Author: Michael Simone-Finstrom
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IUSSI-NAS Annual Business meeting at ESA
Monday, November 11, 2024 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM MST Location: Phoenix Convention Center, 121 C We’ll have several announcements and discussions of progress made recently with the organization, student award winner presentations, nominations for upcoming elected positions, and a bar setup with beer, wine and non-alcoholic selections. And just a general good time!
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Donate to help students attend the 2026 IUSSI conference in Freiburg, Germany
We are now using Zeffy for specific fundraising efforts. The current effort is to gather funds to support student travel to IUSSI 2026 in Germany. Check the link/website for it here. The Challenge For students from minoritized communities and low-income countries, attending international scientific conferences presents both challenges and invaluable opportunities. Financial constraints often make it difficult for…
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Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Animal Social Behaviour at York University
The Department of Biology at York University invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track Assistant Professor in Animal Social Behaviour to commence July 1st, 2025. Please see the link for more details. Please note that the deadline for complete applications is December 15th, 2024.
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PhD Student Position with Rachael Dudaniec at Macqurie University
PhD scholarship available for the project “Landscape genomics of native and invasive bumblebees (Bombus terrestris) under pathogen impacts”. This is a joint PhD project between Macquarie University and the University of St Andrews. Both international and domestic students may apply. EOI closes Dec 9th 2024, for an October 2025 commencement. See posting for more details.
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IUSSI-NAS DEIJ Committee update and feedback request
In the past two years, we, IUSSI-NAS Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice committee, have discussed ways to support outreach events by current members and activities to engage a broader audience, especially from underrepresented groups. This was guided by the results of the last membership poll and discussions with several members and current/past IUSSI-NAS officers. The…
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Smith Lab grad student opportunity: Utah State University
The Smith Lab at Utah State University is recruiting graduate students interested in pursuing an MS or PhD. Research in the lab focuses on understanding the regulation and role of phenotypic plasticity in societies, using ant caste determination as a focal system. Past projects run the gamut from field experiments to comparative genomics. Papers on…
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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…