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Maddy Janakis
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Biology PhD candidate (defend spring '26) at UofSC. Speiser lab 👁️🐚🦪🦀 I study crab visual ecology 🦀👀
i follow Kesha's mom (Pebe Sebert) online and she added me to her private tiktok bulletin and she's releasing a new song. i love her and i would like to be one of her top listeners this year so i can get her message on spotify
November 12, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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🚨 Using polarization vision to stabilize gaze 👀 would theoretically be helpful for animals living in visually noisy environments, but it seems two decapod crustaceans use achromatic cues instead. 🚨

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Check it out! 🦀
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Two Decapod Crustaceans, Panopeus herbstii and Petrolisthes armatus, Stabilize Their Gaze Using Achromatic Visual Cues, but Not the Angle of Linearly Polarized Light
Synopsis. Gaze stabilization is important to animals because it allows them to visually differentiate between their own motion relative to their environmen
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November 10, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Did you know that when crabs molt they also molt their outer cornea giving them a pretty scary zombie look
November 5, 2025 at 8:20 PM
got all the grad students to dress as our advisor! I had to do it once before I defend!
November 2, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Had a great day collecting yesterday at Baruch Marine Field Lab in SC. We got 42 porcelain crabs and 40 mud crabs 🦀 🦀🦀
October 7, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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"In shallow #aquatic #environments, such as tidal creeks, the motion of the water's surface can create dynamic #spatiotemporal fluctuations in illumination referred to as “caustic flicker..."
@maddy-janakis.bsky.social et al

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#crustacean #biology #science
October 3, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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"Using #optomotor behavioral assays, we found that both porcelain & mud #crabs use #achromatic cues for gaze stabilization..."

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October 2, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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Jane opened up my eyes to a lot as a kid - she was a female scientist and she was known for devoting her life to it. not to her family or children, but to her passion.

i remember thinking that was so cool and it was probably the first time I realized women can be known in that way.
October 1, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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from the www.speiserlab.com
-Two #Decapod #Crustaceans, Panopeus herbstii and Petrolisthes armatus, Stabilize Their Gaze Using Achromatic #Visual Cues, but Not the Angle of Linearly Polarized Light
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#biology #science #organisms
September 30, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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🚨 Exciting new crab preprint! A Japanese team found that sideways walking only evolved once! Maybe carcinization itself is necessary but not sufficient to go sideways?

When it's lost, the species that go forward have alternate anti predation behaviors. 🧪🦑🦀

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Evolution of sideways locomotion in crabs
The evolutionary change in the mode of locomotion is often a major evolutionary event, triggering diversification. Sideways locomotion is a defining feature of true crabs (Brachyura) and may have cont...
www.biorxiv.org
September 22, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Thanks so much for publishing with us🙌we are looking forward to gibbing a full week of promotional efforts to your work 10-1 week. 👍stay tuned.
September 5, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Ever wondered how tidal creek crabs stabilize their gaze? think crabs are neat? want to support a first time author? read my first article! out now in IOB @sicbjournals.bsky.social academic.oup.com/iob/article/...
Two Decapod Crustaceans, Panopeus herbstii and Petrolisthes armatus, Stabilize Their Gaze Using Achromatic Visual Cues, but Not the Angle of Linearly Polarized Light
Synopsis. Gaze stabilization is important to animals because it allows them to visually differentiate between their own motion relative to their environmen
academic.oup.com
September 4, 2025 at 11:14 PM