Jess Awad

Side view of a tiny yellow wasp. Its head and antennae are to the left of picture. Its head has a large bright red eye. Clear, paddle-shaped fringed wings are held vertically above body.

A 0.8mm long female Paracentrobia pulchella wasp of the Trichogrammatidae found 15.5.2025 on the saltmarsh at Rye Harbour. This is a very common species around the Nature Reserve, with large populations throughout the summer.

#UKWildlife #wasps #Trichogrammatidae #RyeHarbour

Van bijgeloof tot serieus onderwerp: Naturalis toont Surinaamse blik op bezielde natuur Na jaren van kritiek kiest Naturalis voor verandering. In Het bos van Suriname staat voor het eerst een niet-westerse kijk op de natuur centraal en komt de koloniale verzamel­geschiedenis van de colle...

"Terwijl de koloniale collecties van Naturalis een geschiedenis van ongelijkheid met zich meedragen, zet het hedendaagse museum de bewoners van het Surinaamse bos nadrukkelijk op gelijke voet."
www.volkskrant.nl/tentoonstell...

Harmony in the hive? Think again! 🐝⚔️

Insect societies are famous for cooperation, but beneath the surface lies a brutal conflict over who gets to wear the crown!

Our new review in Biological Reviews explores the evolutionary battleground caused by such caste fate conflict. 🧵

A gall of the Marble Gall Wasp (Andricus kollari) Utrecht Estate, Hilvarenbeek

#november_kiek #photography #elkedageeninsect #macro #natuur #nature
Thema rond
Een gal van de Knikkergalwesp
(Andricus kollari)
Landgoed de Utrecht, Hilvarenbeek

🚨 Do you have a manuscript to submit? Please let us know by Nov 30.

🚨 Job alert 🚨 Postdoc position in ecological forecasting 📈 as part of the Horizon Europe OSCARS call. The postdoc will be based in lovely Sevilla (fantastic place to live) and will include working closely with several European forecasting projects. Apply by Dec 11! 🌎🧪 globalchangeeco.com/jobs

QUARTILES DLA CASE: Genetic diversity and adaptation: Developing indicators for national and international policy at University of Aberdeen on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - QUARTILES DLA CASE: Genetic diversity and adaptation: Developing indicators for national and international policy at University of Aberdeen , listed on FindAPhD.com

*Guaranteed funding* PhD opportunity in my group. Work with damselflies, UN global biodiversity targets, genetic data, and NatureScot policy groups; the project will advance comparative population genetics and provide evidence feeding directly to policy. www.findaphd.com/phds/project....

Reminder that books make awesome gifts for all holiday events, and they taste sweeter when they’re from indie bookstores. Don’t know what to get? Indie bookstores have gift cards!

About the Program (Short-term (PE))｜Postdoctral Fellowships for Research in Japan｜Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Official Website of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)

Attention post-docs (or PDFs to be).... here's an opportunity to work in Japan for a short research stay. As I always say to my PhD students "Get a PhD, see the world". www.jsps.go.jp/english/e-fe...

Seeking a postdoc position?
​Balancing selection is a fascinating process: malaria resistance, self-incompatibility,etc. Yet, countless examples remain hidden in genomes!
​If this question intrigues you, the project led by Laure Segurel and Violaine Llaurens (Paris + Lyon) is perfect! urlr.me/Huj2De

An illustration of a woman wearing an axolotl costume in front of an audience, with text: Embracing my silly side makes me a better scientist. I wish I’d done it sooner

"In the end, I have come to realize that being authentic at work is not a weakness, but rather a strength." #ScienceWorkingLife https://scim.ag/49B7hRv

An ichneumon wasp (Family: Ichneumonidae) in profile on a leaf facing the left of frame. They have a dark body and thin orangish legs.

#insectthursday
Ichneumon #wasp - Family: Ichneumonidae
(Shot near Cincinnati 6-30-25) 🪳🪲🐝 #photography #macrophotography #wildlifephotography #wildlife #nature #animal #ivertebrate #insecf #bug #bugsky #ento

Side view of a tiny wasp; its head and antennae are at the top left of picture, its long-fringed narrow wings are to the right

A beautiful 0.22mm long female Megaphragma noyesi parasitoid wasp of the Trichogrammatidae found 29.7.2025 in the old meadow at Great Dixter.
Very pleased with the detail in this picture, probably the best one of this species thus far.

#UKWildlife #wasps #Trichogrammatidae #HighWeald

Fragment of a figure showing on the left a picture of a click beetle - the head and prothorax and clicking mechanism, and some legs, are shown. On the right is part of graphic detailing the clicking mechanisms main components (i=peg, ii=soft cuticle, iii=cavity, iv=mesosternal lip).

We need some help from folks more familiar with describing insect body parts. This is a fragment of a figure for a paper. In the text, we need to describe structure ii.

(The click beetle is in this position in our test rig.)

Acarology Summer Program | Professional and Workforce Development | University of Arkansas For 70 years, the Acarology Summer Program has trained researchers in mite identification, biology, and collection. Join this intensive, hands-on course to build your expertise in acarology.

The Acarology Summer Program (71 years strong!) returns to Univ of Arkansas summer 2026:
Soil Acarology: May 25-June 12
Medical & Veterinary Acarology: June 15-20
Limited to ~15 students for personalized instruction.
Registration: training.uark.edu/portal/train...
#Entomology #bugsky #invert 🧪

We are hiring!! Biological Sciences as UNC Charlotte has a broad search for a new assistant professor.
Apps reviewed 12/15.

Please spread the word! 💚⛏️
#PlantSci 🧪🦠🧬
jobs.charlotte.edu/postings/65141

Join us! 🧬🪰🎉🔬

We are currently advertising two #PhD projects to study the #evolution, #development and #genomics of sexual traits in stalk-eyed flies.

Deadline for applying is Wednesday, January 7, 2026. Get in touch for more info!

KSJ Opens Application Cycle for 2026-27 Fellowships Applications for KSJ's Academic-Year Fellowship and the Africa and Middle East Fellowship will open November 15 and close January 9.

Science/health/environmental journalists: Join us for an amazing year at MIT. 🔭🧪2026 applications are open! Deadline is Jan. 9. Please share widely. ksj.mit.edu/news/2025/11...

Drink tokens (LDC/9) (The Linnean Society of London). The text, in cursive handwiriting, reads 'Linnean Club. Port Wine. 1'

We're letting our hair down this Friday by delving into the more social side of our history, sparked by some unexpected items in our archives: two drinks tokens...

Find out more in November's Treasure of the Month: buff.ly/vnrowQt

Excited to announce that Fly School IV will be 27 July-9 August 2026, in Costa Rica! Applications will open in January. @dipterists.bsky.social @flygirlnhm.bsky.social @bertonemyia.bsky.social @teamdiptera.bsky.social @entcollnet.bsky.social @dipteristsforum.bsky.social @entsocamerica.bsky.social

A close view of a young spotted lanternfly perched on a pale triangular point mount. The insect has a glossy black body patterned with bright white patches and tiny yellow speckles that sit across its head and thorax. Its round dark compound eye is in clear view. One foreleg rests against the point mount and shows the same bold white markings. The background is a soft blue that creates a smooth field behind the insect. The focus is tight on the head which brings out the texture of the exoskeleton and the fine contours of the mouthparts while the rest of the body fades gently out of focus.

Interested in work on control of Spotted lanternfly at USDA? Postdoc opportunity here:
www.zintellect.com/Opportunity/...
#hemiptera #Invert #bugsky 🧪 #entomology

An overview shot of a portion of the collection: a long window box with wooden frames filled with glass models of plants carefully arranged and labeled on white backgrounds, as though part of a 3D herbarium. From this distance, they are indistinguishable from real plants.

Glass model of maple leaves, featuring blended molten glass that mimics the red hues of autumn foliage

A glass model of a Columbine (Aquilegia) with parsley-like leaves and pendulous, faintly red and yellow flowers that look like swans huddled together, necks touching and wings flared out.

Glass model of a Potentilla with almost ferny foliage and simple, open-faced yellow flowers with fuzzy centers.

Recently visited the Glass Flowers at Harvard, a collection of 4,300 extraordinarily realistic glass models of plants crafted by the Blaschkas, a father and son team of sculptors

That’s right, these are all made primarily of GLASS — a fact difficult to accept given how accurate & lifelike they are

a group of people in matching t-shirts are standing at a table while a man holds up one of several trays of shallow boxes with different types of shells sorted neatly into them

close up of a museum display of many large fossil shells mounted carefully on a black background with small info labels

there is a person in outdoors clothing kneeling at the top of a long sandy slope covered in many small dark shells with a cloudy sky overhead

Work with us! 👉 Invertebrate Paleontology Collection Manager
Position will manage the extensive collections, conduct fieldwork, participate in public outreach, & pursue external funding.

🔸 Full info: www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/nhdept/inver...

🔸 Apply @ufl.edu: explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...

This Amateur Fossil Hunter Discovered a 151-Million-Year-Old Insect—and It's a New Species Retired teacher Robert Beattie, now 82, has been digging up remnants of the past ever since he was a child

Very cool to see our recent research on biogeography of Jurassic insects from Australia to be picked up by Smithsonian Magazine, with the focus on the Robert Beattie´s tireless quest to know more about Oz´s `past. #fossilfriday 🦖⚒️
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t...

ART COMPETITION during #hymathon2025

Submission Deadline: Nov 22

Categories:
1. Photography - Specimen
2. Photography - Live Hymenoptera
3. Photography - Hymenopterists in action
4. Illustration - Scientific
5. Illustration - Fun & Artsy

Submit your works: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Most Ichneumonid wasps (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) are parasitoids that lay their eggs inside other insects. The larvae hatch and slowly eat their hosts alive. Eventually the larvae burst out of their hosts, killing them. Many species are very useful for pest control. Palmyra Michigan, 13 May 2016.

Most Ichneumonid wasps (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) are parasitoids that lay their eggs inside other insects. The larvae hatch and slowly eat their hosts alive. Eventually the larvae burst out of their hosts, killing them. Many species are very useful for pest control. Palmyra Michigan, 13 May 2016.

The photograph depicts the ESA Publications booth at Entomology 2025. There is a column that says "Publish with purpose" behind a table and two chairs. The conference center expo hall can be seen behind the column.

Now that you've presented your research at #EntSoc25, when you're ready to publish, publish with ESA! Learn more about ESA publications: academic.oup.com/insect-scien...

If you know postdocs in the US whose work is restricted or becoming difficult, there are new fellowship possibilities in the south of Germany. Please, forward this information to them:

uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...

Our lab in Freiburg can also serve as a host — happy to discuss options.

This tiny wasp who emerged from a miniature chestnut husk (Atrusca trimaculosa aka Woollybear Gall Wasp) reminds us how important self-care is. Well, she is doing a lot better job than I am! 😆

Since working at the museum I have started to call spiders and centipedes "IPM officers" so that they'll feel more included in the team 🥰