The Society held it’s annual business meeting online via Zoom on Thursday 12 November at 3:30 pm CST (UTC -6) alongside the first online symposia program, which from 2021 was coined ‘Hymathon’.
Online symposia for current ISH members took place live in three time zones.
Thanks to our fabulous editor, Carly Tribull, the new issue of the society newsletter is published and available for your reading pleasure!
You can find a copy of the newsletter here (remember that you will need to be a member of the society and signed in to access recent newsletters).
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For information: the International Congress of Entomology has been postponed until July 2021 (see information on https://ice2020helsinki.fi/). For people who intended to attend and present, note in particular that
* already accepted abstracts remain accepted, and can be freely edited by authors to reflect new research, until April 30, 2021.
* submission deadline for new abstracts is extended until the end of February 2021.
Information on the ISH business meeting and symposium that was scheduled to take place during the Congress will be circulated at a later stage.
Dear Hymenopterists
We now have a date for our Symposium during the International Congress of Entomology in Helsinki: Thursday 23 July from 2pm.
The program will be circulated once it is finalised
Dear Hymenopterists
The Natural History Museum, London, is looking for a Hymenoptera curator:https://careers.nhm.ac.uk/templates/CIPHR/jobdetail_1902.aspx
Please note the deadline is next Wednesday 18 March (9 am).
The 2020 recruitment campaign for researchers’ position at the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle is open from Tuesday, February 25, 10 a.m. to Thursday, March 26, 2020, 4 p.m.
The job profile 4161 : MCMU Interactions biologiques, adaptations et diversification chez les hyménoptères (research and curation of MNHN Hymenoptera collection)
can be seen on:
– “Galaxie” portal of the Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation
https://www.galaxie.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/ensup/cand_recrutement.htm
– Museum’s website
https://www.mnhn.fr/fr/recrutement/enseignants-chercheurs-ater
Applicants must register on Galaxie and upload their
documents online. No spontaneous application will be accepted, nor any paper
document.
Please note that applicants must necessary bee already registered on the
qualification list of French lecturers (Maitres de Conférences) corps
The selection committees should be held between April and June 2020.
The ISH Executive is excited to announce that lasi, Romania has been selected as the location for the 10th International Congress of the Society.
Congratulations to Lucian Fusu, Mircea-Dan Mitroiu and Ovidiu Popovici.
More details will be published in the next issue of Hamuli.
A post from our new newsletter Editor, Carly Tribull:
A lot of us use passive trapping, like Malaise Traps, and so get tons of Hymenoptera (and other insects) that sadly sit in catch-jars, never to be used. It would be nice if we could figure out a way of passing by-catch along from one hymenopterist to the next so that less specimens go to waste. I’m imagining a situation where you remove your study specimens first, then remove the remaining Hymenoptera and place them in a 25-30ml falcon tube (if I recall correctly, this is the cutoff for ‘small quantity exceptions’ for shipping specimens), and ship it to the first Hymenopterist in the migration chain. They take what they want, provide you with data/vouchers (as requested), and ship the tube on to the next person. Alternatively, if you want to skip the labor of picking out Hymenoptera, you can send all the by-catch (who knows, maybe the Hymenopterist works next to a Coleopterist?).
This will likely be impossible across international borders, but I’m guessing we can figure out some neat domestic sharing. A lot of us can’t afford to regularly travel to places like the CNC or other traditional by-catch repositories, and it could be useful for folks who need super fresh samples for DNA.
If you are interested in participating, please fill out the following Google Document spreadsheet here (you must be a member of ISH to view the page).
Dear Hymenopterists,
The Natural History Museum, London, is looking for a senior curator of bees. Details can be found here: https://careers.nhm.ac.uk/templates/CIPHR/jobdetail_1864.aspx Please note that the deadline is on 29 January.
