Congratulations, @atal-pande.bsky.social!!! This is amazing research on spider vision and morphology! 🎉🥳 Maybe the first time I'm saying it: I'm proud of you and the way you've been going since our first visit to Earwig Visual Systems some years ago! 🥰

Atal Pande@atal-pande.bsky.social · last mo.

Really excited to share that my first PhD chapter is now out in @currentbiology.bsky.social! 🕷️👀 We show that visually hunting spiders have repeatedly evolved forward-facing eyes, highlighting the remarkable evolutionary flexibility of their modular visual system. doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

Beyond proud of @atal-pande.bsky.social, whose first PhD chapter is out now in @currentbiology.bsky.social! Atal shows that spiders that use their vision to hunt have convergently evolved similar eye arrangements, which imply lots of resampling of frontal space www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Hunting ecology predicts eye arrangements in the modular visual system of spiders

Vision is one of the most important senses used by animals and contributes to fundamental behaviors, including foraging, navigation, and mate detectio…

sciencedirect.com

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!

Human Frontier Science Program@hfspo.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Attention scientists from all over the world🙃 The 2026 #HFSPResearchGrants are out! 🥳 117 scientists from 31 countries will pursue bold, interdisciplinary research, from #neuroscience to #ecology and beyond! 🧪 Are you one of the new #HFSPAwardees? 🔗https://bit.ly/4uGmMQ3 #sts #HFSP

Vous voulez faire une thèse sur l'évolution de la tête des squamates au Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle? C'est par ici: adum.fr/as/ed/voirpr... Interested in a PhD on the evolution of the head shape of squamates at the Museum of Natural History of Paris? Here you go: adum.fr/as/ed/voirpr...

Fresh from the Press! 🚨🤖 Kitchen #sponges release #microplastics during everyday dishwashing. In our OA paper we quantify this using #CitizenScience + lab experiments. 📄 doi.org/10.1016/j.en... I built the #robotic test stand to simulate sponge abrasion: meet #SpongeBot!

Many thanks to the organizers and friends for some amazing #morphology days in #Jena at #MM26!

MorphoNews@morphonews.bsky.social · 5mo ago

We are amazed how many scientists working on #morphology are around in Jena at #MM26 to enjoy fruitful discussions, interesting talks and beautiful posters. It really is a blast.

INSECT TAXONOMY IN THE 21ST CENTURY @entsocamerica.bsky.social Online, April 27-29! Featuring keynotes from Rudolf Meier @rudolf-meier.bsky.social, Erinn Fagan-Jeffries, and Dominic Evangelista. Now accepting contributed talks! Grant deadline Feb 4, abstracts due Mar 6. entsoc.org/membership/b...

Exciting news! 🚨🎉 On February 5th, 2026, I will defend my PhD thesis on insect bite force - the method, the data, and its evolutionary implications - seasoned with some anecdotes from the field! 🐜🐝🐞 📈📉📊

🗑️ #ScienceSnack: Some 53,000 items of litter flow past Cologne daily in the Rhine – an amount many times larger than previously believed. That's the “dirty” result from a citizen science project led by @unibonn.bsky.social. Read more here: https://f.mtr.cool/mblomiuhmr © Simon Taal

🚨🦗 Fresh from the press: The subgenual organ in the stick insect 𝘉𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘶𝘴 is part of an anatomically and functionally integrated mechanosensory organ complex, explaining how insects detect substrate-borne vibrations! 👉 OA paper link: doi.org/10.1002/cne.... 📜Uni Gießen & @unibonn.bsky.social

#SICB2026 is starting soon! Join us on Jan 4th at 10:00 AM in A105 to hear about adaptive coupling across distinct life stages in insects!

🌱 BHL’s Call for Support soft-closes on Aug 31. 🧪 With @clirnews.bsky.social as our new fiscal sponsor, we now have an administrative & financial home, but we still need partners, hosts, funders & long-term investment to secure BHL's future. about.biodiversitylibrary.org/call-for-sup... #ILoveBHL

I just uploaded my 1000th species to #inaturalist! Not sure which one it was exactly, but I'd like it to be one of these gems of #flies I shot for #bioblitz 2025 at the Bonn #botanicalgardens to capture their #biodiversity.

Please come join us and help us unravel deep-time community dynamics in bugs and plants! Edmonton is a great city to live in and there are lots of different approaches to tackle these questions!

Shinichi Nakagawa@itchyshin.bsky.social · last yr.

We have a fully funded MSc position at UofA, Canada "Ecological time machines: bridging paleontology and community ecology" www.i-deel.org/opportunitie... co-supervised by Christine Sosiak (scholar.google.com/citations?us...) Please repost!

🚨 Fresh from the press: Internal gonopod reconstruction in a new genus and species of millipedes from the Cretaceous: 𝑳𝒂𝒆𝒗𝒊𝒈𝒍𝒚𝒑𝒉𝒊𝒖𝒍𝒖𝒔 𝒑𝒂𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒌𝒎𝒖𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒓𝒊 (Diplopoda, Spirostreptida, Cambalopsidae): doi.org/10.1186/s133... 📜Leibniz-LIB, Blanke Lab

🚨 Fresh in the press (but digitally available already): Ecomorphology of the insect head! Check out our book chapter with an extensive literature review on research on adult insect heads and mouthparts! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 📷: modified from Quang Nguyen Vinh 📜BlankeLab

About a month ago I left the lab of @economo.bsky.social at OIST in Okinawa after three truly great weeks of studying ants with wonderful people there! Thanks again for this unforgettable time!

🎆New Year, new domain! 🎆 From now on, PsyChild will be available at psychild.info - with secure TLS certificates for everyone to enjoy! 🔒