Sleep is a seemingly universal behaviour across the animal kingdom, yet for the majority of species, experimental evidence of sleep is still lacking. …

An update on my thesis and life after graduation

Common video chores — cropping, trimming, joining, and compressing — in one window.

Pixi Documentation — Next-gen package manager for reproducible development setups

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...

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

The most comprehensive database ever compiled of how fast arachnids can run has shown how leg anatomy and evolutionary history influence spiders’ running speed

Maartje van Denderen is a Scientific Illustrator, interested in insects, mushrooms, and plants.