Category: Jobs

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.

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.

The impact of parasitic bees & climate change on stingless bees and Indigenous beekeeping livelihoods in the Peruvian Amazon Application deadline: 4 pm Monday 6th January 2025. We invite applications for a 4-year PhD project (standard UKRI stipend) at the University of Bristol, UK. This interdisciplinary project will investigate the impacts of natural and anthropogenic…

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…

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…

Open Position: Graduate Student (Ph.D.) in the Smith Bee Lab at Auburn UniversityResearch Areas: Honey bee biology, social physiology, nest architecture, collective behavior See the complete advert here. The Smith Bee Lab conducts research on the basic biology of honey bee colonies within a natural history context, focusing on colony organization, development, nest architecture, and…

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…

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…

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…

Graduate Research Associate (PhD) in wild honey bee ecology Position Announcement: We are seeking an exceptional candidate to join the University of Florida’s Honey Bee Research and Extension Laboratory (HBREL) as a PhD student investigating wild honey bee ecology in South Africa. Headquartered in the Entomology and Nematology Department, the PhD student will join a dynamic…