Evolutionary biologist (invertebrates, vision), Group Leader @multipleye-lab.bsky.social, Lecturer @bristolbiosci.bsky.social. Gradual learner of 🇩🇪 She/her. Views mine, all mine!
Lauren Sumner-Rooney
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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 🦕
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
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...
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...
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
🚨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...
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/...
Vengamanaidu Modepalli
Sam England
Natalie Cooper
Stephen Montgomery
Svenja Tidau
📢 New pre-print alert!
Most spiders have eight eyes, but not all - PhD researcher Antonio Galán Sánchez and Dr Andres Rivera Quiroz @naturalis.bsky.social led an exciting new analysis of the evolution of eye number and losses in spiders on a truly incredible scale!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
