Very excited to share our discovery of an engineering masterpiece from the Australian rainforest! In our latest paper in @currentbiology.bsky.social we report a hunting strategy in a spider, whose web outperforms every known biological catapult system.

Super excited to talk today at the @animalbehav.bsky.social #ASSAB2026 #spiders #neurobiology

Congrats @pipilika.bsky.social and @pranavjoshi8.bsky.social on a beautiful piece of work on the ballista spider out today!! www.cell.com/current-biol...

We have arrived in Adelaide for #ASSAB2026. We bring amazing stories of 🐝 🐜🕷️🪰, wasps and mantis shrimps. We also have brought a few hot off the press Tshirts of peacock spiders for anybody to purchase! Come find us!

I am delighted to announce that the 2026 Australian Entomological Society Conference website is LIVE & registration is open. Abstract submission closes: July 31. event.mq.edu.au/aes2026/ Logo: Gunnar Tribelhorn @austentsoc.bsky.social @animbehav.bsky.social @ausevosoc.bsky.social

It was so lovely working on this with wonderful co-authors @lucillejmrose.bsky.social (her first paper! 🥳), @vanspidergirl.bsky.social 🧠, @mherberstein.bsky.social 🕷️, and @laurensr.bsky.social 👁️ @multipleye-lab.bsky.social @mfnberlin.bsky.social (7/8)

Meet our Plenary Speaker Daniela Rößler Fueled by curiosity and a deep love of natural history Daniela discovered a REM-like sleep state in spiders and uses integrative field, lab and comparative approaches to investigate the function, ecology, and evolution of sleep across the spider tree of life.

Make sure you don’t miss our key dates for abstract submission and registration!

Such a great opportunity and an unforgettable experience to be part of this adventure with you all. I was finally able to see a Portia in its natural habitat 🤩

🎬 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 ❤️

Exciting news for #drosophila #connectomics and #neuroscience enthusiasts: the Drosophila male central nervous system connectome is now live for exploration. Find out more at the landing page hosted by our Janelia FlyEM collaborators www.janelia.org/project-team....

🕷️ I just talked to ABC Sydney Radio about the social spiders 🎉🎉🎉 Thanks ABC live Radio Sydney for the talk!

Wear it Purple! Raising awareness about the challenges faced by LGBTQ+ communities! 💜💜💜💜 #macquarieuniversity

✨ It’s published! ✨ 🕷️ Social spiders have bigger brains… but only in the right places! Our new study shows that in social huntsman spiders, regions for memory & vision processing are proportionally larger, supporting group living. Read more: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...