Ever wonder why everything is blurry when you open your eyes underwater?

The answer explained in this video seminar by @tannermierow.bsky.social and myself, recapping our new paper on amphibious vision in compound eyes!

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New paper on seeing in air and water with compound eyes!

The problem: physics

The solution: physics

Elegantly described with the dream team @tannermierow.bsky.social and @alexkingston.bsky.social

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Conserved optical adaptations enable amphibious vision in compound eyes Abstract. The visual systems of amphibious animals must perform in two optically distinct environments: air and water. Little is known about how diffractio

So proud of the Toebiter team Tanner @tannermierow.bsky.social, Kate @drkatefeller.bsky.social, Jess, and Rick for our paper out in @royalsociety.org Proceedings B. Check out how we learned about the optics and performance of the eyes of amphibious insects: doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

Conserved optical adaptations enable amphibious vision in compound eyes Abstract. The visual systems of amphibious animals must perform in two optically distinct environments: air and water. Little is known about how diffractio

🚨🚨TOE-BITER TIME🚨🚨 Interested in how the eyes of amphibious insects transition from an aquatic to amphibious ecology? Check out my new paper with @drkatefeller.bsky.social and @alexcnkingston.bsky.social! Super psyched to have published on my beloved toe-biters!
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I found this guy living at Paradise Reef. I've never heard the loud crack made by the claws of a red snapping shrimp, aka pistol shrimp, but I would like to.

snapping shrimp🦐💥

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New research from #JRSocInterface: Structural and mechanical properties facilitate shock wave damping by helmet-like orbital hoods in snapping shrimp royalsocietypublishing.org/rsif/article... | #Biomaterials

So happy to be presenting to one of my favorite community of scientists! (@neuroethology.org )
Come join us, to check out some of my “old” work with new insights about arthropod eyes and their molecular make-up!
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🚨🚨MORE COOL SNAPPING SHRIMP WORK!!🚨🚨

Shock wave-damping orbital hoods cover the eyes of snapping shrimp (Alpheus heterochaelis) without impairing spatial vision Summary: The helmet-like orbital hoods of snapping shrimp are primarily protective and neither impair spatial vision nor make meaningful contributions to it.

Belated paper post #2! Curious if shock wave damping helmets impair vision in snapping shrimp? (Spoiler alert: they don’t!) check out @alexcnkingston.bsky.social and I’s new paper at JEB! doi.org/10.1242/jeb....

Praying Mantids Adjust Head and Thorax Saccades to Track Visual Stimuli Moving at Different Speeds - Journal of Insect Behavior Animals frequently use movements of their eyes or heads to visually track objects in their environment. Visual tracking movements can be classified into two primary categories: smooth pursuit and sacc...

(Very) belated post but super jazzed to have my undergrad research thesis (and first ever publication) published at the Journal of Insect Behavior with @ceph-whisperer.bsky.social and @alexcnkingston.bsky.social! Check it out! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

a little late in this (i got sick) but thank you to @sicb-dab.bsky.social Portland 2026. had lots of fun seeing great talks and talking about crabs! 🦀

Are you a hellraiser mite or a knobbled weevil? Take the quiz and vote for NZ’s Bug of the Year Take the personality quiz to match with one of NZ’s larger-than-life little creatures, then cast your vote.

Are you a hellraiser mite or a knobbled weevil? Take the quiz and vote for NZ’s Bug of the Year
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Sarah’s page of notes which says “tanner mierow: gobies and shrimp have murualisms in which shrimp dig burrows and gobies play lookout.” A shrimp thinks “why u so obsessed with me?” Then words “who initiates this partnership? Gobies ask out the shrimp” and then a shrimp with hearts alll over it and labeled lover boy. Words say “gobies initiate but shrimp maintain” and “gobies are desperate for a shrimp”

Heard from Tanner Mierow at #SICB2026 about the mutualisms between snapping shrimp and gobies.

Gobies need shrimp to dig holes. Shrimp need gobies to keep a lookout.

But who asks who out here?

Gobies initiate- they’re *desperate* for a shrimp. But once initiated, shrimp maintain the relationship.