Spontaneous problem-solving in bumble bees. Amazing work by the bees who were put in these puzzling situations by @akshayebhambore.bsky.social in the lab of @olliloukola.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

First direct quantification of floral handling costs in bees: doi.org/10.1098/rspb... #ProcB #ecology

We are offering a PhD position with the WildBotics project @uni-konstanz.de! Want to join an interdisciplinary research network and use drones and computer vision to study animal behavior, ecology and conservation in Kenya? 🇰🇪🐘 Please apply! Deadline June 21 🧪🌍🌿 Full details: tinyurl.com/yn8jkzcf

The tortoises are back! 🐢 New study in collaboration with @elisabettaversace.bsky.social and Gionata Stancher now available: "Sex, not familiarity, shapes social interactions in adult captive tortoises (Testudo hermanni)" link.springer.com/article/10.1...

We (me and @njdowdy.bsky.social) are hiring a PhD student! Come work with us! We seek a PhD student to investigate the evolution of acoustic behavior in Lepidoptera within a comparative evolutionary framework... Job closes this week! Apply ASAP! njdowdy.gitlab.io/balogh-fello...

🚨 TWERK ALERT 🚨 New publication from @sleeblab.bsky.social ! This was a very fun project to write up, co-lead by @nadjageiger.bsky.social and Chiara Hirschkorn. If you are interested why these spiders might bob their abdomen: link.springer.com/article/10.1... (Short thread following soon)

A piece about our study on anthropogenic electromagnetic noise out in @science.org “Silent interference” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Do you want to know if birds can use hair-like feathers as high-frequency sound receptors during echolocation? Join our team as PhD student or postdoc and find out! ⬇️ www.bi.mpg.de/2809383/job_...

Job alert! We are seeking a rodent in vivo electrophysiologist to work on coordination between anterior thalamus and hippocampus in rats using Neuropixels. Beautiful Scotland, leading university (Glasgow) and vibrant intellectual setting. Post is 23 months but hopefully extensible. Details here 👇

Male bumblebees seek mates by depositing sex pheromones. To study how ♂️🐝balance mate-seeking and feeding behavior @natacharossi.bsky.social, @larschittka.bsky.social et al. tracked ♂️🐝in an indoor flight cage and show that ♂️🐝prioritize mate-seeking over energy gain. academic.oup.com/beheco/advan...

Place coding is environment specific, i.e., place fields of place cells remap whenever the animal traverses a different habitat. Remapping at single cellular level seems to be random but at population level there is a geometric rule as a new study suggests.🐀🗺️🧠 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

The mushroom bodies are memory centers in the insect brain and undergo age-related structural plasticity. With tracer injections, scientists @uni-wuerzburg.de analysed dendritic specilizations in intrinsic Kenyon Cells from different age cohorts 🐝. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Delighted that a new online talk is up for viewz on Youtube: "Evolution of the Vertebrate Eye". Thanks to Marion Silies and Luisa Ramirez for hosting! www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrYJ....

Young foragers (🐝) learn the visual surroundings of their hive that supports visual homing. Scientists constructed a flying robot (Bee-Nav) whose neural network (3-42 kB) only required visual training on only 0.25-10% of the flight area for successful homing. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

With an agent-based mathematical model, scientists explained why prey 🐟 survives encounters with faster predators 🦈 most successfully by swimming towards the predator and capitalizing on the relatively slow capacity of the predator to change direction. journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

African Cichlids 🐟 are ideal to study adaptations to changing environments. A new study shows that the visual environment dictates the emergence of male color morphs which also covaried with the males' aggression behavior. journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

Do bright lights change how you dance? 🔆💃 Waggle-dancing honeybees interpret bright UV & green as the sun, but dim UV as a patch of sky. Thanks Keram Pfeiffer @uni-wuerzburg.de for trusting me with your data & @jgraving.bsky.social for the circular GLMM. doi.org/10.21203/rs....

Our new work on the vulnerable tortoises species Testudo hermanni “Sex, not familiarity, shapes social interactions in adult captive tortoises (Testudo hermanni) is now available link.springer.com/article/10.1... Collaboration with @silviadamini.bsky.social and Gionata Stancher 🐢🩵

Proposed structures/ mechanisms for magnetic sensing in bird (so far): 1) In the beak/ trigeminal Nerve (biogenic magnetite) 2) radical pair-Cryptochrome mediated reaction in the retina 3) The lagena 4) Vestibular canals (electromagnetic induction) 5) Supermagnetic macrophages in the liver.

New paper from Ulanovsky's group: With brain recordings from🦇 flying in a 200m tunnel, the group discovered that place cells of CA1 exhibit dense spatial coding, i.e., multiple place fields, and cells of CA3 exhibit ultrasparse coding, i.e., one place field. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Big brown bat 🦇 pups are born with closed external ear canals which open asymetrically in 80% of the pubs. It has now been tested with electrophysiological and behavioral approaches to what exten this asymmetrical development affects hearing. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Researchers from the @museuciencies.cat, @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social, and our @kaltenpoth-lab.bsky.social have discovered UV-induced blue-green biofluorescence in the fire salamander which may be involved in courtship, migration, or predator warning. www.ice.mpg.de/557727/PR_Bu...

Happy to see our new paper published today in @royalsocietypublishing.org B ! In it, we present an extensive work on the evolution of dispersal in a natural population of common lizards (Zootoca vivipara) 🦎 doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

New article from our team! A. Araguas et al. show that social interaction shapes vocal learning in young zebra finches tutored by a robot bird 🤖 🎶🐦 royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article... And check out @sebrafinch.bsky.social's Cassyni presentation on this study: cassyni.com/events/9682W...

Revised website, hopefully an easier read for newcomers. Note the massive simplification of the UI for pip mini, but also note that you can still run in "Classic / Complex Mode" and do a @batconservation.bsky.social waterways survey locked to heterodyne/35kHz. www.pippyg.com/pipistrelle-...

If you're new junior faculty within 7 years of setting up your first lab in experimental biology, you can apply for one of JEB's Kickstart Travel Grants or ECR Visiting Fellowships to help build your career The next deadline is 5 June Find out more at www.biologists.com/grants/#jeb

What is the minimal machinery needed for complex, cognition-like behavior? With @lostintheswarm.bsky.social, we show how self-sustained calcium oscillations, diffusion, and mechanics may be enough to coordinate behavior across a single cell with no nervous system. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/

Are foraging bumblebees guided by odors or color? It depends on the spatial scale. Within a flower patch color is more relevant while across flower patches both modalities. BUT this is only true for flying 🐝. journals.biologists.com/jeb/article-... @jexpbiol.bsky.social

The hydrozoan Nanomia septata has a diffuse nervous system that coordinates colonial zooids to produce integrated swimming behaviors like those in unitary organisms. How such a nervous system coordinates swimming is studied here journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/... @jexpbiol.bsky.social

New course launching in 2027!🎉 🤓 Neuromatch and @connectedminds.bsky.social are developing a Computational Behaviour course. A two-week, fully remote course open to participants worldwide! Learn more: neuromatch.io/computationa... #ComputationalScience #ComputationalBehaviour #Neuroscience

📢 New pre-print alert! Most spiders have eight eyes, but not all - PhD researcher Antonio Galán Sánchez and Dr Andres Rivera Quiroz @naturalis.bsky.social led an exciting new analysis of the evolution of eye number and losses in spiders on a truly incredible scale! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Happy to share our new review on Neural Mechanisms of Social Hierarchy across Species. We discussed different routes to achieve high social status across species, from fish to humans, and the neural circuits that support each of those strategies. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New paper out! url.uk.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/NJAHCB6RxF... @oupacademic.bsky.social @behavecol.bsky.social @larschittka.bsky.social

Our new paper is now out in @commsbio.nature.com. We recorded in the auditory cortex of actively vocalizing bats and find that neurons encode class and temporal structure of vocalizations before they are produced. 🎤🦇🧠 doi.org/10.1038/s420...

Beetle brood care looks exhausting, too link.springer.com/article/10.1... #Nicrophorus

Join us for a satellite meeting of the 2026 International Congress for Neuroethology in Vancouver, entitled “Neuroethology in a Changing World.”, organized by Stefan Pulver, Wolfgang Stein, and Martin Tresguerres. (1/3)

A fossil nervous system meets modern neurobiology. We found that a living comb jelly preserves neural architecture remarkably similar to those inferred from Cambrian fossils over 500 million years old 🤩. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

🎨learning & 🌺 constancy have been poorly studied in tropical 🐝. Asian giant honeybees innatetely prefer blue flowers, a preference that can be modified with changing food quality. journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/... @jexpbiol.bsky.social

Tympanic hearing is the textbook example to explain hearing. But, many tetrapods lack tympanic middle ear systems. Here, it is modelled whether non-tympanic hearing can be explained with sounds inducing head vibrations that are detected by the inner ear. journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

Systems Neuroscience postdoc opportunity in the Asari Lab at SISSA! Interested in the visual system and rodent in-vivo physiology? Join our institute in the beautiful town of Trieste at the Adriatic Sea: www.sissa.it/bandi/selezi...

Wave-type weakly electric fish sense in dark environments using a quasi-sinusoidal electric organ discharge. Watch #BiologyLetters author Kathleen J. Peters talk about decision dynamics in the jamming avoidance response that occurs when two fish have similar frequency: cassyni.com/events/vkPT9...

And another day in this week of high relevance for neureothologists or any human being: #InternationalDayforBiodiversity with the motto "Acting locally for global impact" ✅️ www.un.org/en/observanc... 💚 Feel free to share you favourite #neuroethology project related to #biodiversity below 👇

We are hiring a postdoc! We study neural activity and movement using holographic optogenetics, imaging, and recordings in awake mice. My first postdoc, Masashi, is starting his own lab, so now we have an opening. Seeking candidates excited about circuits, optics, coding, or ephys. oldenburglab.com

Today are two important days for those who are interested in #neuroethology: 1️⃣ #InternationalAcademicFreedomDay ✌️ 2️⃣ #WorldBeeDay 🐝 Bee free 🤗

It's World Bee Day today and to mark the occasion, Osseily Hanna's award-winning film The Last Bee (in which I play a mad scientist) is released for public viewing: m.youtube.com/watch?v=BeOu...

Out today in @royalsocietypublishing.org - we show that crab spiders (the ones you usually see ambushing pollinators on flowers 🕷️🌸) get worse at hunting if their eyes are covered!🫣 Sounds obvious? It's actually quite surprising, here's why... 👀 (1/8) royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...

Are you a computational scientist? Within 7 years of your PhD? Come join us at Lund University! We have two new positions as assistant professor! Deadline: 25th of May. The advert is broad, but this is your chance to push computational neuroscience in a fantastic place! lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Our paper is out! Work by Christopher Black in collaboration with Liam Browne, Rob Brownstone, and Marco Beato. Here, we describe the unique kinematic signatures of multi-limb coordination in freely climbing mice and show how these flexibly adapt to changing environments. tinyurl.com/4bnw88wk

Know an amazing person in neuroethology who champions inclusivity and is a great mentor? Nominate them for this prize and let them know their efforts are important!

With funding from Wild Animal Initiative, @viveknityananda.bsky.social and Sarah Scott are developing a judgment bias test for bumblebees that can be performed in the wild. Learn more 👇️