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Corey Callaghan @coreytcallaghan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Do you use #iNaturalist data in research—or advise students who do? We put together a practical guide to using iNaturalist data in scientific research, covering how to access, acquire, analyze, and attribute the data, with examples in R and Python. Paper: doi.org/10.1093/bios... #ecology

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Kaylin @kaylinchong.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Feeding has never looked this good 🍽️ We dive into structure and function of the mouthparts of the longhorn tick (Haemaphysalis longcornis) through multiple modes of imaging. Check it out here (doi.org/10.1002/jmor...)!

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Peter T. Rühr @peter-t-ruehr.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Congratulations, @atal-pande.bsky.social!!! This is amazing research on spider vision and morphology! 🎉🥳 Maybe the first time I'm saying it: I'm proud of you and the way you've been going since our first visit to Earwig Visual Systems some years ago! 🥰

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Lauren Sumner-Rooney @laurensr.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Beyond proud of @atal-pande.bsky.social, whose first PhD chapter is out now in @currentbiology.bsky.social! Atal shows that spiders that use their vision to hunt have convergently evolved similar eye arrangements, which imply lots of resampling of frontal space www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Hunting ecology predicts eye arrangements in the modular visual system of spiders

Vision is one of the most important senses used by animals and contributes to fundamental behaviors, including foraging, navigation, and mate detectio…

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Lauren Sumner-Rooney @laurensr.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

So excited to have received an #HFSPResearchGrant to study trilobite eyes with Luke Parry @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social and Gil Ju Lee (Pusan National University)!🥳 I'll be recruiting a postdoc @bristolbiosci.bsky.social - if 3D data, optical modelling, and fossils tickle your interest, stay tuned!

Close-up photograph of the trilobite Erbenochile, with visible schizochroal eyes. Image: Luke Parry

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Marion Segall @marionsegall.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Vous voulez faire une thèse sur l'évolution de la tête des squamates au Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle? C'est par ici: adum.fr/as/ed/voirpr... Interested in a PhD on the evolution of the head shape of squamates at the Museum of Natural History of Paris? Here you go: adum.fr/as/ed/voirpr...

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Peter T. Rühr @peter-t-ruehr.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Fresh from the Press! 🚨🤖 Kitchen #sponges release #microplastics during everyday dishwashing. In our OA paper we quantify this using #CitizenScience + lab experiments. 📄 doi.org/10.1016/j.en... I built the #robotic test stand to simulate sponge abrasion: meet #SpongeBot!

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Peter T. Rühr @peter-t-ruehr.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Many thanks to the organizers and friends for some amazing #morphology days in #Jena at #MM26!

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Jess Awad @parasitoidrex.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

INSECT TAXONOMY IN THE 21ST CENTURY @entsocamerica.bsky.social Online, April 27-29! Featuring keynotes from Rudolf Meier @rudolf-meier.bsky.social, Erinn Fagan-Jeffries, and Dominic Evangelista. Now accepting contributed talks! Grant deadline Feb 4, abstracts due Mar 6. entsoc.org/membership/b...

"Dark Linnaeus" - a portrait of the famous biologist with scary glowing red eyes

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Peter T. Rühr @peter-t-ruehr.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Exciting news! 🚨🎉 On February 5th, 2026, I will defend my PhD thesis on insect bite force - the method, the data, and its evolutionary implications - seasoned with some anecdotes from the field! 🐜🐝🐞 📈📉📊

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Universität Bonn @unibonn.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

🗑️ #ScienceSnack: Some 53,000 items of litter flow past Cologne daily in the Rhine – an amount many times larger than previously believed. That's the “dirty” result from a citizen science project led by @unibonn.bsky.social. Read more here: f.mtr.cool/mblomiuhmr © Simon Taal

Researchers standing on the "RheinKrake"“ — a floating litter trap installed in 2022 near the Zoobrücke bridge in Cologne. A large amount of trash can be seen that has already been collected by the “RheinKrake.”

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Peter T. Rühr @peter-t-ruehr.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

🚨🦗 Fresh from the press: The subgenual organ in the stick insect 𝘉𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘶𝘴 is part of an anatomically and functionally integrated mechanosensory organ complex, explaining how insects detect substrate-borne vibrations! 👉 OA paper link: doi.org/10.1002/cne.... 📜Uni Gießen & @unibonn.bsky.social

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Peter T. Rühr @peter-t-ruehr.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

#SICB2026 is starting soon! Join us on Jan 4th at 10:00 AM in A105 to hear about adaptive coupling across distinct life stages in insects!

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Biodiversity Heritage Library @biodivlibrary.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

🌱 BHL’s Call for Support soft-closes on Aug 31. 🧪 With @clirnews.bsky.social as our new fiscal sponsor, we now have an administrative & financial home, but we still need partners, hosts, funders & long-term investment to secure BHL's future. about.biodiversitylibrary.org/call-for-sup... #ILoveBHL

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Peter T. Rühr @peter-t-ruehr.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

I just uploaded my 1000th species to #inaturalist! Not sure which one it was exactly, but I'd like it to be one of these gems of #flies I shot for #bioblitz 2025 at the Bonn #botanicalgardens to capture their #biodiversity.

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Christine Sosiak @paleantologist.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Please come join us and help us unravel deep-time community dynamics in bugs and plants! Edmonton is a great city to live in and there are lots of different approaches to tackle these questions!

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Peter T. Rühr @peter-t-ruehr.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

🚨 Fresh from the press: Internal gonopod reconstruction in a new genus and species of millipedes from the Cretaceous: 𝑳𝒂𝒆𝒗𝒊𝒈𝒍𝒚𝒑𝒉𝒊𝒖𝒍𝒖𝒔 𝒑𝒂𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒌𝒎𝒖𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒓𝒊 (Diplopoda, Spirostreptida, Cambalopsidae): doi.org/10.1186/s133... 📜Leibniz-LIB, Blanke Lab

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Peter T. Rühr @peter-t-ruehr.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

🚨 Fresh in the press (but digitally available already): Ecomorphology of the insect head! Check out our book chapter with an extensive literature review on research on adult insect heads and mouthparts! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 📷: modified from Quang Nguyen Vinh 📜BlankeLab

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Peter T. Rühr @peter-t-ruehr.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

About a month ago I left the lab of @economo.bsky.social at OIST in Okinawa after three truly great weeks of studying ants with wonderful people there! Thanks again for this unforgettable time!

Workplace with a 3D model of an ant eye on one of the screens and an large ant macro photo in the background.

The skywalk leading to one modern lab buildings of OIST.

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Peter T. Rühr @peter-t-ruehr.bsky.social · 06/01/2024

🎆New Year, new domain! 🎆 From now on, PsyChild will be available at psychild.info - with secure TLS certificates for everyone to enjoy! 🔒

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