🚨Job Opening🚨 Cornell University’s Dept. of Entomology seeks an Assistant Professor - Field Crops Entomologist for a 9-month, tenure-track position in Ithaca, NY (60% Research/40% Extension)! A great opportunity to develop IPM research & extension programs for field crops. Join a multi-campus collaborative team focused on sustainable pest management.
📝 Apply by Jan 2, 2025! @McArtLab@PovedaLab@chloecho_31 @NYSIPM @tiniguacareers.entsoc.org/jobs/2076…
We deserve better than an “AI”-powered future.
I highly recommend this piece by Jane Raffino (and thanks to Ed Yong for including it in his newsletter).
There is no ethical way to use “AI” (= ChatGPT & co)
characterworks.co/blog/we-de…
Please help make future academic conferences better and more accessible by completing this survey from ECODIVE: tinyurl.com/ecodive
Anyone who does anything related to #ecology/environmental #science and has opinions about conferences should contribute!
ALT Poster with QR code to survey. Text reads: ECODIVE’s (Evaluating Conferences for Diverse Engagement) goals are to evaluate how conferences are serving ecologists and environmental scientists, and how future conference design in these fields can best meet the needs of diverse organizations and individuals. Help make future conferences better and more accessible! Join our survey: <link>. For more information: https://ecodiveconferences.org
For the 1st of #Arachtober, here’s a Joro spider from the field today snacking on a sulfur butterfly!
Shoutout to @AAS_arachnology and @clemsonpostdocs for supporting my Joro 🕷️work!
New paper led by @janean_sharkey reports 7 new #bee species records for 🇨🇦 from collections made in tallgrass prairie & oak savanna habitats in S. Ontario. Further evidence why studying & conserving #insects in these vulnerable habitats is so important: journal.lib.uoguelph.ca/inde…
📢We got a grant!! @SSHRC_CRSH will be funding our research on Knowledge Waste
Uniquely, we seek a Masters' student with transdisciplinary skills for the call 👇
We propose to work in partnership with the community of Panniqtuuq to develop strategies for contextualized waste management
Please apply by September 20 if possible
#AcademicLife@AcademicChatter
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ALT Call for applicants – Master’s in Engineering or Environmental Studies or other discipline if applicable
Project: The pilot project proposes a new interdisciplinary collaboration between an Inuk Knowledge Holder and community leader, a Nunavut Hamlet Mayor, a civil engineer, a biologist, a sociologist, and a Master’s graduate student. While we have never worked together as a team, what unites our proposed collaboration are the longstanding observations of the worsening waste crisis in Nunavut communities – with two members of our directly experiencing this crisis daily – and growing concerns with the failure of successive academic, industry, and government recommendations and interventions to reduce waste in communities. The project will build on an already established partnership with the Hamlet of Panniqtuuq.
Start date: January 2025
How to apply: Please send your CV and a cover letter to jamie.vangulck@queensu.ca, by September 20, 2024
The Beaty Centre for Species Discovery at #MuseumOfNature invites applications for the Visiting Student Awards, a #TravelGrant program for graduate student doing research on plant, animal, mineral and fossil systematics.
Learn more and apply today 🔗 nature.ca/en/our-science/bea…
Looking for a reference on the importance of #spiders to humans and ecosystems?
Check out our preprint on "Ecosystem services provided by spiders", led by @cardosopmb! @CE3CResearch#SpiderTwitter 🕷️
Registration deadline has been extended for AAS 2024 in Chetumal, Mexico! See you soon in the Maya world.
- AAS 2024 committee 🕷️🕸️
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
InsectaBio is excited to announce FOUR travel awards for students planning to present a talk or poster at the Entomological Society of America 2024 meeting in Phoneix, AZ! Application due Aug 1, 2024!
Details: docs.google.com/document/d/1…
Application: forms.gle/kGhjcFB8MgH4sgU4A
I have uploaded quite several new Ethical Ento-Mounts to my website. Many frames available, including this beautiful piece, showcasing insects I reared over the few last years. Get them here:
gilwizen.com/shop/
There have been many conversations about leadership and challenges of tokenism and glass cliffs. Thought I'd share my thoughts here. Anyone else struggling with these issues?
Shifting to the outside: Why racialized leaders choose to walk away linkedin.com/pulse/shifting-…
#Budget2024 💰 makes the largest investment in 20+ years for grad students & postdocs! It will support financial needs, boost mental well-being, allow focus on research, & promote diversity by easing barriers for underrepresented groups. 🎉💪🏽#SOSBudget2024
LGBTQ+ folks in STEM (academia, research industry): the LGBTQual+ project is looking for more study participants for focus groups (including online) and/or workshops in the UK and US discussing inclusion and retention in STEM fields/careers:
lgbtqual.com/call-for-partic…