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Sarah Arnold

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Entomologist, interested in sustainable agriculture, pollination, applied ecology, insect behaviour and natural history in general.

Working at Niab, East Malling in Kent, UK, but posting in a personal capacity.

Often wrong, but usually teachable.

#ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent escapee from Higher Education employment.

Previously at sciencemastodon.com

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Sarah Arnold @sejarnold@beige.party · Sep 03, 2025
Sarah Arnold
@sejarnold@beige.party

Entomologist, interested in sustainable agriculture, pollination, applied ecology, insect behaviour and natural history in general. Working at Niab, East Malling in Kent, UK, but posting in a personal capacity. Often wrong, but usually teachable. #ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent escapee from Higher Education employment. Previously at sciencemastodon.com

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@ben@mastodon.lubar.me Entomology has a bit of a thing for it too. Also plant science. If it's sufficiently weird, it's probably either ants or tobacco doing it...
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Sarah Arnold @sejarnold@beige.party · Sep 03, 2025
Sarah Arnold
@sejarnold@beige.party

Entomologist, interested in sustainable agriculture, pollination, applied ecology, insect behaviour and natural history in general. Working at Niab, East Malling in Kent, UK, but posting in a personal capacity. Often wrong, but usually teachable. #ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent escapee from Higher Education employment. Previously at sciencemastodon.com

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"Living organisms are assumed to produce same-species offspring." You'd think this would be obvious and yet...the natural world. [2/] #Eusociality #SocialInsects #Entomology #Formicidae #Evolution #ThrowYourBiologicalSpeciesConceptOutOfTheWindowNow #NatureRejectsTheRulebook
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Sarah Arnold @sejarnold@beige.party · Sep 03, 2025
Sarah Arnold
@sejarnold@beige.party

Entomologist, interested in sustainable agriculture, pollination, applied ecology, insect behaviour and natural history in general. Working at Niab, East Malling in Kent, UK, but posting in a personal capacity. Often wrong, but usually teachable. #ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent escapee from Higher Education employment. Previously at sciencemastodon.com

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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09425-w Wow this paper.

So:
- there's a species of ant with queens
- the queens mate with males of the same species to make more queens
- or the queens mate with males of a *totally different species that diverged millions of years ago* to make hybrid workers, that enable eusociality
- and also the queens can lay male eggs of both species of ant

Love it. Time to rethink our understanding of the concept of "species" again, I guess. I adore these sorts of examples of species that looked at the textbook, said, "Nah, that sounds dull," and then try something so mind-blowing that you wonder if they're just having a laugh.

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