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| Hymenoptera taxonomy, phylogenomics, and evolutionary ecology |
https://ymilesz.github.io/
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Arthropod Abbey (Abigail Hayes)
about 3 hours ago
Hey you! I am still on the market for jobs this fall! I am an entomologist who specializes in inclusive biology teaching (15+ semesters of collegiate instruction) and a broad array of research skills spanning collection & ID, molecular work (RNAi, Genomics), and phenotyping (behavior, physiology)🧪
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Mark Hibbins, Great Lakes Swashbuckler
3 days ago
I'm hiring a postdoc (start date flexible) and a PhD student (for Fall 2027) to work in any area of computational phylogenetics! More info here:
mhibbins.github.io
I will be attending both PEQG and Evolution in June, so please reach out if you want to chat at these meetings!
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Hibbins Lab
https://mhibbins.github.io/
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I am not a podcast person by any means, but I'm excited about this series, and starting strong with my long time mentor Mike Gates!
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So cool to see my Swedish microhymenoptera colleagues Emma Kärrnäs and Julia Stigenberg featured in here:
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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In the footsteps of Linnaeus: scientists share their passion for species from tiny wasps to hairy plants – in pictures
For his project ‘De Oförtrutna’ (The Relentless), photographer Christer Björkman pictured Swedish scientists working in the spirit of Carl Linneaus, the botanist who created the modern taxonomic syste...
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2026/apr/16/in-the-footsteps-of-linnaeus-scientists-share-their-passion-for-species-from-tiny-wasps-to-hairy-plants-in-pictures
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The Chinese banyan stem gall first found in Hawaii in 2012 finally has a name! Meet Josephiella manana, and its associate Gibsonoma kuewa. Fun small project with
@kmagnacca.bsky.social
in sorting out some of these introduced micro wasps of Hawaii. Link to paper:
tinyurl.com/ych93swd
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It's always exciting to see images of the critters that I've described live, even if it is a bit blurry. This is Kavayva bodoquenensis, a rare? Neotropical genus of eurytomids associated with Guarea (Meliaceae) seeds.
www.inaturalist.org/observations...
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Kavayva bodoquenensis
Kavayva bodoquenensis from Asa Sul, Brasília - DF, Brasil on January 16, 2024 at 09:42 AM by Douglas
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/196877521
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Scott P. Egan
5 days ago
North America (south to the Darién Gap) is the best continent, judged solely on the basis of gall wasps.
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Elizabeth Warren
5 days ago
Wouldn't it be nice if you could say goodbye to TurboTax and file your taxes for free, online, and directly with the IRS? I have a bill to get that done.
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Dr. Arun Sethuraman
6 days ago
It's looking increasingly likely that I'll be hiring a 3-year computational pop-gen postdoc/PhD-level scientific programmer to start this Fall (2026). If you or someone you know is defending soon, and looking for a position, please DM/write to me! Thanks!
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Neil Tsutsui
12 days ago
Job alert! Post-doc position available in the Tsutsui lab at UC Berkeley. I'm specifically looking for someone optimize and scale RNA interference for invasive ant control and eradication. Happy to take questions at
[email protected]
. Spread the word!
aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05325
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Postdoctoral Scholar – Insect Molecular Biology – ESPM (Organisms & the Environment) - Tsutsui Lab
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05325
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Molecular Biology and Evolution
18 days ago
MBE is excited to launch our newest Call for Papers on the Major Transitions of Life, covering all aspects of phylogenomic research. 🔗
academic.oup.com/mbe/pages/call-for-papers-on-the-major-transitions-of-life
Guest Editors: Davide Pisani Anja Spang
#evobio
#molbio
#phylogenetics
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Albrecht Schulte-Hostedde
19 days ago
Join us here at
@laurentianu.bsky.social
as we rebuild our ecology/evolution group. We are hiring an assistant professor in animal ecology Working with me is a treat, so that's a bonus not mentioned in the ad.
laurentian.ca/about/career...
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https://laurentian.ca/about/careers/faculty-vacancies/dfc0059d-9f5d-195c-02cb-69ca809003fe/en
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Meet some brand new oak apple galls from Mexico! We described five new Amphibolips species, including A. megakokka which produces the largest known gall by a single wasp in the Americas (>11cm in diameter).
mapress.com/zt/article/v...
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Anurag Agrawal
25 days ago
Open postdoc position in my lab at Cornell, conducting comparative and experimental studies on transcriptomic responses to diet and toxins, utilizing the milkweed-insect community. Background in molecular bio & herbivory desired.
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31867
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Cornell University, CALS Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Job #AJO31867, WDR-00057721 Postdoctoral Associate, CALS Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, US
https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31867
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International Society of Hymenopterists
about 1 month ago
📢ISH SPONSORED MEMBERSHIP OFFER! 📌Sponsorship is primarily intended for members who are unable to afford membership and based in a country other than the 30 countries with the highest HDI. 📆Application Deadline: March 31st 🔗Application form:
www.hymenopterists.org/apply-for-sp...
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Natalie Cooper
26 days ago
Hi all. I am very excited that after 6 years I finally got my phylogenetic comparative methods book and online exercises online. Feel free to use and share. The book is here:
nhcooper123.github.io/pcm-primer/
. Note that it is not finished, we had to abandon it before the sunk costs fallacy broke us
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Phylogenetic Comparative Methods
Phylogenetic Comparative Methods
https://nhcooper123.github.io/pcm-primer/
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Gorgeous fly but ugh I hate the name so much, apparently the naming right was won at the 2021 Australian Museum Foundation Gala Dinner auction...🤑
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Dr. Jessica L Ware
28 days ago
careers.entsoc.org/jobs/2214397...
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Curatorial Associate in NEW YORK, NY for American Museum of Natural History
Exciting opportunity in NEW YORK, NY for American Museum of Natural History as a Curatorial Assoc...
https://careers.entsoc.org/jobs/22143976/curatorial-associate
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On
#TaxonomistAppreciationDay
I want to highlight some of the recent new species that I've described along with colleagues, many are from the global south where much of this diversity is from (and still awaits discover). First up, two species of herb gall wasps and a parasitoid from Sichuan, China.
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Karl Magnacca
about 1 month ago
My big monograph is finally out in
@ejtaxonomy.bsky.social
right on
#taxonomistappreciationday
! 169 new species of flat wasps from Australia, many of them with remarkable head modifications for seeking their hosts. So excited to see this published after 8 years, available free and open access. 🧪
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The Sierola (Hymenoptera: Bethylidae) of Australia | European Journal of Taxonomy
https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/view/3225
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Andrew Roger
about 1 month ago
So you are using IQ-TREE to estimate a tree for "deep time" phylogenetics using amino acid alignments. There is a lot of confusion about how to test model fit. Here are some suggestions.
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Are you a researcher studying Hymenoptera, and based in a country not in the top 30 human development index (HDI)? Here is your chance to join the
@hymenopterists.bsky.social
society for free! The application closes on March 31! Please share widely 🧪
www.hymenopterists.org/apply-for-sp...
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Apply for sponsored membership to the society – International Society of Hymenopterists
https://www.hymenopterists.org/apply-for-sponsored-membership-to-the-society/
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Megan Barkdull
about 1 month ago
Undergrad and graduate students! Could your work benefit from visiting one of the NHMLAC’s collections? Apply for our Collections Study Award, due Apr. 1. I’d love to have students make use of our Entomology collection! Details here:
tinyurl.com/bdduefsy
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RES Publications
about 1 month ago
New
#OpenAccess
work by Z. Griebenow in
#RESSystematicEnt
explored the
#phylogeny
of the
#Leptanillinae
(Hymenoptera:
#Formicidae
) ant family using high-throughput sequencing & Bayesian total-evidence inference, with accommodation of systematic bias.
doi.org/10.1111/syen.70038
#UCEs
#Phylogenomics
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David Ho
about 1 month ago
The 2026 National Science Foundation budget is $8.75 Billion.
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First 6 Days of Iran War Cost U.S. $11.3 Billion, Pentagon Says
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03/11/world/iran-war-news-trump-oil-israel?unlocked_article_code=1.SlA.vTQm.rWeA0T_H9N7Y&smid=url-share
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Retraction Watch
about 1 month ago
We're thrilled to announce the Ctrl-Z Award, a US$2,500 prize for researchers “who discover substantial errors in their published work and take meaningful steps to correct the scientific record." Covered by
@nature.com
today; read more here:
centerforscientificintegrity.org/2026/03/10/a...
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Keep calm and be transparent: advice from scientists who retracted their papers
Retractions correct the scientific record, but they have stigma attached to them. Some in the research community want that to change.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00763-x
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Dan Warren
about 1 month ago
Just in case anybody out there wants a postdoc with some of the coolest people in the field, here it is!
jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/researc...
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Research Fellow - Canberra / ACT, ACT, Australia
Classification: Academic Level BSalary package: $121,598 to 137,870 per annum plus 17% superannuationTerm: Full Time, Fixed Term (up to June 2030) The Position The candidate will be part of the ANU Ph...
https://jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/research-fellow-canberra-act-act-australia-feb2aaf8-15c7-4ece-b69e-489365232ce7
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Scathophagidae is no more!!
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Scott P. Egan
about 2 months ago
The discovery of a new “species” invariably leads to the discovery of new “species interactions” - new connections in the web of life. Here, the discovery of a new gall wasp also uncovered EIGHT new interactions with other insects - some likely new species as well.
#biodiversity
@ymilesz.bsky.social
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Journal of Hymenoptera Research
about 2 months ago
𝘉𝘦𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘤𝘯𝘦𝘮𝘢 𝘮𝘦𝘴𝘰𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘢 is a new gall
#wasp
found in the galls of a live
#oak
Quercus oleoides in Mexico. The research increases the systematic knowledge of poorly known species in the genus Cynipini in the Neotropics:
doi.org/10.3897/jhr....
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This looks like a great workshop for people interested in learning how to do lcWGS and UCE work! 🧪
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Daniel Kronauer
about 2 months ago
Thanks to micro-CT and
www.antscan.info
, you can now explore high resolution, 3D ant images from anywhere in the world. Fantastic work from Julian Katzke, Francisco Hita Garcia,
@economo.bsky.social
, Thomas van de Kamp and colleagues just dropped:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Antscan
https://www.antscan.info
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David Shorthouse
about 2 months ago
Regrettably, I have decided to decommission SimpleMappr,
www.simplemappr.net
on September 1, 2026. You may read about its origins, what others have accomplished in its 18 year run, and the reasons why I must turn it off in a document I wrote last night
bit.ly/simplemappr
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SimpleMappr
Create free point maps for publications and presentations
https://www.simplemappr.net
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Scott P. Egan
about 2 months ago
#NewSpeciesAlert
! We discovered & described a new species of gall wasp, Belonocnema mesoamericana, on the central American live oak, Quercus oleoides. Great collaboration between Alejandro Zaldivar & lab at
#UNAM
,
@ymilesz.bsky.social
at
#EdinburghUni
, and my lab at
#RiceUniversity
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#biodiversity
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Meet Belonocnema mesoamericana, a new species of Belonocnema that we described on Mexican live oak! This is a fun little critter that makes velvety root galls, a great find by
@scottpegan.bsky.social
and Alejandro Zaldívar-Riverón's team at UNAM.
jhr.pensoft.net/article/1851...
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Integrative systematics of a new species of the gall wasp genus Belonocnema Mayr (Cynipidae, Cynipini) on the Mesoamerican live oak Quercus oleoides (Fagaceae) and its associated hymenopteran communit...
Belonocnema Mayr (Cynipidae, Cynipini) is an oak gall wasp genus currently known by three described species distributed in the southern and southeastern U.S. and northern Mexico, all associated with l...
https://jhr.pensoft.net/article/185167/
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What Derek said, also I could've done without the old man yelling at cloud view of "morphology good, DNA bad", that's so Sanger era talking point, get over it the field has moved far beyond that!
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about 2 months ago
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RES Publications
about 2 months ago
New
#OpenAccess
research by M. Prous,
@niinakiljunen.bsky.social
et al. in
#RESSystematicEnt
found that multiple full-length variants of the mitochondrial COI DNA barcode region are prevalent in north European sawflies.
doi.org/10.1111/syen.70031
@gkergoat.bsky.social
@wileyecology.bsky.social
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Biodiversity Heritage Library
about 2 months ago
🎉 Huge news for BHL: The Field Museum is taking over the hosting of BHL’s website, servers & infrastructure, ensuring long-term stability and access for its 63+ million pages of open biodiversity literature. Learn more:
blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2026/02/tran...
#BHLTransition
#ILoveBHL
🌍 📚 🧪
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Sal Keith (she/her)
2 months ago
Marie Curie fellowships are madness this year. A score of 97% required for funding. To all those who didn't succeed - you and your project are probably brilliant, hang in there and keep trying
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I worked on euphorine braconids for my PhD but I haven't really touched it since, so it was nice to be included and help contribute in this updated version of the dichotomous key. Hope it will be useful to people as the old version was to me.
cjai.biologicalsurvey.ca/articles/ssv...
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Key to the New World genera of Euphorinae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea: Braconidae) and synopses of the genera – Canadian Journal of Arthropod Identification
https://cjai.biologicalsurvey.ca/articles/ssvzqs-58/
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Ainsley S
2 months ago
just a little baby child (from
@mosquitolab.bsky.social
's pitfall samples; I can see how this one got sorted into the beetle pile)
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Mar Hicks
2 months ago
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00254-z
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Jess Awad
3 months ago
INSECT TAXONOMY IN THE 21ST CENTURY
@entsocamerica.bsky.social
Online, April 27-29! Featuring keynotes from Rudolf Meier
@rudolf-meier.bsky.social
, Erinn Fagan-Jeffries, and Dominic Evangelista. Now accepting contributed talks! Grant deadline Feb 4, abstracts due Mar 6.
entsoc.org/membership/b...
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Cool 🐜 science 🧪
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Journal of Evolutionary Biology
3 months ago
Responsible publication of your research! To help you do this
@nicolasgaltier.bsky.social
and coauthors have put together a handy database of academia-friendly journals, DAFNEE. You can read about it in their article recently published in
@jevbio.bsky.social
:
doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...
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Time to publish responsibly: DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly journals in ecology and evolutionary biology
Abstract. The current economics of scientific publishing reveal a profound imbalance: academia pays prices far exceeding the actual costs of publication. R
https://doi.org/10.1093/jeb/voaf143
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Laurie Belcher
3 months ago
Calling all OrthoFinder users! We’ve just released GLADE, a tool to infer gene gains, losses, duplications, and ancestral genomes across a phylogeny. GLADE runs directly on OrthoFinder results.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Xing-Xing Shen
3 months ago
Excited to share a new piece of work in
@embojournal.org
Parasitoid wasps hijack a bacterial gene that governs venoms against host. Coauthors include
@rokaslab.bsky.social
and others. Read more from:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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A bacterial gene acquired by parasitoid wasps contributes to venom secretion against host defence - The EMBO Journal
Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is an important source of gene innovation in prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms. Several genes acquired by hosts of parasitoid wasps via HGT have been reported to prot...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s44318-026-00702-6
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Xing-Xing Shen
3 months ago
New work in @Cell Research We conducted a large-scale structural genomics analysis of
#insects
, integrating phylogenomics with protein structure prediction to uncover hidden functions and evolutionary insights across the insect tree of life. Read more from
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Structural genomics sheds light on protein functions and remote homologs across the insect tree of life - Cell Research
Cell Research - Structural genomics sheds light on protein functions and remote homologs across the insect tree of life
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41422-026-01220-0
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David Ho
3 months ago
The Trump regime got rid of 10,109 PhDs in science and related fields, representing 14% of the total number of PhD scientists in the federal workforce.
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U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office
A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies
https://www.science.org/content/article/u-s-government-has-lost-more-10-000-stem-ph-d-s-trump-took-office
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The preprint of the first of the batch of parasitoid wasp genomes that we are generating is now out. Erythrina gall wasp is an invasive pest on the Hawaiian wiliwili tree, we were able to generate a HiFi genome using 1/10 of a flowcell, costing only ~$100 for the sequencing.
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