What a great way to end the week! Thanks @jfcryan.bsky.social for the fantastic talk and discussion ! We are all delighted here @cbitoulouse.bsky.social

🚨 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...

Convergent evolution of a conserved molecular network underlies parenting and sociality - Nature Reviews Genetics Kay et al. review evidence that parental care, and more complex social behaviour based on parental care, evolved in multiple species through the repeated co-option of members of a pleiotropic molecula...

Parental care, and more complex cooperative systems of care, have independently evolved in hundreds of animal lineages. In an article published today, we explore how these behaviors evolve 𝘢𝘵 𝘢 𝘮𝘰𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘳 𝘭𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘭l shorturl.at/g5OPw /1

Phage diversity mirrors bacterial strain diversity in the honey bee gut microbiota - Nature Communications Authors analyse paired viral and bacterial shotgun metagenomics data from individual honeybee guts, revealing modular, nested phage–bacteria networks, with viral diversity mirroring bacterial strain c...

🐝🦠 New paper: rdcu.be/eOf7A
Phages may drive microbial diversity, yet we often don’t even know how phages & bacteria correlate in nature. Our new study tackles this in the honeybee gut, thanks to the great work of PhD student @malickndiaye.bsky.social at @dmf-unil.bsky.social @fbm-unil.bsky.social

PhD position in Magnetoreception Research!🐝🧠🔬
📍 Center for Mind/Brain Sciences #cimec_unitreno, University of Trento #unitrento, Italy
Reception🦟,Neural processing🧠🔬,Behaviour🌀
🌐 Apply: phd.unitn.it/drcimec/116/...
📅 Deadline: June 5, 2025
📩 Contact: albrecht.haase@unitn.it
🌍 Please spread the word!

University Professor (m/w/d) for Behavioral Physiology (grade W3) - Würzburg (Stadt), Bayern (DE) job with Julius-Maximilians-University of Würzburg - Faculty of Biology | 12839249 The University of Würzburg is offering a position of a University Professor (m/w/d) for Behavioral Physiology (grade W3) (Chair of Zoology II).

Open university professor (W3) position for #BehavioralPhysiology in Würzburg, Germany @uni-wuerzburg.de: ↘️ www.nature.com/naturecareer... ↙️ Share or apply 🤗 #InsectResearch 🧪🐝🐜🦟

#Communiqué 🗞️ Le CNRS exprime sa solidarité avec les scientifiques exerçant aux États-Unis, où la liberté académique est aujourd'hui mise à l’épreuve.

👉 www.cnrs.fr/fr/presse/le...

La recherche "dans un moment orwellien" aux Etats-Unis, regrettent plusieurs scientifiques français Les scientifiques français Valérie Masson-Delmotte, Olivier Berné et Alain Fisher évoquent le contexte de la recherche américaine, dont les budgets sont en train d'être rabotés et les sujets de travai...

L'Europe a "un rôle à jouer pour proposer une vision alternative, fondée sur le savoir et les connaissances, pour proposer un avenir émancipateur"

www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/...

We are looking for a bioinformatician with expertise in microbiome data analysis join our team at the University of Lausanne. The successful candidate will lead and support research projects within nccr-microbiomes.ch. More details here: shorturl.at/mC46o . Please share with potential candidates.

Open positions in our lab.
Just sayin…

Beach at Hotel Cormoran in Sardinia.

Hotel Cormoran in Villasimius, Sardinia.

Dear colleagues fascinated by olfaction and taste! 👃🏾👅
We’ll organize the next ESITO (Symposium of Insect Taste and Olfaction) from September 19-24 2025 in Sardinia at the beautiful Hotel Cormoran again. We are currently updating the website and will start the registration soon! Please stay tuned!

Lestrimelitta robber bees standing on the entrance tube

Melipona flavolineata stingless bee guards standing on their nest entrance tube

🐝 3-year Postdoc position 🐝

Join us @bristolbiosci.bsky.social to study the impacts of parasitic bees on tropical bee communities using eDNA, SNPs & field-based surveys.

📅 Deadline: 23 Feb 2025
💃Vibrant city
🌎 Collaboration with USP 🇧🇷
🐝 Details here: tinyurl.com/586u7vau

@leverhulme.bsky.social

International Union for the Study of Social Insects International Congress of the Insternational Union for the Study of Social Insects

The 2026 international conference of the IUSSI will be in Freiburg, Germany, August 16th – 20st
iussi2026.org