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LIB @leibnizlib.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Millions of flies, millions of untapped stories: A survey of 16 major European natural history collections estimates they hold 26–35 million Diptera specimens - an enormous resource for understanding biodiversity, past & present. #LIBresearch © Nania et al., CC BY 1/3
Four charts show: (A) bar chart of number of NHCs in Europe where Diptera families account for at least 10% of Diptera specimens, (B) world map with NHC locations and number of institutions with active sampling projects in biogeographic realms, (C) bar chart of NHC research topics with species diversity as scale, (D) bar chart of number of NHCs by project geographic scale.
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DZG SysBioDiv @dzg-sysbiodiv.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Our #SysBioDiv keynote speakers truly impressed yesterday at #DZG2026! Thanks to Daniela Mera-Rodriguez (Uni Hohenheim) and Sven Rossel (Senckenberg am Meer) for their excellent talks on leaf-cutting ant #biodiversity #socialparasitism 🐜🌿 and #proteomics species identification 🧬🦐🪼
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pmichalik.bsky.social @pmichalik.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
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First characterization of copulatory mechanics in camel spiders (Solifugae) using microCT
Abstract. The Solifugae, commonly known as camel spiders, represent an underexplored group of arachnids characterized by a significant diversity in genital
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pmichalik.bsky.social @pmichalik.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
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Micro-CT analysis reveals directional genital asymmetry in a mygalomorph spider with two different sperm-storage organs (Araneae: Mecicobothriidae)
Abstract. Sexual selection is a pervasive evolutionary force shaping the extraordinary diversity of animal genitalia, often driving rapid morphological div
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pmichalik.bsky.social @pmichalik.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
academic.oup.com/evolut/artic... New paper about the fascinating fishing spiders!
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Extreme sexual size dimorphism correlates with proxies of postcopulatory sexual selection across selected Dolomedes fishing spiders
Abstract. Sexual size dimorphism (SSD) and mating system diversity are key factors shaping reproductive evolution, yet their relationships with post-mating
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Rob Waterhouse @rmwaterhouse.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Chromosome-scale #genomes from newly sequenced spiders & the whip scorpion, the genetic basis of spinneret emergence in spiders & the complex history & functional importance of arachnid genome #evolution www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #biodiversity #genomics
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An ancient genome duplication event drives the development and evolution of spinnerets in spiders
A genome duplication event during the Silurian played a crucial role in the evolutionary emergence of spinnerets in spiders.
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Daniela Rößler @roesslerdaniela.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
🕸️ The #silk of this gorgeous little cribellator is not your standard silk - read @evoimec.bsky.social new study here: doi.org/10.1073/pnas... 🕸️
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Daniela Rößler @roesslerdaniela.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
🕸️ Massive web stretch from our cribellating friend (Asianopis subrufa) recorded in the field. If you’re intrigued by this fabulous #spider #silk read on doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2529200123 by @evoimec.bsky.social et al :) 🕸️
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Evolutionary Biomechanics lab Greifswald @evoimec.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Media Release by @unigreifswald.bsky.social www.uni-greifswald.de/en/universit...
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Unravelling Spider Silk: What High-Tech Fibres Can Learn from Nature
What makes spider silk so extraordinarily strong and elastic at the same time? This was the focus of recent investigations carried out by researchers from the University of Greifswald, the University ...
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Informationsdienst Wissenschaft - idw @idw-online.de · 27/01/2026
Unravelling Spider Silk: What High-Tech Fibres Can Learn from Nature What makes spider silk so extraordinarily strong and elastic at the same time? This was the focus of recent investigations carried out by researchers from the University of Gre... weiterlesen
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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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ZooKeys @zookeys.pensoft.net · 30/12/2025
Natural history museums "play an important role as witnesses to the ever so vanishing diversity of organisms." Here is some data on the arachnological collection of the Natural History Museum of Bern in Switzerland: doi.org/10.3897/zook... @unibe.ch
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Thomas MacGillavry @thomasmacgillavry.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
As an early Christmas gift, @journal-evo.bsky.social accepted @kenstoyama.bsky.social and my paper on macroevolutionary patterns of ornament evolution in birds of paradise! 🦚 Check it out here: academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...
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Allometry, sexual dimorphism, and sexual trait elaboration in the birds of paradise
Abstract. Sexually selected traits include not only some of the most elaborate phenotypes in nature, but also some of the most diverse and sexually dimorph
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Science Magazine @science.org · 20/12/2025
Bark spiders are some of nature’s best engineers. They spin webs that stretch across entire rivers in Madagascar; their silk is stronger than steel—and the toughest on Earth. But only females craft the mightiest webs, according to a new study. scim.ag/4pmXX8B
The strongest spiderweb on Earth is spun only by females
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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 04/12/2025
We're excited to announce the finalists of the #RSPPhotoComp 2025! 🎉 Starting with #microimaging and overall winner, 'Mesmerizing spider threads' by Dr Martin Ramirez, capturing two exceptional silk threads of the Australian net-caster spider (sample obtained by Dr Jonas Wolff @evoimec.bsky.social).
'Mesmerizing spider threads' by Dr Martin J. Ramirez, captures two exceptional silk threads of the Australian net-caster spider, Asianopis subrufa.
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Matjaž Gregorič @matjazgregoric.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
New paper on bark spiders, who build the largest webs made out of the toughest silk. We show that their extremely tough silk, which is potentially metabolically costly, is limited to large females. Juveniles and males use inferior silk.
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LIB @leibnizlib.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
#LIBresearch: A new review explains that speciation doesn’t follow one universal pathway — instead, multiple interacting processes shape how new species emerge across environments and evolutionary contexts. → doi.org/10.1111/mec.... #speciation #evolution #biodiversity ©Adobe Stock, studio
A collection of various garden snails with detailed brown and striped shells, depicted from multiple angles and perspectives.
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ISBE2026 @isbe2026.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Meet our Plenary Speaker Daniela Rößler Fueled by curiosity and a deep love of natural history Daniela discovered a REM-like sleep state in spiders and uses integrative field, lab and comparative approaches to investigate the function, ecology, and evolution of sleep across the spider tree of life.
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James Chisnall @chizz13.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
This Male Walckenaeria acuminata may be common but its a fantastic looking spider, since getting into Linys this Genus is so fasinating. And its great that the male and female of this species can be Identified with a hand Lens. @britishspiders.bsky.social
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Pensoft @pensoft.net · 14/11/2025
🎉 BROKEN RECORD! 🕸️ The recent discovery of a 100,000- #spider “megacity” on the border between Greece and Albania, published in our #openaccess, peer-reviewed journal @subtbiol.pensoft.net, became the most popular article across our entire #scientific portfolio, outperforming ~27,000 articles! 👏
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Record-breaking success: Study on spider megacolony is the most popular article published by Pensoft
In less than a month, a paper in Subterranean Biology surpassed nearly 27,000 Pensoft studies in popularity.
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Greifswald Mire Centre @greifswaldmoor.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
💦 Weiter geht’s in der Vortragsreihe „Neue Moorlandschaften“! Am 17. Nov, 18 Uhr spricht Dr. Tjorven Hinzke über: „Wer isst wen in wiedervernässten Mooren?“ 📍 @wiko-greifswald.bsky.social in #Greifswald oder online Mehr Info: tinyurl.com/wetscapes2
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Dr. Jonas Wolff @wolffspider.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
@maitryjani.bsky.social from my lab @evoimec.bsky.social talks about her scientific journey and newest paper in @jexpbiol.bsky.social ERC Spotlight: journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
Photo of Maitry Jani in the lab, smiling, showing a large live spider sitting on her hand.
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RES Publications @respublications.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
New #OpenAccess research in #RESSystematicEnt Alone no more — Integrative #taxonomy of New Zealand odd-clawed #spiders challenges the monotypy of #Pianoa and #Gradungula (#Araneae: #Gradungulidae) doi.org/10.1111/syen.70006 #IntegrativeTaxonomy @gkergoat.bsky.social @wileyeco.bsky.social
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Dr Mark E Hauber @thecowbirdlab.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
City spiders! www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/s...
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Everyone in the City Needs Soundproofing, Even Spiders
Researchers have found evidence that a common North American spider species alters its webs to deal with urban noise pollution.
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Rudolf Meier @rudolf-meier.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Species- versus specimen-level congruence between DNA barcodes and morphology. Species-level dominates papers but specimen-level matters more for sample evaluation. Read more in "Illuminating Entomological Dark Matter with DNA Barcodes..." in Ann Rev Ent: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
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Rudolf Meier @rudolf-meier.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
🚨 EntoSieve is now published in Molecular Ecology Resources: Fast and accurate size-sorting of bulk insect samples! Perfect for boosting DNA megabarcoding & metabarcoding projects. 🧬🔬 DIY low-cost device, gentle on specimens and yet efficient 🦋🐞 here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Elina Mäntylä @elinamantyla.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
I have a new article published, with 300+ coauthors! There were dozens of researchers analysing the same two datasets + dozens of researchers reviewing the analyses. Lots of variability in the results. This was the first many-analysts study in ecology. bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
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Same data, different analysts: variation in effect sizes due to analytical decisions in ecology and evolutionary biology - BMC Biology
Although variation in effect sizes and predicted values among studies of similar phenomena is inevitable, such variation far exceeds what might be produced by sampling error alone. One possible explan...
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Greifswald Mire Centre @greifswaldmoor.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
🌱 Job-Alarm: Wissenschaftskommunikation & Moorökologie! 🌿📢 Die Uni Greifswald sucht eine*n wissenschaftliche*n Mitarbeiter*in (50%, E13 TV-L) für WETSCAPES2.0! 🌍 📅 Deadline: 17.02.2025 - www.uni-greifswald.de/wetscapes2
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Greifswald Mire Centre @greifswaldmoor.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
World Wetlands Day war gestern, aber nasse Moore sind heute nicht weniger aktuell: Im @zdfde.bsky.social lesen, wie toMOORow Unternehmen für nasse Moore und ihre nachhaltige Nutzung gewinnt: www.zdf.de/nachrichten/...
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Moore zur Klimarettung? Eine Chance für Klima und Industrie
Die Initiative "toMOORow" will zusammen mit 15 großen Unternehmen eine Moorwende. Das soll Klimaschutz und Wirtschaft verbinden.
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Kristina Yordanova @stenialo.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
We are looking for a highly motivated candidate to develop the data management infrastructure of the collaborative research centre WETSCAPES2.0 and to investigate new automatic methods for quality assurance of heterogenous data. shorturl.at/yI47b @unigreifswald.bsky.social
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Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in - Institut für Data Science 25/Sa01
Stellenausschreibung Institut für Data Science
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Jess Marsh @jessmarsh.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
A feast about to happen: the very rare and critically endangered Kangaroo Island Assassin Spider showing off her impressive mouthparts, whilst carrying around her 8-legged prey 🕷️🧪 #invertebrate #conservation #biodiversity #spider #australia
A feast about to happen. A small spider brown / beige spider with a tall head region carries an even smaller spider in her very long mouthparts.
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Greifswald Mire Centre @greifswaldmoor.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
karriere-in-mv.de/stelle/9195-... Wir bieten 10 bezahlte Stellen für Bachelor- und Master-Absolvent*innen in einem 5-jährigen Qualifizierungsprogramm zur Moor-Renaturierung und Klimaschutz. Start: April 2025 Bewerbungsschluss: 13. Januar 2025
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