Great balcony report in Atlanta! Comedy Bang Bang @LilyYily Paul F. Tompkins Scott Aukerman Drew Tarver

It finally happened: I paid attention to news about the queen dying. washingtonpost.com/world/2022/09/…

#Arachtober Joro spider rapidly spreading in US after introduction from Asia. Co-authors and I have a paper pending in Biological Invasions about this critter.

#Arachtober Plenty of joro spiders around Atlanta. Second picture includes likely kleptoparasitic theridiid (by my middle finger).

New paper out on the Joro spider with some great co-authors!

Some coverage of our recent Biological Invasions review on joro spiders🕷️w/coauthors Dr. David Coyle Michael Sitvarin John Deitsch & David Nelson wired.com/story/please-s… Also featuring Dr. Catherine Scott (she/they)!

The original paper is open access and available here: link.springer.com/article/10.100… Dr. David Coyle John Deitsch Michael Sitvarin

I, for one, welcome our new Nebulidian and Nibbleridian overlords. nature.com/articles/s4158…

At least one Joro escaped the cold snap!

One heck of an opening sentence: "An obvious feature of life on Earth is that most animals and plants can be seen." science.org/doi/abs/10.112…

"There’s no responsible or ethical way to care for a tarantula..." Curious to hear a reaction from spider-keepers Dr. Sebs Echeverri @spiderdaynightlive.bsky.social peta.org/blog/spider-fa…

It looks like an Invisible Man signed my copy of the Comedy Bang Bang book! Quick, I need the assistance of Dalton Wilcox! Andy Daly

No evidence it was, "raising a colony" in there. Just a cute jumping spider that wanted a place to build a retreat and whisper sweet nothings into someone's ear. news.yahoo.com/video-doctor-c…

I'm not sure any academics are left on Twitter, but Zhu, Gengping and I are hiring a postdoc to work on ecological niche modeling of invasive Northern giant hornet (aka #murderhornet). $66-70K salary. Email or DM if interested

Yes, I have a website. Yes, it has a blog feature. Yes, I do occasionally update it. michaelsitvarin.com/blog/2023/12/1…

Totality in Plattsburgh

On the heels of the apparent Joropocalypse, check out this video created by Rob Nelson, Jonas Stenstrom, and me. This #invasivespecies can't fly, won't eat your baby, might or might not make it to the Northeast, and can we all just calm down please? youtube.com/watch?v=zhO_bw…

Are you good enough to collect harvestmen in the field? Play this creative game and help Brazilian colleagues in a research about visual ecology in opilionids. (please RT) visual-ecology.com/harvesters/

#Arachtober It's a spider-eat-spider world out there!

Nouvel article publié aujourd'hui dans PLOS One avec Dr. Catherine Scott (she/they) Stefano Mammola & Angela Chuang! 🕷️🎉🕷️🎉 journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…