One persons chaos is another persons sanctuary.
Argyrodine (Theridiidae) deliveries from around the world keeping me sane 😁 🇲🇾🇮🇩🇱🇦🇰🇭🇦🇺
Rattling through them for upcoming papers.
#spiders #evolution #klepto

Fascination with argyrodines ever growing…

new region, starting with specimens from 🇲🇲

12 hours later can’t sit in the lab anymore but nearly finished resubmitting the paper 🤓

5AM starts mean the big to do list items are done by 09:40 and beautiful sunrises!
Sorting spiders from Guinea Bissau and depositing new sequence data for an accepted manuscript at the same time :)
#Reykjavík #arachnology

Three months fieldwork in Madagascar is always great!
Ft. Photo of me finally at Tsingy!!

But the urgent to do list when getting back to the office/lab ☠️

My set up at the University of Iceland 😍🕷️ #arachnology #spiders

A new species of Tomocyrba (Salticidae) from rainforest in northern Madagascar! What a pretty boy 😍🇲🇬🕷️
#arachnology #spider #taxonomy

Looking for kleptoparasitic spiders on the webs of Euprosthenops sheet-web fishing spiders (Pisauridae) in Cantanhez national park, Guinea-Bissau, April 2025.
#arachnology #fieldwork #WestAfrica

Cantanhez National Park, Guinea-Bissau 🇬🇼
Catching spiders 🕷️ of course, and observing wild chimpanzees, what a privilege 😍

Elliðaárdalur, the beautiful little canyon tucked away only five kilometres from downtown Reykjavík 🇮🇸

Sunday vibes #arachnology #spiders #labwork

Imaging Argyrodines for the first paper from our Indian Ocean Islands biogeography project.
What incredible spiders!

🇲🇬❤️🇮🇸

#Argyrodes #Theridiidae #Madagascar #SpeciesDiscovery #NewSpecies #Arachnology

A stones throw from my front door, the beautiful Mount Esja. Isn’t she wonderful?
#Reykjavík

So this is where everyone went!! #soLongX

Today, I’m sorting Argyrodinae (Theridiidae) samples 🇲🇬 for sequencing… part of our new Indian Ocean Islands Biogeography project.

Where are the rest of my arachno colleagues? Who’s doing what now?

#spiders #arachnology #biodiversity #discovery