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Check out the jump of a Peacock spider. The talented trio Pranav Joshi @gmramon Luis Robledo-Ospina found them! youtu.be/UR13nHHfc3g

A new paper from our Amata moth project is now out Behavioral Ecology! We did predation trials with noisy miners and found that birds used abdominal stripes of the moths as a primary warning signal, which could relax selection on consistent wing patterns #colsci academic.oup.com/beheco/advance…

No mês da Consciência Negra gostaríamos de apresentar 6 grandes aracnológas, mulheres fortes, inteligentes e inspiradoras, que contribuem diariamente com a ciência.

🕷️🔬 Exciting News! 📚🔍 Our latest article on "Intraspecific Body Size Variation and Genitalia Allometry in Argiope lobata Orb-Web Spiders" has just been published! 🎉📰 Delve into the intricate world of spider biology and discover the fascinating insights we've uncovered.🕸️🕷️

Doing spiders brain soup but still no luck on finding an antibody for neurons! Any guess? #brains #spiders

Redação da Coluna de Invertebrados, Do FAUNA NEWS Fauna News 🕷 Aranhas: cultura, simbolismo, misticismo e a sociedade humana 🕷 Leia matéria completa em: 🔗 faunanews.com.br/aranhas-cultur…

📣New paper out! Here we examine the existence of shape and size character displacement in scorpions with reproductive interference along an altitudinal cline🏔️We found a very intriguing mosaic pattern of evolution!🦂Inst. de Diversidad y Ecología Animal (IDEA) Laboratorio de Biologia Reproductiva y Evolución #EvolBiol researchgate.net/publication/37…

Evolution is amazing. Spiders can look like ants if they really want to, but not all of them want to. doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2…

Well done Daniel on submitting an amazing MRes thesis investigating jump kinematics and choreography of several species of Myrmecia #ants. And he managed this without getting stung! tinyurl.com/bdcr3xfe Macquarie University School of Natural Sciences Science and Engineering @ MQU

🚨New paper summary thread from Janka Plate and me! 🧵1/6 For little jumping #spiderlings, one important task is to avoid becoming a snack for a bigger #jumpingspider. A while ago, we showed that S. scenicus spiderlings swiftly recognize & run away from static #3D predator models

Texto novo na coluna escrito por Kimberly Marta 🕷 e eu :) #FaunaNews

Submitted the second paper of my PhD today 🎉 #brains #spiders

Great Conference in Colombia! Missing it already VII Congreso Latinoamericano de Aracnología 🕷️🕷️🕷️🕷️🕷️❤️

Heat or light? Another day I was walking on MQ campus and noticed this tree. I guess the leaves didn’t fall because of the heat from the artificial light. Others thought it is just cause of the light pole. #winter #tree #shedding #leaves #adaptation Macquarie University School of Natural Sciences

Another day I had the great chance to attend a talk of the First Female Australian Astronaut during the NationalScienceWeek

It's just one month until the National Insect Expo in Woodend, Victoria. IA will be at this event again this year. We would love you to drop by our stand for a chat about what we do! We hope to see you there! You'll find more info and tickets at: cvric.com.au/expo-2024

Take a look to our last paper where we described a remarkable (and beautiful) new genus and species of Opiliones (Assamiidae: Filopalpinae) from highland Ethiopia. The new species was named after the renowned opilionologist Prof. Jochen Martens. sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/periodiques…

Nothing likes soup to warm up after the cooling air conditioner: Check the coolest paper and pass by to also get a spider souvenir! 🔥🔥🕷️🕸️ Vanessa Penna Goncalves 🕷 ISBE2024 #ISBE2024

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Sharing a little bit of my studies in spider brains at the #ISBE2024