Nik Willmott

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

@Bee_Bytes @IUPUI Congrats Meghan, well deserved! 🥳

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.

@LCAulsebrook @BBM_Wong @mattd_hall Congratulations! 🥳🥳🥳

Celebrating that my PhD has officially been conferred! I couldn’t have done it without my supervisors @BBM_Wong and @mattd_hall, as well as all my colleagues, friends and family who have supported me along the way. Thank you all, and looking forward to the next adventure! #PhDone

If you analyse animal movements, my R package trajr might be useful to you @wileyinresearch #trajectory #trajr onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/et…

@erincpow @apsciencebydan @LitThom @arachno_joe Yep, adult female Hortophora transmarina! They're very pretty spiders, and they come in a variety of colours and patterns.

@apsciencebydan @LitThom @arachno_joe This is an adult female garden orbweaver, possibly Hortophora transmarina). @arachnik might be able to weigh in on the species identification. The protrusion is part of the female genitalia (the epigynum), the spike itself is called the scape.

Spider after a few Pfizer doses (yeah, yeah, I had to)

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

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/article/22…

Well, if this is it, see you guys over here. #RIPTwitter

This Abandoned Web Orb-weaver (Parawixia dehaani) was so enormous I had to show you but then she was like no I am dead 💀

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/openaccess/all…

Never skip leg day ppl. New podcast ep just dropped feat @juanita_rodr @BrunoBuzatto and Luis Villazon abc.net.au/radionational/…

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...

Digging a hole to bury the kids in 😍

Autocrates lini sp. nov. was published in Annales Zoologici. Check my new paper on: reurl.cc/rROVbN

🎓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! 🕷️🐌👁️🦋👀🪰🧠 Deadline 18 Nov!

📣🚨📢 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/fund…

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

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