Missed our #ECBB2026 Plenary Speaker reveals? Not to worry! Here is a quick recap of all the excellent speakers we'll be welcoming at September's meeting!

We know you're jumping with excitement to find out the penultimate ECBB 2026 plenary speaker so we won't keep you waiting much longer! 🥁 🥁 🥁 It's the marvellous @biobiiana.bsky.social!

Multiple anthropogenic stressors can negatively impact species but can a single stressor also have multiple, concurrent impacts? Here we show that light pollution creates several simultaneous impacts to the nocturnal movement ecology of a moth and a spider: tinyurl.com/5eku5bff (1/5)

Ready to meet our third plenary speaker? We are delighted to announce it's.... 🥁 🥁 🥁 The extraordinary @mherberstein.bsky.social

We're excited to announce the finalists of the #RSPPhotoComp 2025! 🎉 Starting with #microimaging and overall winner, 'Mesmerizing spider threads' by Dr Martin Ramirez, capturing two exceptional silk threads of the Australian net-caster spider (sample obtained by Dr Jonas Wolff @evoimec.bsky.social).

🎬 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 ❤️

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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

🚨Good news, everyone! 1) I'm thrilled to be joining the behavior powerhouse that is Indiana University!! So stoked, starting Jan 2026. 2) I'm recruiting grad students! Are you (or your trainee) interested in sensory ecology? behavior? evolution? fieldwork? spiders? Drop me a line Jstafstr(at)iu.edu

🚨 Uh-oh!!! A suuuper hot #PhD opportunity just dropped! My friend and collaborator Massimo De Agrò is looking for someone to explore jumping spider vision and neurophysiology! #psychophysics #jumpingspiders #greatPI - apply!!!! (Deadline December 17th) 🚨

Incredibly honored and utterly excited to have been asked to give a plenary at @isbe2026.bsky.social hope to see you in Turin! #ISBE2026 #sleep #behavior

Exciting times ahead - I'm beyond delighted to be joining @bristolbiosci.bsky.social in 2026! 🎉🕷️🎉🐌🎉 I'm also looking for a PhD student to join @multipleye-lab.bsky.social in our new home! Come and study the effects of light pollution on the evolution and development of spider eyes with us 🌃🕷️👀 👇

New Lab account just dropped!

Our lab has its own Bluesky account now- give us a follow for #field and #lab updates, #spider content and #scicom! @sleeblab.bsky.social ❤️🥳 we are currently in Australia and will post updates on our work and adventures 🙃🙌🏼

“Above all, we must realise that each of us makes a difference with our life. Each of us impacts the world around us every single day. We have a choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place - or not to bother.” www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

“Jane Goodall was an amazing scientist who inspired people to see the natural world in a new way. She helped us to look at the animal kingdom with fresh eyes and with greater respect.

#ISBE2026 Call for Abstracts is now open! Submit your abstract by 15 December 2025 on www.isbe2026.com @behavecol.bsky.social

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!

Meet Chrissie Painting the new ASSAB president! @cpaintingnz.bsky.social is a Senior Lecturer and behavioural ecologist at the University of Waikato. Her research seeks patterns in animal behaviour and morphology, with a particular focus on insect and arachnid mating systems. 🪰🕷️🪳

🕷️ 🚨 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! :) 🚨 🕷️

🚨 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! 🚨

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

Can’t wait!

The three academic positions (Lecturer/Senior Lecturer) in the School of Biological Sciences at Monash University are now advertised. Details here: Ecology: careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo... Genomics: careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...

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...

“researchers found that the sounds of bees, which are efficient snapdragon pollinators, led the snapdragons to increase their sugar and nectar volume, and even alter their gene expression that governs sugar transport and nectar production.” Neat work via @asa-news.bsky.social conf last month!

Dear Zoologists (in Germany)! Before leaving for your extended public holiday weekend... Consider registering for the #DZG2025 to secure the Early Bird fee. Early bird registration is ending soon.

🚨 Cool new project alert 🚨 WE- you, me, everyone- need to work together to get important science messages out to people. 4 artists & 3 scientists collab'd on these posters. We hope YOU will put them out in your community. Each poster comes w/info about each topic. Get 'em Squidfacts.bigcartel.com

Mandatory reading for anybody in German academia: #ichbinHanna #WissZeitVG

Our latest paper on the jump kinematics and choreography in the Oz Splendid Peacock spider. We filmed & analysed locomotory jumps in male & female spiders. The males are incredibly light - measuring just 2mg - and oh they can jump! Videos in the thread. Open Access - read here: tinyurl.com/4bnpz9tz

Apply apply apply!!! 🙃

WATCH AND CIRCULATE: Macklemore’s a real one for this video doing what the Democrats and their surrogates refuse to do youtu.be/sn9EKC9nqU4?...

🚨It’s official!🚨 Spiders incoming! As of March, my @dfg.de Emmy Noether Group will start at the University of Bonn @unibonn.bsky.social !Extremely excited to build a new lab, meet new people and immerse ourselves fully into more spider research. Ready to discover more of their sleepy secrets 🙃 🤗🕷️💤🌏

What a great opportunity to combine science and photography! Glad for this award with @augustpaula.bsky.social and thanks to @icouzin.bsky.social Luke Costello,Tristan Walter at @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social and @unikonstanz.bsky.social Thanks @rsocpublishing.bsky.social for the great initiative!

Sorry, another Snowcap. This one is sleepy on this Friday evening. At @tapirvalley.bsky.social #birds #hummingbirds #costarica

Excited to join the community! Will be seeking out old and new connections in neuroethology, insect, pollinator, vision, behaviour, anatomy, science, education, and many other spaces on this platform 🤓😀

Why do insects fly around artificial lights? They don't actually want to fly towards them, they just can't really get away from them. Insects naturally tilt their dorsum towards a light source, and as a result end up flying around it in circles, trapped. 🧪 🦋 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Do dreams serve a biological function? If so, why do we forget most of them? Here we propose a solution for this apparent paradox: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

Some of what I do as an entomology curator is Chrysis management.

The animal behavior channel "Mit Wissen" has a new episode out. Cini Gall takes you on the trail of the grey teal, a nomad that can navigate thousands of kilometers across Australia to greener pastures. As was once said by a great Australian scientist "Why is it so?" youtu.be/YsUELS7ofCg?...

An excellent read on hibernation from Vlad Vyazovskiy, and thoughts provoking as per usual! aeon.co/essays/how-a...

If you don’t feel stupid doing science, you’re not trying hard enough.

Up to 65 #SleepPeeps in our Starter Pack! I'm sure i missed some and i have plenty of space for more. Keep spreading the word and let me know if i missed you!! go.bsky.app/7zW7D9J

Got the #DisabledInSTEM Starter Pack up and running! Can't wait to see the list grow and meet new connections! 💜 go.bsky.app/SwJ4rFX

Hi there! I am an illustrator specialized in scientific illustration and wildlife art. #SciArt Very excited to share my work here!

You like #spiders? #sleep? #scicom? #photography? #videography? Make sure to give @nadjageiger.bsky.social a follow! 🙃

⏰A reminder that applications for #PhD projects in IMPRS-QBEE close on Sunday. Projects starting in 2025 span: #locusts #moths #meerkats #lemurs #hyenas #nematodes #baboons Apply here: ➡️https://imprs-qbee.mpg.de/66685/current @unikonstanz.bsky.social

Jürgen is all of us entomologists 😂 still love this moment! #gbbo

I was rereading Tinbergen's "On aims and methods of Ethology" this morning and was awakened by this: "It seems to me that...we...will always need naturalists and observers as well as experimenters; we must...not discourage the [person] with a gift for observation." I have the gift for observation.