Transition trust fund for MtA 🤯
21.02.2026 16:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Transition trust fund for MtA 🤯
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With over 400,000 described species, Coleoptera represent one of the most diverse groups of organisms on Earth, necessitating a global, integrative approach to understanding their evolutionary history. m.youtube.com/watch?v=Pg47...
18.02.2026 11:34 — 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
📣🐦This is a reminder that early bird registration for the CSEE 2026 Conference ends tomorrow, January 30!
Register here: event.fourwaves.com/csee2026/reg...
We're advertising a PhD project on how social isolation influences aggression in flies. Based at Durham, co-supervised by @clarahowcroft.bsky.social . Despite what the ad says, this is also open to international applicants! Any questions, shoot me a msg! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
26.01.2026 10:02 — 👍 15 🔁 22 💬 0 📌 1
White House tweet with Trump walking with a penguin toward a Greenland flag
The hazards of failing first-year biology: you invade the wrong pole.
🇦🇶 🐧 🇬🇱 🐻❄️
Come work on the beautiful east coast! Our department has a 9 month teaching-focused position advertised. Happy to chat! @stfx-university.bsky.social
recruiting.ultipro.ca/GOV5000GOVE/...
Me too.
Even presentations. Last year some students presented content that was clearly AI generated and read aloud AI-generated notes.
We had fun talking to Alex Guye from the CBC about Yaseen's work on overwintering ladybugs 🐞
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
New post doc funding opportunity:
Are you outside Canada & interested in a post doc on insects & environment/climate? Our lab studies insect evol & ecol, esp reproduction/sexual selection. Our university seeks a nominee. Let's chat!
nserc-crsng.canada.ca/en/news/laun...
Got my first student report with a fully hallucinated reference list! Just in time for the holidays 🎄
17.12.2025 19:03 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Shipping insect specimens in ethanol from Canada to Europe: has anyone found an easy solution? We're a 2 h drive from the nearest DHL service point
16.12.2025 19:49 — 👍 0 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
The Entomological Society of Canada is a fantastic supporter of grad students. Congrats Yaseen 🎉 @canentomologist.bsky.social
www.stfx.ca/news/Yaseen-...
Medfly
UEA campus
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We have a Postdoc position available here @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social to develop innovative genetic control strategies for insect agricultural pests in collaboration with @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social
vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/19...
Who wants to come to a bug conference on the east coast? Save the date for the Acadian Entomological Society's 2026 meeting, June 18-20, to be held right here in Antigonish @stfx-university.bsky.social @davidawde.bsky.social
14.12.2025 20:37 — 👍 3 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
Probably a long-shot, but is anyone aware of open-source image stacking software that would work with microscope images? Ideally to do 3D topology but even just high-res images with a wide depth of field would be useful.
10.12.2025 14:51 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Delighted to publish Forum Article by @nicolasgaltier.bsky.social et al:
"Journals run by learned societies or universities have more ethical policies while being cheaper and similarly cited"
doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...
Thank you for choosing JEB - we encourage the support of #societyjournals
What better way to get into the festive season than with the Coleopterists Society’s 2025 Annual Virtual Symposium, happening Friday and FREE to all (incl non-members)
www.coleopsoc.org/society-info...
@coleopsoc.bsky.social
Anyone know what this is? Popped out of a water strider in Nova Scotia. Observation by @jennyperry.bsky.social. 🌿🪱 #gerridae #hemiptera #parasite #inaturalist www.inaturalist.org/observations...
08.12.2025 14:31 — 👍 10 🔁 6 💬 4 📌 0
There is now! www.inaturalist.org/observations...
08.12.2025 12:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0If you have a student, anywhere in the world, who would like and entomological society membership please have them come on over to our entopoc.org website to sign up for up to three free memberships per student!
03.12.2025 10:59 — 👍 43 🔁 50 💬 0 📌 0
EEB Postdoctoral Fellowship @ U.Toronto app deadline Jan 15 2026. Opportunity for independent research, encourages collab across labs/disciplines. Lots of great folks to interact with, Come join us!
eeb.utoronto.ca/employment-2/
The perfect news story doesn't exi-
oxfordclarion.uk/college-cats...
So. . .will Canadian universities change their reliance on MS Teams?
30.11.2025 12:36 — 👍 41 🔁 20 💬 3 📌 1
@asab.org Spring, aimed at ECRs, is coming to Bristol!
Conference grant DEADLINE for Developing Country Applicants (<£2500) or anyone needing an early decision for visas (<£750) is in ONE WEEK, 1st December.
www.asab.org/conference-g...
Referee statement also needed by then! 🐝🐜🦟🦂🐠🐟🐬🦎🐸🦆🐿️🦓
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!
Are you an early-stage graduate student (2nd or 3rd year) or early-stage postdoc based in the US or Canada, working primarily in Drosophila? Would you like to help improve the experience of all trainees working in Drosophila research? If so, read on.
(Please repost to reach a broad audience.)
The Durham cathedral
A male smoky rubyspot damselfly
Looking for a PhD opportunity? I'm hoping to recruit someone to my group at Durham University to work on a project combining fieldwork and labwork to study speciation in rubyspot damselflies: iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
Get in touch if you want to chat!
#StFX is coming to Halifax! 🌟 Join us on Nov 27 for an exclusive event for future Xaverians. Learn about programs, scholarships, and campus life — plus a chance to win great prizes!
📍 Diman Lebanese Centre | 🕕 Nov. 27, 6:30–9 PM
The Canadian government has seemingly never read a single one of its own commissioned reports on what Canadian science needs. (It's not more people.)
04.11.2025 21:28 — 👍 48 🔁 19 💬 4 📌 0