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Horst Obenhaus
3 days ago
Do you love quantifying animal behavior as much as we do? We have just the tool for you! Presenting
#OCTRON
- a pipeline that helps you create rich annotation data and enables training of custom segmentation models. Have a look, particularly if you work with non-model / invertebrate organisms!
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Stanley Heinze
4 days ago
Very proud of this new paper from the lab! Work by the magnificent Andrea Adden and many brilliant collaborators illuminate how moth and butterfly brains have evolved in light of different ecologies. Freely available here:
rdcu.be/eVR3B
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Sam Matchette
5 days ago
🚨NEW PAPER🚨 Need to
#camouflage
on the move? Easy - simply seek out something that's coloured like you and move along with it! 🐠 Read the latest
#trumpetfish
instalment here:
tinyurl.com/4tb5h5hk
@royalsociety.org
#shadowing
#predator
#experiment
#marine
#movement
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Gabriele Uhl
7 days ago
News on the function of tremulation: Female Pisaura mirabilis spiders are not appeased by the courtship tremulations of males - at least in our playback setup. Result of Stefan ter Haar's internship from Groningen led by
@monikaeberhard.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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No Appeasement Through Vibrations: Male Vibratory Pre‐Copulatory Courtship in the Cursorial Spider Pisaura mirabilis Does Not Affect Female Predatory Response
Male courtship can serve various purposes such as species recognition, mate localization, or advertisement of individual quality and physical condition. In predatory species such as spiders, courtshi...
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/eth.70042
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Communications Biology
9 days ago
Discovery of chemosensory sensilla with different distributions on the body appendages and between the sexes of a cursorial spider, combined with evidence of olfactory mate attraction, provides insights into chemical communication in spiders.
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www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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Pawel Burkhardt
2 months ago
First neurons didn’t appear overnight. We trace their roots to ancient secretory cells - showing how lifestyle & behavior shaped the evolution of first synapses.🧠🌊
#Evolution
#Neuroscience
Our latest in
@natrevneuro.nature.com
Link:
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@jeffcolgren.bsky.social
@msarscentre.bsky.social
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The evolutionary origins of synaptic proteins and their changing roles in different organisms across evolution
Nature Reviews Neuroscience - Recent studies have shed further light on the evolutionary origins of chemical synapses, In this Review, Colgren and Burkhardt explore how ancient proteins were...
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Pawel Burkhardt
9 days ago
Thrilled to see our review article "The evolutionary origins of synaptic proteins" highlighted on the cover of Nature Reviews Neuroscience 🤩.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@msarscentre.bsky.social
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Gaspar Jekely
11 days ago
Our dispatch: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982225014691 on the recent Hydra volume EM paper by Zhang, Rafa Yuste and colleagues:
#connectomics
, without synapses https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982225013090
#neuroscience
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Check out this super cool paper studying the meows and purrs of humans' other best friends and their comparison to wild felines! 😻
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animal prattle
11 days ago
what's in a meow?? 🐈 New from
@berlinbatlab.bsky.social
! 1. "we examined meows and purrs to establish how individual identity is encoded" 2. stronger individual signature in purrs than in meows 3. domestic cat meows more variable than those of wild felids
#bioacoustics
#prattle
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#neuroskyence
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Royal Society Publishing
14 days ago
Reflection of circularly polarized light by Chrysina beetles has been one of the ever-present themes in the study of structural colours in Nature. Read 'Micro-optics in the cuticle of matt-green Chrysina beetles create spatially projected images':
doi.org/10.1098/rsos...
#RSOS
#biomaterials
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Royal Society Publishing
13 days ago
New
#BiologyLetters
paper: Longer matings increase male competitive fertilization success in Drosophila melanogaster:
doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...
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Why do humans dance, if our ancestors and primates in general are not vocal learners? It is widely thought that only vocal-learning species are able of moving to a beat... Right? In this new paper authors show that macaques can synchronize to a beat spontaneously
www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1...
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Monkeys have rhythm
Synchronizing movements to music is a hallmark of human culture, but its evolutionary and neurobiological origins remain unknown. This ability requires (i) extracting a steady rhythmic pulse, or beat,...
https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.adp5220
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Journal of Experimental Biology
15 days ago
In her Outside JEB article, @KristinaMuise reports on Jonasson & co's Biology Letters paper showing that some migratory bats are lured toward wind turbine blades by the moonlight reflecting off of them, causing the bats to run into the blades
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MultiplEye Lab
14 days ago
Join us for your PhD! Apply by 15th Dec ⏰ to come to
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
and study spider eyes, development and visual ecology under light pollution! Open to all nationalities, funded incl. stipend, set in a beautiful city, and with amazing collaborators ✨
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Tomer J. Czaczkes
about 1 month ago
PhD position - How jumping spiders see - Put cute spiders on trackballs! - Program fancy automated experiments! - Do cutting edge research! - Hang out in beautiful Italian cities! - Be supervised by a super nice chap! Like invertebrate behaviour and computation stuff? You'll love this. Link in 🧵
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Max Farnworth
15 days ago
New paper covering what we think is a pretty nice and comprehensive overview over tools suitable for neuroethology in butterflies and moths. Also, check out the whole special issue if you're an insect neuroethologist.
@neuroethology.org
@dzg-neurobiology.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1007/s003...
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Emerging tools to advance neuroethology in butterflies and moths - Journal of Comparative Physiology A
Journal of Comparative Physiology A - Butterflies and moths have played historically important roles in developing our understanding of both ecology and evolutionary biology, and neuroethology. In...
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00359-025-01785-y
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Mario Carta
19 days ago
New review out! 🔥🧊 We break down how rodents, primates & insects encode temperature in Nature Reviews Neuroscience. Paper:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The neuronal circuits and cellular encoding of thermosensation - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
The thermosensory system across insects and mammals has shared principles of neuronal wiring and encoding. In this Review, Carta, Vestergaard and Poulet discuss how the nervous systems of insects and ...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41583-025-01001-5
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James Gilbert
22 days ago
🚨New
#behavioural
#mimicry
paper out in Proc B!🚨 In which we show that hoverflies have evolved to prefer the flower colour choices of their
#bee
models instead of their
#fly
relatives. Conversation article here:
theconversation.com/natures-grea...
Paper here:
doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
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Nature’s greatest method actors: the insects that cosplay bumblebees
When you’re an animal undercover, sometimes it’s not enough just to look like someone else
https://theconversation.com/natures-greatest-method-actors-the-insects-that-cosplay-bumblebees-268045
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michael chimento
22 days ago
New paper out today w
@dalmaijer.bsky.social
@barbaraklump.bsky.social
and
@lucymaplin.bsky.social
as part of the Phil Trans special issue
doi.org/10.1098/rstb...
. Over 2 years, we studied a population of cockatoos thought to be the source of the innovation of bin-opening.
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Daniel Kronauer
21 days ago
The final version of the clonal raider ant reference brain is now out OA in
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: 🐜 🧠 🐜 🧠 🐜 🧠 🐜 🧠 🐜 🧠 🐜
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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🚨 New paper out by Granados-Martínez et al. "Poison
#frogs
rely on vision for
#homing
in natural environments" 🐸👀🌳
@royalsocietypublishing.org
Check it out: ↘️
doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
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#Navigation
#Dendrobatidae
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Champalimaud Research
23 days ago
🧠 Applications for the International Neuroscience Doctoral Programme (INDP)
@champalimaudf.bsky.social
open until 31 January 2026. ☀️ Join our vibrant and international research community in sunny Lisbon! 🔗
fchampalimaud.org/champalimaud...
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Hagar Lavian
23 days ago
Very excited to share this thread on our recent paper! We show how Zebrafish integrate visual navigation signals in aligned topographic maps. Full thread below🧵
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Elli Leadbeater
22 days ago
New PhD position available! For applicants keen to combine evolutionary ecology, neuroscience and animal cognition. Based at UCL with me,
@maxreuter.bsky.social
,
@fcamus.bsky.social
and Tamara Boto (Bristol). Directly funded, see here for details and eligibility:
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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How Memory Evolves: Integrating Cognitive Ecology, Neuroscience, and Experimental Evolution in Drosophila at University College London on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - How Memory Evolves: Integrating Cognitive Ecology, Neuroscience, and Experimental Evolution in Drosophila at University College London, listed on FindAPhD.com
https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/how-memory-evolves-integrating-cognitive-ecology-neuroscience-and-experimental-evolution-in-drosophila/?p192456
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Royal Society Publishing
22 days ago
Are you studying or working in science with an interest in photography? You can find out and how to enter next year's competition and learn more about this year's winners here:
royalsociety.org/journals/pub...
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Royal Society Publishing Photography Competition | Royal Society
Celebrating the power of photography to communicate science.
https://royalsociety.org/journals/publishing-activities/photo-competition/
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Ahmed El Hady
24 days ago
Konstanz school of Collective Behavior will take place again from 20th July to 7th August , 2026. We have an amazing line up of speakers covering state of the art research on collective behavior across systems. Application deadline : March 15th Details here:
www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/kscb/applica...
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Gonzalo de Polavieja
24 days ago
Call is out for Champalimaud International Neuroscience Doctoral Programme 2026!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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🚨 New paper out in
@jexpbiol.bsky.social
by Mattens et al
@cintiaoi.bsky.social
@twenseleers.bsky.social
on "Age-related differences in learning,
#memory
and
#brain
#plasticity
in workers of the common
#wasp
Vespula vulgaris" 🧠🐝 ↘️
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Age-related differences in learning, memory and brain plasticity in workers of the common wasp Vespula vulgaris
Learning, memory, and brain plasticity are thought to play an important role in regulating behavioural roles in social insects, as workers perform different tasks as nurses, builders, foragers and def...
https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.251673
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Compared to ☀️ 🐝with a life span of 4-6 weeks, ⛄️🐝 live up to 8 months. Despite strong differences in lifespan, physiological, and environmental conditions, the capacity for neuronal plasticity is preserved in winter bees.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Textbook neurons are usually spiking. However, there exist plenty of non-spiking neurons whose information transmission is less understood. Shirahata et al. studied Ca-dynamics of non-spiking mechanosensory neurons in crickets that are sensitive to air flow.
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Subcellular Information Processing in Mechanosensory Non‐Spiking Interneurons
We measured membrane potential and Ca2+ responses to airflow from different angles in cricket mechanosensory local non-spiking interneurons (LNIs). LNIs exhibited spatially heterogeneous patterns of ...
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ejn.70331?utm_medium=article&utm_source=researchgate.net
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The cocktail party effect describes the challenge to extract acoustic signals from interferring background noise. A new study
@jexpbiol.bsky.social
shows that ♀️ crickets respond similarly to conspecific ♂️ song in natural & anthropogenic soundscapes.
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Rivers and roads, silence and songs: female crickets respond similarly to conspecific male song in natural and anthropogenic soundscapes
Many studies have demonstrated that anthropogenic noise affects animals’ auditory perception of salient stimuli. Few have tested whether these effects are different from those experienced in nature. W...
https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/doi/10.1242/jeb.250817/369989/Rivers-and-roads-silence-and-songs-female-crickets
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A new study from
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et al. shows that sublethal chemical polution affects learning and memory in mosquito larvae.
@jexpbiol.bsky.social
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Acute and chronic sublethal chemical pollution affects activity, learning and memory in mosquito larvae
Freshwater ecosystems play a critical role in supporting biodiversity and providing essential environmental services. However, these ecosystems are increasingly threatened by human activities, includi...
https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article-abstract/doi/10.1242/jeb.250493/369800/Acute-and-chronic-sublethal-chemical-pollution?redirectedFrom=fulltext
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Royal Society Publishing
about 1 month ago
Fish alter locomotor and feeding kinematics to capture aerial prey
#ProcB
#OpenAccess
#Biomechanics
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Royal Society Publishing
30 days ago
How do
#ants
find their way in the dark? Many insects use patterns of polarised light in the sky as a built-in compass. This new
#RSOS
paper studied two Australian bull ant species: the nocturnal Myrmecia midas and the daytime Myrmecia tarsata:
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Housing non-kin vampire bats evokes vocal convergence, i.e., calls become more similar than before housing the same individuals together. Food-sharing is linked to vocal convergence.
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Vocal convergence during formation of social relationships in vampire bats | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
In many group-living birds and mammals, the formation of affiliative relationships is hypothesized to cause vocal convergence (an increase in call similarity between individuals). However, testing thi...
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2025.1619
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In social animals, the choose of foraging sites can be biased by social cues of conspecifics. This preprint shows that the presence of hornets on food sources attracts conspecifics or other closely related hornets.
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Social attraction mediates collective foraging decisions in invasive hornets
Group-living animals commonly use social information to better locate and exploit resources. In many insects, birds, fish and mammals, this can lead to collective foraging decisions by which animals s...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.20.689504v1
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Most insects are attracted to light (positive phototaxis). A study
@jexpbiol.bsky.social
shows that phototaxis in nocturnal bees (Megalopta aegis) is wavelength dependent, i.e., show more directed paths to UV🟣 than 🔵, 🟢 light.
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Light wavelength and intensity modulate phototaxis in the nocturnal bee Megalopta aegis
Positive phototaxis in diurnal bees is modulated by wavelength and intensity of light. Unlike diurnal bees, nocturnal bees like Megalopta aegis forage exclusively during twilight, when light intensity...
https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article-abstract/doi/10.1242/jeb.251038/369860/Light-wavelength-and-intensity-modulate-phototaxis?redirectedFrom=fulltext
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Many insects use celestial cues for navigation. A new study characterizes neurons of the cockroach that are sensitive to simulated skylight cues, such as polarized light and solar azimuth.
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Neurons sensitive to sky compass signals in the brain of the Madeira cockroach Rhyparobia maderae - Journal of Comparative Physiology A
Many insects are formidable navigators illustrated by homing behavior in bees and ants or regular seasonal migrations in butterflies, moths, and others. For spatial orientation, many insects rely on c...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00359-025-01775-0
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Journal of Experimental Biology
about 1 month ago
Mystery of how turtles read their magnetic map solved. Alayna Mackiewicz & co reveal that hatchling loggerhead turtles feel the magnetism 🔁
journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
Read the full research at
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Weakly electric fish aim to stay inside moving refuges. Tracking the refuge motion is based on multimodal cues (vision, electro-, mechanosensation). A new behavioral study
@jexpbiol.bsky.social
tested how ambient currents affect this refuge tracking.
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Flow impairs multisensory tracking and increases active sensing in weakly electric fish
Weakly electric fish rely on electrosensory, visual, and mechanosensory (lateral-line) cues to guide behavior in flowing water, yet the effects of ambient currents on multisensory tracking and active ...
https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/doi/10.1242/jeb.251478/369910/Flow-impairs-multisensory-tracking-and-increases
about 1 month ago
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IMPRS-QBEE
about 1 month ago
How do insects use vision to interact with flowers? IMPRS-QBEE student
@lochlanw.bsky.social
, working with
@anna-stoeckl.bsky.social
tells us more about his work on hummingbird hawkmoths and how they interact with flower patterns
@mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social
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Lochlan Walsh | Insect sensory biology
YouTube video by Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
https://youtube.com/shorts/juEhwfW5GnE?si=1lAMuNWtYKkmvmGY
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MultiplEye Lab
about 1 month ago
Come and work with us in our new home
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
! This fully funded PhD opportunity is open to anyone interested in spiders/eyes/light pollution/evolution/development! 🕷️👀 ⏰Deadline 15th December, online info event TODAY @2pm! Link in the PhD advert👉
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Bats are highly social animals showing a huge vocal repetoire. A new study of the Simmons lab monitored vocalizations between pairs of 🦇 that were competing for food in the lab. Six social call types, e.g., frequency-modulated bouts (FMBs), were common.
www.frontiersin.org/journals/eco...
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Frontiers | Social calls of big brown bats in a competitive feeding context
Big brown bats (Eptesicus fuscus) have a diverse vocal repertoire. We tested the hypothesis that frequency-modulated bouts (FMBs) are male-specific calls pro...
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/ecology-and-evolution/articles/10.3389/fevo.2025.1690988/full
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Praying mantises demontrate remarkable camouflage although they had been thought to be colorblind. A new ERG study reveals that 2 of 3 tested mantises species are trichromatic highlighting a physiological capacity for color vision.
@springernature.com
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Praying mantises possess multiple spectral photoreceptor classes - Journal of Comparative Physiology A
Praying mantises often display elaborate camouflage, disappearing into the shapes, textures, and colors around them. But they have largely been thought to be monochromats, unable to perceive the color...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00359-025-01776-z
about 1 month ago
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Royal Society Publishing
about 1 month ago
Preserved
#reptile
scales retain microscopic features, revealing a new instance of convergent evolution. Read more:
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
@jenniferrieser.bsky.social
#JRSocInterface
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The magentic sense is undoubtedly one of the greatest secrets in sensory biology. Whole brain activity mapping in response to 🧲 stimulation revealed a light-independent activity in the medial vestibular nuclei & the caudal mesopallium in the pigeon 🧠
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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A global screen for magnetically induced neuronal activity in the pigeon brain
How animals detect the Earth’s magnetic field remains a mystery in sensory biology. Despite extensive behavioral evidence, the neural circuitry and molecular mechanisms responsible for magnetic sensin...
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aea6425
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Jacopo Razzauti
about 1 month ago
#SfN25
Monday morning we present FERAL: a video-understanding tool for animal behavior detection without the need for tracking or pose estimation! FERAL detects single animal, social and collective behavior in the lab and the wild! Visit our poster at board ZZ5 and check more here:
www.getferal.ai
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about 1 month ago
New research from
#BiologyLetters
: Herring gulls respond to the acoustic properties of men's voices
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🚨 The appearance of plastic debris impairs the visual hunting behavior of reef fish 🐟 in the lab Check it out!
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The appearance of plastic debris results in impaired visually-mediated behavior in a reef fish: Evidence of visual sensory pollution
Macro-plastic debris (MPD) have become ubiquitous pollutants that can negatively impact marine fauna. MPD occur in a wide range of sizes, colors and s…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022098125000097?casa_token=HUpddqVBbxkAAAAA:WlyxERK5jzP3Tt9RLfJlnYAMwdnXmt5J1_OF2-FkVQ3VElc6NYcsez1jtoYzNf_eW9d-Ot4d
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