Author: Michael Simone-Finstrom
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Postdoc position in Gordon lab at Stanford University
We are excited to announce an opening for a postdoctoral researcher position to work on a newly NSF-funded project, a collaboration between Deborah Gordon (Stanford) and Florian Menzel (University of Mainz, Germany) on variation among harvester ant colonies in the waterproofing capacity of their cuticular hydrocarbons (CHCs), and how the CHCs are related to the…
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Kwapich Lab Seeking Ant Behavior Grad Students
The Kwapich Lab at the University of Central Florida is seeking MS and PhD students interested in social insect behavior to begin in fall of 2025. Major research areas include ant colony organization, production ecology of seed harvesting ants, nest architecture, and myrmecophile life history. Graduate positions are fully funded through a combination of teaching…
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FORMIS 2024 (July) Update Available for Download
FORMIS is a master bibliography of ant literature in EndNote format. It contains citations for a large fraction of the world’s ant literature. This new update contains over 81,500 references (over half with abstracts). It can be downloaded from Daniel Kjar’s website at Elmira College: http://bio2.elmira.edu/formis/. Dr. Kjar also has links for the Bill Brown Memorial Library and…
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Survey on social complexity in arthropods
A research team at Stellenbosch University in South Africa, working on a project aimed at understanding current scientific perspectives on the social complexity of arthropods invites you to participate in a brief, 10-minute survey that is anonymous, free of mandatory questions, and without right or wrong answer. The first part of the questionnaire invites you to…
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Call for Eickwort Student Research and La Fage Student Awards!
See the Awards page and the linked calls for nominations for: Jeffery P. La Fage Student Award for Applied Research on Social Insects George C. Eickwort Student Research Award Applications due on October 7, 2024
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Nieh lab seeking Schmidt AI postdoc applicants
The Nieh lab would like to work with PhD candidates and postdoctoral scholars who are interested in using AI to study honey bee communication to apply for the 2025 Schmidt AI in Science Postdocs. This program is designed to support researchers whose work would be enhanced by training in AI methods. Applicants should articulate both…
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Tenure Track Faculty: Environmental Science and Studies/Plant Biology
The Department of Biological Sciences at Quinnipiac University invites applications for a 9.5-month tenure-track faculty position as a jointly appointed Assistant Professor in Biological Sciences and Environmental Science and Studies to begin August 2025. The successful applicant is expected to develop and teach undergraduate courses in environmental science and in plant biology, and to pursue…