Public presentation (in Italian, in Trento) of our project on the impact of climate change on the health of pollinators:

🚀 Hiring: Tenure Track Researcher at CiMeC, UniTrento! 🧠💻 Field: #CompLing, #AI & Cognitive Modeling. Join an interdisciplinary hub (AI + Neuroscience + Psych) in beautiful Trentino! 🏔️✨ 📅 Deadline: Feb 12, 12:00 CET 🔗 lavoraconnoi.unitn.it/bando-dr-val... #AcademicJobs #NLP

Postdoc position in systems neuroscience! Excited to recruit a postdoc for my lab at the University of Bonn. 🔬 In vivo physiology (Neuropixels, 2P/miniscope) 🐭 Head-fixed & freely moving behaviour 💡 Optogenetics/chemogenetics ⏳ Start: ASAP | Application deadline: 28.02.2026 More info below ⬇️

Our Master's program is now open for applications. The Neurophysics lab is engaged in the FBN track: Fundamental Behavioural Neuroscience.

Scientists around former IMP group leader David Keays (@lmumuenchen.bsky.social show that #pigeons detect magnetic fields through their inner ear. Their discovery was now published in the journal @science.org: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... More: www.imp.ac.at/news/article...

Preprint - Excited to present WHOLISTIC, which extends the concept of whole-brain functional imaging to the entire body. Pioneering work by incredibly talented Virginia Ruetten @vmsruetten.bsky.social, this platform reveals whole-organism cellular dynamics in vivo. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

PhD position in Magnetoreception Research!🐝🧠🔬 📍 Center for Mind/Brain Sciences #cimec_unitreno, University of Trento #unitrento, Italy Reception🦟,Neural processing🧠🔬,Behaviour🌀 🌐 Apply: phd.unitn.it/drcimec/116/... 📅 Deadline: June 5, 2025 📩 Contact: [email protected] 🌍 Please spread the word!

Control of odor sensation by light and cryptochrome in the Drosophila antenna #Drosophila

"Weak anthropogenic electric fields affect honeybee foraging" http://dlvr.it/TKvZJt @bristoluni.bsky.social @victoriamallinson.bsky.social‪, Fraser Woodburn, & Liam O’Reilly @cp-iscience.bsky.social

🐝 Happy World Bee Day, everyone! 🐝 RAI Leonardo showed on this occasion a short feature (in Italian) about our recent publication on imaging the brain of honey bees during sleep: www.rainews.it/tgr/rubriche... Min. 4:45 @cimecunitrento.bsky.social #Honeybees #Neuroscience #Sleep

#Calcium_imaging in sleeping #bees: Antennal lobe neurons synchronise stronger during #sleep, likely due to reduced GABAergic coupling. #SNN simulations show reduced #odour processing, similar to human sleep: doi.org/10.1016/j.ne... Thanks to all collaborators at #CIMeC, e.g. @urihasson.bsky.social

Researchers at CIMeC UniTrento have observed brain activity in sleeping #bees🐝 The study reveals striking similarities with human sleep and offers insight into pollinator health and memory. 🛈 pressroom.unitn.it/comunicato-stampa/sleep-bees-so-human @neurophysicstn.bsky.social @urihasson.bsky.social

PhD position in Magnetoreception Research!🐝🧠🔬 📍 Center for Mind/Brain Sciences #cimec_unitreno, University of Trento #unitrento, Italy Reception🦟,Neural processing🧠🔬,Behaviour🌀 🌐 Apply: phd.unitn.it/drcimec/116/... 📅 Deadline: June 5, 2025 📩 Contact: [email protected] 🌍 Please spread the word!

#preprint: We mapped the structure and function of olfactory bulb circuits with in vivo 2-photon microscopy and synchrotron #Xray holographic nanotomography. doi.org/10.1101/2025... @yuxinzhang.bsky.social @andreas-t-schaefer.bsky.social @apacureanu.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk @esrf.fr

NITheCS Mini-school: 'An Introduction to Quantum Biology' by Dr Betony Adams (Stellenbosch University). Attend 4 lectures online – taking place on Wed 7, 14, 21 & 28 May 2025 @ 14h00-15h00 SAST. buff.ly/itI4ok9 #quantum #biology #quantumbiology #iyq2025

Glad to share this review of odor concentrations in nature versus experiments, just out in J Neurosci. Spoiler: they are far apart. We discuss implications for olfactory neuroscience and welcome debate. With @neuroboz.bsky.social @dewanlab.bsky.social, Betty Hong. www.jneurosci.org/content/45/1...

Dear colleagues fascinated by olfaction and taste! 👃🏾👅 We are happy to announce that the registration has started for the upcoming ESITO 2025 meeting taking place September 19-24, 2025 in Sardinia, Italy. Please register and submit your abstract here: events.gwdg.de/e/esito2025 Deadline: July 1st!

Open call for papers on #Olfaction and #Taste covering the full spectrum of these research areas. Deadline for submissions: 22 July 2025 Edited by @paulfeinstein-phd.bsky.social, Massimiliano Zampini, and myself. Please spread the word. @natureportfolio.nature.com www.nature.com/collections/...

Alcohol makes male fruit flies sexier! New study from Ian Keesey, Bill Hansson et al. in Science Advances shows that alcohol boosts sex pheromone production in male D. melanogaster, making them more attractive to females. But too much is a turnoff! www.ice.mpg.de/493119/PR_Ke...

📢 CIMeC is now on BlueSky! From now on, we’ll be sharing updates from our Center for Mind/Brain Sciences, including research highlights, academic activities, events, and much more! 🔗 www.cimec.unitn.it #neuroscience #cognitivescience #unitrento #cimec_unitreno

New Primer on Bumblebees now out in Current Biology (with Guillaume Ghisbain & Denis Michez): www.cell.com/current-biol...

www.nature.com/collections/... @achems.bsky.social @olfalabs.bsky.social

❗️Symposium for Early Career Researchers working on Magnetoreception and/or Navigation in Animals, 19.-21.11.2025 in Hamburg, Germany❗️ Are you interested in joining us? As part of the Organizing Team, I will happily answer your questions and hope to see you there! @sfb1372.bsky.social

@jeffsebo.bsky.social @birchlse.bsky.social and I put a lot of philosophy into our new Science Perspective on animal consciousness. Mill's analogical argument + inference to the best explanation + careful experiments = justification for consciousness in many animals. Where might it end?

Save the date! CogEvo 2025 - Rovereto Workshop on #cognition and #evolution 16 July 2025 18 July 2025 Palazzo Piomarta - Corso Bettini 84, Rovereto, Italy https://webmagazine.unitn.it/en/evento/cimec/123193/cogevo-2025-rovereto-workshop-on-cognition-and-evolution #neuroscience

Please support and spread this appeal by Senator Elena Cattaneo to the Italian Senate on the future of Italian research funding: www.scienzainrete.it/articolo/app...

Nature research paper: Learned magnetic map cues and two mechanisms of magnetoreception in turtles https://go.nature.com/40U04WB

See you on Friday February 21st for the @eurobioimaging.bsky.social Virtual Pub on "Fluorescence Lifetime Microscopy (FLIM) for label-free metabolic imaging of living tissues"! #FLIM #labelfree #microscopy #metabolism You can register online here! www.eurobioimaging.eu/events/flim-...

Our story about flies on carousels is out in @currentbiology.bsky.social! After formally engaging the fantastic @clarahowcroft.bsky.social and integrating helpful reviewer feedback, we present a more concise story with detailed behavioural quantification and cooler videos! doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines? Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take. thebullshitmachines.com

Diversity may be a dirty word for some these days, making it crucial to to fight back against those who would push us down. These stories are inspiring. I commend @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social for amplifying the voices of those who have been historically marginalized www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

Pls share: Konstanz School of Collective behavior from 21st July - 8th August. Application deadline: April, 15. An amazing line up of speakers spanning all aspects of collective behavior . For info: www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/kscb/ @cbehav.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social

Still some false positives, but extracting data is the most tedious task ever, and if AI can help with this, we can unleash a lot of data. Thanks for making the code public (github.com/fkeck/gpt_in...)!

Excited to share our new preprint: How does the fly mushroom body support odour categorisation and discrimination? 🧠✨ Dive into Ivy Chan's @ivychanchiwai.bsky.social findings on how neural circuits enable complex olfactory processing in flies. Check it out here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Dear colleagues fascinated by olfaction and taste! 👃🏾👅 We’ll organize the next ESITO (Symposium of Insect Taste and Olfaction) from September 19-24 2025 in Sardinia at the beautiful Hotel Cormoran again. We are currently updating the website and will start the registration soon! Please stay tuned!

I. K. Kominis, E. Gkoudinakis, Approaching the quantum limit of energy resolution in animal magnetoreception. PRX Life 3 (2025). http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PRXLife.3.013004

In vivo fluorescence lifetime fiber photometry www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The 2026 international conference of the IUSSI will be in Freiburg, Germany, August 16th – 20st iussi2026.org

Less than 5 weeks until our #symposium on #animalnavigation at the #oldenburguniversity! The final programme is now online here: www.sfb1372.de/programme.

Celebrating 100 years of the Pauli exclusion principle www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/cele...

If you haven't read this, I'd humbly suggest now might be a good time to do so. www.penguin.co.uk/books/416252...

Our perspective on designing electronic noses inspired by natural olfaction! #neuroscience #ChemSky 🧪

Comparative study between D. melanogaster and the invasive D. suzukii. Significant differences in structure and function of the antennal lobes could be the basis for their different host-seeking behaviour causing huge crop damage: www.mdpi.com/2075-4450/16... #CalciumImaging #Olfaction #Drosophila

What if… spontaneous neural activity 🧠 reflects the baseline rumblings of a brainwide dynamical system initialized for learning? We find that the rumblings have macroscopic properties like those emerging from linear symmetric, critical systems 🧵 #neuroscience #neuroAI www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

AT LAST OUR PEER-REVIEWED PRE-PRINT IS PUBLISHED We finally vanquished Reviewer #3 - with great support from the academic editors @ScienceAdvances Cross-modal sensory compensation increases mosquito attraction to humans | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Are you PhD student or Postdoc working in the field of Neuroethology? Then apply as a speaker for the Webinar Series 'The Future Of Neuroethology'

2025 ist das Jahr der #Quantenphysik! ⚛️ Mit der Initiative NEXT – #QuantumBiology fördern wir innovative Forschung rund um quantenmechanische Phänomene in biologischen Systemen. 🗓️ Stichtag: 11.02.25, Infos: www.volkswagenstiftung.de/de/foerderun... #IYQ2025 #quantum #quantumScience #Wissenschaft

doi.org/10.1073/pnas... Olfaction in spiders. We found that the wall pore sensilla in spiders look similar from the outside to those of insects, but differ ultrastructurally in various ways. Independent evolution! 🧪