Carved animals (mammals) of all kinds under and above the seats in the 15th century choir stalls of St Pietro e Orso in Aosta, NW italy. Some are fighting, foraging, showing their bum. A lot to see for praying monks back then and for visitors today.
Gabriele Uhl
@uhl-lab.bsky.social
Evolutionary biologist. Sexual selection, biology of reproduction, functional morphology, sensory ecology and climate change topics. Working mostly on spiders. University of Greifswald. Germany.
I compiled a list of 350 #funding opportunities for #postdoctoral research #fellowships: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1J2M_tQgoqV4ivpfEClh9qs9f2KQN2O1G3Jpda2aoHfQ/edit?usp=sharing I realized I should share this again after mentioning it to some folks at the #EFP2026
In a new #Viewpoint we argue that the binary definition of #BiologicalSex based on gamete size is a scientifically robust framework that is entirely compatible with the diversity of sexual phenotypes and human gender identities. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Biological Sex Is Binary and Rooted in Anisogamy
Drawing on empirical evidence and evolutionary theory, we argue that biological sex is most coherently defined as a binary classification of reproductive strategies rooted in anisogamy (the productio....
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ISBE in Torino, Italy- the logo was projected onto the iconic tower Mole Antonelliana last night. A great conference! 🧪 @ISBE2026
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Our study on a bacterial symbiont of the wasp spider Argiope bruennchi is available as a preprint. Likely an intracellular bacterium with a small genome of interesting phylogenetic placement.
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🎉To celebrate ZSL’s 200 years of zoological history, the Senior Editors of Journal of Zoology are highlighting in this virtual issue some of their favourite articles published in ZSL’s oldest scientific journal. 📖Read the virtual issue here: https://ow.ly/l2NK50YUz4V #zoology Journal of Zoology
200 years zoological Society London #ZSL200. The virtual issue is on the website to celebrate some outstanding contributions over the centuries. You will also find more information on how it all began - founded by scientists and naturalists with an ambitious vision. zsl.org/200 🧪
ZSL 200th Anniversary Hub | The Zoological Society of London
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Journal of Zoology@jzoology.bsky.social · 3mo agoVIRTUAL ISSUE: 🎉Happy 200th Birthday🎉to Zoological Society of London, from the Editors of Journal of Zoology! zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1... #ZSL200 @zslofficial.bsky.social @elissazcameron.bsky.social @amcell.bsky.social @uhl-lab.bsky.social @conservresearch.bsky.social
zoologie.uni-greifswald.de/en/organizat... We have an open PhD position in my group for someone interested in functional morphology, biology of reproduction and evolutionary biology. Please spread the word!🧪🕷🧪🕷🧪🕷🧪
Graduate Position/research associate, DFG funded Project on Sperm uptake and transfer in spiders
Universität Greifswald
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200 years Zoological Society of London!
Journal of Zoology@jzoology.bsky.social · 3mo agoVIRTUAL ISSUE: 🎉Happy 200th Birthday🎉to Zoological Society of London, from the Editors of Journal of Zoology! zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1... #ZSL200 @zslofficial.bsky.social @elissazcameron.bsky.social @amcell.bsky.social @uhl-lab.bsky.social @conservresearch.bsky.social
CORRECTIV: "The pact with the chemical industry" - corporateeurope.org/en/2026/04/c... This article (originally German) by A. Joeres & G. Steeger reports on how big polluters are prioritized over health. There is hardly any research on the substances released into our waters. I was quite naive.
CORRECTIV: "The pact with the chemical industry" | Corporate Europe Observatory
Tens of thousands of unknown, sometimes toxic, chemicals are floating in the Rhine. Why is industry allowed to discharge them unhindered? A top manager of a major corporation reveals how industry cont...
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dzg-meeting.de/en/welcome-ms/ The Meeting of the German Zoological Society will take place in Münster from September 7 to 11! Abstract submission until June 15! 🧪
Welcome | DZG Meeting
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Would you like to learn about how genetic differentiation and phenotypic plasticity shape a species' range expansion? Here is a new, comprehensive paper led by Monica Sheffer from my group - supported by wonderful colleagues.
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AI Claude suggests a moratorium on AI that "would buy us time to put guardrails in place, privacy protections, transparacy requirements, accountability mechanisms before it gets even further out of hand." Quote from the "exchange" between Berie Sanders and the AI agent.
Claas Gefroi@claasgefroi.bsky.social · 5mo agoGroßartige "Unterhaltung" zwischen Bernie Sanders und "Claude". Die kapitalgetriebene KI warnt vor sich selbst.
International women's day. A less know topic: Gender Solidarity Gap.
The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly | PNAS
Science is characterized by collaboration and cooperation, but also by uncertainty, competition, and inequality. While there has always been some c...
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At 3 °C of warming, climate-driven wildfire smoke could kill 64,000 Americans annually—a 60% increase over current levels. Incorporating that mortality into carbon cost estimates raises the domestic monetary value of CO2 mitigation by 74%. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/bgwg50Yo8Kj
PFAS are linked to cancer and contaminate our water and food - yet chemical giants are lobbying to weaken protections to our health. Europe can still act. I just signed. Will you? action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-01...
Ban Forever Chemicals Now
Forever chemicals are poisoning Europe’s water, food, and even our blood. Chemical giants are lobbying to weaken protections - but people across Europe are pushing back. Sign now to ban PFAS and put h...
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Amazing illustrations by Javier Lazaro.
Javier Lazaro - scientific illustration@lazaroillustration.bsky.social · 5mo agoI’ve streamlined my portfolio to better reflect my current direction in scientific and nature illustration. #sciart www.lazaroillustration.com A short thread with the updated galleries 👇👇👇 Animals moving in the wild (1/12) www.lazaroillustration.com/animalsmoving #orangutans
Led by my talented PhD student @justine-armg.bsky.social we’re running a #meta-analysis of #cross-sex-genetic-correlations in fitness components. If you have unpublished data or know of studies that might not appear in a systematic search, please reach out, we’d love to include them! Please share!
Hello Bluesky! Follow us for posts on new research, jobs (mostly European) and updates on activities of the society and related organisations! Let's connect! 🦩🦩🦩🦩
It felt like an excursion to the north pole. Pack ice along the southern coast of the Island Rügen, north Germany.
In der von der Unternehmerlobby losgetretene Debatte über angebliche "Lifestyle-Teilzeit" hier mal ein paar gut von Markus Bublitz zusammengetragene Fakten:
Our quest for chemosensory receptors in spiders is like searching for a needle in a haystack. We started with kainate iGluReceptors that are expressed in the central and peripheral nervous system of the wasp spider. They may modulate peripheral sensory neurons. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Functional analysis of kainate receptors in the spider Argiope bruennichi reveals glutamatergic signalling in both central and peripheral nervous systems
Arthropod neurobiology has been studied overwhelmingly in insects, leaving the molecular basis of sensory systems in non-insect arthropods poorly unde…
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News on the function of tremulation: Female Pisaura mirabilis spiders are not appeased by the courtship tremulations of males - at least in our playback setup. Result of Stefan ter Haar's internship from Groningen led by @monikaeberhard.bsky.social 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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Commsbio made a nice little Video summary for our paper on the chemosensory toolkit of the nursery spider Pisaura mirabilis. Thanks, Joao Valente! 🧪🕷👃
Communications Biology@commsbio.nature.com · 8mo agoDiscovery 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...
🕷️🥬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...
rdcu.be/eSIHs We reported on the chemosensory toolkit of an Orb weaving spider in our PNAS paper earlier this year. Here, we report on a cursorial spider: similar, sex-specific sensory equipment and evidence for olfaction. 🧪🕷
The chemosensory toolkit of the cursorial spider Pisaura mirabilis
Communications Biology - 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...
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Only 2 weeks left until the abstract submission deadline for the #ISBE2026 Gosh.
ISBE2026@isbe2026.bsky.social · 8mo agoMake sure you don’t miss our key dates for abstract submission and registration!
