🕷️〰️ Proudly presented my work on energy expenditure during vibrational spider courtship at #ISBE2026 today! 〰️🕷️ It was a great poster session, and I absolutely loved all the amazing conversations - I am looking forward to many more in the next days✨

The #Australian ballista #spider (Propostira sp.) uses its silk's elastic energy storage capacity to build the most powerful snare and selective in the #animal kingdom. Read about our discovery here: doi.org/10.1016/j.cu... Video by Ajay Narendra. Recorded with 3,000 fps, playback 100x slowed down!

📄New Paper!📄 Multimodal courtship in Nursery web spiders involves a nuptial gift AND vibrations. Do males adjust their investment in the vibratory signal based on how nice their nuptial gift is? Out now in @behavecol.bsky.social academic.oup.com/beheco/artic...

Proud to present our new paper, led by Stefan ter Haar who came all the way from Groningen to Greifswald to study spiders: No Appeasement Through Vibrations: Male vibratory pre-copulatory courtship in Pisaura mirabilis does not affect female predatory response onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

No Appeasement Through Vibrations: Male Vibratory Pre‐Copulatory Courtship in the Cursorial Spider Pisaura mirabilis Does Not Affect Female Predatory Response

Male courtship can serve various purposes such as species recognition, mate localization, or advertisement of individual quality and physical condition. In predatory species such as spiders, courtshi...

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🕷️🥬The discovery of chemosensory sensilla with different distributions on the body appendages and between the sexes of a cursorial spider, combined with evidence of olfactory mate attraction, provides insights into chemical communication in spiders. @uhl-lab.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Congrats to the winners of the best poster and best talk of the #gradmeeg25. But all the contributions were really stunning!! @dzg-behaviour.bsky.social @denisebe.bsky.social

The first day of our #gradmeet25 was filled with stunning student talks, a lot of questions and networking. Way to go!

We’re really enjoying the #gradmeet25 of the @dzg-behaviour.bsky.social so far! It’s already been two days of learning about cool behaviors in various animals🦇🐒🐜 🕷️I’m super excited that I also got to share my own work on the effects of differential prey availability on Pisaura mirabilis females!🕷️

Our journal congratulates @ortizmovliavc.bsky.social l for her award at @35theca2025.bsky.social ! Her work, “Winter warming increases metabolic stress and mortality in an overwintering spider,” got her a free publication in a @pensoft.net journal. zookeys.pensoft.net/news/993

PhD student Carolina Ortiz Movliav wins Best Oral Presentation at European Congress of Arachnology

Carolina Ortiz Movliav, a PhD student at the University of Greifswald, has won the Best Oral Presentation Award at the 35th European Congress of Arachnology for her work “Winter warming inc...

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Enjoyed a beautiful walking tour with the young researchers of the @wiko-greifswald.bsky.social around the Loki-Schmidt Botanical Garden of the @uni-hamburg.de on Monday☀️🪲 A great place to experience a vast variety of plants and to learn more about conservation, human land use, and sustainability🌵

Last week, I had the opportunity to present the results of my Bachelor's project at the European Congress of Arachnology. 🕷🕷🕷 I really enjoyed the time in Zadar and I feel honored to receive the best poster award! 🤩

The first chapter of my thesis is out now in Journal of Ethology! Check it out if you're interested in taking a deep dive into the vibrational signal of a very cute spider 🕷️〰️ Variation of vibratory performance during courtship of a cursorial spider: doi.org/10.1007/s101...

🕷️〰️〰️〰️ Super proud to be presenting my own poster at the German Ethology Meeting this year, assessing the effect of male age on the vibratory courtship performance in Pisaura mirabilis! 〰️〰️〰️🕷️ I feel especially honored to receive the Eberhard-Gwinner price for the best poster🤩💛🕷️

I’m starting this BlueSky account with a beautiful picture I took at the Annual Meeting of the German Ethological Society Meeting in Tutzing!☀️🕷️ Lake Starnberg and the breathtaking scenery of the Alps in the background - needless to say where we spent our coffee breaks!⛰️