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A great podcast by the outreach queen!🫶
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José Antonio Borrero
about 1 month ago
Excited to share our new paper on pollen foraging in Heliconius himera
@behavecol.bsky.social
! 🦋🌼
academic.oup.com/beheco/artic...
We explored how female and male H. himera differ in pollen foraging & sensory traits. 1/6🧵👇
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Sexual dimorphism in pollen foraging and sensory traits in Heliconius butterflies
Male and female butterflies often face different ecological and sensory demands, yet how this shapes their foraging behaviour remains unclear. In Heliconiu
https://academic.oup.com/beheco/article/37/3/arag014/8490681
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Richard Merrill
about 1 month ago
Really excited to see
@borreroja.bsky.social
’s tour de force exploring the behavioural consequences of coordinated visual adaptations in *Heliconius*, and how these may break down in hybrids, out in the world.
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https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.14.718491v1
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ASAB
about 1 month ago
🎉 Congratulations to the ASAB Video Competition winner Amaia Alcalde Anton! Check out her video: “What Did I Leave in the Fridge” 🎉
#ASABSpring2026
Want to know more? Read the paper this entry was based on:
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Stephen Montgomery
about 2 months ago
New preprint from us and
@emiliapsantos.bsky.social
’s
#NERC
grant, led by Jake Morris,
@gadusmo.bsky.social
et al Using an interspecific cross between two
#cichlids
to think about models of
#brainevolution
🐟🧠 Feedback and suggestions welcome! 🙏🏻 🧪
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Max Farnworth
about 2 months ago
allevents.in/bristol/scie...
Giving a public talk as part of the Science Cafe, happening on a BOAT (!!) in Bristol Harbour. I am pretty bad at explaining things accessibly, so if you want to poke fun, join!
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
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Science Cafe, Dr Max Farnworth, University of Bristol talk on Butterfly brains and navigation
Find tickets & information for Science Cafe, Dr Max Farnworth, University of Bristol talk on Butterfly brains and navigation. happening at MV Balmoral, Bristol, EN on Tue, 07 Apr, 2026 at 07:00 pm BST...
https://allevents.in/bristol/science-cafe-dr-max-farnworth-university-of-bristol-talk-on-butterfly-brains-and-navigation/200029686839805
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ASAB Spring 2026
2 months ago
Great talks this morning at
#ASABSpring2026
on horse-rider conflicts, paca farm welfare, bonobo facial expressions, free-ranging dog feeding, AI for horse welfare, fruit fly mating & butterfly memory 🏇🧑🌾 🙊🐕🐴🪰🦋
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ASAB Spring 2026
2 months ago
And
#ASABSpring2026
is finished! A huge thank you to the organizer Sean Rands, his big group of volunteers, and Uni Bristol for hosting👏 Don’t forget ECBB (
@ecbb2026.bsky.social
) Sept 1-4 in Cambridge and our joint
#ASABWinter2026
meeting with PSGB (
@asabpsgb2026.bsky.social
) Dec 8-10 in Edinburgh
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ASAB Spring 2026
2 months ago
Big congrats to our video contest winner Amaia Alcalde and runner up Taruna Verma, poster winners Ayla Webb (PhD) and Maria Maclaren (MSc), and talk winners Charlotte Wiltshire (PhD) and Maria Filippou (MSc)!
#ASABSpring2026
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Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales
4 months ago
¡Nuevo episodio!🎧 Os invitamos a descubrir un diorama centenario que recrea una colonia de abejarucos. A través de esta obra de J.M Benedito, exploramos la unión entre arte y ciencia. Una oportunidad de mirar con calma la naturaleza desde dentro del museo.
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eahodge.bsky.social
4 months ago
Excited that my 2nd MSc paper is out in
@journal-evo.bsky.social
🦋🎉
doi.org/10.1093/evol...
We find Heliconius’ impressive visual memory is not due to increased visual-structure investment over that of their outgroup relatives, but instead consistent with specialisation of the central circuitry.
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Max Farnworth
5 months ago
New paper covering what we think is a pretty nice and comprehensive overview over tools suitable for neuroethology in butterflies and moths. Also, check out the whole special issue if you're an insect neuroethologist.
@neuroethology.org
@dzg-neurobiology.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1007/s003...
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Emerging tools to advance neuroethology in butterflies and moths - Journal of Comparative Physiology A
Journal of Comparative Physiology A - Butterflies and moths have played historically important roles in developing our understanding of both ecology and evolutionary biology, and neuroethology. In...
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00359-025-01785-y
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Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales
5 months ago
🤩 ¡Ya podéis leer el último número de
#NaturalMente
! Descubrid las nuevas exposiciones y aprended sobre geodiversidad, mariposas🦋, pulpos🐙o anfibios🐸 en las páginas de la revista digital trimestral del
#MNCN
. 👉
revista.mncn.csic.es/nm48/
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CSICdivulga
6 months ago
😂¡Noche de monólogos científicos en el
@mncn-csic.bsky.social
! ¿La película de Nemo está mal contada? ¿Nanotecnología para matar piojos? ¿Cuánta paciencia tienen mis células? Mucho más, el 29 de noviembre a las 19:15h en el museo ➡️
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Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales
7 months ago
😎¡Noche de monólogos científicos! ¿La peli de Nemo está mal contada? ¿Nanotecnología para matar piojos? ¿Cuánta paciencia tienen mis células?🤭 📆29 noviembre, 19:15h 💰10€ (incluye la entrada al museo desde las 15) Edad recomendada: a partir de 15 años
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Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales
9 months ago
🤫¡Participaremos en la XVI edición de la Noche Europea de los Investigadores e Investigadoras de
#Madrid
y las entradas se podrán conseguir a partir del 15 de septiembre a las 9h hasta completar aforo! 📅26 y 27 de septiembre
#EuropeanResearchersNight
👉
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katja heuer
9 months ago
Amaia Alcalde Anton sharing her insights on How to build a bigger brain–cellular basis of expanded mushroom bodies in Heliconius butterflies. Beautiful images. Proliferating cells into adulthood!
#ESEB2025
@tibbe-evolneuro.bsky.social
@ebablab.bsky.social
@alealisousa.bsky.social
@r3rt0.bsky.social
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Max Farnworth
9 months ago
Elizabeth presenting her cool data and papers at a big conference. 🥳🤩
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Stephen Montgomery
11 months ago
very interesting collection, expertly compiled by
@ellileadbeater.bsky.social
&
@cornishjackdaws.bsky.social
! Featuring Hodge*, Alcalde Anton et al! ‘Modality specific long term
#memory
enhancement in
#Heliconius
butterflies’ 🧪 *Elizabeth’s 1st paper 🍾
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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Stephen Montgomery
11 months ago
Congrats to
@pinpilinpauxa-aaa.bsky.social
for getting her image of a developing Dryas iulia brain to the final of the
@wellcometrust.bsky.social
photography competition in the “The Marvels of Scientific and Medical Imaging” section! One of my favourites too…
wellcome.org/engagement-a...
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Teaching on a Monday feels way less Monday with coffee and owls around! :)☕
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