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!

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; @lundvision.bsky.social @biologylu.bsky.social

🚨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

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/...

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. @uhl-lab.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s42...

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: rdcu.be/eMX3E @jeffcolgren.bsky.social @msarscentre.bsky.social

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 🧠✨🧬🌊🪼🧽

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

Check out this super cool paper studying the meows and purrs of humans' other best friends and their comparison to wild felines! 😻

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 💬 #neuroskyence

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

New #BiologyLetters paper: Longer matings increase male competitive fertilization success in Drosophila melanogaster: doi.org/10.1098/rsbl... @avigayillev.bsky.social @alisonpischedda.bsky.social

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... 🙊🙉🙈💃

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

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...

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 🧵

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...

New review out! 🔥🧊 We break down how rodents, primates & insects encode temperature in Nature Reviews Neuroscience. Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... View-only: rdcu.be/eThU1

🚨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...

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.

The final version of the clonal raider ant reference brain is now out OA in @currentbiology.bsky.social: 🐜 🧠 🐜 🧠 🐜 🧠 🐜 🧠 🐜 🧠 🐜 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚨 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... ↙️ #Navigation #Dendrobatidae #SpatialEcology

🧠 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...

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🧵

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...

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... #RSPPhotoComp

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...

Call is out for Champalimaud International Neuroscience Doctoral Programme 2026! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

🚨 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" 🧠🐝 ↘️ doi.org/10.1242/jeb.... ↙️

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/...

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. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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

A new study from @mdessart.bsky.social et al. shows that sublethal chemical polution affects learning and memory in mosquito larvae. @jexpbiol.bsky.social journals.biologists.com/jeb/article-...

Fish alter locomotor and feeding kinematics to capture aerial prey #ProcB #OpenAccess #Biomechanics royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

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: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

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. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... @royalsocietypublishing.org

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. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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

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. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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

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

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 youtube.com/shorts/juEhw...

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...

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...

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 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Preserved #reptile scales retain microscopic features, revealing a new instance of convergent evolution. Read more: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... @jenniferrieser.bsky.social #JRSocInterface

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/...

#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

New research from #BiologyLetters: Herring gulls respond to the acoustic properties of men's voices royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... | #AnimalBehaviour #Cognition

🚨 The appearance of plastic debris impairs the visual hunting behavior of reef fish 🐟 in the lab Check it out! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...