DR/P1 Ultralyd with Tim Hinman. Program title: "Myrernes Kongerige". Text Jacobus J. Boomsma. Broadcasted on Sunday 5 October 2003 at 16:30 h and 20:50 h, with an "appetizing" introduction on Thursday 2 October at 6:50 h. http://www.dr.dk/ultralyd/arkiv.asp?action=showarticle&id=22918

DR/P1 Principia with Jørn Madsen. Program title: "At leve i symbiose med planter". Duur K. Aanen, 15 March 2003: (http://www.dr.dk/p1/principia/112003_prin_arkiv.html)

TV

TV2's homepage (17 November 2003): Hughes, W.O.H. and J.J. Boomsma (2003) Let your enemy do the work: within-host interactions between two fungal parasites of leaf-cutting ants. Biology Letters, published on line November 2003.

National Geographic Channel: Filming of fieldwork on leaf-cutting ants in Panama (17 April 2002)

Jacobus J. Boomsma: "Animal Societies, Mirror Images of Our Own?", Hollands-Dansk Forening, 9 October 2002

Jes Søe Pedersen: "Hypersociale myrer – en ulovlig økologisk succes". Lecture for NOA, 13.11.2002

Duur K. Aanen: "Komplekse Symbioser mellem Sociale Insekter og Mikroorganismer", Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening, 21 November 2002

Jacobus J. Boomsma: "Agricultural insect societies: Mirror images of our own?" Plenary Address, Annual Meeting of the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, Bamberg, Germany, 21 March 2003

Jensen, A.B. and Pedersen, B.V. (2003) "Race identifikation af honningbier fra bistader opsat på Skov og Naturstyrelsens arealer i Læsø Klitplantage". SNS rapport. 3 sider.

Pedersen J.S. (2003) Hypersociale myrer – en ulovlig økologisk succes. Naturens Verden 86: 22–31.

Danish Newspaper coverage and popular articles about us

Interview (Jacobus J. Boomsma and Jes Søe Pedersen) with Rasmus Kragh Jakobsen about

"Insektsamfund og naturens økonomi" and "Sociobiology", which appeared as two full page articles in "Information": 17 February and 10 Marts 2003

Two interviews (Jacobus J. Boomsma) with Gorm F. Rasmussen for "Uddannelsesavisen" (December 2003), to appear in spring 2004.

Article in "Illusteret Videnskab" (July 2003): 'Termitter var Afrikas første farmere' (work Duur K. Aanen)

Interview (Jes Søe Pedersen) in Politiken: "En mester i tilpasning" Casper Tybjerg (9 November 2003)

Consultancy

The Eksperimentarium exhibition "Krible Krable" (February 2003- April 2004) displays one of our fungus-growing ant colonies and has been assisted by us in the design and maintenance of the ant-terrarium.

Special seminars organised

Host for a special public seminar of Dr. Ullica Segerstråle, Illinois Institute of Technology:"Defenders of the Truth: Science and values in the sociobiology debate", based on her (2001) book with the same title. This seminar was covered in a page long article in Politiken on 23 Marts 2003.

Host (together with Dansk Human-etologisk Forening) for a special public seminar by Tor Nørretranders about "Det generøse menneske". 14 May 2003.

Media-coverage of publications in international peer-reviewed journals

BBC Wildlife, marts 2003: Coverage af: Van Borm, S., A. Buschinger, J.J. Boomsma & J. Billen (2002) Tetraponera ants have gut symbionts related to nitrogen-fixing root-nodule bacteria. Proceedings of the Royal Society, London B. 269, 2023-2027.

TV2's homepage (17 November 2003) and "Universitetsavisen 18-2003 (November 2003: Hughes, W.O.H. and J.J. Boomsma (2003) Let your enemy do the work: within-host interactions between two fungal parasites of leaf-cutting ants. Biology Letters, published on line November 2003 (paper also announced on the "nyheder" front page of the University of Copenhagen)

Die Welt, The Scientist, Genome News Network, Netzeitung.de, Newton, Ansa, Wissenschaft-online, BioMedNet and Bolletino Universita & Ricerca: Hughes, W.O.H., S.R. Sumner, S. van Borm & J.J. Boomsma (2003). Worker caste polymorphism is genetically controlled in a leaf-cutting ant. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A. 100, 9394-9397. (paper also announced on the "nyheder" front page of the University of Copenhagen)

Review in Science (J. Rolff & M.T. Siva-Jothy, 25 Juli 2003) with picture and reproduced graph from: Poulsen, M., A.N.M. Bot, M.G. Nielsen & J.J. Boomsma (2002) Experimental evidence for the cost and hygienic significance of the antibiotic metapleural gland secretion in leaf-cutting ants. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 52, 151-157

Polish Design Quarterly: Announcement of the International student poster design competition propagating biodiversity in connection to the MacMan network.

Berlingske Tidende, New York Times, Trouw (NL), NRC-Handelsblad (NL), Le Figaro: Aanen, D.K., P. Eggleton, C. Rouland-Lefèvre, T. Guldberg-Frøslev, S. Rosendahl & J.J. Boomsma (2002) The evolution of fungus-growing termites and their mutualists. Proceedings of the National Academy of the United States of America 99, 14887-14892 (October-November 2002)

Ritzaus Bureau, Radioavisen, Berlingske Tidende, Politiken, Information, CNN.dk, Nature's Science Update (UK), AP (US), CNN (US), ABC (US), NPR (US), BBC (UK), New York Times (US), Los Angeles Times (US), The Independent (UK), Der Spiegel (D), The Economist (UK), Dagens Nyheter (S), El Correo (ES), NRC Handelsblad (NL), and about 40 other known interbational media: Giraud T*., Pedersen J.S*. & Keller L (2002). Evolution of supercolonies: the Argentine ants of southern Europe. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A. 99: 6075–6079 [*author statement of equal contribution to the work]. (April 2002).

Further publicity and debate in connection to the above paper:

06.11.2003, "Magisterbladet# nr. 19, pp. 26–28: "Taget af mediestorm" by Line Reeh (after interview with JSP about dissemination of science)

12.11.2003, Conference "Forskere og Medier", University of Copenhagen. Organiser: Lise Bostrup, Institut for Nordisk Filologi: "Fra genetisk forskningsrapport til forsiden af Berlingske Tidende" (lecture Jes Søe Pedersen)

13.11.2003, "Dagbladet Information": "Forskere frygter pressens lethed" af Sidsel Nyholm (a report from the"Forskere og Medier"conference)

19.11.2003, "Dagbladet Information": "Forsker, frygt ikke" by Jes Søe Pedersen (letter)

29-30.11.2003, "Dagbladet Information": "Maren og myrerne" by Lise Bostrup (cronicle)

Special ranking

8th position in the top-10 list of most viewed articles published in BMC Evolutionary Biology (3933 hits on 24 November 2003): Van Borm, S., J. Billen & J.J. Boomsma (2002) The diversity of microorganisms associated with Acromyrmex leaf-cutting ants. BioMed Central Evolutionary Biology 2002 2:9.