Ants as ecosystem engineers – Using ants to promote biodiversity, University of York (UK)

Deadline: 15 JANUARY 2020 Supervisors: Dr Elva Robinson, University of York, Dr Kelly Redeker, University of York, Carl Hawke, The National Trust. Application Deadline: Friday, January 15, 2021 We are looking for an enthusiastic student to develop a PhD project using field experiments to quantify the relationship between meadow ants and management regimes, and how […]

Technician & Post-doc: Evolution of bee viruses at University of Ulm

Deadline: 10 NOVEMBER 2020 1) TECHNICIAN We would like to recruit a Technician to support field work and lab work as part of an ERC consolidator project to study the evolution of bee viruses in nature following the introduction of a vector, the ectoparasitic Varroa mite. The job will entail field work in Islands in […]

Graduate students and Postdoctoral associates: Honey bee biology, social physiology, collective behavior at auburn university

Review of applications will begin 1 NOVEMBER 2020 Start Date: Spring/Summer 2021 (flexible) The Smith Bee Lab (https://smithbeelab.com)conducts research on the basic biology of honey bee colonies in a natural history context. We are interested in how colonies develop, how they are organized, and how they detect and respond to biotic and abiotic changes. Here […]

IUSSI North-West European section winter meeting 2020 – Open for registration and abstract submission

Registration is now open for the winter meeting of the IUSSI with a deadline of the 15th of November for abstract submission. The conference will take place over Zoom on 3 afternoons from the 16th to the 18th of December with keynote talks from: Lotta Sundström (University of Helsinki, Finland) Yusuf Abdullahi Ahmed (University of […]

Projet de maîtrise sur les fourmis du genre Leptothorax en forêt boréale mixte

Projet de maîtrise sur les fourmis du genre Leptothorax en forêt boréale mixte/ MSc opportunity on Leptothorax ants of the boreal mixedwoods. Nous sommes à la recherche d’un(e) étudiant(e) pour un projet de maîtrise portant sur l’écologie des fourmis du genre Leptothorax en forêt boréale mixte. Contexte et problématique The present-day population biology of any […]