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Oh this is bad news. We will have to cut on the taxon sampling.

Happy 2024 for all arachnologist, as well as all taxonomist, cavers, biologist and nature lovers sensu lato! And of course, to all friends, colleagues anf family! Cheers! 🥂🍾

congrats to prior PhD student Tierney Bougie !! High sexual display trait diversity without measured genetic divergence in a montane hybrid zone involving young species (Habronattus americanus subgroup) academic.oup.com/isd/article-ab… DM/email for a PDF!

Here is the link since the tweet has been deleted science.org/content/articl…

Ever wondered what the forest floor sounds like? Or how different spider species partition their signaling environment over space and time? Wonder no longer with this fantastic work out recently by Noori Choi! University of Nebraska-Lincoln Nebraska Bio Sci Nebraska Research rdcu.be/dxYoY

The little "nose" of a male Perania.

I am really happy to share a preprint that Millacarmonia and I just released, including our new R package chronospace, which includes novel tools to explore and visualize sensitivity in the estimation of divergence times 1/x biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Daddy-longlegs were thought to have only one pair of eyes...until now 🤯! We report today in Current Biology that extant daddy-longlegs have additional vestigial eyes seen in four-eyed fossil relatives. Vestigial organs, fossils and evodevo!!🌈 👀👀👀 authors.elsevier.com/a/1iekZ3QW8S6D…

1/13 🚨🚨 I am so excited to present our new paper, six years in the making. Here, we provide the first strong evidence that there is a molecular mechanism behind the origins of living fossil lineages! #biology #science #paleontology academic.oup.com/evolut/advance…

Sin precedentes: 68 Premios Nobel resaltan los aportes de la ciencia argentina desde las moléculas a los ecosistemas, desde el Paleozoico al próximo siglo. Piden que se la sostenga, por el bien del país y el mundo 👇 Premios Nobel contra el ajuste nexciencia.exactas.uba.ar/carta-68-premi…

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Adiós querida cafetera, nos diste 21 años de felicidad

Este miércoles 12 de junio nos movilizamos al Congreso de la Nación para decir #noalaleybases que pone en grave riesgo al sistema científico y tecnológico. Convocamos a las 16 h en Avda. Rivadavia y Rodríguez Peña.

hierarchical "loops-on-loops" structure of the cribellate silk of a Kukulcania spider recent research (not mine) shows that this leads to amazing fiber extensibility royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs… in situ photo from southern Utah, spider living in Yucca

From science to literature: New arachnid species named after Gabriela Mistral and Pablo Neruda | Blog blog.pensoft.net/2024/07/30/fro… vía Pensoft

A video on our work and exhibit on Deinopis webs. Thanks Jay Stafstrom for foitage and images, and Dr. Ivan Magalhaes 🕷️ for design of the exhibit! instagram.com/reel/C_YGqA8xE…

We are deeply saddened by the passing of Dr. Geoff Monteith, honorary member of the AES & one of the world’s most commemorated scientists. His warmth, humour, knowledge & contributions to entomology will be profoundly missed. Vale, Dr. Geoff Monteith. buff.ly/3YDHSAo

🎉I"m thrilled to announce that I joined the UMR MECADEV ECOTROP at the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle in Paris as Assistant Professor and next Curator of the #spider collection 🕷️! Excited to continue my work on tropical spider ecology & evolution, and to welcome anyone in the collection! 🤗