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One of New Guinea's pretty ant species is Tetramorium fulviceps. Quite common across the whole island, lives in dead wood on ground and leaf litter. There seem to be several undescribed species related to it.

The sad reality of today's Mexico. If you're en environmentalist or just vocal about conservation, you have high chance to get killed. This time a biology student from Oaxaca. One of many, just this year. laizquierdadiario.mx/La-violencia-c…

Stunning misinterpretation by Clarivate/@WebOfScience in their decision to suppress citation counts for all papers in Zootaxa updates. This damages the entire field of zoological taxonomy, and in particular researchers from developing countries.

An inventory of plants for the land of the unexpected nature.com/articles/d4158…

This week, #UFBugs PhD student, Jason Williams, suffered the sudden death of his wife, Shani. If you can help at this heartbroken time, this GoFundMe campaign is raising funds for a funeral and memorial befitting her. gf.me/u/y36ax3.

I am offering a fully funded, #Covid-proof PhD opportunity in #phylogenetics #plants #insects and global crop #pests with a great team of cosupervisors including, on Twitter, @AlbertPhillimo2 and Greta Bocedi. 🐛🌾🪲🌿🪰🌱.... Here's the link: bit.ly/2IokqT2

Full profesor of insect taxonomy, Germany uni-hohenheim.de/en/job-opening…

I will be recruiting PhD and MSc students this winter interested in developing and applying new computational methods to ask fundamental questions from fossil, morphological, and phylogenomic data. Please get in touch if you are interested in helping start up our lab University of Toronto EEB!

In terms of #myrmecological books that are important identification resources and regional guides to #ants what am I missing from the list below? (bearing in mind this doesn't include taxonomic papers with keys - that would be a loooonngg thread)

Ending the war means thinking more about the Ukrainian people and their future, and and worrying less about problems that Putin does not in fact have. 17/17

Our planet is positively teeming with “little things that run the world”-invertebrates. Yet, it has been a challenge to see the big picture of how invertebrate diversity is distributed around the globe. Happy to share that, finally, we have a detailed view for one group: ants.

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…

New preprint from the lab, in which nematodes related to C. elegans ambush ants, infect their head, and change their behavior. tinyurl.com/yckek3fu. Lead by Zimai Li 荔枝麦, with Erik Frank, T. Schmitt, Arilab, F. Azuma, Darren J. Parker, T. Oliveira-Honorato, V. Bachmann

MSc in Ecology program which I co-organize admits students twice a year with the nearest application deadline on 18 May 2023. The program is fully in English and emphasizes MSc project, biostatistics and excursions. Get in touch and apply if interested! prf.jcu.cz/ecology

PhD position at Dept. Zoology, Palacky University Czech Rep. Diversity and systematics of Melanesian ants Reqs -experience in insect systematics and morphology -analytical skills or experience with phylogenetics CV & motivation letter by April 20 2023 [email protected]

Does Medicare pay for Alzheimer’s drugs? The answer is complicated and changing fortune.com/well/non-us/20…

So so sad: California Ph.D. student's research trip to Mexico ends in violent death: "He was in the wrong place" - CBS News cbsnews.com/news/gabriel-t…

Academics on X - I really used a lot this sign to indicate the unpublished results not to be shared in my lectures. How do I cross X now? Elon Musk