Happy to see this lovely study led by @sigwartae.bsky.social and Leonie Georg @oceanspecies.bsky.social out! 🎉Although chitons are a classic example of distributed visual systems, the shell eyes aren't uniform across the body - the lenses increase in volume as new eyes are added at the shell edge!

🐛📢🐛New paper alert! Lovely review of caterpillar sensory ecology led by @samjakeengland.bsky.social (@humboldt-foundation.de fellow) with friends and colleagues @rochellemeah.bsky.social @benitoexplains.bsky.social and Callum McLellan! 🐛⚡🐛👁️🐛🤝🐛👃🐛 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Do you work (/want to work) with caterpillars? Or sensory systems? Or BOTH?! Well good golly do we have the paper for you! We explain the senses that caterpillars have, what they use them for, and how anthropogenic sensory pollution might be messing it all up 🐛 doi.org/10.1007/s003...

Reposting for the Monday morning scrollers! Funded PhD opportunity with me @multipleye-lab.bsky.social @bristolbiosci.bsky.social - spiders, their eyes, and their babies under long- and short-term light pollution!

🎉 Big news! 🎉 We will be moving to @bristolbiosci.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social in 2026!! We're so excited to be joining such a dynamic and thriving department, university, and city - thank you to everyone who has already been so welcoming! 📢 But that's not all - come and join us! 👇

🚨 PhD alert! IMPRS brain & behavior in Bonn just opened their calls for applications. Great PhD funding opportunities. Check it out! PS- I just joined their faculty, meaning you could do a rotation in my lab or even a PhD with me on spider sleep 🙃 Apply! 🚨

🕷️ 🚨 Are you at the #DZG in Berlin next week? @dzg2025berlin.bsky.social my PhD @nadjageiger.bsky.social and I are very excited to tell you the latest about our spider sleep 💤 work! Come check out our talks on Friday and ask all your questions! :) 🚨 🕷️

Our findings on bees' photoreceptors are now officially published in Biology Letters of the Royal Society Publishing!! Thanks again for a productive collaboration @jjfosterlab.bsky.social and @gregoeur.bsky.social !! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

New work from our neighbours @jjfosterlab.bsky.social lab with lead ‪@gkolyfetis.bsky.social‬ - check out their findings on the coupling of #photoreceptors in different #bee species 🐝👇👇

I am looking for a postdoc! Please share with Evo-devo-neuro-sensory people who might be interested. We have multiple projects available so don't feel like you are not qualified to apply if you don't check every single box on the job ad! Apply here: explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...

To identify fundamental neuroscientific principles that generalize across species, systems and circuits, neuroscientists must embrace an evolutionary perspective, argue Karl Farrow and @katjareinhard.bsky.social. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neur...

Mutualisms within light microhabitats are associated with sensory convergence in a mimetic #butterfly community: www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

The call for a fellowship at the College for Life Sciences @wiko-berlin.bsky.social is now open. That's an academic paradise! Apply: call.wiko-berlin.de/procedure/52...

Fresh(ish) from the week at BESSY II @helmholtz.de looking at the changes associated with eye loss in spiders! Not pictured: our valiant night shifters, @mikebok.bsky.social, Karla Lopez Reyes, and Constance Coubris 💪🏼🌃

Can jumping spiders extract implied object shape from motion? Check out our new preprint to find out. Collab with Massimo De Agrò @neuroethology.org doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Very cool brief visit with the @multipleye-lab.bsky.social 🕷️👁️ forgot to take a spider photo but the fish collection was quite cool 🐟

Early-bird registrations closes TODAY!! Sign up now to join us for #DZG2025 in beautiful Berlin this September - includes the conference dinner and icebreaker under the dinosaurs here at @mfnberlin.bsky.social 😍🦕

Gentle reminder: #DZG2025 in Berlin! The extended Early Bird registration is ending soon. Nab the reduced rate NOW and join us in Berlin. 🤩 dzg-meeting.de

We've just added our shiny new lab handbook to our website! Adapted from the Aly Lab at Columbia and developed with the group, we hope this will be useful to prospective group members and collaborators, or to other new PIs! drive.google.com/file/d/1rvBX... (feedback and additions welcome!)

REGISTRATION NOW OPEN 👋 Join us in Berlin for the Annual Meeting of the German Zoological Society! Visit our website for all the details: dzg-meeting.de Early Bird offers are available—register now to secure your spot! We look forward to seeing you in Berlin. #share #like

Registration NOW OPEN. Join us in Berlin! #DZG2025

Why join #DZG2025 in Berlin? Reason #1: Outstanding plenary speakers! For example… #share #like dzg-meeting.de www.nwg-info.de/de/council/e...

Are you an ECR interested in animals that have eyes (preferably, lots of them)? Would you like to come and conduct a research project in our group for 1-3 months? Get in touch about applying for the excellent @biologists.bsky.social ECR visiting fellowship scheme! www.biologists.com/grants/ecr-v...

This will be a fun and interesting meeting across the different fields of zoology - and it's in Berlin!

Really excited to announce that I have been selected as one of eight PI fellows for this year. 😌 This will be fun and incredibly helpful in the journey ahead, especially when you have Cassandra Extavour as a mentor 😎

Heading home after a busy weekend @diamondlightsource.bsky.social with @maikekittelmann.bsky.social, @atal-pande.bsky.social and @samjakeengland.bsky.social @multipleye-lab.bsky.social ✨🕷️🪰 it's always a pleasure scanning and snacking through the days and nights!

Hooray!! Congratulations to freshly minted Alexander von Humboldt fellow Dr @samjakeengland.bsky.social 🥳we're delighted to have you here and can't wait to see all your weirdo arthropods doing their thing 💃

There may be a non-model organism “renaissance”, but these fields also need experimental tools. Our new blog describes our work building brain atlases for novel species. Get in touch if you're interested in making an atlas for the species you study! brainglobe.info/blog/unchart...

📢New paper in @royalsociety.org Proceedings B!📢 We tracked #eye #development in seven spider species with wildly different visual systems to try and identify the mechanisms underlying their diversity 👀👀👀👀 1/n royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... (Funded by @leverhulme.bsky.social)

We are delighted to host an RCN symposium on light pollution as a driver of insect declines. May 12th-14th, Penryn. We will draw on academics, industry, planners & NGOs to explore issues & seek solutions. Free registration, but limited places! www.visual-ecology.com/events/ @uniexecec.bsky.social

Thanks to the teams at the Soleil Anatomix and DISCO beamlines for hosting us and @sigwartae.bsky.social @oceanspecies.bsky.social this week! We learned lots of new tricks and are looking forward to working through the data together soon! There are always fun new ways to look at old chitons 💛

A really exciting new study: evidence that males evolve better sight in order to detect female dishonesty in dance flies. One for the textbooks! A male resistance trait! Great one from @rosalindmurray @luc_bussiere @dtgwynne & team academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...

Come look at some cute spider embryos with stunning 🧬expression with me! This gene is very exciting, and will be a major part of my PhD research! Watch this space for new updates🔬 @mcgregorlab.bsky.social #EvoDevo #Biology #phdlife