Please repost: I am looking for a postdoctoral researcher to work on projects related to understanding the movement ecology of harmful and beneficial insects in agroecosystems. Applications close on: July 31, 2026 To apply and for more information, visit: lnkd.in/g8gFeB3u

🧪🧵 🪰 🐜🪲🐞🦗🐛🦋🪳🦟 How many species of insect are there?  A seemingly simple question, but one that has been 'bugging' scientists for years.  Our work out today suggests that there are millions more than we had previously expected.  doi.org/10.1073/pnas... @gdfcf.bsky.social

Do any of you have an AI policy document for your lab group clearly stating expectations regarding student / postdoc use of LLMs in background research, coding, writing, reviewing, etc? I'd be interested in a model as we develop one.

I am pleased to say that my promotion to associate professor with tenure has been made official today. Thanks to everyone who has supported me, especially the students whose hard work is part of that success. news.vt.edu/articles/202...

We are recruiting 🌟2 postdoctoral researchers🌟 for a NERC Large Grant project on the eco-evolutionary dynamics of badger - bovine tuberculosis (bTB) interactions.

Interested in a PhD working on sexual selection in tropical shorebirds? I'm recruiting a student for Fall 2027! I'm happy to support an applicant writing a Simons Graduate Fellowship in Ecology & Evolution: www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...

We're hiring! As part of the #InterPOLL project funded by @researchireland.ie we are recruiting two #PhD positions in bee ecology, and a #postdoc in bee molecular ecology. For more details and how to apply see here: www.stanleyecologylab.org/vacancies #findaphd #phdlife #academicjobs

Interested in ant ecology? Have molecular and bioinformatics experience? Come and join the team! 18-month post-doc position at University of York now live: jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/post...

Some plants change the colour of flowers which were already pollinated, and are now rewardless. We thought perhaps they were using a behavioural economic trick - the decoy effect - to make the rewarded flowers appear more valuable. We were wrong. resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Some cool work that my (former, now fully minted) Ph.D. student @twoleglaura.bsky.social did on the impacts of herbicide on honey bee behavior and brains when she was in my lab. This study was published last year, but it got some renewed interest today. Great stuff, Laura! phys.org/news/2026-04...

Super interesting, from Prof. Jeff Ollerton: why should lawyers care about understanding pollinator declines? I couldn't have answered that, but Jeff explains and it's compelling. http://jeffollerton....

I'm looking for a lovely, talented PhD student, working on my ERC-funded project investigating the links between sexual selection and epidemic dynamics. The project uses guppies, worms, behaviour tracking, big experiments, and maths.. email me! Must have a masters! su.varbi.com/what:job/job...

If you are interested in bee immunology, come to Virginia Tech! Dr. Enakshi Gosh is hiring a post-doc. More details here: jobs.apply.vt.edu/jobs/postdoc...

Local bees are getting the spotlight!! I went out this weekend and found a lot of great mining bees, including one named Andrena nuda lololol

Spring is here, and with that the mining bees have emerged. We are trying out our airborne eDNA sampling in an aggregation that is close to campus. Concentration of airborne eDNA is LOW, so please wish us luck!

We are searching for a new Department Head of Entomology at Virginia Tech. Come work in lovely Blacksburg with some pretty cool people and spectatular students. Please repost and spread the word. Review Date 4/26/26. jobs.apply.vt.edu/jobs/profess...

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A New Toy for Serious Science Allows for Individual Honey Bee Forager Tracking. Read about exciting work from Stentiford, Harrap et al. from the Straw lab that delivered a decisive one–two punch to the long-standing challenge of tracking foraging honey bees. authors.elsevier.com/a/1mkeE3QW8S...

Scientists: for a new story, I have one big question—> What is a “good day” in the lab? I’m looking for epic examples of the best day ever to general criteria for what constitutes a “good day” compared to a nothing-burger day. Ping me if you have examples to share! Re-posts appreciated!

Using our bee-tracking drone, we discovered that honey bees 🐝 have highly precise and individual routes. Now published at @currentbiology.bsky.social : doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

How do we know our research results are REAL? We replicate them! Most folks agree but lament on how hard it is to publish these replications. My dearest gentle reader, lament no more! Delighted to unveil: Replication Studies, a new section of Behavioral Ecology 1/ academic.oup.com/beheco/artic...

Empseb is simply the best. If you're a PhD student of evolutionary biology, do go there!

🚨 Tenure-track professorship at Goethe University of Frankfurt, Germany, with a focus on evolutionary ecology of social hymenoptera 🐝🐜 Initially for 6 years: www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/pr...

Have you ever wondered what you would find if you could keep your eyes on a bee for more than a few meters? Us, too! preprint (with videos!) + thread 🧵 Precise, individualized foraging flights in honey #bees 🐝 revealed by multicopter drone-based tracking www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/9

Our survey of #bees & #wasps visiting #soybean flowers is out: doi.org/10.4039/tce..... This work shows most 🐝s visiting soy🌼s carried soy pollen. #Bumblebees & ground-nesting 🐝s were the most common 🌼visitors suggesting that management practices supporting these #pollinators will benefit 🇨🇦growers

Hey I started a new section of my website called Derek's Tech Corner, come check it out: www.derekhennen.com/derekstechco.... It's where I'll share various software and other tech tools for cool kids that will save you time--so that you can go look for more bugs.

Robert Ostrom, @schuemaa.bsky.social and co show concrete consequences of changing land, as honey bees need to travel almost twice as far during foraging flights after construction. doi.org/10.1242/bio....

We're hiring two PhD and two postdoc positions! Interested in pollinators, soils, agroecology, pesticides? Then come and work with us and with collaborators and all over Europe! stanleyecologylab.org/vacancies #findaphd Please share!

@freelyflyingbees.bsky.social also beat me to this one: Here we used the #HoneyBee #WaggleDance to study how bees shifted their foraging in response to new construction on their former prime habitat.

@freelyflyingbees.bsky.social bees beat me to it. Here is our latest published work using the #HoneyBee #WaggleDance as a tool to solve a basic research question on how colonies partition the landscape.

The legendary USGS Bee Lab is being shut down. The 2026 budget proposal defunds the Ecosystem Mission Area, which supported the lab. If their science helped your work, there’s still time to make your voice heard. Read below. (1/4) 🧪 #pollinators #Pollinators #USGS #Entomology #Hymenoptera 🪲🪳

The herbicide glyphosate is globally ubiquitous. Here we report in a new paper on the sublethal effects to the behavior and brains of bees, a non-target organism that might encounter the herbicide while foraging in agricultural landscapes. Photo creds LC McHenry & R Schurch doi.org/10.1242/jeb....

Smithsonian (Not normal Fed) is hiring an IPM Entomologist to manage the pest control programs for the National Zoo in Washington DC. Salary Range: $84,601 - $109,975 per year #entomology

Interested in a PhD connecting sensory ecology and evolutionary genetics? Applications are now open for a project on the Speciation Genomics of Eye Size Variation in Heliconius Butterflies in our lab at LMU Munich: www.evol.bio.lmu.de/research/mer... Please repost!

Everyone should know about GBIF. It's an international biodiversity data aggregator. Museum collections, apps like eBird and iNaturalist, published datasets from the technical literature, all in one place. www.gbif.org

PhD position bumblebee infectious disease biology in the Kurze BEE lab - Behavioural Ecology - Infectious diseases - Molecular work - I think maybe robotic flowers too? Apply or email Dr Kurze for more details! beelab.carrd.co

The University of Toronto's Ecology and Evolutionary Biology department invites postdoc applications. Salary: $70K; start: July–Dec 2025. Deadline: April 25, 2025. More: https://eeb.utoronto.ca/employment-2/ #postdoc

Awkward photo, but thank you, @entsocamerica.bsky.social , for inviting me to be the plenary speaker at the Eastern Branch meeting and for the opportunity to advocate on behalf of my bargaining unit employees!

Laura McHenry's work on the effect of individual differences in waggle dances in recruitment success came out in Current Biology. Congrats, Laura.

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...

Please circulate widely: We are hiring two Ass Prof tt at the Institute of #ecology and #evolution at @unibern.bsky.social in conservation biology; mathematical & computational ecology We are committed to diverse, inclusive and equitable leadership in research and education tinyurl.com/IEEjobs

Today, I hooded Rob Ostrom. He defended his PhD on December 4. I am looking forward to see what he accomplishes next!

Hey I'm teaching a Midwest bee identification workshop in March. The focus is mostly on genus-level, but we go deeper on a number of groups. For more info and to apply, see: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

PhD position available! Are you interested in how natural selection shapes the evolution of animal memory? Be part of our experimental evolution plans at UCL @ucl-pnl.bsky.social @treesdla.bsky.social , co-supervised by Flo Camus @fcamus.bsky.social. www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/evo...

We’re looking for an assistant professor in urban entomology at New Mexico State University: careers.nmsu.edu/jobs/assista... Please apply if interested and do share! 🐜🪰🪳🦟🦗🦂

New PhD opportunity (posted for Josh Firth, lead supervisor and yet to migrate here): harnessing real-world network experiments to aid prediction of how natural social systems will respond to change & perturbations, using 🐦 the Wytham Tits yes-dtn.ac.uk/research/und... get in touch for more info.

My discover feed is almost exclusively cat pictures. Why? WHY?

#Bees! Aren't they the prettiest? Augochlora pura from Virginia. This bee was part of a research project of my PhD student who is about to defend.