✨️Today starts the 12th Animal Navigation International Conference “Orientation & #Navigation: Birds, Humans & Other Animals" 🚶🐦🐜🐟🐸🦋🧭🗺 in Egham @royalholloway.bsky.social organised by Miriam Liedvogel @genmig.bsky.social, Emily Baird & Joe Wynn @joewynnbirds.bsky.social ↘️ rin.org.uk/events/Event...

🌟 Final reminder to apply for the #FENS / #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 @ibroorg.bsky.social

And here's one for @sciam.bsky.social 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...

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: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Researchers reveal the neural basis of evolving new capabilities by investigating behavioral and morphological differences between deer mouse subspecies. #neuroskyence By @siddhantpusdekar.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/evolution/ar...

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 @royalsocietypublishing.org paper - doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

🚨 The tetrachromatic color vision and motion vision of a swallowtail butterfly is explored in this wonderful review by Michiyo Kinoshita & Kentaro Arikawa 🦋🦋🦋 journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

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/...

🧵 New preprint led by @bingbrunton.bsky.social, @elliottabe.bsky.social, @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...

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, @mh123.bsky.social sky.social and team. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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...

Along with @katrinvogt.bsky.social , @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

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...

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... #OpenBiology

Increasing temperature reduces decision accuracy by shifting speed–accuracy #trade-offs in slower individuals @royalsocietypublishing.org royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

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.

🚨 New paper out in @currentbiology.bsky.social by Bailly et al. @danielkronauer.bsky.social "Tolerance toward foreigners in ants requires chronic exposure for establishment but only sporadic exposure for maintenance" 🐜 #OlfactoryCommunication #NestmateRecognition #Ant ↘️ doi.org/10.1016/j.cu... ↙️

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 #Foraging #Drosophila

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 🧠🪱🐟🦋🐦🐸🦎🐢🐝🐜🦀🦞🐙

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! 👋

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. 🦜🐳🦗🦇

🚨 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 🐟 ↘️ doi.org/10.1007/s003... ↙️

DEADLINE EXTENDED! ⏰ Apply to Methods in Computational Neuroscience by March 22. Financial aid is available. 🔗More info here: go.mbl.edu/MCN

Deadline extended to March 25th , send in your Applications 🙌🏾😁

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...

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 […] [Original post on biologists.social]

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.

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 ♀️. @jexpbiol.bsky.social journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

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. @jexpbiol.bsky.social journals.biologists.com/jeb/article-...

Lifelong behavioral screen reveals an architecture of vertebrate aging www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Combinatoriality refers to the ability of combining vocal elements into complex sequences. In magpies, social complexity is an important driver for communicative complexity. royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article... @stephaniellaura.bsky.social @stephanielking.bsky.social @mandyridley.bsky.social

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. royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

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. @royalsocietypublishing.org royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

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. journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/... @jexpbiol.bsky.social

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. journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

Fascinating review on leaf-cutting ants 🐜 which are little farmers and optimized their nest architecture to provide optimal climate conditions for their fungus. 🍄 www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

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 elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

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 journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

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...

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 🪰. @jexpbiol.bsky.social journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

Object motion enhances visual acuity in honeybees 🐝. When tested with moving stimuli, honeybees could discriminate shapes as small as 0.44°. @jexpbiol.bsky.social journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

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. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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... #preprint

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

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! 🧵

Neurons whose activity changes during vocalization are widespread across brain areas. Scientists from @talking-bat.bsky.social lab found that the activity of putative inhibitory and pyramidal neurons of bats 🦇 is differently modulated during vocal production. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Another study @jexpbiol.bsky.social demonstrates that short flights are about 3-times more costly over long flight periods in Eptesicus fuscus 🦇. journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

Some moth species have 👂 to potentially detect approaching bats 🦇. A new study @jexpbiol.bsky.social reveals that these moths indeed have an advantage over earless species by responding earlier with evasive flight maneuvers. journals.biologists.com/jeb/article-...