Genomic evidence of prevalent hybridization throughout the evolutionary history of the fig-wasp pollination… disq.us/t/3um9100

Excited to announce that I’m recruiting a PhD student in beetle systematics! The project concerns the #phylogeny (museomics) and #taxonomy (species-level revision) of the Afrotropical subtribe Eurynotina (#tenebrionidae). Detailed info: kaminskientomo.org/blog-news/phd Please RT!

Hey! Our (Dr. Stephany Virrueta H et al.) new article is out in Frontiers - Microbiology -> Patterns of Microbiome Variation Among Infrapopulations of Permanent Bloodsucking Parasites frontiersin.org/article/10.338… ugrinvestiga Prairie Research Institute University of Illinois

Thrilled to see our paper out in Scientific Reports! First targeted investigation of insect ancient DNA. We recovered endogenous content from samples as old as ~ 34,355 ybp! @entoaaron Smith Insect Bio Lab Drew Sweet Kojun Kanda Narodowe Centrum Nauki nature.com/articles/s4159…

Celebrating #NationalMothWeek with my first gravid Hypoprepia fucosa of the season! Always looking for more- fucosa or miniata. Contact me if you would like to help out and send some my way. Please RT if you have #moth friends! 🦋🐛🦋🐛

Thrilled to be part of the organizing team (along with Jorge Doña , @MESSorensen, Dragan Stajic, and Leo Laganenka) for this symposium at ESEB! We have a great lineup of keynote speakers and are looking for talks. Abstracts are due April 15! Please RT

Ran's Libeskind-Hadas review on event-based cophylogenetic methods is out! This review is a much-needed one, and it is highly recommended for those interested in doing a cophylogenetic study: mdpi.com/1547236 Life MDPI 1/2

This is the first paper of the SI on host-symbiont coevolution that Drew Sweet and I are co-editing (mdpi.com/journal/life/s…). Stay tuned for more articles on the topic. We continue to welcome submissions to the SI or the accompanying ESEB symposium (S39) 2/2

Congratulations to my FYE students who presented research at Create@Astate this week. Isabella Davis (with @CheloniaGirl), Ann Marie Covington (with Dr. McKay), Paige Brewer (with Drew Sweet), and Grant Dawson (with @CheloniaGirl). Awesome job! Arkansas State

Excited to see some of my postdoc work with CameronGenomes and Kevin Johnson out in Communications Biology! Mitogenome fragmentation evolved many times in parasitic lice, and is associated with relaxed selection and changes in nucleotide composition. nature.com/articles/s4200…

Our KASU radio interview for the UandI-DEECoDE project is now live! If you want to hear the story about how @matthews_ae 's PhD candidacy exam turned into an #NSFfunded graduate training grant, check it out :) kasu.org/show/a-state-c…

*POSTDOC ALERT* Postdoc Fellowship at Carleton College to work with me and @DanielBolnick @JessicaHiteBio Sebastian Schreiber on tapeworm transmission in stickleback, loons, and copepods! Ecology, Immunology, and Behavior! Official application will open soon. Apply! Please R/T.

The Fluker Lab and Sweet Lab (Drew Sweet) are seeking qualified applicants for a PhD Graduate Research Assistantship at Arkansas State University flukerlab.com/join-the-lab.h…

Spread the word (and/or apply!): PhD Assistantship with me and Brook Fluker at Arkansas State University.

I am recruiting for three graduate positions (MS and PhD) starting in Summer or Fall 2023 Arkansas State. Please RT and/or apply! sweetomics.com/join-the-lab

Only a few more weeks to apply for the graduate position in my lab working on grouse and their parasites in Alaska! Deadline is January 1.

📣 I'm recruiting!! 📣 Open position for a postdoc in disease ecology/evolution. Do you like birds, pathogens, or genomics? Do you want to work in the Galapagos? Apply by July 1 for best consideration. Start date flexible. Contact me for info & please RT! tinyurl.com/3x56e5jf

ONTbarcoder 2.0: Real-time DNA barcoding with MinION´s R10.4. Now you can find out what species are in your sample, while you are still sequencing. Get more and better barcodes faster than ever. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Thrilled to share our latest research on parasite effective population size! Evolution Letters. Check it out here👇

We're hiring a teaching-focused Assistant Professor (tenure track) in Environmental Biology! The Bio. Dept. at A-State is a wonderful group of educators and scientists, and our students are top-notch. Consider applying! phe.tbe.taleo.net/phe02/ats/care…