Buck Trible

The evolution of ants from a mechanistic perspective 🐜🧬. I mostly retweet bugs. John Harvard Distinguished Science Fellow | Principal Investigator | He/him

[Buck Trible @buck_trible]

Hey friends, today our 7-year queen-like mutant project is out in Current Biology. These mutant raider ants show the core traits of parasitic ant species, but arose in a laboratory stock just a handful of generations before we discovered them -- probably due to a mutant supergene

[Minsoo Dong @formicoid97]

Bridal race and copulation of Cataglyphis aenescens. Observed on May 19, 2025, in Türkiye 🇹🇷

This rare moment captures the dramatic mating behavior of desert ants, where males chase after emerging virgin queens in a fast-paced race on the scorching ground.

[Buck Trible @buck_trible]

Really fun conversation with Michael Levin (Tufts) today. Michael invited me to discuss ant castes for his YouTube channel after I reached out to ask his thoughts about hourglasses & intelligent behavior in development = ). Lots to learn fsho...

https://t.co/tnpd4sEyKs

[Buck Trible @buck_trible]

CONGRATULATIONS !!

[Buck Trible @buck_trible]

Congratulations!!! The JH-induced queens w a spermatheca but no ovaries is a gorgeous finding :). This cleanly sets up lots of questions about how caste traits are coordinated & im looking forward to future work

[Ruyan Li @li_ruyan]

Excited to see this out. Many thanks to all collaborators.

Juvenile hormone as a key regulator for asymmetric caste differentiation in ants | PNAS https://t.co/EEDp8gVAt0

[Buck Trible @buck_trible]

@karinburg Congratulations!!!! We’re gonna be neighbors, I’m starting at UGA next year

[Buck Trible @buck_trible]

Dope and so fucking earned, congrats man <3. Having someone to champion these insects w so much energy and creativity and manpower is great thing for us all :)

[Buck Trible @buck_trible]

WOW!

[Phil @myrmecoPhil]

Interesting encounter today: Several guest ants (Formicoxenus nitildus) were running on the wood-ant hill, sometimes trying to copulate. However, as far as I could tell, they were all males

[Todd Pierson @twpierson]

The Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology @ Kennesaw State University is currently advertising for two tenure-track positions: one in ecology and one in animal physiology. Come work with us! Share the adds (see below) with anyone who might be interested.

[Cedric🧬➰🧬Feschotte @CedricFeschotte]

CRISPR is amazing

[Buck Trible @buck_trible]

@BenMatthewsUBC dammmnnnn dude, that’s so cool!!! We need one for ants tho we might be a smidge behind ;)

[Leslie Vosshall PhD @leslievosshall]

Left: 1982 laboratory manual for molecular biology
Right: 2024 laboratory manual for mosquito biology
Both remarkably important books
@CSHLPress
Congratulations @laurabduvall @BenMatthewsUBC and all the former #VosshallLab scientists (and others) who contributed

[Buck Trible @buck_trible]

@tomflood1 I think it’d be much more effective if you say ‘car ads’. But yea ;)

[YSW @Sun_Woooooo]

Tetramopria tortilis(?) male
with Tetramorium tsushimae
마침내 수컷을 잡았습니다.
가운데 다리 종아리마디는 짝짓기를 위해 홈이 있습니다.

[Buck Trible @buck_trible]

@horacezhl Love it! I've only ever seen one myself! It's impressive that they made it into the invasive range yet are so rarely encountered...

[YSW @Sun_Woooooo]

Pseudisobrachium

[Dr. Josephine McGowan @josie_mcgowan]

Completely floored and honored to have received the Don Quixote Award for best talk today at the @hispanicpsych conference! 😭 🥹 thank you to @PerezLab1 for telling me abt this amazing conf and to @CRodriguezMDPhD for being my discussant & always encouraging me! #ASHP

[Andrei Sourakov @AndreiMoth]

In all the decades of caterpillar rearing, I have never seen a case of parasitoidism as extreme as this. Anyone knows what it is? On tomato today, Gainesville, FL (host - probably once was a cabbage looper). RT if you don't but want to find out.

[Buck Trible @buck_trible]

@macro_momo You know when I drink alone, I prefer to be by myself

[Reed Sturtevant @reedsturtevant]

@DalalSci my grandfather was a sophomore when Thomas Hunt Morgan took him into his lab (Fly Room @ Columbia) and as a sophomore he computed the worlds 1st genetic map! https://t.co/my91c3r5J0

[Phil @myrmecoPhil]

Some giant thrips (>10 mm?) from Papua New Guinea. I had no idea they could grow that large!

[Buck Trible @buck_trible]

The abstract is *superb*! Looking forward to reading, and congratulations!