Applications are currently being accepted for UBC's ✨️ Biodiversity Postdoctoral Fellowship ✨️ (two positions!!), due Jan. 15

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I am recruiting PhD students to join my lab at Wake Forest University Fall 2026. Current projects focus on the neurobiology, behavior, and development of identity processing in paper wasps. Contact me if interested. Deadline to apply is Dec. 15th 2025. Please share!
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Crazy storm in St. Louis today near Forest Park! It knocked over two trees and took out our power but fortunately didn’t cause more damage. Lots of others not so lucky!

Sara E. Miller ‪Assistant Professor, University of Missouri - St. Louis‬ - ‪‪Cited by 2,272‬‬ - ‪Evolutionary Ecology‬ - ‪Diversification‬ - ‪Genomics‬

Can I also be added to the Eco/Evo list?

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Genomic architecture in social insects is more strongly associated with phylogeny than social behavior Abstract. The evolution of sociality in insects has been predicted to reduce effective population sizes, in turn leading to changes in genome architecture,

Check out the paper here:

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Long answer: some features vary with social behavior within certain clades, suggesting that independent origins of sociality may have evolved independent genomic architecture.

For our paper we also created a UCE tree of published Hymenoptera genomes. It’s pretty good!

Very excited about the first grad student authored paper from my lab! We examined 435 Hymenoptera genomes in a phylogenetically controlled framework to test if genome architecture differs for social vs solitary species.

Short answer: No difference in size, GC% or CpG distribution

I saw this male northern paper wasp looking a little rough, but still hanging in there in late November. Me too little wasp.

Add me too! Will be a good excuse to finally make a profile