Postdoc studying arachnid sensory ecology in the Hoy Lab at Cornell University. Finally giving this Twitter thing a shot.
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Do you or someone you love study nocturnal animals? Do you want to film behavior in infrared, but NOT spend $1k on a camera (that will die in the field anyways)? Is short battery life a constant battle? Here, this preprint will help: doi.org/10.32942/X2531K
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Yaay! First ever cover! 🥳 super happy for this excellent work lead by @Massimo_De_Agro to be out! Having 8 eyes is crazy- thanks to Massimo we’re getting a bit closer to understanding how it all might work for jumping spiders. journals.biologists.com/jeb/…
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🚨I am thrilled to finally share the amazing news of being awarded an Emmy Noether grant from @dfg_public. In the next years, my group will focus on comprehensively studying (REM) sleep behavior, its function & ecology, in a comparative evolutionary framework using #spiders! 🕷️💤
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New research from us about super-stretchy silk threads, in collaboration with @pmichalik76 and @spiderMartinR
The threads spun by the Southern house spider (Kukulcania) to capture prey are the most extensible fibre material found in nature due to a special loops-on-loops structure with regularly coiled fibres held together by straight connecting fibres.
👉 doi.org/10.1098/rsfs.2023.00… 👈🔓
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Interested in the role that sensory processing plays in perception of animal signals? Fully funded four-year PhD to start September 2024, deadline to apply 12th May. exeter.ac.uk/study/funding/a…
IT'S OUT!! Monumental work describing what goes on in the brain of a wasp that recognizes conspecifics by their face. @PlasticPercep has shown face cells in a wasp! AH, so excited. Surely to be seen in textbooks soon. Congrats Chris and @IDsignals - truly inspirational work.
Thrilled to share a *NEW PRE-PRINT* I’ve been working on for the last few years! @IDsignals, W. Freiwald, and I describe the neural correlates of individual facial recognition in a social wasp, Polistes fuscatus.
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… 1/10
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Thrilled to share a *NEW PRE-PRINT* I’ve been working on for the last few years! @IDsignals, W. Freiwald, and I describe the neural correlates of individual facial recognition in a social wasp, Polistes fuscatus.
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… 1/10
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We're hiring! <°°)))><
Interested in deep-sea fish and their eyes? In molecular evolution? We look for a PhD student to join our team in Prague. ERC funding for the single-cell transcriptomics. fishevo.com/erc-funded-phd-p… (postdocs wanted too, stay tuned). Happy for retweets!😍 thks
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Excited to finally see this out!
Sexually selected shields: male-male combat can promote the evolution of damage-reducing structures
authors.elsevier.com/a/1ikKO…
Isaac’s first manuscript and my first in Animal Behaviour!
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Do you know of any students interested in an #NSFfunded, 2 (or more) yrs Postbac research experience investigating the @neuroethology of auditory perception in the acoustic parasitoid fly #Ormiaochracea? More info here: animalbehaviorsociety.org/we… Please RT!
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I am recruiting a postdoc in computational / systems neuroscience to study mechanisms of social communication and cognition in budgerigars. We are cracking this system wide open. Please share. youtu.be/0r7-QvwqVjM
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The public voting period for the #AASMemeContest has begun! You can submit your votes via the Google form here:
forms.gle/SbJ4HdqbtjA389Xg7
Me: *poking my head out of the lab*
"Psst, hey...you wanna see some spider babies?"
Friends in the hall: "Of course!" + "Always!"
*an office door opens*
Two more friends: "Hey, we heard you talking about spiders, can we come and see, too??"
❤️ Made my day.
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Doing research on my next TikTok video (insanely cool topic incoming) and stumbled on my new favorite dedication in a dissertation, by @JayStafstrom
