Proud to present our new paper, led by Stefan ter Haar who came all the way from Groningen to Greifswald to study spiders: No Appeasement Through Vibrations: Male vibratory pre-copulatory courtship in Pisaura mirabilis does not affect female predatory response onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
🕷️🥬The discovery of chemosensory sensilla with different distributions on the body appendages and between the sexes of a cursorial spider, combined with evidence of olfactory mate attraction, provides insights into chemical communication in spiders. @uhl-lab.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Congrats to the winners of the best poster and best talk of the #gradmeeg25.
But all the contributions were really stunning!! @dzg-behaviour.bsky.social @denisebe.bsky.social
The first day of our #gradmeet25 was filled with stunning student talks, a lot of questions and networking. Way to go!
We’re really enjoying the #gradmeet25 of the @dzg-behaviour.bsky.social so far! It’s already been two days of learning about cool behaviors in various animals🦇🐒🐜
🕷️I’m super excited that I also got to share my own work on the effects of differential prey availability on Pisaura mirabilis females!🕷️
Our journal congratulates @ortizmovliavc.bsky.social l for her award at @35theca2025.bsky.social !
Her work, “Winter warming increases metabolic stress and mortality in an overwintering spider,” got her a free publication in a @pensoft.net journal.
zookeys.pensoft.net/news/993
Enjoyed a beautiful walking tour with the young researchers of the @wiko-greifswald.bsky.social around the Loki-Schmidt Botanical Garden of the @uni-hamburg.de on Monday☀️🪲
A great place to experience a vast variety of plants and to learn more about conservation, human land use, and sustainability🌵
Congraaats!! Truly amazing work Svea!🥳🤩🕷️
Last week, I had the opportunity to present the results of my Bachelor's project at the European Congress of Arachnology. 🕷🕷🕷
I really enjoyed the time in Zadar and I feel honored to receive the best poster award! 🤩
Face-first view of a brown spider with long legs. He is carrying a nuptial gift (silk-wrapped prey) in his chelicerae.
The first chapter of my thesis is out now in Journal of Ethology! Check it out if you're interested in taking a deep dive into the vibrational signal of a very cute spider 🕷️〰️
Variation of vibratory performance during courtship of a cursorial spider: doi.org/10.1007/s101...
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Super proud to be presenting my own poster at the German Ethology Meeting this year, assessing the effect of male age on the vibratory courtship performance in Pisaura mirabilis!
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I feel especially honored to receive the Eberhard-Gwinner price for the best poster🤩💛🕷️
I’m starting this BlueSky account with a beautiful picture I took at the Annual Meeting of the German Ethological Society Meeting in Tutzing!☀️🕷️ Lake Starnberg and the breathtaking scenery of the Alps in the background - needless to say where we spent our coffee breaks!⛰️
