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I’m happy to announce the special collection, “Ant Systematics in the 21st Century: A Phylogenomic Perspective,” published in Insect Systematics & Diversity! Freely available to read, download, and share. @entsocamerica academic.oup.com/isd/pages/ant-…

Big congratulations to Peter Willadsen Peter Willadsen who successfully defended his Masters thesis today. Way to go!

If you are working on ants in North America, you might find our new paper on Crematogaster taxonomy and phylogenomics a valuable resource: academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/art…

Applications now open for #antcourse 2023 in PNG July 30 - Aug 10 Apply at: antcourse.org. A big thanks to New Guinea Binatang Research Center with support from NSF The Ants of the World Project Jack Longino Flavia Esteves Dr. Corrie Moreau Bonnie Blaimer Phil Ward, Jacob Yombai

We are looking for a 2-year Postdoctoral Fellow to investigate global ant evolution using large-scale phylogenies in Berlin! More details and how to apply: evol.mcmaster.ca/~brian/evoldir…

Student travel awards ($2000 each) now available to attend the International Society of Hymenopterists Congress in Romania in July! Two for ISH members only, and two for students from underrepresented countries (members or non-members). Deadline March 3rd - please RT. hymenopterists.org/2023-congress-…

One week left to apply!

I’m thrilled that our work on the evolution of Hymenoptera is now out in Nature Communications! We inferred a new phylogeny and investigated the influence of key innovations on the diversification of the order. nature.com/articles/s4146…

🚨New tenure-track position open!🚨 We're looking for a researcher to work on species discovery & taxonomy of hyperdiverse arthropod clades that dwell either in soil or leaf litter, or are disease vectors. Come work with us at @mfnberlin Deadline: 30Apr23 jobs.museumfuernaturkunde.berlin/jobposting/058…

Tenure-track job at the Natural History Museum Berlin. Let´s use robotics, imaging, machine learning, and MinION sequencing for tackling the taxonomy of hyperdiverse taxa that are disease vectors or live in soil/leaf litter. Deadline: 30.04.2023. tinyurl.com/yck68e4z EvolDir

Only a few days left to apply!

Tenure-track job at the Natural History Museum Berlin: Robotics, digitization, machine learning, MinION sequencing. We need it all for tackling the taxonomy of hyperdiverse taxa. Deadline extended to 14.5.2023. tinyurl.com/yck68e4z

New Ant Lab video today! Out in the field and the lab learning about Michelle Kirchner research on canopy ant ecology. I love making these researcher profile videos! Check it out: youtu.be/7jNXaIizv4I

Now out in Nature Ecology & Evolution: The same 20 insect families make up over 50% of species and specimens in Malaise samples; regardless of continent, climate, or habitat. Yet, most are neglected dark taxa. Time for change! doi.org/10.1038/s41559…

The evolutionary history of bees in time and space New study led by Eduardo Almeida and Silas Bossert + a dream team of bee biologists + myself as the outgroup. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Job alert! We look for a director of the new #Biodiversity Monitoring Department Naturkundemuseum Stuttgart which is a joint professorship with Uni Hohenheim as part of KomBioTa 🐝🌿🐦‍⬛🪱🌳. Find more information here: shorturl.at/aU089

TT job alert! ASU School of Life Sciences is hiring a Biodiversity Assistant Research Professor with specialization in ant systematics, evolution and ecology 🐜🐜🐜 Apply by Nov 29 apply.interfolio.com/135564

It's next week! Join us on 12 June for our online talk. This session, aligned with our journal Systematic Entomology will hear Tamara Spasojevic & Miles Zhang (@ymilesz) discuss Evolving Perspectives in Hymenoptera Systematics. Free for members, register now: royensoc.co.uk/event/online-t…

After several years in the making, I am very excited to see this paper finally out. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… More on this later.