How do traits determine invasiveness among populations and species? We seek a PhD applicant (start date prior to 30/06/25; fully funded PhD position) to explore this question using our model blowfly system! Details at: waikato.ac.nz/research/find-… Please RT!

📢Five upcoming #seminars, including this Wednesday by David Shuker (University of St Andrews)! 📢 Wide range of upcoming seminar topics:🐛#insect mating and evolution,🦠#microbe transport, 🌳#forest systems, and 🌊#ocean thermoclines. waikato.ac.nz/research/insti…

Join us today (12-1pm) for an ERI #seminar by Dr. David Shuker (University of St Andrews). He will share sexual selection and behavioural #ecology insights from two decades of studying #Lygaeus bugs. To RSVP (in-person The University of Waikato 🎓 or via Zoom): forms.office.com/r/n04ruKG7fb

I am going to post this multiple times. If you want to see the true beauty of a Aotearoa-New Zealand peat bog a short video by drone. vimeo.com/560708202 Shout out to Ngati Hako as kaitiaki

I'm seeking a PhD student for a funded scholarship to explore the role of cuticular hydrocarbons in sexual signaling & the trade-off between desiccation resistance & communication in NZ giraffe weevils. More details here: chrissiepainting.com/opportunities/ Please help spread the word!

🚀 To boldly go where no #microbe has gone before! 🔬 Join us tomorrow (12-1 pm) for a #seminar by Professor David Schmale III (Virginia Tech) titled, "Transport of Microbes at Interfaces". For in-person (The University of Waikato 🎓) or Zoom attendance: forms.office.com/r/qF9PQjpaR8

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🌲 Join us Monday (2 Sept, 12-1pm) for a seminar by Graham McCulloch (University of Otago) about how #deforestation is impacting endemic #insect evolution in Aotearoa New Zealand. 🐛 To RSVP (for in-person The University of Waikato 🎓 or via Zoom): forms.office.com/r/YtaF4xwjz8

Closing date for #PhD research position 31st August. Learn about N2O emissions during fallow periods between permanent pastures in #NZ . Apply multiple methods in an established team. nzagrc.org.nz/domestic/capac…

🐛If insect #evolution changes in a #forest, does anyone notice? 🌳 Join us Monday (2 Sept, 12-1pm) for a seminar by Graham McCulloch (Graham McCulloch University of Otago) about how #deforestation impacts endemic #insect evolution in Aotearoa. RSVP (The University of Waikato 🎓 or Zoom): forms.office.com/r/YtaF4xwjz8

Join us! 2 year #postdocposition on CO2 capture by enhanced rock weathering on grazed pastures using eddy covariance in an established teams waiber.com and habitablearth.com. Field scale assessment of C balance and N2O fluxes. waikato.ac.nz/int/about/care…

Does warming erode network stability and ecosystem multifunctionality? We discuss the major gap in research on how warming will affect the capacity of food web structure and function to resist and recover from future disturbances Trends in Ecology & Evolution authors.elsevier.com/a/1jh7x_3sj9ip…

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Great to have Graham McCulloch as a guest speaking about anthropogenic evolution in some of New Zealand's endemic stoneflies #rapidevolution

Hey students looking for PhD opportunities 👋 I'll be at ISBE2024 in Melbourne in a few weeks time & would love to chat to you about a funded scholarship I have looking at CHCs & sexual signaling in giraffe weevils & how climate change may affect them. waikato.ac.nz/research/find-…

🌲Save the date (Wed 18 Sept, 12-1pm) for a seminar by our very own A/Prof Chris Lusk (The University of Waikato 🎓)! He will shed some light on the relationships of #mycorrhiza #fungi and #forests in Aotearoa.🌲 Registration (in-person or Zoom): forms.office.com/r/GWHEsx2vfD

Join us next Wednesday for the next ERI Seminar about #forests and #fungi by A/Prof Chris Lusk (The University of Waikato 🎓)!

PhD alert! We have two fully funded PhD opportunities examining coupled biogeochemical and physical processes in freshwater river/lake systems. The positions are The University of Waikato 🎓 University in beautiful Aotearoa-New Zealand. Environmental Research Institute Adam Hartland Lincoln Agritech ASLO Opportunities

🌳Forests. Fungi. Feedbacks of nitrogen and light.🌳 Join us tomorrow (12-1pm) for a #seminar by A/Prof Chris Lusk (The University of Waikato 🎓)! He will explore the relationships of #mycorrhiza #fungi and #forests in Aotearoa. Registration (in-person or Zoom): forms.office.com/r/GWHEsx2vfD

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