{"title":"Getting Ants out of the Lab!","authors":"M. Sunil Kumar","doi":"10.1007/s41745-023-00414-4","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This article provides an overview of the importance of outreach for biodiversity conservation and the author’s personal journey in promoting awareness about ants and their natural history, and conservation amongst the general public on ants. It also highlights the importance of educational materials such as books and posters which are important tools for outreach programmes. The article also highlights steps including Open Science that can be taken to increase outreach activities and contribute to the body of knowledge on social insects.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":675,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Indian Institute of Science","volume":"103 4","pages":"1143 - 1150"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8000,"publicationDate":"2023-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of the Indian Institute of Science","FirstCategoryId":"103","ListUrlMain":"https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41745-023-00414-4","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This article provides an overview of the importance of outreach for biodiversity conservation and the author’s personal journey in promoting awareness about ants and their natural history, and conservation amongst the general public on ants. It also highlights the importance of educational materials such as books and posters which are important tools for outreach programmes. The article also highlights steps including Open Science that can be taken to increase outreach activities and contribute to the body of knowledge on social insects.
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Started in 1914 as the second scientific journal to be published from India, the Journal of the Indian Institute of Science became a multidisciplinary reviews journal covering all disciplines of science, engineering and technology in 2007. Since then each issue is devoted to a specific topic of contemporary research interest and guest-edited by eminent researchers. Authors selected by the Guest Editor(s) and/or the Editorial Board are invited to submit their review articles; each issue is expected to serve as a state-of-the-art review of a topic from multiple viewpoints.
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