Now out in @nature.com: Our study discovering a neural circuit in Drosophila that predictively inhibits proprioceptor axons during voluntary leg movements, such as walking and grooming. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

« Diverse calcium dynamics underlie place field formation in hippocampal CA1 pyramidal cells. » A fundamental study now published @elife.bsky.social elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

New from @katejj.bsky.social group!

1/ 🚨 New preprint! 🚨 Excited and proud (& a little nervous 😅) to share our latest work on the importance of #theta-timescale spiking during #locomotion in #learning. If you care about how organisms learn, buckle up. 🧵👇 📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 💻 code + data 🔗 below 🤩 #neuroskyence

Two weeks are left to apply for a 5 year Postdoc position in #neuroscience, #behavior, #neuroethology in collaboration with @puh23.bsky.social from Flinders University. 🇦🇺🇩🇪🐝 👀

Based on feedback from applicants, reviewers and broader research community, the ERC Scientific Council decided to make changes in the 2026–27 calls for proposal for research funding. More details from the ERC President 👉 europa.eu/!hP3WWF What’s your take on this? Tell us! 👇

A gallery of Cephalotes turtle ants. I've been photographing ants for over two decades, and I still haven't managed to shoot even 20% of the species in one of my favorite genera.

Attending my first international conference, Behaviour 2025, was an amazing experience😊 I got to meet so many people interested in the same field and received a lot of valuable feedback. Excited to turn this work into a publication! #vetmeduni #Behaviour2025 #kea #poster

New Sonic Connexions online meet-up coming up on Sep 24! This one will be on Bioacoustics AI with Liz Ferguson. Register now to join the discussions!! #bioacoustics 🔊🧪 whoi-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

#FluorescenceFriday #Seahorse retina stained with #GNB3 (green) + #DAPI (cyan). GNB3 labels cone photoreceptors + ON #bipolarcells, tracing pathways from outer to inner retina. Amazing to see conserved visual #circuits in this non-traditional model

Our paper on central complex evolution in Heliconiini butterflies is now available as reviewed preprint at @elife.bsky.social 🎉🎉. Please check out the helpful and constructive reviews which we are going to address in the next weeks 🤗 elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre... @ebablab.bsky.social

José Borrero from Richard Merrill's lab studies how the visual acuity changes with age in different species of Heliconius butterflies and how it is related to brain morphology and neurogenesis. #dzg2025 @borreroja.bsky.social @dickmerrill.bsky.social

Traplining-behavior requires extensive spatial memory which is linked to Mushroom Body expansion in the brain of Heliconius 🦋. @maxfarnworth.bsky.social from @ebablab.bsky.social lab talks about the neural lineages that may underly this anatomical expansion. #dzg2025

And switching to neuroethology from start to finish, we heard about @beetzjerome.bsky.social 's amazing work into navigation and neural coding in the monarch butterfly and bee brain. FInd out more abotu Jerome's research here: www.spatial-navigation.com

It was a pleasure listening to @jmappes.bsky.social talk @dzg2025berlin.bsky.social about anti-predator strategies in lepidoptera and how predation affects moth color morphs. predatorpreyinteractions.com

This evening, @dzg2025berlin.bsky.social presented a wonderful opening ceremonie at the natural history museum of Berlin. Great place to kick off the annual meeting of the German Zoological Society. #dzg2025

Application is open! Come join us and our fantastic line-up of speakers next year in March in Bonn!

The first of Jessie Foley’s work on the #evolution of #ageing in #Heliconius for your reading pleasure. Come for the 348 day old butterfly, stay for the evolved slower rate of ageing, species*diet effects, and weightlifting for elderly butterflies 💪🏻👵🏻 🧪

Ant reproduction is getting weirder and weirder. Here’s the latest: queens of a Mediterranean harvester ant mate with males from a different species and then lay eggs that clonally inherit those males’ genome. I.e., they lay eggs that develop into a different species. 🤯

🕷️ 🚨 Are you at the #DZG in Berlin next week? @dzg2025berlin.bsky.social my PhD @nadjageiger.bsky.social and I are very excited to tell you the latest about our spider sleep 💤 work! Come check out our talks on Friday and ask all your questions! :) 🚨 🕷️

I still can't believe that my ERC starting grant proposal, #BeeSpace got accepted by the @erc.europa.eu. For the next 5 years, we have funding to study place coding in the insect 🐝 brain. Exciting times are ahead. Without the great support of my former PIs this wouldn't have been possible.

The rig for conducting intracellular recordings from the 🐝🧠 is getting in shape. If you are interested using it here in Würzburg 🇩🇪 contact me. We have an open PhD position expected to be filled until spring 2026. www.spatial-navigation.com/open-positio... #neurethology

During sleep, reuniens theta synchronizes with MEC provoking memory reactivation. rdcu.be/eCMfl

#ABL2025 Plenary Spotlight: Dr Floria Mora-Kepfer Uy ⭐ Join us on Nov 13-14 to learn how @avispatica.bsky.social Dr Mora-Kepfer Uy’s team uncovered captivating ways in which parasites reprogram the behaviour and lifespan of insects. 🐝🪱 Learn more about the conference: ablaoc25.sciencesconf.org

Are you Neuroscientist (Electrophysiologist) interested in how insect brains encode space? Are you on the job market and looking for a Postdoc (up to 5 years) in Germany? Then this position might be a good match. Application deadline: 1st of October. 🐝🧭🗺. More infos: www.spatial-navigation.com

Size matters. Guppies with large telencephalons tend to learn faster in spatial learning tasks, than 🐟 with smaller telencephalons. journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/... @gilles-de-meester.bsky.social

Beautiful study from Martin Egelhaaf's group who designed a VR-setup to test visual place learning in tethered walking bumblebees. @jexpbiol.bsky.social journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

Amazing opportunity, join the Manzini Lab and become part of the Institute of Animal Physiology in Giessen!

Researchers have filmed thousands of climbing catfish scaling waterfalls, providing a rare insight into the daring migration of an enigmatic fish. Learn more: https://scim.ag/4lDlFux

Thanks @waspwoman.bsky.social for writing this inspiring book. Although feeling guilty as being part of "ying" (a bee-guy 😉), I always enjoy observing "yin", i.e., sandwasps and adore their episodic spatial memory. Wish I could breed them in the lab.

We know how visual objects influence spatial tuning in the hippocampus. A new study from @batwoman123.bsky.social shows that auditory objects can be egocentrically or allocentrically encoded in the hippocampus of echolocating bats 🦇. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @currentbiology.bsky.social

Birds navigating around the globe has inspired science since centuries. It is still debated whether birds are equipped with an internal map? Two hypotheses, an olfactory map and an infrasound direction-finding are reviewed by Jonathan Hagstrum. 🐦 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Neuroscience students asked us to teach a PRACTICAL course on experimental methods, and it is now on YouTube! Please like and repost to help us get the word out! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... Lecture 1: Signals and data acquisition Focusing on hardware, digital/analog I/O, synchronization 🧵

Neophobia in 🐜. Bull ants navigate visually enriched habitats. A new study reveals that introducing novel odors along their habitual foraging route lead to a phobic response. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

We are seeking a full-time Managing Editor for our journal Animal Behaviour. This editor will be involved in all stages of the publication process & must have a general understanding of the topics covered. Position starts Oct 1, application deadline July 31. More details: www.asab.org/opportunities

For anyone interested, here is a link to a CBC Radio interview this morning about our new book on bird brains and behaviour: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-... And the open access link can be found in my bio. #birds #neuroskyence #neuroethology #Canada 🪶🇨🇦🧪🧠

Naked mole-rats exhibit reduced inflammatory pain compared to mice. In a comparative study Lanhui Qiu & @psalmotoxin.bsky.social show that artemin has a conserved role in mice & naked-mole rats by mediating inflammatory pain in dorsal root ganglia (in vitro). link.springer.com/article/10.1...

We are looking for a Postdoc (up to 5 years) who wants to study neural mechanisms of spatial memory in honeybees. This includes tetrode recordings in behaving honeybees. Application Deadline is 1st of October 2025. More details: www.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/services/...

Why do treehoppers look so weird?! Our latest paper, out this week in @pnas.org, suggests a perhaps unexpected reason - static electricity ⚡ We show that treehoppers can detect the electrostatic cues of predators and that their crazy shapes may boost their electrosensitivity! doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

🚨Very happy that my PhD work is now out in @nature.com! We discovered that evolution, by acting in the midbrain, shifted the threshold to escape in Peromyscus mice, to fine-tune defensive strategies in different environments www.nature.com/articles/s41... This was a truly collaborative effort! 🧵⬇️

As Requested - A Starter Pack of PIs in Biology (or adjacent) fields who are recruiting POSTDOCS! Please don't hesitate to reach out if you wish to be added! go.bsky.app/4gbXXR3

Are you a PI in a biology field looking for postdocs? Here is a Starter Pack of early career biologists currently seeking postdoctoral positions! (Also if you are searching for a postdoc, let me know if you want to be added!) go.bsky.app/8zZNEGV

Proposal recommended for funding! Which means we have a fresh, 3-year-funded position available for a computational postdoc interested in studying dynamics of social interactions in rats, with simultaneous Neuropixels data to follow 🐀🐀🐀 Proper job ad pending, but email me if interested!

Happy 107th Birthday, Brenda Milner! Her contributions to neuropsychology shaped the way we understand the human brain. From surviving two world wars and two pandemics, to paving the way for future generations of researchers, Milner’s legacy continues. @mcgill.ca @cusm-muhc.bsky.social

As grants are canceled, delayed and subject to general uncertainty, participating in study sections can feel futile. But I think it’s more important than ever, writes @tuthill.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/craft-and-ca...

Our collaboration - from PhD work - examining input-specific (EC L3) contributions to rate and temporal coding in CA1 place cells is now out in @natcomms.nature.com 🔬🧠 rdcu.be/evWtz

New Preprint from the lab, and the second half of Elizabeth Hodge’s masters project - we dived into whether shifts in visual #foraging behaviours and spatial #memory in #Heliconius involved changes in sensory systems🧪 1/n

Anyone considering taking the next steps of their research career in Germany should take a look at the @dfg.de Emmy Noether programme - fantastic support and an amazing opportunity to establish an independent group, hire a team, and commit 6 years to developing a research programme!

🚨We're hiring!🚨 St. Olaf is launching a new Neuroscience Major and seeks a tenure-track neuroendocrinologist to help shape its future 🧠✨ Passionate about inclusive teaching, research, and mentoring at a SLAC? Join us! #NeuroJobs @animbehsociety.bsky.social @neuroethology.org ‪@sbn-bsky.bsky.social‬

Our study is out in Nature! Using wireless Neuropixels we recorded hippocampal activity in freely flying bats and uncovered replay and theta(less) sweeps, revealing striking differences from classic rodent models. 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...