Ben Pyenson (he/him)

Hi everyone, the work with @sanrehan @JesseHuisken and nandini gupta published the first single-nucleus brain atlas of a subsocial insect. Open access: @ResearchGate: researchgate.net/publication/38…

Very happy to read this interesting study from my colleagues Xiaohui Guo, Colin Lynch, Jon Harrison, and Jennifer Fewell at ASU: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.10…

Juvenile hormone in a facultatively-social bee is associated with development and reproduction, but not sociality cdmcd.co/bRK3R6 #EntSoc24

AI and modern CV in the insect laboratory: Discovering important behaviors in ants and deep faking wasps cdmcd.co/pMA4pW #EntSoc24

Recently, JEB broadened its scope to include research that is non-hypothesis driven. In his new Perspective, @tubuleguy discusses why he thinks this is wonderful news as novel insights can sometimes come from idea-led experiments journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/22…

📢 The Layton Lab @UTMBiology and @eebtoronto is recruiting new students for 2025! Please see the ad below and reach out to hear more about our work and research culture 🐚🧬🤿

🐝✨ How do #insects like #bees, #ants, and #wasps decide who does what in their colonies? It’s in their #genes! @BPyenson @sanrehan cover how gene networks and epigenetic factors drive insect social organization. #InsectWorld #Genomics ow.ly/pPO050SxvwG

@com_ecology @uarizona do you mean @ASU ?

I like the @uarizona charter👇. Their mission suggests that universities should actively engage in taking stances, yet many don't follow suit. Somewhat disheartening considering their capacity to mobilize both knowledge and people.

✨ New research from the Hermundstad & Jayaraman labs @HHMIJanelia suggests how two different learning systems in the fly brain work together with hardwired circuit architectures to enable rapid flexibility. (1/11) ➡️ doi.org/10.1016/j.neur…

This market can and will support an NHL team. Youth hockey has never been stronger. Our footprint is stamped all over the NHL. We deserve better.

I just uploaded a printable meshed lid for 50 ml Falcon tubes to keep #insects in an aerated container when collecting in the field! Check it out @printablescom: printables.com/model/828801 #entomology #collection #3dprint

Think the phenotype-o-mat would be useful for your lab? Let us know! We’re considering hosting a workshop if that would be beneficial for the community. 👇 bit.ly/phenotype-o-mat

The Canes brought out the cooperalls and headbands for Whalers night 🔥 (🎥: @CanesOnBally)

3 areas are worthy of more investigation: 1) effects of social contexts on gene expression; 2) gene knockdown/knockouts to identify the role of specific genes in a social phenotype; 3) location in individuals (tissue, cell) of transcriptomic differences.

We then summarize the trends from species whose transcriptomes are available, finding that some theory has support across multiple lineages and also species with different levels of social complexity within the same lineage.

Want to know which insect should be the focus of your next transcriptomic study? @sanrehan and I summarize insect sociogenomic trends for you. Open-access and freely available! It's not just bees. 🐝🪲🐜. 🧵below cdnsciencepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Support Canadian bumble bee researcher Dr. Sheila Colla through her cancer treatment: gofundme.com/f/support-shei…

Yessir, Joe Brr. 📺: #HOUvsCIN -- 1pm ET on CBS 📱: Stream on #NFLPlus