Category: Jobs

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…

Overview The Department of Biology (www.biology.usu.edu) is seeking to fill a cluster of 2-3 tenure track (1.0 FTE, 9 month, 50% research, 40% teaching, 10% service) positions in the area of Cell and Molecular biology to start in the Fall of 2025. This includes biologists whose research addresses questions in neuroscience, development (including evo-devo), systems…

We are excited to announce an opening for a postdoctoral researcher position to work on a newly NSF-funded project, which is a collaboration between Noa Pinter-Wollman (UCLA) and Nina Fefferman (UTK) on “The causes and consequences of Higher Order Interactions (HOI)”. The work aims to establish a new framework for studying how higher order interactions,…

Message from Dr. Chris R. Smith: I am hiring a post doc to work on social insect evolution, particularly caste evolution in ants. See the ad below and at this link Come join the awesome biology department at USU – great people and great facilities. We also have great social insect resources, including several other…

The Sun Lab at Louisiana State University is seeking a postdoctoral researcher for an NSF-funded project focused on the plasticity of desiccation resistance in subterranean termites. This research will involve analyzing cuticular hydrocarbons and other physiological traits, and utilizing molecular biology tools such as RNA-Seq and RNAi to determine the acclimation capacity for desiccation resistance…

The Cook Lab in Biological Sciences at Marquette University is seeking a postdoctoral research scientist to fulfill obligations for a funded National Science Foundation grant performing field and lab research experiments. This position is a 12-month appointment, with renewal for a second year based on performance/progress and funding. The salary is competitive with full benefits…