Out today in @royalsocietypublishing.org - we show that crab spiders (the ones you usually see ambushing pollinators on flowers 🕷️🌸) get worse at hunting if their eyes are covered!🫣 Sounds obvious? It's actually quite surprising, here's why... 👀 (1/8) royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...

I am hiring a PhD student to join our group in Lund, Sweden working on an ERC-funded project to untangle color and polarization vision in some amazing crustaceans – minute water fleas and pugnacious mantis shrimp! Please forward this to promising students. Apply here: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

🚨Job claxon🚨 4-year #Postdoc available in our lab in @camzoology.bsky.social developing molecular and anatomical approaches to mapping evolutionary changes in the brain, using #Heliconiini butterflies. Come join us, we are nice. 🧪 www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

Beautiful new preprint from Antonio and Andres on the evolution of eye loss in spiders! Find the full thread below for details on unequal losses across parallel visual systems, possible regains of eyes, 1000s of surveyed species, ecological and developmental clues, and a gratuitous dinosaur emoji 🦕

Interested in miRNAs, early animal evolution, and RNA biology? We’re recruiting a BBSRC-funded Postdoctoral Research Associate @bristolbiosci.bsky.social #Postdoc #microRNA #RNAbiology Apply by 14 May 2026. 👉 www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find-in...

PhD in Berlin? The city offers a broad spectrum of doctoral programs w/ funding opportunities & collaborations w/ research institutions. www.doctoral-programs.de/welcome/ @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social, @humboldtuni.bsky.social, @tuberlin.bsky.social, @unipotsdam.bsky.social, @udkberlin.bsky.social

Hi all. I am very excited that after 6 years I finally got my phylogenetic comparative methods book and online exercises online. Feel free to use and share. The book is here: nhcooper123.github.io/pcm-primer/. Note that it is not finished, we had to abandon it before the sunk costs fallacy broke us

Have you ever wondered what #wildlife does at #night? How prevalent night-time activity/ nocturnality is? 🦇 🦉 🦗 How night-time conditions differ from daytime and between nights? 🌃 🌟 🌑 🌕️🌘 We, Almut Kelber & myself, just published a Quick Guide on Nocturnality @Currentbiology 🧵 ➡️ shorturl.at/TpA13

So excited to have received an #HFSPResearchGrant to study trilobite eyes with Luke Parry @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social and Gil Ju Lee (Pusan National University)!🥳 I'll be recruiting a postdoc @bristolbiosci.bsky.social - if 3D data, optical modelling, and fossils tickle your interest, stay tuned!

This could be your dream job! PhD in ecology, and English and Japanese language skills required... working for POKEMON!!! www.ign.com/articles/the...

JOB ALERT! We are excited to announce that we are recruiting three new academics at lecturer level! Click the link below for more info on how to apply, and don’t forget to explore our research themes too! We look forward to receiving your applications! www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

In unserer Vortragsreihe #PROSPECTS stellt das Team Karriereförderung diesmal alle Fördermöglichkeiten für Postdocs vor: Mitarbeit in Projekten, Sachbeihilfe mit Eigener Stelle, Walter Benjamin-, Emmy Noether- u. Heisenberg-Programm. Inkl. Tipps zur Antragsvorbereitung. Teilnahme über: sohub.io/5o09

Have you ever asked yourself, how insect brains represent places? And whether insects do have place cells? Then move to Germany this summer and start your PhD in my lab. We conduct tetrode recordings from bumblebees that freely forage laboratory mazes. 🧠🐝#BeeSpace @erc.europa.eu @neuroethology.org

From our new paper out now in @currentbiology.bsky.social: www.cell.com/current-biol... w/ @neurofishh.bsky.social @gkafetzis.bsky.social @denilsson.bsky.social Looking across animals, the vertebrate eye is an obvious outlier. Why is it so different that other highly visual animals?

A new systematic review has found that trans women on HRT have the same level of fitness as cis women and don't retain any advantage in sports. www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

JOB ALERT! Come work with us as a PhD student for 4 years if you are interested in biodiversity monitoring, technology development, insects and agriculture.

Lecturer in Ecology and Evolution position available in Biology Department at Stanford University. Apply by April 1, 2026. (Photo by Rick Morris) academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31606

New from Jessie Foley! #Heliconius have elongated lives and excellent memory, but do they have excellent memory across their elongated lives? Find out now!* Featuring learning and memory assays in 330 butterflies, and an absolute pig of an experiment to do. *the title is a spoiler 🧪

Environmental assessments need to account for spectrum and brightness of light affecting sensitive species. 🌙 We map impact zones using "moonlight equivalent" measures accounting for species visual sensitivity, then apply spectral tuning and shielding. 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/

🕸️ The #silk of this gorgeous little cribellator is not your standard silk - read @evoimec.bsky.social new study here: doi.org/10.1073/pnas... 🕸️

🤩 Join us for the next TIBBE seminar: Comparative databasing January 28, 3–4pm UTC This event hosts an outstanding neuroscientist & biologist particularly interested in insect brains who will present his work, followed by an interactive discussion with the audience: www.crowdcast.io/c/comparativ...

Today the 12yo has declared Chiton Awareness Day! These amazing marine molluscs can come in extraordinary colours, and are not to be confused with the garment worn in Ancient Greece and Rome.

Our journals @dev-journal.bsky.social, @jcellsci.bsky.social & @jexpbiol.bsky.social offer Travelling Fellowships of up to £3,000 to graduate students and post-doctoral researchers wishing to make collaborative visits to other laboratories. Apply by 6 February 2026. biologists.com/grants/trave...

Undergraduates, come and work with us in Bristol this summer! If you're interested in eyes and vision, get in touch to discuss projects - we have several opportunities to study the impacts of eye loss, evolution of retinal musculature, and the growth of distributed visual systems, to name a few!

Amazing, 3-yr postdoc working on bioluminescence and visual ecology in comb jellies with Anders Garm in Copenhagen! candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

Wow, incredible job opportunity for a marine scientist of almost any flavour at the amazing Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute 🤩

🦋🌿Hiring 12 x Botanists or Entomologists for 2026 field surveys in England! 4-month, full-time roles from late April to early September. Field sites in Yorkshire, Devon, Warwickshire, Kent/Sussex, Lincolnshire/Cambridge, Essex/Suffolk. Apply now: ceh.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CEH_Ca... 🧪

Finally out! We studied the retinas of the longest-living vertebrate, the Greenland shark, and found that the retinas remain remarkably healthy in animals around 150 years old. What is the mechanism? It may be a highly efficient DNA repair system. Enjoy! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨 Tenure-track professorship at Goethe University of Frankfurt, Germany, with a focus on evolutionary ecology of social hymenoptera 🐝🐜 Initially for 6 years: www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/pr...

“Whatever method Santa uses, he may be relying on magnetic north to find his way to your house and back home again. Or maybe the reindeer just know the way.” #scicomm www.sciencealert.com/earth-has-tw... 🧪 🎅🏻

14 two-year postdocs for academics of any nationality who cannot continue their research due to US politics. Do share if you know of such.

News on the function of tremulation: Female Pisaura mirabilis spiders are not appeased by the courtship tremulations of males - at least in our playback setup. Result of Stefan ter Haar's internship from Groningen led by @monikaeberhard.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

This is such an important, rigorous, and beautiful paper by Rochelle - light pollution impacts both the "normal" visual cues of detecting sunset to trigger activity AND the polarised visual cues of the sky used for navigation...in two completely different animal species! 🦋🕷️🌌 Such amazing work!

This gorgeous description of the Bogong moth visual system is just... *chef's kiss* Congratulations to the authors, this is really beautiful work!

Hello Bluesky! We are the Ecology of Vision group at Bristol University, UK. Our research focuses on all things animal vision with particular interest in polarization vision, the effects of light pollution on vision and visual behaviour, and visual adaptations. See more here: www.ecologyofvision.com

Congratulations @rochellemeah.bsky.social @ecologyofvision.bsky.social (and all our wonderful coauthors!) on her first PhD publication in @currentbiology.bsky.social 🤩 Light pollution suppresses natural peaks in activity AND natural celestial polarization patterns at key times in arthropods 🕷️🦋✨

Just TWO DAYS until the application deadline for our funded PhD disentangling the impacts of light pollution on spider eyes and visual ecology! 👀🕷️🌃 The project will combine development, morphology, behaviour, and genetics, and can be shaped by the student👩🏽‍🔬 Interested? Apply! Questions? Message me!

If you have a student, anywhere in the world, who would like and entomological society membership please have them come on over to our entopoc.org website to sign up for up to three free memberships per student!

Happy to share the first paper from my journey at @psich.bsky.social towards X-ray connectomics, now out in @natmethods.nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨RA/PhD position available in evolutionary neurobiology 🚨 Working on a deep dive into circuit changes during mushroom body expansion in Heliconius butterflies @camzoology.bsky.social - employment benefits - 4 years funding - 1000% fun Deadline: 14/1/2026 Details: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

On the beautiful island of Hiddensee for a writing retreat with @evoimec.bsky.social @multipleye-lab.bsky.social ✍🏼👩🏼‍💻 enormous thanks to @wolffspider.bsky.social for the invitation (and his trusty suitcase full of snacks...) #outofoffice

There is an online seminar to help with your applications TODAY @2pm GMT - link to the Teams meeting is in the PhD ad below! Join us @bristolbiosci.bsky.social next year 🥰 If you have any questions, please drop me a line, and please spread the word to students, other PIs, friends, and neighbours 🗣️

And last - but definitely not least! - for anyone interested in spider vision / light pollution / eye development / evolutionary morphology, come and work with us @multipleye-lab.bsky.social ! This funded PhD is open globally, incl. fees+stipend! ⏰Apply by 15 Dec! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

For those looking for spider PhD opportunities Stateside, join this fresh young lab! Jay has many talents and is an all-round top guy, PLUS you might get to work with one of the coolest spider groups around.... 👀🕷️

Anyone looking for a PhD in jumping spider neurophysiology and neuroethology, look no further! Massimo is a close friend and awesome collaborator, who would be an incredible mentor 🥰 Apply by 17th December!

🦎✨ New research delivers the 1st full 3D anatomical atlases of the veiled chameleon (Chamaeleo calyptratus)! Open-access atlases + lesson plans offer powerful new tools for studying reptile evolution and teaching comparative anatomy. Leavey et al.: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

PLEASE SHARE 🚨🚨 6-month RA position available at the Univ. of St Andrews to work with Sue Healy (@cogwild.bsky.social), Simone Meddle (@simonemeddle.bsky.social) and I on the behavioural neuroendocrinology of early reproduction in zebra finches. tinyurl.com/577cx9tj Deadline: 03/12/2025 ⬇️

🚨 Calling all dog behavior & cognition researchers - ManyDogs Project is launching ManyDogs 2! 🔍🐕‍🦺We're studying overimitation: Do dogs copy irrelevant actions just b/c their favorite human does them? Email [email protected] to collaborate globally and contribute to reproducible science!

Happy to see this lovely study led by @sigwartae.bsky.social and Leonie Georg @oceanspecies.bsky.social out! 🎉Although chitons are a classic example of distributed visual systems, the shell eyes aren't uniform across the body - the lenses increase in volume as new eyes are added at the shell edge!

What a treat! I got to learn about caterpillar eyes and so much more - and now, so do you! Check out this lovely review from @samjakeengland.bsky.social and pals - thanks for having me along for the ride! 🐛 link.springer.com/article/10.1...