Leon Müller
@leo-theo.bsky.social
PhD Student - Working on social immunity @unibt @steigerlab | Molecular Biologist at heart | burying beetles & zebrafish | Talk to me about movies and games
https://linktr.ee/leonmllr
https://linktr.ee/leonmllr
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Call for abstracts – XIII European Congress of Entomology (#ECE2026) 🐞
29 June–2 July 2026, Tours, France
I’m co-organizing the symposium “Insect Systematics in the Biodiversity Crisis: Bridging Tradition and Innovation”
🗓 Early-bird & abstract deadline: 15 Dec 2025
www.ece2026.org
29 June–2 July 2026, Tours, France
I’m co-organizing the symposium “Insect Systematics in the Biodiversity Crisis: Bridging Tradition and Innovation”
🗓 Early-bird & abstract deadline: 15 Dec 2025
www.ece2026.org
ECE 2026 - XIII European Congress of Entomology
It is our great pleasure to welcome you to Tours, France, in the heart of the Loire Valley, from June 29 to July 3, 2026.
www.ece2026.org
November 22, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Call for abstracts – XIII European Congress of Entomology (#ECE2026) 🐞
29 June–2 July 2026, Tours, France
I’m co-organizing the symposium “Insect Systematics in the Biodiversity Crisis: Bridging Tradition and Innovation”
🗓 Early-bird & abstract deadline: 15 Dec 2025
www.ece2026.org
29 June–2 July 2026, Tours, France
I’m co-organizing the symposium “Insect Systematics in the Biodiversity Crisis: Bridging Tradition and Innovation”
🗓 Early-bird & abstract deadline: 15 Dec 2025
www.ece2026.org
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KIM KITSURAGI - “*Sunrise, parabellum*,” the lieutenant says. He's in the middle of a freshly cleaned room, with the fan above his head like a halo. His face is covered in bruises.
October 17, 2025 at 10:07 AM
KIM KITSURAGI - “*Sunrise, parabellum*,” the lieutenant says. He's in the middle of a freshly cleaned room, with the fan above his head like a halo. His face is covered in bruises.
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#ISBE2026 Call for Abstracts is now open! Submit your abstract by 15 December 2025 on www.isbe2026.com
@behavecol.bsky.social
@behavecol.bsky.social
September 30, 2025 at 7:12 PM
#ISBE2026 Call for Abstracts is now open! Submit your abstract by 15 December 2025 on www.isbe2026.com
@behavecol.bsky.social
@behavecol.bsky.social
Was a pleasure to join this year's #BayCEER Workshop to talk about burying beetles, social immunity & parental care and how all this might influence offspring immunity and their early development.
Watch out for a publication on this sooner than later 👀
Watch out for a publication on this sooner than later 👀
🌿 Great energy at the 17th BayCEER Workshop 2025! 🌿
A day of sharing research, ideas, and inspiration across ecology and environmental sciences.
www.bayceer.uni-bayreuth.de/ws2025/
#BayCEER #Workshop #Ecology
@unibayreuth.bsky.social
@luederslab.bsky.social
A day of sharing research, ideas, and inspiration across ecology and environmental sciences.
www.bayceer.uni-bayreuth.de/ws2025/
#BayCEER #Workshop #Ecology
@unibayreuth.bsky.social
@luederslab.bsky.social
October 13, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Was a pleasure to join this year's #BayCEER Workshop to talk about burying beetles, social immunity & parental care and how all this might influence offspring immunity and their early development.
Watch out for a publication on this sooner than later 👀
Watch out for a publication on this sooner than later 👀
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Very proud and happy with @leo-theo.bsky.social and his poster presentation at the Ecological Immunity Workshop 2025 :) Excellent work Leon!
September 17, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Very proud and happy with @leo-theo.bsky.social and his poster presentation at the Ecological Immunity Workshop 2025 :) Excellent work Leon!
So cool to see our favourite model organism #nicrophorus on the current cover of @jevbio.bsky.social !
Heiko's pictures never disappoint 🪲
Heiko's pictures never disappoint 🪲
Read the current issue of @jevbio.bsky.social here: academic.oup.com/jeb/issue
📸 Heiko Bellmann
Adult #Nicrophorus vespilloides #beetle in the act of feeding its
offspring atop a vertebrate carcass the beetles have monopolised.
📸 Heiko Bellmann
Adult #Nicrophorus vespilloides #beetle in the act of feeding its
offspring atop a vertebrate carcass the beetles have monopolised.
September 16, 2025 at 12:12 PM
So cool to see our favourite model organism #nicrophorus on the current cover of @jevbio.bsky.social !
Heiko's pictures never disappoint 🪲
Heiko's pictures never disappoint 🪲
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And #DZG2025 is officially open!
Great opening event at the @mfnberlin.bsky.social - what a stunning venue! We are looking forward to a great conference!
Great opening event at the @mfnberlin.bsky.social - what a stunning venue! We are looking forward to a great conference!
September 10, 2025 at 10:05 AM
And #DZG2025 is officially open!
Great opening event at the @mfnberlin.bsky.social - what a stunning venue! We are looking forward to a great conference!
Great opening event at the @mfnberlin.bsky.social - what a stunning venue! We are looking forward to a great conference!
Was so nice to present our research and @unibayreuth.bsky.social at this DZG meeting! Glad to be talking about parental care and how it interacts with offspring immunity 🎉
Expect our upcoming paper that deals with this cool topic!🪲 @max-evolbio.bsky.social and I had a blast working on it
#DZG2025
Expect our upcoming paper that deals with this cool topic!🪲 @max-evolbio.bsky.social and I had a blast working on it
#DZG2025
Kicked off our first behaviour session with 6 fascinating talks—covering everything from spiders, electric fish, and fossil insects to sex pheromones and how parental behaviour shapes immunity. 🌍🕷️🐟🪲
#DZG2025
@janka-p.bsky.social @andifischer10.bsky.social @leo-theo.bsky.social
#DZG2025
@janka-p.bsky.social @andifischer10.bsky.social @leo-theo.bsky.social
September 10, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Was so nice to present our research and @unibayreuth.bsky.social at this DZG meeting! Glad to be talking about parental care and how it interacts with offspring immunity 🎉
Expect our upcoming paper that deals with this cool topic!🪲 @max-evolbio.bsky.social and I had a blast working on it
#DZG2025
Expect our upcoming paper that deals with this cool topic!🪲 @max-evolbio.bsky.social and I had a blast working on it
#DZG2025
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SHIVERS - The skin on your back is crawling.
August 3, 2025 at 8:54 AM
SHIVERS - The skin on your back is crawling.
Please enjoy our paper about how potential pathogens can affect burying beetle offspring - even to some surprising effects!
Was a pleasure to work with @max-evolbio.bsky.social and @steigerlab.bsky.social on my first paper as a #firstgen PhD student!
Was a pleasure to work with @max-evolbio.bsky.social and @steigerlab.bsky.social on my first paper as a #firstgen PhD student!
Through social immunity burying beetles protect their kids from diseases on their carcass. Can this protection ward off an insect pathogen? Researchers @steigerlab.bsky.social find out!
doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...
@leo-theo.bsky.social @max-evolbio.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...
@leo-theo.bsky.social @max-evolbio.bsky.social
Surviving in the fast lane: no increased mortality, but faster growth for pathogen-exposed larvae of a family-living beetle
Abstract. Animal taxa exhibiting post-hatching care can be found throughout the animal kingdom. During this period, parents aggregate with their offspring
doi.org
July 21, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Please enjoy our paper about how potential pathogens can affect burying beetle offspring - even to some surprising effects!
Was a pleasure to work with @max-evolbio.bsky.social and @steigerlab.bsky.social on my first paper as a #firstgen PhD student!
Was a pleasure to work with @max-evolbio.bsky.social and @steigerlab.bsky.social on my first paper as a #firstgen PhD student!
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INLAND EMPIRE - His corpse is marked by stars.
YOU - What will mine be marked by?
INLAND EMPIRE - Alcohol and heartbreak.
PHYSICAL INSTRUMENT - Your fist clenches suddenly.
YOU - It will be riddled with disco.
YOU - What will mine be marked by?
INLAND EMPIRE - Alcohol and heartbreak.
PHYSICAL INSTRUMENT - Your fist clenches suddenly.
YOU - It will be riddled with disco.
April 28, 2025 at 12:15 PM
INLAND EMPIRE - His corpse is marked by stars.
YOU - What will mine be marked by?
INLAND EMPIRE - Alcohol and heartbreak.
PHYSICAL INSTRUMENT - Your fist clenches suddenly.
YOU - It will be riddled with disco.
YOU - What will mine be marked by?
INLAND EMPIRE - Alcohol and heartbreak.
PHYSICAL INSTRUMENT - Your fist clenches suddenly.
YOU - It will be riddled with disco.
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YOU - I am a detective.
INSULINDIAN PHASMID - So am I. I was born to detect sucrose rewards and semiochemicals. What were you born to detect?
YOU - I was born to detect you.
INSULINDIAN PHASMID - So am I. I was born to detect sucrose rewards and semiochemicals. What were you born to detect?
YOU - I was born to detect you.
April 9, 2025 at 12:28 PM
YOU - I am a detective.
INSULINDIAN PHASMID - So am I. I was born to detect sucrose rewards and semiochemicals. What were you born to detect?
YOU - I was born to detect you.
INSULINDIAN PHASMID - So am I. I was born to detect sucrose rewards and semiochemicals. What were you born to detect?
YOU - I was born to detect you.
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ACELE - “Yeah, well…” She tries to think of something to say. “Look man, fuck the hat.”
HALF LIGHT - Your pulse rises.
HALF LIGHT - Your pulse rises.
April 9, 2025 at 8:35 PM
ACELE - “Yeah, well…” She tries to think of something to say. “Look man, fuck the hat.”
HALF LIGHT - Your pulse rises.
HALF LIGHT - Your pulse rises.
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VOLITION - Subdue the regret. Dust yourself off, proceed. You'll get it in the next life, where you don't make mistakes. Do what you can with this one, while you're alive.
February 23, 2025 at 12:11 PM
VOLITION - Subdue the regret. Dust yourself off, proceed. You'll get it in the next life, where you don't make mistakes. Do what you can with this one, while you're alive.
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YOU - Suffering will only make me stronger.
ENDURANCE - It's probably this way of thinking that got you where you are.
ENDURANCE - It's probably this way of thinking that got you where you are.
February 18, 2025 at 3:35 PM
YOU - Suffering will only make me stronger.
ENDURANCE - It's probably this way of thinking that got you where you are.
ENDURANCE - It's probably this way of thinking that got you where you are.
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0.000% of Communism has been built. Evil child-murdering billionaires still rule the world with a shit-eating grin. All he has managed to do is make himself *sad*. He is starting to suspect Kras Mazov *fucked him over* personally with his socio-economic theory.
February 19, 2025 at 5:38 AM
0.000% of Communism has been built. Evil child-murdering billionaires still rule the world with a shit-eating grin. All he has managed to do is make himself *sad*. He is starting to suspect Kras Mazov *fucked him over* personally with his socio-economic theory.
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ENCYCLOPEDIA - Your mangled brain would like you to know there is a boxer called Contact Mike.
YOU - Yeah? Any news on my wife's name? How about my mother?
ENCYCLOPEDIA - Nope.
YOU - Yeah? Any news on my wife's name? How about my mother?
ENCYCLOPEDIA - Nope.
February 19, 2025 at 1:41 PM
ENCYCLOPEDIA - Your mangled brain would like you to know there is a boxer called Contact Mike.
YOU - Yeah? Any news on my wife's name? How about my mother?
ENCYCLOPEDIA - Nope.
YOU - Yeah? Any news on my wife's name? How about my mother?
ENCYCLOPEDIA - Nope.
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SHIVERS - In a little alley next to Boogie street, a man in stained overalls steps out of a workshop for a cigarette. His hands are bruised and soaked with motor oil and dirt. He breathes smoke out of his nostrils and closes his eyes. The next five minutes are his and his alone.
January 31, 2025 at 8:17 PM
SHIVERS - In a little alley next to Boogie street, a man in stained overalls steps out of a workshop for a cigarette. His hands are bruised and soaked with motor oil and dirt. He breathes smoke out of his nostrils and closes his eyes. The next five minutes are his and his alone.
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VOLITION - Do it for the city. Go.
SHIVERS - Do it for the wind.
SHIVERS - Do it for the wind.
January 30, 2025 at 12:35 AM
VOLITION - Do it for the city. Go.
SHIVERS - Do it for the wind.
SHIVERS - Do it for the wind.
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INSULINDIAN PHASMID - A nerve mirror of horrifying fidelity. Constant, never-ending damnation.
PAIN THRESHOLD - It would take a million years of evolution -- or a total reversal in the condition of the world -- for your pain to end.
PAIN THRESHOLD - It would take a million years of evolution -- or a total reversal in the condition of the world -- for your pain to end.
January 30, 2025 at 6:35 AM
INSULINDIAN PHASMID - A nerve mirror of horrifying fidelity. Constant, never-ending damnation.
PAIN THRESHOLD - It would take a million years of evolution -- or a total reversal in the condition of the world -- for your pain to end.
PAIN THRESHOLD - It would take a million years of evolution -- or a total reversal in the condition of the world -- for your pain to end.
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KIM KITSURAGI - “I'm guessing that's when you were promoted to the rank of lieutenant double-yefreitor. A new badge usually comes with a new rank.”
ENDURANCE - The pain in your chest tells you you were working yourself to death to earn that rank.
ENDURANCE - The pain in your chest tells you you were working yourself to death to earn that rank.
January 31, 2025 at 12:35 PM
KIM KITSURAGI - “I'm guessing that's when you were promoted to the rank of lieutenant double-yefreitor. A new badge usually comes with a new rank.”
ENDURANCE - The pain in your chest tells you you were working yourself to death to earn that rank.
ENDURANCE - The pain in your chest tells you you were working yourself to death to earn that rank.