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/...
So proud of the Toebiter team Tanner @tannermierow.bsky.social, Kate @drkatefeller.bsky.social, Jess, and Rick for our paper out in @royalsociety.org Proceedings B. Check out how we learned about the optics and performance of the eyes of amphibious insects: doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
Conserved optical adaptations enable amphibious vision in compound eyes
Abstract. The visual systems of amphibious animals must perform in two optically distinct environments: air and water. Little is known about how diffractio
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New paper on seeing in air and water with compound eyes! The problem: physics The solution: physics Elegantly described with the dream team @tannermierow.bsky.social and @alexkingston.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
🚨🚨TOE-BITER TIME🚨🚨 Interested in how the eyes of amphibious insects transition from an aquatic to amphibious ecology? Check out my new paper with @drkatefeller.bsky.social and @alexcnkingston.bsky.social! Super psyched to have published on my beloved toe-biters! doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
Conserved optical adaptations enable amphibious vision in compound eyes
Abstract. The visual systems of amphibious animals must perform in two optically distinct environments: air and water. Little is known about how diffractio
doi.org
New paper in Royal Society Interface! With fantastic engineering colleagues, we’re learning more and more about how snapping shrimp are protected from shock waves! royalsocietypublishing.org/rsif/article...
Structural and mechanical properties facilitate shock wave damping by helmet-like orbital hoods in snapping shrimp
Abstract:. Snapping shrimp damp the shock waves they produce and use as weapons with a helmet-like structure termed the orbital hood. Here, we ask how stru
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Like professional football players, snapping shrimp shield their brains and eyes from concussive forces with protective headgear, according to a new study. Learn more: https://scim.ag/4quFGG6
Heard from Tanner Mierow at #SICB2026 about the mutualisms between snapping shrimp and gobies. Gobies need shrimp to dig holes. Shrimp need gobies to keep a lookout. But who asks who out here? Gobies initiate- they’re *desperate* for a shrimp. But once initiated, shrimp maintain the relationship.
www.sc.edu/uofsc/posts/... check out this cool piece out of our and @alexcnkingston.bsky.social lab!
Video: Tiny shrimp, huge impact
Snapping shrimp can create shockwaves strong enough to stun prey. But how do they survive each other’s blasts? USC biologist Dan Speiser and his team discovered that a special “orbital hood” — a helme...
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First post! New paper published in JEB! Really fun snapping shrimp work with folks from my lab at TU and Dan Speiser's lab at USC! Always great working with JEB! journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/... @jexpbiol.bsky.social @utulsa.bsky.social @sc.edu
Shock wave-damping orbital hoods cover the eyes of snapping shrimp (Alpheus heterochaelis) without impairing spatial vision
Summary: The helmet-like orbital hoods of snapping shrimp are primarily protective and neither impair spatial vision nor make meaningful contributions to it.
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