Me this morning…one month early

#Predators have to be fast if they want to catch a meal - and they have to come with means to restrain the prey. Claws and teeth might do the job. But what if a snare is used instead? Such as a silken #web 🕸️. 1/10

Here, we found that such species that do not use a web in prey capture tended to have more and longer capture spines, but this was far from being a general rule and the difference between group means was very small. 9/10

The Career Development Fellowships are now open for applications. The scheme aims to support talented early-career scientists from underrepresented groups, beginning as a pilot with researchers from Black heritage backgrounds: royalsociety.org/grants-schemes… #RSGrants

Our new Springer Nature paper is out: #Sexism in #academia is bad for #science and a waste of public funding. #genderequity #WomeninSTEM Read it here: nature.com/articles/s4157…

If you are looking looking to make plot with effect size fr group data, as Kelly et a. did. Durga R package might be useful for you. cran.r-project.org/web/packages/D…

Local environment determines the outcome of organisms interaction.. Want to know more, please check out our recent paper. Happy reading.. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ec…

Are bugs better at mimicking ants than spiders? Find out here: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs… Jim McLean

Want to learn more about the consequences of climate change on insect colour and sexual signals, read our latest article recently featured in The Guardian. theguardian.com/environment/ar… Thanks to all co-authors kawsar khan Marie Herberstein 🌈. Special thanks Sofia Quaglia

Our review article focusing on climate change and insect colour is out in Ecology and Evolution now onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ec…