Three new species of Thiratoscirtus (Salticidae) published yesterday in Zootaxa! From @BINCOnpo Salonga expedition 🇨🇩. Fantastic collaboration with WWF DRC... some super cool local names. E.g. meet Th. khonvoum, named after the god of the hunt in Bantu mythology. [1/2]

🎉I"m thrilled to announce that I joined the @UMR_MECADEV @ECOTROP_MNHN at the @Le_Museum in Paris as Assistant Professor and next Curator of the #spider collection 🕷️! Excited to continue my work on tropical spider ecology & evolution, and to welcome anyone in the collection! 🤗

🕷 Three new species of jumping spiders from dry forests in North-western Madagascar as part of an ongoing biomonitoring programme. Find out more about them here: https://t.co/oZiYhkzp6B #Afrotropics #newspecies #taxonomy @broganConBio @UniofExeter @opwall @BINCOnpo

Enjoying revisiting Sainte Marie 🇲🇬, this time finding the most beautiful secluded beaches I’ve ever seen with my favourite person, after 2 months in the field in NW Madagascar setting up long - term 🕷️🕸️ & 🦋 monitoring project #entomology #moramora #beachlife

We found that converting rainforest to oil palm farms resulted in fewer spider individuals and species, on average, and different spider communities. However, impacts varied depending on whether the oil palm farms were managed traditionally or industrially.

Huge thanks to co-authors including @broganConBio (our spider guru), @CicelyMarshall, @benedictusfree1, @EdgarCTurner, @BEFTAprogramme, @InsectGroup. And thanks to our funders, incl @BBSRC, @MarshallScholar, @CamPhilSoc, @Kings_College, @StEdmundsCam, @NERCscience.

🚨New paper - Oil palm🌴, spiders🕷️, Liberia🇱🇷 We assessed how traditional and industrial approaches to oil palm cultivation affect spider biodiversity, web-building, and prey capture (Liberia). #spider #oilpalm #tropical #conservation #Liberia https://t.co/ER4NnzGXWb

Football Heritage 🕊️

A fancy global 1-m res CHM product was released this week but I will not be using it. Shocking problems with artifacts and clouds.

This is everything.. to deprive oneself the opportunity of wild things is, to me, starving the soul..

Our 2023 #BugsMatter survey results are out today, and the news is alarming. The data indicates a 78% fall in the abundance of flying insects in the UK since 2004. 🧵

en defensa de la Ciencia! el Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, parte de CONICET, es uno de los museos de historia natural más importantes y productivos del mundo. pero acá también hubo recorte y despidos visitaste el Museo y te gustó lo que viste? sumate al reclamo!

Happy #pygmyhippoday... the most enigmatic extant mammal 🇨🇮🇱🇷🇸🇱 elusive, poorly understood, and in drastic need of conservation attention in- situ

Our new paper is out! 🚨 We systematically mapped research on oil palm in Africa and present the Sustainable Oil Palm in West Africa (SOPWA) Project: a large-scale field-based study occurring in Liberia. https://t.co/RScCyCvCb7

So pleased to announce that I passed my PhD Viva today! Thank you @BD_Stew and Chris Kaiser-Bunbury for such a great viva experience and discussion. Also shout out to @LColesmarine for making the most incredible cake!!!😁😁

New SpiDiverse @BINCOnpo paper yday. Three new species of orb weaver (Araneidae) from Paraguay, fabulous illustrations from talented undergrad student IPG. All species named after prominent women in Paraguayan history, see paper: https://t.co/crOo9FMhI9 @paralatierra

What a fantastic paper. Congratulations @Selenopidae !

Recentemente, publicamos um artigo de revisão taxônomica de um gênero de aranhas-papa-moscas: Tullgrenella Mello-Leitão, 1941

On day 30 of no drinking, I note my body clock has radically shifted. Today I got into the office at 4.42am. #PhDlife #DryJanuary #PossiblyTTotalForseeableFuture

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Also; Th. kalisia, the creator god. Th. iyomii, a legendary historic village chief from the region. Link to paper; https://t.co/iSX2TWCX4d [2/2] #arachnology #spiders