Hot arachnid-on-arachnid action

Every now and then I get email from the Secretary of the ISA (currently, the Humboldt's Jason Dunlop) and to be honest, there is little of it I'd be minded to share with you and, unless you share my arachnophilia, even less likely to interest you.

But then again, sometimes I get stuff like this, which Jason forwarded from Jordi Moya-Laraño:

As a co-organizer of the 23^rd European Colloquium of Arachnology I have been asked to organize a symposium on a current topic in arachnology. As my interests go I decided that a good subject for a symposium would be “spider sex” in the broadest sense possible. In view of recent published papers that are certainly major contributions to the advance of knowledge in spider sex  ... I thought that it would be pertinent to have a symposium in which we can all discuss the state of the art of a very promising field for years to come. [Emph. added, as though it were needed]

Boom-chicka-boom! And you thought ethology was just boring wholesome stuff like having baby ducks imprint on you.

Anyway, if any of you out there are interested in attending a Spider Porn Fest (held on the Catalan coast as an added bonus), let me know in comments or by email, and I'll forward you Jordi's contact info.