Defo interested to see whether spiders avoid, but i do take your point. I didn't know about cats, so thank you!

Well, you learn something everyday! Thanks for this, Gabriel. Very interesting paper!!

Oh my gosh, I like this! Thank you for the info. I might try this next year!

Riley! Thanks for this link. Really helpful! Appreciate it. Stephen Jay Gould also a big one for me (although I was 18 when someone introduced me to his writing!).

(Not engagement baiting! I have a presentation to some American teachers this week and feel I am always too British-centric!).

Thanks Anthony - means a lot! Enjoy!

This book has been on my to-get & to-read list since first hearing about it, so thanks for your take! Congrats to @juleshoward.bsky.social for your book birthday!

Ah thanks, Kate. Hope you are well!

It's still wild that the title the editor (presumably?) gave it calls inverts "a kind" of animal rather than, yanno, 25 or 30 types of animal. It's like classifying humans as redheads and non-redheads!

Perfect. Would LOVE you to read it. Thanks! Hope you're well. I need to get into Bluesky much more, really.