Today I was awarded the NEV Dissertation prize at the yearly Dutch Entomology day #entomologendag. 🥳🥳 What a great day of meeting up with fellow insect fanatics 🪲🐛

Everything you always wanted to know about those fascinating and amazing insects ... NEW edition of popular lecture series Insects and Society starts on Wed 11 Jan 2023 in Wageningen 20:00-22:00, live only, free entrance see tinyurl.com/2p9fe7aw WUR Plant Arnold van Huis

Applications for this rare permanent lectureship/senior lectureship in plant ecology close on 29th January. Don’t miss out. Open to all nationalities. Come work and teach with us in Tassie! #avademicjobs #ecology #plantscience careers.utas.edu.au/ci/en/job/4982…

We are hiring! Terrestrial Ecology Department - NIOO-KNAW NL Inst of Ecology offers 3 (paid!) PhD positions on quantifying soil biodiversity and functioning across the Netherlands. You will be part of the NWO-domein TTW (inactief) SoilPros project (nwo.nl/onderzoeksprog…). Find our more at nioo.knaw.nl/nl/vacatures/t…. Please RT/share!

Do you want to try some old bean varieties and help science while doing it? join the citizen science project INCREASE! 🫘

Two year postdoc available on designing 'precision pollination systems' – with SLU 🇸🇪 team & BerryBugsLab Welcome with applications to February 28th! See: bit.ly/3XG9wZX 🐝

We are looking for a senior scientist for our Entomology & Biodiversity group at FiBL Switzerland!

Postdoc job in our lab (19 months, deadline 3.4., start date asap) We are looking for someone to work on subsoil fungi, partly with existing data, existing samples. Must have experience with manuscript writing, bioinformatics of HT-sequencing data (ideally with fungi).

Good news! My article received enough downloads to be a #topdownloadedarticle in New Phytologist. doi.org/10.1111/nph.17…

Zoek je een stage met veel #veldwerk en wil je bijdragen aan een #duurzame #bodem? Meld je dan nu aan bij NL Inst of Ecology! 👇 cutt.ly/M7Rpz9G Terrestrial Ecology Department - NIOO-KNAW

Are u interested in advances in #naturalcontrol and #agroecology? Join our session at the #GfÖ meeting. Abstract submission closes on May 15th. #biocontrol #pestcontrol #entomology #functionalecology Leibniz Uni Hannover Zoological Biodiversity gfoe-conferences.de

The last chapter of my PhD is now published in Journal of Pest Science: read all about strip cropping and D. radicum! A great collaboration with Luuk Croijmans, Karthick Gajendiran, Rieta Gols, Dirk van Apeldoorn @[email protected], Joop van Loon, MarcelDicke and Erik Poelman rdcu.be/dcdZb

NEW to science! A palm that flowers and fruits entirely underground - Pinanga subterranea 🌴 Why adopt such a strange and rare life strategy? How does it pollinate? New species research raises many questions 🔎 👉 kew.org/read-and-watch…

🦟Happy to announce that I'm going to be recruiting a new student (M.S., Ph.D.) starting Jan. 2024 for a funded project in the Pacific. Applicants will need experience in mosquito taxonomy and ecology and have experience and interest in stakeholder outreach. Send CV to my email.

Please RT: Are you excited to develop your career at the frontier of plant-microbe interactions research? The pmi@uu team UU_Plants has job openings for an Assistant Professor, a Research Technician, and a PhD candidate! Apply via: lnkd.in/eJsRbckM. CropXR

Ecology is complicated. An ant from Mauritius has spread through Africa. In Kenya it disrupted a mutualism between native ants and acacia trees that led to increased herbivory by elephants and ultimately a shift in lion prey species from zebra to buffalo. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Wow. Across the world, there is overwhelming support for climate action. But, sadly, people think that *other* people don’t support climate action. We aren’t polarized; we just think we are. nature.com/articles/s4155…

I’ll be live on Dutch radio tomorrow morning, around 6:30 AM NPO1, to talk about our recent findings and the PhD defense of Magda Rogowska-van der Molen tomorrow, on behalf of the research team Cornelia Welte, Robert Jansen, RIBES - Radboud University, UU_Plants. academic.oup.com/ismej/article/…

The World According to Bees

⚠️ Research vlog alert ⚠️ Last summer, we used homemade camera traps to identify predators of Halyomorpha halys eggs in Dutch orchards. The results were quite a surprise (Spoiler: katydids are awesome! 🦗) youtu.be/TBX1_rFWEXA?si…