Patrick Krapf

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MSCA fellow at the University of Amsterdam 🇳🇱. I am studying hybridising wood ants and their adaptive potential to cope with climate change. I am also interested in the behaviour, social structure, and ecology of (wood) ants 🐜. If I am not working, I love 🏔️👟, watch series, enjoy nature and other arthropods such as 🦋🐝🕷️. I am also the coordinating editor of https://blog.myrmecologicalnews.org/, #scicomm; he/his; 1st gen scientist.
University of Helsinkihttps://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/patrick-krapf
InstitutionUniversity of Helsinki
ResearchAnts, behaviour, hybridisation, adaptation, evolution, cology, social structure, genomics and transcriptomics
Bloggerhttps://blog.myrmecologicalnews.org/
Patrick KrapfJan 16

RE: https://ecoevo.social/@MyrmecolNews/115893041445260694

So happy to see our recent review on "Speciation in ants: unlocking ant diversity to study speciation" now published open-access 😀
https://doi.org/10.25849/myrmecol.news_036:001

Patrick KrapfApr 29, 2024
Are you looking for a PhD position, interested in evolutionary biology & want to work with an amazing PI? Look no further & apply now! You will investigate the impact of hybridisation on adaptation and population persistence using experimental evolution in spider mites with Jonna Kulmuni at the University of Amsterdam.
https://vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/PhD-Position-in-Evolutionary-Biology/793459602/
PhD Position in Evolutionary Biology

PhD Position in Evolutionary Biology

Patrick KrapfFeb 28, 2024
Thanks to all people at IBED and especially EPB at the University of Amsterdam for the amazing time. The last couple of months have been a blast. 🥳 I'm sad to be leaving for now but already looking forward to the next visit. Now, very excited for field work for a vacation followed by field work at the University of Helsinki.
Patrick KrapfJan 19, 2024
Are you working on social insects🐜🐝& climate change & want to present your recent work📝? We got you! Submit your abstract 📩to the Euro IUSSI 2024 conference symposium "Coping with climate change: Responses and adaptations in social insects" following this link: https://wp.unil.ch/iussi-europe-2024/registration/
We, Elizabeth Evesham, Richard Gill, Jonna Kulmuni, and I, are thrilled to organise this symposium. 🥳
The submission deadline is February 15th 2024, and early bird registration ends on April 15th 2024.
Registration & Abstract submission – European IUSSI 2024

Patrick KrapfNov 28, 2023
Researchers may have solved a long-standing geology mystery called the “Dolomite Problem.”
I did not know that it was so difficult to growing this mineral under laboratory conditions until today, but hey.
As I originate from that area, it was fascinating to read up on it. Check it out. 🙂 🥳
"Dissolution enables dolomite crystal growth near ambient conditions"
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adi3690
Patrick KrapfNov 4, 2023
bioRxivNov 4, 2023
ReptiLearn: A Smart Home Cage for Behavioral Experiments in Reptiles https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.11.02.565252v1?med=mas
Show threadPatrick KrapfAug 23, 2023
Boldness, exploring & risk-taking may be linked with aggression ➡️indicating the presence of behavioral syndromes in this ant 🐜. Under specific ecological conditions, aggression may be linked with other behaviors & important for finding food. Aggression😡might be adaptive in this ant & selection may favor aggression possibly counteracting the complete loss of intraspecific aggression in this ant.
Show threadPatrick KrapfAug 23, 2023
We collected colonies for 3 weeks & analyzed boldness, exploring, foraging, & risk-taking behaviors. We tested if (a) the experimental setup works well, (b) populations differ behaviorally & (c) populations display behavioral syndromes. (a) Boldness & exploring were most repeatable (➡️ represent a good setup), (b) the 😡population was bolder & more explorative & risk-prone than he ☮️population, (c) boldness & exploring were highly repeatable.
Patrick KrapfAug 23, 2023

Happy to see this out 🥳
"Foraging valor linked with aggression: selection against completely abandoning aggression in the high-elevation ant 🐜Tetramorium alpestre?" @Insect_Science

Aggressive behavior in animals has many benefits (e.g. finding food). Aggression😡 is often linked with other behaviors (behavioral syndromes). We tested this assumption by using 2 behaviorally different populations (1😡, 1☮️).

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1744-7917.13263

Patrick KrapfMay 5, 2023
RT @Kweisleitner
Teaser is out now! 🐧🐻‍❄️
@AustrianPolar invited me for a #multimedia presentation about polar scientific #expeditions at the natural history #museum in #Vienna. Please share! My teaser and infos 👇
#whiteframephoto #scicomm @_CitizenScience @ORF @NHM_Wien https://twitter.com/AustrianPolar/status/1654006740130705408
Austrian Polar Research Institute on Twitter

“Interesse an der Ökologie polarer Gletscher? Das @AustrianPolar lädt ein zum #Polar Talk: Der Ökologe @Kweisleitner der @uniinnsbruck nimmt uns auf wissenschaftliche Polarexpeditionen mit faszinierenden Fotos mit! 📅31.5., 18:30, @nhmWien https://t.co/EksyuGOOg8 #scicomm”

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