BlankeLab

📢Fresh from the press: Lots of fieldwork and bitten fingers lead to a #biteforce database of 654 #insect species! Check out the results of the great team effort of the @BlankeLab @ScientificData: nature.com/articles/s4159… #Rstats #DataScience @ERC_Research @UniBonn @UniCologne

An updated version of the Stack cropping and rotation macro for Imagej/Fiji is out! This free script allows cropping of a rotated Region-Of-Interest (ROI) and down-scaling of results to a user-defined stack size. And it comes with a GUI!

Have a look at our exciting keynote Speaker topics about "Macroevolutionary Dynamics" at tiny.one/PS2022! #PS2022. It's free and you can still register until the 30th September!!!

This year's Phylogenetic Symposium will take place @UniBonn with exciting keynote speakers discussing "Macroevolutionary Dynamics" to reach a more integrative understanding of interspecific variation! Register till the end of September (!) at tiny.one/PS2022! #PS2022

We extended the registration deadline 30th of September ! Come join us at the Phylogenetic Symposium in Bonn!

Dear students and colleagues, after a two year break, you can plan again for the Phylogenetic Symposium! 18th to 20th of November 2022 at the University of Bonn. Check out and register at: evolution.uni-bonn.de/en/phylogeneti…

Two years in the making, my take at illustrating bird phylogeny: deviantart.com/albertonykus/a…

Amazing to see the final product of an amazing project that members of the @DNArthropods lab first heard of (and saw the work while in the field) back in 2019! @Peter_Th_R is sharing his HUGE dataset of insect bite force measurements at #ICE2022

The ability to ‘bite hard’ is beneficial for crushing food & winning in fights but is costly. @Peter_Th_R & @BlankeLab at @UniBonn present a mobile system for measuring & analysing small animal bite force to learn more about their evolution. Read more: britishecologicalsociety.org/measuring-inse…

Today I had the great pleasure to meet @AnthonyHerrel @Le_Museum and get some salamander bite force data to compare with my insect measurements! All snakes failed to cooperate though 😋 🦎✅ 🐝✅ 🐍❌

Our Postdoc Captain Sam Ginot took us out to ride his dad's boat into the sunset during the wonderful #SEB2022 #sebconference!

Congrats to @Peter_Th_R for winning the 2nd talk prize of the Mechanical Ecology session at #SEB2022 #sebconference for the 'Wackiest device they've ever seen'! Many thanks to the organizers @SEBiology!

Just heard an amazing talk by @EvoBiomech's David Labonte about shear forces and scaling of sticky feet!

If you missed Leandra's (@Bio2Nic) talk on a bioinspired micropalstic filter, you have a second chance to hear it at the Biomimetics session at #SEB2022 #SEBconference starting soon!

Excited to listen to a lot of interesting talks in the Mechanical Ecology session of #SEB2022 #SEBconference @SEBiology!

Ever wanted to measure and analyse bite forces of small animals? Check out our #forceX setup and #forceR package that just came out @MethodsEcolEvol: bit.ly/3bp7TgY @BlankeLab @UniBonn @ERC_Research @dfg_public #insects #biomechanics #biteforce #phdchat 🧵1/4

Two new positions available in the Blanke lab! Check them out here: evolution.uni-bonn.de/en/arbeitsgrup…

We had the great pleasure to host @KlunkCristian for two days in our lab! Cristian measured #biteforces of #ants for his #biomechanics studies using our #forceX setup!

Sucking #millipedes: Similar to some insects and other arthropods, millipedes ingest liquid food using a sucking pump. Sucking pumps has thus evolved independently in different groups of arthropods. See publication: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… #MuseumKoenig @UniBonn