Submitted the second paper of my PhD today 🎉

#brains #spiders

Texto novo na coluna escrito por Kimberly Marta 🕷 e eu :)

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🚨New paper summary thread from Janka Plate and me! 🧵1/6
For little jumping #spiderlings , one important task is to avoid becoming a snack for a bigger #jumpingspider . A while ago, we showed that S. scenicus spiderlings swiftly recognize & run away from static #3D predator models

Well done Daniel on submitting an amazing MRes thesis investigating jump kinematics and choreography of several species of Myrmecia #ants . And he managed this without getting stung! tinyurl.com/bdcr3xfe Macquarie University School of Natural Sciences Science and Engineering @ MQU

Evolution is amazing. Spiders can look like ants if they really want to, but not all of them want to. doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2…

Thought that hot and wet conditions favour parasites? Not for watermites feasting on Damselflies!

Cooler and drier conditions increase parasitism in a subtropical damselfly population - Paul - 2024 - Ecology and Evolution - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ec…

📣New paper out! Here we examine the existence of shape and size character displacement in scorpions with reproductive interference along an altitudinal cline🏔️We found a very intriguing mosaic pattern of evolution!🦂Inst. de Diversidad y Ecología Animal (IDEA) Laboratorio de Biologia Reproductiva y Evolución #EvolBiol researchgate.net/publication/37…

Redação da Coluna de Invertebrados, Do FAUNA NEWS Fauna News

🕷 Aranhas: cultura, simbolismo, misticismo e a sociedade humana 🕷

Leia matéria completa em: 🔗 faunanews.com.br/aranhas-cultur…

Doing spiders brain soup but still no luck on finding an antibody for neurons!
Any guess?

#brains #spiders

Spider genitalia remain curious - lots of variation in male and female genitalia but little impact on copulation duration. PeerJ - the Journal of Life & Environment peerj.com/articles/16413 #AnimalBehavior #EvolutionaryStudies

🕷️🔬 Exciting News! 📚🔍 Our latest article on 'Intraspecific Body Size Variation and Genitalia Allometry in Argiope lobata Orb-Web Spiders' has just been published! 🎉📰 Delve into the intricate world of spider biology and discover the fascinating insights we've uncovered.🕸️🕷️

No mês da Consciência Negra gostaríamos de apresentar 6 grandes aracnológas, mulheres fortes, inteligentes e inspiradoras, que contribuem diariamente com a ciência.

A new paper from our Amata moth project is now out
Behavioral Ecology! We did predation trials with noisy miners and found that birds used abdominal stripes of the moths as a primary warning signal, which could relax selection on consistent wing patterns #colsci academic.oup.com/beheco/advance…

Check out the jump of a Peacock spider. The talented trio Pranav Joshi Giovanni Ramón Luis Robledo-Ospina found them! youtu.be/UR13nHHfc3g

We like to share this new publication on SPIDER BRAINS. A comparative study on 2 web building spiders and two cursorial spiders
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Some insects disguise themselves as spiders to avoid getting eaten | New Scientist newscientist.com/article/240003…

Such an honour to be invited to talk at the 1s Western Australian Colloquium of Arachnology 🕷️🕸️

Se morre de medo das aranhas australianas, saiba que não está sozinho(a). Contudo, não há mortes registradas por elas no país desde 1979, e ainda são ótimas aliadas contra baratas. É o que nos explica Vanessa Penna Gonçalves, que estuda os aracnídeos:

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Looking forward for my talking in Perth in two weeks 😃😃🕷️

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