🗑️ #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! 🔒