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MultiplEye Lab @multipleye-lab.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Just over two weeks left to apply! Come and join us @bristolbiosci.bsky.social for a 2.5-year trilobite extravaganza! If you're interested in 3D models, functional morphology, and visual ecology, get in touch with us via @laurensr.bsky.social with any questions and for more details on the project!

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Lauren Sumner-Rooney @laurensr.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Two weeks left to apply for our postdoc position on vision in trilobites! Come and explore the exciting world of reconstructing vision in the fossil record, using some of the most iconic extinct animals to grace our oceans! Please reach out + RT! (*Deadline in fact 23.59 BST on the 26th August!*)

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MultiplEye Lab @multipleye-lab.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Work with us! Join the team in Bristol studying the functional morphology of trilobite eyes 👀 ✍️ 30 months, @hfspo.bsky.social-funded, start by early 2027 🫵 looking for someone interested in developing new methods to analyse eyes in 3D and simulate vision 📆 Deadline 27. Aug ☎️ @laurensr.bsky.social

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Lochlan W @lochlanw.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Excellent way to start the week #ICN2026 with a fascinating and entertaining talk by @samjakeengland.bsky.social ⚡️🐛

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Alexei Drummond @alexeidrummond.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Get excited :) PhyloSpec is coming! A shared standard + modelling language for phylogenetic models. Write a model once, run it across engines like BEAST X, BEAST 2.8 & RevBayes. Easy and reproducible. Built by @tochsner.bsky.social & collaborators (ETH Zürich, Auckland, LMU). phylospec.com

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PhyloSpec

A standardized way to describe phylogenetic model components, common assumptions, and best practices in the field of phylogenetics.

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Sam England @samjakeengland.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Incredibly honoured (and nervous) to have been awarded the Young Investigator Award from @neuroethology.org at this year's ICN in Vancouver - thank you so much to Daniel Robert and @laurensr.bsky.social for supporting my application, the society for the award and grant, and the lovely audience! 🥳

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Sam England @samjakeengland.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Having my photograph on the cover of Current Biology is definitely a bucket list item ticked off ✅🙏 all thanks to @atal-pande.bsky.social @multipleye-lab.bsky.social and their super cool study that I was lucky enough to make a small contribution to

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MultiplEye Lab @multipleye-lab.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Stunning new cover from our research fellow @samjakeengland.bsky.social! Congrats, Sam! 🥰

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MultiplEye Lab @multipleye-lab.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Keep your (schizochroal) eyes peeled for an opportunity to work with us! We'll soon be recruiting a 30-month postdoc to work on the functional morphology of trilobite eyes, using X-ray imaging 💥and developing optical models to reconstruct how they may have seen the ancient oceans... 🌊 Coming soon!

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Todd Oakley @ostratodd.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

The formatted paper is now out in MBE - describing OPTICS software to predict color sensitivy based on opsin sequence alone: academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

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MultiplEye Lab @multipleye-lab.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

The group's *first* PhD student @atal-pande.bsky.social has published his *first* chapter - time to celebrate spiders and their forward-facing eyes everywhere 🥹 Congratulations Atal, other stellar group members @lucillejmrose.bsky.social and @samjakeengland.bsky.social, and all our co-authors 💛

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Sam England @samjakeengland.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Out today in @royalsocietypublishing.org - we show that crab spiders (the ones you usually see ambushing pollinators on flowers 🕷️🌸) get worse at hunting if their eyes are covered!🫣 Sounds obvious? It's actually quite surprising, here's why... 👀 (1/8) royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...

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Michael Bok @mikebok.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

I am hiring a postdoc for scRNA-seq research in Lund, Sweden on the visual systems of non-model inverts as part of an ERC project on the evolution and ecology of advanced color and polarization vision. Apply here or share the link with someone who may be interested! 🧪 lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

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MultiplEye Lab @multipleye-lab.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

📢 New pre-print alert! Most spiders have eight eyes, but not all - PhD researcher Antonio Galán Sánchez and Dr Andres Rivera Quiroz @naturalis.bsky.social led an exciting new analysis of the evolution of eye number and losses in spiders on a truly incredible scale! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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MultiplEye Lab @multipleye-lab.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

If you'd be interested in a postdoc with us using CT scans of trilobite eyes to model their visual abilities, watch this space...!

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Michael Bok @mikebok.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

From our new paper out now in @currentbiology.bsky.social: www.cell.com/current-biol... w/ @neurofishh.bsky.social @gkafetzis.bsky.social @denilsson.bsky.social Looking across animals, the vertebrate eye is an obvious outlier. Why is it so different that other highly visual animals?

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MultiplEye Lab @multipleye-lab.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Are you finishing your undergraduate degree next year? Are you interested in animal eyes, and would you like to gain some paid research experience this summer @bristolbiosci.bsky.social? If so, get in touch! @rankprize.bsky.social funds 8-week studentships 👇 www.rankprize.org/grants/under...

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Rank Prize

Stimulating and celebrating the brightest minds in nutrition and optoelectronics

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Lauren Sumner-Rooney @laurensr.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Amazing, 3-yr postdoc working on bioluminescence and visual ecology in comb jellies with Anders Garm in Copenhagen! candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

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Postdoc in Marine Bioluminescence

A 3-year postdoc position is open, shared between the sensory biology group lead by Assoc. Prof. Anders Garm at the Marine Biological Section, University of Cop

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Lauren Sumner-Rooney @laurensr.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Congratulations @rochellemeah.bsky.social @ecologyofvision.bsky.social (and all our wonderful coauthors!) on her first PhD publication in @currentbiology.bsky.social 🤩 Light pollution suppresses natural peaks in activity AND natural celestial polarization patterns at key times in arthropods 🕷️🦋✨

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Denis Wirtz @deniswirtz.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Download our large database of postdoc fellowships in all fields of research. Database freely available to all; 281 fellowships. Download here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

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MultiplEye Lab @multipleye-lab.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Join us for your PhD! Apply by 15th Dec ⏰ to come to @bristolbiosci.bsky.social and study spider eyes, development and visual ecology under light pollution! Open to all nationalities, funded incl. stipend, set in a beautiful city, and with amazing collaborators ✨ 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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Lauren Sumner-Rooney @laurensr.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Just TWO DAYS until the application deadline for our funded PhD disentangling the impacts of light pollution on spider eyes and visual ecology! 👀🕷️🌃 The project will combine development, morphology, behaviour, and genetics, and can be shaped by the student👩🏽‍🔬 Interested? Apply! Questions? Message me!

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Philip Donoghue @phil-donoghue.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

The Royal Society's Newton International Fellowship scheme opens to applications Jan 15 with a March 11 deadline. It provides £280K (salary and research expenses) over 2 years to outstanding ECRs from outside the UK. Why not come and work with me (or anyone else) @bristolpalaeo.bsky.social?

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Newton International Fellowships | Royal Society

This fellowship is for non-UK scientists who are at an early stage of their research career and wish to conduct research in the UK.

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Lauren Sumner-Rooney @laurensr.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

On the beautiful island of Hiddensee for a writing retreat with @evoimec.bsky.social @multipleye-lab.bsky.social ✍🏼👩🏼‍💻 enormous thanks to @wolffspider.bsky.social for the invitation (and his trusty suitcase full of snacks...) #outofoffice

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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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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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Lauren Sumner-Rooney @laurensr.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Happy to see this lovely study led by @sigwartae.bsky.social and Leonie Georg @oceanspecies.bsky.social out! 🎉Although chitons are a classic example of distributed visual systems, the shell eyes aren't uniform across the body - the lenses increase in volume as new eyes are added at the shell edge!

3D model of a single chiton valve (Schizochiton jousseaumei), showing shell eye lenses coloured by their volume, which shows an increasing gradient towards the lateral edge.

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Sam England @samjakeengland.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Do you work (/want to work) with caterpillars? Or sensory systems? Or BOTH?! Well good golly do we have the paper for you! We explain the senses that caterpillars have, what they use them for, and how anthropogenic sensory pollution might be messing it all up 🐛 doi.org/10.1007/s003...

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The sensory ecology of caterpillars - Journal of Comparative Physiology A

Caterpillars (larval Lepidoptera) are one of the most ecologically and evolutionarily significant taxa on Earth. As both feeders and food, they shape the dynamics of enumerate ecosystems on land. Key ...

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Lauren Sumner-Rooney @laurensr.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Reposting for the Monday morning scrollers! Funded PhD opportunity with me @multipleye-lab.bsky.social @bristolbiosci.bsky.social - spiders, their eyes, and their babies under long- and short-term light pollution!

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MultiplEye Lab @multipleye-lab.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

🎉 Big news! 🎉 We will be moving to @bristolbiosci.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social in 2026!! We're so excited to be joining such a dynamic and thriving department, university, and city - thank you to everyone who has already been so welcoming! 📢 But that's not all - come and join us! 👇

Atmospheric evening view of Bristol and the Clifton suspension bridge. Adobe Stock c Stephen Davies

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Daniela Rößler @roesslerdaniela.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

🚨 PhD alert! IMPRS brain & behavior in Bonn just opened their calls for applications. Great PhD funding opportunities. Check it out! PS- I just joined their faculty, meaning you could do a rotation in my lab or even a PhD with me on spider sleep 🙃 Apply! 🚨

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Daniela Rößler @roesslerdaniela.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

🕷️ 🚨 Are you at the #DZG in Berlin next week? @dzg2025berlin.bsky.social my PhD @nadjageiger.bsky.social and I are very excited to tell you the latest about our spider sleep 💤 work! Come check out our talks on Friday and ask all your questions! :) 🚨 🕷️

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George Kolyfetis @gkolyfetis.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Our findings on bees' photoreceptors are now officially published in Biology Letters of the Royal Society Publishing!! Thanks again for a productive collaboration @jjfosterlab.bsky.social and @gregoeur.bsky.social !! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

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Visual Insect Neuroethology Group @insect-vision.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

New work from our neighbours @jjfosterlab.bsky.social lab with lead ‪@gkolyfetis.bsky.social‬ - check out their findings on the coupling of #photoreceptors in different #bee species 🐝👇👇

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Kyle J McCulloch (he/him) @kypodseyepods.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

I am looking for a postdoc! Please share with Evo-devo-neuro-sensory people who might be interested. We have multiple projects available so don't feel like you are not qualified to apply if you don't check every single box on the job ad! Apply here: explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...

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University of Florida - Details - Postdoctoral Associate

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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

To identify fundamental neuroscientific principles that generalize across species, systems and circuits, neuroscientists must embrace an evolutionary perspective, argue Karl Farrow and @katjareinhard.bsky.social. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neur...

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Systems and circuit neuroscience need an evolutionary perspective

To identify fundamental neuroscientific principles that generalize across species, neuroscientists must frame their research through an evolutionary lens.

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Danai Papageorgiou @danaipapageorgiou.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

The call for a fellowship at the College for Life Sciences @wiko-berlin.bsky.social is now open. That's an academic paradise! Apply: call.wiko-berlin.de/procedure/52...

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Wiko Application Platform

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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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Lochlan W @lochlanw.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Very cool brief visit with the @multipleye-lab.bsky.social 🕷️👁️ forgot to take a spider photo but the fish collection was quite cool 🐟

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MultiplEye Lab @multipleye-lab.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Early-bird registrations closes TODAY!! Sign up now to join us for #DZG2025 in beautiful Berlin this September - includes the conference dinner and icebreaker under the dinosaurs here at @mfnberlin.bsky.social 😍🦕

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DZG 2025 Berlin @dzg2025berlin.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Gentle reminder: #DZG2025 in Berlin! The extended Early Bird registration is ending soon. Nab the reduced rate NOW and join us in Berlin. 🤩 dzg-meeting.de

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MultiplEye Lab @multipleye-lab.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

We've just added our shiny new lab handbook to our website! Adapted from the Aly Lab at Columbia and developed with the group, we hope this will be useful to prospective group members and collaborators, or to other new PIs! drive.google.com/file/d/1rvBX... (feedback and additions welcome!)

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LabHandbook-2.docx.pdf

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DZG 2025 Berlin @dzg2025berlin.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

REGISTRATION NOW OPEN 👋 Join us in Berlin for the Annual Meeting of the German Zoological Society! Visit our website for all the details: dzg-meeting.de Early Bird offers are available—register now to secure your spot! We look forward to seeing you in Berlin. #share #like

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DZG 2025 Berlin @dzg2025berlin.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Registration NOW OPEN. Join us in Berlin! #DZG2025

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DZG 2025 Berlin @dzg2025berlin.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Why join #DZG2025 in Berlin? Reason #1: Outstanding plenary speakers! For example… #share #like dzg-meeting.de www.nwg-info.de/de/council/e...

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MultiplEye Lab @multipleye-lab.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Are you an ECR interested in animals that have eyes (preferably, lots of them)? Would you like to come and conduct a research project in our group for 1-3 months? Get in touch about applying for the excellent @biologists.bsky.social ECR visiting fellowship scheme! www.biologists.com/grants/ecr-v...

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ECR Visiting Fellowships

About ECR Visiting Fellowships To celebrate its 100th anniversary in 2023, Journal of Experimental Biology launched two new grants to support junior faculty staff working in the fields covered by the ...

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Max Farnworth @maxfarnworth.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

This will be a fun and interesting meeting across the different fields of zoology - and it's in Berlin!

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