Jonas Wolff
@jonas_o_wolff
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Head of the @evoimec lab | critter hunter | explorer | nature lover | metalhead | and caring dad.
Joined August 2017
Content creation will be discontinued on this account. Find me on Bluesky under the name wolffspider.
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RT @cardosopmb: Did someone ever ask you why should we care about #spiders? Or maybe you wondered yourself? In we d….
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I very much enjoyed this conference. Huge thanks to Julien and his crew!.Looking forward to the next one in Zadar!.
#eca2024 is over! Thx you all for coming here to Rennes, Fr, for your great talks and posters! .Passing on the torch to Croatia for #eca2025 in Zadar, co-organized by @MartinaPavlek and Dora Hlebec. Team members missing on the pic: H. Arezki, M. Alletrut, A. Hacala.@ESArachnology
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RT @34thECA2024: During #eca2024, @jago_MO created outstanding scientific illustrations for our plenary talks and symposia, adding a unique….
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RT @CellPressNews: Orb weaver spiders manipulate the flashing signals of captured #fireflies to trick others into their webs, researchers s….
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RT @EvertonTizo: Cooperative hunting among pseudoscorpions in the Brazilian savannah. These animals always surprise me. .
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Still free access to our 🕷️👀👀dispatch article:.(link closes 10 Sept).
👀👀@jonas_o_wolff invited me to join him in writing a dispatch on the beautiful work on eye evolution in spiders🕷️by @KaylinChong, @Lauren_hSR and co-authors recently published in @CurrentBiology. This was a total pleasure to write!👀👀.
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RT @evoimec: Hot off the press:.From fibres to adhesives: #evolution of #spider capture threads from web anchors by radical changes in #sil….
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RT @EvoBiomech: New paper, hot off the press in @ICB_journal 🥳: Together w/@dtpolet, we study how gearing influences the mechanical energy….
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RT @RoesslerDaniela: 👀👀@jonas_o_wolff invited me to join him in writing a dispatch on the beautiful work on eye evolution in spiders🕷️by @K….
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RT @evoimec: It was a great pleasure to host @EvoBiomech David Labonte for a few days. We enjoyed inspiring discussions about arthropod bio….
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The final version of this article has now been published online:
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My PhD-student @Maitry_jani put together her experiences on experimental techniques to determine the behavioural use of silk glands in spiders, with additions by @spiderMartinR and me. Check it out:
Spiders are masters in silk spinning and possess multiple different silk glands that produce fibres or glues with different properties. Which gland is used for what - web, egg case, dispersal . ?.In a new preprint we give a summary on methods to find out:.
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New research from us about super-stretchy silk threads, in collaboration with @pmichalik76 and @spiderMartinR
The threads spun by the Southern house spider (Kukulcania) to capture prey are the most extensible fibre material found in nature due to a special loops-on-loops structure with regularly coiled fibres held together by straight connecting fibres. 👉 👈🔓.
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Business trips via plane emit huge amounts of CO2 per capita. Traveling in a group of five this is substantial. We did the test: Greifswald to Seville per rail with only 3 changes, pure travel time ~26h. From Seville to field sites in South Portugal with rental car.
Just returned from our #NoFly fieldtrip to Portugal and Catalonia. We tested what is feasible: by opting to travel by #rail from Greifswald to Seville (~3,000km) we cut the CO2 foot print of our fielwork to ~0.3t vs over 2t by flying.
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RT @evoimec: Visiting a hidden cave with @MDomenech6 to sample silks from the enigmatic Telema spiders was a great finale of our Iberian fi….
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RT @evoimec: Had a nice day visit to the field station Herdade da Ribeira Abaixo (@CE3CResearch) where everything was in flowers 🌼. Thanks….
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Trapdoor spider (Ummidia algarve) not being happy that I opened the lid of its retreat.
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