by Michael | Dec 10, 2013 | Popular Science, Uncategorized
By Steven Hamblin; Michael Kasumovic, and Rob Brooks With each passing year, technology percolates further into academic life. The year 2013 might look, in hindsight, like the year academic social media use went mainstream. Numbers of tweets and Facebook likes are no...
by Michael | Nov 22, 2013 | Lab News, Uncategorized
Congratulations to Sean Blamires for winning a DECRA in what was a very brutal round! We very lucky to have him coming to the lab to do some amazing work on the evolution of spider silk...
by Michael | Nov 22, 2013 | Accepted paper, Uncategorized
Through Alex Jordan‘s hard work we got our second manuscript accepted in American Naturalist! Alex did an amazing job on this manuscript. I won’t ruin the punchline, so I’ll put up a link as soon as it comes out. Reproductive foragers: spider males...
by Michael | Aug 7, 2013 | Popular Science, Uncategorized
By Michael Kasumovic Jumping spiders are unique in the spider world as they don’t build webs – they’re active visual predators who rarely use silk. In fact, the main use we thought jumping spiders had for silk was a safety line for when they miss their mark. But...
by Michael | Jun 4, 2013 | Popular Science, Uncategorized
By Michael Kasumovic Is racism a matter of perspective gone wrong? And, if so, how can we fix it? A new study in Consciousness and Cognition demonstrates technology may be able to offer part of the solution: donning the skin of a dark-skinned avatar significantly...
