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Abstract submissions have now opened for the AES conference in Hobart 2024 which is running from Nov 17 to 21.

Hope to see lots of you there!

conferences.com.au/2024aes/

On an expedition to Barrington Tops with Sam England Luis Robledo-Ospina Jade Thurlow we found the cryptic Odd clawed spider Progradungula barringtonensis, described a few days ago. These nocturnal spiders build ladder webs at the base of trees to capture prey.🙏to $$ Journal of Experimental Biology

I had a great time giving a seminar at Western Sydney University Western Sydney - HIE yesterday on their Hawkesbury campus near the blue mountains! Thank you to everyone that came and asked super interesting questions, and Dr Kate Umbers for kindly hosting!

Super excited to have started my travelling fellowship Macquarie University working with Marie Herberstein 🌈 and Ajay Narendra on the vision of weird and wonderful Australian spiders, thanks to funding from Journal of Experimental Biology The Company of Biologists 🕷️🇦🇺

Starts in 1 hour!

Very excited to give a seminar today about how animals can use static electricity as a sensory cue!

I am happy to announce our latest pre-print, led by MS student Seth Frazer! We can predict the color sensitivity of opsin sequences quite accurately using its gene sequence alone in machine learning models. I'll write a little thread here to explain
biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

And to close 2023, another spidery treat! Eye size is linked to many aspects of visual physiology, ecology, and behaviour - but what if you can have lots of eyes, in different sizes? Kaylin Chong dived into the visual allometry of spiders to find out! biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 1/n

As a last-minute holiday treat, please enjoy our new pre-print on the development of spider visual systems! 🥳🕷️👀
We compared seven species, representing all major clades and a range of visual ecologies and morphologies, and identified some new clues 1/n
biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

The same is true for me!

Drs V.M. Ortega-Jimenez, A.M. Gardner & J.C. Burton spotlight Sam England & colleagues’ recent Current Biology report on #ticks ’ attraction to electrically charged hosts. @Umaine Emory University Museum für Naturkunde Berlin University of Bristol Biological Sciences
authors.elsevier.com/a/1hZYi5Eb1xFU…
Video: shorturl.at/jlryW

Very chuffed to have been interviewed and featured in National Geographic about mine and Katie Lihou's latest paper. Absolutely creasing at the line 'In news absolutely no one wants to hear...' 😂

a slide I often use in talks that shows the results of my research attempts over the last thirty years. #sciencetwitter