📢 PhD positions 🐛🦠🌿 Join our team to investigate how to "Harness antagonistic fungi to disrupt insect gut microbiota for sustainable pest management". 👩‍🎓 🧑‍🎓 Full scholarships and stipends across Canterbury, New Zealand. ⏰ Apply now lnkd.in/eDppRKEC Please repost #PhDJobs #Microbiology #Entomology

"Prior to tradescantia biocontrol release the average dry weight biomass at these sites was close to 500 g/m2. After agent establishment the average biomass was slightly above 100 g/m2, well below the 200 g/m2 threshold needed for native regeneration." www.landcareresearch.co.nz/publications...

🎉 Congrats to Dr Jessie Prebble of the Bioeconomy Science Institute on receiving a Mana Tūāpapa Fellowship from Royal Society Te Apārangi! Her research will explore how plants support climate-resilient peat bogs. #BioeconomyScience #RoyalSocietyNZ #ClimateResilience 🔗 bit.ly/49bepnm/

✨ ✨ ✨ #PhD POSITION ✨ ✨ ✨ Insect microbiomes and their role in biocontrol: a journey from field collection to invasive weed management. @aimeeemac.bsky.social @cescomartons.bsky.social

Aotearoa Te Waipounamu: for d/Deaf/HOH community - this talk will be NZSL interpreted STEM Communication Trust has full subsidised (free to you) tickets to give away to d/Deaf/HOH community, can message me for info

The working dead 🧟‍♀️: not just a metaphor for PhD students but also an enzymatic strategy! If you are curious how a pseudoenzyme (aka the “dead” version of an enzyme) produces indole in plants 🌱check out our preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #PlantBiology#natprod @oconnorlab.bsky.social

#NZpol Now available for anyone to read -

Our Environment Services team has an opportunity for 2 experienced Senior Biosecurity Advisor Plants to join the team! Be a part of leading the delivery of regional biosecurity projects to improve Auckland's biodiversity! www.seek.co.nz/job/84841937 @imogenbassett.bsky.social #pestfreeAKL

📢 Applications open for the 2025 Science Medals from the New Zealand Association of Scientists. scientists.org.nz/how-to-apply Check out this thread for the medals available - including one NEW this year.

Looking for a postdoc on bacterial-insect symbiosis, combining evolution and molecular mechanisms? I'll have one open in my lab starting Sept 2025. If interested contact me (or find me at the GRC on Animal-microbe symbiosis if you'll be there). #SymbioSky

Two academic (lecturer) positions available at the University of Otago in Aotearoa/New Zealand! One in Conservation Biology, another in Evolutionary Ecology. Links for positions below: otago.taleo.net/careersectio... otago.taleo.net/careersectio...

💡 Submit your abstract here: 👉 scienceevents.eventsair.com/isce-apace-2...

🚨The ISCE-APACE abstract submission deadline is 30th May🚨 With a wide variety of symposia themes, there is something for everyone to explore and contribute to. Also, consider nominating deserving individuals for the APACE awards! scienceevents.eventsair.com/isce-apace-2...

The state of NZ science and research. Grossly underfunded. Watchdog warns of ‘grave danger’ if science reform botched newsroom.co.nz/2025/05/09/e...

PhD position available - plant-microbe-pollinator interactions in Kowhai flowers! With myself & Prof Jacqueline Beggs, based at Manaaki Whenua, Lincoln. Details below, or DM me! @microbiologysociety.org @evoldir.bsky.social @aucklanduni.bsky.social @microbiologynz.bsky.social

Wanna come work with me? We're advertising a fixed term Lecturer in Animal Behaviour at Waikato. We're especially keen on someone who works on birds, reptiles, bats etc. Let me know if you have questions! www.seek.co.nz/job/83279795...

Excited about microbiomes and want to study them at the single-cell level? Join our team to pioneer research using microfluidics paired with automated timelapse microscopy. We're hiring motivated postdocs to push the boundaries of microbial ecology! Apply now: apply.interfolio.com/165601

🚨Registration & abstract submission is open for this years International Society of Chemical Ecology Conference! scienceevents.eventsair.com/isce-apace-2... 🎙️ I am also happy to share that I will be chairing the “Aquatic Chemical Ecology” session! 🌊👃👅🧫 Hope to see heaps of you in beautiful NZ 🏔️🇳🇿

Chemical Ecology Conference in New Zealand, Aug 2025: scienceevents.eventsair.com/isce-apace-2...

We are excited about our new call for applications - we offer 8 cool projects and 5 doctoral positions in Chemical Ecology! Have a look at the projects and apply! www.ice.mpg.de/296576/adver... jobs.ice.mpg.de/en/jobpostin...

We offer a PhD project within our International Max Planck Research School "Chemical Communication in Ecological Systems" on "Metabolic exchanges, regulation and equilibrium of an ancient insect symbiosis" (Project 5). Please share, inform & apply here: www.ice.mpg.de/129183/imprs

Excited about structural biology & chemical ecology?!? We are looking for PhD/PD researchers for two collaborative projects with @yukoulrich.bsky.social l & @oconnorlab.bsky.social 🦠🌱🐜🧪 The 2025 project call with the IMPRS of the @mpi-ce.bsky.social is out! www.ice.mpg.de/296548/curre...

Sharing our recent paper for those interested: "Modelling transmission and control of Toxoplasma gondii in New Zealand farmland" royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....

We’re going to be left with people who go: ‘You know what, my uncle or my brother or my cousin died from bowel cancer. And it should have been picked up in a screening programme.’ Make no mistake, these deaths are unnecessary.” — Dr Rawiri McKree Jansen. Bowel screening change ‘totally unethical’

🚨 Job alert! 🚨 We have three postdoctoral fellowships in complex systems available → www.tepunahamatatini.ac.nz/2025/03/07/p... #movingtonewzealand 🧪

Beyond humbled for #KindnessInScience & @tepunahamatatini.bsky.social to feature in @nature.com Careers with @climateadam.bsky.social. For more see @aisrayne.bsky.social et al. in @naturehumbehav.bsky.social here: bit.ly/3XpnD8V 🎨 @jobailey.bsky.social

We have a few fantastic #entomology PhD opportunities available in our team at Agriculture Victoria, in association with La Trobe University, Australia 🇦🇺 😄

An applied #entomology #job in North Carolina is advertised currently: jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/214...

Just extended the deadline to March 21 for this position in the Plant Phylogenomics group at the University of Vienna. It is sort of a "post doc plus" position funded for up to six years. Please reach out if you want to chat - I'd love to talk to you about it! jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

✨ #ENTOMOLOGY #PhD POSITION ✨ Optimising sampling for surveillance and diagnostics of grain #pests. Working with us at #AgricultureVictoria, in Melbourne, Australia. On the beautiful campus of @latrobeuni.bsky.social.

📣Just 1 week left to apply for 2x 5-year researcher posts in experimental evolution #mevosky #microsky in @mermanchester.bsky.social @official-uom.bsky.social + 3-year research tech post www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... ERC project: how MGEs and defence systems control genome evoluton

"We are seeking a motivated, capable and skilled technician with experience in providing specialist laboratory and technical support to the South Australian Regional Facility for Molecular Ecology and Evolution (SARFMEE)"