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Ajay Narendra @pipilika.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

We have a fully funded 3-year PhD position to study jumping spider navigation. Open to both domestic and international candidates. Details below. Join us! @animbehav.bsky.social @austentsoc.bsky.social @ausevosoc.bsky.social @neuroethology.org @asab.org

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Javier Lazaro - scientific illustration @lazaroillustration.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Concept for book cover. The book subject is about how the environment shapes brain connections and how animals adapt to the environment through behavior. The mammal species is the owl monkey. #sciart #art

Illustration of a nature scene with a family of owl monkeys and a grasshopper on a tree. Over the scene there are some neurons with their dendrites connecting the monkeys, grashopper and the tree fruits. The illustration represents the ecological interactions as neuron connections.

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D. Allan Drummond @dadrummond.art · 04/09/2026

Night eyes 😎 Finally got proper pictures of this amazing phenomenon! Mantises change their eye color (and light sensitivity) at night by transporting pigments from the surface of each compound eye unit toward the deeper eye region. Same female Tenodera sinensis, two different times. #bugsky

A female Tenodera sinensis mantis with dark black eyes against a light background, seen from very close up.

A female Tenodera sinensis mantis with green/brown eyes against a light background, seen from very close up to show the details of her face. The pseudopupil is clearly visible on her left eye, facing the camera.

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Lindsey Swierk @lindseyswierk.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

🦎*Please share!*🦎 The Swierk Lab is recruiting 1-2 PhD students for Fall 27 / Spr 28 to study Neotropical anole 1) body coloration and visual signals or 2) predator avoidance, diving, and respiration. Please contact only by email. More info and contact details here: drive.google.com/file/d/1TGmC...

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I wrote about a reason not to use generative AI in your writing that I haven't seen anyone talking about. Once I realized this, banning GenAI in our lab's writing became a no-brainer. Feel free to share, I think this is probably useful especially for trainees: www.carlsonlab.bio/thoughts/the...

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The only reason you’ll ever need not to write with AI — The Carlson Lab

Over the last year, our lab has been developing a policy on AI use. To do this, we did three main things: We read a lot of academic publications and tech news. We set up an #ai channel on our la...

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Dinesh Rao @dinrao.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

@roald-arboel.com I'm trying out Croppy, and the transport bar doesnt appear for me (Mac OS 15.7.3). Should I reinstall?

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Animal Behaviour Live @animalbehaviour.live · 30/06/2026

🐙🗣️ It's today! Join us in just a few hours for our seminar "Cephalopods as Biological Image Generators" with Dr. Sam Reiter on YouTube! 🎥 📅 Time: Today, 8:00 AM GMT 📺 Link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxAr... #AnimalBehaviour #Cephalopods #OnlineSeminar

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Seminar Series 2026: 2. Dr. Sam Reiter

YouTube video by Animal Behaviour Live

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Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I've always made sense of the world by looking closely at nature. I finally have somewhere to write about it. Welcome to Lessons from Animals. open.substack.com/pub/lessonsf...

Illustrated banner with hand-drawn natural history sketches of animals and plants on a cream background. The title "Lessons from Animals" appears in the centre above the subtitle "Finding wisdom in the natural world."

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Stu West @stuwest.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

The University of Exeter have announced a programme of academic staff cuts, including all of www.exeter.ac.uk/research/gro... Sign the open letter of support at docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... @crab-exeter.bsky.social

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Centre for Research in Animal Behaviour (CRAB) | Research Groups | University of Exeter

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Carol Spicuzza @spicuzza-art.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

The picture-wing fly. No Photoshopping here...those are its actual eyes. It does a little mating dance like some sort of tiny bird. #MacroMonday #ECK #photography #nature #insects

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Glendon Mellow @flyingtrilobite.com · 19/06/2026

Sharing with the #SciArt Feed:

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Marshal Hedin @mhedin.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Read this story, it’s awesome 🤩

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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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Ajay Narendra @pipilika.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

New article: We studied how volumes of different brain regions vary between workers, males & alate females in 2 species of Australian ants. First paper from Saroja Ellendula's PhD thesis! Article is available here: bit.ly/4fVwCIN @neuroethology.org @austentsoc.bsky.social @animbehav.bsky.social

Pictures of workers, males and alate females of two Australian ant species

3D reconstruction of brains of workers, males and alate females of two Australian ant species.

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Joe Rowing @jrowing.com · 25/05/2026

I collect pearls of wisdom from teachers and at lunch today thought it'd be fun to get them edited down to a little book of wisdom style with a prompt for reflection. This is for my own use really, to try and stop me from going stale but it's here: www.jrowing.com/resources/pe... #ITeachPhysics

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365 Pearls — Joe Rowing

Some reflections on teaching

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Journal of Experimental Biology @jexpbiol.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

In her Conversation Ximena Nelson discusses jumping spiders, how even the spiderlings are capable of extraordinary leaps to incapacitate prey & their unique visual system, comprised of up to 4 pairs of eyes, that provides astonishing high-definition vision doi.org/10.1242/jeb....

A female Maratus griseus in a silk nest. Photo credit: Marshall Patrick.

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Andy Radford @andyradford.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

⏰Time running out - deadline 19th April - to apply for funded #PhD: 🪶Quantifying animal movement patterns & behavioural interactions in a changing world 👥Joint with us @bristolbiosci.bsky.social & #SimonGriffith #MacquarieUniversity #modelling #birds #mammals #Australia ℹ️ tinyurl.com/343acaev

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Lucille Chapuis @sharkslikejazz.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

GREAT PhD opportunity at La Trobe University in Melbourne: domestic Australian student only. Deep-red vision and infrared sensing in jewel beetles. Field and lab studies, inc. electorphys, microscopy, behavioural assays. Team led by Dr Amanda Franklin. PM me for more info!

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MOTH👑MONARCH 🤖🔪 Robot Knife Fight Recovery Zone @mothmonarch.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

🌘 "Starchild" 🌟 Commission for @franzanth.bsky.social & at last another of my Golden Orbits.

Digital artwork of a dragon head caterpillar (Polyura schreiber) with the many dots on its horned head and chubby body rendered to resemble little stars, a few actually being tiny four-pointed stars. Above its head a partially eclipsed moon is framed between its inner horns, and large four-pointed stars rest on the center of its upper head and hang on either side of its head between its outer horns. More stylized rays and stars radiate out into the edges of the image, rich textured gold against a dark blue framing the green bug's body. The caterpillar is outlined in metallic gold and has fairly realistic face details and feet. Art by Moth Monarch.

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Vivek Nityananda @viveknityananda.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

New PhD alert! We'll be applying animal welfare ideas to look at how stress affects bees, looking at the effect on bee brains with @lenariab.bsky.social, and working with @sensibee.bsky.social developing new monitoring methods. Please spread the word! #bees #PhD 🧪 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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The effect of stress on pollinator behaviour at Newcastle University on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - The effect of stress on pollinator behaviour at Newcastle University, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Mariella Herberstein (she/her) 🌈 @mherberstein.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

I am looking for a PhD working on tracking trait changes in insects/spiders at the Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity change @leibnizlib.bsky.social and the University of Hamburg. Apply here: www.uni-hamburg.de/en/stellenan...

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ron-kichurchak.bsky.social @ron-kichurchak.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

This might be the most metal beetle I've ever seen.

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Andrew Straw @andrewstraw.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Have you ever wondered what you would find if you could keep your eyes on a bee for more than a few meters? Us, too! preprint (with videos!) + thread 🧵 Precise, individualized foraging flights in honey #bees 🐝 revealed by multicopter drone-based tracking www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/9

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

We present: The Art of #InverteFest - December 2025 Edition A digital art book showcasing the work of 100 artists from around the world, in celebration of overlooked invertebrate fauna. Thank you to the artists who contributed to our book! Download: drive.google.com/file/d/1JCXz... #Art #SciArt

a promo image showing various pages from the book, each page showcasing different animals like an opabinia, a leaf insect, close up of a starfish, and so on. the art featured shows a range of different medium, including digital, pixel art, ceramic, fursuit, post it, and so on.

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Stephen Heard @stephenbheard.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

This is excellent: Tips and Tricks for Writing Constructive Peer Reviews Perhaps the most excellent part is this subhead: "Remember that peer review is not meant to crush souls". Right? Peer review should improve papers (and OK, gatekeep a little) - not make an author regret their career choices!

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EZ Lab @ezlab.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

1/8 A new spider genus from Madagascar! Researchers led by Matjaž Kuntner (National Institute of Biology, Slovenia) have described Osmooka aphana, discovered in the montane forests of Marojejy National Park.

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 04/12/2025

We're excited to announce the finalists of the #RSPPhotoComp 2025! 🎉 Starting with #microimaging and overall winner, 'Mesmerizing spider threads' by Dr Martin Ramirez, capturing two exceptional silk threads of the Australian net-caster spider (sample obtained by Dr Jonas Wolff @evoimec.bsky.social).

'Mesmerizing spider threads' by Dr Martin J. Ramirez, captures two exceptional silk threads of the Australian net-caster spider, Asianopis subrufa.

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CSIRO Publishing @csiropublishing.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Dr Mark “Spider Man” Harvey, Western Australian Museum Research Associate and Associate Editor of our journal Invertebrate Systematics, has reached an extraordinary milestone: he has described 1,000th species. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr... #InvertebrateSys

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Naming species is crucial to conserving them according to spider expert - ABC listen

Living scientist Dr Mark Harvey reaches rare milestone of naming 1000 species of invertebrates.

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Will Allen @wlallen.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

🚨Two funded PhDs on the evolutionary ecology of antipredator colouration 🦋 with myself and Iliana Medina. One in Swansea tinyurl.com/4thtbph6 deadline Jan 12th @crocus-dla.bsky.social The other in Melbourne - deadline Jan 1st Please share among potential students!

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Priyantha Wijesinghe @elaphrornis.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

The International Society of Arachnology has a new website! 🕷️🕸️🦂🌎🌍🌏 arachnology.org/home

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Home: International Society of Arachnology

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MultiplEye Lab @multipleye-lab.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Come and work with us in our new home @bristolbiosci.bsky.social ! This fully funded PhD opportunity is open to anyone interested in spiders/eyes/light pollution/evolution/development! 🕷️👀 ⏰Deadline 15th December, online info event TODAY @2pm! Link in the PhD advert👉 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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Funded PhD - The impacts of light pollution on plasticity and evolution in spider visual systems at University of Bristol on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Funded PhD - The impacts of light pollution on plasticity and evolution in spider visual systems at University of Bristol, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Jay Stafstrom @jaystafstrom.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

🚨Good news, everyone! 1) I'm thrilled to be joining the behavior powerhouse that is Indiana University!! So stoked, starting Jan 2026. 2) I'm recruiting grad students! Are you (or your trainee) interested in sensory ecology? behavior? evolution? fieldwork? spiders? Drop me a line Jstafstr(at)iu.edu

enlarged forward facing eyes of Asianopis subrufa

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Daniela Rößler @roesslerdaniela.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

🚨 Uh-oh!!! A suuuper hot #PhD opportunity just dropped! My friend and collaborator Massimo De Agrò is looking for someone to explore jumping spider vision and neurophysiology! #psychophysics #jumpingspiders #greatPI - apply!!!! (Deadline December 17th) 🚨

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Ayush Parag @aparag49.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Hello everyone! One of my colleagues and probably one of the best supervisors I've met, Dr. Iliana Medina, is advertising a PhD position involving lots of bugs and many different colours! More info in the image below, do share this widely!!

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