Ecology 🤝 physics. I'm a @humboldt-foundation.de postdoc fellow looking at the sensory systems and biomechanics of weird animals with @multipleye-lab.bsky.social 🕷️👀 PhD was uncovering electrostatic ecology🐛🦋⚡
Having my photograph on the cover of Current Biology is definitely a bucket list item ticked off ✅🙏 all thanks to @atal-pande.bsky.social @multipleye-lab.bsky.social and their super cool study that I was lucky enough to make a small contribution to
Current BiologyArachnophobes, avert your eyes! NEW issue just dropped🕷️👇 www.cell.com/current-biol... As usual, casting a wide net, across all of biology!🧬 🕸️
Really chuffed for @atal-pande.bsky.social , and to have played a small part in this really cool deep dive into the evolution of eyes in spiders 👀🕷️
Lauren Sumner-RooneyBeyond 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...
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...