I study spiders and I've finished my PhD
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Nik Willmott retweeted
22 Jul 2023
For me friendships are confusing and hard and often just very sad. And I’m never sure if it’s just me, often asking myself what I’m doing wrong. I see others on holiday together, having weddings & baby showers, and I don’t even know who I’d have to invite. I have maybe 2 friends
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Nik Willmott retweeted
23 Jun 2023
Buckle up, fellow spider nerds. emojikitchen.dev isn't messing around.
Combining the spider emoji with cat/dog/bear gives you something predictably cute. But spider wolf emoji?
YOU GET A MORPHOLOGICALLY ACCURATE LYCOSID.
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Nik Willmott retweeted
16 Feb 2023
If you analyse animal movements, my R package trajr might be useful to you @wileyinresearch #trajectory #trajr onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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Nik Willmott retweeted
15 Jan 2023
The Golden Stag Beetle (Lamprima aurata) has 'structural colours' which are microscopic structures on the surface of the beetle's carapace that reflect & refract light, 🔬 giving it an iridescent appearance. ✨💜💙💚💛
💻 | Learn more: spr.ly/60143TYZp
📸 | Simon Grove
ALT brightly coloured stag beetle on a leaf
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Nik Willmott retweeted
22 Dec 2022
Our new paper is out in @J_Exp_Biol! This project is the culmination of many years research into the jumping spider response to tephritid wing displays journals.biologists.com/jeb/…
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Nik Willmott retweeted
18 Nov 2022
Well, if this is it, see you guys over here. #RIPTwitter
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Nik Willmott retweeted
17 Nov 2022
This Abandoned Web Orb-weaver (Parawixia dehaani) was so enormous I had to show you but then she was like no I am dead 💀
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Nik Willmott retweeted
4 Nov 2022
I see that predatory publishers — such as Herald Scholarly Open Access — are still publishing bogus articles submitted to test their peer review process: heraldopenaccess.us/openacce…
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Nik Willmott retweeted
4 Nov 2022
Never skip leg day ppl.
New podcast ep just dropped feat @juanita_rodr @BrunoBuzatto and Luis Villazon
abc.net.au/radionational/pro…
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Nik Willmott retweeted
16 Oct 2022
Today I am coming out of hiding and sharing my experience as a senior academic living with anxiety. People assume confident or supposedly "successful" people can't suffer from anxiety, but this is an invisible curse...
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Nik Willmott retweeted
Digging a hole to bury the kids in 😍
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Nik Willmott retweeted
4 Oct 2022
Autocrates lini sp. nov. was published in Annales Zoologici. Check my new paper on: reurl.cc/rROVbN
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Nik Willmott retweeted
26 Sep 2022
🎓Looking for a PhD? Come and work with us!
Applications are open for Berlin-based PhD scholarships - if you're interested in the evolution, function, development, or ecology of vision in animals, get in touch so we can talk about project ideas!
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Deadline 18 Nov!
26 Sep 2022
📣🚨📢 PhD funding alert! 📢🚨📣
Would you like to come and study animal visual systems with us in Berlin? Applications are open for the Elsa Neumann PhD stipend!
Get in touch now to discuss project ideas!
Deadline 18 Nov
Info event 11 Oct
More here 👉🏽fu-berlin.de/sites/drs/fundi…
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Nik Willmott retweeted
26 Sep 2022
📣🚨📢 PhD funding alert! 📢🚨📣
Would you like to come and study animal visual systems with us in Berlin? Applications are open for the Elsa Neumann PhD stipend!
Get in touch now to discuss project ideas!
Deadline 18 Nov
Info event 11 Oct
More here 👉🏽fu-berlin.de/sites/drs/fundi…
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Nik Willmott retweeted
Twins! Second #PhD paper is out! 💖🎉
In my head it is titled: There and back again... My adventures alongside the spectrometer
bit.ly/3fo8TE8
Writing this one really changed me ☺️. I hope is useful for other #colsci researchers in ecology.
#cienciacriolla
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Nik Willmott retweeted
20 Aug 2022
A spider, drawn using some of the amino acids found in their silk.
A bit niche, I know! This one took ~20 hours. Prints are available on my Etsy store now 🕷🍁🌹🐝🍊
Thanks to @compoundchem and @sciencefocus for the science 🧬
#chemtwitter #scienceart #etsyshop
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Nik Willmott retweeted
8 Aug 2022
Amidst terrible fomo seeing all the cool conferences, I’ve been dying to share the news of our latest discovery 🥳 You thought jumping spiders peaked in their coolness? Buckle up!!! We need to talk about #jumpingspiders potentially #dreaming. @PNASNews
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Nik Willmott retweeted
28 Jul 2022
Rice University engineers repurposed deceased spiders as mechanical grippers [full paper: buff.ly/3zFjcLm]
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