Mariella Herberstein (she/her) 🌈

Complex signals, complex defences: there’s more to defences than meets the eye. New from @amatageorgeii.bsky.social &
@liisahamalainen.bsky.social @kateumbers.bsky.social @mherberstein.bsky.social @jmappes.bsky.social @mpic.de

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#aposematism #chemecol

Check out what these toxic moths are up to!
Shout out to ‪@amatageorgeii.bsky.social‬

Asymmetric arms races between predators and prey: a tug of war between the life–dinner principle and the rare-enemy principle | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Antagonistic co-evolution can be asymmetric, where one species lags behind another. Asymmetry in a predator–prey context is expressed by the ‘life–dinner principle’, a classic informal model predictin...

Ever wondered whether prey always outcompete predators (aka life-dinner principle?). Turns out when prey are numerous, predators edge ahead in the evolutionary arms race - download paper here: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....

Sperm transfer in spiders is complex and sometimes dangerous. Our latest paper is trying to figure out what behavioural and morphological traits affect sperm transfer
doi.org/10.1111/1749...

Playing with propagation-based phase contrast in #microCT scans to visualize soft tissue without contrast staining in jumping #spiders 🕷️🕷️🕷️ Sure no great image quality achieved, but good enough to measure internal structures of the eyes with @jadethurlow.bsky.social & @mherberstein.bsky.social

4-foot-long predator, kept in captivity for over a decade, discovered as new species A photo shows the olive-colored creature from Ethiopia.

#NewPaper 🐍 Our scientists have described two new species of African house snakes that occur in East and Northeast #Africa. It all started with an 20 year old specimen and resulted in a recent study in #Zootaxa.

Read more: www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...
Original study: doi.org/10.11646/zoo...

🚨Watch out postdocs and early career researchers: the #BORA_network invites you to the Postdoc Day 03 April 2025: Orientation, #Networking, #Career Opportunities 🌍🎓 . Explore the international science scape of #Bonn.
👉 www.uni-bonn.de/de/forschung...
#PostdocDay2025 @leibnizlib.bsky.social

Crabs smell with their legs too!

The world’s most venomous spider is a species complex: systematics of the Sydney funnel-web spider (Atracidae: Atrax robustus) - BMC Ecology and Evolution The Sydney funnel-web spider Atrax robustus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1877 is an iconic Australian species and considered among the most dangerously venomous spiders for humans. Originally described in 18...

New species of Sydney Funnelweb discovered!

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We are hiring a new entomological curator in Hamburg at the Leibniz institute for the analysis of biodiversity change…
Please share and apply!!!

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KZLab is Seeking a Lab Technician! The Zamudio Lab (zamudiolab.org) in the Department of Integrative Biology at UT Austin seeks a highly motivated and detail-oriented laboratory technician to play a key role in supporting the resear…

Friends, plz repost and share! We are hiring a lab technician with exp in mol biology and general lab management. BS or MS degree and good org skills are required. Deadline Feb 1, 2025. We are a welcoming and equitable lab community. Details at link below. 🐸🐢🐍🦎

zamudiolab.org/2024/12/18/k...

YouTube video by Travis McEnery The Yellow Garden Spider - The Spiders in Your Yard

It took me way too long to do this one, but it's finally finished. If you're the kind of person who wants to watch a 40-minute video about Argiope aurantia, then I got you.

youtu.be/RJBIcgYZMdM

Cultural evolution in song of Geothlypis philadelphia (Mourning Warbler) - American Ornithological Society We used a long-term database of songs recorded over 36 years from throughout the breeding range of Geothlypis philadelphia (Mourning Warbler) to answer questions about the current and historical patte...

Lovely blog post about our recent paper in Ornithology (@amornith.bsky.social)! We applied agent-based models and machine learning to 36 yrs of mourning warbler song, and found evidence that males have a learning bias for more complex syllables: americanornithology.org/cultural-evo...

International Ethological Congress on Behaviour 2025 International Ethological Congress on Behaviour 2025, Kolkata, India

Call for workshops is open: behaviourindia2025.in/Call-for-Wor... If you would like to propose a workshop at #Behaviour2025, check this! @asabeducation.bsky.social @animalopps.bsky.social @animalbehaviour.live @ethology.bsky.social @nationalgeographic.bsky.social @natureportfolio.bsky.social

Celebrating the move to Bluesky? Well, not really. Grant writing day with @mattdhall.bsky.social in the city. Treating ourselves to a nice lunch as reward.

There’s just over one week till #AustEvol2024!! Registration closes December 1st so there’s plenty of time to signup if you haven’t done so already!

We can’t wait to see you in Perth ☀️

Help us understand how conspicuous butterflies are by playing this game!

mferickson.github.io/findbutterfly/

Small Brains: Body Shape Constrains Tissue Allocation to the Central Nervous System in Ant‐Mimicking Spiders Imperfect mimicry may be due to trade-offs between accuracy and vital biological function. Using microCT to compare the CNS of ant-mimicking jumping spiders (A), with a non-mimic (B), we found that m...

I am delighted that this, my very first post here on Bluesky, is to celebrate a paper on brains size in ant-mimicking spiders!

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