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

Thanks to all of the 22 brilliant speakers, 42 poster presenters and a wonderful audience for making our symposium to a great success with 110 participants from 10 countries! Thanks for coming, discussing, sharing! @ifv-whv.bsky.social @cataglyphilosophy.bsky.social @commonternproject.bsky.social

I am so happy and proud that our first @sfb1372.bsky.social symposium on #AnimalNavigation was such a success. So many great scientists 👨‍🔬👩‍🔬 discussing inspiring #research 🧭🗺🧠🧪! Plus: Oldenburg welcomed all participants with sunshine 🌞 Thanks to everyone who contributed 🤗 ↘️ www.sfb1372.de/symposium ↙️

To celebrate #InternationalDayofWomenAndGirlsinScience, we took this photo of NaviSense ♀️PIs. Find out more about our Cluster of Excellence Initiative here: ↘️ www.navisense.org ↙️ #WomeninSTEM @commonternproject.bsky.social @lundvision.bsky.social @genmig.bsky.social @hifmb.de @sfb1372.bsky.social

I am extremly grateful for the 🧪Research Partnership Kickstart Travel Grant experience I made when I visited Eric's field site in Australia 🌏 Thanks @jexpbiol.bsky.social @biologists.bsky.social 🙏 Check the details about their ECR funding opportunities here ↘️ journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

🤩 Today on air: Bob McDonald interviewed me for the #CBC science program 🧪📻 #QuirksAndQuarks about our recent finding that #DesertAnts have a #PolarityCompass that we published in @currentbiology.bsky.social 🧭🐜 Check it out: ↘️ www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks... ↙️ @sfb1372.bsky.social @neuroethology.org

We @genmig.bsky.social @sfb1372.bsky.social look forward to welcoming all speakers and participants in Oldenburg soon! 🤗 Check out the programme of our symposium "Moving beyond the sensory basis and mechanisms of animal #navigation" ↘️ www.sfb1372.de/programme ↙️ 🧪🧠👁🧭🗺🌞🌙✨️🪰🦋🐜🐀🦠🐦🦐🤖

Read here the @biologists.bsky.social story featuring my #Kickstart Travel Grant to visit Eric Warrant's @lundvision.bsky.social fieldsite in Australia 🌏 last year and how it enabled me to receive a Konishi #Neuroethology Research Award by @neuroethology.org ↘️https://www.biologists.com/stories/↙️🧪🧠🦋

Dear #ISN members, neuroethologists & followers, the ISN council decided to agree that we delete our X account 👋 We will continue to update you here on #Bluesky & we look forward to creating a new #neuroethology community to discuss neurothology topics & research 🧠🧪 Please share in your networks 🙏

😍Please join our team and support the #neuroethology 🧠🐦🐜🦐🐟🦑🐝🪲🕷 community with your excitement for science🧪, your creativity in transporting #research content and your academic network abilities 🤗 If you have any questions about the tasks as a member of the ISN social media team, feel free to ask me!

🚨🚨🚨 Only 3️⃣ days left to register for our @sfb1372.bsky.social symposium 🧪🧭🗺 We look forward to discuss diverse topics from #quantumphysical mechanisms to #environmental & #societal consequences of #AnimalNavigation with you 🤗 Please share & encourage early career scientists in your lab to register ⬇️

New study @currentbiology.bsky.social reveals that ants use a polarity 🧲🧭 for navigation. www.cell.com/current-biol... @cataglyphilosophy.bsky.social

Congrats to our #sfb1372 research group fellow Pauline Fleischmann @cataglyphilosophy.bsky.social and her team for their findings on the magnetic compass of #cataglyphis deserts ants! #magnetoreception #neuroethology #womeninstem

🤩Die Universität Oldenburg hat eine Pressemitteilung über unser Paper verfasst. Lest hier die (deutsche🇩🇪) Zusammenfassung der Forschungsergebnisse 🧪🐜🧭 ↘️https://uol.de/pressemitteilungen/2024/192↙️ #Magnetkompass #Wüstenameisen #Insektennavigation @sfb1372.bsky.social @neuroethology.bsky.social

🚨It is finally out: In our newest paper paper in @currentbiology.bsky.social we show that #Cataglyphis #DesertAnts have a polarity-sensitive magnetic sense 🐜🧭 Please read & share 🧪↘️https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(24)01519-7↙️ #Magnetoreception #Neuroethology #InsectNavigation

Welcome @neuroethology.bsky.social to Blue sky 💙🦋🤩 Please #Neuroethology community members follow here so that we can move completely. Please share our account and link exciting content 🤗🧠🧪 #ISN #AnimalBehavior #Neurobiology #Ethology

🤩 Very excited to be finally on my way to the Ernst Strüngmann Forum on " #Navigation Research: Mapping the Future" 🧭🧪 ↘️ esforum.de/forums/ESF38... #MentalMap 🗺 #SpatialOrientation #PathIntegration 🐜 #NeuralCorrelates 🧠

✅️ And the second bachelor thesis has been finished in our team 🤩👍 Congratulations, Feline! 🥳 Feline had a closer look at the role of the GMF for spatial orientation in darkness 🧭🐜 #Magnetoreception #Cataglyphis #DesertAnts #Neuroethology #WomenInSTEM👩‍🔬👩‍🔬🧪

🤩 Registration is now open for our @sfb1372.bsky.social symposium "Moving beyond the sensory basis and mechanisms of animal navigation" to be held 18-20 of February 2025 in Oldenburg. Register here ↘️https://www.sfb1372.de/symposium↙️ and share the link in your networks 🤗 👩‍🔬👨‍🔬🧪🐜🦠🐁🐦🦋🦐🧠🧭

🤩 Registration is now open for our @sfb1372.bsky.social symposium "Moving beyond the sensory basis and mechanisms of animal navigation" to be held 18-20 of February 2025 in Oldenburg. Register here ↘️https://www.sfb1372.de/symposium↙️ and share the link in your networks 🤗 👩‍🔬👨‍🔬🧪🐜🦠🐁🐦🦋🦐🧠🧭

Almost 4 years ago, in the middle of the pandemic, I joined twitter to discuss about #science and #academia. Since then, eX-twitter changed drastically. I moved my tweets with @en.blueark.app & hope, we can build a new community here👩‍🔬🧪🦋 I am happy to see many new faces and old friends here now 😊

Inspired by @hleisthen.bsky.social and @denizhanpak.bsky.social I've put together a starter pack for neuroethology (broadly defined). Follow these people if you're interested in learning about the mechanisms underlying animal behaviour. Suggestions welcome! go.bsky.app/T5JTFzE

And the clip was finally on TV 📺🥳 Check it out ↘️https://www.ndr.de/fernsehen/sendungen/das/Wuestenameisen-und-ihr-geheimnisvoller-Orientierungssinn,dasx37480.html↙️ It is in German, but the #ant scenes are fantastic also without explanation 🤩🐜🧭#Cataglyphis #Magnetoreception #Insectnavigation