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 ntsutsui@berkeley.edu. Spread the word! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05325
Are you (or something you know) looking for a PhD? Like trait macroevolution but also yearn for an applied topic? Think plants are neat?
Want to live in beautiful northeast Scotland?! 🌊🐬⛰️🏴
I'm advertising a PhD in my lab! Deadline April 22, email me any questions. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Are you an early career biologist looking for a position (Masters up to Faculty) and looking for community? I started a Discord server to help us find opportunities, build a network, and support one another! We're 40 strong as of posting this, come join us! discord.gg/nmktHJhUPH
It's #Taxonomist Appreciation Day! A number of very nice professional and amateur taxonomists make possible the #biodiversity research that my lab does. We explain their importance on our Instagram account: www.instagram.com/p/DWE9lJZCaE7/
🐝Learn about insects and climate change in our next webinar!
🦋Aprende sobre insectos y cambio climático en nuestro próximo webinar.
🐞Aprenda sobre insetos e mudanças climáticas no nosso próximo webinar.
📅 Marzo 18 | ⏰ 12 PM EST
🔗 Más info: forms.gle/cAxq3Yum5Dgf...
@ecologicalsociety.bsky.social
If your're a bird watcher, why not be a bugwatcher as well? Many of the skills of the former cross-over to the latter, and in his "Bugwatching" (@princetonupress.bsky.social) @bugeric.bsky.social explains the finer points of arthropod observing. #Booksky
www.wellreadnaturalist.com/2026/03/bugw...
Que lindo!
One week left to apply for this year's Fly School, happening in July in Costa Rica! Fly School happens every other year, so the next opportunity won't be until 2028.
Application and more info at dipterists.org/fly_school.h...
ABC celebrating International Day of Women and Girls in Science
Let’s celebrate women and girls in science on this International Day of Women and Girls in Science!
UNESCO reports that women represent only 35% of STEM graduates, about 1/3 of researchers worldwide, and just 1/10 STEM leaders.
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Looking to make your science accessible and meaningful? Need help developing science education & outreach materials or ideas?
Well then do we have the resource for you! The ABS Communications Committee developed this excellent repository of resources, so check it out!
tinyurl.com/4evx8wyx
The graphic is the Stridulation Station logo. It includes the podcast's name, the ESA logo, and an image of a grasshopper atop a microphone.
Introducing Stridulation Station!🦗📡
Our new podcast builds on ESA's webinar series to share discussions from the insect science community. The first episode, “Creating Accessible & Engaging Online Courses in Entomology," features insights from #TAMUEntomology experts & @fitentsocamerica.bsky.social
A yellow and black striped fly with dark patches on its wings, held out, feeding on dung while resting on a leaf.
🪰 DEADLINE: Dipterists Society Travel and Research Grant applications are due by 9 February 2026
Please see the last issue of Fly Times (dipterists.org/assets/PDF/f...) or visit the Society's website for details: dipterists.org/grants_award...
Coming to #evol2026 this summer? The SSB Early Career Travel Funds competition is now live! Apply by February 27 for this years’ Tri-Society meeting.
More info:
www.systbio.org/early-career...
My lab started an Instagram account! Our first post talks about how we collect biomass samples on #ranches where we study #pollinator and #NativePlant conservation. www.instagram.com/lichtenlab/
Small objects can be hard to find. In an exciting collaboration with Xiaohui Yuan's Computer Vision and Intelligent Systems Lab, we are detecting objects such as #honeybee hives in satellite images to facilitate estimating #pollinator availability at scale. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
I'm hiring a postdoc to work with myself, Dr Jim Lyons and the entire NOAA Firebird team on the adaptive management part of our larger project focused on the impacts of prescribed fire on Gulf Coast wetlands
Accepting applications until Feb 15th
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🌺 Caribbean fam, we’re gathering!
Join Meghyn Fountain on Dec 21 for a virtual space to connect, collaborate, and build community across the islands. 💙
🔗 Register through the membership portal.
Application Process Image Woman behind a podium presenting. Jessie Golding, BBCS postdoc, presenting at ICCB 2025. Apply to become a Lovejoy Fellow by submitting your resume, cover letter, and contact information for three references through the University of Arizona Talent Portal (link upcoming) by the first review date of January 30, 2026. Your cover letter should: Identify 1-2 Lovejoy BBCS faculty you would be interested in working with and explain the primary research directions you would want to pursue in collaboration with this faculty member. You are strongly encouraged to reach out to faculty before submitting your application. Describe your experience with or interest in inter- or transdisciplinary research. Explain how this experience will positively impact your career trajectory.
New postdoctoral fellowship opportunity! Please pass along. Excited to announce the launch of the Tom Lovejoy Fellowship Program at the University of Arizona for innovative research to protect species, sustain ecosystems, and promote a thriving planet lovejoycenter.arizona.edu/lovejoy-fell... 🧪🌐🌾
Team fish - we need your help! We are trying to build a database of all the fish chromosome-scale genomes where sex chromosomes have been identified. Have you build one or some? Do you know someone who has? Can you post the link in the comments? Please spread the word and repost! Thank you!
🔍 Seniors, thinking about going to STEM grad school or medical school?
A post-baccalaureate program can help you build research experience, take classes, and even earn a stipend along the way!
Learn what a postbac can do for your STEM path:
🔗 cientificolatino.com/why_postbac
Putting on my hat as @asn-amnat.bsky.social ASN President for announcements, please share widely!!!
8) The ASN Diversity committee is seeking 2 new members to start Jan 2026, Apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Are you a POC student, early career researcher, or professional entomologist from a country in the Global South?
We are now funding memberships!
Apply from October 1st to December 15th.
More info:
www.entopoc.org/apply.html
Apply:
docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLS...
The allotetraploid lycophyte Selaginella rupincola growing among the boulders at Cochise Stronghold in the Dragoon Mountains southeast of Tucson, Arizona.
Xanthisma spinulosum growing outside a gym in Tucson, Arizona.
Selaginella arizonica X eremophila hybrid zone at Alamo Canyon in Organ Pipe National Monument.
A Dieteria sp. being visited by a skipper in the White Mountains of Arizona.
I'm recruiting PhD students for the Barker Lab @uofa-eeb.bsky.social We study plant evolutionary genomics - polyploidy, hybridization & machine learning for genome evolution. Work with Selaginella, Xanthisma, Brassica & more. Funding available via CAMBIUM Fellowships. Reach out if interested! 🧬🌵🤖
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Transferring from community college to a 4-year program? 🎓
Adam Green shares the (un)expected challenges he faced and what helped him succeed.
🔗 cientificolatino.com/trans…
We won! Teaming up with Denton parks to do outreach for this month-long bioblitz was fun. www.ntdaily.com/news/denton-...
Science isn't done until it's shared! 🔬🌍 Make your research matter beyond the lab & join our outreach workshop at 12:00GMT, 13 Nov at #ABL2025
With: Fran Sconce (@royentsoc.bsky.social) Dr Andy Howe (Insect Investigators) Dr @ellenrotheray.bsky.social (BuzzClub)
Register➡️ ablaoc25.sciencesconf.org
A cityscape of Portland, Oregon, appears above a banner promoting the 2025 Entomology ESA Annual Meeting. The hashtag #EntSoc25 is emphasized, with event dates, location, and website listed.
Entomology 2025 will be here soon, which means it's time for a hashtag reminder:
#️⃣ #EntSoc25
🛜 Follow along and share your experience, here or wherever you use social media. And tag ESA, too!
entsoc.org/news/social-...
Please pass along, I’m recruiting PhD students to join our Macroecology Lab @uofa-eeb.bsky.social We study phys ecology, macroecology, biodiversity - spanning scaling, trait-based ecology, theory, comparative biology & ecoinformatics. Several avenues for funding. Please reach out if interested🧪🌐🌾
ABS Student Research and Developing Nations Grants! ABS offers the following grants to support graduate student research: Student Research Grants, ABS Conservation Award and Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) Awards. The ABS also offers an Early Career Grant in Conservation Behavior and Developing Nations Grant to support students and other researchers from developing nations. Applicants for student grants must be enrolled in a graduate program and must be active members of ABS (student membership fees cost $17-$34). Research grants range from $500-$2,000 USD, depending on the category of the grant and evaluations. Individuals may receive only one ABS research grant during their lifetime. More details on how the grants and how to apply in the link in the post.
Hey grad students studying animal behavior! Need a little extra research $$? (Don't we all?)
Apply for an ABS Student Research Grant! We award grants up to $2,000 to grad students & give feedback on the proposals. Deadline Dec 15.
More info here: www.animalbehaviorsociety.org/web/awards-s...
Three students stand behind a table containing information about pollinators. They look enthusiastic.
We had a fun time talking with people about pollinators!