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Lauren Sumner-Rooney @laurensr.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Congratulations to @samjakeengland.bsky.social for his @currentbiology.bsky.social cover😍after @atal-pande.bsky.social's new paper! This leggy fren is a wolf spider (Pardosa) featuring in several projects in @multipleye-lab.bsky.social, so it's lovely to see her getting the limelight she deserves 💃

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Peter T. Rühr @peter-t-ruehr.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Congratulations, @atal-pande.bsky.social!!! This is amazing research on spider vision and morphology! 🎉🥳 Maybe the first time I'm saying it: I'm proud of you and the way you've been going since our first visit to Earwig Visual Systems some years ago! 🥰

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Atal Pande @atal-pande.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Really excited to share that my first PhD chapter is now out in @currentbiology.bsky.social! 🕷️👀 We show that visually hunting spiders have repeatedly evolved forward-facing eyes, highlighting the remarkable evolutionary flexibility of their modular visual system. doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

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Hunting ecology predicts eye arrangements in the modular visual system of spiders

Pande et al. show that visually hunting spiders have convergently evolved forward-facing eyes. The positions and orientations of the eyes show the greatest morphological disparity and fastest evolutio...

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Lauren Sumner-Rooney @laurensr.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Beyond proud of @atal-pande.bsky.social, whose first PhD chapter is out now in @currentbiology.bsky.social! Atal shows that spiders that use their vision to hunt have convergently evolved similar eye arrangements, which imply lots of resampling of frontal space www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Hunting ecology predicts eye arrangements in the modular visual system of spiders

Vision is one of the most important senses used by animals and contributes to fundamental behaviors, including foraging, navigation, and mate detectio…

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bioRxivpreprint @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

ctSpyderFields: A Python package for visual field reconstruction in spiders www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…

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Atal Pande @atal-pande.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Pleased to present my research on the drivers of convergent evolution in spider visual systems at the DZG meeting. Great discussions and feedback! #EvolutionaryBiology #ConvergentEvolution #DivergentEvolution #SpiderVision #Arachnology #DZG #dzg2025

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Atal Pande @atal-pande.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Thrilled to share my poster on spider eye diversity (Poster 315)! 🕷️👁️ Stop past to chat about how ecology shapes visual systems! #eseb2025 #macroevolution #comparativebiology #evolution

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MultiplEye Lab @multipleye-lab.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Fresh(ish) from the week at BESSY II @helmholtz.de looking at the changes associated with eye loss in spiders! Not pictured: our valiant night shifters, @mikebok.bsky.social, Karla Lopez Reyes, and Constance Coubris 💪🏼🌃

Three members of the group stand on a bridge over the ring at the BESSY II synchrotron

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Lauren Sumner-Rooney @laurensr.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Heading home after a busy weekend @diamondlightsource.bsky.social with @maikekittelmann.bsky.social, @atal-pande.bsky.social and @samjakeengland.bsky.social @multipleye-lab.bsky.social ✨🕷️🪰 it's always a pleasure scanning and snacking through the days and nights!

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