MSc internship / Field Assistant position available in our group! Impact of urbanisation on avian reproduction 🐦🏙️ 🌳 Deadline: 7 Nov 2025 All details 👉 www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/... Please share it around!

salt marsh A tribute to a small patch of vegetation on a local beach that has driven everyone completely insane

In 1989, a scientist visiting the north of #Madagascar observed a gigantic, wholly black fossa investigating the interior of a tent. This inspired a later study of local knowledge about this animal. What do we know? A new article at Tetrapod Zoology ... tetzoo.com/blog/2025/10...

#MesozoicArtII is out now and showing the world what global #palaeoart/#paleoart looks like in 2025. Buy yours from @chiffchat.bsky.social today at www.bloomsbury.com/uk/mesozoic-... #books #dinosaurs #artbooks #art

🧪 ETHOLOGY: Picky or pragmatic? 🪰🌸 Crossley et al. show that three pollinating fly species differ in their innate colour preferences: Eristalis tenax loves yellow, while Calliphora stygia and Musca domestica show no strong bias—all prefer more saturated hues. doi.org/10.1111/eth.... #OpenAccess

A large Lirometopum cf. coronatum "Bastimentos" male, nearly fully grown. Also known as Pitbull katydids due to their massive heads and aggressive disposition. #katydid #grasshopper #insect #macro #nature #wildlife #bugsky

Look at her go! #invertebrates 🌿

Finally found her a nice branch 🌿

Proceratosaurus babies looking up to momma ( #paleoart for Beast studio's upcoming project!)

here's my take: I think humans are really fucking good. inherently. I think we are amazingly kind and giving. and everything about the world we live in is an attempt to stop us from being that. I think our societies step in to stop us from being good. I think our culture punishes us. but we ARE good

being nice to bugs is hot

A fully revised and updated edition of the bestselling photographic guide. Dragonflies of Britain and Ireland (Fifth Edition) is available in the UK and publishes Oct 7 in North America. Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb... #PUPNature #Nature #Dragonflies

In her dissertation, @smunoztobar.bsky.social showed that there was a diverse radiation of Panabachia in high-elevation Andean páramo habitats (doi.org/10.3390/inse...). Now most of these have proper names, with 22 species described in our latest paper, in ZooKeys: doi.org/10.3897/zook...

High elevation litter spiders of southern Appalachia show less local endemism than other arthropods - ballooning by spiderlings apparently overcomes geographic isolation. A great collaboration with @forthespiders.bsky.social & Ernesto Recuero doi.org/10.1636/JoA-... (if paywalled write me for pdf)

For #NationalLobsterDay: 🦞 Terracotta vase in the form of a #lobster claw #AncientGreek, Attic, c. 460 BCE Terracotta; red-figure Metropolitan Museum of Art 23.160.57: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/251401

New at Tetrapod Zoology .... Mesozoic Art II, Palaeoart Portfolio for the 2020s tetzoo.com/blog/2025/9/...

Although usually found amongst Marram Grass on the coast the jumping spider Marpissa nivoyi also occurs amongst Purple Moor Grass on heathland. Bovey Heath @devonwildlifetrust today

For World Rhinoceros Day, I present this white x black rhinoceros hybrid. Concerns that hybrids would be infertile have been raised. Authors have urged unrestricted access to plenty of conspecific mates where both species exist or, if this is impossible, physically isolating the two species.

A gallery of Australian bull ants. Some of these are huge!

it's (mantis) shrimp colors!!! ♥🧡💛💚💙💜

Baby alligator in the morning sun. Southeast Texas, September 2025 #Alligators #Herps #Reptiles #Photography #Wildlife #Nature #Babies #TexasStateParks #NaturePhotography

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

I love spiders, and one of the most awesome we have here is the big, not native but now naturalised Segestria. Encountered this one on a wall tonight. I've been bitten by this species. It was not fun. Not fun at all.

Mesozoic Art II - edited by @sharkbitesteve.bsky.social and myself and featuring the incredible work of 25 cutting-edge palaeoartists - is out in just a few days. The ultimate must-have book on modern #palaeoart / #paleoart. Buy yours now ... www.bloomsbury.com/uk/mesozoic-... #books #dinosaurs

Tiliqua rugosa is a species of blue-tongued skink native to Australia that has many names: Shingleback Bobtail 'Sleepy Lizard' & my favorite: Pinecone Lizard. Let's talk about the time a zookeeper's burnt lunch led to a discovery about how the sleepy lizard survives Australian wildfires.

Mesozoic Art II virtual gallery event is happening tomorrow, see you there! eventfrog.de/de/p/fuehrun...

PhD Alert! 😍 Our lab is hiring a PhD student to study how shrews shrink in winter and grow in spring. Yes, you read that right! tinyurl.com/shrinkingshr... Join us at the @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social, study a super cool animal, and join the @imprs-qbee.bsky.social community! DM me for questions!

Time for a book review! Starting out with Apes on the Edge: Chimpanzee Life on the West African Savanna by Jill Pruetz (University of Chicago Press, 2025)! (1/11) 🧪🦊 #Primates #Booksky #ScienceBooks #BookReview

Chinzorig, T., Takasaki, R., Yoshida, J. et al. A domed pachycephalosaur from the early Cretaceous of Mongolia. Nature (2025). doi.org/10.1038/s415...

We love jumping spiders because they are smol, cute, active, friendly and always looking around curiously with their huge eyes. But do you know they’re also masters of mimicry? Check out the bugs they pretend to be (and some of those are really good)!💚💚

PhD position available to study the migration ecology and year-round demography of blackpoll warblers.

want to help disadvantaged students get field work experience? Maybe sling a few quid this way... Every penny helps www.justgiving.com/page/paterso...

New paper out today with @biodiversityguy.bsky.social and @lizardlab.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

I've written a post about Cynomorium songaricum, a holoparasitic plant found in the deserts of Inner Mongolia. So how does this plant disperse its seeds across the desert and reach the roots of its hosts? Well, with the help of some little friends. 🧪 dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2025/09/cyno...

Might there have been hybrids between Mesozoic (non-bird) #dinosaurs, perhaps even between groups that had been separated for 10s of million of years? YES, the existence of such animals is very likely. But could we >identify< such animals? Let's see... tetzoo.com/blog/2025/9/...

Our graduate student Steven found this unusual two-eyed spider last night out in hill country. If you spend any time staring at spider faces, you’ll know most have 8 or 6 eyes, or maybe none at all for cave dwellers. But two? Almost humanoid. Weird. (Orthonops lapanus)

Mama Oak Treehopper with her brood. The kids are growing fast! They do like being on the bottom of the branch, it's probably much safer for them there. (Platycotis vittata) PA

Today I done bat box checks with London Bat Group at Sydenham Hill Wood! 🦇🌳 We found a Leisler's bat & common and soprano pipistrelles 🥳

Join bat conservation trust today and become part of a community with a shared vision of a world rich in wildlife where bats and people thrive together. We have several types of membership available including Young Batworker, Family membership and individual member www.bats.org.uk/support-bats...

There's going to be a special #Arachtober evening for Nerd Nite in #Christchurch on Wednesday 1 October! @corvink.bsky.social and I are both giving talks, and I'll be sharing some highlights of spider cognition research. Tickets and further details are here 👉 events.humanitix.com/nerd-nite-ch...

MSc position in my lab. Come study the evolutionary & behavioural ecology of insects! @stfx-university.bsky.social

A gallery of Cephalotes turtle ants. I've been photographing ants for over two decades, and I still haven't managed to shoot even 20% of the species in one of my favorite genera.

Do you like cichlids? Fossils? Fossil cichlids? Would you like to study them as part of a graduate degree at the University of Michigan, joining an NSF-funded project? Get in touch.

I'm a huge fan of new(ish) toy company #Toymany and am now collabing with them as an affiliate. Will be sharing news as things develop. Use my exclusive code TMAMDN10 here to get discounted sets... toymany.com?sca_ref=9596...

With iNaturalist, GBIF, and an increasing amount of scientific literature online, it is now possible to identify many bugs from all over the world without having to get physical specimens in front of an expert. Last 5 years especially.

An Intergeneric Hybrid Between Historically Isolated Temperate and Tropical Jays Following Recent Range Expansion | doi.org/10.1002/ece3... | Ecology and Evolution | #ornithology 🪶

It's #FossilFriday Specimens of †𝘼𝙧𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙚𝙤𝙜𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙞𝙡𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙣𝙨 𝙢𝙖𝙘𝙚𝙧 in dorsal and ventral views (scale= 20 cm) with isolated teeth (scale= 2.5mm) from a JSP study by Eduardo Villalobos-Segura 𝘦𝘵 𝘢𝘭. (2025) on the iconic Mesozoic #shark genus 𝘚𝘱𝘩𝘦𝘯𝘰𝘥𝘶𝘴 🦈 Read the study: buff.ly/xw11JGo #Fossils #PaleoSky

A fascinating read. In "The Unnatural Trade" @brycchancarey.bsky.social shows how almost all early accounts of the slave trade - which British abolitionists later used as evidence - were written by naturalists. And these same natural histories were then used to argue for the colonisation of Africa.

Please share! For Disability Pride Month, we are seeking neurodivergent academic faculty, instructors, & researchers at all levels to participate in a brief anonymous survey about their work experiences, coping strategies, & well-being. For info, go to: salisbury.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

As of this week, three out of the four research chapters from my PhD have been published. Data from the fourth is currently being adapted for an in-progress paper. royalsocietypublishing.org/.../10.../rs... royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...