Jillian ์ •ํ™”

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Spider gyno | PhD Student | ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ•ท๐Ÿ•ธ

Me holding a large spider by my face
An orange spider cleans her legs by gently running them through her fangs
A small spider in the middle of a window
Photo of Dolomedes raptor sitting on a rock at night
Flyer for the symposium says: Fun and games symposium Playing with a purpose Virtual location Date September 17 Time 1-5pm CDT
A juvenile bean bug sits on my finger that is hovering over a sketch of an anime style man
A very small baby spider with its butt in the air releasing a strand of silk in hopes a gust of wind will help carry it for dispersal
Me staring at a Dolomedes tenebrosus that sits on my hand.
Me (right) and my mentee (left) collecting Dolomedes spiders at night on a fallen tree.
My black cat Rhea curled into a ball like a shrimp.
Our friend trying to put the yellow crochet crown on our cat Rhea who looks rather suspicious of her gift
An ostracod popping in the bottom right corner of the video
A male and female fishing spider in copula. The larger spider is a female and the smaller male hangs from her reproductive opening beneath her.
A close up view of under a microscope.
On a red plate sits several flower shaped cookies. The left side has brown looking flower shaped cookies called yakgwa and the right has smaller cookies made of sesame that appear beige and black called dasik.
My black cat Rhea wrapped in a pink comforter with her legs stretched forward and her eyes closed peacefully
A Zoropsis spinimana spider. Aka the Nosferatu spider. In the audio, you can hear Dr. Jonas wolf explaining that it got is name from its large size and the misconceptions in Germany around this spider. It is a harmless spider with a docile attitude, contrary to popular belief.
A frozen spiderweb hanging above fallen leaves. It shape somewhat drooping but perfectly preserved.
My father sent me an image of the dialogue box to show he received the magazine. He sends a message below saying โ€œIโ€™m proud youโ€ - โ€œIโ€™m proud of you.โ€ I respond โ€œ๊ณ ๋งˆ์›Œ์š” ์•„๋น โ€œ - Thank you dad I am happy you received the magazine.
A dialogue box showing a conversation between my colleague and I discussing how we got into spiders. Korean text: ํ•œ๊ธ€ Dialogue "๊ฑฐ๋ฏธ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์ž๋“ค์ด ๊ฑฐ๋ฏธ์™€ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘์— ๋น ์ง„ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„" ์ดํ•ญ: ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์ฒ˜์Œ ๊ฑฐ๋ฏธ๋ฅผ ์ข‹์•„ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋์–ด? ์ •ํ™”: ์–ด๋ฆด ๋• ๊ฑฐ๋ฏธ๋ฅผ ๋ฌด์„œ์›Œํ–ˆ์–ด. ์–ด์ฉŒ๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ํ•™๋ถ€ ๋•Œ ๊ณค์ถฉ ๋ฐ•๋ฌผ๊ด€์—์„œ ๊ฑฐ๋ฏธ๋ฅผ ๊ด€๋ฆฌํ•˜๋Š” ์ผ์„ ๋งก์•„์„œ ๊ด€์‹ฌ์ด ์ƒ๊ฒผ์ง€. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‹ค๊ฐ€ 2018๋…„์— ๋งˆ๋‹ค๊ฐ€์Šค์นด๋ฅด์— ์—ฌํ–‰์„ ๊ฐ”๋Š”๋ฐ, ๊ฑฐ๊ธฐ์„œ 'Darwin's bark spider(๋‹ค์›์˜ ๋‚˜๋ฌด๊ป์งˆ๊ฑฐ๋ฏธ)'๋ผ๋Š” ์„ธ๊ณ„์—์„œ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ํฐ ๊ฑฐ๋ฏธ์ค„์„ ๋งŒ๋“œ๋Š” ๊ฑฐ๋ฏธ๋ฅผ ๋ณด๊ฒŒ ๋์–ด. ๊ฑฐ๋ฏธ์ค„์ด ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ๋ฉ‹์ง€๋˜์ง€! ์ดํ•ญ: ๋„ˆ๋„ ์ทจํ–ฅ์ด ์ฐธ.... English Translation: Dialogue โ€œThe moment spider researchers fell in love with spiders.โ€ Yihang: How did you first like spiders? Jeong-hwa: I was afraid of spiders when I was young. I got interested in taking care of them at an insect museum when I was an undergraduate. Then, in 2018, I went on a trip to Madagascar, where I saw Darwin's Bark Spider, a spider that makes the world's largest web. How wonderful the web is! Yihang: You have very interesting taste.
A meme of a man struggling to figure out which button to press: arachnids or โ€œother invertsโ€
My hermit crab named Bone Crusher sitting in my hand. Behind my crab is my black cat Yuna.
The larger spider, a female Dolomedes tenebrosus, mating with a male, the smaller spider. Males die inside the females after insemination.
Me asking if I understood the assignment by drawing out how I understood my friends instructions: 1. LN2 stored in a big container 2. Pour LN2 from big container into soda bottle 3. Use gloves to pick up bottle 4. Use soda bottle to pour LN2 over spiders (using gloves!!!)
My two hermit crabs named Bone Crusher (left) and Beelzebub (right) eating banana captured by a night time camera in their tank.
A female dolomdes scriptus spider atop a plastic container. The spider has striped legs and a beautiful FACE.
Me holding a dolomedes spider at night
A large purplish hermit crab sitting on my hand. Their name is Bone Crusher.
A 3 panel comic of a grey spider in a pink party hat holding an orange balloon. The text from each panel reads together: "Lately I've been feeling like I am too soft for this world." Panel 1: the spider is smiling. The text reads "Lately I've been feeling like." Panel 2: an off panel person says "Ew" about the spider. The spider looks confused and accidentally let's their balloon go. The text reads "I am too soft" Panel 3: a foot casts a dark shadow over the crying spider as their balloon drifts away. The text reads "for this world"
A photo of my black cat Rhea loafing and facing the camera with her legs stretched out in front of her except the angle makes her legs look extremely long
Ventral image of a Neoantistea magna (Family: Hahniidae) spider.
A close up image of a female Neoantistea magna, a species in the family Hahniidae. They have a distinct set of 4 spinneretts in a single row as opposed to overlapping pairs. The legs also have a distinct striped coloration.
Me holding a trash bag labeled "my data"
The drake hotline being meme. The first panel says "idk how I did all that research and wrote all of that." The second panel says "I did all that research and writing and I'm proud of it."
Profile image of a male Walckenaeria pinnocchio
A hermit crab held in hand with a raspberry underneath their claw.
A large hermit crab being held in hand. They are facing the camera.
Me in a modern hanbok. The hanbok has a black ์ €๊ณ ๋ฆฌ (jeogori) and red ์ง€๋งˆ (chima)
The "epic handshake" meme. One arm says "Mosquitoes" and the other says "Bluesky." Their agreement is "Skeets"