Prakriti Prajapati

That’s an intelligent tortie cat!

Sick ants invite self-sacrifice to save colony, scientists discover: "Hey, come and kill me" Ant colonies act as one "super-organism" which works to ensure the survival of all, according to a team of scientists.

Sick young ants release a smell to tell worker ants to destroy them to protect the colony from infection, scientists said Tuesday, adding that queens do not seem to commit this act of self-sacrifice.

New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Calculable Bureaucratic Time: The Performativity of Data and Dashboards in a Digitizing Public Bureaucracy" by Nafis Aziz Hasan #publicbureaucracy #calculabletime #digital #data #performance #dashboards journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🚨CfP: Lexicon for Animacy
Deadline: 1 December 2025

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