🎓Looking for a PhD? Come and work with us! Applications are open for Berlin-based PhD scholarships - if you're interested in the evolution, function, development, or ecology of vision in animals, get in touch so we can talk about project ideas! 🕷️🐌👁️🦋👀🪰🧠 Deadline 18 Nov!

Autocrates lini sp. nov. was published in Annales Zoologici. Check my new paper on: reurl.cc/rROVbN

Digging a hole to bury the kids in 😍

Today I am coming out of hiding and sharing my experience as a senior academic living with anxiety. People assume confident or supposedly "successful" people can't suffer from anxiety, but this is an invisible curse...

I see that predatory publishers — such as Herald Scholarly Open Access — are still publishing bogus articles submitted to test their peer review process: heraldopenaccess.us/openaccess/all…

Never skip leg day ppl. New podcast ep just dropped feat Dr. Juanita Rodriguez Bruno Alves Buzatto and Luis Villazon abc.net.au/radionational/…

This Abandoned Web Orb-weaver (Parawixia dehaani) was so enormous I had to show you but then she was like no I am dead 💀

Well, if this is it, see you guys over here. #RIPTwitter

Our new paper is out in Journal of Experimental Biology! This project is the culmination of many years research into the jumping spider response to tephritid wing displays journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/22…

High visible & near infrared reflectance helps reduce heating rate for intertidal gastropods exposed to the sun. (That's right - I haven't fully converted to terrestrial systems) iScience journal BioSciences UniMelb Katrina Rankin sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

The Golden Stag Beetle (Lamprima aurata) has 'structural colours' which are microscopic structures on the surface of the beetle's carapace that reflect & refract light, 🔬 giving it an iridescent appearance. ✨💜💙💚💛 💻 | Learn more: spr.ly/60143TYZp 📸 | Simon Grove

Luyi Wang 's next PhD chapter is now online (and open access)! Thermal requirements do not appear to drive colour of jewel beetles. Read it here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11… GEB Journal BioSciences UniMelb

If you analyse animal movements, my R package trajr might be useful to you Wiley in research #trajectory #trajr onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/et…

My first PhD paper is out today and it's open access! Glossy surfaces are everywhere in nature, but why these striking appearances have evolved is unclear. We tested whether gloss provides protection from predators when prey are moving. tinyurl.com/43fkczjf🧵1/4

Buckle up, fellow spider nerds. emojikitchen.dev isn't messing around. Combining the spider emoji with cat/dog/bear gives you something predictably cute. But spider + wolf emoji? YOU GET A MORPHOLOGICALLY ACCURATE LYCOSID.

Hey #Evol2023, if you missed my talk yesterday be sure to check out beetreeoflife.org — We constructed and made available the largest phylogeny for bees with public and published sequence data. It includes 4,651 species, representing 23% of species and 86% of genera. 1/ 🧵

Check out out latest work on #Drosophila #eyesize and #vision. Great collaboration with Dr. Alex Buffry McGregor Lab Pablo Currea Lauren Sumner-Rooney, Jamie Theobald, Ravindra Palavalli-Nettimi, Franziska Franke and the wonderful people PSI Paul Scherrer Institut and Diamond Light Source biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

For me friendships are confusing and hard and often just very sad. And I’m never sure if it’s just me, often asking myself what I’m doing wrong. I see others on holiday together, having weddings & baby showers, and I don’t even know who I’d have to invite. I have maybe 2 friends

I am recruiting PhD/MS students for Fall 2024 at IUPUI, working on farmed insect welfare or insect neurobiology! See information about these positions here, and how to get in touch: meghan-barrett.com/opportunities/

New methods paper! We compared methods for detecting mating displays in ruffs using #accelerometry and machine learning. The best methods worked pretty well! But there are some common issues to beware of, especially when evaluating model performance. doi.org/10.1016/j.anbe…