A great conference week @behaviour2025.bsky.social meeting new & old colleagues. Presented our work on butterfly seasonal wing polyphenism: influence of humidity+host plant quality & bird vision modelling of wing patterns. Glad to have received the Best Poster Award (+ a beautiful painting)!

#ABL2025 Plenary Spotlight: Dr Amir Patel ⭐ Join us on Nov 13-14 to learn how Dr Patel’s team decoded cheetah locomotion and its far-reaching implications for biomechanics and high-speed robotics. 🐆 Learn more: ablaoc25.sciencesconf.org

#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

🎥 Missed it live? Catch the replay! Get practical tips on resilience, communication, and building healthier research cultures with our amazing panellists Marion Miezenbeek, Raquel Cossío-Bayúgar & Karla Rossanet Dzul-Rosado. ▶️ Watch now: youtube.com/live/4g6bv3Q... #AcademicCareers

We welcome the 2nd plenary speaker at #ABL2025. 🙌🙌 @anna-stoeckl.bsky.social‬ from @uni-konstanz.de‬ reveals how insect pollinators interpret floral patterns to guide foraging. From hawkmoth vision to neural templates—this talk will bridge behaviour, neuroethology & sensory biology. 🦋🪻

Our false head work is out! By analysing ~1000 #butterflies, we found many traits at posterior end of hindwings evolved correlatedly, likely forming a trait complex w/adaptive function to dupe predators into thinking these traits together are actual head!! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

We’re thrilled to announce plenary speakers at #ABL2025. 🙌 Dr Amir Patel @ucl.ac.uk blends robotics & biology to decode the cheetah’s lightning-fast moves. 🐆 From deep learning to legged robots, get ready for a wild sprint through biomechanics, evolution & tech! #Biomechanics #Robotics

📢 Abstract submissions for Animal Behaviour Live Annual Conference are now OPEN! 🗓 Deadline: 7 Sept 2025 🎤 Choose from: 🔹 15-min live or recorded talk 🔹 5-min pre-recorded video poster (our classic format!) 📄 Submit here: ablaoc25.sciencesconf.org #ABL2025

What a fascinating study on the false heads of some butterflies! 🤩🦋 Great presentation by @tarunyumnam.bsky.social #EMPSEB30 @empseb30.bsky.social

Thanks @empseb30.bsky.social for the best conference so far. Such amazing planning and execution with so many cool and enthusiastic people all around to enjoy while discussing science. And the award was an added sweet memory to this beautiful experience.

💥💥 Our annual conference #ABL2025 is back! 💥💥 Join us 13–14 Nov 2025 for 2 exciting days: 🔹 6 sessions 🔹 6 stellar plenaries 🔹 Talks & posters on diverse topics 🔹 Global-friendly time zones 🌍 Mark your calendar 📅 and don't miss #ABL2025! 📌 Stay tuned—registration details will be announced soon

"Co-evolve with vision" is my entry for the art competition by @ssegrad.bsky.social. #EvoArt2025.

Our new paper is out. We point out that large brained (and often smart) mammals and birds have evolved very different distribution of neurons numbers in the brain. This means that similar cognitive abilities have evolved in very different brains. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

📣SEMINAR SERIES 2025📣 We are kicking off 2025 with our first seminar. 📆Tuesday 29th April 2025 at 2pm GMT on our Youtube channel: @damienfarine.bsky.social will talk about “The costs of collective behaviour” 🐦 🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=wc9z... This event is free, no registration required. 🤗

Found an interesting co-author in an interesting paper.

Hello World! After almost a month of starting a research group - finally the announcement :) We are the 'Active Sensing Collectives' group (tinyurl.com/yckehxys) at the CASCB in the University of Konstanz. We're still growing, see PhD position ad below. @cbehav.bsky.social @uni-konstanz.de z.de

Wood Sandpiper, Vellayani Lake, India Observed during the #GBBC2025 . Big shout out to Kushankur, who led the #birding #birds #nature #nikon #Kerala #sandpipers #wetlands

A mating pair of the dark-brand bush brown, 𝘔𝘺𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘴 𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘶𝘴. #Kerala, India #butterflies #lepidoptera #insects #nature #macro #wildlife

The beautiful bipectinate antennae of 𝘕𝘦𝘱𝘪𝘵𝘢 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘢! IISER Thiruvananthapuram, India #moth #insect #lepidoptera #macrophoto

I happen to photograph stuff other than lantern bugs. Which is your favourite? www.nickybay.com/macro-highli...

Planned for birding short trek, but greeted with rain+drizzle+misty landscapes. Saw a flutter of Red Pierrots. Here you can see the hindwing rubbing movement! #Bonacaud, #Kerala

We are far from conserving migratory butterflies. Our new paper shows that current protected areas are inadequate for 👉84% of migratory butterfly species in at least one season 👉45% of species in all seasons. (1/7) doi.org/10.1111/cobi...

I have two #PhD student #opportunities. Both PhDs are in the areas of #molecular #ecology and #evolution. Both studying #insects. One studying #butterflies, one studying #ants. Reposts are greatly appreciated 👍 🔗s 👇 🐜 www.findaphd.com/phds/project... 🦋 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Convergent iridescence in sympatric Morpho butterfly species! New preprint by @joledamoisel.bsky.social

Evolution journal editors resign en masse to protest Elsevier changes The mass resignation is the 20th such episode since early 2023, according to our records.

A beautiful Western Sheep Moth (Hemileuca eglanterina) in a Garry Oak meadow as the sun sets.

The amazing migration of some butterflies across long distances. Shown, the migration route of painted lady butterflies from Africa to Europe. whyevolutionistrue.com/2024/12/26/r...

Boxing Day at the Old Park Hill Greenhouses #Heliconius

I've got a book event at BIC, Bengaluru on Jan 4th. Come join us and we'll start the new year with a fun chat about overconfidence. #BeyondDoubt #Overconfidence

joining the #Xit with a butterfly image as first post to match the logo. 𝘋𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘶𝘴 𝘤𝘩𝘳𝘺𝘴𝘪𝘱𝘱𝘶𝘴 | Mohali, India