🚨 Using polarization vision to stabilize gaze 👀 would theoretically be helpful for animals living in visually noisy environments, but it seems two decapod crustaceans use achromatic cues instead. 🚨 From @maddy-janakis.bsky.social Check it out! 🦀 academic.oup.com/iob/article/...

Did you know that when crabs molt they also molt their outer cornea giving them a pretty scary zombie look

got all the grad students to dress as our advisor! I had to do it once before I defend!

Had a great day collecting yesterday at Baruch Marine Field Lab in SC. We got 42 porcelain crabs and 40 mud crabs 🦀 🦀🦀

IOB "In shallow #aquatic #environments, such as tidal creeks, the motion of the water's surface can create dynamic #spatiotemporal fluctuations in illumination referred to as “caustic flicker..." @maddy-janakis.bsky.social et al doi.org/10.1093/iob/... #crustacean #biology #science

IOB "Using #optomotor behavioral assays, we found that both porcelain & mud #crabs use #achromatic cues for gaze stabilization..." @maddy-janakis.bsky.social et al doi.org/10.1093/iob/...

Jane opened up my eyes to a lot as a kid - she was a female scientist and she was known for devoting her life to it. not to her family or children, but to her passion. i remember thinking that was so cool and it was probably the first time I realized women can be known in that way.

IOB from the www.speiserlab.com -Two #Decapod #Crustaceans, Panopeus herbstii and Petrolisthes armatus, Stabilize Their Gaze Using Achromatic #Visual Cues, but Not the Angle of Linearly Polarized Light by M Janakis et al doi.org/10.1093/iob/... #biology #science #organisms

🚨 Exciting new crab preprint! A Japanese team found that sideways walking only evolved once! Maybe carcinization itself is necessary but not sufficient to go sideways? When it's lost, the species that go forward have alternate anti predation behaviors. 🧪🦑🦀 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

www.sc.edu/uofsc/posts/... check out this cool piece out of our and @alexcnkingston.bsky.social lab!

Thanks so much for publishing with us🙌we are looking forward to gibbing a full week of promotional efforts to your work 10-1 week. 👍stay tuned.

Ever wondered how tidal creek crabs stabilize their gaze? think crabs are neat? want to support a first time author? read my first article! out now in IOB @sicbjournals.bsky.social academic.oup.com/iob/article/...