Felipe Rocha
@FelipePdaRocha
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PhD candidate @HKUSBS 🇭🇰 Biologist | Ecologist @unicampoficial | Mirmecology 🐜| Microbial and Invasion Ecology 🦠 | Biodiversity | He/Him 🏳️🌈
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Joined March 2021
Com muita felicidade compartilho aqui os resultados do meu mestrado! Colaboração minha, da minha amiga e mentora @MarianeRonque, e meus orientadores Mari Lyra, Maurício e Paulo Oliveira. Very happy to share here the results of my MPhil at @unicampoficial
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Os pós-graduandos produzem 90% da pesquisa científica nacional, trabalham diariamente pelo desenvolvimento econômico do país. Esses estudantes-trabalhadores precisam de direitos reconhecidos pelo Estado brasileiro! Ciência é questão de soberania! #CienciaESoberania
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🆕Review Article: Two sides of the same coin? Ants are ecosystem engineers and providers of ecosystem services. Rocha, F.P., Bogar, T.A., Ibañez Weemaels, A., Hu, J., Liang, M., Park, C., Lee, R.H., Khan, S.A., Han, S., Ng, Y.L. & Guénard, B.
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In this review, we synthesize how ant engineering contributes to ecosystem processes and ecosystem services. Our goal was to demonstrate if and how these two roles are linked? Further, how can we advance our understanding of ants' roles in nature and for human well-being.
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Our review on the dual role of ants as ecosystem engineers and providers of ecosystem services was published yesterday! https://t.co/wYvXGaxp8D Together with it, you can read a short interview I gave to the Myrmecological News blog about the article: https://t.co/BNN5j4N9wR
blog.myrmecologicalnews.org
Among ecologists, there are two perspectives for understanding ants' impact on our world. One is a holistic, ecosystem-centric view that sees ants as engineers of the environment—cornerstone organi...
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The amphibious litter cockroach can be found in the leaf litter or under rocks, bark or decaying wood because of their main food source: decaying material 🍂. This and most cockroaches species help to break organic matter into small pieces, helping the decomposition process ♻.
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飼育中のブラーミニメクラヘビ。 捕食場面を動画で撮影しましたが、何度見ても不思議な食べ方をします。 まるで掃除機のように、スルスルと吸い込まれるように口の中へ入っていきます。 https://t.co/H6rL8s907d
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Antcrobatics by the yellow crazy ant (Anoplolepis gracilipes), Okinawa 🇯🇵 2023
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We are hiring a three year postdoc to understand tropical insect dynamics through time. Please share! https://t.co/1ITvMK24Yq
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Locally based. Good chance to get outdoors and explore while learning field collection methods.
📣Job opportunity 🥾🧬 We are looking for a full-time #researchassistant to help with the #fieldwork efforts in the lab, details as below. This position provides great opportunities to the introduction of #eDNA, sampling skills in different fields and sample processing.
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Se inscreva no Mirmeco Amazonia! 🐜✨️ Sign up for Mirmeco Amazonia! #Mirmeco #MirmecoAmazonia #Mirmeco2023
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Hi folks, does anyone know of any in-person workshops/courses on biogeography, phylogeography, or spatial analysis this year? Preferentially before October
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My group (@iBEER_LAB) at @hku_science @HKUSBS, is looking for a #postdoc interested in evolutionary & ecological #Genomics. The PDF will focus on questions regarding the genetic basis of phenotypic plasticity & physiological adaptations. #ESEB2022 Info:
jobs.hku.hk
The University of Hong Kong (HKU) offers an intellectually-stimulating and culturally-rich academic environment, with attractive remuneration packages.
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Almost two weeks now that I graduated in Ant Course. The course was an incredible experience surrounded by the beautiful Vietnamese nature and by wonderful people from the ant world. Thanks to everyone involved 😁
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Are you interested in bark beetles? Wanna do behavioral experiments to understand host choice and the importance of symbionts? Wanna do your bachelor's or master's thesis at @BOKUvienna? Contact me: martin.schebeck@boku.ac.at Please share! Thanks!
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Aline is a research assistant at the University of Hong Kong. For her Vietnam is particularly interesting for her ongoing research as she just moved from South America to Asia, and recently started a project on Southern Chinese ants.
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The Ant Course is arriving and I can't wait to be there! See you all soon 😁
Felipe Pereira da Rocha is a PhD student studying in Hong Kong. He studies organismal and community ecology of invasive ants in Southeast Asia. Ant Course provides valuable opportunities to guide his current and future research activities with ants.
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