We're back after lunch break with @AlyssaYStark Villanova University 🇺🇲 talking about how hot and humid conditions regulate #gecko 🦎 toe pad #adhesion. #BeilsteinNanosurfaces2023 .

Very nice Insights. I now see blue fruits with different eyes!

Thies H. Büscher et al. reveal the diverse functional morphology of leaf insect eggs. Fan-like hooks and glue capable of reversible liquefaction allow these eggs to survive across various environments. Find out more at #BMCEcolEvol bit.ly/3J7CzRI

Here, Poramate Manoonpong and co-workers use stick insect locomotion as inspiration for machine learning approaches to teach robots how to walk. Thies H. Büscher Uni Southern Denmark @VistecTH Universität Kiel CAU 🎓 Find out more: ow.ly/HqIT50OY2jS

Tired of increasing APCs? Beilstein-Institut @beilstein-institut.bsky.social is non-profit and offers free Diamond Open Access. And they now have a thematic issue on #biomimetics and functional surfaces.

How do insect exoskeletons cope with fatigue and how does insect cuticle repair itself? We currently have a DFG-funded PhD position open in my research group at @HSBremen. More information at career.hs-bremen.de/jobposting/729… #PhDposition

Ever wondered how an ant actually eats? Then this new preprint by Evan Economo and me may be right for you! ecoevorxiv.org/repository/vie… We review feeding mechanism and structures. Also check out the accompanying 3D models skfb.ly/oHJpp via Sketchfab

Everyone is getting ready for the #dzg23 DZG in Kassel. So are we!

It's Bat Appreciation Month, and we're excited to announce the publication of our latest Special Issue on Ecological Morphology and Sensory Biology of bats, Guest Edited by Sharlene Santana, Tom Eiting, and Tim Smith! anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/19328494/2…

Join us on Wednesday 8 May for our next online talk. Hear about the work of two of our newest Physiological Entomology Editors-in-Chief, Nick Teets (Nick Teets) and Thies Buscher (Thies H. Büscher). Free for RES members, register now 🔽 royensoc.co.uk/event/online-t… #Entomology #InsectScience

It's starting soon. Join the online talk on environmental adaptations, #Entomology in #Antarctica and the attachment systems of insects with Nick Teets (Nick Teets) and Thies Buscher (Thies H. Büscher). Free for RES members, register now: royensoc.co.uk/event/online-t…

New paper! Our stick insects have weird chromosome segregation. The major centromere protein, CenH3, binds to the autosomes in a monocentric pattern, but in a holocentric pattern on the X. doi.org/10.1101/2024.0…

Some people get dry skin and wrinkles while ageing. Similar is kind of true for #phasmids. But in case of stick #insects, this plays a role for their #biomechanics.

Now open for your submission ✉️: Thematic issue “Micro- and nanoscale effects in biological and bioinspired materials and surfaces” edited by Thies Büscher Thies H. Büscher, Rhainer Guillermo Ferreira, Manuela Rebora and Stanislav Gorb. 🔗beilstein-journals.org/bjnano/series/… 💎🔓 #DOA #BJNANO

Iridescence is everywhere, sometimes in unexpected places like the sesame seed-sized eggs of stick insects! Our new paper, led by Debruyn Gerben, shows that this color is produced by thin-film interference by a nanoscale outer layer, and functions in ?? resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ph…

The first articles of the thematic issue “#Biomimetics & bioinspired surfaces: from nature to theory and applications” edited by Rhainer Guille, Thies H. Büscher, Manuela Rebora, Poramate Manoonpong, Zhendong Dai and Stanislav Gorb are published! 👉 beilstein-journals.org/bjnano/series/… 💎🔓 #DOA #BJNANO

Nature's All‐in‐One: Multitasking Robots Inspired by Dung Beetles (Adv. Sci. 47/2024) - Leung - 2024 - Advanced Science - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ad…

📢 We are excited to announce the launch of our inaugural #BJNANO #EarlyCareerAdvisoryBoard: Thies H. Büscher Thies H. Büscher Universität Kiel CAU 🎓, Hao Lu Beijing University of Technology, Devleena Samanta UT Austin and Yui Sasaki UTokyo | 東京大学. Welcome aboard! 🔗 beilstein-journals.org/bjnano/news/EP… #BJNANO 💎🔓

It is a pleasure and a great honour to participate in shaping the future of scientific publishing

Amazing talk by Debruyn Gerben at the International Stick Insect Meeting in Brussels