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Miles Zhang | 张远濛
@ymilesz.bsky.social
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🇨🇳🇨🇦🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | USDA Hilo 🌴 🥥 🌺| (mostly) Hymenoptera taxonomy, phylogenomics, and evolutionary ecology |

https://ymilesz.github.io/
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jingdi.bsky.social
Hi, I'm setting up a peer support platform for ECRs in ecology & evolution in China, aiming to address a huge problem --- academic burnout driven by hyper-competition and a system that often prioritizes elite background/title over actual research.

#ECR #AcademicSupport #科研互助 #ecology #evolution
November 9, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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gerlame.bsky.social
Applications are currently being accepted for UBC's ✨️ Biodiversity Postdoctoral Fellowship ✨️ (two positions!!), due Jan. 15

Please share far and wide 🚀

(See thread)
Postdoctoral Fellowship Opportunities
Biodiversity Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2-year (2026-2028) - 2 positions OPENAt UBC, we believe that attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce is key to the successful pursuit of excellence in resea...
biodiversity.ubc.ca
November 3, 2025 at 5:25 PM
ymilesz.bsky.social
The talented Devon Henderson just posted a new cartoon for Euderus set, see the original here:

www.facebook.com/share/1PC6ng...
Cartoon of Euderus set, the crypt keeper wasp wearing a dead host head around its neck, responding to an off screen comment of "nice costume!" with "thanks!"
October 31, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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merondun.bsky.social
Our new @science.org paper is out! Cuckoos and hosts are locked in a coevolutionary arms race over egg mimicry.

But how are these egg types inherited, and could this drive speciation? We sequenced hundreds of genomes to find out!

doi.org/10.1126/scie...

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Genomic architecture of egg mimicry and its consequences for speciation in parasitic cuckoos
Host-parasite arms races facilitate rapid evolution and can fuel speciation. Cuculus cuckoos are deceptive egg mimics that exhibit a broad diversity of counterfeit egg phenotypes, representing host-ad...
doi.org
October 30, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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lepphylo.bsky.social
Gelechioidea, that superdiverse superfamily of Lepidoptera that has been a super mess taxonomically, finally gets some structure at the family level with phylogenomics! Read all about it in our article led by PhD student @etkayapar.bsky.social !
resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Integrating Sanger and next‐generation sequencing data sheds light on phylogenetic relationships among gelechioid moths (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea)
The maximum-likelihood analysis of a phylogenomic dataset of 1767 protein-coding genes from 57 ingroup taxa yields a robust family-level topology for Gelechioidea, revealing novel among-family relat...
resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 30, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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jlsteenwyk.bsky.social
Look at how cute this town is where the workshop will be bsky.app/profile/jlst...
October 29, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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formicula.bsky.social
Dear colleagues,
I'd like to share a short new contribution on the application of highly complex site-heterogeneous models, in particular CAT-GTR, to phylogenomic inference. While this paper arises from a recent publication on the early-branching topology of ants...
Ant phylogeny is not resolved by the application of site heterogeneous models - Communications Biology
Communications Biology - Ant phylogeny is not resolved by the application of site heterogeneous models
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October 17, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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hymenopterists.bsky.social
📢HYMATHON TALK REGISTRATION DEADLINE IS NEXT FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24th 2025!

📌 Attendance Registration doesn't have a deadline.

👉To register a talk scan the QR code above or access the link in bio.
October 19, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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americanbeetles.bsky.social
🚨🪲 COOL JOB ALERT 🪲🚨
3-year position at the Western Australian Museum working on an awesome beetle phylogenetics project, starting at $105k dollarydoos per annum: search.jobs.wa.gov.au/page.php?pag...
October 15, 2025 at 4:10 PM
ymilesz.bsky.social
More wasps from Sichuan! This time we describe a new rose gall found on a protected endemic rose from China. We named the gall wasp Diplolepis nezha and its ichneumonid parasitoid Orthopelma aobing, after characters from the Chinese legend/popular animated film.

mapress.com/zt/article/v...
Movie poster of Nezha II featuring Ne Zha, with its head replaced by Diplolepis nezha Movie poster of Nezha II featuring Ao Bing, with its head replaced by Orthopelma aobing
October 9, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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asherdcutter.bsky.social
Toronto's ROM is hiring 2 new curators! Botany & Ornithology. Come be part of the Toronto EEB community, with cross-appt in my dept at UofT @romtoronto.bsky.social
royalontariomuseum.applytojob.com/apply/XBR2Yc...
royalontariomuseum.applytojob.com/apply/Sf2iAO...
Curator of Birds - Royal Ontario Museum - Career Page
Apply to Curator of Birds at Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, ON, Canada.
royalontariomuseum.applytojob.com
October 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
ymilesz.bsky.social
Anyone know what this little carrier-crab-like thing is? Asking for a friend, found during a survey in Southern New England. cc @jopabinia.bsky.social
October 9, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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pbeasleyhall.bsky.social
Calling #ICZN people: we had a #taxonomy paper come out w/ literally dozens of publisher errors. Told it can’t be fixed online as that’s against the Code & needs a lengthy correction notice. 😤 imo that would make it even less accessible - is it really our only option?
October 8, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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hymenopterists.bsky.social
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📢 THE 11TH CONGRESS OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF HYMENOPTERISTS WILL BE IN MEXICO CITY IN 2026!

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📢 EL XI CONGRESO DE LA SOCIEDAD INTERNACIONAL DE HIMENOPTERISTAS SE CELEBRARÁ EN LA CIUDAD DE MÉXICO EN 2026!
October 7, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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markklwong.bsky.social
Excited to share a PhD opportunity in my upcoming lab at The University of Sydney!
Join an ARC-funded project on the ecology of ant invasions in 2026 🐜
🇦🇺 Live in Sydney, ant around Australia
🌍 Intl + Domestic applicants welcome
markwongecology.com/join
#PhD #Ecology #Biodiversity
Pls share, thx 🙏
Join — Sydney Functional Ecology
markwongecology.com
October 3, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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petermoonlight.bsky.social
Calling botanical researchers, the School of Natural Science at Trinity College Dublin is hiring a tenure track Assistant Professor in Plant Biodiversity and Conservation.

I know this is someone's dream job, so let me know if that is you and you want to chat!

my.corehr.com/pls/trrecrui...
Trinity College Dublin Herbarium
October 1, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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daveyfwright.bsky.social
🚨We're hiring! The Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History is seeking a tenure-track split position as Assistant Curator of Ichthyology and Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences. Please retweet & share with colleagues! 🐟🐠🧪

Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/174674
A job ad with multiple images, including the exterior of the museum, a view of collections (jars on shelves), and pictures of some cool, tropical fish but I don't know enough about fish to describe them other than to say they're pretty colors of yellow and blue/green
October 2, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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kaycebell.bsky.social
Some of you reached out after seeing this post and it has led to some promising leads! A re-up for this week in case someone with louse samples hasn't seen it yet! Many thanks and I'm happy to answer questions!
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kaycebell.bsky.social Kayce Bell @kaycebell.bsky.social · Sep 23
Hi! We need lice for our diversity and adaptation project. Specifically, we need lice from zebras, camelids (camels, llamas, alpacas, vicuñas, guanacos) & aardvarks. If you or someone you know might have lice, I'm happy to discuss our inclusive collaboration plans!
sites.google.com/nhm.org/anop...
Mammals & Lice
We are interested in understanding what drives host-parasite relationships. We are using the Anoplura (sucking lice) parasite and mammalian host system to generate a comprehensive sucking louse phylog...
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September 29, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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jlsteenwyk.bsky.social
#PhyKIT update! v2.1.2

9 functions have been #optimized 🏃💨

Speed ups range from 1.34 - 17.9x faster!💥

Many thanks to #Codex for the helping hand👋😄
September 25, 2025 at 4:34 PM
ymilesz.bsky.social
One of the few small projects I did as a visiting scientist at Sichuan University last year: A new species of bramble gall wasp, first record of the genus for China. The real diversity is likely much higher given the richness of Rubus in the area.

www.mapress.com/zt/article/v...
A new species of gall wasp Diastrophus Hartig, 1840 (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) from Sichuan, China | Zootaxa
www.mapress.com
September 24, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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brandonswhitley.bsky.social
Please share widely! The Natural History Museum Denmark @nhmdk.bsky.social is offering a PhD fellowship in collection-based Natural History Research, focused on dark taxa & unknown species, pref. including representatives of Danish flora, fauna or geology.

candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
PhD fellowship in collection-based Natural History Research
Natural History Museum Denmark Faculty of SCIENCE University of Copenhagen   Natural History Museum Denmark invites applicants for a PhD fellowship in coll
candidate.hr-manager.net
September 15, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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scottpegan.bsky.social
The Dept. of BioSciences at #RiceUniversity, in Houston, Texas, invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position in Evolutionary Biology, with a preferred focus on organismal responses to environmental change. Please RT!

Apply: apply.interfolio.com/173889
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September 12, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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inaturalist.bsky.social
'Tis the season to search for lumps on plants, aka galls! These growths are created in response to other organisms — often insects, fungi, or bacteria — injecting their chemicals into the plant. 🧵⤵️

Join the gall celebrations: tr.ee/ziMCEH
This gall looks like something you'd imagine a mythical fairy-like creature living in. It's shaped like a mushroom and has a small hole in the front. The stem of a plant has a couple round growths with small holes in them.
September 10, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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bertonemyia.bsky.social
**Attention fly enthusiasts!** We're looking for presenters for the Dipterists Society General Meeting at ESA @entsocamerica.bsky.social in Portland, OR (November 11th)

If you're interested in giving a talk, please DM me for a link to submit a title/abstract. Deadline to submit is October 10th.
September 10, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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lizmillermacroevo.bsky.social
Ohio State is searching for an entomologist at the Associate/Full level!

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Martha N. and John C. Moser Chair in Arthropod Biosystematics and Biological Diversity
Screen reader users may encounter difficulty with this site. For assistance with applying, please contact hr-accessibleapplication@osu.edu. If you have questions while submitting an application, pleas...
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September 9, 2025 at 6:18 PM