The front cover the Journal of Experimental Biology Special Issue, Sensory Perception in a Changing World, volume 229, Supplementary issue 1, published February 2026. The background of the cover is purple. In the centre there is an image of a butterfly, surrounded by a dove (top), turtle, seal, snake, dolphin, frog and fish, arranged in a circle. Those images are surrounded by a second circle of images representing sources of environmental change, including; a submarine (top), a wind turbine, a thermometer with the mercury to the top, a flask containing bubbling chemicals, a car (bottom), an electricity pylon, a light bulb and a factory with smoke coming out of its chimneys. The Company of Biologists logo is in the bottom left corner.

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Introducing the crew to German carnival with funky #DYI #jellyfish group costumes @unibonn.bsky.social @roald-arboel.com @mchagourin.bsky.social

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Really cool stuff!!! Congrats !

Congratulations @rochellemeah.bsky.social @ecologyofvision.bsky.social (and all our wonderful coauthors!) on her first PhD publication in @currentbiology.bsky.social 🤩

Light pollution suppresses natural peaks in activity AND natural celestial polarization patterns at key times in arthropods 🕷️🦋✨

Using a Low‐Cost Trackball System to Assess Repeatability of Movement in Small Animals We describe a low-cost trackball with automated movement capture for use in behavioural ecology. Repeated testing of ground beetles Carabus problematicus showed consistent behavioural differences bet...

Not from our lab, but a cool first author publication from our fabulous Postdoc @roald-arboel.com - if you are interested in sweet #lowcost setups and #animal #behavior - check out his paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... …and brace yourselves for more papers to come ;)

Four people standing with the back to the camera - all wearing a t shirt with a print on the back that says “daintree national park” in the Jurassic park logo with the skeleton of a cassowary

A photo of a female Portia fimbriata on a green leaf

🎬 That’s a wrap! 🥹 after a bumpy last week off grid together with the fabulous @vanspidergirl.bsky.social & @madmetazoa.bsky.social we successfully finished an incredible field season on #portia and #invertsleep in the oldest rainforest of the world. Nothing but grateful for this experience ❤️

Things that can happen while filming Portia in the field: we had a (not so) little visitor wandering by with his chicks! Not sure who was more surprised… #cassowary #portia #daintree #storiesfromthefield

Rain and cameras are not best friends - @nadjageiger.bsky.social and I are doing our best to keep them dry and rolling all night despite - or because of - the rain #haaaaard #camerashaterain

Thank you!!

We love behaviors that are usually hidden- often due to the sheer fact that they are hard to observe-like sleep. But we’ve also been wondering about things like: what do these spiders do (and how do they sleep) in heavy tropical rain?? We are determined to find out! #portia #fieldfun #RAINforest

A large jumping suspended on silk feeding on an even bigger spider

Meet an outrageously cool jumping spider (maybe not as cool as Portia but still pretty badass): Bavia! As you can see, she also likes a good spider snack around bedtime. Not sure if she was able to finish this one. She already looked pretty stuffed 😬

Woman sitting on a porch working at a laptop. A tent in the background, clothes on a line and lots of field gear on a table.

Woman shining a flashlight onto some plastic vials in the kitchen of a wooden house

Our tropical lab for the next couple of weeks :) #australia #daintree #spiders

We are up in tropical Queensland in the Daintree rainforest :)

Among other things we are interested in how Portia performs in hunting spiders after sleep disruption. #spider #sleep

Two cameras pointed at an experimental setup on the rainforest floor - a female researcher, Nadja Geiger, watching the setup.

It’s experiment time! While doing things in the field always adds an extra layer of difficulty (and also frustration), it is very rewarding once it works! #mosquitos #rain #stillhappy

@nadjageiger.bsky.social & @roesslerdaniela.bsky.social are back in the field in Australia filming and experimenting with the best spider in the world - PORTIA. More soon!