CORRECTIV: "The pact with the chemical industry" - corporateeurope.org/en/2026/04/c...
This article (originally German) by A. Joeres & G. Steeger reports on how big polluters are prioritized over health. There is hardly any research on the substances released into our waters. I was quite naive.
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The Meeting of the German Zoological Society will take place in Münster from September 7 to 11! Abstract submission until June 15!
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Would you like to learn about how genetic differentiation and phenotypic plasticity shape a species' range expansion? Here is a new, comprehensive paper led by Monica Sheffer from my group - supported by wonderful colleagues.
AI Claude suggests a moratorium on AI
that "would buy us time to put guardrails in place, privacy protections, transparacy requirements, accountability mechanisms before it gets even further out of hand."
Quote from the "exchange" between Berie Sanders and the AI agent.
Lesser- known 😉
Die Grafik zeigt, dass in Deutschland Lebendorgane zu 61% von Frauen und 39% von Männern gespendet werden. Grafik aus der Taz vom 8.3.26
International women's day.
A less know topic: Gender Solidarity Gap.
The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Projected wildfire smoke PM2.5 concentrations and estimated premature mortality across different global warming levels.
At 3 °C of warming, climate-driven wildfire smoke could kill 64,000 Americans annually—a 60% increase over current levels. Incorporating that mortality into carbon cost estimates raises the domestic monetary value of CO2 mitigation by 74%. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/bgwg50Yo8Kj
PFAS are linked to cancer and contaminate our water and food - yet chemical giants are lobbying to weaken protections to our health. Europe can still act. I just signed. Will you? action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-01...
Amazing illustrations by Javier Lazaro.
Led by my talented PhD student @justine-armg.bsky.social we’re running a #meta-analysis of #cross-sex-genetic-correlations in fitness components.
If you have unpublished data or know of studies that might not appear in a systematic search, please reach out, we’d love to include them!
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Richtiger, wichtiger Schritt. Könnte noch weniger Platte sein. Es kommt jetzt darauf an, ob biodiversitätsfördernd gepflanzt und bearbeitet wird. Da hakt es dann meist. Dennoch stimmt es mich hoffnungsvoll.
Aufgetürmte Schollen von Packeis, Rügen.
It felt like an excursion to the north pole. Pack ice along the southern coast of the Island Rügen, north Germany.
Man kann natürlich gleichzeitig eine unsachliche Emotionalisierung und bewusste inhaltliche Verfälschung kritisieren und gleichzeitig unsachlich emotionalisieren und bewusst inhaltlich verfälschen. 🚨 Die Fakten: - Deutschland hat einen vergleichsweise hohen Anteil an Beschäftigten im Sozial- und Gesundheitswesen. Hier ist die Teilzeitquote aufgrund der Belastungen grundsätzlich hoch. - Deutschland hat Minijobs, diese sind oft Einstiegs- Übergangs- oder Hinzuverdiensttätigkeiten (zB Renter und Studenten) und ebenfalls Teilzeitstellen. - Betreuungsinfrastruktur ist in D vergleichsweise schlecht und sehr spät ausgebaut worden und zwingt (meist Frauen) in Teilzeit. - Es gibt ein Recht von Vollzeit auf Teilzeit umzusteigen, aber kein Recht von Teilzeit zurück auf Vollzeit zu wechseln. - in vielen Berufen ist Teilzeit die einzige Flexibilisierungsoption im Arbeitsverhältnis.
Die große Kritik an der Lifestyle-Teilzeit ist ja, das Teilzeitbeschäftigte überproportional vom Sozialsystem profitieren. Das stimmt allerdings nur für die Gruppen, die auch nach Unionsmodell ausgeschlossen bleiben sollen: - Alleinerziehende - Teilzeitarbeitende mit Familien aufgrund des pauschalen oder bedarfsorientierten Leistungszugangs (Kindergeld, Kinderzuschlag, Bildungsangebote, etc) Die ganze Diskussion erscheint mir eine Scheindiskussion zu sein, die vor allem dazu geeignet ist, Teilzeitkräfte als faul zu brandmarken und bestimmten Gruppen Angst zu machen.
In der von der Unternehmerlobby losgetretene Debatte über angebliche "Lifestyle-Teilzeit" hier mal ein paar gut von Markus Bublitz zusammengetragene Fakten:
Our quest for chemosensory receptors in spiders is like searching for a needle in a haystack. We started with kainate iGluReceptors that are expressed in the central and peripheral nervous system of the wasp spider. They may modulate peripheral sensory neurons.
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News on the function of tremulation:
Female Pisaura mirabilis spiders are not appeased by the courtship tremulations of males - at least in our playback setup. Result of Stefan ter Haar's internship from Groningen led by
@monikaeberhard.bsky.social
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Commsbio made a nice little Video summary for our paper on the chemosensory toolkit of the nursery spider Pisaura mirabilis.
Thanks, Joao Valente!
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Thanks. A bit more time.
🕷️🥬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
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We reported on the chemosensory toolkit of an Orb weaving spider in our PNAS paper earlier this year. Here, we report on a cursorial spider: similar, sex-specific sensory equipment and evidence for olfaction.
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Only 2 weeks left until the abstract submission deadline for the #ISBE2026 Gosh.
Poster accouncing the dance event professors at the turntables. Tonight, University of Greifswald with DJ Gabriele Uhl.
Big dance party tonight, supported by #CarolinaOrtizMovliav and #MaitryJani.
Profs@turntables with Latin and Bollywood music!
Experimental setup for testing the effect of different winter temperatures on survival, physiology and gene expression in the wasp spider.
Here comes Carolina's first paper on the effects of winter temperatures on survival, physiology and gene expression in wasp spiders. Thanks go to all coauthors for their various contribution that made this work possible!🧪🕷
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Just realized that the genome is published for this species. This is great. We are investigating reproductive strategies like genital damage during mating and the sex pheromone in L.c.. So this is very helpful for future studies. Thanks!
We performed an experiment with two spider species, one web building and one cursorial species. Juveniles experienced vibrations or visual input or both or no stimuli. Their brain areas did not differ significantly. However, siblings reacted in a similar way.
Spiders that experience vibrations, visual stimuli, both or none during development do not differ strongly in the size of their brain areas. This is a surprising finding. Even more surprising is that siblings react alike. See our new publication in the J. comp. Neurology.
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How to avoid that Gmail reads your emails and attachments to train its AI.
WOMEN IN PHYSICS DAY! In honor of the pioneering women in physics who broke down barriers to do what they love, we celebrate Women in Physics Day on November 7th, the birthdate of both Marie Curie and Lise Meitner. Marie Skrodowska-Curie (1867-1934) Radioactivity pioneer, two-time Nobel laureate A giant of science, Marie Sktodowska-Curie conducted pioneering research on radioactivity, a term she coined. She discovered two elements, founded two medical research centres, won two Nobels, and invented mobile X-ray units (dubbed petites Curies), saving countless lives in World War Lise Meitner (1878-1968) Nuclear physicist When Lise Meitner was a teen, Austria restricted female higher education. She pursued physics anyway, and 25 years later became the first woman in Germany to hold a professorship in physics. She helped discover nuclear fission, but was contentiously not awarded the 1944 Nobel alongside collaborator Otto Hahn. NOVEMBER 7TH
Dear Physicists and Physics fans,
I would like to encourage you to celebrate #WomenInPhysics Day this Friday, November 7th.
Why November 7th? Because it is the birthday of two of the most impactful women physicists of the 1900's: Marie Curie and Lise Meitner. 🎢 ⚛️ 🧪 👩🔬
