🚨 Using polarization vision to stabilize gaze 👀 would theoretically be helpful for animals living in visually noisy environments, but it seems two decapod crustaceans use achromatic cues instead. 🚨 From @maddy-janakis.bsky.social Check it out! 🦀 academic.oup.com/iob/article/...

How do animals recognise incoming stimuli as predators? In this paper from the Casas' lab, they tested aerodynamical looming, and they show that size and velocity of the incoming object activated wind-sensitive neurons in 🦗. These responses are similar to visual looming! www.cell.com/current-biol...

Humans are able to revise their beliefs, but can other animals do it? Authors showed that 🐵s looking for a reward remained committed to their initial belief when the evidence supporting the alternative was weaker, but they reconsidered when the new info was stronger! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Are vertebrates the only animals capable of emotional contagion? What about invertebrates? In this new paper from the Feng lab, they show that 🐝s tested in a cognitive bias task were influenced if they were in contact with a conspecific in a positive affective state! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

#Zebrafish use spectral information to suppress the #visual background embargoed.www.cell.com/action/showF... @cellpress.bsky.social

Very happy to see this collaboration with @babeheim.bsky.social published in Animal Cognition: 'Vocal mimicry in corvids'. Since posting the first preprint, we have identified evidence for vocal mimicry in 8 more species, thanks to the community highlighting additional sources #communityscience

🧪ETHOLOGY: Condition-dependent risk-taking in mice! 🐭💥🍔 Lopez-Hervas et al. show that diet quality and body mass shape mice’s reactions to risk — heavier or better-fed individuals play it safer, supporting the asset-protection hypothesis! Read here, it's #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1111/eth....

New paper with @gili-ezranevo.bsky.social & Silvia Henriques from @ribeirocarlitos.bsky.social's lab out in @currentbiology.bsky.social. Appetite, driven by amino acid need 🥚🍖 reshapes olfactory receptor expression so flies 🪰 seek bacteria 🦠 and fermented cues 🥫 to restore nutritional balance ⚖️.

🐝 When #temperature calls the shots: #Pollinators' floral choices in a warming world: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Age and attitude: How longevity influences cognitive biases in #honeybee workers: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... @royalsocietypublishing.org

Hibernating bumblebee queens can survive up to a week underwater. Watch a video about this #BiologyLetters research article on the Royal Society YouTube channel: buff.ly/vrlrKFn #bees 🧪

One week left on this! Good opportunity for someone interested in #behaviour, #genomics and #migration to come work will some fun seabirds and some fun people 🧬🐣🛰️ www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Edward Kravitz, a Harvard biochemist who proved GABA's inhibitory power, passed away last month. He will "be remembered for his humanity, for his social conscience and his desire to help those less fortunate than he,” says Ronald Harris-Warrick. By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social bit.ly/479Ggmo

New paper out today on hippocampus neuron morphology in homing and feral pigeons. 🧵 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #neuroskyence #neuroethology #anatomy

Another is this hovering flight where they dance back and forth around before landing, again they do this repeatedly in a feeding bout… they also do it to artificial flowers that lack floral odours… 5/n

One pronounced behaviour are circular flights around a floral resource, where they turn back on themselves in a loop. They do this repeatedly while feeding; loop, feed, repeat… 4/n

Looking for a PhD? 🦜 Interested in ornithology, animal behaviour, bioacoustics? I am advertising a PhD on vocal communication in ring-necked parakeets tinyurl.com/44a3hcnz Eligible candidates are encouraged to apply for University of Salford Widening Participation Scholarships tinyurl.com/4wtzzh3z

TT faculty job opening in #Neuroscience! We are looking for a colleague to join us in our fantastic Biology Department and Neuroscience Program at Brandeis. We are a group of *very* collaborative, supportive, and productive scientists (& humans!) so please apply academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30961

🚨 New paper out in #JCP-A @springernature.com "Divergent sensory transcriptomic profiles in positive and negative learning in Bicyclus Anynana butterflies" by Yi Teng Ter & Erica Westerman #Neurogenomics #VisualLearning #Lepidoptera 🧪🧠🦋 ↘️ link.springer.com/article/10.1... ↙️

coffee breaks inspire the coolest things, no? It certainly inspired this wonderful project – a kids book on a robin that takes you under its wing on its journey to their wintering grounds. gorgeously illustrated @co-la.bsky.social and beautifully written by a #dreamteam within @sfb1372.bsky.social

Hot wings coming up! - i.e., brown rats hunt bats IN FLIGHT. 🐀🦇🍴 While this has serious conservation implications for urban bats, I can't help but be amazed by the rats' dexterity and adaptability. Full paper by @berlinbatlab.bsky.social here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧪🌍🦊

🚨 New paper out in Proc. R. Soc. B @royalsocietypublishing.org "Better safe than sorry: leg amputations as a prophylactic wound care behaviour in carpenter ants" by Seiji Fujimoto et al. @etf1989.bsky.social ↘️ royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... ↙️ 🐜⛑️

PhD position at the University of Bristol (with me!) entitled 'The legacy impacts of extreme climate events on animal behaviour, physiology, and fitness'. Fully funded and is available for UK-domiciled students of black heritage. Please reach out with any questions. tinyurl.com/5n7s8yp9

Interested in a PhD in ornithology? Funding available for projects at the interface of ecology, behaviour & evolution from Oct '26 working on long-term population studies of tits at Wytham, based in @biology.ox.ac.uk in the new Life & Mind Building in Oxford www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

🚨 Journal of Comparative Physiology A #JCP-A has published a collection on "The #Honeybee #Odometer Controversy" 🐝 ↘️ link.springer.com/collections/... ↙️ Read and discuss the issue of the "most serious allegation of scientific misconduct in the history of #neuroethology" with students & colleagues 💬

Cool grant funding opportunity- send in your applications!

❓ Want to join us? 📢 Fully funded #PhD for UK-domiciled Black heritage candidates 🐵 Biological market monitoring & manipulation in social animals #mongooses #macaques #fieldwork 👥 With me, #LaurenBrent & #PatrickKennedy 🎓 @bristolbiosci.bsky.social ℹ️ www.findaphd.com/phds/project... 🙏Share widely

We are delighted to announce that Emily Baird (Stockholm University) and Philipp Lehmann (University of Greifswald) have joined the team of JEB Monitoring Editors Find out more about them in our News article journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

New essay in @currentbiology.bsky.social special brain-body issue! Fly lab meets psychiatrist: how bodily signals shape cognition and mental health. Great collaboration with Albino Oliveira-Maia showing @champalimaudf.bsky.social discovery ↔️ clinic at its best. www.cell.com/current-biol...

Naturalistic approaches such as Ulanovsky’s open up “potential opportunities to really reveal why the brain is structured in the way it’s structured,” says Iain Couzin. By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/neuroetholog...

Reposting for the Monday morning scrollers! Funded PhD opportunity with me @multipleye-lab.bsky.social @bristolbiosci.bsky.social - spiders, their eyes, and their babies under long- and short-term light pollution!

The Tschida Lab is recruiting a new PhD student this cycle! We have ongoing projects related to (1) neural circuits that regulate vocal communication across behavioral contexts and/or development and (2) motor control of different vocalization types. Please RT! Strong neuro background a plus.

New preprint from the lab: A reference brain for the clonal raider ant. With this resource, which is based on 40 individual brains, you can register and compare all kinds of samples in a common space. It comes with lots of detailed protocols and a user-friendly GUI. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Exciting times ahead - I'm beyond delighted to be joining @bristolbiosci.bsky.social in 2026! 🎉🕷️🎉🐌🎉 I'm also looking for a PhD student to join @multipleye-lab.bsky.social in our new home! Come and study the effects of light pollution on the evolution and development of spider eyes with us 🌃🕷️👀 👇

I am excited to share my PhD work on head-direction cells recorded in the wild, now published in @science.org, where we recorded neurons in bats flying outdoors on an island. doi.org/10.1126/sci... With @ray-neuro.bsky.social, Shir Maimon, Liora Las, Nachum Ulanovsky and many others

In insects, motion processing is affected by background motion in Target Selective Descending neurons but not in presynaptic Small Target Motion Detectors. To explain this change, @puh23.bsky.social et al. examined three candidate TSDN circuit models. journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

New study @jexpbiol.bsky.social on local search behavior in Drosophila larvae. Results suggest that local search is mainly mediated by idiothetic cues. journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

Protein-rich flowers are spatially scattered food sources for Heliconinii 🦋. This requires a sophisticated spatial memory. @ebablab.bsky.social et al. monitors the flight behavior when 🦋 encounter novel 🌺 and compare this behavior with other 🦋 species. journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

Another study on looming stimuli but now in Locusts. 🦗 DCMD is a neuron crucial for eliciting escape behavior. Here people from John Gray's lab study how motion direction of the looming modulate the neural response in DCMD. journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/... @jexpbiol.bsky.social

Looming stimuli usually elicit escape response directed away from the stimulus. However, shell-dwelling cichlids escape towards the stimulus if it lies in the direction of the shell. 🐠 New study from Stefan Schuster's lab. @jexpbiol.bsky.social journals.biologists.com/jeb/article-...

A brain-wide map of neural activity recorded in the context of decision making. Revealed by 621,733 neurons recorded with 699 Neuropixels probes across 139 mice in 12 laboratories. 🤯 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Mala Murthy and colleagues discovered a new courtship wing behavior, "waggling" in Drosophila, a behavior under the neural control of a specific subset of P1/pC1 cells. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Vector navigation is common in insects. While directional coding has been studied in great detail, we know less about how distances are represented in the brain. @idatri.bsky.social & S. DasGrupta study the neural mechanisms of odometry in flies. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The next Future of Neuroethology webinar is Oct 15th at 21:00 UTC!

New study from #UniKonstanz @cbehav.bsky.social and @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social shows: animal swarms don’t need to follow fixed rules; their coordination emerges from brain dynamics. Flexible “ring attractor” networks create complexity from simplicity: https://t1p.de/4c6cd#UniKonstanz@icouzin.bsky.social

How did host plant specialization evolve in insect herbivores 🌱🐛🦋? If this is a question that bugs you, we have the perfect PhD-position to offer: www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...

Some paper wasps recognize individuals based on their unique facial patterns. A new study @royalsocietypublishing.org shows that only one of two tested wasp species recognize faces from a viewpoint-independent angle. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

🚨 In a new synthesis of 🦍 primate neuroethology, Parodi et al. argue for an integrative approach combining 🧠 neuroscience with naturalistic behavior, function, development, and evolution (Tinbergen's framework). 🚨 Check it out! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

1/n. New paper from us: here we explore the mechanisms underlying maternal aggression in mice as a means of addressing how an individual transiently can gain access to a behaviour normally outside of its repertoire. Lead investigator Stefanos Stagkourakis (not on 🦋)🧵: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We're very proud to be releasing the complete male fly CNS connectome! It's the product of a huge team effort here at Janelia in partnership with the Cambridge Fly Connectomics group (@jefferis.bsky.social and colleagues), plus invaluable collaborators. More soon... www.janelia.org/project-team...