After consultation with the Entomological Society of Canada’s (ESC) Publications Committee and the ESC Executive Committee, we have instituted a new co-Editor-in-Chief model for management of Canada’s flagship entomological journal, The Canadian Entomologist Following an application process, we are happy to announce that Dr.…
My name is Dezene Huber, and I’m a professor in the Ecosystem Science and Management Program at the University of Northern British Columbia in Prince George (Canada).…
“The late Peter de Groot, a highly respected forest entomologist, likened the emerald ash borer Agrilus planipennis to the green wrestling persona of the character Bubbles on the TV comedy series the Trailer Park Boys.…
To mark the publication of the Emerald Ash Borer special issue from The Canadian Entomologist, guest editors Chris MacQuarrie and Krista Ryall from Natural Resources Canada have co-authored this blog post about the issue.…
My name is Kevin Floate. Back in 1985, I became a member of the Entomological Society of Canada (ESC) and found it to be a warm and supportive organization. …
The Editor’s pick from the Feburary issue of The Canadian Entomologist is Crowdsourcing for large-scale mosquito (Diptera: Culicidae) sampling by Elin C.…
With the arrival of the first day of December, receiving the Special Issue of Parasitology focused on “Advances in diagnostics for parasitic diseases” was a great way to start my festive run up to the Christmas break.…
This month saw the publication of a special issue of Parasitology entitled Heat shock proteins as drug targets in infectious diseases. …
The July article of the month from Parasitology is Can host ecology and kin selection predict parasite virulence? , Parasitology, Volume 141, issue 8, by Alyssa M.…
The pressing need for new drugs to treat microbial infections is the focus of the latest special issue of Parasitology on Emerging paradigms in anti-infective drug design.…
The recent special issue of Parasitology on Genetic and Genomic Approaches to Understanding Drug Resistance in Parasites is discussed here by Guest Editor Eileen Devaney.…
Canadian amber reveals bizarre ants from the Cretaceous – Editor’s Pick for TCE 145(4) | ESC-SEC Blog. It’s with great pleasure that I announce my pick for the latest issue of The Canadian Entomologist. …
Leptocephali are the remarkably transparent larvae of eels and their relatives, but they are rarely seen because they mostly live in oceanic waters. …
I am pleased to present the “Editor’s Pick” manuscript for the current issue of The Canadian Entomologist. This pick was a paper by Bob Lamb, Patricia MacKay and Andrei Alyokhin, titled “Seasonal dynamics of three coexisting aphid species: implications for estimating population variability” I had always admired the ongoing work on aphids, spearheaded by Bob and Pat.…
The Canadian Entomologists’ latest issue is devoted to Arctic Entomology, with guest editors Derek Sikes and Toke T. Høye putting together an excellent suite of papers on this topic. …
Posted by Morgan Jackson on February 21, 2013 in Academic, Canadian Entomology, Editor’s Pick, Research Blogging, The Canadian Entomologist (Journal) by Christopher Buddle, McGill University ————– As the Editor-in-Chief of The Canadian Entomologist, I have the pleasure of seeing all papers move through the publication process, from first submission to approval of the final proof. …
Sneak Peek: Some upcoming papers in The Canadian Entomologist Posted by Morgan Jackson on September 3, 2012 in Academic, Research, The Canadian Entomologist (Journal) By Chris Buddle, Editor-in-Chief, The Canadian Entomologist ———————– As Editor-in-Chief for The Canadian Entomologist, I have the privilege of knowing what papers will be appearing in our journal in the future… in this post, without saying too much, I wanted to give you a ‘sneak peek’ of what to expect in the future.…
My name is Chris Buddle – I’m an Associate Professor at McGill University, in Quebec, Canada, and the new Editor-in-Chief for The Canadian Entomologist.…
Cambridge University Press has announced that it will become the new home of The Canadian Entomologist from January 2012. “One of the best publishers in the business will now be marketing, publishing and distributing one of the oldest and most respected Entomological journals in the world – it’s a match made in Entomological heaven.”…
Archaeology and cultural heritage work have fully entered the digital age. Today, researchers rely on tools like 3D scanners, a variety of GIS software, and Lidar equipped drones to document the past in ways that were unimaginable just a few decades ago.…
Even though findings from genetics and other sciences unequivocally refute biological conceptions of race, this erroneous viewpoint remains widespread among the general public.…
The English language contains a wealth of insults and terms of abuse. Personal insults attack the core and immutable aspects of a person, such as their race, ethnicity, appearance, age, or a disability.…
A critical milestone for the archaeological ecosystem has been the publication this April of the National Archaeology Plan (NAP), part of a larger framework for cultural heritage that the Spanish Ministry of Culture has been developing for almost 40 years.…
The March article of Muses – the arts blog from BJPsych International is the first blog of the series. The blog is written by Dr Dami Ajayi, Specialty Doctor, Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust and Trainee/Blog Editor, BJPsych International.…
Some disability-related names have dropped out of usage, because they are now considered to be offensive due to their origins. Down Syndrome (Trisomy 21) is one example.…
The paper “The role of premenstrual syndrome in hedonic hunger and food craving during the menstrual cycle“, published in Journal of Nutritional Science, has been chosen as the latest Editorial Highlight and is freely available to download for one month.…
How long will humankind survive? Besides the fact that we have been able to eliminate ourselves with nuclear weapons for decades, even without a third world war, the challenge to take care of the resources of our planet remains; we need to use them in a way that our children and their children can have a place on Earth as well. In this blog post Andreas Losch discusses his recent review article in the International Journal of Astrobiology, The need of an ethics of planetary sustainability
It is an article of faith among ordinary Filipinos that American troops will die with Filipino troops defending Philippine claims to the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea (SCS).…
Q&A with Editor-in-Chief of the Precision Medicine Journal, Dame Anna Dominiczak, for International day of Women and Girls in Science
More and more research is finding inflammation as a potential contributing factor towards to the development of various mental illnesses. A systematic review was conducted to determine the association between parasitic infection and mental illnesses in various African populations. Two parasite groups were evaluated; helminths and protozoans, and four mental illness classifications; depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, schizotypal disorders and unspecified mental illnesses.
The March article of Muses – the arts blog from BJPsych International is the first blog of the series. The blog is written by Dr Dami Ajayi, Specialty Doctor, Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust and Trainee/Blog Editor, BJPsych International.…
This is the first post in our new series: “Conversations with Authors.” For our inaugural post, we asked Dr. Vesla Weaver to meet (virtually) with Dr.…
The English language contains a wealth of insults and terms of abuse. Personal insults attack the core and immutable aspects of a person, such as their race, ethnicity, appearance, age, or a disability.…
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