As part of the #digitization of the zoological collections at @leibnizlib.bsky.social, our student assistant Hannah is scanning whole specimens mounted on non-standard #microscope slides using custom-designed, #3D-printed adapters. 🔬

The application deadline for the #Curator (m/f/d) of #Ornithology position at @leibnizlib.bsky.social in Hamburg has been extended to 30 August 2026. 🐦🦉🦅🪶🥚 More details and apply here: 8101202752.karriereportal.cloud/job/2026-18-.... Please share.

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📢Job alert: #Curator (m/f/d) for the #Ornithology collection at @leibnizlib.bsky.social in Hamburg. 🐦🦉🦅🪶🥚 Application deadline: July 1, 2026. For more details and application see: 8101202752.karriereportal.cloud/job/2026-18-.... Please share.

📢Job alert: #Curator (m/f/d) for the #Ornithology collection at @leibnizlib.bsky.social in Hamburg. 🐦🦉🦅🪶🥚 Application deadline: July 1, 2026. For more details and application see: 8101202752.karriereportal.cloud/job/2026-18-.... Please share.

Job alert 🚨 I am looking for a lab technician for two years, if you are keen to work on NGS, genomics and transcriptomics at a research museum sent us your application. 8101202752.karriereportal.cloud/job/2026-17-...

Interested in biodiversity, agriculture, and human health? Check out our PhD positions in project A03: www.zef.de/fooddiverse

🔁 REA_research The #MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2026 call is open! €399M in EU funding will support around 1,600 researchers: link.europa.eu/t6jYb3 🔵 European fellowships: 12-24 months in Europe 🔵 Global fellowships: 12-24 months abroad + return Deadline: 9 September (17:00 CEST)

Call for #MSCA PostDoc fellowships open! Looking for a natural history museum to host you for a project related to #biodiversity, #morphology, #taxonomy, #collections, ...? Feel free to reach out to discuss ideas & opportunities! 🐞🐟🐌🦅🕷️ 🐸🪱🦂🐿️ marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/post...

New paper! 🧪 We found substantial morphological variation in Seychelles bronze geckos among islands, likely outweighing regional biogeographic patterns observed in other herpetofauna. Great collaboration with @lib-morpholab.bsky.social @nhm-london.bsky.social #islands #geckos 🦎🏝️🇸🇨

Inter- and intraspecific morphometric divergences in a Seychelles endemic gecko genus - BMC Ecology and Evolution

BMC Ecology and Evolution - Accurate species delimitation is essential for understanding biodiversity patterns and guiding conservation, yet cryptic species with minimal morphological variation...

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Special project with @nancymercado.bsky.social today: Preparing figurines for a kids’ painting activity at the Asphaltsprenger Festival in Hamburg. 🎨🐞🐛🦋🕷️

Lorenz (@lguschker.bsky.social), a guest PhD student from the University of Rostock, is visiting to create histological sections to study the development of the nervous system in direct developing frogs.🐸🐸🐸

Robin (@robinslnr.bsky.social) is acquiring data from a #Hyla specimen for the second part of his doctoral project using episcopic #microtomy and mounting selected sections on slides for #histology. Reconstruction of muscle #evolution ahead. 🐸🐸🐸

I am looking for a PhD working on tracking trait changes in insects/spiders at the Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity change @leibnizlib.bsky.social and the University of Hamburg. Apply here: www.uni-hamburg.de/en/stellenan...

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JOB ALERT! Come work with us as a PhD student for 4 years if you are interested in biodiversity monitoring, technology development, insects and agriculture.

Last week: #SEH2025 in Bonn ! I gave my very first talk, about the Homology of the shoulder joint and forelimb muscles #anura. I hope to submit the paper later this year, so stay tuned 😉 Many thanks to the organisers of this congress ! #SEH2025 #herpetology #anura #amphibian #frog #toad

Testing #high-speed videography with @dagmarazyla.bsky.social to capture wing-folding in rove #beetles (#Staphylinidae). Some specimens seem to be too shy in front of the camera, but a few are quite good actors. Maybe this will develop into a student project 🙂

📢 job alert: Research position for the development and support of web-based applications @leibnizlib.bsky.social. Application deadline: 31.8., for details see 8101202752.karriereportal.cloud/job/2025-08-...

📢 job alert: Scientific lead (f/m/d) for #biodiversity #dataScience @leibnizlib.bsky.social. Application deadline: 31.8., for details see 8101202752.karriereportal.cloud/job/2025-10-...

Markus @markusroesch.bsky.social, a visiting PhD student from CIBIO-BIOPOLIS, University of Porto, is using #microCT scans and geometric morphometrics to study cryptic diversity within #Seychelles endemic bronze #geckos. 🦎

The call for #MSCA PostDoc fellowships is open! If you think about applying for a project related to #biodiversity, #morphology, #collections, ... & are looking for a host: Feel free to reach out to discuss ideas & opportunities! 🐞🐟🐌🦅🕷️ 🐸🪱🦂🐿️ marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/post...

Alina from Rostock University is visiting to acquire data for her bachelor thesis. She uses #histology to study skin development and metamorphic rearrangement across different #tadpole stages in a collaborative project with @benjaminnaumann.bsky.social 🐸

Emanuel (@emanuelp1990.bsky.social), a guest scientist of the LIB Crustacea Collection in Hamburg, is doing some #CT scans of deep-sea #isopods. He wants to visualize soft tissue to explore the anatomy of the reproductive systems in deep-sea species.

#teamwork at #Morpho25 by @lib-morpholab.bsky.social: Benjamin Wipfler & Mariam Gabelaia teamed up and showed insights into the avian head. Very nice presentation concept!

Playing with propagation-based phase contrast in #microCT scans to visualize soft tissue without contrast staining in jumping #spiders 🕷️🕷️🕷️ Sure no great image quality achieved, but good enough to measure internal structures of the eyes with @jadethurlow.bsky.social & @mherberstein.bsky.social

Robin (@robinslnr.bsky.social) is doing some #CT scans of #Xenopus tadpoles with different contrast stainings to visualize soft tissue and skeletal structures in the developing forelimb. Many thanks to @kruthsatz.bsky.social for providing the specimens! 🐸

Jade (@jadethurlow.bsky.social) is visiting to image and study jumping spiders. Many hours at the Keyence and some critical point drying and CT scanning to explore the relationship between morphological features, such as eye diameter and femur length. 🕷️

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