnight. https://t.co/oB9ESetmHr

[Social Insects in the NE Regions Conference @bioSINNERS]

Haven't submitted your abstract for #SINNERS2020 yet? Good news: the deadline has been extended to February 1st! Submit your abstract at the link below. Don't forget to register as well - it's free this year! https://t.co/oB9ESetmHr

[bardenlab @bardenlab]

Come join the Barden lab at #SINNERS2020 this year!

[Social Insects in the NE Regions Conference @bioSINNERS]

Is your New Year's resolution to network with more cool social insect folks? #SINNERS2020 registration is now open! Register at https://t.co/MMYQkGWrcS. Registration is FREE this year and we are still accepting abstracts, hope to see you there!

[bardenlab @bardenlab]

The Barden lab is helping to host this year! Come join us, social insect fans!

[Social Insects in the NE Regions Conference @bioSINNERS]

Post-conference blues now that #EntSoc2019 is over? Come join us at #SINNERS2020 @PioneerWorks_ this March! Call for abstracts is now open, submit your abstracts here: https://t.co/oB9ESetmHr

[Phil Barden @Haidomyrmex]

New paper with @NinonLS is out! We report a wild set of fossil associations – springtails hitching a ride on a reproductive ant and termite! It turns out this behavior may not be as rare as you might think, and is still happening today. https://t.co/RU9Ayraqz6

[Phil Barden @Haidomyrmex]

Congratulations to @cesosiak and @chloe_jelley for winning awards for their talks at #EntSoc19! Christine presented her work predicting extinct ecological niches and Chloe shared her work on ant eye variation. I'm very lucky to get to work with these great scientists! #proudpi!!

[Megan Wilson LT • PhD @eusocialmeg]

Thank you so much to all my academic family for your support ♥️

[Chloe Jelley @chloe_jelley]

my first ever conference was a success! thanks to @Haidomyrmex & @cesosiak for all of your help/support :) it was also great to be able to meet so many amazing entomologists! i feel blessed for the opportunity to attend (& to see my friends again) @bardenlab #EntSoc19 #inspired

[bardenlab @bardenlab]

The Barden lab is super excited to be going to #EntSoc19 - see you soon, St Louis!

[bardenlab @bardenlab]

Happy #FossilFriday!

[Phil Barden @Haidomyrmex]

Check out this honkin' Agelaia electra paratype in Dominican amber (~16 million years old). One of just a handful of social paper wasp fossils. The genus is around today, but extinct in Hispaniola. They're very stingy and aggressive, even the fossil looks angry! #FossilFriday

[Entomological Society of America @EntsocAmerica]

Meet Phillip Barden, Ph.D., assistant professor of biology at @NJIT, an expert in fossil ant species and the evolutionary lessons they teach us, and subject of the next edition of our "Standout Early Career Professionals" series. @ECP_Entsoc https://t.co/JWjJ2cld4O

[bardenlab @bardenlab]

We asked, you answered! Great job everyone who spotted all the social insects: this piece has the trifecta! There is a corbiculate bee, a reproductive termite, and several ants in this piece of Dominican #amber! Pieces like this help us learn about ancient insect assemblages.

[bardenlab @bardenlab]

Happy #FossilFriday! It's an insect party! These are several different species of insects entombed in this spooky-looking Dominican amber, roughly 16 million years old.

[bardenlab @bardenlab]

BONUS QUESTION: why is this piece especially neat? Tell us in the comments! We'll reveal why this fossil is so cool on Monday.