Apply for up to £1,500 for systematics/taxonomy projects via LinneSys. Members of The Systematics Association or the Linnean Society are eligible. Deadline: March 27, 23:59 GMT+1. More info: https://systass.org/linnesys/
The University of Tübingen seeks applications for a W3-Professorship in Experimental Biodiversity Research starting Oct 1, 2027. Apply by April 26, 2026. More info: https://uni-tuebingen.de/en/213700. #job
This is a really fun piece of interactive art - it's so cool to see how ecosystems form!
Are you an early career researcher (from undergrad student to finished PhD within 2 years) working on the history of natural history?
Submissions now open for the SHNH William T. Stearn Student Essay Prize 2026. Closing date is 31 July 2026.
shnh.org.uk/awards-honou...
Sprinkhanen zijn meestal onmogelijke modellen, want hun antennen en poten zijn veel te lang voor een fijne compositie; helemaal als ze nog jong zijn, zoals deze sabelsprinkhaan (Tettigoniidae) van #Saba. #ElkeDagEenInsect
Why is animal print almost exclusively big cat patterns when these creatures exist?
The latest Special Collection in the Journal of Insect Science showcases rigorous, practical, and accessible methodological advances in insect science:
academic.oup.com/jinsectscien... @academic.oup.com
Do you (or have you ever) worked with natural history collections? Are you trans or non-binary? If you said "yes" to both of those, @rin-krichilsky.bsky.social and I want to hear from you! Please consider filling out our survey and please share with others! 🏳️⚧️ 🐛🦕🦴🌿 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
New #OpenAccess work by Z. Griebenow in #RESSystematicEnt explored the #phylogeny of the #Leptanillinae (Hymenoptera: #Formicidae) ant family using high-throughput sequencing & Bayesian total-evidence inference, with accommodation of systematic bias.
doi.org/10.1111/syen.70038
#UCEs #Phylogenomics
Are you a researcher studying Hymenoptera, and based in a country not in the top 30 human development index (HDI)? Here is your chance to join the @hymenopterists.bsky.social society for free! The application closes on March 31! Please share widely 🧪
www.hymenopterists.org/apply-for-sp...
FYI, this grant program is open to anyone communicating science.
It does not require that you went to school for science.
You could be a Ph.D. student, an artist, a community organizer, a teacher, or any other profession. As long as you are communicating science IRL in the US, you're eligible.
Voor Dag365 van #ElkeDagEenInsect een bijzonder bundeltje van #Saba. Hoewel dit dier ten onrechte 'ladybug' wordt genoemd, is het een wants: Pachycoris fabricii. De moeder bewaakt haar eieren (hier nog niet allemaal uitgekomen) en haar nimfen. Dat zootje rood-zwart met pootjes onder haar.
📣 Applications open for the E-SCoRe Award 2026 by CETAF.
The award celebrates Early Career Researchers using natural history collections to document and understand life on Earth.
🗓 Deadline: 1 May 2026
👉 Apply via: cetaf.org/template-act...
#Taxonomy #Biodiversity #ECR #CETAF
April 1 deadline for @nhm.org Student Collections Study Award. Get $$ to spend time collecting data in our collections, including @tarpits.org
Open to:
- current undergraduate and grad students
- *not* local to Los Angeles (international applicants welcome)
More: nhm.org/student-coll...
Fully funded PhD studentship: ‘Recording nature and writing the self: time, entomology and the archive in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries’. Closes 3 May.
With Ruth Abbott, Staffan Müller-Wille, Ed Turner & me. @theul.bsky.social @zoologymuseum.bsky.social
www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/initiatives/...
let's all take a moment to consider the Thief Weevil and his outrageous pantaloons
🚨Call for Papers!
3–4 September, Universität Augsburg: 2-day workshop on "theorising uncharismatic species in environmental history". Who are they? Where are their voices in the historical record? What insights do they offer to the field of environmental history? Be there! Abstracts due 15/05/2026!
I should have learnt Japanese...
Join Xerces and help protect pollinators in Tennessee! 🏙️🌾🐝
Job Title: Pollinator Conservation Specialist, NRCS Partner Biologist, Urban Farms and Small-Scale Operations
🌎Location: Jackson, TN
💲Compensation: $65,998/yr
📅Apply by: Mar 26
Learn more and apply at xerces.org/jobs
Argonemertes dendyi, a terrestrial proboscis worm from Australia, is now found across Europe. These worms capture and envenomate prey by ejecting a web-like structure from their mouths. Currently, it is in a stasis-like state, having built a cocoon to prevent drying out. Fascinating creatures! 🤯
This is such a bucket list moment: I'm on the mother of all science podcasts, @radiolab.bsky.social!
It was so nice to be interviewed by #MollyWebster and fact-checked by #DianeKelly on snail reproduction (incl. the love dart work by @joriskoene.bsky.social).
www.wnycstudios.org/story/snail-...
New paper out in ecology letters! with @andylee.bsky.social @allydefduf.bsky.social
We synthesized the active debate on how scientists define sex, including limitations and assumptions. We believe this discussion will lead to more accurate science.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
The discovery of a new “species” invariably leads to the discovery of new “species interactions” - new connections in the web of life. Here, the discovery of a new gall wasp also uncovered EIGHT new interactions with other insects - some likely new species as well. #biodiversity @ymilesz.bsky.social
Neuroptera!
New paper! Bird nests (Wood Warblers) are hubs of invertebrate biodiversity on forest floor, hosting more species/individuals than leaf litter. Probably due to heat & food detritus. Losing Wood Warblers = ecological networks lost. #ornithology
resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Another great article featuring our research published in @nature.com
Many heat-stressed tropical insects are reaching their limits | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
@science.org
🐜🔬 Researchers at the University of Maryland and KIT in Germany are using a synchrotron particle accelerator and AI to build a massive 3D library of #ants. #science
👉 scitechdaily.com/ai-and-x-ra...
Submission deadline TODAY, MARCH 6! Present your work in the @entsocamerica.bsky.social International Symposium, online April 27-29. Topics include:
Insect Taxonomy in the 21st Century (organized by me!)
Frontiers in IPM
Visualizing Entomology
and more! Sign up here:
entsoc.org/membership/b...
10,000 tons of insects migrate across Switzerland per year, according to this cool preprint by @birgenhaest.bsky.social and his colleagues. 🧪 🪰 🦟
That's 21 billion insects, weighing the equivalent of 50–65 blue whales, flying overhead. 🤯
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
