SexLab

Thanks to our sponsor Tracy Aviary (@TracyAviary), FI is proud to offer a $2000 Travel Award to help a marginalized or historically excluded student to attend any conference, workshop, or training opportunity in a natural sciences field for Summer 2025. Learn More & Apply: fieldinclusive.org/student-travel… Applications due April 1st, 11:59 ET.

Another harvestman with what appears to be a layer of wax on the anterior half of its dorsum. From Balikpapan, Kalimantan, Indonesia @sderkarabetian

¡Demasiado bonito como para pasar desapercibido! Y sí, es un arácnido, del orden #Opiliones. Se trata de una especie nueva para la ciencia, descrita por mi querido amigo @abelaracno y Vanesa Mamani. Su nombre es #Metalacurbs foordi, en honor a Stefan Foord †. Para conocer más👇🏽 x.com/abelaracno/sta…

Diego and his murderous bulb mites at #AusEvol2024! @AustEvolSoc

Applications due tomorrow Oct. 15 at 5 pm Eastern! Please submit early if you can to avoid delays caused by too much traffic on the website. Email communications@evolutionsociety.org with any questions. We look forward to reviewing your proposals!

Our lab is looking for a postdoc to do NSF-funded research at the intersection of #UrbanEcology, #SocialJustice, citizen/community science, and spatial statistics. Remote and in person options available. Please share widely! jobs.colostate.edu/postings/151833

I'm really glad to share the results of the first chapter of my thesis, studying this amazing Neotropical harvestman. 🕷️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

✍️ #STRI is seeking a highly creative, bilingual Multimedia Storyteller who makes science relevant and accessible. / ✍️ #STRI busca a una persona bilingüe para el puesto de Multimedia Storyteller que haga que la ciencia sea relevante y accesible. s.si.edu/3T6W2H6

#RAELaracno anuncia 📣Si quisieras aprender a compartir sobre ciencia con diferentes audiencias de forma efectiva no te pierdas este curso dictado por @hebets_lab y @heatherakin el 13 y 20/09! El curso será gratuito, online y en inglés. 👉Anotate aquí: forms.gle/DSm7TbCRiWkiRW…

Interested in alternative mating tactics and if there is a general trend for reproductive differences between tactics across species? If yes, check this meta-analysis authored by me @MandyViesi @VenturaStefani_ @JooGabrielLace1 and @ReislaOliveira onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… 🧶🧶

EXCITING NEWS! We are accepting applications for a special funding round - Women in Fieldwork. If you identify as a woman conducting animal behaviour-related fieldwork, we welcome your application for one of four grants of £400 each. Deadline September 1st, 2024. ⬇️

Lais Grossel (@laisgrossel, she/her) is a behavioural ecologist interested in social, sexual and parental behaviour, doing a PhD at the Universidade de São Paulo. Her 1 y internship aims to study the evolution of parental care in harvestmen. More: wildecolhull.netlify.app/authors/lais-g…

📄🔬Submissões abertas para o SBBE24! 🌟 Envie seu resumo! 👩🏽‍💻 Avaliações em fluxo contínuo, então submeta já! 🧬 Participe do I Congresso Brasileiro de Biologia Evolutiva. 🌳 🔗 Saiba mais e inscreva-se pelo link na bio! #biologiaevolutiva #SBBE #SBBE24 #evolução #ufpr

Former, current, and future members of Sexlab at the @CLAracnologia

This congress was a great success for all participants, but especially for Wellen, who despite it being her first international conference, won the award for best oral presentation in the "Ecología, comportamiento, divulgación científica y afines" category. (7/7)

Lastly, our youngest member, Wellen, presented her work on the effect of leg amputation on the survival of males of an opilionid species with intrasexual trimorphism in one of their walking legs. (6/7)

Hello! Last week, most of the members of Sexlab were at the @CLAracnologia in Bogotá, Colombia! (1/7)