How is valence computed in the brain? Check out our new preprint about a single cell that integrates excitatory and inhibitory input across modalities according to valence and impacts behavioral decisions. An exciting collaboration across many labs. Enjoy reading! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Overcoming Innate Lateralization Improves Avian Flight Performance https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.24.678238v1

I still think this #SciComm deserves a #Pulitzer. #InsectApocalypse www.reuters.com/graphics/GLO...

Congratulations to Anna Stöckl receiving the prestigious Walther-Arndt award from the German Zoological Society. #dzg2025 @anna-stoeckl.bsky.social 🥳🥂

Carrion crows can be trained to use stick tools with precision and flexibility, demonstrating advanced motor and cognitive skills not typically seen in their wild behavior. doi.org/g927xw

Information, Movement and Adaptation in Human Vision https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.05.674315v1

Grid cells do not operate as a global positioning system but rather estimate position within multiple local reference frames www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Here, the 'ballistic tongues' paper by Yu Zeng and team www.cell.com/current-biol... plus dispatch by Sam Van Wassenbergh www.cell.com/current-biol...

Congrats to Moritz Lürig @mluerig.bsky.social! 👏👏👏 He has been awarded a group starter grant by the European Research Council @erc.europa.eu to create an atlas for moth and butterfly wing patterns using machine learning. www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/mori... 🧵

Excited to share an awesome piece by @drdavidhu.bsky.social in @currentbiology.bsky.social @cellpress.bsky.social about our latest paper! Curious to know how weaver #ants achieve superefficiency when working together? Check it out! 🐜🐜🐜 www.cell.com/current-biol...

Opensourcing a tool to calibrate camera extrinsics painlessly in a minute, no checkerboards! It's based on EasyHEC, using diff. rendering to optimize extrinsics given object meshes+poses. Crazy that even a piece of paper works too. Code: github.com/StoneT2000/s... (paper example in next post)

✨ It’s published! ✨ 🕷️ Social spiders have bigger brains… but only in the right places! Our new study shows that in social huntsman spiders, regions for memory & vision processing are proportionally larger, supporting group living. Read more: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Excited to share our new paper! ✨Natural habitat and wild behaviors of the dwarf cuttlefish, Ascarosepion bandense✨ tinyurl.com/bdew5x3s Our first cuttlefish expedition - diving in the dark to observe our cuttlefish in the wild... Check out the paper & new expedition tool on Cuttlebase.org 🧠

New preprint out from the lab, including @rroyaute.bsky.social: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... In this we test what we refer to as the "standard model" of behavioral variation. This was inspired by recent work identifying intra-genotypic variation as a major contributor to "individuality". 1/

Electrophysiological recordings reveal photoreceptor coupling in the dorsal rim areas of honeybee and bumblebee eyes buff.ly/ULfWjIB | #BiologyLetters #Behaviour #Neuroscience #Bees

Excited to share my latest work with @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social & @andpru.bsky.social! We asked: How does the motor cortex account for arm posture when generating movement? Paper 👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/10

🚨 PhD alert! IMPRS brain & behavior in Bonn just opened their calls for applications. Great PhD funding opportunities. Check it out! PS- I just joined their faculty, meaning you could do a rotation in my lab or even a PhD with me on spider sleep 🙃 Apply! 🚨

Octopuses sense environmental microbiomes to drive predatory and parental behaviors. Artwork by Lily Soucy. #evolution #sensation #microbiome @cellpress.bsky.social

The first complete activity map of a mammalian brain has revealed unprecedented insights into how decisions are made – and may even hint at the roots of intuition.

#ABL2025 Plenary Spotlight: Dr Anna Stöckl @anna-stoeckl.bsky.social ⭐ Join us on Nov 13-14 to learn how Dr Stöckl’s team @insect-vision.bsky.social unravelled the fascinating ways in which pollinators see the hidden patterns of flowers.🦋🌻 Learn more about the conference: ablaoc25.sciencesconf.org

Super excited to share the first cooperative foraging paradigm in freely interacting mouse pairs! Stable leader and follower roles emerge spontaneously and predict learning. Well-trained mice show stereotyped, role-specific “behavioral motifs” absent in naive animals (1/5) doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Bees use the sun's position in the sky for navigation – even on cloudy days. An international team involving researchers from #UniKonstanz has discovered how a particular part of bees' eyes helps them do this: https://t1p.de/ybjmj

Our findings on bees' photoreceptors are now officially published in Biology Letters of the Royal Society Publishing!! Thanks again for a productive collaboration @jjfosterlab.bsky.social and @gregoeur.bsky.social !! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Evolution of behavioural flexibility and the forming and breaking of habits https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.29.673035v1

New paper: Drones & Computer Vision for Collective Animal Behavior 🐾 We show how edge AI + smart mission design turn drone footage into real-time behavior insights—with less disturbance. 🎥 Video Abstract: youtu.be/0DErP4Z5C7Q 📄 Paper: doi.org/10.1111/2041...

New paper in PLOS Biology: as we raise the difficulty of our 3D printed puzzles, bees keep landing on combs with ever stranger hexagonal order! 🐝 Led by the brilliant Golnar Gharooni Fard, in collaboration with CK Prasanna & FL Jiménez journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

our department @zoology.ubc.ca has a tenure-track faculty position opening at the level of Assistant Professor of Teaching in the educational stream with a focus on Neuroscience! please share! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30389

Blood, sweat, and beers: investigating mosquito biting preferences amidst noise and intoxication in a cross-sectional cohort study at a large music festival https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.21.671470v1

A recent study has identified how the motor thalamus drives the brain’s ability to learn complex movements by rewiring circuits in the motor cortex: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/08/11/how-a-tiny-brain-region-helps-you-learn-complex-movements-one-neuron-at-a-time/ #science #neuroscience

Complex behaviour is not limited to animals! Here we map the entire spectrum of waveforms dynamics on a quadriflagellate single cell with 4x 70um (!) #cilia, to a low dimensional behavioural manifold with surprising structure! #protistsonsky All revealed in our new preprint doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Was an action packed and exciting 5 weeks spent at @kitp-ucsb.bsky.social for the #kitp_qbio program! Looking forward to seeing where active sensing navigates to in the coming years

📖Published📖 Price et al. present an open-source easy-to-use workflow, using zebras as an example, that can detect individuals in their natural environment and automatically infer their atomic scale behaviours of standing, grazing, walking and running 🦓 buff.ly/z4qyIyD

🚨Our new paper is out NOW in @jexpbiol.bsky.social 👀 Here we show that cuttlefish use visual contrast cues to inform their 3D camouflage, but these contrast cues can derive from true background features as well as exposure to dynamic lighting patterns. 🦑🔆 🔗 doi.org/10.1242/jeb....

Do ant colonies work like liquid brains? Check this great paper in @pnas.org led by @ceabcsic.bsky.social Pol Fernandez and F.Bartumeus that shows how to explain collective foraging by modelling ants as neural agents @jordipinero.bsky.social @frazambelli.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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...

Among insects, lepidoptera 🦋 show one of the most diverse photoreceptor types 👁, explaining diverse spectral sensitivities including a convergent evolution of red vision. Lu & Kronforst review the lepidopteran eye evolution. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Our paper on foraging is now published in Neuron! Read it here: www.cell.com/neuron/fullt... This project was co-led by Michael Bukwich (not on Bluesky) and me, with major contributions from all co-authors. Huge thanks to the whole team!

A new study @jexpbiol.bsky.social reveals that snails olfactory navigation is modulated by the type of water flow they encountering. journals.biologists.com/jeb/article-...

Happy to announce our latest research contribution: Machine learning training data: over 500,000 images of butterflies and moths (Lepidoptera) with species labels www.nature.com/articles/s41...

5-minute chalk talk with @kitp-ucsb.bsky.social QBIO team today discussing my work with hawkmoths, visuomotor control, and pattern vision 🦋👁️🌺

New work from the lab - final version out: #parallel #processing #optic_flow #flight #vision In hummingbird hawkmoth flight control, natural input prevalence shapes the visual field partitioning of two parallel pathways, but safety relevance determines the integration hierarchy. tinyurl.com/bdfsxea2

The human brain synchronizes visual signals by adjusting axonal conduction speed in the retina—revealing a previously unknown mechanism for precise perceptual timing @anbucci.bsky.social @ffranke.bsky.social @iobswiss.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Move over chimps, it's the mountain gorillas' time to slide (carefully) into action as the true gesture gods they are! Huge congrats to Charlotte Grund on the 1st moutain gorilla gesture repertoire 🦍🤘🦍👏🦍 link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007... 🧪 @erc.europa.eu @uniofstandrews.bsky.social 1/6

We're thrilled to announce the largest private gift in our 137-year history: a $25 million unrestricted donation from MBL Whitman Scientist Mark Terasaki. His extraordinary generosity will bolster our renowned research and education programs. 🔬 Learn more: bit.ly/452WL1m

Check out the newest episode of our podcast "In the Swarm"! Have you ever wondered how tiny insects navigate the world? In this episode, @anna-stoeckl.bsky.social explains how the tiny but mighty insect brain controls behaviour of stunning complexity. www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/collective-b...

@katrinvogt.bsky.social representing @uni-konstanz.de at the #KITP Neurosensing/QBio program, presenting work on the social life of fly larvae! 🪰🪱

Join us for #ASABWinter2025 in Edinburgh Dec 15-16 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Abstracts for posters/talks due Aug 29 More details here: asabwinter.github.io/2025/

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...

Captured a couple shots of this cool lady today. No idea the species though 🕷️

To identify fundamental neuroscientific principles that generalize across species, systems and circuits, neuroscientists must embrace an evolutionary perspective, argue Karl Farrow and @katjareinhard.bsky.social. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neur...