✨ It’s published! ✨

🕷️ Social spiders have bigger brains… but only in the right places! Our new study shows that in social huntsman spiders, regions for memory & vision processing are proportionally larger, supporting group living.

Read more: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Complex signals, complex defences: there’s more to defences than meets the eye. New from @amatageorgeii.bsky.social &
@liisahamalainen.bsky.social @kateumbers.bsky.social @mherberstein.bsky.social @jmappes.bsky.social @mpic.de

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

#aposematism #chemecol

Check out what these toxic moths are up to!
Shout out to ‪@amatageorgeii.bsky.social‬

Ever wondered whether prey always outcompete predators (aka life-dinner principle?). Turns out when prey are numerous, predators edge ahead in the evolutionary arms race - download paper here: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....

Sperm transfer in spiders is complex and sometimes dangerous. Our latest paper is trying to figure out what behavioural and morphological traits affect sperm transfer
doi.org/10.1111/1749...

Playing with propagation-based phase contrast in #microCT scans to visualize soft tissue without contrast staining in jumping #spiders 🕷️🕷️🕷️ Sure no great image quality achieved, but good enough to measure internal structures of the eyes with @jadethurlow.bsky.social & @mherberstein.bsky.social

#NewPaper 🐍 Our scientists have described two new species of African house snakes that occur in East and Northeast #Africa. It all started with an 20 year old specimen and resulted in a recent study in #Zootaxa.

Read more: www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...
Original study: doi.org/10.11646/zoo...

🚨Watch out postdocs and early career researchers: the #BORA_network invites you to the Postdoc Day 03 April 2025: Orientation, #Networking, #Career Opportunities 🌍🎓 . Explore the international science scape of #Bonn.
👉 www.uni-bonn.de/de/forschung...
#PostdocDay2025 @leibnizlib.bsky.social

Crabs smell with their legs too!

New species of Sydney Funnelweb discovered!

bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

We are hiring a new entomological curator in Hamburg at the Leibniz institute for the analysis of biodiversity change…
Please share and apply!!!

8101202752.karriereportal.cloud/job/2024-20-...

Friends, plz repost and share! We are hiring a lab technician with exp in mol biology and general lab management. BS or MS degree and good org skills are required. Deadline Feb 1, 2025. We are a welcoming and equitable lab community. Details at link below. 🐸🐢🐍🦎

zamudiolab.org/2024/12/18/k...

It took me way too long to do this one, but it's finally finished. If you're the kind of person who wants to watch a 40-minute video about Argiope aurantia, then I got you.

youtu.be/RJBIcgYZMdM

Lovely blog post about our recent paper in Ornithology (@amornith.bsky.social)! We applied agent-based models and machine learning to 36 yrs of mourning warbler song, and found evidence that males have a learning bias for more complex syllables: americanornithology.org/cultural-evo...

Call for workshops is open: behaviourindia2025.in/Call-for-Wor... If you would like to propose a workshop at #Behaviour2025, check this! @asabeducation.bsky.social @animalopps.bsky.social @animalbehaviour.live @ethology.bsky.social @nationalgeographic.bsky.social @natureportfolio.bsky.social

Celebrating the move to Bluesky? Well, not really. Grant writing day with @mattdhall.bsky.social in the city. Treating ourselves to a nice lunch as reward.

There’s just over one week till #AustEvol2024!! Registration closes December 1st so there’s plenty of time to signup if you haven’t done so already!

We can’t wait to see you in Perth ☀️

Help us understand how conspicuous butterflies are by playing this game!

mferickson.github.io/findbutterfly/

I am delighted that this, my very first post here on Bluesky, is to celebrate a paper on brains size in ant-mimicking spiders!

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...