Miles Zhang | 张远濛

Join our 🏛️ museum @smnstuttgart.bsky.social 🇩🇪 as Curator & Research Group Leader for Hymenoptera 🐝🐜! Leverage >500k specimens to understand & conserve biodiversity 🧬 🔬 Collection research (NGS, micro-CT) 📌 path to tenure + habilitation 🤝 supportive community 🗓️ Apply by Nov 30 🔁 Please repost

Link to our recent preprint describing the unusually large genome of this wasp. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Ohio State is searching for an arthropod biologist (e.g. entomologist) at Associate/Full Professor level. They will join our Museum community and oversee the Triplehorn Insect Collection. osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/OSUCareers/j...

Please help spread the word -- our UM-EEB museums is hiring a digital artist/graphic designer to work with our communications team and create scientific illustrations for publications. Come work with us! careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

HYMATHON 2026 TALK REGISTRATION DEADLINE is in 2 DAYS, 21 OCTOBER!!

Amazing work by @ekarrnas.bsky.social on the phylogenomics of tiny Eulophidae wasps just out now in Systematic Entomology! doi.org/10.1111/syen...

Interested in speciation and from the UK? Apply for this PhD studentship to study speciation in snapdragons at UCL, supervised by Sean Stankowski and co-supervised by me! 👉 lnkd.in/eUBZBR-e Fieldwork in Spain, visits to Austria and much fun and flexibility to design your own projects guaranteed.

NCBI seems to be really understaffed at the moment, I've been waiting over almost two months for them to manually fix a submission that I cannot do on my end...

Join us for the 24 hour online conference on everything #Hymenoptera 🐝 🐜 , free to all ISH members! 🧪

I can’t be the only one thinking Katamari Damacy right? Mmm a 💩 🪲 sequel perhaps?

Did they ever announce this year’s mini-ARTS results for @systbiol.bsky.social ? I don’t think my student ever heard back…

I've complained on here a few times about synteny plots that are harder to read than they need to be. I decided it was time to actaully do something about it: introducing SynTangle, a tool for untangling whole-genome synteny plots github.com/Hanliconius/... 1/

I’m really happy to share that my invited review on social insect genome evolution, co-authored with @corriemoreau.bsky.social, is out now in @genomebiolevol.bsky.social 🐝🐜 This is the paper I wish I’d had when studying for quals in grad school, and was a ton of fun to write.

1/ New paper: doi.org/10.1126/scia... 🐜🧬 Ants exploded into >15,000 species just after the dinosaur-killing asteroid hit Earth. We think we've found one catalyst behind that radiation: transposable elements. With @jannelrinke.bsky.social, @esthervandenbos.bsky.social & others not on here. 🧵1/11

Um. The William Penn foundation offered bridge funding to keep the academy of natural sciences open for a year, and the people in charge said “no one is helping things by offering Band-Aids”. Jesus Christ. share.inquirer.com/KXxZTj

Join us through the Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship in EEB! Conduct your own research, mentored by 2+ EEB faculty. $65k salary + research/moving $. All areas of EEB welcome. Apply by 11/1 I co-chair this search and am happy to field questions Spread the word! eeb.msu.edu/initiatives/...

Come work here, it is a fun place and we would love to have you as our colleague: careers.amnh.org/postings/4923 #Lepidoptera #Insect #Entomology #AMNH

My lab @ Edinburgh university is recruiting a postdoc to work on the weird and wonderful germline-specific chromosomes of flies. elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... collaboration with @germline.bsky.social and yukiko yamashita funded by @novonordisk.bsky.social please repost!

The Martinson lab is looking for new PhD students! We have so much cool data and need help making sense of it all! If interested please contact me!

Please repost! Drexel announced that it will close the Academy of Natural Sciences public museum- the oldest nat history museum in the US. There are 2 petitions to support the academy. Please sign both & come to our rally Tues. actionnetwork.org/petitions/pe... www.change.org/p/the-academ...

Attention Philadelphia! We're hosting a rally to demand that Drexel University maintain The Academy of Natural Sciences Museum open to the public. Join us on Tuesday morning at 10am in front of the academy. Please spread the word, we need all hands on deck! RSVP here: luma.com/1qwnrqz2

— Have you ever wished you could see a wingless megaspilid wasp? Now you can check it off your bucket list. Happy (early) #WinglessWaspWednesday to those who celebrate! 🤓 FYI, its body length is ~0.8mm — #NaturalHistoryCollections #MacroPhotography #FocusStacking #Megaspilidae

I feel like I’m going to throw up

Wanna come to NHM Oslo and work on gall midges? Here is your chance 😁 #entomology #biology www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

We're looking for a plant pathologist 🌱 🍄 to join our department (cals.ncsu.edu/entomology-a...)! The position is fairly broad/open to different disciplines in plant pathology, but heavy in teaching. Please go to the following link for more info & to apply. jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/233...

My new book, Phylogenetic Biology, is now published. Available online for free at dunnlab.org/phylogenetic... . Physical copies can be purchased at shop.lightningsource.com/b/085?params... or your favorite bookstore.

We currently have TWO collections-based vacancies at National Museums Scotland! As part of the upcoming DiSSCo UK program, we’re seeking a Digitiser and Senior digitiser to work with our insect collection: careers.nms.ac.uk/vacancies (Apply by 31st August) #Digitisation #Insects #MuseumJobs

🚨Job alert🚨: Research Group Leader position in Entomology 🪰🦗 @smnstuttgart.bsky.social naturkundemuseum-bw.helixjobs.com/_/jobad?prj=...

Can't wait to see my fellow wasp nerds in CDMX next week! #ISH2026

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

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...

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!

🧪🐛🐝🐜🦋Come work with me! @romtoronto.bsky.social is hiring a Curator of Insects & Arachnids!!! #insects royalontariomuseum.applytojob.com/apply/mdMTpA...

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...