🕷️ 🚨 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! 🚨

We CT scanned thousands of vertebrates from US natural history collections and made them freely available. Countless people have used the data for research (>200 pubs) and to learn anatomy/morphology. www.morphosource.org/projects/000...

Anyone considering taking the next steps of their research career in Germany should take a look at the @dfg.de Emmy Noether programme - fantastic support and an amazing opportunity to establish an independent group, hire a team, and commit 6 years to developing a research programme!

The lab is proud to have contributed to the first chromosome-level sea spider genome! Many thanks to Niko Papadopoulos, Georg Brenneis, and Andi Wanninger, who spearheaded the work! #pycnogonida bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

🚨Anyone want a job?🚨 We have two #postdocs up for grabs! 🧪 - cell developmental biology/#evodevo/#neuroevodevo - bioinformatics and molecular biology Both working on brain evolution in Heliconiini butterflies Details below! Please repost 🙏 1/n

Some personal news, to be filed under “things I did not see coming”…. 1/n

Just in time for the opening of the sparkly new building: lifeandmind.web.ox.ac.uk

Early-bird registration closes TODAY! Sign up now to join us at #DZG2025 here in beautiful Berlin - registration includes your conference dinner AND icebreaker reception under the dinosaurs here @mfnberlin.bsky.social 😍🦕

We are lucky to have Merly Vogt (Helmholtz Diabetes Center, Munich) and @beetzjerome.bsky.social (Uni Wuerzburg) as speakers for the neurobiology section 🤗

The Neural Systems & Behavior Course at the Marine Biological Laboratory is going to be looking for a co-director. If you're a faculty member who is interested in helping to organize and run this incredible course, submit a brief statement and your CV at this website. www.mbl.edu/education/ad...

I did it😭 I'm thrilled, relieved, and so excited to announce that I have successfully defended my PhD! Endless thanks to everyone who supported me along the way - mentors, labmates, friends, and family. I couldn't have done it without you❤️ #PhDone

I had a lot of fun giving this interview - I wish my research always had dramatic music in the background

We've just added our shiny new lab handbook to our website! Adapted from the Aly Lab at Columbia and developed with the group, we hope this will be useful to prospective group members and collaborators, or to other new PIs! drive.google.com/file/d/1rvBX... (feedback and additions welcome!)

Register now for @dzg2025berlin.bsky.social to nab the early-bird price! Registration includes the conference dinner, lunch vouchers, and icebreaker under the dinosaurs here at @mfnberlin.bsky.social 🤩

#ECR attention! Just finishing your #PhD and wondering if the DFG’s Walter Benjamin Programme might be a funding option for you? Come and find out in our info talk in our research career series #Prospects (in English). The link to the meeting will be published here: ➡️ www.dfg.de/en/research-...

If anyone eligible is willing to come to Brazil for a postdoc in our lab (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships) feel free to reach out! euraxess.ec.europa.eu/worldwide/la...

🚨 PhD Opportunity! Join Mozes Blom’s group at @mfnberlin.bsky.social to study the demographic history of New Guinea bird populations 🐦🌴 #PhD #Ornithology #Evolution #Genomics 🗓️Apply by 11.06.2025 More info 👇

Come and work with us for a few months on a standalone project! Up to £3,000 (c. 3560 EUR) available for students or postdocs to visit a new lab like ours 👀 Deadline 6th June, but get in touch with me ASAP to discuss your ideas and interests!

REGISTRATION NOW OPEN 👋 Join us in Berlin for the Annual Meeting of the German Zoological Society! Visit our website for all the details: dzg-meeting.de Early Bird offers are available—register now to secure your spot! We look forward to seeing you in Berlin. #share #like

🇪🇺 United in Diversity. Europe, our home. 🌍 Today, we celebrate the European dream and the values that bring us together. Europe Day is your day! 💙 Enjoy the feeling with the new digital merch 👉 europa.eu/!VWYmRc

Interested in a PhD connecting sensory ecology and evolutionary genetics? Applications are now open for a project on the Speciation Genomics of Eye Size Variation in Heliconius Butterflies in our lab at LMU Munich: www.evol.bio.lmu.de/research/mer... Please repost!

Research Leadership Awardee @jennycaread.bsky.social and @viveknityananda.bsky.social @newcastleuni.bsky.social explain their stereoscopic vision theories and experiments with praying mantis in this video: media.leverhulme.ac.uk/video/mantis...

www.nature.com/articles/d41... Scientific picture editing: incomprehensive pictures and the fine line between editing and manipulating.🧪

Open university professor (W3) position for #BehavioralPhysiology in Würzburg, Germany @uni-wuerzburg.de: ↘️ www.nature.com/naturecareer... ↙️ Share or apply 🤗 #InsectResearch 🧪🐝🐜🦟

Join us in celebrating our 2024 Cozzarelli Prize Class VI: Applied Biological, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences winning paper, “Prey can detect predators via electroreception in air.” Read the article here: www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

You know an outstanding researcher for the Humboldt Network? Become a host for our Research Awards! Learn how to identify & nominate a suitable candidate and what else is needed in the process. 📢 Join our online info session on 30 April (1 pm)! www.humboldt-foundation.de/en/connect/i...

Heading home after a busy weekend @diamondlightsource.bsky.social with @maikekittelmann.bsky.social, @atal-pande.bsky.social and @samjakeengland.bsky.social @multipleye-lab.bsky.social ✨🕷️🪰 it's always a pleasure scanning and snacking through the days and nights!

I had a lot of fun writing this invited dispatch for @currentbiology.bsky.social about the amazing paper by @julieriedl.bsky.social and many non-bluesky colleagues, describing how Drosophila larvae can detect electric fields: www.cell.com/current-biol...

Welcome (again!) to @samjakeengland.bsky.social, now a shiny new @humboldt-foundation.de postdoctoral fellow! 🥳🕷️🦋 Very proud, and very excited to see the start of this exciting project!

We’re recruiting for 5 faculty positions in cognitive neuroscience, psychology & animal neuroscience! Exciting science going on @UofG, Glasgow is an amazing and green city with the friendliest people, and you’ll have the stunning highlands on your doorstep! tinyurl.com/mbn6yf56 Please repost!

Well, our lovely spider babies were my favourite paper of the week UNTIL NOW 😍

Delighted to see Luis's beautiful study on the evolution and development of visual system diversity in spiders is out in @royalsociety.org Proc B! No Friday evening plans? We've got you covered! Click here for cute gummy spider babies 🕷️https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2024.2069

Post doc in Europe? 🇪🇺🔬💡 It’s open to anyone in the 🌍 Call open 9 April 25 marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/post...

Are you a PI interested in redirecting to something new? @simonsfoundation.org is now accepting applications for their Pivot Fellowships. I'm grateful to be a Simons Pivot Fellow (I'm pivoting from memory to mood). Very few mechanisms like this exist. www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/03/03/s...

𝗖𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝗹𝗹𝘂𝘀𝗰 𝗖𝗼𝗱𝗲: A ground-breaking study in @science.org unravels the evolutionary history of molluscs: tinyurl.com/MolluscTree @sgn.one @sigwartae.bsky.social @kmkocot.bsky.social @squamiferum.bsky.social @vans-gonzalez.bsky.social @cgreve.bsky.social @mkyapchiongco.bsky.social

[New Paper] is on the COVER of @science.org !! FIRST genome-phylogeny of MOLLUSCS (snails, clams, octopus, etc.) complete with ALL classes —incl. the mythical "living fossil" Monoplacophora— reveals how they evolved the most diverse body forms of all animals! OPEN ACCESS: doi.org/10.1126/scie...

From octopuses to snails, the complicated molluscan family tree has now been mapped in unprecedented detail, researchers report in Science. Learn more in this week's issue: scim.ag/4hVhrxB

Did you know some single-cell dinoflagellates have a lens eye? Anders Garm at the University of Copenhagen is recruiting a postdoc to help find out why. Check out the advertisement, below 🧪 candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI... photo: Franz Neidl

Thanks to the teams at the Soleil Anatomix and DISCO beamlines for hosting us and @sigwartae.bsky.social @oceanspecies.bsky.social this week! We learned lots of new tricks and are looking forward to working through the data together soon! There are always fun new ways to look at old chitons 💛

🕷️ Spiders have a modular visual system with 8 eyes 👀 that are able to specialize for varying tasks Turns out, a pair of secondary eyes 👀 (the two smaller ones flanking their large ones) are specially tuned for perceiving biological motion! 🦟🪰 Check it out!: journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

#ECR aufgepasst! 📅 Unter dem Motto #PROSPECTS informiert unser Team #Karriereförderung regelmäßig über die verschiedenen Fördermöglichkeiten bei der #DFG. Nächste Woche starten die Talks 2025. In der ersten Jahreshälfte haben wir folgende Termine. Mehr Infos und Zugang: www.dfg.de/de/foerderun...

Want to start an independent research group? ...with core funding, outstanding facilities & a curiosity-driven culture? Join us at @embl.org We are recruiting across research themes, inc (epi)genomics, human dev bio, predictive modelling & neurobiology👇 embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/d...

Happy to share our Slow cooked work together with @mcgregorlab.bsky.social, @posnienlab.bsky.social , @nuneslab.bsky.social sky.social and Saad Arif and the collaboration of @maikekittelmann.bsky.social, Fernando Casares & @laurensr.bsky.social and many other friends rdcu.be/d8whP

As for many others, it seems, today seemed like a good day to finalise the transition from Twitter - check out the new Bsky account for the lab here! bsky.app/profile/mult...

We have a fully funded International 4-year position (combined Master of Research+PhD) to study visual navigation in jumping spiders. Project will be supervised by @pipilika.bsky.social, @mherberstein.bsky.social, @dinrao.bsky.social & Ximena Nelson. At Macquarie University, Sydney. Details below

Just started reading this exciting book edited by @mikebok.bsky.social & Elke Buschbeck. It takes us to a fascinating world on different visual systems featuring evolutionary and behavioral aspects. A must read for everyone interested in #neuroethology & vision. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

As a last-minute holiday treat, please enjoy our new pre-print on the development of spider visual systems! We compared seven species, representing all major clades and a range of visual ecologies and morphologies, and identified some new clues 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Two MRes projects available from Oct 24: 1 Sexual dimorphism in fly eyes Collab with @maikekittelmann.bsky.social www.findamasters.com/masters-degr... 2 Spider ohnolog functions after WGD Collab with @laurensr.bsky.social www.findamasters.com/masters-degr... Please pass on to your students!