Peter T. Rühr
@peter-t-ruehr.bsky.social
Entomologist on his way to a PhD in insect head shape evolution and biomechanics. More and more interested in arthropod vision. He/him/his. Tweets represent my own views and ≠ endorsement.
Reposted by Peter T. Rühr
INSECT TAXONOMY IN THE 21ST CENTURY @entsocamerica.bsky.social
Online, April 27-29! Featuring keynotes from Rudolf Meier @rudolf-meier.bsky.social, Erinn Fagan-Jeffries, and Dominic Evangelista.
Now accepting contributed talks! Grant deadline Feb 4, abstracts due Mar 6. entsoc.org/membership/b...
Online, April 27-29! Featuring keynotes from Rudolf Meier @rudolf-meier.bsky.social, Erinn Fagan-Jeffries, and Dominic Evangelista.
Now accepting contributed talks! Grant deadline Feb 4, abstracts due Mar 6. entsoc.org/membership/b...
January 30, 2026 at 2:47 PM
INSECT TAXONOMY IN THE 21ST CENTURY @entsocamerica.bsky.social
Online, April 27-29! Featuring keynotes from Rudolf Meier @rudolf-meier.bsky.social, Erinn Fagan-Jeffries, and Dominic Evangelista.
Now accepting contributed talks! Grant deadline Feb 4, abstracts due Mar 6. entsoc.org/membership/b...
Online, April 27-29! Featuring keynotes from Rudolf Meier @rudolf-meier.bsky.social, Erinn Fagan-Jeffries, and Dominic Evangelista.
Now accepting contributed talks! Grant deadline Feb 4, abstracts due Mar 6. entsoc.org/membership/b...
Thank you, Lauren! It's finally happening! 😄
January 23, 2026 at 9:28 PM
Thank you, Lauren! It's finally happening! 😄
Exciting news! 🚨🎉
On February 5th, 2026, I will defend my PhD thesis on insect bite force - the method, the data, and its evolutionary implications - seasoned with some anecdotes from the field!
🐜🐝🐞
📈📉📊
On February 5th, 2026, I will defend my PhD thesis on insect bite force - the method, the data, and its evolutionary implications - seasoned with some anecdotes from the field!
🐜🐝🐞
📈📉📊
January 23, 2026 at 9:58 AM
Exciting news! 🚨🎉
On February 5th, 2026, I will defend my PhD thesis on insect bite force - the method, the data, and its evolutionary implications - seasoned with some anecdotes from the field!
🐜🐝🐞
📈📉📊
On February 5th, 2026, I will defend my PhD thesis on insect bite force - the method, the data, and its evolutionary implications - seasoned with some anecdotes from the field!
🐜🐝🐞
📈📉📊
Reposted by Peter T. Rühr
🗑️ #ScienceSnack: Some 53,000 items of litter flow past Cologne daily in the Rhine – an amount many times larger than previously believed. That's the “dirty” result from a citizen science project led by @unibonn.bsky.social. Read more here: https://f.mtr.cool/mblomiuhmr
© Simon Taal
© Simon Taal
January 8, 2026 at 4:04 PM
🗑️ #ScienceSnack: Some 53,000 items of litter flow past Cologne daily in the Rhine – an amount many times larger than previously believed. That's the “dirty” result from a citizen science project led by @unibonn.bsky.social. Read more here: https://f.mtr.cool/mblomiuhmr
© Simon Taal
© Simon Taal
High-res scan of tibia is publicly available at Zenodo:
doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14168668
doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14168668
µCT scan of midleg tibia of Bacillus rossius
Full resolution µCT scan of the midleg tibia of Bacillus rossius (Rossi, 1790) analysed in the following publication: Strauß, J. & Rühr, PT (2026): The Mechanosensory Subgenual Organ Complex in the St...
doi.org
January 10, 2026 at 3:51 PM
High-res scan of tibia is publicly available at Zenodo:
doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14168668
doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14168668
🚨🦗 Fresh from the press:
The subgenual organ in the stick insect 𝘉𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘶𝘴 is part of an anatomically and functionally integrated mechanosensory organ complex, explaining how insects detect substrate-borne vibrations!
👉 OA paper link: doi.org/10.1002/cne....
📜Uni Gießen & @unibonn.bsky.social
The subgenual organ in the stick insect 𝘉𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘶𝘴 is part of an anatomically and functionally integrated mechanosensory organ complex, explaining how insects detect substrate-borne vibrations!
👉 OA paper link: doi.org/10.1002/cne....
📜Uni Gießen & @unibonn.bsky.social
January 10, 2026 at 3:39 PM
🚨🦗 Fresh from the press:
The subgenual organ in the stick insect 𝘉𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘶𝘴 is part of an anatomically and functionally integrated mechanosensory organ complex, explaining how insects detect substrate-borne vibrations!
👉 OA paper link: doi.org/10.1002/cne....
📜Uni Gießen & @unibonn.bsky.social
The subgenual organ in the stick insect 𝘉𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘶𝘴 is part of an anatomically and functionally integrated mechanosensory organ complex, explaining how insects detect substrate-borne vibrations!
👉 OA paper link: doi.org/10.1002/cne....
📜Uni Gießen & @unibonn.bsky.social
#SICB2026 is starting soon! Join us on Jan 4th at 10:00 AM in A105 to hear about adaptive coupling across distinct life stages in insects!
December 29, 2025 at 4:11 PM
#SICB2026 is starting soon! Join us on Jan 4th at 10:00 AM in A105 to hear about adaptive coupling across distinct life stages in insects!
Reposted by Peter T. Rühr
🌱 BHL’s Call for Support soft-closes on Aug 31. 🧪
With @clirnews.bsky.social as our new fiscal sponsor, we now have an administrative & financial home, but we still need partners, hosts, funders & long-term investment to secure BHL's future. about.biodiversitylibrary.org/call-for-sup... #ILoveBHL
With @clirnews.bsky.social as our new fiscal sponsor, we now have an administrative & financial home, but we still need partners, hosts, funders & long-term investment to secure BHL's future. about.biodiversitylibrary.org/call-for-sup... #ILoveBHL
August 19, 2025 at 2:52 AM
🌱 BHL’s Call for Support soft-closes on Aug 31. 🧪
With @clirnews.bsky.social as our new fiscal sponsor, we now have an administrative & financial home, but we still need partners, hosts, funders & long-term investment to secure BHL's future. about.biodiversitylibrary.org/call-for-sup... #ILoveBHL
With @clirnews.bsky.social as our new fiscal sponsor, we now have an administrative & financial home, but we still need partners, hosts, funders & long-term investment to secure BHL's future. about.biodiversitylibrary.org/call-for-sup... #ILoveBHL
I just uploaded my 1000th species to #inaturalist! Not sure which one it was exactly, but I'd like it to be one of these gems of #flies I shot for #bioblitz 2025 at the Bonn #botanicalgardens to capture their #biodiversity.
July 6, 2025 at 9:48 AM
I just uploaded my 1000th species to #inaturalist! Not sure which one it was exactly, but I'd like it to be one of these gems of #flies I shot for #bioblitz 2025 at the Bonn #botanicalgardens to capture their #biodiversity.
Reposted by Peter T. Rühr
Please come join us and help us unravel deep-time community dynamics in bugs and plants! Edmonton is a great city to live in and there are lots of different approaches to tackle these questions!
We have a fully funded MSc position at UofA, Canada
"Ecological time machines: bridging paleontology and community ecology"
www.i-deel.org/opportunitie...
co-supervised by Christine Sosiak (scholar.google.com/citations?us...)
Please repost!
"Ecological time machines: bridging paleontology and community ecology"
www.i-deel.org/opportunitie...
co-supervised by Christine Sosiak (scholar.google.com/citations?us...)
Please repost!
April 22, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Please come join us and help us unravel deep-time community dynamics in bugs and plants! Edmonton is a great city to live in and there are lots of different approaches to tackle these questions!
🚨 Fresh from the press:
Internal gonopod reconstruction in a new genus and species of millipedes from the Cretaceous: 𝑳𝒂𝒆𝒗𝒊𝒈𝒍𝒚𝒑𝒉𝒊𝒖𝒍𝒖𝒔 𝒑𝒂𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒌𝒎𝒖𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒓𝒊 (Diplopoda, Spirostreptida, Cambalopsidae):
doi.org/10.1186/s133...
📜Leibniz-LIB, Blanke Lab
Internal gonopod reconstruction in a new genus and species of millipedes from the Cretaceous: 𝑳𝒂𝒆𝒗𝒊𝒈𝒍𝒚𝒑𝒉𝒊𝒖𝒍𝒖𝒔 𝒑𝒂𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒌𝒎𝒖𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒓𝒊 (Diplopoda, Spirostreptida, Cambalopsidae):
doi.org/10.1186/s133...
📜Leibniz-LIB, Blanke Lab
March 28, 2025 at 8:47 AM
🚨 Fresh from the press:
Internal gonopod reconstruction in a new genus and species of millipedes from the Cretaceous: 𝑳𝒂𝒆𝒗𝒊𝒈𝒍𝒚𝒑𝒉𝒊𝒖𝒍𝒖𝒔 𝒑𝒂𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒌𝒎𝒖𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒓𝒊 (Diplopoda, Spirostreptida, Cambalopsidae):
doi.org/10.1186/s133...
📜Leibniz-LIB, Blanke Lab
Internal gonopod reconstruction in a new genus and species of millipedes from the Cretaceous: 𝑳𝒂𝒆𝒗𝒊𝒈𝒍𝒚𝒑𝒉𝒊𝒖𝒍𝒖𝒔 𝒑𝒂𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒌𝒎𝒖𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒓𝒊 (Diplopoda, Spirostreptida, Cambalopsidae):
doi.org/10.1186/s133...
📜Leibniz-LIB, Blanke Lab
🚨 Fresh in the press (but digitally available already): Ecomorphology of the insect head!
Check out our book chapter with an extensive literature review on research on adult insect heads and mouthparts!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
📷: modified from Quang Nguyen Vinh
📜BlankeLab
Check out our book chapter with an extensive literature review on research on adult insect heads and mouthparts!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
📷: modified from Quang Nguyen Vinh
📜BlankeLab
March 28, 2025 at 8:28 AM
🚨 Fresh in the press (but digitally available already): Ecomorphology of the insect head!
Check out our book chapter with an extensive literature review on research on adult insect heads and mouthparts!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
📷: modified from Quang Nguyen Vinh
📜BlankeLab
Check out our book chapter with an extensive literature review on research on adult insect heads and mouthparts!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
📷: modified from Quang Nguyen Vinh
📜BlankeLab
About a month ago I left the lab of @economo.bsky.social at OIST in Okinawa after three truly great weeks of studying ants with wonderful people there! Thanks again for this unforgettable time!
February 17, 2025 at 9:37 PM
About a month ago I left the lab of @economo.bsky.social at OIST in Okinawa after three truly great weeks of studying ants with wonderful people there! Thanks again for this unforgettable time!
🎆New Year, new domain! 🎆
From now on, PsyChild will be available at psychild.info - with secure TLS certificates for everyone to enjoy! 🔒
From now on, PsyChild will be available at psychild.info - with secure TLS certificates for everyone to enjoy! 🔒
January 6, 2024 at 2:25 PM
🎆New Year, new domain! 🎆
From now on, PsyChild will be available at psychild.info - with secure TLS certificates for everyone to enjoy! 🔒
From now on, PsyChild will be available at psychild.info - with secure TLS certificates for everyone to enjoy! 🔒