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Jay Stafstrom

@jaystafstrom.bsky.social
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Assistant Prof at Indiana University (starting Jan 2026) neuroethology | spiders | animal behavior | spiders | sensory systems | ALAN | art | spiders

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Nicky Bay @nickybay.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Blind cave spiders~ This occurs due to the process of regressive evolution. In an environment without light, vision provides no advantage in finding prey or avoiding predators. The loss of their eyes means that energy and resources once used for eyes are instead allocated to other traits.
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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
Net-casting spider stretching it netenlarged 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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Stephen Montgomery @ebablab.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
🚨RA/PhD position available in evolutionary neurobiology 🚨 Working on a deep dive into circuit changes during mushroom body expansion in Heliconius butterflies @camzoology.bsky.social - employment benefits - 4 years funding - 1000% fun Deadline: 14/1/2026 Details: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
Shades of blue and red in a slice through an immuno stained brain showing some deliciously lovely looking mushroom body lobes - ripe for investigation during a funded PhD - and the central complex. Image credit: Dr Max Farnworth
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Zoognosis with Joy! @zoognosisjoy.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Light pollution is a major factor in insect population declines. Switching to narrow-band LED lighting and shaded outdoor lighting could make a major difference. 🧪 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Light pollution is a driver of insect declines
Insects around the world are rapidly declining. Concerns over what this loss means for food security and ecological communities have compelled a growi…
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Zach likes bees @zachportman.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Charles Darwin the barnacle taxonomist, a story in two parts
An inspirational Darwin quote: "How I shall enjoy getting back to Down with renovated health, if such is to be my good fortune, & resuming the beloved Barnacles." -Charles Darwin 28 March 1849An inspirational Darwin quote: "I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before, not even a Sailor in a slow-sailing ship." -Charles Darwin 24 October 1852
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Richard @ R. Rook 🔜 Sleep @rrookstudio.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Hey All: Google is pulling the "automatically on for anyone over 18" bullshit with Gemini that the Dropbox did for its AI, but I can't afford to ditch Google Drive/Docs/Workspace. If you have a personal Google Account, first go to gemini.google.com/extensions and turn everything off...
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International Society for Neuroethology @neuroethology.org · 18/01/2025
We just re-locate our twitter/X-history with the help of @blueark.app and then our moving will be final. Please help us to build a new #neuroethology community here by asking colleagues to follow us and by using hashtags or linking @neuroethology.org so that we can share your content 🧪🧠🦋🪲🐝🦑🐟🦐🐜🐦🐸🐢🦈🪼
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Jay Stafstrom @jaystafstrom.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
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Gabriele Uhl @uhl-lab.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
doi.org/10.1073/pnas... Olfaction in spiders. We found that the wall pore sensilla in spiders look similar from the outside to those of insects, but differ ultrastructurally in various ways. Independent evolution! 🧪
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Olfaction with legs—Spiders use wall-pore sensilla for pheromone detection | PNAS
The sense of smell is a central sensory modality of most terrestrial species. However, our knowledge of olfaction is based on vertebrates and insec...
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CuttleDreams @cuttledreams.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
#Insertaninvert2024 October theme: Eyes Lensless: Fuzzy Nautilus (Allonautilus scrobiculatus) Lens eyes: Ogre-faced Spider (Deinopis spinosa) Compound eyes: Drake Mackerel (Ephemera vulgata) Eyeless: Feather Millipede (Brachycybe lecontii)
A drawing of a fuzzy nautilus, its shell covered in green growth along the bottom half. It is surrounded with golden stars. A drawing of the ogre-faced spider standing on its legs, its massive eyes and legs on display. A drawing of a Drake Mackerel, an orange and black insect with its wings flared out and long front legs stretched forward. A drawing of three pink feather millipedes, two adults and one juvenile.
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Jillian 정화 @bugsorbust.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
My first time being part of a published article! Everything about Dolomedes in one place. I wrote the section on parental care. 🕷️ I am very grateful to all of the collaborators on this paper especially Dr. Chrissie Painting and my advisor Eileen. www.frontiersin.org/journals/ara...
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Frontiers | Dolomedes fishing spider biology: gaps and opportunities for future research
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American Arachnological Society (AAS) @arachnology.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Alright arachnologists and arachnid enthusiasts, let’s get this started! Drop a comment below if you would like to be added or have people to add. Let’s make the official AAS starter pack 💪🕷️🦂🕸️ go.bsky.app/8Nb8974
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georgia 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @blahttodea.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
I made a starter pack for animal behaviour researchers / ethologists! please share and feel free to self-nominate or suggest others to be added as this is very much still a work in progress and not an exhaustive list 🌍🧪😊 #SciSky #BioSky #AnimalBehaviour #AnimalBehavior #Ethology go.bsky.app/Tr8VZpV
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Jay Stafstrom @jaystafstrom.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Okedoke, giving this app another shot. Really miss the art and science I used to see on Twitter. Here's a quick contribution: Net-casting spider + radial symmetry = seasonally appropriate image from upstate NY. Posting the original image too because I think it's also pretty cool :)
Digitally altered image of a snow flake made out of spider legs and silk. Unaltered photograph of Net-casting spider stretching its net.
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Brendan Lan @brendanlan.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Hi! I'm a senior undergrad entomology major at Cornell in the Hoy lab working with @jaystafstrom.bsky.social on the downward-facing eyes of ogre-faced spiders! Interested in sensory biology & behavior - especially with arthropod study systems (spiders haha). Looking forward to meeting new people :)
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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 14/10/2023
same vibes:
a solitary sandpiper being held in a hand, looking at the page of a field guide depicting solitary sandpipers. this bird was caught and banded under appropriate permits, then released
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Jay Stafstrom @jaystafstrom.bsky.social · 14/10/2023
Friday the 13th in #Arachtober...gotta share something worthy of the occasion. Here's the first Portia I ever saw :) She was a delight.
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Jay Stafstrom @jaystafstrom.bsky.social · 10/10/2023
Are folks doing #Arachtober over here?
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Jay Stafstrom @jaystafstrom.bsky.social · 23/06/2023
Buckle up, emojikitchen.dev isn't messing around. Combining spider emoji + cat/dog/bear gives you something predictably cute (or nightmare fuel depending on your taste). But spider + wolf emoji? You get a MORPHOLOGICALLY ACCURATE WOLF SPIDER. Even the eye arrangement is correct. Pure brilliance.
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