Countries with ants vs countries without ants

Yesterday was the official kick-off meeting of the booster units of the University of Oldenburg where we presebted our #AnHuNav project ↘️ www.uol.de/anhunav ↙️ 🐏🐐🫏🐪🕊🏛🧭🗺 It was a pleasure to meet all other members and to discuss about #interdisciplinarity and related advantages, challenges and needs 🤩

In addition to all the cool #neuroscience input 🧠🧪, we were fed with amazing food 😋 and had guided through the campus in Dahlem to learn more about the last 100 years of science in the "German Oxford". Thanks to @mpinb.mpg.de and @maxplanck.de for making it possible 🙏

Thanks to @sepikeshavarzi.bsky.social, @petrznam.bsky.social and Jason Kerr for a fantastic conference in Berlin! I am still filled with joy about the discussions and processing all new facts about how animals (species diverse as 🐀🐵🐳🐬🐟🦋🐜🪰🐦🦅) sense the world around them while moving through it 🧠🧭🗺

✨️The RIN conference on Animal Navigation was great! My highlights: 🏅Neurobiology session including a talk by nobel laureate John O'Keefe and that @katejj.bsky.social advertised the navigation challenges book 🏅Introducing my team to the community, meeting old friends & new people 🏅London at night 🤩

28 months later: In December 2024, I participated in the Ernst Strüngmann Forum on #Navigation #Research 🧭🧪 Now the book has been published including our chapter of group 2 ("team zoo" 🦠🐜🐦🦞🐒🦍🐢🤖) on the "Universal Principles of Navigation across Species and Spatial Scales" ↘️ doi.org/10.1007/978-... ↙️

✨️💜 Women's power 💜✨️ At today's @sfb1372.bsky.social meeting we had discussion on #diversity #equity and #inclusion and are solidary with #WomensStrikeDay #OhneUnsStehtAllesStill #WomenInSTEM 💜👩‍🔬🧪🙎‍♀️💜

🐜 Super interesting & important @pnas.org study by @mpi-ce.bsky.social research team @yukoulrich.bsky.social revealing how complex the consequences of pollutants can be 😱 I was asked for my opinion about the study for @trouw.nl. A friend living in Amsterdam just sent me a copy of the newspaper 📰🥰

Today we celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science by highlighting the incredible women of SFB 1372 advancing our understanding of birds, behaviour, and the natural world 🐦🔬 A small glimpse of the brilliant minds behind our research ⬇️ ##WomenInScience

I am proud to present our recent #neuroethology paper on #magnetoreception in #ants today on the #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience where all authors are #WomenInSTEM @chiaratenne.bsky.social 🤩👩‍🔬🧪🧠🐜🧭 Thanks to @sfb1372.bsky.social for featuring our research in a video 🤩 doi.org/10.1007/s003...

New study shows that Cataglyphis hellenica 🐜 learns a nest direction by using a magnetic compass 🧲🧭. Demonstrating that a magnetic compass is widespread in Cataglyphis ants. @chiaratenne.bsky.social @cataglyphilosophy.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🤩 Very proud to announce that today @chiaratenne.bsky.social first #ant paper has been published in #JCP-A @springernature.com 🥳🧪👩‍🔬 We show that also C. hellenica has a magnetic sense suggesting that magnetoreception is rather common than unique in #Cataglyphis ants 🧭🐜🇬🇷 ↘️ doi.org/10.1007/s003... ↙️

I love that ants are chosen to visualize the conference topic #GrandChallenges 😍🐜 #AntsForFuture

To learn more details, watch our #SciCom video on this surprising finding!

Such a cool study with surprise result 🤯 The #bird #retina works under anoxic conditions 👀 🐦 Check out the paper with in @nature.com ⬇️ And watch the supercool video of @sfb1372.bsky.social 🎞

Have fANTastic holidays, everyone! 🎄💫🐜✨️

Back home & filled with great memories of my Australia field trip🌏🇦🇺 Thanks to Eric Warrant & team @lundvision.bsky.social for hosting me & the chance for becoming a temporary moth-researcher #KonishiAward @neuroethology.org to study #magnetoreception & #navigation in the spectacular #Bogong moth🧭✨🦋

And I think, I have a found first christmas present for my kids 😍🎁🐦🧭🧪📖 Such a cool project by a @sfb1372.bsky.social team around @genmig.bsky.social from the @ifv-whv.bsky.social and with amazing illustrations by @co-la.bsky.social transferring research results in a children book 😱🥰 Check it out 👇

The history of escalation of the #honeybee #odometer controversy in the @neuroethology.org research community can now be tracked in this collection of @springernature.com #JCP-A 🧪🧠🐝 I highly recommend reading Eric Warrant's editorial @lundvision.bsky.social and the follow-up replies ⬇️

🤩 And here we go - thrilled to announce that two #AnHuNav postdoc positions are availble now ⬇️ Join us in exploring how humans navigated the ancient world - with the aid of animals!? 🧭🗺💫🐫🕊🐜🏛 1️⃣ Cognitive and textual #navigation uol.de/job785 2️⃣ #Archaeology of trade&pilgramage routes uol.de/job786en

🤩 Another new PI-milestone: Being at meetings with the whole team and several contributions from our lab. @chiaratenne.bsky.social, Yibo Ma and Dhanashree presented their research 🧪 on #InsectNavigation at the annual meetings of the @sfb1372.bsky.social and the #ForschungszentrumNeurosensorik 🐜🧠🧭

With a homepage, everything becomes more concrete 🥰 Check out our #AnHuNav project on Animal and Human Navigation in Antiquity 🧭🕊🐫🐜🏛 ↘️ www.uol.de/anhunav ↙️ Stay tuned, we will soon advertise positions 🤗

🤗 Welcome to our two new lab members: Yibo Ma, @sfb1372.bsky.social short-term fellow, and Dhanashree Kishor Alshi, #Neuroscience 🧠🧪 master student, both curious about #neuroethology of #insect #navigation and #magnetoreception 🐜🧭 Looking forward to working together and their projects! 🤩

Thanks also to the @dzg-neurobiology.bsky.social section, especially to the speaker team Suanne Neupert and @maxfarnworth.bsky.social, for doing a great job in taking care of the #neurobiology content at the #DZG 💖🧠💕

The #DZG2025 is over and I am filled with great memories and zoological input 🥰 Thanks to the organisers @dzg2025berlin.bsky.social for this ✨️great✨️ conference! 👏👏👏 @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social @humboldtuni.bsky.social @mfnberlin.bsky.social Below I share are my favourite facts that I learned ⬇️

Chiara Tenneriello, PhD student of @cataglyphilosophy.bsky.social talked today about her research on testing whether desert ants have a particle-based magentic compass. #dzg2025 @chiaratenne.bsky.social

🤩 It's always a pleasure to present our #ant #research 🧪🐜🧭☀️, especially to such a nice audience 🧠💖 @dzg-neurobiology.bsky.social ✨️New level of proudness: @chiaratenne.bsky.social presents parts of her project in her very 1st conference talk @dzg2025berlin.bsky.social🥳 Brilli🐜 presentation🤩 #ProudPi

🤩 Phenomenal start @dzg2025berlin.bsky.social with special insights into #Botany & #Paleontology: Tomato specimen collected by Humboldt 😱🍅🌱 at the Herbarium of the Botanical Garden and Icebreaker event at the the Dinosaur Hall 🦕🦖🏛 of @mfnberlin.bsky.social Looking forward to the next #Zoology days 😍

Spread the word: we’re #hiring! We offer two short-term #fellowships for master’s degree holders and PhD candidates for 6-12 months to excellent researchers, who are interested in doing research within one dedicated project of our SFB/CRC 1372. Find more information on www.sfb1372.de/jobs

Come and join us here in Oldenburg 🤗 @sfb1372.bsky.social has two open short-term fellowships for master degree holders that want to do resesarch with us 🧭🐜🐦🦇🧪🔬🥼🧬 More information: ↘️ www.sfb1372.de/jobs ↙️ If you have any questions, feel free to ask 🗨💬 Please share or apply 🤩

New mission for our SFB fellow Pauline - together with two historians of our university she will now be researching the question: were animals in antiquity the forerunners of modern navigation systems with their migrations and did they show people the way? uol.de/aktuelles/fe...

🤩 I am incredible happy and excited that our interdisciplinary project " #AnHuNav - Animal and Human #Navigation in the Ancient Southern Levant" receives funding by the University of Oldenburg in the framework of #zukunft.niedersachsen ↘️ uol.de/aktuelles/fe... ↙️ ✨️☀️🌊🕊🐫🐫🐫💫🧭🏛 #NaviSense

Here we go again: field resesarch 🧪🌳✨️ First #LightTrapping session for our @sfb1372.bsky.social #arthropod #biodiversity project in collaboration with @robertrollins1892.bsky.social in @genmig.bsky.social lab from the @ifv-whv.bsky.social 💡🦋 🕷🪲🦟 I just love the trap that looks like a 👻! Or 🪼?

Okay, my philosophy of biology peeps! Is there any good literature comparing Western and non-Western views on the "essence" of species - what makes an organism the kind of thing it is (if kinds exist!) - where that comes from, how it could be encoded or transmitted...?

Registration is open for our 2nd international conference for early career researchers on Magnetoreception and Navigation in Animals. 19.-21.11.2025 in Hamburg, Germany. Abstract submission extended to 8/8/25 :-) www.sfb1372.de/young-resear...

😭 Sad to miss the #GRC #neuroethology conference co-organised by Miriam Liedvogel @genmig.bsky.social from our @sfb1372.bsky.social, 😊 but very happy that our #research on #magnetoreception in #ants 🧪🐜🧠🧭🌞 is presented by my dear friend and co-antpert Robin Grob to the @neuroethology.org community 😊👍

The past two weeks showed me why being a #neuroethologist is the best job 😍 Field work in Greece 🇬🇷: ➡️ observing #ants 🐜 ➡️ lab experiments 🔬🧠 ➡️ scientific discussions🧪💬 ➡️ teaching & supervision ➡️ great food 🍽. I can't wait to discuss the data in the future🤩 Thanks @chiaratenne.bsky.social & team🤗

How do animals navigate? A recent study in @nature.com reveals that #BogongMoths use a stellar compass for their long-distance migration ✨️🧭🌏 I was asked for my opinion about this fascinating result by my dear colleagues @lundvision.bsky.social 🤩 ↘️ www.npr.org/2025/06/18/n... ↙️ @sfb1372.bsky.social

🥳🥳🥳 We are thrilled that #NaviSense will be funded as a #ClusterOfExcellence by @dfg.de for the next seven years. Here you can find more information about our 🧪 research: ↘️ www.navisense.org ↙️ 🗺🧭🐜🐦🐟🦇🦋🦐 #ExStra 🤗 Congratulations also to our fellow clusters #Hearing4all 🦻and #OceanFloor 🌊

Überragender Erfolg für die Universität Oldenburg: Im Exzellenzwettbewerb war sie mit den drei Exzellenzclustern Hearing4all, Ocean Floor und NaviSense erfolgreich. In den Vorhaben geht es um Hörforschung, Meeresforschung und Tiernavigation... weiterlesen

I highly recommend webinars by @anne-schreiter.bsky.social 🤩 This one will be very useful for international researchers that aim to continue their career in the German academic system. Check it out ⬇️ @sfb1372.bsky.social @neuroethology.org @dzg-behaviour.bsky.social @neurowissg.bsky.social

🤩Filled with joy&tons of #neuroethology input. Many first times: ✅️Visiting Montpellier (beautiful city!) ✅️Presenting as a plenary speaker (thanks for the invitation & lively discussion) ✅️Being a poster judge (great science, difficult choice) ✅️Getting to know new people (➕️ meeting again old friends)

Some of the participants of the Neuroethology meeting, satellite of the annual meeting of the French Neuroscience Society. We had a terrific day in Montpellier with fascinating talks and exciting discussions! Thanks to Manu Perisse and his team for the wonderful hosting!

🤩 Finally on my way to the Annual Meeting of the #FrenchNeuroethologyClub in Montpellier. I am very honored to be one of this year's invited speakers and I look forward to the discussions with the 🇫🇷 French @neuroethology.org community about cool #neuroethology research 🧠🧪 inclunding ours 🐜🧭☀️

Come and join us in #Oldenburg 🤗 If you have questions, feel free to ask me - I am one of the current @sfb1372.bsky.social research group fellows 🧪👩‍🔬working on #magnetoreception and #navigation

Just came back from the inspiring and intense @sfb1372.bsky.social meeting at @ruhr-uni-bochum.de. It was a pleasure discussing science 🧪 with all colleagues studying #AnimalNavigation and #Magnetoreception 🧭 Thanks to @chiaratenne.bsky.social for presenting our results on #ant navigation 🐜

🤩 I just registered for the Annual meeting of the #FrenchNeuroethologyClub a satellite of #NeuroFrance2025 @socneuro.bsky.social. I look forward to discussing our #research 🧪 there with the french @neuroethology.org community 🐜🧠🧭💙🤍♥️ Register here ↘️ www.zebrain.bio.ens.psl.eu/neuroetholog... ↙️

I reached one goal in life 🤩😊😉: Being refered to as "ant expert" ["Ameisenexpertin"] in media 🥰🐜🧪👩‍🔬✅️ Read here an @stern.de article about the recent invasion of Tapinoma magnum #ants in Germany [in German] for which I was interviewed ↘️ www.stern.de/panorama/wel... ↙️

It was really exiting to present a poster about one of my PhD projects at my University in Oldenburg for the sfb1372 symposium! It was a great symposium and I had the possibility to discuss science with so many interesting people! #conference @sfb1372.bsky.social