My kind of collaboration.

He's perfect, and #Arachtober themed Mr Phidippus cardinalis appeared this afternoon and made my day. ❤️ #EmotionalSupportSpood

#Arachtober 1st - Tropical Orb Weaver (Eriophora ravilla). One of my favorites. Very common in South Texas. Can be found up the East Coast of USA down to South America. This is a stereo image. Cross your eyes for 3D. 🕷️ #spider #orbweaver #arachnid #macrophotography #naturephotography

Ok, this is on my office door now. Wishing you all a happy #Arachtober! To learn about the history of Arachtober, check out this website Arachtober.com @arachtober.bsky.social @ashleymbradford.bsky.social #LoveSpiders

Join us in celebrating Arachtober by sharing your #spider and other #arachnid photos all month. #Arachtober has spread around the web. We’ve created a basic site at Arachtober.com to explain what this is all about. Banner by @ashleymbradford.bsky.social, inspired by my recent linocut artwork.

Yay - it's now Arachtober! Happy #Arachtober, everyone! 🕷🕸️🦂

Looking forward to giving my next Nerd Nite talk on Wednesday! Looks like tickets are still available: events.humanitix.com/nerd-nite-ch... Here is last year's talk - this year's talk will have a spider cognition theme! 🕷 youtu.be/7EBi7FUpGaY?...

There's going to be a special #Arachtober evening for Nerd Nite in #Christchurch on Wednesday 1 October! @corvink.bsky.social and I are both giving talks, and I'll be sharing some highlights of spider cognition research. Tickets and further details are here 👉 events.humanitix.com/nerd-nite-ch...

Exciting work in progress seeks to explain the bizarre and wonderful diversity of Peacock spiders: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

There's going to be a special #Arachtober evening for Nerd Nite in #Christchurch on Wednesday 1 October! @corvink.bsky.social and I are both giving talks, and I'll be sharing some highlights of spider cognition research. Tickets and further details are here 👉 events.humanitix.com/nerd-nite-ch...

I'm going to talking about spiders on More FM Manawatu tomorrow (Friday) at 8:12 AM 🕷 #NewZealand #SciComm

One of my favourite things about my campus at this time of the year. I took a moment to get some photos before the weather turns this afternoon! #Christchurch #NewZealand

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MEMBER HIGHLIGHT: Michael Beran, Professor of Psychology, Georgia State University. Michael studies comparative cognition with an emphasis on metacognition, self-control, prospective cognition, numerical cognition, perception, and decision making. Check out his lab website: sites.gsu.edu/comic-lab/

Been ages since I've posted on here. Life's had its ups and downs, but it was lovely to spend some time at Hagley Park today #Christchurch

Extremely wholesome and short thread of library-related goodness! 😍 ^MT

Happy birthday #BillAndTedDay Let’s all try and be excellent to each other. Even during hard times.

Do follow the best library in Aotearoa.

This might be the absolute greatest reply we have ever received. Thank you, Cookie Monster 📕🍪💙

"Scientific conferences are leaving the US amid border fears" shorturl.at/VwQww

“I first noticed a spider web within a week of being here. I thought ‘ah well, I’m a pretty out of it dude so let’s have some spiders’". What a delightful person! #LoveSpiders 🕷 www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3606...

So happy to see this in my garden!

🎇✨Congratulations Prof. Susan Healy, our 2027 Research Award recipient (Uni. St Andrews, UK). A symposium + banquet will honor her contributions at the 2027 conference & a special issue will be published March 2028: 'In Honour of the Contributions of Susan Healy' #WomenInSTEM

Folks, it's just not worth travelling to the US right now.

a massive Paraphidippus aurantius jumping spider feeds on a caterpillar, August 6th, 2021 my most observed species on iNaturalist - lucky to be in an area so rich with beautiful salticids 🙇

Pirate beautician.

LOOOOOOK at her MOON egg sack!!!! 🌕🕷️

For St Patrick's Day, I have found this photo of a lovely Phidippus regius sporting some sparkly green chelicerae 🤩 #LoveSpiders

I spent some time for #SpiderSunday photographing Helpis minitabunda females. I found them here in Christchurch, New Zealand #LoveSpiders

I love this video. From the look, to the finish.

Last night, I spoke with Emile Donovan (Radio New Zealand) about the huntsman spiders that have recently been found in Napier, as well as other spiders that have made their home here #LoveSpiders 🕷 www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...

Huntsman spiders have been found in Napier - I'll be talking with Emile Donovan about this tonight at 10:45 PM on Radio NZ 🕷 #LoveSpiders

A quote for international women's day today. "[The point of diversity, equality and inclusion initiatives is not] to give less able people jobs or places at university, but to ensure racism, discrimination and privilege were not giving the much less able a clear path to employment or education"

We've all been there: You've been hunting a moth all morning, and when you finally land the killing blow, you overcompensate and savage it so violently, you get its wing scales all up in your eyes. Then a human comes along with a camera to immortalise your embarrassment. Typical! #Invertebrate 🧪

I'm on a podcast! Listen to me talk about teaching kids about insects, and the amazing DIFFERENT SEL curriculum created by The Bug Chicks. www.xerces.org/bug-banter/s...

Here's a male Helpis minitabunda for #SpiderSunday! I found him here in Christchurch, New Zealand #LoveSpiders

All spiders are beautiful, but some are just exceptionally beautiful 💛🕷️ male Phidippus mystaceus jumping spider shot in situ on a red painted gate - Nov 3, 2020, NE Oklahoma

Last Saturday, I was interviewed on ABC Melbourne! Here's the link to the show - my interview starts just after 2:20:20, and runs for about 8 minutes. I tell my story of how I used to be so scared of spiders but then became fascinated with them 🕷 #LoveSpiders www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Here is a wee Putnam’s Jumping Spider making herself a cozy little safe space. These cuties can be found in various habitat in the eastern US. #SpiderSunday

I'm going to be on the radio (ABC Melbourne) on Saturday talking about spiders at around 10:20 AM AEDT 🕷 #LoveSpiders

I've had to make the sad decision to not attend this year 😔

Don't forget to vote for the trapdoor spider in Bug of the Year 😊 #BugOfTheYear www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3605...

Check out expert reactions here @smcnz.bsky.social! www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz/2025/02/12/b... #TeamTrapdoor #BugOfTheYear

I have just voted for Bug of the Year! 🕷🕷🕷 #BugOfTheYear #NewZealand bugoftheyear.ento.org.nz/vote-here-20...

🕷️ Hey, it's #MacroMonday! Today's #spider is a six-spotted fishing spider (Dolomedes triton), showing that walking-on-water surface tension. I hope your week is off to a good start! 📷 #photography #macro

For the #BlueskyArtShow. Today's theme is #Reflections Reflection of a Long-jawed Orb Weaver (Tetragnathidae) who built their web over the surface of a pond. #inverts #becurious

I reckon we can't have too many animal photos at the moment

Looking at Simon Pollard's latest book - The Little Book of Spiders, published by @princetonupress.bsky.social. There's lots to love about this book, but this beautiful illustration of Evarcha culicivora is a definite highlight!