Excited to present our preprint about Population genomics of Dysdera spiders! I worked on this project during my PhD and feels great to finally be able to share it! Julio Rozas Molecular Evolutionary Genetics (UB) Miquel Arnedo  IRBioUB biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Check out these Dolomedes triton mating! If you look closely you can see the haematodochal sac expanding in the male's palp. (Sorry im not the best camera person!)

How to impress a lady. A male Wolf Spider (Pardosa sp.) performing a courtship dance.

Our meme contest winner Luiz received their custom shirt by Kotomi Yoshida! The featured arachnid is Eriophora edax (Blackwall, 1863).

For more arachnid art content, follow the amazing @ colorado_yakumo on Instagram 🕷🕸

Registration deadline has been extended for AAS 2024 in Chetumal, Mexico! See you soon in the Maya world.
- AAS 2024 committee 🕷️🕸️

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Some Tigrosa sp. Courtship behaviors. Check out the way he moves his palps to create vibratory signals to the female! (This was just for fun and not a real experimental set up)

Another fantastic story by Scott Schrage | @scottschrage.bsky.social on breakthrough research by Noori Choi... cracking the code for eavesdropping in on the #vibroscape and what we can learn from it #PhD Nebraska Bio Sci University of Nebraska-Lincoln Nebraska CAS
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First field season day of 2024! We caught some Dolomedes tenebrosus (Dark fishing spider). It's a great day to be a member of the Hebets Lab! Dr. Eileen Hebets (she/her) 🕷

Have you ever seen inside a spider egg sac before? Check out these Platycryptus undatus (tan jumping spider) spiderlings courtesy of Yi Hang Park 박이항 of the Hebets Lab (@hebets_lab)!

Sarah Stellwagen and I will again be offering fellowships to 'Spider Camp' at Highlands Bio Station in North Carolina. Info, syllabus, and application form on my website: burnslab.umbc.edu/spider-course/
Apply and share, please!

REGISTRATION OPEN FOR AAS 2024!
June 24-27th, 2024 in Chetumal , Mexico

Registration Payment Deadline: May 31, 2024
Abstract deadline: May 15, 2024
Student Travel Grant App Deadline: April 17, 2024

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Keeping up with the spiders... Marshal Hedin has a cool new paper out!

Check it out and be sure to listen to Marshal's New Species episode: open.spotify.com/episode/72U9F7…

Daddy-longlegs were thought to have only one pair of eyes...until now 🤯! We report today in Current Biology that extant daddy-longlegs have additional vestigial eyes seen in four-eyed fossil relatives.
Vestigial organs, fossils and evodevo!!🌈
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The public voting period for the #AASMemeContest has begun! You can submit your votes via the Google form here:

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We're surveying people in Florida to capture public perceptions of invasive species (from a variety of taxa) to understand what you do know, What you want to know, and your overall opinions and views of different species here in the state!
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The #AASMemecontest deadline has been extended to Friday, March 1st! Get your memes in now before it's too late!

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Submit your memes by 2/23!

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