!!! Job Alert !!! PhD position to work on the comparative biology of silk use in spiders! Combine behavioural observation with functional morphology and macro-evolution. Travel to cool places. Join our young team of zoologists and biomechanists! dzg-ev.de/wp-content/upl… Pls RT

Cheers 🥂 to the inspiring European Congress of Arachnology ECA Greifswald 2022 last week! I was astounded by the welcoming community and the fascinating work presented! I was also very honored to receive the 1st place poster prize. Until next time! 🕷 #arachnology22

If you’re at the DZG #dzg22 go meet my advisor @monika_eberhard and see what we’ve been up to these past 6 months! 🕷

Congratulations 🥳🎊 to Carolina Ortiz-Movliav for the best poster prize in the evo bio section at the #dzg22 DZG in Bonn.

I had such a fantastic time at the #biotremology conference in lovely Piran last week! What a treat to attend such a focused and engaging meeting, and I especially enjoyed meeting many amazing scientists! Thank you again to all of the organizers!

New synthesis paper out in the journal #Oecologia! We reviewed the literature on prey‑attraction strategies in spiders, highlighting the role of a trade-off between foraging & predator avoidance in the evolution of predator-prey interactions 👇 doi.org/10.1007/s00442…

Now in the SpiderFest of the #dzg23 our bachelor student Denise Becker Morgan Oberweiser @monika_eberhard is talking about shaky affairs in Pisaura mirabilis 🕷️❤️🕷️

Exciting poster pitch by our bachelors student Paul-Robin Franz (@monika_eberhard ) at #dzg23, check out his poster (B1) about muted male spiders later today! 🕷️🤐

Vibrant 🫨 poster pitch by our bachelor student Denise Becker Morgan Oberweiser @monika_eberhard in the #dzg23. Come check her poster B4 later this evening to find out about P. mirabilis shaky affairs 🕷️❤️💙🕷️

It was a pleasure to present my work (and lots from a collab with Anne G. Hertel) in such a nice behavioral session today! 🕷️〰️ #dzg23

Denise shaking it up with her poster on Pisaura mirabilis’ “Shaky Affairs” (aka courtship vibrations 🕷️〰️) at today’s poster session #dzg23 Well done Denise! 💙🕷️❤️

Maitry Jani captured our attention (like a fly in a web 🪰🕸️🕷️) with her poster on daddy long legs’ silk glands #dzg23 EVO|MEC

So proud of these two! And feeling especially lucky to have Denise on our biotremology team, she is fantastic!! 〰️🕷️🔊

Kardelen Özgün Uludağ and Michelle Beyer show that female spiders can reveal a lot about themselves through their silk lines, and males use that information during mate search! 🕷️ You can read all about it in our latest Behavioral Ecology paper ⬇️ bit.ly/spider_behecol

Please RT: fully-funded, 4-year PhD position in my group at the University of Zurich 👇

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5 years ago I was lucky enough to spend my mornings studying butterfly behavior in an interhsip with @DickMerrill and Chi-Yun Kuo at Smithsonian Panama. This project has a special place in my heart and I'm very happy to have it as the first publication with my name on it 🦋💙

Read about new behavioural methods for studying spider silk in our new pre-print!

Check out this thread on a passion project I did with my good friends Jelena Belojevic and Florian Braig about your new favorite animal, the adorable short-tailed whip scorpion (Schizomida)