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Alasdair Hastewell

Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyORCID 0000-0003-2633-380XUnclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Animal Behavior & Cognition· 1 Biophysics· 1

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Approach:experimental assay· 2 Research Focus:cell type annotation· 1 Organism:human· 1 Assay:imaging· 1 Organism:mouse· 1 Organism:rat· 1

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Alexander K. BoggoniD· 1 shared Damian O. EliasiD· 1 shared Erin E. BrandtiD· 1 shared Jacob S. HarrisoniD· 1 shared Jasmine A. NirodyiD· 1 shared Jörn DunkeliD· 1 shared Kaci Rose GoldbergiD· 1 shared Kirsty Y. WaniD· 1 shared

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2026-2026 · peak 2/yr

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Animal Behavior & CognitionbioRxivPreprintAug 24, 2026

Takeoff dynamics are stereotyped across jumping spiders

Erin E. Brandt, Alasdair Hastewell, Lin Yan…·Jasmine A. Nirody

This study shows jumping spiders use a stereotyped two-stage takeoff sequence despite morphological diversity and mechanical constraints.

DOI 10.64898/2026.08.19.745647

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BiophysicsNature CommunicationsPeer-reviewedJul 8, 2026

Embodied behavioural complexity in a ciliated microorganism

Alexander K. Boggon, Alasdair Hastewell, Jörn Dunkel, Kirsty Y. Wan

The paper studies the locomotion of a ciliated algal protist, revealing that complex behavioral patterns emerge from low-dimensional dynamics of ciliary beating.

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