Author: Horace Zeng
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Spring 2026 Award Winners!
The IUSSI-NAS Awards Committee is very pleased to announce the spring 2026 award winners, and the number of travel awards in support of travel to the XX International Congress of the IUSSI in Freiburg this summer. Earlier in the spring, we were able to award a total of 16 travel awards for the upcoming IUSSI…
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Registration for BeeCon 2026 is now open
BeeCon 2026 is now accepting abstracts and registrations! BeeCon is a free event, please help spread the word to anyone conducting bee research and who might be interested in presenting their work. This is a hybrid event with a virtual only day on Thursday October 15, 2026 followed by a hybrid day (with in-person presentations) on Friday…
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Ant Course 2026 Mexico
Applications are now open for the Ant Course, an intensive international field course focused on ant biology, systematics, and ecology. Information on location, dates, instructors, and how to apply, can be found here: https://www.antcourse.org/ The Ant Course is a globally recognized training program that brings together students, researchers, and professionals to learn directly from leading myrmecologists…
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Postdoctoral position: socially selective neural circuits in paper wasp
The Jernigan Lab (https://www.christophermjernigan.com/) is seeking to hire a highly motivated postdoctoral researcher beginning as early as October 2026 supported by an NIH R00 Award (R00EY03504) to study the development and experience-dependent tuning of socially selective neural circuits in the northern paper wasp, Polistes fuscatus. The Jernigan lab studies the neurobiology, behavior, and development of social…
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IUSSI-NAS 2025 Newsletter
Please see our newsletter for 2025~
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IUSSI-NAS Spring Student Awards 2026
It is with great pleasure that we announce the IUSSI-NAS Spring Student Awards! There are four awards to support graduate student research on social insects, one for each of the four major social insect groups. We are also pleased to announce the Mary Jane West-Eberhard Best Paper Award, which is presented to the best first…
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Department Head of Entomology at Virginia Tech
Virginia Tech is hiring a new Head of Department / Professor. It’s a (nearly) full time administrator position, although there’s some small scope for scholarship. https://jobs.apply.vt.edu/jobs/professor-and-department-head-entomology-blacksburg-virginia-united-states Job Description Virginia Tech seeks applications and nominations for the position of Professor and Head of the Department of Entomology, a tenured twelve-month academic and administrative appointment. The Department…
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University of Illinois Bee Lab Manager Position
The Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) seeks a Research Specialist in Life Sciences to serve as the Bee Lab Manager for the University of Illinois Bee Research Facility. The successful candidate will manage a state-of-the-art Bee Research Facility, handle the beekeeping needs for multiple…
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ANTS 2026: 15th International Conference on Swarm Intelligence
Call for Late Breaking Results & Fresh Perspectives (posters, demos & more) ANTS 2026 – 15th International Conference on Swarm IntelligenceJune 8–10, 2026Darmstadtium – Science and Congress Center, Darmstadt, Germanyhttps://ants2026.org Important Dates• Submission deadline: 30 March 2026• Notification of acceptance: 13 April 2026• Conference: 8–10 June 2026The 2026 theme is “Reaching beyond – swarm intelligence…
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Special Issue in the Journal of Experimental Biology
Special issue on The Integrative Biology of Reproduction in the Journal of Experimental Biology. The special issue will cover the entire reproductive process, from mate selection, mating, and egg laying or pregnancy through to parental care. Papers can be in the form of a Review, Commentary or research paper (Research Article, Short Communication, Methods & Techniques,…