Dear Physicists and Physics fans, I would like to encourage you to celebrate #WomenInPhysics Day this Friday, November 7th. Why November 7th? Because it is the birthday of two of the most impactful women physicists of the 1900's: Marie Curie and Lise Meitner. 🎢 ⚛️ 🧪 👩‍🔬

Looking forward to this spooky Seminar organised and hosted by postdocs of the MPI-Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden tomorrow. I arrived a few hours ago, just in time to witness the rehearsal for the Tim Burton-esque musical show.

A selection of 10 very influential women in the history of British science.🧪

Congrats to Denise @denisebe.bsky.social for the best talk at the meeting for graduate students! #gradmeeg25!

A new deadline in my calendar. #ISBE2026.

And spiders, not to forget!!🧪🕷

Beaches, too - of course.

And a great place for hikes with spectacular views.

From standing stones, menhirs, to the nuragic civilisation with so many surprising facets (sophisticatedly constructed towers, sacred wells, large stone figures, intricate bronze figurines): Sardinia is a great place to discover prehistory.

A post-ESITO treat: found this golden pendant in the shape of a chrysalis in the archeological museum of Cagliari, Sardinia. 7th cent BC. Phoenicians liked to decorate themselves with butterfly pupae! 🧪🦋

We had a great European Symposium for Insect Taste and Olfaction, ESITO, on Sardinia where I was invited to talk about evolutionary aspects. This was how spiders entered an insect meeting 😉.🕷🧪 #SilkeSachse and #MarkusKnaden for organizing it!

www.nickybay.com/ai-abuse-to-... AI abuse on macrophotography and AI generation of incorrect captions. Here are examples compiled by wildlife photographer Nicky Bay.

So true.

So many great talks at the DZG including this plenary talk by Silke Sachse on insect olfaction.👍🧪

Indeed it was wonderful!

👋 Looking forward to the 117th Annual Meeting of the German Zoological Society. Please like and share 🤩

dzg-meeting.de/en/startseite/ Looking forward to the next meeting: the german zoological society meeting in Berlin. All keynote speakers are female scientists. And a great selection of topics!🧪

Thank you organizers for the fantastic conference 🕷️❤️ @35theca2025.bsky.social

A great conference is over. The 35th European Conference of Arachnology in Zadar, hosted by Martina Pavlek. Great talks, discussions and parties including jumping into the adriatic sea during breaks.

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

FlyBase needs your help! Visit the link below for more information, and please consider donating to help save this amazing resource. wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase...

My new @science.org editorial on the role of scientists in defending democracy is out today. As authoritarianism takes hold in the US, we must fight for the democratic principles that enable a free society and scientists have a key role. I hope you'll join us. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A fact and food for thought: "Google enjoys an immense amount of power in the scholarly community, and Google Scholar has a gatekeeping role, having "leveraged its system of citation counting into a tool that coordinates the scholarly economy"." Despite its power, does Scholar get the axe within 5y?

I've had a few conversations about people still not enjoying #BlueSky as much as some traditional social media platforms. One tip I have is pin the OnlyPosts feed: you will then see posts from folks you follow, chronologically, with nothing else.

If you are ever close to Tübingen, a great experience is the "Ammonite Pavement" in Ofterdingen. They are huge! Geopark Swabian Alb. www.geopark-alb.de/geopark-erle...

We are seeking a full-time Managing Editor for our journal Animal Behaviour. This editor will be involved in all stages of the publication process & must have a general understanding of the topics covered. Position starts Oct 1, application deadline July 31. More details: www.asab.org/opportunities

A Dfg funded phd position is open in our group. In a project led by Andi Fischer. "Sexual and non-sexual communication in a widow spider"🧪

Save the date!

Winter ASAB @asab.org on *Sensory Ecology* register and submit your abstracts now (abstract deadline just a month away)! I'm organising the conference this year with @lauraakelley.bsky.social and Innes Cuthill Register & get more info here: asabwinter.github.io/2025/

How impressive to see the zoomorphic "Löwenmensch" figurine (Lion-man) with my own eyes in Ulm, Germany. A fascinating prehistoric mammuth-ivory sculpture from the Swabian Jura. 40.000 years old, upper paleolithic.

Christoph Sieber, vor 5 Monaten schon. Zum Thema ?AfD Verbot? youtu.be/UnEWiP0bsVE?...

www.nature.com/articles/d41... Scientific picture editing: incomprehensive pictures and the fine line between editing and manipulating.🧪

European arachnology meeting in Croatia: registration is open!

Junior faculty job alert in Germany - Marine Evolutionary Genomics @geomarkiel.bsky.social / University of Kiel www.geomar.de/en/karriere/... Marine study system of your choice (no microbes, sorry…), excellent infrastructure and ship access, moderate teaching requirements, closing date 6 June

Our latest study on mechanistic aspects of an alternative mating tactic in a widow spider. Females are cannibalistic and male self-sacrificial. However matings also occur with females before their final moult to "maturity". Then males survive! 🧪🕷

We also have a Journal of Zoology blog! jzoblog.wordpress.com Here you can read posts written by our authors about the more 'behind-the-scenes' part of zoological research, hear from our editors and get the latest news about our journal #zoology #blog

Leaving X and now on bluesky: the Journal of Zoology!

zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/... We, editors of Journal of Zoology, will continue to actively pursue inclusion as outlined in our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Statement.

#S4FAppell: Die 11.000 wurden heute Abend überschritten. 🙂 www.bayceer.uni-bayreuth.de/s4f/de/top/o...

www.bayceer.uni-bayreuth.de/s4f/de/top/o... Bis 13.3. kann unterzeichnet werden. Appel aus der Wissenschaft an die Politik für mehr Klimaschutz! Scientists for Future.

Finally, I sent a cup to Friedrich Merz to fill his cupboard. It is like sending marbles to someone who has lost them. Background: he claimed that I and many others lost their marbles because we protested AGAINST the political shift to the right and FOR democracy. Let us see how he will perform.

youtube.com/watch?v=0y1n... Great Interview with Anne Appelbaum from 5 days ago. She must be shocked about the desaster in the oval Office.

Baerbock spricht von "Zeit der Ruchlosigkeit“ liveblog.zdf.de/aktuelles-zu... Well said.

More "shining light" exhibits in Greifswald. Very diverse. From dangling underwear to fluttering butterflies.

www.science.org/content/arti... How sick is this type of creativity? 22 papers retracted 🧪

More exhibits. Absorbed people...

"Shining Light" festival in Greifswald, celebrating Caspar David Friedrich who was born here. I do not rally see the connection but like it anyways.

The editorial board of ASN AmNat made a strong statement for the values of academic freedom and diversity. The actions by elected and non-elected individuals in the White House are devastating. @asn-amnat.bsky.social 🧪

Very excited about the publication of this review with my dear friend and colleague, Efrat Gavish-Regev! www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

For all arachnolovers🕷️🦂🕸️: follow the updates on the next European meeting to be held next September in beautiful Zadar 🌅in Croatia at @35theca2025.bsky.social . Also on webpage: event.fourwaves.com/eca2025/pages