tannermierow.bsky.social
@tannermierow.bsky.social
Sensory biologist who is passionate about giant water bugs and snapping shrimp! Eyes, antennae, and animal behavior are my jam! Number 1 fan of baked sour cream and cheddar ruffles. Cheese snob. PhD candidate at the University of Tulsa. 🏳️🌈
Do you find mutualisms fascinating? Work on behavior, neurobiology, or sensory biology in mutualistic animals? Join us at our symposium or complementary session on the neuroethology of mutualisms at SICB 2027! @sicb.bsky.social @biologists.bsky.social
Great talk by the snapping shrimp queen @alexcnkingston.bsky.social !!
International Society for Neuroethology@neuroethology.org · last wk.Snapping shrimps paralyze prey with shock waves. But how do the shrimps protect themselves from the shock waves? They have orbital hoods that damp shock waves. Removing orbital hoods results in deficits in homing behavior. Fantastic talk by Alexandra Kingston. #ICN2026
Cool work by @alexcnkingston.bsky.social showing how snapping shrimp have an orbital shell (aka magic helmet) that helps them deal with supersonic shock waves during fights #ICN2026
Interested in how mutualistic animals identify each other to maintain their partnership? I’m giving a poster on how mutualistic snapping shrimp identify their partner gobies at @neuroethology.org during poster session 3! Feel free to find me and chat about all things shrimp and ephys :) #ICN2026
Curious about sharks? The evolution and adaptation of vertebrate visual circuits? 🦈 🐟 🐤 🐁 👁️ I'll be speaking at ICN2026 @neuroethology.org on Friday, or just find me to chat! Special thanks to @anna-stoeckl.bsky.social and Gregor Belušič for the wonderful session within yet another wonderful ICN!
Congratulations to @samjakeengland.bsky.social for his @currentbiology.bsky.social cover😍after @atal-pande.bsky.social's new paper! This leggy fren is a wolf spider (Pardosa) featuring in several projects in @multipleye-lab.bsky.social, so it's lovely to see her getting the limelight she deserves 💃
Current Biology@currentbiology.bsky.social · 2w agoArachnophobes, avert your eyes! NEW issue just dropped🕷️👇 www.cell.com/current-biol... As usual, casting a wide net, across all of biology!🧬 🕸️
The only upside to a 5 hour delay and multiple flight changes (including a 2 hour drive to my parents house in Wisconsin) and getting home at 4 am is that I CAN GO TO A LOCAL CHEESE FACTORY TOMORROW!!
"The next time you hover over [a scallop] on a dive, remember you’re not just looking at a shell with eyes. You’re looking at an animal that’s also looking at you." Lovely quote by Dan Speiser
David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈@whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 3w agoThe ‘Surprisingly Sophisticated’ Way Scallops See This mollusk might be a lot more complicated than you think www.scubadiving.com/marinelife/s...
One of the most memorable scenes in the history of cinema. RIP Sam Neill
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...
Hunting ecology predicts eye arrangements in the modular visual system of spiders
Pande et al. show that visually hunting spiders have convergently evolved forward-facing eyes. The positions and orientations of the eyes show the greatest morphological disparity and fastest evolutio...
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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
Around here, loving Shrimp is the law. This guy will enforce the law, with his firearm (pistol shrimp 💚🦐 )
It's #JapaneseCrabDay! In honor of this auspicious day, which I learned from @crabspromenade.bsky.social, here is a two part hermit crab story 🦀🦑 Post your crabs!
🧵 New paper! We’re excited to release OPTICS: software that immediately predicts color sensitivity from any opsin protein sequence. In other words: give OPTICS any opsin sequence, and it predicts the wavelength of light the pigment is most sensitive to 🌈👁️ academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-...
Accessible and Robust Machine Learning Approaches to Improve the Opsin Genotype-Phenotype Map
Abstract. Predicting phenotypes from genetic variation is a central challenge in biology. Here, machine learning (ML) offers great promise, but its use is
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Finally got to introduce Bug to pistol shrimps in person today 🥹 also there were a few little pools with baby pistol shrimps 🥹🥹 One of them gave us a few shots with its claw, it was very loud 🥹🥹🥹 🦐
SICB folks, please share widely! I may know the person running this account 👀😂
@sicb-dnnsb.bsky.social · 2mo agoDo you (or your lab) have an exciting new science update? Get a new paper published? Or have anything you would like to share about your science? If so, fill out this DNNSB media post request form! DNNSB is excited to support our members and share great science! Form link: forms.gle/YNb2cywQ6jTs...
SNAPPING SHRIMP ON A SHIRT, I REPEAT, SNAPPING SHRIMP ON A SHIRT
Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D.@sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 3mo agoWelcome to Shrimp City! Teach your friends about a variety of crustaceans with this helpful visual aid - and set the record straight... bugs is shrimp. Shrimp is not bugs These shirts are designed by @the666cat.bsky.social & printed in Philly! Get one at SquidFacts.net (pls RT!)
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...
Happy #worldrobberflyday to some of the very best flies you can find. Robberflies are wonderfully effective predators, with some even catching dragonflies. They combine remarkable vision, rapid reactions, and fast acting venom. Every #robberfly is a treat to find.
Ever wonder why everything is blurry when you open your eyes underwater? Watch #ProcB author Kathryn Feller talk about research on amphibious vision in compound eyes: cassyni.com/events/Ur5pU... 🧪
Royal Society Publishing@royalsocietypublishing.org · 4mo agoConserved optical adaptations enable amphibious vision in compound eyes royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article... | #ProcB #Ecology #Evolution #Neuroscience
Ever wonder why everything is blurry when you open your eyes underwater? The answer explained in this video seminar by @tannermierow.bsky.social and myself, recapping our new paper on amphibious vision in compound eyes! cassyni.com/events/Ur5pU...
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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...
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
doi.org
🚨🚨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
I found this guy living at Paradise Reef. I've never heard the loud crack made by the claws of a red snapping shrimp, aka pistol shrimp, but I would like to.
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New research from #JRSocInterface: Structural and mechanical properties facilitate shock wave damping by helmet-like orbital hoods in snapping shrimp royalsocietypublishing.org/rsif/article... | #Biomaterials
