At our last business meeting, we voted to move all of our voting online, as we have done for some time with voting for officers. This change will enable greater participation, but will also require changes to our constitution. I … Continue reading
Clare Rittschof’s lab at the University of Kentucky (Department of Entomology) is recruiting postdocs and graduate students to start as early as Fall 2024. Our research group incorporates perspectives from behavioral ecology, neuroscience, physiology, and genomics to study how environmental … Continue reading
Call for Symposia at the International Congress of Entomology, Kyoto 2024. Deadline for symposium proposals is June 16 and there is a Social Insects section!
Due to the lingering challenges, the awards committee has decided to extend the deadline for the following student awards by one whole month: 1) The William L. and Ruth D. Nutting Termite Research Grant 2) The Tschinkel Ant Natural History Research … Continue reading
It is with great pleasure that we announce Kyle Gray as the winner of the 2023 Mary Jane West-Eberhard Best Paper Award with the article “Global biogeography of ant social parasites: Exploring patterns and mechanisms of an inverse latitudinal diversity gradient” … Continue reading
Due to some (more!) technical difficulties, membership payment is not currently possible. This issue will be resolved in late spring. Thank you for your patience.
Nominations are now open for the West-Eberhard award for the best first author peer-reviewed research article published by a student (undergraduate or graduate level) in the areas of social behavior and/or evolution in social arthropods at any time in 2022. … Continue reading
**********CORRECTED DEADLINE************** The calls for nominees for the Jeffery P. La Fage Student Award for Applied Research on Social Insects and the George C. Eickwort Student Research Award are now open! Nominations are due to the awards committee by October 28, … Continue reading
There is an exciting postdoc position available in the Amiri lab at the Delta Research and Extension Center, Mississippi State University to study “Honeybee Viruses and Queen Immunity”. For more information and instructions on how to apply, please click on … Continue reading
Unveiling the mechanisms used by invasive ants to adapt to current and future environmental conditions We are looking for a highly motivated PhD student to participate in the project: “Unveiling the mechanisms used by invasive ants to adapt to current … Continue reading