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✨️Today starts the 12th Animal Navigation International Conference “Orientation &
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: Birds, Humans & Other Animals" 🚶🐦🐜🐟🐸🦋🧭🗺 in Egham
@royalholloway.bsky.social
organised by Miriam Liedvogel
@genmig.bsky.social
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Federation of European Neuroscience Societies - FENS
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🌟 Final reminder to apply for the
#FENS
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#IBRO–PERC
Exchange Fellowships! 🧠 This programme allows you to gain laboratory experience in another country by offering funds for short-term research visits within Europe. 🗓️ Deadline: 15 April 2026 👉
buff.ly/fyzElT7
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Chris Simms
3 days ago
And here's one for
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on the amazing biology of the European blister beetle (Meloe proscarabaeus). The larvae, which clump together in an orange mass, are the first animals known to mimic flower scent - they do it to attract bees. 🧪 🪲 🐝 🌼
www.scientificamerican.com/article/beet...
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These baby beetles work together to look—and smell—like flowers
Parasitic beetles are the first animals known to imitate floral scents
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/beetle-larvae-mimic-flower-scents-to-attract-bee-hosts/
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Ever wondered whether the social brain hypothesis applies to the social spiders? Turns out, that it may in at least two of the social spider lineages! Find out more here:
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Volumetric Comparison of Overall Brain and Neuropil Size Between Social and Non‐social Spiders: Exploring the Social Brain Hypothesis
Brain size may be influenced by the cognitive demands of sociality (social brain hypothesis). We used microCT to compare CNS and brain volumes in social versus solitary huntsman and crab spiders. Soc...
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1749-4877.13033
5 days ago
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The Transmitter
8 days ago
Researchers reveal the neural basis of evolving new capabilities by investigating behavioral and morphological differences between deer mouse subspecies.
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By
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Debottam Bhattacharjee
15 days ago
Happy to share our recent publication on 🐒 macaque self-directed behaviours w/ Eva van Dijk Roos de Vries Charlotte Kluiver Mia Valomy Adam Zeeman & Jorg Massen Link to the
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paper -
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Many facets of self-directed behaviours in macaques
Abstract. Emotional states like anxiety are adaptive, assisting individuals during social uncertainty and threats. Humans can self-report anxiety, whereas
https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.252422
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🚨 The tetrachromatic color vision and motion vision of a swallowtail butterfly is explored in this wonderful review by Michiyo Kinoshita & Kentaro Arikawa 🦋🦋🦋
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Vision in flower foraging butterflies: from functional organization of the retina to encoding in the brain
Summary: This Review discusses how processing in the retina and lamina in Papilio xuthus is the first element for its tetrachromatic color vision and chromatic motion vision, whereas higher-order neur...
https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/229/Suppl_1/jeb251214/370605
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What do The Bee Gees and bumblebees have in common? Both bees have rhythm!🕺🪩🐝 check out this new paper where authors show that bumblebees can discriminate rhythms across sensory modalities!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Flexible, abstract rhythm perception in bumble bees
Flexible, abstract rhythm perception underpins human music, dance, and speech, but thus far, it has only been demonstrated in a few birds and mammals. In this work, we show that bumble bees also form ...
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adz2894?et_cid=5920408
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John Tuthill
22 days ago
🧵 New preprint led by
@bingbrunton.bsky.social
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@elliottabe.bsky.social
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@lawrencehu.bsky.social
We gave a worm brain control of a fly body and it walked What did we learn? Nothing, other than deep reinforcement learning is effective We call it the digital sphinx
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Benjamin Judkewitz
about 1 month ago
First whole-brain recording of social sound processing in a vertebrate. Surprises start in the hindbrain; thalamus gates conspecific calls; male and female brains diverge downstream. Work by
@joerghenninger.bsky.social
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@mh123.bsky.social
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www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Datta Lab
22 days ago
Have you ever wondered why mice do what they do when they are free to do whatever they want? Check out our latest (and this slightly delayed thread about our recent paper, led by Caleb Weinreb and friends...)
www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
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Spontaneous behavior is a succession of self-directed tasks
Weinreb et al. reveal a hierarchy of timescales in mouse behavior, including low-level syllables and high-level behavioral states. States and syllables are encoded in different brain areas. Prefrontal...
https://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(25)00894-3?rss=yes
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Ahmed El Hady
16 days ago
Along with
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,
@akhila1498.bsky.social
and Klára Tučková we combine long timescale (3 hr) behavioral tracking of Drosophila larvae in patchy environments with varying statistics, along with quantitative analysis and computational modeling, to dissect foraging strategies. 1/n
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How can tactile information convey information about the spatial position of the object? In this paper,🐭 are able to detect the position of an object through their whiskers and this depends on somatosensory cortex! Read more here:
www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Whisker-based spatial cognition in mice
Mazo et al. show that mice localize and categorize whisker-touched objects in 2D according to task relevance. Optimal task sensitivity requires combining inputs across whisker rows and intact wS1. Str...
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(26)00251-4
17 days ago
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Royal Society Publishing
19 days ago
When pond snails were exposed to both a pleasant taste and a predator smell at the same time, only some learned to associate the taste with danger. Why do some animals learn while others do not? Read new research exploring stress sensitivity and memory formation:
doi.org/10.1098/rsob...
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Increasing temperature reduces decision accuracy by shifting speed–accuracy
#trade-offs
in slower individuals
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Increasing temperature reduces decision accuracy by shifting speed–accuracy trade-offs in slower individuals
Abstract. Cognitive responses are linked to consistent individual behavioural variation, but the potential impact of warming on this relationship remains u
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article/293/2067/20253261/481017/Increasing-temperature-reduces-decision-accuracy
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Lars Chittka
22 days ago
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Honey bees dance better with an audience
Honey bees don’t just perform their famous waggle dance to share directions, they actually adjust how well they dance depending on who’s watching. Researchers found that when fewer bees pay attention,...
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/03/260324230105.htm
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Jerome Beetz
23 days ago
There is still some time to apply for a 3-years PhD position in my lab. If you want to learn how to conduct brain recordings in freely moving bees.
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🚨 New paper out in
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by Bailly et al.
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"Tolerance toward foreigners in ants requires chronic exposure for establishment but only sporadic exposure for maintenance" 🐜
#OlfactoryCommunication
#NestmateRecognition
#Ant
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2026.02.041
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Hannah Haberkern
28 days ago
How does an animal choose between exploring for a better food source and taking advantage of a known one? Our recent work in Current Biology demonstrates how recent feeding and metabolic state dynamically influence fly local search.
bit.ly/3PfrIv3
#Science
#Neurosky
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3️⃣ days left to submit an abstract for poster and oral contributions for
#ICN2026Vancouver
↘️
icn2026vancouver.com/poster-oral-...
↙️ Share widely and come to the most inspiring
#neuroethology
conference 🧠🪱🐟🦋🐦🐸🦎🐢🐝🐜🦀🦞🐙
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Fanny Cazettes
about 1 month ago
Excited to co-organize a
#COSYNE2026
workshop with Marieke Scholvinck (
@zeronoiselab.bsky.social
) on March 17 in Cascais 🧠🌊 *Inferring neural latent states from behavior* Featuring fantastic speakers across experimental & computational
#neuroscience
(list below 👇) Hope to see many of you there! 👋
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Elodie Mandel-Briefer
29 days ago
Registrations are now open for the renowned PhD Summer school in acoustic communication organised by SDU from 2-15.8 Denmark. Deadline 15.4. More info in picture below. 🦜🐳🦗🦇
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Stephen Montgomery
29 days ago
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Butterflies crossing oceans, moths navigating by the stars: unravelling the mysteries of insect migrations
Trillions of insects embark, largely unnoticed, on epic journeys every year across mountain ranges, deserts and seas, and it is only now, as their numbers suffer huge declines, that scientists are tra...
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2026/mar/18/butterflies-crossing-oceans-moths-navigating-stars-insect-migrations-aoe?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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🚨 New paper out in
#JCP-A
@springernature.com
by Williams et al. "Tolerance to future elevated CO2 conditions in sablefish (Anoplopoma fimbria), a deep-water benthic dwelling fish species"
#olfaction
#GABA
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Tolerance to future elevated CO2 conditions in sablefish (Anoplopoma fimbria), a deep-water benthic dwelling fish species - Journal of Comparative Physiology A
Numerous studies have found that elevated CO2 levels in marine waters induced significant physiological and behavioral effects in fish. In an earlier study of coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch), we ob...
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00359-026-01801-9
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Marine Biological Laboratory
29 days ago
DEADLINE EXTENDED! ⏰ Apply to Methods in Computational Neuroscience by March 22. Financial aid is available. 🔗More info here:
go.mbl.edu/MCN
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Ahmed El Hady
about 1 month ago
Deadline extended to March 25th , send in your Applications 🙌🏾😁
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Danai Papageorgiou
about 1 month ago
Workshop on Animal Social Evolution! July 13th-15th, Heraklion (Greece) We are inviting early-career researchers from Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean to a hands-on, three-day workshop dedicated to methods and tools in social behaviour and evolution
marinapapa.github.io/TRASEworksho...
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TRASE Workshop 2026
July 13th-15th, Heraklion (Greece)
https://marinapapa.github.io/TRASEworkshop2026/
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Gaspar Jekely
about 1 month ago
Registration is now open for our two-day **"Heidelberg Wild Thinking Workshop - The organism, its self and its environment: from philosophy to physics"**, https://www.cos.uni-heidelberg.de/en/wild-thinking-workshop-1 an interdisciplinary event on **19-20 […]
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Junior European Drosophila Investigators
about 1 month ago
Calling all
#Drosophila
#NewPI
#researchers
! A few spots remain for the upcoming JEDI Conference - and you won’t want to miss this! Every attendee gives a talk, making the exchange dynamic, personal, and highly interactive - all at a stunning venue that inspires collaboration and creativity.
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To find mates, ♂️ mayflies chase ♀️. But how do they avoid intercepting close-by ♂️? By analyzing flight patterns, Samuel Fabian from Huai-Ti Lin's lab shows that ♂️ mostly fly along the vertical axis and chase horizontally passing ♀️.
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The nuptial dance of male mayflies helps avoid mistaken interception by other males
Male mayflies (Ephemeroptera) engage in oscillating nuptial flight patterns in which they climb vertically before passively parachuting downward. Males hold station above an area often in large number...
https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/doi/10.1242/jeb.251579/370845/The-nuptial-dance-of-male-mayflies-helps-avoid
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A moving object on the ground can elicit either avoidance or pursuit in 🦀. Scientists of Daniel Tomsic's lab shows that the presence of a conspecific alters the crab's decision to respond to the moving object.
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Conspecific proximity alters crabs' attention to novel visual stimuli
The ability to prioritize relevant stimuli over distracting ones is essential for adaptive behavior, particularly in species with limited sensory systems. In the mudflat crab Neohelice granulata, a mo...
https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article-abstract/doi/10.1242/jeb.251787/371045/Conspecific-proximity-alters-crabs-attention-to?redirectedFrom=fulltext
about 1 month ago
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Aging Science News
about 1 month ago
Lifelong behavioral screen reveals an architecture of vertebrate aging
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Lifelong behavioral screen reveals an architecture of vertebrate aging
Mapping behavior of individual vertebrate animals across lifespan could provide an unprecedented view into the lifelong process of aging. We created a platform for high-resolution continuous behaviora...
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aea9795
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Combinatoriality refers to the ability of combining vocal elements into complex sequences. In magpies, social complexity is an important driver for communicative complexity.
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Ontogenetic evidence of socially learned call sequences in Western Australian magpies
Abstract. Combinatoriality is the capacity to combine discrete vocal elements into larger structures. Previously thought unique to human language, combinat
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article/293/2066/20251620/480728/Ontogenetic-evidence-of-socially-learned-call
about 1 month ago
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It has been shown that a robot bird can serve as a tutor in song learning birds. Here, it has been tested whether a social contigency, i.e., the bird's call evokes a behavioral response of the robot affect song learning and social engagment with the robot.
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Influence of behavioural contingency on developmental song learning in young zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata) tutored by a robot bird
Abstract. In humans and other animals, social robots can serve as effective tutors for learning new skills. Young oscines learn their song by imitating con
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article/293/2066/20252834/480723/Influence-of-behavioural-contingency-on
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Measurements of the auditory brain stem response in tethered flying and echolocating bats reveal a pre-auditory wave before call onset potentially linked to motor commands.
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In-flight brainstem responses highlight the encoding of self-emitted echolocation calls in bats
Abstract. Echolocating bats rely on precise auditory processing to navigate and forage in complete darkness. A critical aspect of this behaviour is the neu
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article/293/2065/20252988/480464/In-flight-brainstem-responses-highlight-the?searchresult=1
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Some lineages of stick and leaf insects evolved selective oviposition. With long-term motion tracking, the Dürr lab shows that antennal tactile cues are sufficient to inform targeted oviposition in the stick insect Lobofemora.
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A matter of antennal touch: Timing and spatial selectivity of a tactually mediated, targeted oviposition behavior
Selective oviposition is a behavioral trait that requires detection and discrimination of potential sites followed by appropriate, sometimes spatially precise placement of eggs. In several lineages of...
https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/doi/10.1242/jeb.251272/370838/A-matter-of-antennal-touch-Timing-and-spatial
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Harmonic hopping, an evolutionary process by which acoustic signals jump from low-frequency ancestral states to higher frequencies in closely related species. This study shows that the calls of the cricket genus Pseudolebinthus result from harmonic hopping.
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Convergent evolution of harmonic hopping: multiple origins of high-frequency calls in crickets
Harmonic hopping has been described in mammals, birds and insects as a phenomenon by which acoustic character states change in discrete steps in a form of punctuated evolution rather than in a gradual...
https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/doi/10.1242/jeb.251734/370756/Convergent-evolution-of-harmonic-hopping-multiple
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Fascinating review on leaf-cutting ants 🐜 which are little farmers and optimized their nest architecture to provide optimal climate conditions for their fungus. 🍄
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Nest Building in Leaf-Cutting Ants: Behavioral Mechanisms and Adaptive Value
Leaf-cutting ants, which comprise more than 50 species distributed from Patagonia to North America, build the largest nests among ants. Workers forage plant fragments to cultivate a symbiotic fungus i...
https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-ento-121423-013337
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And another cool optic flow paper.
@puh23.bsky.social
finds sexual dimorphism in two descending neurons that are sensitive to optic flow in hoverflies. Surprisingly, the physiological findings are not reflected in sexually dimorphic behavior.
@elife.bsky.social
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Predators must estimate the size of a potential prey. Size of a moving target is assessed by angular speed/size, rules that not apply for stationary prey. Unlike damselflies, pixie robber flies use motion parallax to infer prey size.
@rossonisergio.bsky.social
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Predation via motion parallax in one of two gleaning insects
A predator's survival is highly dependent on correctly deciding whether to attack potential prey. Pursuit predators, for example, can estimate the size of a moving target from the ratio between its an...
https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/doi/10.1242/jeb.251710/370755/Predation-via-motion-parallax-in-one-of-two
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John Tuthill
about 1 month ago
Flies beat their wings more than 200 times per second. How do proprioceptors rapidly sense and fine tune the wingstroke?
@ellenlesser.bsky.social
combined genetic tools with the connnectome to create an atlas of Drosophila wing proprioceptors.
@elife.bsky.social
elifesciences.org/articles/107...
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The black soldier fly can convert organic waste into proteins. A new integrative, i.e., behavioral, physiological, & molecular study delved into the sugar reception of these 🪰.
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The hidden sweet tooth of the black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens)
The black soldier fly Hermetia illucens (BSF) is increasingly studied for its ability to convert organic waste into protein, offering solutions for waste valorisation and livestock feeding. Adult perf...
https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/doi/10.1242/jeb.252160/371047/The-hidden-sweet-tooth-of-the-black-soldier-fly
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Object motion enhances visual acuity in honeybees 🐝. When tested with moving stimuli, honeybees could discriminate shapes as small as 0.44°.
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Effects of object motion on visual acuity in Honeybees
Object motion is a fundamental visual cue for many animals, yet its role in modulating visual perception is not fully understood. The majority of previous studies have used stationary stimuli to inves...
https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/doi/10.1242/jeb.251776/371046/Effects-of-object-motion-on-visual-acuity-in
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Foraging 🐝 encounter diverse sets of flower-specific visual cues. A new behavioral study from
@insect-vision.bsky.social
shows that bumblebees rely on color first and learn additional cues, e.g., shape or patterns, only if flowers are hard to discriminate.
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Bees flexibly adjust decision strategies to information content in a foraging task
Bumblebees flexibly adjust their learning strategies to the sensory challenge, balancing costs and benefits of multicue learning.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adw9320
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What was the soundscape in the Jurassic? It is difficult to test how dinosaurs 🦕 sound. Scientists integrated phylogenetics, biomechanics, and simulations, to reconstruct the soundscape created by stridulatory insects 🦗 of the Jurassic.
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-9...
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Reconstruction of an extinct soundscape reveals ultrasonic communication in the Jurassic
A salient feature of biodiverse habitats is the acoustic landscape, which reveals key animal interactions and their ecologies. Very little is known about the acoustic landscape of long-gone environmen...
https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-9034306/v1?utm_source=researchgate.net&utm_medium=article
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Clément Pouget
over 1 year ago
Our preprint of my PhD’s work in
@gisellavetere.bsky.social
lab is finally out on BiorXiv:
doi.org/10.1101/2024...
, and I’m so excited to share it! If you’ve ever wondered about reconciling engram manipulation experiments and neuronal activity during encoding, you’re on the right thread! 1/14
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Deconstruction of a memory engram reveals distinct ensembles recruited at learning
How are associative memories formed? Which cells represent a memory, and when are they engaged? By visualizing and tagging cells based on their calcium influx with unparalleled temporal precision, we ...
https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.12.11.627894
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Matteo Guardamagna
about 1 month ago
1/7 🧠 My journey into development begins with this work and question: how does the brain's spatial navigation system develop? We found that the neural networks for spatial navigation (tori and rings) are preconfigured and only later anchor gradually to the world with experience! 🧵
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Neurons whose activity changes during vocalization are widespread across brain areas. Scientists from
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lab found that the activity of putative inhibitory and pyramidal neurons of bats 🦇 is differently modulated during vocal production.
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Another study
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demonstrates that short flights are about 3-times more costly over long flight periods in Eptesicus fuscus 🦇.
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Short duration flights are three times more costly than extended flight activity in an insectivorous bat
Flying animals face very high instantaneous costs of locomotion (flight metabolic rate ∼16x basal metabolic rate in bats). However, the effect of flight duration is poorly studied. We hypothesized the...
https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/doi/10.1242/jeb.251110/370718/Short-duration-flights-are-three-times-more-costly
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Some moth species have 👂 to potentially detect approaching bats 🦇. A new study
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reveals that these moths indeed have an advantage over earless species by responding earlier with evasive flight maneuvers.
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Sensory-driven divergence in flight strategies of eared and earless moths evading horseshoe bats
The evolutionary arms race between insectivorous bats and moths has driven the development of elaborate anti-predator strategies, with ultrasound hearing considered a key adaptation in tympanate moths...
https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article-abstract/doi/10.1242/jeb.251078/370754/Sensory-driven-divergence-in-flight-strategies-of?redirectedFrom=fulltext
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