Miles Zhang | 张远濛
@ymilesz.bsky.social
| Hymenoptera taxonomy, phylogenomics, and evolutionary ecology | inordinate fondness for insect galls https://ymilesz.github.io/
Come work here, it is a fun place and we would love to have you as our colleague: careers.amnh.org/postings/4923 #Lepidoptera #Insect #Entomology #AMNH
Assistant Curator/Assistant Professor, Invertebrate Zoology
The Division of Invertebrate Zoology at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) seeks an outstanding tenure-track Assistant Curator/Assistant Professor with expertise in the evolution of Lepidop...
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My lab @ Edinburgh university is recruiting a postdoc to work on the weird and wonderful germline-specific chromosomes of flies. elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... collaboration with @germline.bsky.social and yukiko yamashita funded by @novonordisk.bsky.social please repost!
The Martinson lab is looking for new PhD students! We have so much cool data and need help making sense of it all! If interested please contact me!
Please repost! Drexel announced that it will close the Academy of Natural Sciences public museum- the oldest nat history museum in the US. There are 2 petitions to support the academy. Please sign both & come to our rally Tues. actionnetwork.org/petitions/pe... www.change.org/p/the-academ...
Attention Philadelphia! We're hosting a rally to demand that Drexel University maintain The Academy of Natural Sciences Museum open to the public. Join us on Tuesday morning at 10am in front of the academy. Please spread the word, we need all hands on deck! RSVP here: luma.com/1qwnrqz2
— Have you ever wished you could see a wingless megaspilid wasp? Now you can check it off your bucket list. Happy (early) #WinglessWaspWednesday to those who celebrate! 🤓 FYI, its body length is ~0.8mm — #NaturalHistoryCollections #MacroPhotography #FocusStacking #Megaspilidae
Wanna come to NHM Oslo and work on gall midges? Here is your chance 😁 #entomology #biology www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
PhD Research Fellow in Systematic Entomology (306760) | University of Oslo
Job title: PhD Research Fellow in Systematic Entomology (306760), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Wednesday, September 30, 2026
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We're looking for a plant pathologist 🌱 🍄 to join our department (cals.ncsu.edu/entomology-a...)! The position is fairly broad/open to different disciplines in plant pathology, but heavy in teaching. Please go to the following link for more info & to apply. jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/233...
My new book, Phylogenetic Biology, is now published. Available online for free at dunnlab.org/phylogenetic... . Physical copies can be purchased at shop.lightningsource.com/b/085?params... or your favorite bookstore.
We currently have TWO collections-based vacancies at National Museums Scotland! As part of the upcoming DiSSCo UK program, we’re seeking a Digitiser and Senior digitiser to work with our insect collection: careers.nms.ac.uk/vacancies (Apply by 31st August) #Digitisation #Insects #MuseumJobs
🚨Job alert🚨: Research Group Leader position in Entomology 🪰🦗 @smnstuttgart.bsky.social naturkundemuseum-bw.helixjobs.com/_/jobad?prj=...
Gruppenleiter*in (m/w/d) für die Systematik der Insekten (Diptera, Hemiptera oder Orthoptera) – Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart
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Can't wait to see my fellow wasp nerds in CDMX next week! #ISH2026
Journal of Hymenoptera Research@jhr.pensoft.net · last mo.🐝 The 11th Congress of the International Society of Hymenopterists is taking place from 10 to 14 August 2026 at Instituto de Biología, UNAM in Mexico City! ➡️ Learn more: jhr.pensoft.net/news/1398 @hymenopterists.bsky.social
Come join the @socialfluids.bsky.social lab in Cambridge to study the evolution of Socially Transferred Materials! Fun new HFSP project btwn UK, NL and Costa Rica! Deadline September 7th #Postdoc #JobAlert #Evolution #Bioinformatics #STM #socialfluids www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc... leboeuflab.com
Research Associate (Fixed Term)
A Research Associate position is available in the Social Fluids Lab, led by Dr. Adria LeBoeuf, in the Department of Zoology. The post is funded by a new 3-year international Human Frontier Science Pro...
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Stop everything! Ray Gagne has just finished the second edition of "The Plant-Feeding Gall Midges of North America" and it's freely available here: zenodo.org/records/2137...
The Plant-Feeding Gall Midges of North America
This revision of The Plant-Feeding Gall Midges of North America, originally published in 1989, began as soon as the earlier book was in press. Since then, more than half again as many records of plant...
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Spread #wasplove and participate to our citizen science project! Led by my co-supervised PhD student @femi-benny.bsky.social Femi Benny!! @uclcber.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk @waspwoman.bsky.social you can use this link: qualtrics.ucl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_...
New preprint: 338 coleopteran genomes reveal exceptional rearrangement variation compared to other insect orders. Big congrats to @arf-mln.bsky.social, for getting this giant piece together. Big collaboration of @joanameier.bsky.social's and my groups. 🧵👇 doi.org/10.64898/202...
Come work for us! The Hawaii Invertebrate Program is looking for a technician to work on surveys and rearing of rare and endangered insects. In case the link doesn't work, search for position 226440 (for some reason the site doesn't do permalinks). hr.rcuh.com/psc/hcmprd_e...
📢 NEW GENOME ALERT Erythrina gall wasp, Quadrastichus erythrinae, is an invasive pest on the Hawaiian wiliwili tree. @ymilesz.bsky.social et al. generated its genome assembly from a low amount of input DNA, with a sequencing cost of only ~$100. Read more in #G3journal 🔗 buff.ly/vkSGYPe
Very important new paper out! The coffee berry borer beetle is the worst pest of ☕️ worldwide, and in Mexico is attacked by the wasp Cephalonomia hyalinipennis. That wasp is supposed to be in Hawaii, so why doesn’t it attack CBB here? Turns out neither are actually C. hyalinipennis!
Unraveling a complex of cryptic species near Cephalonomia hyalinipennis (Hymenoptera: Bethylidae) and their association with the coffee berry borer and other hosts
Abstract Despite the recorded presence in Hawai'i of Cephalonomia hyalinipennis, a presumed parasitoid of the coffee berry borer (Hypothenemus hampei), it has never been recovered from infeste...
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🧪🐛🐝🐜🦋Come work with me! @romtoronto.bsky.social is hiring a Curator of Insects & Arachnids!!! #insects royalontariomuseum.applytojob.com/apply/mdMTpA...
Curator of Insects & Arachnids - Royal Ontario Museum - Career Page
Apply to Curator of Insects & Arachnids at Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, ON, Canada.
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Happy to share that this fall I'm joining the University of Missouri as an Assistant Professor & Director of the Enns Entomology Museum (~7–8M specimens)! 🐝 A dream come true. Big shoes to fill after the iconic Robert Sites. Leaving UCF after 8 years. New adventure ahead! 🧡🌻
Excited to share that our paper on Horizontal Gene Transfer is now out in its final form in @gigascience.bsky.social! 🥳 By analysing 163 high-quality ant genomes, we show that HGT from bacteria is widespread across the ants and likely has adaptive functions! doi.org/10.1093/giga... 🐜📸: Alex Wild
New paper from the Martinson Labs! “Rapid ecological speciation in gall inducers” Where we look at the divergence between Aciurina bigeloviae and A. trixa, two sympatric tephritid flies! doi.org/10.1016/j.ym...
Y'all - the Smithsonian is hiring three new curators - herpetology, ichthyology, and ornithology! Notably, this is a 2nd fish curator position - i.e., not the same as the one advertised last month. So if you applied for that one apply again. www.usajobs.gov/job/873849000
Job! Beetle systematics, Australia:
Research Scientist in Coleoptera
Research Scientist in Coleoptera
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Our lab at Rockefeller University is looking for a Research Technician to help with our studies of ant social behavior and evolution. 🐜 🧠 🐜 🧬 🐜 Please share and apply here if interested: hhmi.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...
Research Technician I - Kronauer Lab
Primary Work Address: 1230 York Avenue, New York, NY, 10065 Current HHMI Employees, click here to apply via your Workday account. About the Role: The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) is seeking ...
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My department is hiring a lead researcher for our molecular core lab! Please help distribute and feel free to reach out if you have questions I can help with jobs.ou.edu/jobs/core-mo...
Core Molecular Facility Lead Researcher - Norman, Oklahoma, United States
Pay Range: Targeted salary: $87,000 annually, based on experience Benefits Eligible: Yes Work Schedule: Monday – Friday, Standard/Fixed Schedule Travel: Not required Position Introduction: The Lea...
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Huge Fish Curator gig is advertised! Assistant Curator of Fishes at the Florida Museum of Natural History (part of Uni of. Florida) explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/54...
University of Florida - Details - Assistant Curator of Ichthyology
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Paper alert! We have conducted the phylogenetic reconstruction of Proctotrupinae. This is the first comprehensive analysis of the family Proctotrupidae. I hope you are interested in this unique family and we work together! arthropod-systematics.arphahub.com/article/1751...
Phylogenetic reconstruction of Proctotrupinae (Hymenoptera: Proctotrupidae)
Abstract Phylogenetic reconstruction of Proctotrupinae, the largest subfamily of Proctotrupidae, was conducted for the first time based on total evidence combining molecular and morphological ...
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