Morgan M. Oberweiser

@mmoberweiser.bsky.social

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PhD student studying spider vibrations 🕷️ Uni Greifswald 🕷️ frequently thinking about animal behavior 🕷️ otherwise likely playing flute, reading books, or baking cakes 🕷️ she/her

A brown spider carrying silk-wrapped prey (a nuptial gift) and visibly shaking his opisthosoma up and down
A stinging nettle leaf with a small subadult spider
A group of smiling people standing with a banner that reads "Congress of Arachnology" in front of a blue sea with low mountains in the background.
Face-first view of a brown spider with long legs. He is carrying a nuptial gift (silk-wrapped prey) in his chelicerae.
A crab spider with bright yellow/green prosoma and legs and a light brown opisthosoma sits on a leaf
A time-lapse video of ants feeding from a piece of watermelon.
A time-lapse video of two female scientists walking back and forth while observing an aluminium channel on the ground. They are intermittently crouching down to see better and writing on clipboards. The surrounding environment is dry and desert-like.
Two female scientists wearing sun hats smiling at the camera, with a desert environment and olive trees in the background.
A man crouching beside a long aluminium channel with two wide diamond-shaped inserts. The setting is dry and sandy with scrubby brush in the background.
A compound figure from a scientific paper, with both drawings and photographs of short-tailed whip scorpions carrying their brood on their opisthosoma. Some panels show eggs attached to the underside of the opisthosoma, and others show first-instar hatchlings encircling the raised body segment.
A small arachid (short-tailed whip scorpion) standing on a green leaf, with its extra-long pair of feeler legs extended.
Another figure from the paper, showcasing a specimen of Schizomida trapped in amber. The flagella of the male specimen is featured in detail in the middle of the figure.
A figure from a scientific publication with a geological time scale at the bottom (Left to right, Carboniferous to today). It shows morphological size trends in representatives of Schizomida, as well as an outgroup species and a related species, over geological time. While the outgroup and related species show miniturization and diversification from the Carboniferous to the Cretaceous, representatives of Schizomida show a secondary size cain from the Cretaceous to the modern day.
A person mostly concealed by tall grasses, holding up a plastic vial and a peace sign