This tiny Australian #spider builds a giant elastic catapult to catch ants, and guess who did all the #math? We named it the Ballista spider, after I listed all the existing medieval weapons I knew from all the videogames I played. The paper is out now in Current Biology: doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

My last big work on spider silk is coming out! We discovered that spider silk does not behave like many people think, and that sometimes with just three bottles you can get more than four types of drinks! Enjoy the read pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

Tensile properties of single- and multi-type mixed fibre bundles of spider silk

Spider silk is known for its outstanding toughness at low density, making it a promising model for the biomimetic design of advanced fibre materials. Spiders naturally do not spin single silk fibres b...

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Despite being sick for more than a year now, 2025 was still a crazy year, and, most importantly, it was not boring at all. If my body leaves me in peace for a bit, I will tell more in the future about where I am now, and what does the future 1/3

Well, finally time to start this account! My scientific app is out! EvoNEST is a completely open app for #laboratories working with alive specimens that could need maintenance or else. Read about it here: doi.org/10.7717/peer... #datascience #biodiversity #biology #science

I decided to open this professional account to post about science, and science-driven code development. I will post more about my current and past line of works in the next days