Had a great day collecting yesterday at Baruch Marine Field Lab in SC. We got 42 porcelain crabs and 40 mud crabs 🦀 🦀🦀

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"In shallow #aquatic #environments, such as tidal creeks, the motion of the water's surface can create dynamic #spatiotemporal fluctuations in illumination referred to as “caustic flicker..."
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#crustacean #biology #science

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"Using #optomotor behavioral assays, we found that both porcelain & mud #crabs use #achromatic cues for gaze stabilization..."

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Jane opened up my eyes to a lot as a kid - she was a female scientist and she was known for devoting her life to it. not to her family or children, but to her passion.

i remember thinking that was so cool and it was probably the first time I realized women can be known in that way.

THATS ME! That's my first paper!! everyone read it!! 🎉🎉🎉🦀🦀🦀👀👀👀

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-Two #Decapod #Crustaceans, Panopeus herbstii and Petrolisthes armatus, Stabilize Their Gaze Using Achromatic #Visual Cues, but Not the Angle of Linearly Polarized Light
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#biology #science #organisms

🚨 Exciting new crab preprint! A Japanese team found that sideways walking only evolved once! Maybe carcinization itself is necessary but not sufficient to go sideways?

When it's lost, the species that go forward have alternate anti predation behaviors. 🧪🦑🦀

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

www.sc.edu/uofsc/posts/... check out this cool piece out of our and @alexcnkingston.bsky.social lab!

this is all exactly right- plus the bonus of using polarized light under these conditions. Already papers has shown that using this concept could be used to find missing divers. i encourage you to read work from our lab (Speiser Lab) on distributed visual systems in chitons and scallops

Thanks so much for publishing with us🙌we are looking forward to gibbing a full week of promotional efforts to your work 10-1 week. 👍stay tuned.

yes, sorry i didn't fully answer you. increased eutrophication leads to more turbid or specially narrow (colored) water so in these environments we're making vision a more difficult endeavor. animals that use different or multiple types of light cues may be better off in the anthropocene

Also stay tuned for a paper that looks at how turbidity may affect mate signaling in blue crabs of the Chesapeake Bay!?

this is something i'd love to look into more! porcelain crabs are invasive to the area too! how may they be using vision! stay tuned for my other manuscripts (in the works!)

Ever wondered how tidal creek crabs stabilize their gaze? think crabs are neat? want to support a first time author? read my first article! out now in IOB @sicbjournals.bsky.social academic.oup.com/iob/article/...