I have aphid jokes, but they are all the same.

Some days, you just need a sad spider cartoon #Arachnology

I’m excited to invite applications for two PhD positions in my lab at UT Arlington! Love insects? Love the microbiome? Check it out and spread the word: wfscjobs.tamu.edu/jobs/phd-posit…

New paper out in the lab! Former postdoc Paul Lenhart cleanly documented rapid evolutionary responses in aphid populations, courtesy of a facultative symbiont. Online early version here: doi.org/10.1111/jeb.13… (behind a paywall - DM me to request a pdf!)

Thanks for the shout-out! We're really pleased with this clean little study that was nevertheless a lot of work! Paul Lenhart and Alex Styer extracted thousands of aphids and ran huge numbers of PCRs. #arsenophonus #aphid

A wonderful colleague who I wish I had known better, Dr. Michael Goodin, passed away last weekend. His obituary can be found here: legacy.com/obituaries/nam… I just donated to Doctors without Borders in his honor. I wish I had told him how much I admire him - he will be missed.

🚨🚨🚨 Dream job alert: Tenure-track Assistant Professor of Entomology at the University of Kentucky!🚨🚨🚨 Please retweet and distribute! My Department is seeking applicants interested in developing a research program in sustainable management of agricultural pests (1/4)

Reminder: The Entomology Department at University of Kentucky is still taking applications for a tenure-track position in sustainable pest management - application review starts Aug 1. Please retweet, and hit me up if you have questions! 🪲🐛🦗

Well, I decided at the last minute to submit an abstract and attend the Entomological Society of America Annual meeting in person this fall. Now I just need to finish collecting the data - I feel like I'm back in grad school again!🕷️🕷️🕷️

We're very excited to be searching this Fall for *TWO* tenure-track positions in Biology! Please see the ad below for details and reach out to our chair @Weisrock for more info. ukjobs.uky.edu/postings/351530

Interested in a Ph.D. and modeling population and evolutionary dynamics of endosymbionts and their hosts? Ask me or Endosymbiont Ecology about the funded Research Assistant position studying a spider infected by 5(!!!) different symbiont strains. See ad below for more info.

Hey symbiosis & spider folks! Jeremy Van Cleve and I are recruiting a theoretically-oriented grad student to investigate host/symbiont evolution and dynamics in a spider system. I will be at #EntSoc21 - happy to meet in person with anyone who wants more info! Please retweet 😁🕷️

🚨🪲🐜Tenure Track Job Announcement!🦋🐞🚨 The University of Kentucky Entomology Department is seeking to hire a tenure track assistant professor in insect genomics! See full announcement attached. Please retweet and distribute widely - Initial application review begins Dec 6.