Behavioural ecologist: Social organisation in ants etc; Field ecology, behavioural experiments, computational modelling; EDI, University of York; she/herhttps://bsky.app/profile/elvarobinson.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/elvarobinson.bsky.social/post/3mldds6o2i22mThere are still a few days left to apply for this Post-Doc in York, working on 'Engineering Ecosystem Resilience' using wood ants, drones and metabolomics! 🐜 🔬 🧪 🌲 🐜 [contains quote post or other embedded content]08 May 2026 08:46 +0000at://did:plc:vfeoaxhdac3ce24m2c4vwrsu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mldds6o2i22mhttps://bsky.app/profile/elvarobinson.bsky.social/post/3ml6czfjilk2pStill a week left to apply for this Post-Doc opportunity in York, bringing molecular ecology to the study of wood ants as agents of ecosystem restoration! 🐜🔬🧪🌲🐜 [contains quote post or other embedded content]06 May 2026 08:49 +0000at://did:plc:vfeoaxhdac3ce24m2c4vwrsu/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml6czfjilk2phttps://bsky.app/profile/elvarobinson.bsky.social/post/3mkhwtrroxc27Interested in ant ecology? Have molecular and bioinformatics experience? Come and join the team! 18-month post-doc position at University of York now live: https://jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/postdoctoral-research-associate-609537.html27 Apr 2026 11:13 +0000at://did:plc:vfeoaxhdac3ce24m2c4vwrsu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkhwtrroxc27https://bsky.app/profile/elvarobinson.bsky.social/post/3mhxnyvq5js27Excellent accessible overview of his research project at @biologyatyork.bsky.social by former post-doc Sandor Piross "When a key resource disappears: what wood ant networks can teach us" - https://ecolres.hun-ren.hu/en/when-a-key-resource-disappears-what-wood-ant-networks-can-teach-us/26 Mar 2026 13:02 +0000at://did:plc:vfeoaxhdac3ce24m2c4vwrsu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhxnyvq5js27https://bsky.app/profile/elvarobinson.bsky.social/post/3mhxn6ocn6c27It's always useful having the person who actually did the fieldwork 10 years ago (@samellisq.bsky.social) present in the audience... helps with answers to questions when you can see the person involved nodding along! #ASABSpring2026 [contains quote post or other embedded content]26 Mar 2026 12:47 +0000at://did:plc:vfeoaxhdac3ce24m2c4vwrsu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhxn6ocn6c27https://bsky.app/profile/elvarobinson.bsky.social/post/3m6holzwqt22iThese wood ants are edge specialists... but not all edges are equal. Jacob Podesta used a decade of population expansion data to show that wood ants spread more quickly along certain edges, depending on the edge orientation. Currently available open access here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S037811272500862X?via%3Dihub25 Nov 2025 15:43 +0000at://did:plc:vfeoaxhdac3ce24m2c4vwrsu/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6holzwqt22ihttps://bsky.app/profile/elvarobinson.bsky.social/post/3lvnkoysqb227Look at the size of this wood ant nest! (Or perhaps I'm just smaller than you thought). This is a Northern Hairy Wood Ant nest in the Lake District, sampled by @melvinopolka.bsky.social and me for the @monitant.bsky.social project this year.05 Aug 2025 11:02 +0000at://did:plc:vfeoaxhdac3ce24m2c4vwrsu/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvnkoysqb227https://bsky.app/profile/elvarobinson.bsky.social/post/3lvdrxxbox22eHad an amazing time with @melvinopolka.bsky.social and Igor Siedlecki, discovering so many beautiful ants nests and collecting samples and data for the Europe-wide MonitAnt @monitant.bsky.social project. We are so lucky that wood ants always choose such beautiful places to make their homes! [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 Aug 2025 13:46 +0000at://did:plc:vfeoaxhdac3ce24m2c4vwrsu/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvdrxxbox22ehttps://bsky.app/profile/elvarobinson.bsky.social/post/3ltrkfgvbnc2vI'm so fortunate to have these amazing PhD students in my group! [contains quote post or other embedded content]12 Jul 2025 14:17 +0000at://did:plc:vfeoaxhdac3ce24m2c4vwrsu/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltrkfgvbnc2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/elvarobinson.bsky.social/post/3lrzy3r5ps22wMaking the most of the warm weather to re-map the cooperative wood ant colony networks at the beautiful @nationaltrust.org.uk's Longshaw Estate. This was day 1 last week - two keen student volunteers getting their first experience of wood ants20 Jun 2025 11:53 +0000at://did:plc:vfeoaxhdac3ce24m2c4vwrsu/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrzy3r5ps22w