We're hiring! <°°)))>< Interested in deep-sea fish and their eyes? In molecular evolution? We look for a PhD student to join our team in Prague. ERC funding for the single-cell transcriptomics. fishevo.com/erc-funded-phd… (postdocs wanted too, stay tuned). Happy for retweets!😍 thks

A new Joro spider paper dropped last week, bonus meme:

Doing research on my next TikTok video (insanely cool topic incoming) and stumbled on my new favorite dedication in a dissertation, by Jay Stafstrom

I am recruiting a postdoc in computational / systems neuroscience to study mechanisms of social communication and cognition in budgerigars. We are cracking this system wide open. Please share. youtu.be/0r7-QvwqVjM

Me: *poking my head out of the lab* "Psst, hey...you wanna see some spider babies?" Friends in the hall: "Of course!" + "Always!" *an office door opens* Two more friends: "Hey, we heard you talking about spiders, can we come and see, too??" ❤️ Made my day.

The public voting period for the #AASMemeContest has begun! You can submit your votes via the Google form here: forms.gle/SbJ4HdqbtjA389…

金環の方舟/Gold Ring Noah [GOLEM Ph2 2024]

#さかなの日 シーラカンス

Do you know of any students interested in an #NSFfunded, 2 (or more) yrs Postbac research experience investigating the @neuroethology of auditory perception in the acoustic parasitoid fly #Ormiaochracea? More info here: animalbehaviorsociety.org/web/news.php?v… Please RT!

Excited to finally see this out! Sexually selected shields: male-male combat can promote the evolution of damage-reducing structures authors.elsevier.com/a/1ikKOmjM6FXf Isaac’s first manuscript and my first in Animal Behaviour!

Beautiful morning breath

Interested in the role that sensory processing plays in perception of animal signals? Fully funded four-year PhD to start September 2024, deadline to apply 12th May. exeter.ac.uk/study/funding/…

Thrilled to share a *NEW PRE-PRINT* I’ve been working on for the last few years! Michael Sheehan, W. Freiwald, and I describe the neural correlates of individual facial recognition in a social wasp, Polistes fuscatus. biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 1/10

IT'S OUT!! Monumental work describing what goes on in the brain of a wasp that recognizes conspecifics by their face. Chris Jernigan has shown face cells in a wasp! AH, so excited. Surely to be seen in textbooks soon. Congrats Chris and Michael Sheehan - truly inspirational work.

New research from us about super-stretchy silk threads, in collaboration with Peter Michalik and Martín Ramírez

🚨I am thrilled to finally share the amazing news of being awarded an Emmy Noether grant from DFG public | @[email protected]. In the next years, my group will focus on comprehensively studying (REM) sleep behavior, its function & ecology, in a comparative evolutionary framework using #spiders! 🕷️💤

Yaay! First ever cover! 🥳 super happy for this excellent work lead by Massimo De Agrò to be out! Having 8 eyes is crazy- thanks to Massimo we’re getting a bit closer to understanding how it all might work for jumping spiders. journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/22…