Two awesome news for our #SLEEB-Lab @unibonn.bsky.social 1) we finally had a lab photoshoot and 2) I can now officially announce @roald-arboel.com is joining our team as a Postdoc starting in November!!! Sweet tracking stuff ahead. Welcome to the #spider #behavior fam, Mikkel!

Amazing talk by Daniela @roesslerdaniela.bsky.social on spider sleep and possible adaptive values of rem sleep stages. Never knew spiders have sleep phases that eerily look like dream states. Traumhaft!! I wonder how many other creatures feature this behavior... Or how many don't!

🕷️ 🚨 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! :) 🚨 🕷️

The Local Organizing Commitee welcomes behavioral ecologists from across the world and of all career stages to enjoy a five-day meeting rich in top-notch science and ample networking opportunities in Turin (Italy), 20-24 July 2026.

Finally taking spider 🕷️ sleep 💤 to the wild! Currently in QLD, Australia, filming Portia fimbriata sleep in the field-which disturbances are they facing and how does their wild sleep compare to lab sleep? Stay tuned! 🙃 ps- terrible place to work 🤭 @nadjageiger.bsky.social @mherberstein.bsky.social

PhD position open with Dr. Jutta Schneider and @mherberstein.bsky.social in Hamburg, on sub-social behavior in crab spiders 🕷️ It even includes field work in Australia! Application deadline is 15 July, more info at the link: www.uni-hamburg.de/en/stellenan...

We are proud to have @maxcapelle.bsky.social's paper out on bioRxiv! He found that phototactic behavior in #zebrafish switches during #ontogeny🐟🔆 Through elegant behavioral dissections, he identifies the navigational strategies related to this transition. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Thread 👇

Guess I’m just gonna leave this video here as my intro tweet :) 🕷️💤 In my group, we study spider sleep! :) m.youtube.com/watch?v=BTcc...