Selected recent media coverage of our research:

Find out about the amazing lives of spiders through my 2024 book, or through this "Many Minds" 2024 podcast or read this Live Science piece (2024).

​All about marine-associated spiders in Knowable magazine (2024) and The Atlantic (2024)

Ximena and others talk to the BBC about spiders, webs and instinct (2020)

Ximena talking about kea foraging ecology (2017) and talking to New Zealand National Radio about positive emotions in animals in 2022 and 2023

New Zealand Geographic (2018) on kea, birds of play

Ed Yong, writer of "Not exactly rocket science" in National Geographic and The Atlantic has written about:

• The Parrot With a Call as Infectious as Laughter (2017)
• Spider Hides From Spider Among Spider-Eating Ants (2014)
• To study vampire spiders, build Frankenstein mosquitoes (2012)
• Spiders gather in groups to impersonate ants (2009)
• Spider mimics ant to eat spiders and avoid being eaten by spiders (2009)

Canada Broadcasting Corporation radio interview for 'Quirks and Quarks' on spider/ant mixed-species associations (2014).

AAAS Science on spider/ant mixed-species associations (2014) and on kea behaviour (2017).

New Zealand National Radio interview about our lab (2014), or on morning report about the stuff we will be doing on our latest Human Frontiers Science Program grant (2024).
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BBC on mosquito-eating spiders (2012).

Scientific American podcast about mosquito-eating spiders (2012).

Also, if you do have spiders, find out how to best care for them with this guide written by Jenna Thompson.