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Award nominations OPEN and a second virtual symposium

Dear ISH members,

  • The President of the Society is calling for nominations for the ISH Distinguished Research Medal and ISH Service Award (see details below). Nominations should be forwarded to the Secretary of the Society (n.dale-skey [at] nhm.ac.uk) by 30 March 2021, and will be submitted to a Selection Committee appointed by the President. The names of the recipients of the two ISH awards will be announced during an award ceremony at the end of the ISH 2nd Virtual Symposium
  • The Society’s second Virtual Symposium will be taking place on 6 May 2021 – with sessions taking place in several time zones; more information will be made available soon. Volunteers to help host/moderate the sessions and/or judge the students competition should contact the Secretary of the Society (n.dale-skey [at] nhm.ac.uk).

Best wishes,

Natalie Dale-Skey
Secretary, International Society of Hymenopterists

International Society of Hymenopterists Distinguished Research Medal

  • The medal is awarded to recognize outstanding research on Hymenoptera.
  • There is no restriction on candidates, beyond having made significant and distinguished research contributions to the study of Hymenoptera.
  • Candidates must be proposed by at least three Members  in good standing (i.e. who have paid their 2021 fees).
  • The nomination should include the name, curriculum vitae (including qualifications, career, distinctions and publications), and a statement of approximately 500 words explaining why the candidate merits the award.

International Society of Hymenopterists Service Award

  • The Award is to recognize service to the Society above and beyond what is considered a normal contribution by a Member to Society activities.
  • Any Member in Good Standing or previous Member of the Society is eligible for the award, including current members of the Executive Committee.
  • Candidates may be proposed by one or more Members in good standing (i.e. who have paid their 2021 fees).
  • The nomination should include the name of the nominee and a statement of approximately 300 words explaining why the candidate merits the award.
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New issue of Hamuli is here!

Many thanks to Carly Tribull, our illustrious editor, for the final issue of Hamuli for 2020!

Find stories, photos and updates from ISH members inside, including a farewell from our outgoing president, Barbara Sharanowski, and a message from our incoming president, Lars Krogmann.

Find the new issue, along with all other recent issues, here.

Remember that you need to be logged in and a financial member to access the newsletters – being the start of 2021, you may need to renew your membership!

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Student Prize Winners

Congratulations to our student prize winners from the 2020 ISH vitual symposia!

First Prize:

Cristina Vasilița, from University „Alexandru Ioan Cuza” in Iași: A rare genus calls into question the morphological monotony of Trissolcus Ashmead.

Joint Second Prize:

Lucas Hearn, from Flinders University, South Australia: Temporal variation in parasite pressure: niche partitioning of seven parasitoids driven by host resource utilisation.

Ernesto Samacá, from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México: Systematics and evolution of different phytophagous strategies in Allorhogas (Braconidae: Doryctinae) and other gall-associated related genera

Honorable Mentions:

Jessica Awad, from State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart: The Perils of Platygaster

Marina Moser, from State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart: Ancient amber meets modern methods: Using micro-CT scanning to describe new species of Spalangiopelta from Baltic amber

Jonah Ulmer, from State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart: The Waterston’s Organ of Ceraphronidae: A morphological barcode to a cryptic taxon

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2020 ISH Business Meeting and online symposium

ISH Business Meeting

The Society will be holding its annual business meeting online via Zoom on Thursday 12 November at 3:30 pm CST (UTC -6).

If you want specific items to be included on the agenda please contact our President Barbara Sharanowski (Barb.Sharanowski [at] ucf.edu) or Natalie Dale-Skey at n.dale-skey[at]nhm.ac.uk .

There is no registration required for the business meeting.

CLICK HERE to find the Zoom login information (you must be a financial member, and logged into the site to see the business meeting zoom details. Once you login, refresh the site if you still can’t see the page).

ISH online symposia

Register for the virtual symposia

PROGRAM: Download the pdf of the symposia program here (version current as of 10/11/2020

In addition, we are setting up three online symposia for current ISH members, to take place live on 12 November in three time zones. Sessions will not be recorded, so get your coffee ready to attend as many talks as possible. There will be a student prize (with two runner up prizes) that will be judged across the whole symposia.

Australasia – Start Time: 10:00 am JST (UTC +9)
Europe, Middle East, Africa – Start Time:10:00 am CET (UTC +1)
North, Central, and South America – Start Time: 10:00 am CST (UTC -6)

Registration for Symposia:

You must have up to date paid membership to ISH to attend and must register in advance. If you are unable to afford membership, please contact Barbara Sharanowski (Barb.Sharanowski [at] ucf.edu).

Call for Presentations: has closed.

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Student & Early Career members: survey + journal manuscript reviewer list

Are you an ISH member, and a student or Early Career Professional or Researcher? Shelby Kilpatrick, the society student representative, would like you to complete a survey by Friday 5th June 2020, so that she can learn about your interests and how she can support them:

https://forms.gle/ya7L7sf4k8hgZfP28

Miles Zhang, our Social Media Officer, has created a form for student and Early Career members who would like to be considered as a potential journal manuscript reviewers to sign up on: https://forms.gle/aUZDMw11GdtNhmms8. Please view the message at the top of the form for additional details. We hope that this form creates opportunities for our members!

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ICE postponed

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.

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Job Advertisement

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.