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🌵

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! 🤩

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...

🕷️〰️〰️〰️ 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! 〰️〰️〰️🕷️ 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!⛰️