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Daniela Rößler

New paper alert!🕷️✨ Tiny spider. Shiny abdomen. Suspiciously wiggly bum. In our new study, we asked what abdomen bobbing in this jumping spider is really all about: Cute? Yes. Meaningful? Let’s find out...! [1/8] @unibonn.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00265-026-03745-1

zoologie.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!🧪🕷🧪🕷🧪🕷🧪

I still love the theory a Year 6 child proposed to me that David Attenborough is actually God and he got fed up with people not noticing the amazing things he'd created, so he made documentaries to show off.

Fantastic! An eyeless, short-winged, cave-inhabiting spider wasp (Pompilidae), from Nullarbor, Australia! doi.org/10.1111/aen.... Fun side note - Nullarbor is the perfect deadpan name for a treeless region. (I described a beetle, Chlamydopsis nullarbor, from the region long ago.)

Don't forget about this excellent opportunity to share your joy and story-telling passion with younger generations! Expressions of interest are due on April 30th: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Using an online game with human 'predators' we test if toxic butterflies are more conspicuous: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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I love this piece. Animals are so totally worth spending your life obsessing over and kids know that best :)

Universität Greifswald

zoologie.uni-greifswald.de

Graduate Position/research associate, DFG funded Project on Sperm uptake and transfer in spiders

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Are Toxic Butterflies More Easily Detected by Human ‘Predators’?

Aposematic signals are often thought to be conspicuous and stable across environments. Yet, butterflies can have distinct colours on their dorsal and ventral sides which contradict this prediction. W...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Nadja Geiger

Gabriele Uhl

Animal Behavior Society

Michael Caterino

The Dobson Family and Colin the Dalek

Mariella Herberstein (she/her) 🌈

Co authored by @roald-arboel.com and @mherberstein.bsky.social. Research done at: @unibonn.bsky.social, @uni-konstanz.de, @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social

Vivek Nityananda