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Trapdoor spider (Ummidia algarve) not being happy that I opened the lid of its retreat.

Having a great time researching #spider, #spidersilk and #spiderweb in Portugal. 🤩🕷🕸🇵🇹

Had a nice day visit to the field station Herdade da Ribeira Abaixo (CE3C) where everything was in flowers 🌼. Thanks Pedro Cardoso cardosopmb.bsky.social for showing us around and pointing out the interesting spider habitats.

Visiting a hidden cave with Marc Domènech to sample silks from the enigmatic Telema spiders was a great finale of our Iberian field trip.

New research from us about super-stretchy silk threads, in collaboration with Peter Michalik and Martín Ramírez

My PhD-student Maitry Jani put together her experiences on experimental techniques to determine the behavioural use of silk glands in spiders, with additions by Martín Ramírez and me. Check it out:

It was a great pleasure to host Evolutionary Biomechanics Laboratory David Labonte for a few days. We enjoyed inspiring discussions about arthropod biomechanics and generated new ideas.

👀👀Jonas Wolff invited me to join him in writing a dispatch on the beautiful work on eye evolution in spiders🕷️by Kaylin Chong, Lauren Sumner-Rooney and co-authors recently published in Current Biology. This was a total pleasure to write!👀👀 doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.…

New paper, hot off the press in [email protected] 🥳: Together w/Delyle Polet, we study how gearing influences the mechanical energy output of musculoskeletal systems, and find that there's an optimal mechanical advantage (also on bioRxiv) Long 🧵ahead /n! academic.oup.com/icb/advance-ar…

Hot off the press: From fibres to adhesives: #evolution of #spider capture threads from web anchors by radical changes in #silk gland function doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2… 🔓 1/4

Still free access to our 🕷️👀👀dispatch article: authors.elsevier.com/a/1jTSh_LsQSQE… (link closes 10 Sept)

Cooperative hunting among pseudoscorpions in the Brazilian savannah. These animals always surprise me.

Orb weaver spiders manipulate the flashing signals of captured #fireflies to trick others into their webs, researchers suggest. Read more in Current Biology: cell.com/current-biolog… #HubeiUniversity Shichang Zhang, Daiqin Li

During #eca2024, @jago_MO created outstanding scientific illustrations for our plenary talks and symposia, adding a unique and artistic dimension to the event! 🕷️🕸️ European Society Of Arachnology

I very much enjoyed this conference. Huge thanks to Julien and his crew! Looking forward to the next one in Zadar!

Did someone ever ask you why should we care about #spiders? Or maybe you wondered yourself? In doi.org/10.22541/au.17… we delve into the diverse spectrum of spider #ecosystem #services and their potential to inspire #nature-based #solutions. Figure by @jago_MO CE3C

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