Jillian Kurovski 서정화

bbno$ is so fuckin based for supporting artists so much
you can love or hate his music but man that man uses his influence for the right thing
huge respect for him 🔥💪

A six-spotted fishing spider (Dolomedes triton) looking straight on at the camera that’s shooting from a little above them while they extend their front legs out over stagnant water, waiting for prey to swim underneath. They are resting on the surface tension of the water while anchored to a stick in the water. Their six spots in their abdomen are mostly visible and their white bands outlining their body are standing out.

#arachtober
Six-spotted fishing #spider - Dolomedes triton
(Shot near Cincinnati 4-24-24) 🕷️🕸️ #photography #macrophotography #wildlifephotography #wildlife #nature #animal #invertebrate #arachnid #fishingspider #spidersky #ento

Dolomedes sulfureus 황닷거미 keeping her peets clean.

I am mostly excited for new gym leader designs = more fan art

Nintendo suing people for stealing their concepts and ‘creative property’ but what is there to steal anymore…

semi-realistic drawing of a bobbit worm, a very segmented deep sea worm with a massive jaw at the front and a very holographic sparkly body with two little leg like structures at each segment, on a black background.

semi-realistic drawing of a bobbit worm, a very segmented deep sea worm with a massive jaw at the front and a very holographic sparkly body with two little leg like structures at each segment, on a white background.

Day 13 #Invertober2025 - Bobbit worm (Eunice aphroditois) 😬

holy hell this thing took the most time out of any other #invertober critter i have ever drawn, partially because there are NO GOOD REFS except for its face

#SciArt #invertebrates

Amazing!! Thank you!!!

Would it be possible to order a print of this from you? :-)

I study this species and I think my advisor would like this as well!

I *might* be biased, but this is the best art ever.

A small spider in the middle of a window

A perfectly placed spider.
📍Seoul, Korea

Teaching people about spiders is a great way to reduce fear! You're a good friend!

Phobia, in the clinical sense, usually means requiring clinical intervention, daily life is impacted, and/or quality of life is lowered/negatively impacted by the phobia. I always view a lot of papers on phobias w caution because sometimes they don't make the distinction.

P.S. if you read papers on arachnophobia or any phobia, check if the paper is discussing a clinical phobia or more general fear. Phobia is typically designated to a disorder that requires clinical intervention but can also mean things like "irrational and/or excessive response."

This list is largely papers I find the most interesting/informative and is obviously not exhaustive. If other people have more they want to share, please do! I hope people enjoy them and ask more questions about what it means to be afraid of spiders and how to eliminate fear and phobia!

Frontiers | Spider Phobia: Neural Networks Informing Diagnosis and (Virtual/Augmented Reality-Based) Cognitive Behavioral Psychotherapy—A Narrative Review Recent fMRI studies on specific animal phobias, particularly spider phobia (arachnophobia), have identified a large variety of specific brain regions involve...

Hinze et al. 2021 | Spider Phobia: Neural Networks Informing Diagnosis and (Virtual/Augmented Reality-Based) Cognitive Behavioral Psychotherapy—A Narrative Review

Funky stuff happens in the brain when you're scared of spiders. VR might help!

www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...

Sleep promotes consolidation and generalization of extinction learning in simulated exposure therapy for spider fear - PubMed Simulated exposure therapy for spider phobia served as a clinically naturalistic model to study effects of sleep on extinction. Spider-fearing, young adult women (N = 66), instrumented for skin conduc...

Pace-Schott et al. 2012 | Sleep promotes consolidation and generalization of extinction learning in simulated exposure therapy for spider fear

Take a nice nap after learning about spiders. :-)

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22578824/

Frontiers | What Makes Spiders Frightening and Disgusting to People? The quality of human-animal interactions may crucially influence conservation efforts. Unfortunately, some animals are considered notoriously unpopular by th...

Zvaríková et al. 2021 | What Makes Spiders Frightening and Disgusting to People?

Let's manipulate pictures of spiders and ask people why they're afraid of the picture so we can make the scariest spider picture possible (I made that last part up)

www.frontiersin.org/journals/eco...

The global spread of misinformation on spiders In the internet era, the digital architecture that keeps us connected and informed may also amplify the spread of misinformation. This problem is gain…

Mammola et al. 2022 | The global spread of misinformation on spiders

SO many amazing arachnologists contributed to this paper on modern *GLOBAL* depictions of spiders in online newspaper articles. 47% of articles contained errors and 43% were sensationalist.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Cavell 2018 | Arachnophobia and Early English Literature

Many great examples of depictions of spiders across time in English lit. My favorite is the idea of how spiders went from an notion of artistry (e.g. weavers, architects) to disgust.

pure-oai.bham.ac.uk/ws/portalfil...

Does women's greater fear of snakes and spiders originate in infancy? Previous studies with adult humans and nonhuman animals revealed more rapid fear learning for spiders and snakes than for mushrooms and flowers. The c…

Rakison 2009 | Does women's greater fear of snakes and spiders originate in infancy?

A lot to chew on or this one. Female infants habituated faster to negative emoticons paired with spiders faster than male infants.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Spiders are special: fear and disgust evoked by pictures of arthropods Because all spiders are predators and most subdue their prey with poison, it has been suggested that fear of spiders is an evolutionary adaptation. Ho…

1. Gerdes et al 2009 | Spiders are special: fear and disgust evoked by pictures of arthropods

Love this one a lot. Participants rated images of arthropods. Spiders elicit significantly more fear and disgust than other arthropods in this study.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🧵 ARACHNOPHOBIA GREATEST HITS

A thread of my favorite arachnophobia papers dedicated to my friends @humanbyweight.bsky.social and @entobiologist.bsky.social, with increasingly unserious character limited summaries.

Is this the science version of making somebody a mixtape?

Okay, here we go 👇🕷️

YES PLEASE!!!

Literally one of the first places I want to go when I return from Korea.

Also, happy to share my favorite/interesting arachnophobia papers, as somebody who has done a lot of lit searchers and compiling in this subject!

There are many theories on the origins of arachnophobia, from biological to sociocultural. We know that there is no singular origin, but if anything, I’m grateful that discussing arachnophobia with people has brought me closer to many people, and in turn, brought them closer to nature! 🕷️🕸️

5. Perhaps most notably, Arachnophobia has influenced SciComm/Outreach practices, asking us to be intentional and effective in how we speak and teach about animals to quell fear and incite curiosity in all kinds of people.

4. My favorite amongst these is that there are researchers using arachnophobia to understand how writing, art, and story telling influence perceptions. I love learning about how people have talked about and depicted spiders across time and cultures.

Studying Arachnophobia is important bc:

1. It pushes for greater understanding of neurobiology and the mechanisms of fear & disgust

2. Similarly, it drives healthcare innovation in treating clinical phobias E.g. VR therapy

3. It has created many questions and studies around “nature vs nurture”

🧵Arachnophobia, while common, is unique amongst phobias bc often invokes an overlap of fear and disgust! This is not prevalent in other arthropod phobias. Interestingly, fear & disgust utilize the same neural network and have similar outputs, making them difficult to disentangle.