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            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 ๐ท๏ธใฐ๏ธ
Variation of vibratory performance during courtship of a cursorial spider: doi.org/10.1007/s101...
               
            
            
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                                            A crab spider with bright yellow/green prosoma and legs and a light brown opisthosoma sits on a leaf
                                                
    
    
    
    
            PhD position open with Dr. Jutta Schneider and @mherberstein.bsky.social in Hamburg, on sub-social behavior in crab spiders ๐ท๏ธ It even includes field work in Australia! Application deadline is 15 July, more info at the link:
www.uni-hamburg.de/en/stellenan...
               
            
            
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            Dear all, the registration and abstract submission deadline is approaching in a few days! Friday June 20th at midnight!!! ๐จ Don't miss the chance to join us in a beautiful Zadar! ๐https://event.fourwaves.com/eca2025/pages
               
            
            
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            REGISTRATION NOW OPEN ๐
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 availableโregister now to secure your spot!
We look forward to seeing you in Berlin.
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            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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            ๐ Looking forward to the 117th Annual Meeting of the German Zoological Society. Please like and share ๐คฉ
               
            
            
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            We are hiring a new entomological curator in Hamburg at the Leibniz institute for the analysis of biodiversity changeโฆ 
Please share and apply!!!
8101202752.karriereportal.cloud/job/2024-20-...
               
            
            
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                                            Photo of a great audience and me on the stage, talking about Biotremology
                                                         
                                            Me, standing on the stage and about to give a presentation about Biotremology in the Audimax of Uni Hamburg.
                                                
    
    
    
    
            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
               
            
            
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                Etho 2025
                
            
        
    
    
            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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                                            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 Mรผller, Peter Richter, Sophie Schรถdel, Ann-Kathrin Wezstein, Sandra Steiger
                                                
    
    
    
    
            ๐ชฒBeetles!๐งโ๐ผParental care! ๐Acoustic signals! ๐Larvae!
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
               
            
            
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            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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                                            International Society for Behavioral Ecology Congress, Turin (Italy) 20-24 July 2026
www.isbe2026.com
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            Evolution, sexual selection, sexual size dimorphism, reproductive biology, animal personalities, quantitative genetics, maternal effects. Spiders. Love all kind of animals, travelling, cooking, hikes and more.  https://www.simonakraljfiser.com
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                    
                            
                    
                    
                                            Evolutionary Biologist & Scientific Naturalist | Associate Professor | Director, E4 Initiative | @RiceUniversity #science #biology #evolution #speciation #entomology #biodiversity #genomics #discovery
Lab website: https://scottpegan.com
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            B.Sc. Student at the University of Greifswald
Working on spiders ๐ท
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            I study #socialfluids. Ponderer of the #behavior of myself & other organisms. #SocialInsects / #DistributedMetabolism / #CollectiveBehavior / #CompBio Assoc. Prof @ University of Cambridge; previously Fribourg, Weizmann, Lausanne, Rockefeller, UCSB. 
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            Postdoc | @David Berger @Uppsala University | Ecologist | #climate_change #fertility #adaptation | BS-MS @IISERMohali @NG Prasad | PhD @UZH_ch @Stefan Lupold | ๐ฎ๐ณโก๏ธ๐จ๐ญโก๏ธ๐ธ๐ช
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                    
                            
                    
                    
                                            Studying why and how behavior evolves, from mosquitoes to mole-rats | Postdoc/Leon Levy Scholar @Columbia working with Ishmail Abdus-Saboor | PhD @Princeton with Lindy McBride | ้บปๅธ/ๆฑๅคง alum ๐ฏ๐ต | yukihaba.github.io
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            Evolutionary biologist interested in plant evolution, speciation, and pollination including buzz pollination
Website: https://plant-evolution.org/wp
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            Assistant Director (BAO) | Research Assistant - Laboratory of Applied Entomology and Acarology | Writer
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            Professor of Engineering at the University of Sydney
Account is only about science, tech, art & nature
Opinions are my own
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            Head, School of Biological Sciences, Monash University. Physiology | life history | ecology | evolution | higher education
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            Bluesky Account of the section Neurobiology of the German Zoological Society 
https://www.dzg-ev.de/fachgruppen/neurobiologie/
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            EvoDevo, Spider enthusiast, Drosophila, biologist, side cut, punk&hardcore, dog owner
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            The #GWUP is the largest & oldest skeptics' society in Germany. We have been promoting science, enlightenment & reason since 1987. ๐ง  Let's join forces: https://www.gwup.org/join
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            Evolution, animal morphology, vision - PhD student with @multipleye-lab.bsky.social at @mfnberlin.bsky.social & @humboldtuni.bsky.social researching evolutionary morphology of spider eyes and brains ๐ท๏ธ๐๐๐๐ 
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            PhD Student at University of Bonn | Behavioural Ecology | Photo- & Videography | SciCom | gazing at sleepy spiders ๐ท๏ธ
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                                            PhD Researcher @newcastleuni.bsky.social @ForagingEcology.bsky.social investigating impacts of artifical light at night on ecological networks, using eDNA and nutritional analysis ๐งฌ๐ฌ๐ฟ๐๐๐ชฒ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ชณ๐๐๐ท
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            Itching to understand why mosquitos always find and bite me ๐ฆ  | Assistant Professor @fiu.bsky.social ๐ | PhD @berkeleymcb.bsky.social๐งธ | Postdoc @rockefelleruniv.bsky.social๐ฝ |  https://www.moritalaboratory.org