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Calling all insect researchers! 🪲
Our 2026 RFP is open. We're funding empirical work on farmed insect welfare—humane slaughter, stocking density, welfare indicators, husbandry SOPs, and more.
Grants up to $10K ($50K for exceptional cases).
EOIs due Aug 15 → arthropoda.org/call-for-proposals
Only one week left to submit an EOI to our current call for proposals! We’re excited to fund your projects on #shrimp and #arthropod welfare! 🪲🐜🪳🦐🦗🦂🐝
📅 Deadline reminder: Jan 15, 2026
Calling shrimp & aquaculture researchers! We're seeking proposals to address welfare challenges for Pacific white shrimps & giant tiger prawns in commercial aquaculture. 🦐
Just a few weeks left to apply!
Up to $10K–$50K available
Apply: bit.ly/3KVCwMR
Are you a researcher or industry expert with a deep interest in shrimp aquaculture?
The Arthropoda Foundation is hiring a Program Officer to scope and commission research that improves conditions for farmed shrimps! Remote, $75,000/year.
Learn more and apply: www.arthropoda.org/work-with-us
Calling all shrimp and aquaculture researchers! 🦐
We're funding research on Pacific white shrimp & giant tiger prawn welfare in commercial settings—work that could impact billions of animals.
Up to $10K ($50K for exceptional projects). EOIs due Jan 15, 2026.
Apply: bit.ly/3KVCwMR
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"Pain and Suffering in Farmed Animals" provides an accessible introduction welfare issues across a wide range of farmed species—including invertebrates like cephalopods, crustaceans, and insects. It also points to next steps for research and better management.
Read it here: bit.ly/40ZJ2qh
The IWRS is hiring! Help us build the infrastructure for invertebrate welfare research—from husbandry databases to educational resources. 🐛📖
Remote Research Scientist position, $55-60K. We will begin reviewing applications on March 15.
Learn more and apply here:
Insects aren’t ‘little robots’—so scientists are rethinking their welfare: Science chats with an entomologist and an expert in animal ethics who are monitoring how researchers report on the ethical treatment of insects. | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
New in @jexpbiol.bsky.social: bumblebees quickly learn to avoid flower colors paired with electric shock or salty water. But the memories don't fade equally—bees hold onto the shock association longer.
This suggests they may treat a potentially harmful cue differently from a merely unpleasant one.
The Arthropoda Foundation is currently hiring a Program Officer. Learn more below.
www.arthropoda.org
Arthropoda Foundation
Arthropoda Foundation
Know an amateur entomologist or invertebrate recorder? 🦋 We're offering up to $2,000 to help test and refine biological recording methods using 3Rs approaches. Need 2+ years experience. Deadline: Dec 1.
Learn more:
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Summary: Bumblebees rapidly learn to avoid aversive stimuli and remain flexible when an unpleasant taste is used as reinforcer, but a nociceptive stimulus reinforces avoidance behaviour such that beha...
