Miles Zhang | 张远濛
@ymilesz.bsky.social
| Hymenoptera taxonomy, phylogenomics, and evolutionary ecology | inordinate fondness for insect galls https://ymilesz.github.io/
Can't wait to see my fellow wasp nerds in CDMX next week! #ISH2026
Journal of Hymenoptera Research@jhr.pensoft.net · 9h ago🐝 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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Amazing! This report suggests that a gall aphid injects into their plant host an enzyme that manipulates auxin levels in the host and thereby induces galls. #plantscience #plantsci www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
The new OrthoFinder paper is out now! In this new work, we introduce major advances in accuracy and scalability, allowing analysis on much larger datasets www.nature.com/articles/s41... github.com/OrthoFinder/...
OrthoFinder: improved phylogenetic orthology inference with enhanced accuracy and scalability - Nature Methods
The updated OrthoFinder v3 software boosts accuracy and scalability in phylogenetic orthology inference with massive and diverse datasets.
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I am recruiting PhD students for my new lab housed in the Sam Noble Museum at University of Oklahoma! If you are interested in fish macroevolution, geometric morphometrics, specimen-based research & phylogenomics please reach out. More info here: fishdiversitylab.weebly.com Please share widely!!!
Very bad news. Screwworm appears to have made it to Texas, as was predicted. These parasites eat the living flesh of cattle, cause horrible pain, and can ultimately kill them. Yesterday, USDA Chief Brooke Rollins categorically denied that screwworm was close to the border.
This is fascism. Tactics straight out of the playbook of the Nazi's, Lysenko, and North Korea. Science doesn't have borders and setting up "us vs. them" hurts everyone. www.science.org/content/arti...
Lawmakers propose banning all U.S.-Chinese research collaborations
Critics say bill would weaken U.S. science by cutting flows of ideas and talent
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🪲 A PhD position in my lab will open soon! Work includes Caribbean fieldwork, visits to major European entomological collections, and cutting-edge morphology, phylogenomics & museomics. If you’re interested in beetle evolution and biodiversity research, consider applying! 🔬🌍
Our new paper led by Christian Weinrich (PhD student, Andrew Forbes' lab at University of Iowa) is out in Insect Systematics and Diversity. We used unsupervised machine learning + UCE data to infer species limits in eurytomid parasitoids on US oak gall wasps—all initially thought to be Eurytoma.
Come join us in CDMX this August and share your love for everything #Hymenoptera 🐜🐝! Abstract deadline has been extended to May 31st! 🧪 www.hymenopterists.org/ish-2026-con...
11th Congress of the International Society of Hymenopterists – International Society of Hymenopterists
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International Society of Hymenopterists@hymenopterists.bsky.social · 3mo ago🇬🇧ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE for ISH 2026 CONGRESS is FRIDAY, May 22nd! 🇲🇽¡LA FECHA LÍMITE para la PRESENTACIÓN DE RESÚMENES para la CONGRESO ISH 2026 es el VIERNES, 22 de Mayo!
