Submit your memes by 2/23! PRIZE 🕸️Custom hand-made t-shirt 🕸️2024 AAS membership including discounted conference registration (Join us in Chetumal, Quintana Roo, Mexico Jun 24-28) and electronic AND hardcopy of the Journal of Arachnology Submission form in linktree in our bio!

Daddy-longlegs were thought to have only one pair of eyes...until now 🤯! We report today in Current Biology that extant daddy-longlegs have additional vestigial eyes seen in four-eyed fossil relatives. Vestigial organs, fossils and evodevo!!🌈 👀👀👀 authors.elsevier.com/a/1iekZ3QW8S6D…

The #AASMemecontest deadline has been extended to Friday, March 1st! Get your memes in now before it's too late! Submission form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

The public voting period for the #AASMemeContest has begun! You can submit your votes via the Google form here: forms.gle/SbJ4HdqbtjA389…

REGISTRATION OPEN FOR AAS 2024! June 24-27th, 2024 in Chetumal , Mexico Registration Payment Deadline: May 31, 2024 Abstract deadline: May 15, 2024 Student Travel Grant App Deadline: April 17, 2024 Info: americanarachnology.org/aas-meetings/a… Logo Design: @ maria.disenografico (Instagram)

Sarah Stellwagen and I will again be offering fellowships to "Spider Camp" at Highlands Bio Station in North Carolina. Info, syllabus, and application form on my website: burnslab.umbc.edu/spider-course/ Apply and share, please!

First field season day of 2024! We caught some Dolomedes tenebrosus (Dark fishing spider). It's a great day to be a member of the Hebets Lab! Dr. Eileen Hebets (she/her) 🕷

Another fantastic story by Scott Schrage | @scottschrage.bsky.social on breakthrough research by Noori Choi... cracking the code for eavesdropping in on the #vibroscape and what we can learn from it #PhD Nebraska Bio Sci University of Nebraska-Lincoln Nebraska CAS news.unl.edu/newsrooms/toda…

Have you ever seen inside a spider egg sac before? Check out these Platycryptus undatus (tan jumping spider) spiderlings courtesy of Yi Hang Park 박이항 of the Hebets Lab (Dr. Eileen Hebets (she/her) 🕷)!

Some Tigrosa sp. Courtship behaviors. Check out the way he moves his palps to create vibratory signals to the female! (This was just for fun and not a real experimental set up)

How to impress a lady. A male Wolf Spider (Pardosa sp.) performing a courtship dance.

Registration deadline has been extended for AAS 2024 in Chetumal, Mexico! See you soon in the Maya world. - AAS 2024 committee 🕷️🕸️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Our meme contest winner Luiz received their custom shirt by Kotomi Yoshida! The featured arachnid is Eriophora edax (Blackwall, 1863). For more arachnid art content, follow the amazing @ colorado_yakumo on Instagram 🕷🕸

Check out these Dolomedes triton mating! If you look closely you can see the haematodochal sac expanding in the male's palp. (Sorry im not the best camera person!)

Excited to present our preprint about Population genomics of Dysdera spiders! I worked on this project during my PhD and feels great to finally be able to share it! Julio Rozas Molecular Evolutionary Genetics (UB) Miquel Arnedo  IRBioUB biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Meet Masoncus n. sp., a myrmecophile (ant-loving) spider from Florida, related to Masoncus pogonophilus, described by Paula Cushing (Denver Museum).

Also out now and in stock: The Lives of #Spiders nhbs.com/the-lives-of-s… Princeton Nature Princeton University Press BAS European Society Of Arachnology American Arachnological Society Australasian Arachnological Society ISArachnology Arachnology

Thanks a ton to @AlbionZoe at @PodcastSpecies for highlighting taxonomic works and for this series on the basics of taxonomy. I'm happy to be a part of this!

AAS2024 begins TOMORROW in the gorgeous Chetumal, Mexico! Goran Ahmed Shikak is doing a social media takeover and will be posting live updates on the AAS Instagram: @ american_arachnology. Follow us on Instagram to stay up to date on all things AAS2024!

hierarchical "loops-on-loops" structure of the cribellate silk of a Kukulcania spider recent research (not mine) shows that this leads to amazing fiber extensibility royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs… in situ photo from southern Utah, spider living in Yucca