Curiosity led me to have a mix bag of love for science, sports, technology, travel, dogs, people and photos.
Hamburg, Germany
Joined September 2017
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The rise of the slayer. A night walk after drinks with friends & colleagues resulted in the discovery of the remarkable strategy that allows a small spider to capture abundant but dangerous prey - ants @PNASNews @MPI_CE @mqnatsci @unihh
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My Framebites app built with @glazeapp can now help me organize my local video files and to easily come back my favorite moments
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I built FrameBites with @glazeapp by @raycast for the Glaze Awards 🎬
It’s a macOS app that lets you build a beautiful library of video moments — not just links.
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A good use for Framebites is always finding that specific guitar part you are practicing and loop over it to really get it right glaze.app/app/framebites-86G…
Ant-slayer spiders rapidly capture large ants with glue that coats their dragline silk. The spider avoids the ant’s mandibles by dropping below the ant on the same strand of silk. The ant is helplessly suspended in mid air
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Now in colour:
Most predators avoid dangerous prey such as ants but on Australian tree trunks, the ant-slayer spider captures ants in split-seconds. @MarieHerberstei @pipilika_aj @LizyLowe @jonas_o_wolff @jimmclean9 and Jutta Schneider, Marcelo Christian
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#FeelGoodFriday this jumping spider decorates its nest with bark to create a cloak of invisibility!
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Just published, pretty awesome and cute jumping spider that builds its own camouflaged retreat @PeerJLife peerj.com/articles/12839 #AnimalBehavior #Ecology #Spiders #blankiespider
Just published, pretty awesome and cute jumping spider that builds its own camouflaged retreat @PeerJLife peerj.com/articles/12839 #AnimalBehavior #Ecology #Spiders #blankiespider
Got three minutes to spare? I can tell you what this spider has in common with Buffy Summers… Shortly today at #ASSAB2020 Speed Talks 12:50 AEST
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Finally! 'Quantitative Colour Pattern Analysis (QCPA): A comprehensive framework for the analysis of colour patterns in nature'. A beast of a collaboration lead by @vancedberg & @jTroscianko: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wi… in @MethodsE. @EcoVisUQ @UQscience @UniExeCornwall #colsci
Ever wondered why some animals are better at the mimicking game? Get a better idea from the most recent paper from our lab @BehaveEcologyMQ @jimmclean9 #evolution
Mimics are animals (or sometimes plants) that look/smell/behave/... like other animals (or sometimes plants) to get some benefit. It's a very successful evolutionary strategy, but why do so many mimics do a crap job of it? Our review of imperfect mimicry: journals.uchicago.edu/doi/ab…
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Join in our research! Play a fun minigame to test your knowledge and help study spiders.
Click here to learn more!
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Great workshop on #colsci and pattern recognition by @jTroscianko and @vancedberg @MicaToolbox and organzized by @bioarach @MQBiology getting ideas for cool future projects!
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VERY excited to hear about @MicaToolbox from Jolyon and @vancedberg today! Good on @bioarach For organising such an exciting workshop! #colsci #ecological #methods
Cool photo!!
@jimmclean9 we missed this !
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Moldy arachnids!
We found that whip-spiders (Amblypygi) cover themselves in fungi, which grow within a thin layer of secretions on top of their exo-skeleton.
This might make them smell like their environment to protect them from predation.
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Interested in doing a PhD on how ants can be like Voltron, joining together to form superstructures using only simple, local rules? Check out this fully funded PhD opportunity @Macquarie_Uni in Sydney, Australia (starting soon!); chrisrreid.wordpress.com/phd…
Tomorrow at #Arachno19 Allow me to tell you how to hunt ants with a single adhesive silk line (no web) #AustralianAntSlayer
