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I found a gashapon museum and there were a lot of old invertebrate gashapon. #InverteFest

A magnificent dragonfly larva model. #InverteFest

New Ant Lab video today about pincer wasps and a new research project. This one has some really cool, newly-filmed insect behavior in it! youtu.be/9osTBzQ0zbk

that time of the year when this little species (Habronattus ustulatus) becomes active found this little male yesterday in eastern San Diego County, In-Ko-Pah County park, perched on little pieces of granite and quartz along wash edges

Found a nest of one of my favorites! A true oddball. Leptomyrmex erythrocephalus, the red-headed spider ant.

De kleurenpracht in de natuur is vaak onvoorstelbaar en magnifiek. Zoals van de Hedychrum nobile/niemelai #elkedageeninsect

🚨JOB ALERT! We’re hiring a Head of the new Imaging Facility at Goethe University Frankfurt. You’ll support researchers across disciplines, train users, and help enable cutting-edge science with high-end microscopy platforms. tinygu.de/TknxZ If facility-building + imaging is your thing, please apply!

🚨 Postdoctoral Opportunity for Female Scientists🚨 The University of Vienna is awarding at least 20 fully funded 4 year postdoctoral positions to outstanding female scientists Interested? Get in touch via direct message careers.univie.ac.at/en/postdoc/e... #MicroSky 🧪 #PostDoc @univie.ac.at

Come work with us! 🪲For our new project bAImo we are searching for a PhD researcher combining modelling 💻 with ecological expertise, aiming to improve interdisciplinary approaches to insect monitoring 🔎🐝 please visit tinyurl.com/bAImo-PhDoffer for more details. Looking forward to your application 🦗😊

My lab is hiring a postdoc (ERC funded)! If you're interested, get in touch!

Oh to be a little Tardigrade walking across a microscopic slide. 🫧🐻🧪

We're looking for a new colleague at Asssoc Prof level! Come join us in the Zoology Department at Stockholm University. A teaching profile in ecology, faunistics and/or physiology is beneficial. Find the full job advertisemnt here: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

The Dept of Biology & Marine Biology at UNCW is offering 4 positions!!! A Distinguished Professor of Marine Science, an Assistant Professor of Invertebrate Biology, and two Lecturers of Biology. Plus, the UNCW Center for Marine Science is seeking a second Distinguished Professor of Marine Science!

JOB ALERT - Join us as a lecturer/senior lecturer in plant-microbe interactions in the School of Biological Sciences at Waipapa Taumata Rau The University of Auckland. Applications close 31st January 🌱🧪 jobs.smartrecruiters.com/TheUniversit...

The bulky Brontostoma basalis from Ecuador - incredibly strong and its venom packs a punch! When I took it out of the vial it immediately grabbed my finger and bit it. Was it painful? Yes, for a hot minute. But as always with assassin bugs it is more the speed of action that surprises me the most.

Field botanist job with Virginia Natural Heritage, based in Roanoke, VA. $55-65K pay range. Please share widely! www.jobs.virginia.gov/jobs/field-b...

Spood time! I believe this is Carrhotus sannio. It’s from Thailand and has snagged something tasty for dinner. #Spiders #Invertebrates #Thailand

Pleased to say that Jonas Hartmann (bs-less) and I have finally released DySTrack (“diss track”) - Dynamic Sample Tracking. It’s a Python-based, modular tool that brings smart microscopy to everyday imaging on commercial systems. Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... [1/6]

Have you ever wondered what you would find if you could keep your eyes on a bee for more than a few meters? Us, too! preprint (with videos!) + thread 🧵 Precise, individualized foraging flights in honey #bees 🐝 revealed by multicopter drone-based tracking www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/9

Just a girl and her bundle of baby clones she's wearing like an ass turban 🥹 My population of Schizomida (parthenogenic tailless whipscorpions) are so happy in their box of dirt. As always, tending a box of dirt is such a good decision and I recommend it.

Fluffy Kitten (Okay, a tarantula from last November in Brazil, but still very fluffy) 🐙🌿 #BugSky

This is the Sunburst Candy Spider from Thailand. Not AI (sucks to have to declare this). Very real and had been on my wish list for a long time. The taxonomic placement is unclear, so we are leaving it at Cyrtarachninae.

thinking about... tarantula paw

Attention post-docs (or PDFs to be).... here's an opportunity to work in Japan for a short research stay. As I always say to my PhD students "Get a PhD, see the world". www.jsps.go.jp/english/e-fe...

Jumping spiders can recognise one another. This ability to learn, remember and represent images is quite surprising for such a tiny-brained animal! buff.ly/dCkwPr0

#Small, for #BlueSkyArtShow 🕷️

I was crawling around on the astroturf'd porch of our hotel room, ass in the air, trying my level best to get this spider to look as cute as possible. They were a cooperative model 🥰

Micrargus herbigradus palp, taken using the new 'washer on a slide' method - dab of gel, palp, topped up with alcohol. Much clearer, you can't see the gel, and the 'curly appendage' that makes it herbigradus is visible amongst the curls of the embolus. This is slightly enhanced in GIMP.

Not to wade into the Discourse but living abroad (for longer than a semester) is something I wish everyone had the means to do. It’s incredible to see what’s possible in a sane country (gun control, universal health care) and what the US often does better (multiculturalism, friendliness, junk food)

We are hiring: 4 PhD Positions in Ecology / Data Science and one Ecological Data Scientist. For more information, see www.uni-regensburg.de/universitaet...

A biologist at the American Museum of Natural History, Jonathan Coddington, cataloged a new genus of South American spiders in 1986. Two things about the spider were unique: they lived in caves & laid cubic eggs. So he called them genus 'Plato', and that's the nerdiest thing I have read all year.

I’m recruiting students this upcoming cycle at UIUC! I’m excited about Qs on societal impact of AI, especially human-AI collaboration, multi-agent interactions, incentives in data sharing, and AI policy/regulation (all from both a theoretical and applied lens). Apply through CS & select my name!

I don't think I've actually posted this one on its own, a travesty Asian Tiger Mosquito #pixelart #украрт

Tarantula foot-pad. Who knew they could be so pretty?

North American Hoverflies! 🪰

Been looking for a fresh specimen of Leucauge sarawakensis for a long time! Each time we found one, someone walked into its web. Hence, the ex situ shots.

Avec 53 000 espèces recensées, elles ont conquis un grande nombre de niches écologiques. Elles sont présentes partout sur la planète, sauf en Antarctique et en très haute altitude. Essentielles aux écosystèmes, elles régulent les populations d’insectes.

intimidating stare of a female Platycryptus undatus 🙇 #arachtober #jumpingspiders #salticidae in situ, fuji, laowa 65mm

sleep tight don't let the lacewings bite #invertebrates #sciart

Courtship dance of the peacock spider 🕷️

📢 We have an open position for a postdoc to join my lab. It's a great position @animecol-uu.bsky.social, fully salaried for 2.5 years with all benefits. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/... The project is about transmission patterns of bacteria and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in aquatic insects. 🧬🦠 (1/3)

Danarma eurymerus found in Okinawa Island. Watch how he moves the eyes. This species was recorded from Japan just this month. (ref/参考文献) u-ryukyu.repo.nii.ac.jp/record/20216... ルリメベンケイガニが目をきょろっとさせるあざとい動画です。沖縄本島にて。本州は先月日本から記録されました。 🦀🦑🧪 #crab #カニ #invertebrate

Isopods!! 🧡

Getting close to wrapping up a big Paraphidippus aurantius 🍊video featuring courtship behavior, silk production, possible mate-guarding, cannibalism and more 🫡 here's a big female w/ a lot of orange scales - July, 2021, NE Oklahoma

For anyone applying to grad school in the US this fall, the @aas.org has made a working group to monitor which programs have faced cuts - this spreadsheet contains all the info: 🔭☄️

New Collection Study Grants for students and postdocs to come visit the @burkemuseum.bsky.social! Applications due 12/15/25. www.burkemuseum.org/collections-...

White-jawed Jumping spider hanging out on a goldenrod bud. This fuzzy friend is native to eastern North America. (Hentzia mitrata) #Arachtober

So I “finished” this cicada that has been taunting me since last summer. Not really the image I was aspiring to when I started but I think it’s still fairly identifiable as a cicada so I’m going to have to let it go.

Spookiest decoration at the "Zoo Goes Boo" event at the John Ball Zoo in Grand Rapids? Giant model of parasitoid wasps hatching from cocoons affixed to their caterpillar host.