🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨 🗓️25th September 2025, 15:00 UTC🗓️ Join us next week to hear from @nmkphylo.bsky.social and @russellgarwood.co.uk, on “The Tree of Life and Death: What do Fossil Taxa Contribute to Morphological Phylogenetics?” 🌳🐣⚰️ Register here: bit.ly/palaeoverse-...

Why do female spiders eat their mates, and how do males fight back? 🕷️ Our new review unpacks the evolutionary dynamics of sexual cannibalism and the astonishing male strategies it has shaped — from nuptial gifts to remote copulation. Open access in Integrative Zoology 👉 doi.org/10.1111/1749...

💬 We are recruiting! ⚠️🌊 2️⃣❕Two fully funded salary positions for students who want to do their PhD work on coccolithophores and future ocean! One is more bioinformatics 🧬 oriented and the other is more linked to organic chemistry 🧪 ➡️if interested write❕ ✍🏼 ✉️ #AcademicTwitter

It was an absolute joy sharing this amazing web of brilliant people here in Zadar. Thank you all for coming and making it so special! 🕷️❤️

We're #hiring a part-time Events and Comms Assistant! Love nature? Good with social media? Want hands-on experience in events and science communication? Come help us run talks, walks, and workshops that connect people with the natural world 🌿 Find out more and apply now: buff.ly/xPyXgvM

Registration for this year's YSF is open!!! Abstract deadline: October 25th 2025 11:59PM GMT+1 Registration deadline: November 1st 2025 11:59PM GMT+0 Link: tinyurl.com/2w5n3e8

It was a pleasure to host so many wonderfull people! And thank you Simona for a great plenary!

Congrats @ortizmovliavc.bsky.social for the 1. Prize for oral presentations at @35theca2025.bsky.social.

Thanks @mpavlek.bsky.social for the wonderful trip to Kornati! IT was awesome 😍. We saw🐬🐬🐬@35theca2025.bsky.social

Excited to be at the ECA 2025 in Croatia! Fantastic arachnology awaits us, exciting results and new collaborations. I love this society @35theca2025.bsky.social

Happy to say the 35th ECA in Zadar has officially started!

Our amazing sponsors are the real MVPs! • @pensoft.net : cutting-edge biodiversity publishing • @peerj.bsky.social : high-quality peer review in biology & health Thanks for making this congress possible!

Links to the article⬇️ ENG: mysensees.com/blog/spiders... CRO: mysensees.com/hr/blog-hr/p...

Only five days left until the start of the 35th European Congress of Arachnology. We are very excited to host 175 participants from 41 countries across 5 continents among which 62 are students! 🕷️🕸️🦂@institutrb.bsky.social

One week to go till the 35th European Congress of Arachnology! Our publisher @pensoft.net is proudly sponsoring the event with a free publication to the Best Talk winner.

Coming to the 35th European Congress of Arachnology? You can win a free publication in a journal of your choice thanks to our publisher @pensoft.net ! subtbiol.pensoft.net/news/835

FANTASIA's paper is finally out! Check it out if you're interested in alternative methods to homology for functional annotation in nonmodel organisms 🦐🐙🪱🧬🐝🪲 @gemmaeling.bsky.social @amrojasm.bsky.social @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social @cabd-upo-csic.bsky.social @csic.es www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Just 11 days left to the 35th European Congress of Arachnology - Croatia's Zadar will gather participants from 41 countries and 5 continents!

Come find us at the @ergabiodiv.bsky.social stand #eseb2025 exhibition hall

Anyone else lost their poster during travels to #ESEB2025 and knows which of the local printing shops does walk in prints?

Beetles are the most speciose animal order: 25% of described animal species are beetles. Everything has to start somewhere, though, and for #FossilFriday, here is the earliest known 'beetle' - the 297 million year old Coleopsis, found in Freisen (Saarland, Germany). ⚒️🧪🦀🦑 #evosky

🧬 New study compares 4 methods for extracting high molecular weight DNA for long-read sequencing. bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

"Our study showed that standard subterranean sampling devices do indeed capture individuals of invertebrate species present in the depth range of 40 to 90 cm in the scree layer." 🔓 Study: doi.org/10.3897/subt... @unibas.ch

An obituary piece for cave biologist Daniel Wu Fong, who passed away on April 25, 2025. doi.org/10.3897/subt...

We got our new Scopus CiteScore - another year with an increase in our academic impact! subtbiol.pensoft.net/news/893

Arachnid of the week is Troglochthonius doratodactylus Helversen, 1968

BUSCO v6.0.0 has been released. busco.ezlab.org

In a study of professors, women got 378 new work requests over 4 weeks vs 118 for men. Women spent more time on service, advising & teaching; men on research. Orgs should track who is taking extra duties & ensure they are rewarded and distributed fairly. www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...

Greetings! Is anyone interested in working on coccolithophore microbiome and writing a MSCA-PF shorturl.at/p49t3? Reach out for a chat 💬 and more info! Croatia is part of ERA and also has national funds for MSCA-PFs --> triple chance of getting it! 🫣 #protistsonsky

BEAST X v10.5.0 finally released – you can't just do beta releases forever. github.com/beast-dev/be... Details and instructions for installing on the BEAST website: beast.community

"Breaking bad: when clitellate genomes go rogue" by Rosa Fernández (@rosafernandez.bsky.social) & colleagues "Clitellate genomes are the result of a profound genome reshaping...What triggered such extreme rearrangements...?" FREE till Aug. 24th at this link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lNmQcQbJF...

Mesquite 4.0 released! A major update — many new features, small and large (phylogenomics, visualizations, workflow management, &c). Check out the trailer video: www.mesquiteproject.org. Come discuss in our new Google Group (groups.google.com/g/mesquite-project). @bembidion.bsky.social ‬🧪 #evolbio

You’ll also discover how #bioblitzes in two Croatian caves 🇭🇷 helped uncover the underground world of biodiversity and how scientists are using #genomics to explore it. 👉 biodiversitygenomics.eu/wp-content/u... @mpavlek.bsky.social @iboleurope.bsky.social

🔥 Do you know what a #biodiversity #hotspot is? This month’s #Connections blog explores how @biogeneurope.bsky.social is generating genomic resources for these vital areas by promoting #bioblitzes with the support of #citizen scientists 🔎 👉 www.erga-biodiversity.eu/post/connect...

Want to see how our logo was drawn? Check out this (very) sped-up video showing part of the illustration process! Have you already guessed the spider genus depicted? 😄

True or false: it's more energy efficient to let your A/C run while you're out of the house, since it the A/C has to work harder to cool your home when you return. There's a trick we use in physics to evaluate information like this; here's how you can use it to reason this out for yourself. 1/9 ⚛️🧪

A dozen years ago (!) we had a big job exploring 7 ant #genomes 🐜🧬alongside some other insects (Simola et al. 2013 genome.cshlp.org/content/23/8...) ... look how far the field has come - congrats GAGA on these great comparative analyses of 163 ant 🐜🧬 genomes! www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

How did evolution drive massive genome contraction during oceanic island colonization? A new paper from our lab. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Do you fancy spending some days in the French Alps in December and talk about Machine Learning for Evolutionary Genomics Data? Join us for the 2nd Legend conference: legend2025.sciencesconf.org

Glad to see this paper finally out! An episodic burst of massive genomic rearrangements and the origin of non-marine annelids @natecoevo.nature.com @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social @csic.es @erc.europa.eu www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Dear all, the registration and abstract submission deadline is approaching in a few days! Friday June 20th at midnight!!! 🚨 Don't miss the chance to join us in a beautiful Zadar! 🌞https://event.fourwaves.com/eca2025/pages

Job alert! Sam Noble Museum (OU) seeks a Collection Manager for the Recent Invertebrates collection (insects, mollusks, arachnids & more). You’ll team up with the incoming Curator (👋 me). Apply via jobs.ou.edu, Job # 251244. DM questions. #museumjobs #arthropods #collections

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I get that people are deeply annoyed by iNat right now, but despite its deep flaws, I hope people can see that a better iNat, both the site functionality and the community, is worth fighting for. Here's my personal perspective.

Insect people - Does anyone know if there has been any work on airborne microplastics and their effect on insects? A colleague suggested that microplastics could clog insect trachea and thus contribute to their decline. A cool idea but I wonder if it has any support.

Interested in arachnid silk structures? Read this editorial by our @matjazgregoric.bsky.social, @dinrao.bsky.social, and André Walter, and see what articles appear in the new research topic at Frontiers in Arachnid Science. www.frontiersin.org/journals/ara...

Arachnid of the week is Euscorpius biokovensis, 2020

🕷️🌍🕸️ Spiders aren't creepy crawlies—they're ecosystem heroes! From pest control to biotech inspiration to key figures in our collective culture, a new review reveals the many services spiders provide: 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/brv.... (drawing by @jmalumbresolarte.bsky.social)