Congratulations @rochellemeah.bsky.social @ecologyofvision.bsky.social (and all our wonderful coauthors!) on her first PhD publication in @currentbiology.bsky.social 🤩 Light pollution suppresses natural peaks in activity AND natural celestial polarization patterns at key times in arthropods 🕷️🦋✨

Not from our lab, but a cool first author publication from our fabulous Postdoc @roald-arboel.com - if you are interested in sweet #lowcost setups and #animal #behavior - check out his paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... …and brace yourselves for more papers to come ;)

🎬 That’s a wrap! 🥹 after a bumpy last week off grid together with the fabulous @vanspidergirl.bsky.social & @madmetazoa.bsky.social we successfully finished an incredible field season on #portia and #invertsleep in the oldest rainforest of the world. Nothing but grateful for this experience ❤️

Things that can happen while filming Portia in the field: we had a (not so) little visitor wandering by with his chicks! Not sure who was more surprised… #cassowary #portia #daintree #storiesfromthefield

Rain and cameras are not best friends - @nadjageiger.bsky.social and I are doing our best to keep them dry and rolling all night despite - or because of - the rain #haaaaard #camerashaterain

We love behaviors that are usually hidden- often due to the sheer fact that they are hard to observe-like sleep. But we’ve also been wondering about things like: what do these spiders do (and how do they sleep) in heavy tropical rain?? We are determined to find out! #portia #fieldfun #RAINforest

Meet an outrageously cool jumping spider (maybe not as cool as Portia but still pretty badass): Bavia! As you can see, she also likes a good spider snack around bedtime. Not sure if she was able to finish this one. She already looked pretty stuffed 😬

Our tropical lab for the next couple of weeks :) #australia #daintree #spiders

It’s experiment time! While doing things in the field always adds an extra layer of difficulty (and also frustration), it is very rewarding once it works! #mosquitos #rain #stillhappy

@nadjageiger.bsky.social & @roesslerdaniela.bsky.social are back in the field in Australia filming and experimenting with the best spider in the world - PORTIA. More soon!