Shakira🧛♀️🦇
@shakiguani.bsky.social
She/her | Mom | P.Rican in Slovenia | bi-ologist 🐬🕷
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New paper on bark spiders, who build the largest webs made out of the toughest silk. We show that their extremely tough silk, which is potentially metabolically costly, is limited to large females. Juveniles and males use inferior silk.
New publication!
Orb weavers evolved some of the toughest silk, reaching extremes in bark spiders, genus Caerostris. We investigate sex and stage specific patterns in silk properties and find that extremely tough silk is limited to adult females.
www.ezlab.si/post/extreme...
Orb weavers evolved some of the toughest silk, reaching extremes in bark spiders, genus Caerostris. We investigate sex and stage specific patterns in silk properties and find that extremely tough silk is limited to adult females.
www.ezlab.si/post/extreme...
Extreme silk toughness in Caerostris spiders is limited to adult females
Spider silks are protein fibers, renowned for their remarkable intrinsic mechanical properties. Dragline or major ampullate (MA) silk is particularly noteworthy for its combination of high tensile str...
www.ezlab.si
November 30, 2025 at 7:05 PM
New paper on bark spiders, who build the largest webs made out of the toughest silk. We show that their extremely tough silk, which is potentially metabolically costly, is limited to large females. Juveniles and males use inferior silk.
Wisdom teeth removal at this age is brutal. 0/10. Do not recommend.
November 26, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Wisdom teeth removal at this age is brutal. 0/10. Do not recommend.
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Our study of time processing in bumblebees 🐝 covered by @cnn.com here edition.cnn.com/2025/11/12/s... . Our summary is here youtu.be/hsGxU65OMQk and the original paper royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.... @royalsocietypublishing.org
Scientists now know that bees can process time, a first in insects | CNN
Bumblebees can process the duration of flashes of light and use the information to decide where to look for food, a new study has found.
edition.cnn.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Our study of time processing in bumblebees 🐝 covered by @cnn.com here edition.cnn.com/2025/11/12/s... . Our summary is here youtu.be/hsGxU65OMQk and the original paper royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.... @royalsocietypublishing.org
Some indoor fun for the cold days
November 23, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Some indoor fun for the cold days
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I personally dislike doing merch myself so thank you to @nervousjessica.bsky.social for doing all the hard work for me! You won't find these anywhere else. #Art #SciArt
Two new puzzles featuring art by @franzanth.bsky.social
blog: n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/blog/?p=9940
shop: n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/shop/search_...
blog: n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/blog/?p=9940
shop: n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/shop/search_...
November 22, 2025 at 2:09 AM
I personally dislike doing merch myself so thank you to @nervousjessica.bsky.social for doing all the hard work for me! You won't find these anywhere else. #Art #SciArt
Naš javni prevoz v Mariboru. 49 min zamuda
November 21, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Naš javni prevoz v Mariboru. 49 min zamuda
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Folks, today (20 Nov) is Transgender Day of Remembrance and I hope everyone can take some quiet moments to reflect and acknowledge on the violence and harm that has taken many from our wonderful Trans+ communities historically.
And a reminder that it costs nothing to be kind to everyone.
🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️ 🩵💜🤍
And a reminder that it costs nothing to be kind to everyone.
🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️ 🩵💜🤍
November 20, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Folks, today (20 Nov) is Transgender Day of Remembrance and I hope everyone can take some quiet moments to reflect and acknowledge on the violence and harm that has taken many from our wonderful Trans+ communities historically.
And a reminder that it costs nothing to be kind to everyone.
🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️ 🩵💜🤍
And a reminder that it costs nothing to be kind to everyone.
🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️ 🩵💜🤍
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I feel this is a common theme in academia. The worst shit is imposed on us, and we take it upon ourselves to solve the problem. And I think this is because we’re all huge nerds who love to solve problems and who see ourselves as people who should be able to! We accidentally weaponised our own values
I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.
November 20, 2025 at 8:53 AM
I feel this is a common theme in academia. The worst shit is imposed on us, and we take it upon ourselves to solve the problem. And I think this is because we’re all huge nerds who love to solve problems and who see ourselves as people who should be able to! We accidentally weaponised our own values
Ah, the pre-teen years. One day I think I'm raising the sweetest kindest child and the next, I'm convinced I'm raising a tyrant
November 18, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Ah, the pre-teen years. One day I think I'm raising the sweetest kindest child and the next, I'm convinced I'm raising a tyrant
🥳
Access to abortion is a European value of solidarity.
November 13, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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It was a tough ADHD/ASD parenting day. I just wish the world met us with the same understanding and compassion that we pour into our children
November 11, 2025 at 10:03 PM
It was a tough ADHD/ASD parenting day. I just wish the world met us with the same understanding and compassion that we pour into our children
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Always here for a giant spider web story www.livescience.com/animals/spid...
World's biggest spiderweb discovered inside 'Sulfur Cave' with 111,000 arachnids living in pitch black
A giant colonial spiderweb in a sulfuric cave on the border between Greece and Albania may be the largest ever found — and it was built by spiders we didn't know liked the company of others.
www.livescience.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Always here for a giant spider web story www.livescience.com/animals/spid...
Mamdani visiting Puerto Rico first, eating mofongo, and saying "Puerto Rico no se vende" (Puerto Rico is not for sale) was not in my bingo card for 2025
November 7, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Mamdani visiting Puerto Rico first, eating mofongo, and saying "Puerto Rico no se vende" (Puerto Rico is not for sale) was not in my bingo card for 2025
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Yes and yet several European countries are embracing a far-right worldview that would burn these policies to the ground, so let’s be not be smug or complacent here - particularly as Mamdani‘s pro-immigration stance is radical by European standards.
Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’ -- Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’
Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Yes and yet several European countries are embracing a far-right worldview that would burn these policies to the ground, so let’s be not be smug or complacent here - particularly as Mamdani‘s pro-immigration stance is radical by European standards.
The last two days have brought good news in the political sphere from both sides of the pond 🥰
November 5, 2025 at 9:53 AM
The last two days have brought good news in the political sphere from both sides of the pond 🥰
Como diría Liliana Felipe: Se fue a la mierda el viejo de mierda!
November 4, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Como diría Liliana Felipe: Se fue a la mierda el viejo de mierda!
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Happy Halloween!! Another fun but exhausting #Arachtober.
Tropical Orbweaver (Eriophora ravilla)
#Halloween #Spider #stereography #HappyHalloween
Tropical Orbweaver (Eriophora ravilla)
#Halloween #Spider #stereography #HappyHalloween
November 1, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Happy Halloween!! Another fun but exhausting #Arachtober.
Tropical Orbweaver (Eriophora ravilla)
#Halloween #Spider #stereography #HappyHalloween
Tropical Orbweaver (Eriophora ravilla)
#Halloween #Spider #stereography #HappyHalloween
For Halloween I dressed up as my severe vitamin D deficiency
a black and white photo of a vampire standing in an archway .
Alt: a black and white photo of a vampire standing in an archway turning on the lights
media.tenor.com
October 31, 2025 at 9:11 PM
For Halloween I dressed up as my severe vitamin D deficiency
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This one is for the Children of Time fans (scale should be about right)! Enjoy this jumping spider (Pancorius sp.) Jack-O'-lantern!! Thanks to @nickybay.bsky.social for the reference image (www.flickr.com/photos/nicka...).
#halloween #jackolantern #arachtober #jumpingspiders #salticidae
#halloween #jackolantern #arachtober #jumpingspiders #salticidae
October 31, 2025 at 4:07 PM
This one is for the Children of Time fans (scale should be about right)! Enjoy this jumping spider (Pancorius sp.) Jack-O'-lantern!! Thanks to @nickybay.bsky.social for the reference image (www.flickr.com/photos/nicka...).
#halloween #jackolantern #arachtober #jumpingspiders #salticidae
#halloween #jackolantern #arachtober #jumpingspiders #salticidae
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"I have no responsibility for your disappoint" is my new life philosophy
October 29, 2025 at 10:49 AM
"I have no responsibility for your disappoint" is my new life philosophy
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Here are some places to donate $$ to help. In south FL, there are places to donate provisions.
1. American Friends of Jamaica: shorturl.at/HqzGw
2. Americares Hurricane Fund: shorturl.at/dkdqB
3. Direct Relief: shorturl.at/uLeWw
4. WCK: shorturl.at/l6tgj
5. Other vetted charities: shorturl.at/WI4q6
1. American Friends of Jamaica: shorturl.at/HqzGw
2. Americares Hurricane Fund: shorturl.at/dkdqB
3. Direct Relief: shorturl.at/uLeWw
4. WCK: shorturl.at/l6tgj
5. Other vetted charities: shorturl.at/WI4q6
October 28, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Here are some places to donate $$ to help. In south FL, there are places to donate provisions.
1. American Friends of Jamaica: shorturl.at/HqzGw
2. Americares Hurricane Fund: shorturl.at/dkdqB
3. Direct Relief: shorturl.at/uLeWw
4. WCK: shorturl.at/l6tgj
5. Other vetted charities: shorturl.at/WI4q6
1. American Friends of Jamaica: shorturl.at/HqzGw
2. Americares Hurricane Fund: shorturl.at/dkdqB
3. Direct Relief: shorturl.at/uLeWw
4. WCK: shorturl.at/l6tgj
5. Other vetted charities: shorturl.at/WI4q6
Florence pls stop tugging at my heartstrings
Florence + The Machine - Sympathy Magic (Official Video)
YouTube video by FlorenceMachineVEVO
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October 27, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Florence pls stop tugging at my heartstrings
It's fascinating how when the immune system is overactive it also sucks at focusing on fighting what it has to fight.
So relatable
So relatable
October 24, 2025 at 11:54 AM
It's fascinating how when the immune system is overactive it also sucks at focusing on fighting what it has to fight.
So relatable
So relatable