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Monika Eberhard

@monikaeberhard.bsky.social
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Lecturer at Uni Hamburg; Austrian in Germany; Biotremology; insects & spiders

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Ethological Society @ethoges.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New year, new conference! Registration for the next Annual Meeting of the Ethological Society is officially open! 🤩 Save the date, sign up, and join us in beautiful Konstanz 24–27 February, 2027 @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social www.ab.mpg.de/etho-2027
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Graceful Deer Hopping at Sunset
ALT: Graceful Deer Hopping at Sunset
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Mariella Herberstein (she/her) 🌈 @mherberstein.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Spider postdoc!!!!
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Barbara Klump @barbaraklump.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Join us in Vienna! We are looking for a PhD student and a Postdoc to investigate innovation in corvids within the “Comparative ecological innovation styles” project funded by @fwf-at.bsky.social. More info: barbaraklump.com Application deadline July 24th. Please share widely!
A carrion crow holding a walnut. Photo: @valentine-comin.bsky.social
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Morgan M. Oberweiser @mmoberweiser.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
📄New Paper!📄 Multimodal courtship in Nursery web spiders involves a nuptial gift AND vibrations. Do males adjust their investment in the vibratory signal based on how nice their nuptial gift is? Out now in @behavecol.bsky.social academic.oup.com/beheco/artic...
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Sam England @samjakeengland.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Out today in @royalsocietypublishing.org - we show that crab spiders (the ones you usually see ambushing pollinators on flowers 🕷️🌸) get worse at hunting if their eyes are covered!🫣 Sounds obvious? It's actually quite surprising, here's why... 👀 (1/8) royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...
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Universität Hamburg @uni-hamburg.de · 12/05/2026
🚮 6.400 Fundstücke, systematisch erfasst: 240 Erstsemester der Biologie und der Marinen Ökosystem- und Fischereiwissenschaften der UHH haben den Müll am Ufer der Außenalster untersucht. Die Daten werden von @nabu.de, @bund.net und der Stadtreinigung ausgewertet, um den Gewässerschutz zu verbessern.
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Müll zählen statt Formeln pauken
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Gabriele Uhl @uhl-lab.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
dzg-meeting.de/en/welcome-ms/ The Meeting of the German Zoological Society will take place in Münster from September 7 to 11! Abstract submission until June 15! 🧪
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Welcome | DZG Meeting
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Ahana Aurora Fernandez @ahanaaurora.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
📌Save the date: from 30.09-02.10.2026 the Joint Graduate Meeting in Animal Behaviour will take place @uni-muenster.de, sponsored by @ethoges.bsky.social and the DZG. No registration fees🤗 Take the chance, visit Münster, present your research, build and grow your peer network. More information soon
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Mariella Herberstein (she/her) 🌈 @mherberstein.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Come to Hamburg and do a PhD on insect/spider traits with me!
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Tobias Lenz @biotobi.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Please share: We are hosting the 2026 DZG evolutionary biology graduate meeting at Uni Hamburg on March 25-27: "Interactions and Coevolution: from Molecules to Species". #PhD students, early postdocs and advanced Master students in evolutionary biology are welcome to register! t1p.de/dzg2026evolbio
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DZG Neurobiology @dzg-neurobiology.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
🚨We are looking for neurobiologists who are interested in joining our team as section speakers of the German Zoological Society. If you enjoy interacting with your fellow neuro-addicts, want to help shape the direction of our society and section, and have a knack for organizing symposia let us know🚨
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Gabriele Uhl @uhl-lab.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
News on the function of tremulation: Female Pisaura mirabilis spiders are not appeased by the courtship tremulations of males - at least in our playback setup. Result of Stefan ter Haar's internship from Groningen led by @monikaeberhard.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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No Appeasement Through Vibrations: Male Vibratory Pre‐Copulatory Courtship in the Cursorial Spider Pisaura mirabilis Does Not Affect Female Predatory Response
Male courtship can serve various purposes such as species recognition, mate localization, or advertisement of individual quality and physical condition. In predatory species such as spiders, courtshi...
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Monika Eberhard @monikaeberhard.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Proud to present our new paper, led by Stefan ter Haar who came all the way from Groningen to Greifswald to study spiders: No Appeasement Through Vibrations: Male vibratory pre-copulatory courtship in Pisaura mirabilis does not affect female predatory response onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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No Appeasement Through Vibrations: Male Vibratory Pre‐Copulatory Courtship in the Cursorial Spider Pisaura mirabilis Does Not Affect Female Predatory Response
Male courtship can serve various purposes such as species recognition, mate localization, or advertisement of individual quality and physical condition. In predatory species such as spiders, courtshi...
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Gabriele Uhl @uhl-lab.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
rdcu.be/eSIHs We reported on the chemosensory toolkit of an Orb weaving spider in our PNAS paper earlier this year. Here, we report on a cursorial spider: similar, sex-specific sensory equipment and evidence for olfaction. 🧪🕷
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The chemosensory toolkit of the cursorial spider Pisaura mirabilis
Communications Biology - Discovery of chemosensory sensilla with different distributions on the body appendages and between the sexes of a cursorial spider, combined with evidence of olfactory mate...
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MultiplEye Lab @multipleye-lab.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Come and work with us in our new home @bristolbiosci.bsky.social ! This fully funded PhD opportunity is open to anyone interested in spiders/eyes/light pollution/evolution/development! 🕷️👀 ⏰Deadline 15th December, online info event TODAY @2pm! Link in the PhD advert👉 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Funded PhD - The impacts of light pollution on plasticity and evolution in spider visual systems at University of Bristol on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Funded PhD - The impacts of light pollution on plasticity and evolution in spider visual systems at University of Bristol, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Gabriele Uhl @uhl-lab.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Spiders that experience vibrations, visual stimuli, both or none during development do not differ strongly in the size of their brain areas. This is a surprising finding. Even more surprising is that siblings react alike. See our new publication in the J. comp. Neurology. doi.org/10.1002/cne.... 🧪🕷
We performed an experiment with two spider species, one web building and one cursorial species. Juveniles experienced vibrations or visual input or both or no stimuli. Their brain areas did not differ significantly. However, siblings reacted in a similar way.
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Tomer J. Czaczkes @tomerczaczkes.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
PhD position - How jumping spiders see - Put cute spiders on trackballs! - Program fancy automated experiments! - Do cutting edge research! - Hang out in beautiful Italian cities! - Be supervised by a super nice chap! Like invertebrate behaviour and computation stuff? You'll love this. Link in 🧵
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Morgan M. Oberweiser @mmoberweiser.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
The first chapter of my thesis is out now in Journal of Ethology! Check it out if you're interested in taking a deep dive into the vibrational signal of a very cute spider 🕷️〰️ Variation of vibratory performance during courtship of a cursorial spider: doi.org/10.1007/s101...
Face-first view of a brown spider with long legs. He is carrying a nuptial gift (silk-wrapped prey) in his chelicerae.
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Morgan M. Oberweiser @mmoberweiser.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
PhD position open with Dr. Jutta Schneider and @mherberstein.bsky.social in Hamburg, on sub-social behavior in crab spiders 🕷️ It even includes field work in Australia! Application deadline is 15 July, more info at the link: www.uni-hamburg.de/en/stellenan...
A crab spider with bright yellow/green prosoma and legs and a light brown opisthosoma sits on a leaf
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35th European Congress of Arachnology @35theca2025.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Dear all, the registration and abstract submission deadline is approaching in a few days! Friday June 20th at midnight!!! 🚨 Don't miss the chance to join us in a beautiful Zadar! 🌞https://event.fourwaves.com/eca2025/pages
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DZG 2025 Berlin @dzg2025berlin.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
REGISTRATION NOW OPEN 👋 Join us in Berlin for the Annual Meeting of the German Zoological Society! Visit our website for all the details: dzg-meeting.de Early Bird offers are available—register now to secure your spot! We look forward to seeing you in Berlin. #share #like
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Richard Merrill @dickmerrill.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Really excited that our DFG grant on the Speciation Genomics of Eye Size variation in *Heliconius* has been funded :) In the next weeks, I will post an advert for a PhD, but if you know of good students, please suggest they get in touch. Please repost.
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DZG 2025 Berlin @dzg2025berlin.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
👋 Looking forward to the 117th Annual Meeting of the German Zoological Society. Please like and share 🤩
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Gabriele Uhl @uhl-lab.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
doi.org/10.1073/pnas... Olfaction in spiders. We found that the wall pore sensilla in spiders look similar from the outside to those of insects, but differ ultrastructurally in various ways. Independent evolution! 🧪
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Olfaction with legs—Spiders use wall-pore sensilla for pheromone detection | PNAS
The sense of smell is a central sensory modality of most terrestrial species. However, our knowledge of olfaction is based on vertebrates and insec...
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Mariella Herberstein (she/her) 🌈 @mherberstein.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
We are hiring a new entomological curator in Hamburg at the Leibniz institute for the analysis of biodiversity change… Please share and apply!!! 8101202752.karriereportal.cloud/job/2024-20-...
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JernejP @jpolajnar.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Bringing more #biotremology to this platform. What is biotremology, you ask? Well I'm glad you did! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Biotremology
Animal communication, including that among humans, is fascinating in its efficiency, diversity and its complexity. The evolution of a communication si…
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Monika Eberhard @monikaeberhard.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Kinderuni @uni-hamburg.de - I had so much fun presenting my favourite topic - #biotremology to a great crowd of young people today. Many thanks to the organisers, this was such a great opportunity #wisskomm
Photo of a great audience and me on the stage, talking about BiotremologyMe, standing on the stage and about to give a presentation about Biotremology in the Audimax of Uni Hamburg.
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
“Most of the sounds out there have never been heard by humans, and you can literally go into a backyard in Missouri and hear a sound that no one has ever heard before.”
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Insects are making sounds the human ear can't hear. One Midwest scientist is listening
Thousands of insect species use vibrations to communicate. Now, in part because of the foundational research of a Midwestern biology professor, more researchers are exploring insect vibrational commun...
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Richard Merrill @dickmerrill.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Interested in Evolutionary Behavioural Genetics ... come join us by the Bavarian lakes in February! @chorlnev.bsky.social and I are organising a symposium on current advances to link molecular and behavioural variation across a broad range of animal taxa. Please Re-post! www.bi.mpg.de/etho-2025
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Etho 2025
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ASAB @asab.org · 07/11/2024
🪲Beetles!🧑‍🍼Parental care! 🔇Acoustic signals! 🐛Larvae! Our November #ASABEditorsChoice for the #AnimalBehaviourJournal: "The impact of acoustic signalling on offspring performance varies among three biparentally caring species" by Conrad et al. Read here: doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2024.08.014
Screen shot of an article: Animal Behaviour
Volume 217, November 2024, Pages 13-20. The impact of acoustic signalling on offspring performance varies among three biparentally caring species. Taina Conrad, Magdalena M. Mair, Julia Müller, Peter Richter, Sophie Schödel, Ann-Kathrin Wezstein, Sandra Steiger
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Julien L Bota @bota-jb.bsky.social · 07/08/2024
Absolutely thrilled that our Biotremology meets Klangkunst tour with the fantastic Chuchchepati Orchestra from last year has been released on vinyl! And I can hardly believe that @monikaeberhard.bsky.social and I were invited to write the foreword - what an honour! unitrecords.com/artists/chuc...
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