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! 🙏🏻 🧪

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

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 🏇🧑‍🌾 🙊🐕🐴🪰🦋

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

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

¡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. open.spotify.com/episode/0H4J...

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.

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...

🤩 ¡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/

😂¡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 ➡️ csic.es/es/agenda-de...

😎¡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 www.mncn.csic.es/es/visita-el...

🤫¡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 👉 www.mncn.csic.es/es/Comunicac...

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

Elizabeth presenting her cool data and papers at a big conference. 🥳🤩

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/...

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...

Teaching on a Monday feels way less Monday with coffee and owls around! :)☕