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The rise of the slayer. A night walk after drinks with friends & colleagues resulted in the discovery of the remarkable strategy that allows a small spider to capture abundant but dangerous prey - ants @PNASNews @MPI_CE @mqnatsci @unihh 1/3 pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

@peduarte @glazeapp Would it also be ridiculously easy to convert the extensions I already wrote for Raycast into Glaze Apps?

absolutely loving my @glazeapp waitlist app just added a way for me to favourite specific emails to give early access to ridiculous how easy it was to build it 😆

@westsydunews @kateumbers @arc_gov_au @invertsau @ZoosVictoria @xercessociety @lunduniversity Woohoo!! Congrats Kate! You’ll have tons of fun! I’ll celebrate you with a beer over here! maybe later one with you too in person, big hug!

Dr @kateumbers has been awarded a prestigious & highly competitive @arc_gov_au Mid-Career Industry Fellowship securing $1 million funding for vital bogong moth research with key partners @invertsau @ZoosVictoria @xercessociety @lunduniversity 🦋MORE bit.ly/3Lwc5ei

@JayStafstrom Damn, it’s like it’s finally giving up on trying

The saddest little deinopid I've ever seen. From iNat, user: deeqld inaturalist.org/observations/1…

Ant-slayer spiders rapidly capture large ants with glue that coats their dragline silk. The spider avoids the ant’s mandibles by dropping below the ant on the same strand of silk. The ant is helplessly suspended in mid air pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… Now in colour:

@AndrewBurchill @MarieHerberstei Hi Andrew!! Here it goes: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

@MarieHerberstei @bioarach The link doesn't seem to work!!

@RoesslerDaniela @Ibycter @PNASNews @MPI_CE @mqnatsci @unihh That’s the (spider) dream! 😉

@bioarach @Ibycter @PNASNews @MPI_CE @mqnatsci @unihh Awesome video! Yes! This so clearly looks like ant mimicry to me. Mimicking an ant with your butt - I mean, these guys should come right after salticids on the list of awesome spiders! :P

The rise of the slayer. A night walk after drinks with friends & colleagues resulted in the discovery of the remarkable strategy that allows a small spider to capture abundant but dangerous prey - ants @PNASNews @MPI_CE @mqnatsci @unihh 1/3 pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

@RoesslerDaniela @Ibycter @PNASNews @MPI_CE @mqnatsci @unihh hi! Agreed I think previous work by Líznarová and Pekár included a video where the hind legs look like moving antennae (at least I thought so) #metadata_info_tab_contents" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">jstor.org/stable/2695598… I knew about it on the ground but nice to see it on vertical too, cool spiders!

@Ibycter @bioarach @PNASNews @MPI_CE @mqnatsci @unihh Just checked some footage from Italy- I always get strong ant-head mimicry vibes when I see these guys especially with the wavy hind-legs (antennae ;) ). No somersault here, but looks like it still managed to get silk on that ant..??? Super cool spiders!

Not only does the spider capture the ant really fast, but also very successfully. Rapid movements and highly adhesive silk achieve A ~85% success rate. This leaves behind most apex predators. 3/3

Most predators avoid dangerous prey such as ants but on Australian tree trunks, the ant-slayer spider captures ants in split-seconds. @MarieHerberstei @pipilika_aj @LizyLowe @jonas_o_wolff @jimmclean9 and Jutta Schneider, Marcelo Christian 2/3

#FeelGoodFriday this jumping spider decorates its nest with bark to create a cloak of invisibility! ifls.online/3tEvtwR

@DrRossPiper @PeerJLife @ACA_DC Thanks! That’s quite interesting, we found only a handful of spiders in concrete after hundreds or more in tree trunks. And from your picture it does look like the same strategy wow Peru <—> Australia

@bioarach @PeerJLife Excellent stuff. I've seen similar behaviour in a species in Peru. I think it must be a tree-dwelling species, but have only seen them on the white walls of the field station buildings @ACA_DC Los Amigos where they use small depressions in the wall.

Just published, pretty awesome and cute jumping spider that builds its own camouflaged retreat @PeerJLife peerj.com/articles/12839 #AnimalBehavior #Ecology #Spiders #blankiespider

@BharatParthasa3 @PeerJLife Thanks mate! Putting the pipeline in motion

@bioarach @PeerJLife Super! Congratulations 👏

@birdsbugsbones @PeerJLife Thanks Alex! Yeah they are always a fun sighting. How you caught them building up a blankie?

@bioarach @PeerJLife Congrats on the publication! I'm always keeping an eye out for jumping spider blankets now whenever I'm out in the field! ❤️

@papersapp Tech support from your web just help me out to get it working. Good team, thanks.

@papersapp Apple Pages is shown there in the image but there is no add-in to download or way to recognize citekeys from Pages, is there a way to use Papers on Apple Pages?

SmartCite is fast, easy-to-use, supports over 9,000+ styles, and most importantly, makes it easy to collaborate on documents with colleagues. ow.ly/Gvjq50ChSxu

@LizyLowe ❤️! I am 100% sure it is things like this, kind words from our loved ones that keep us running. I can’t wait to be back and spend some more time with you again!

And of course @bioarach: how you've managed to stay so positive though SUCH a year for you I'm not sure. But you still manage to brighten up our lives all the way from Hamburg. We're all awaiting the day we can get you back in Sydney!

Well, it's been a hell of a year. Before I head off for (hopefully) a good long break, I'd like to do a public shout out to all the people who have helped me through. It's made me realise how lucky I am to be surrounded by such inspiring, supportive and downright awesome people

@MorganeMerien Hehe the colombian one translates to: horse killer!! “mata caballo (Colombia)” Pretty cool learning after your question!

@bioarach There’s so many names for fásmidos! es.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phasmatod…

Question: How do you say stick insect/walking stick in your language and what is the literal translation of it? #entomology #phasmatodea

@MorganeMerien Wow cool finding! I never heard zacatón but campamocha is kind of an old word, like what grandparents would say. Although it also use for Mantis or for tall skinny people :)

@bioarach On the Spanish Wiki, it also says zacatón o campamocha for Mexico. Is that a slang version? What does that mean?