Gabriele Uhl @uhl-lab.bsky.social · 22/09/2026New paper out on a symbiont of Argiope bruennichi, the wasp spider. Always fun working with nice people! 🧪🕷🧪 071
Gabriele Uhl @uhl-lab.bsky.social · 12/09/2026So proud of @denisebe.bsky.social and Lilly for best student talk (Denise) and poster (Lilly) at the #DZG2926 conference. Talks from other group members were also great and all sparked interest in the very diverse topics of our group: sperm competition and genital damage e.g.🧪🕷🧪 081
Reposted by Gabriele UhlDZG SysBioDiv @dzg-sysbiodiv.bsky.social · 11/09/2026What a fantastic #DZG2026 Satellite Symposium today 🛰️ @dzg-gerzoolsociety.bsky.social "Form, function and phylogeny” was a great joint effort with @morphonews.bsky.social, bringing together inspiring contributions and a wonderful exchange of ideas 💡 143
Reposted by Gabriele Uhldzg-evol.bsky.social @dzg-evol.bsky.social · 10/09/2026After the conference is before the conference. Mark your calendars for #dzg2027 in Vienna! 6th-10th of September 2027 031
Gabriele Uhl @uhl-lab.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Currently I am attending the German zoological Society Meeting in Münster, Germany. A week of great talks. Here some examples from todays Behaviour section. 060
Gabriele Uhl @uhl-lab.bsky.social · 03/09/2026What a great treat in our garden: several Elephant Hawk moth caterpillars (Deilephila elpenor)- feeding and growing rapidly on Epilobium hirsutum. 🧪 041
Gabriele Uhl @uhl-lab.bsky.social · 22/08/2026First time I found an Argiope female next to her egg sac in the field. She must have laid it recently because they are known to stay with the egg sac for ~ one day. Egg sac guarding against parasites? The web around it might also help. 1102
Reposted by Gabriele UhlJournal of Zoology @jzoology.bsky.social · 06/07/2026📣OPEN CALL for Associate Editors for the Journal of Zoology📣 We are looking for active researchers with relevant expertise to join our editorial team! For more information and how to apply, please visit zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/... @elissazcameron.bsky.social 0512
Gabriele Uhl @uhl-lab.bsky.social · 08/08/2026To my surprise, the wasp spider Argiope bruennichi is now abundant in the Black forest region in SW Germany. A climate change effect: these days summers are hot and winters much milder. The photo was taken at 800m altitude. 0202
Gabriele Uhl @uhl-lab.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Carved animals (mammals) of all kinds under and above the seats in the 15th century choir stalls of St Pietro e Orso in Aosta, NW italy. Some are fighting, foraging, showing their bum. A lot to see for praying monks back then and for visitors today. 020
Reposted by Gabriele UhlDieter Lukas @dieterlukas.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2026I compiled a list of 350 #funding opportunities for #postdoctoral research #fellowships: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1J2M… I realized I should share this again after mentioning it to some folks at the #EFP2026 0138109
Reposted by Gabriele UhlTim Janicke @timjanicke.bsky.social · 11/07/2026In a new #Viewpoint we argue that the binary definition of #BiologicalSex based on gamete size is a scientifically robust framework that is entirely compatible with the diversity of sexual phenotypes and human gender identities. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...onlinelibrary.wiley.comBiological Sex Is Binary and Rooted in AnisogamyDrawing on empirical evidence and evolutionary theory, we argue that biological sex is most coherently defined as a binary classification of reproductive strategies rooted in anisogamy (the productio.... 1869921
Gabriele Uhl @uhl-lab.bsky.social · 23/07/2026ISBE in Torino, Italy- the logo was projected onto the iconic tower Mole Antonelliana last night. A great conference! 🧪 @ISBE2026 0323
Gabriele Uhl @uhl-lab.bsky.social · 07/06/2026www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Our study on a bacterial symbiont of the wasp spider Argiope bruennchi is available as a preprint. Likely an intracellular bacterium with a small genome of interesting phylogenetic placement.biorxiv.org 192
Reposted by Gabriele UhlRSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 06/05/2026It's #NoMowMay! Who's giving the mower a rest this year?🌼 1329786
Reposted by Gabriele UhlWiley Ecology, Environment and Sustainability @wileyecology.bsky.social · 06/05/2026🎉To celebrate ZSL’s 200 years of zoological history, the Senior Editors of Journal of Zoology are highlighting in this virtual issue some of their favourite articles published in ZSL’s oldest scientific journal. 📖Read the virtual issue here: ow.ly/l2NK50YUz4V #zoology Journal of Zoology 023
Gabriele Uhl @uhl-lab.bsky.social · 05/05/2026200 years zoological Society London #ZSL200. The virtual issue is on the website to celebrate some outstanding contributions over the centuries. You will also find more information on how it all began - founded by scientists and naturalists with an ambitious vision. zsl.org/200 🧪zsl.orgZSL 200th Anniversary Hub | The Zoological Society of London 032
Gabriele Uhl @uhl-lab.bsky.social · 04/05/2026zoologie.uni-greifswald.de/en/organizat... We have an open PhD position in my group for someone interested in functional morphology, biology of reproduction and evolutionary biology. Please spread the word!🧪🕷🧪🕷🧪🕷🧪zoologie.uni-greifswald.deGraduate Position/research associate, DFG funded Project on Sperm uptake and transfer in spidersUniversität Greifswald 0815
Gabriele Uhl @uhl-lab.bsky.social · 21/04/2026CORRECTIV: "The pact with the chemical industry" - corporateeurope.org/en/2026/04/c... This article (originally German) by A. Joeres & G. Steeger reports on how big polluters are prioritized over health. There is hardly any research on the substances released into our waters. I was quite naive.corporateeurope.orgCORRECTIV: "The pact with the chemical industry" | Corporate Europe ObservatoryTens of thousands of unknown, sometimes toxic, chemicals are floating in the Rhine. Why is industry allowed to discharge them unhindered? A top manager of a major corporation reveals how industry cont... 030
Gabriele Uhl @uhl-lab.bsky.social · 19/04/2026dzg-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! 🧪dzg-meeting.deWelcome | DZG Meeting 097
Gabriele Uhl @uhl-lab.bsky.social · 29/03/2026Would you like to learn about how genetic differentiation and phenotypic plasticity shape a species' range expansion? Here is a new, comprehensive paper led by Monica Sheffer from my group - supported by wonderful colleagues.esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com 174
Gabriele Uhl @uhl-lab.bsky.social · 24/03/2026AI Claude suggests a moratorium on AI that "would buy us time to put guardrails in place, privacy protections, transparacy requirements, accountability mechanisms before it gets even further out of hand." Quote from the "exchange" between Berie Sanders and the AI agent. 030
Gabriele Uhl @uhl-lab.bsky.social · 08/03/2026International women's day. A less know topic: Gender Solidarity Gap. 141
Gabriele Uhl @uhl-lab.bsky.social · 08/03/2026The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...pnas.orgThe entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly | PNASScience is characterized by collaboration and cooperation, but also by uncertainty, competition, and inequality. While there has always been some c... 020
Reposted by Gabriele UhlProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 03/03/2026At 3 °C of warming, climate-driven wildfire smoke could kill 64,000 Americans annually—a 60% increase over current levels. Incorporating that mortality into carbon cost estimates raises the domestic monetary value of CO2 mitigation by 74%. In PNAS: ow.ly/bgwg50Yo8Kj 0105
Gabriele Uhl @uhl-lab.bsky.social · 26/02/2026PFAS are linked to cancer and contaminate our water and food - yet chemical giants are lobbying to weaken protections to our health. Europe can still act. I just signed. Will you? action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-01...action.wemove.euBan Forever Chemicals NowForever chemicals are poisoning Europe’s water, food, and even our blood. Chemical giants are lobbying to weaken protections - but people across Europe are pushing back. Sign now to ban PFAS and put h... 042
Reposted by Gabriele UhlTim Janicke @timjanicke.bsky.social · 19/02/2026Led by my talented PhD student @justine-armg.bsky.social we’re running a #meta-analysis of #cross-sex-genetic-correlations in fitness components. If you have unpublished data or know of studies that might not appear in a systematic search, please reach out, we’d love to include them! Please share! 01519
Reposted by Gabriele UhlEthological Society @ethoges.bsky.social · 13/01/2025Hello Bluesky! Follow us for posts on new research, jobs (mostly European) and updates on activities of the society and related organisations! Let's connect! 🦩🦩🦩🦩 02718
Gabriele Uhl @uhl-lab.bsky.social · 11/02/2026It felt like an excursion to the north pole. Pack ice along the southern coast of the Island Rügen, north Germany. 070
Reposted by Gabriele UhlClaas Gefroi @claasgefroi.bsky.social · 07/02/2026In der von der Unternehmerlobby losgetretene Debatte über angebliche "Lifestyle-Teilzeit" hier mal ein paar gut von Markus Bublitz zusammengetragene Fakten: 411332
Gabriele Uhl @uhl-lab.bsky.social · 22/01/2026Our quest for chemosensory receptors in spiders is like searching for a needle in a haystack. We started with kainate iGluReceptors that are expressed in the central and peripheral nervous system of the wasp spider. They may modulate peripheral sensory neurons. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.comFunctional analysis of kainate receptors in the spider Argiope bruennichi reveals glutamatergic signalling in both central and peripheral nervous systemsArthropod neurobiology has been studied overwhelmingly in insects, leaving the molecular basis of sensory systems in non-insect arthropods poorly unde… 050
Gabriele Uhl @uhl-lab.bsky.social · 20/12/2025News 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/...onlinelibrary.wiley.comNo Appeasement Through Vibrations: Male Vibratory Pre‐Copulatory Courtship in the Cursorial Spider Pisaura mirabilis Does Not Affect Female Predatory ResponseMale 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... 1154
Gabriele Uhl @uhl-lab.bsky.social · 17/12/2025Commsbio made a nice little Video summary for our paper on the chemosensory toolkit of the nursery spider Pisaura mirabilis. Thanks, Joao Valente! 🧪🕷👃 080
Reposted by Gabriele UhlCommunications Biology @commsbio.nature.com · 04/12/2025🕷️🥬The 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 attraction, provides insights into chemical communication in spiders. @uhl-lab.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s42... 0166
Gabriele Uhl @uhl-lab.bsky.social · 02/12/2025rdcu.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. 🧪🕷rdcu.beThe chemosensory toolkit of the cursorial spider Pisaura mirabilisCommunications 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... 0145
Gabriele Uhl @uhl-lab.bsky.social · 02/12/2025Only 2 weeks left until the abstract submission deadline for the #ISBE2026 Gosh. 050
Gabriele Uhl @uhl-lab.bsky.social · 28/11/2025Big dance party tonight, supported by #CarolinaOrtizMovliav and #MaitryJani. Profs@turntables with Latin and Bollywood music! 000
Gabriele Uhl @uhl-lab.bsky.social · 27/11/2025Here comes Carolina's first paper on the effects of winter temperatures on survival, physiology and gene expression in wasp spiders. Thanks go to all coauthors for their various contribution that made this work possible!🧪🕷 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #climatechange 0167
Gabriele Uhl @uhl-lab.bsky.social · 22/11/2025Spiders 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.... 🧪🕷 1219
Gabriele Uhl @uhl-lab.bsky.social · 22/11/2025www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20... How to avoid that Gmail reads your emails and attachments to train its AI.malwarebytes.comGmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt outA new Gmail update may allow Google to use your private messages and attachments for AI training. Here's how to turn it off. 000
Reposted by Gabriele UhlPhysghoul 👻 🎃 @physgal.bsky.social · 03/11/2025Dear Physicists and Physics fans, I would like to encourage you to celebrate #WomenInPhysics Day this Friday, November 7th. Why November 7th? Because it is the birthday of two of the most impactful women physicists of the 1900's: Marie Curie and Lise Meitner. 🎢 ⚛️ 🧪 👩🔬 3291147
Gabriele Uhl @uhl-lab.bsky.social · 23/10/2025Looking forward to this spooky Seminar organised and hosted by postdocs of the MPI-Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden tomorrow. I arrived a few hours ago, just in time to witness the rehearsal for the Tim Burton-esque musical show. 050
Gabriele Uhl @uhl-lab.bsky.social · 14/10/2025A selection of 10 very influential women in the history of British science.🧪 020
Gabriele Uhl @uhl-lab.bsky.social · 11/10/2025Congrats to Denise @denisebe.bsky.social for the best talk at the meeting for graduate students! #gradmeeg25! 030