BlankeLab

Evolution of form and function in animal feeding
#tomography, #3Dmodeling, #biomechanics, #morphometrics

[Peter T. Rühr @peter-t-ruehr.bsky.social @Peter_Th_R]

📢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:
https://t.co/3EjKaGAzXJ
#Rstats #DataScience
@ERC_Research @UniBonn @UniCologne

[Peter T. Rühr @peter-t-ruehr.bsky.social @Peter_Th_R]

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!

[BlankeLab @BlankeLab]

Have a look at our exciting keynote Speaker topics about "Macroevolutionary Dynamics" at https://t.co/P75IQZAbiG! #PS2022. It's free and you can still register until the 30th September!!!

[Peter T. Rühr @peter-t-ruehr.bsky.social @Peter_Th_R]

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 https://t.co/ZVpLKZmDcJ! #PS2022

[BlankeLab @BlankeLab]

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

[BlankeLab @BlankeLab]

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: https://t.co/sHUlFwsC9o

[BlankeLab @BlankeLab]

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: https://t.co/sHUlFwsC9o

[BlankeLab @BlankeLab]

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: https://t.co/sHUlFwsC9o

[Alberta Claw @albertonykus]

Two years in the making, my take at illustrating bird phylogeny: https://t.co/5LKZAIS8EL

[Brock Hedges @brock_hedges]

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

[British Ecological Society @BritishEcolSoc]

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: https://t.co/hWkTkiR4jC

[Peter T. Rühr @peter-t-ruehr.bsky.social @Peter_Th_R]

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 😋
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[BlankeLab @BlankeLab]

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

[BlankeLab @BlankeLab]

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!

[BlankeLab @BlankeLab]

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

[BlankeLab @BlankeLab]

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!

[BlankeLab @BlankeLab]

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

[Peter T. Rühr @peter-t-ruehr.bsky.social @Peter_Th_R]

Ever wanted to measure and analyse bite forces of small animals? Check out our #forceX setup and #forceR package that just came out @MethodsEcolEvol: https://t.co/WR5euVRKQ6
@BlankeLab @UniBonn @ERC_Research @dfg_public #insects #biomechanics #biteforce #phdchat 🧵1/4

[BlankeLab @BlankeLab]

Two new positions available in the Blanke lab! Check them out here: https://t.co/jwn4YS45N6

[BlankeLab @BlankeLab]

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!

[LIB @Leibniz_LIB]

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: https://t.co/iyubXQqtmH

#MuseumKoenig @UniBonn