JOB ALERT ‼️ We’re recruiting - come and work with us UoB Palaeobiology University of Bristol Earth Sciences This is a permanent post at entry-level lecturer to senior lecture grade. Informal enquiries welcome, full details below

!!Funded PhD available (start 2024)!! Do you want to study #collectivebehaviour in weaver ants (in particular how they build their ultra-cool and totally unstudied silk nests), and develop #bioinspired #3Dprinting #swarmrobotics? Let me know! And please RT!

Yesterday I finished giving my first course! It was a spontaneous stand-in for three days, and I enjoyed spending time with the new generation of biologists Universität zu Köln! We had lots of fun with scorpions and hissing cockroaches! #pandinus #gromphadhorina

Also, if you were interested by our recent pre-print on 🕷️ eye development - @McGregorLab, Vivek Nityananda and myself have a PhD project currently open! Apply by 5th January for funded places!

Today I supported iNaturalist because it has become an invaluable resource for my research and personal observation logging. Until today, all donations will be doubled/tripled by the Moore Foundation, so consider donating if has become important for you too! inaturalist.org/donate

It's official -- I've now published the world's longest software note* on #phytools 2.0 with PeerJ - the Journal of Life & Environment: doi.org/10.7717/peerj.…. (*I'm barely joking, people. It's 75 pages long!) 1/6

🎇 New Year, new domain! 🎇 From now on, #PsyChild will be available on its own domain! The PsyChild database has been compiled and updated by Philipp Rühr 𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 and the site was programmed by me. Check it out at psychild.info! #DataScience #rstats #psychedelics #database

If you're interested in how we created the #insect #biteforce database and which insect won the competition for the strongest biter, you may read my Springer Nature blog post: go.nature.com/47FCPBD

I just uploaded a printable meshed lid for 50 ml Falcon tubes to keep #insects in an aerated container when collecting in the field! Check it out Printables.com: printables.com/model/828801 #entomology #collection #3dprint

New head scan of the African #mantis #𝑆𝑝ℎ𝑜𝑑𝑟𝑜𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑠 sp. for #MantisMonday @sketchfab: skfb.ly/oUpN9 Created with #PiScAnt, a modified version of the #scAnt. #Mantodea #3D #photogrammetry #VR #AR #metashape

New 3D scan of an acorn weevil (#𝐶𝑢𝑟𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑖𝑜) availbale for #WeevilWednesday Sketchfab: skfb.ly/oTPVZ

Just before traveling Berlin, northeastern Germany, Cologne, Strasbourg, Freiburg, Constance, and Schaffhausen, these cute earwigs were sent to me. I didn't have time to give them in good hands, so they've been camping and sightseeing with me ever since! I think they like it!

I wrote a little Blogpost about how to make figures interactive, using the python library bokeh: luerig.net/posts/interact… I use this quite often to better understand multivariate phenotypic data (e.g., in PCA), especially if it's abstract (e.g. image embeddings from AI models)

🚨 Fresh in the press (but digitally available already): Ecomorphology of the insect head! Check out our book chapter with an extensive literature review on research on adult insect heads and mouthparts! sciencedirect.com/science/articl… 📷: modified from Quang Nguyen Vinh 📜: BlankeLab

🚨 Fresh from the press: Internal gonopod reconstruction in a new genus and species of millipedes from the Cretaceous: 𝑳𝒂𝒆𝒗𝒊𝒈𝒍𝒚𝒑𝒉𝒊𝒖𝒍𝒖𝒔 𝒑𝒂𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒌𝒎𝒖𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒓𝒊 (Diplopoda, Spirostreptida, Cambalopsidae): doi.org/10.1186/s13358… 📜LIB, BlankeLab