Congratulations, @atal-pande.bsky.social!!! This is amazing research on spider vision and morphology! 🎉🥳 Maybe the first time I'm saying it: I'm proud of you and the way you've been going since our first visit to Earwig Visual Systems some years ago! 🥰

Beyond proud of @atal-pande.bsky.social, whose first PhD chapter is out now in @currentbiology.bsky.social! Atal shows that spiders that use their vision to hunt have convergently evolved similar eye arrangements, which imply lots of resampling of frontal space www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

So excited to have received an #HFSPResearchGrant to study trilobite eyes with Luke Parry @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social and Gil Ju Lee (Pusan National University)!🥳 I'll be recruiting a postdoc @bristolbiosci.bsky.social - if 3D data, optical modelling, and fossils tickle your interest, stay tuned!

Vous voulez faire une thèse sur l'évolution de la tête des squamates au Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle? C'est par ici: adum.fr/as/ed/voirpr... Interested in a PhD on the evolution of the head shape of squamates at the Museum of Natural History of Paris? Here you go: adum.fr/as/ed/voirpr...

Fresh from the Press! 🚨🤖 Kitchen #sponges release #microplastics during everyday dishwashing. In our OA paper we quantify this using #CitizenScience + lab experiments. 📄 doi.org/10.1016/j.en... I built the #robotic test stand to simulate sponge abrasion: meet #SpongeBot!

Many thanks to the organizers and friends for some amazing #morphology days in #Jena at #MM26!

INSECT TAXONOMY IN THE 21ST CENTURY @entsocamerica.bsky.social Online, April 27-29! Featuring keynotes from Rudolf Meier @rudolf-meier.bsky.social, Erinn Fagan-Jeffries, and Dominic Evangelista. Now accepting contributed talks! Grant deadline Feb 4, abstracts due Mar 6. entsoc.org/membership/b...

Exciting news! 🚨🎉 On February 5th, 2026, I will defend my PhD thesis on insect bite force - the method, the data, and its evolutionary implications - seasoned with some anecdotes from the field! 🐜🐝🐞 📈📉📊

🗑️ #ScienceSnack: Some 53,000 items of litter flow past Cologne daily in the Rhine – an amount many times larger than previously believed. That's the “dirty” result from a citizen science project led by @unibonn.bsky.social#ScienceSnack: Read more here: https://f.mtr.cool/mblomiuhmr © Simon Taal

🚨🦗 Fresh from the press: The subgenual organ in the stick insect 𝘉𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘶𝘴 is part of an anatomically and functionally integrated mechanosensory organ complex, explaining how insects detect substrate-borne vibrations! 👉 OA paper link: doi.org/10.1002/cne.... 📜Uni Gießen & @unibonn.bsky.social

#SICB2026 is starting soon! Join us on Jan 4th at 10:00 AM in A105 to hear about adaptive coupling across distinct life stages in insects!

🌱 BHL’s Call for Support soft-closes on Aug 31. 🧪 With @clirnews.bsky.social as our new fiscal sponsor, we now have an administrative & financial home, but we still need partners, hosts, funders & long-term investment to secure BHL's future. about.biodiversitylibrary.org/call-for-sup... #ILoveBHL

I just uploaded my 1000th species to #inaturalist! Not sure which one it was exactly, but I'd like it to be one of these gems of #flies I shot for #bioblitz 2025 at the Bonn #botanicalgardens to capture their #biodiversity.

Please come join us and help us unravel deep-time community dynamics in bugs and plants! Edmonton is a great city to live in and there are lots of different approaches to tackle these questions!

🚨 Fresh from the press: Internal gonopod reconstruction in a new genus and species of millipedes from the Cretaceous: 𝑳𝒂𝒆𝒗𝒊𝒈𝒍𝒚𝒑𝒉𝒊𝒖𝒍𝒖𝒔 𝒑𝒂𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒌𝒎𝒖𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒓𝒊 (Diplopoda, Spirostreptida, Cambalopsidae): doi.org/10.1186/s133... 📜Leibniz-LIB, Blanke Lab

🚨 Fresh in the press (but digitally available already): Ecomorphology of the insect head! Check out our book chapter with an extensive literature review on research on adult insect heads and mouthparts! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 📷: modified from Quang Nguyen Vinh 📜BlankeLab

About a month ago I left the lab of @economo.bsky.social at OIST in Okinawa after three truly great weeks of studying ants with wonderful people there! Thanks again for this unforgettable time!

🎆New Year, new domain! 🎆 From now on, PsyChild will be available at psychild.info - with secure TLS certificates for everyone to enjoy! 🔒