Bayern und die Max-Planck-Gesellschaft @maxplanck.de haben sich darauf verständigt, in Würzburg ein Max-Planck-Institut 🔬 aufzubauen. Unipräsident Paul Pauli: "Das ist ein starkes Zeichen für den Wissenschaftsstandort Würzburg." go.uniwue.de/mpg-wue 📷 Mindcore

A tiny neural network is sufficient to control the daily rhythm of the fruit fly: New paper out in @pnas.org s.org by @nils-reinhard.bsky.social and @flyingclocks.bsky.social ingclocks.bsky.social. Only four specialized nerve cells drive the animals' endogenous clock. go.uniwue.de/circadianclock

We are very proud - yesterday, Somasundar Arumugam successfully defended his PhD thesis on "Exploring innate and learned sensory behaviors in Drosophila under natural and perturbed context". He was supervised by Prof. Silke Sachse. Congratulations!!!!

Very happy that my PhD student Soma Arumugam successfully defended his thesis at the @mpi-ce.bsky.social today! Big congrats Soma! Well done!!! 🎉🥳

Excited to share our new #biorxivpreprint We discovered that the fruit fly #drosophila erecta requires food odor to mate and arousal is further enhanced by social group motion. Cross-species analysis of brain activity reveals a novel gate evolved from within a conserved circuit shorturl.at/gGYm7

I'm looking to recruit a post-doc to help push forward our growing interests in insect ecotoxicology. Apply here by Nov 30th! (thanks for reposting) career5.successfactors.eu/sfcareer/job...

Excited to share our new #biorxivpreprint: “Sexual dimorphism in the complete connectome of the Drosophila male central nervous system” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... We describe the #connectomics reconstruction and analysis of an entire adult #maleCNS #drosophila central nervous system. 1/10

Having personally sworn for years that insects don’t use GPCRs for odour detection, Suguru Takagi (@sugurutakagi.bsky.social) discovers that, in fact, they sometimes do … www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We had a great European Symposium for Insect Taste and Olfaction, ESITO, on Sardinia where I was invited to talk about evolutionary aspects. This was how spiders entered an insect meeting 😉.🕷🧪 #SilkeSachse and #MarkusKnaden for organizing it!

It was an incredible week at ESITO 2025 in Sardinia filled with exciting science, vibrant discussions in a pleasant atmosphere! 🪰🐝🐜🌴🌊 Huge thanks to all participants! Hope you all have a safe trip home! See you in 2027!

Early-career researchers: want to run your own lab? 🌟Max Planck Research Groups offer 6+ years, up to €2.7M in funding, open-topic freedom, team support & tenure-track opportunities. Intrigued? 😃Apply by Oct 14, 2025! www.mpg.de/max-planck-r...

New research from @danielkronauer.bsky.social's lab in @pnas.org sheds light on how a young ant’s future is determined by genetics and the environment, finding that genes not only influence size, they change what a given size means for the colony. #RockefellerScience

Two days left.... Abstract submission is opened until Sunday 15th June 2025 Clocks for Life - a life's journey in chronobiology Farewell symposium Prof. Charlotte Helfrich-Förster #GermanClockClub #Drosophila #CircadianClock @uni-wuerzburg.de @biologie-uniwue.bsky.social @flyneuro.bsky.social

#ECR attention! Just finishing your #PhD and wondering if the DFG’s Walter Benjamin Programme might be a funding option for you? Come and find out in our info talk in our research career series #Prospects (in English). The link to the meeting will be published here: ➡️ www.dfg.de/en/research-...

👋 Looking forward to the 117th Annual Meeting of the German Zoological Society. Please like and share 🤩

Open university professor (W3) position for #BehavioralPhysiology in Würzburg, Germany @uni-wuerzburg.de: ↘️ www.nature.com/naturecareer... ↙️ Share or apply 🤗 #InsectResearch 🧪🐝🐜🦟

Dear colleagues fascinated by olfaction and taste! 👃🏾👅 We are happy to announce that the registration has started for the upcoming ESITO 2025 meeting taking place September 19-24, 2025 in Sardinia, Italy. Please register and submit your abstract here: events.gwdg.de/e/esito2025 Deadline: July 1st!

Alcohol makes male fruit flies sexier! New study from Ian Keesey, Bill Hansson et al. in Science Advances shows that alcohol boosts sex pheromone production in male D. melanogaster, making them more attractive to females. But too much is a turnoff! www.ice.mpg.de/493119/PR_Ke...

Our Symposium takes place tomorrow at the Sternwarte in Göttingen. We are looking forward to exciting talks from @nawrot.bsky.social, @xenofrog.bsky.social, Lisa Scheunemann, Andre Fiala and Celine Riera. What a great start of the #NWG meeting @neurowissg.bsky.social

Heute am #Weltfrauentag erinnern wir an #FrauenImWiderstand gegen den Nationalsozialismus. Sie bezahlten diesen Kampf oft mit ihrem Leben. Mehr über ihre Biografien: https://www.frauen-im-widerstand-33-45.de

It‘s finally official! I am thrilled to start at the Chair of Neurobiology and Genetics at the @uni-wuerzburg.de on April 1st! I am very grateful to all my mentors, group members, collaborators and friends without whom I could not have achieved this. Please come & visit beautiful Wuerzburg soon!

Latest #UniKonstanz @cbehav.bsky.social + @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @science.org study shows: Classical models of collective behaviour fail to explain the mechanisms driving desert locust swarms: t1p.de/bmwst @sercansayin.bsky.social @einatcouzin.bsky.social @icouzin.bsky.social

Science fuels economic opportunity—creating jobs, driving education, and supporting mobility. We're standing up for science to protect the critical infrastructure that makes this possible. Stand Up for Science with us on March 7th! #scienceforall #standupforscience2025

Go vote! Never again is now!

You can rely on Berlin-Kreuzberg!!! #bundestagswahl #noafd

Falls ihr noch unsicher seid - Bitte, geht morgen wählen. Die Entscheidung wen ihr wählt ist nicht einfach, aber wen man sicher nicht wählt, ist so klar wie selten zuvor. Bitte helft mit - es braucht die Stimmen aller Demokratinnen und Demokraten! #Bundestagswahl #WÄHLENGEHEN

Recently completed your #PhD using #Drosophila in a European lab? Apply for the European Drosophila Society best thesis prize! 🏆🪰 Deadline: 28 Feb 2025. Prize = €1000 & keynote presentation at the EDRC in Alicante @edrc2025.bsky.social! Info here: europeandrosophilasociety.org/eds-best-phd...

We are fully committed to the principle of scientific freedom as enshrined in Article 5 of the German Basic Law and recognized worldwide as a fundamental human right. #Demokratie #Forschungsfreiheit www.ice.mpg.de/490707/state...

‼️Save the date‼️The new Max Planck #Postdoc Program kicks off its first call for applications from April 1, 2025; applications can be submitted until May 13, 2025. mpg.de/en/max-planc... #ScienceCareer

Open positions in our lab. Just sayin…

PLEASE REPOST AND SHARE! My intro biology course has an "Interview a Biologist" project where students connect with a wide range of biologists using cell/molecular tools. If you are willing to speak with a student for ~30 minutes on Zoom, please fill out this form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

A new round of the Lise Meitner Excellence Program for #tenuretrack group leaders opened today - please consider applying! The program aims to recruit and promote exceptionally qualified female scientists. www.mpg.de/lise-meitner... #LiseMeitnerGroups #WomeninScience #ScienceCareer

Today, we honor the incredible achievements of women in science. Meet female researchers from our institute: @silkesachse.bsky.social, Sonja Bisch-Knaden, Priya Reddy, Karin Groten, and @shabmohammadi.bsky.social. Let’s continue championing diversity & equality in research! #WomenInScience

The editorial board of ASN AmNat made a strong statement for the values of academic freedom and diversity. The actions by elected and non-elected individuals in the White House are devastating. @asn-amnat.bsky.social 🧪

#Wissenschaftsfreiheit ist ein hohes Gut in Deutschland. Die #DFG unterstützt sie auch mit wissenschaftlichen Preisen 🏆🏅💰, die herausragende Forscher*innen in allen Karrierephasen würdigen und ihnen Freiraum für ihre weitere wissenschaftliche Arbeit ermöglichen. Hier ist die Übersicht für 2025:

Excited for the upcoming #CSHL #Neurobiology of #Drosophila conference! Don’t miss the chance to submit your abstracts for the #neuromodulation and #plasticity session. meetings.cshl.edu/meetings.asp...

Dear colleagues fascinated by olfaction and taste! 👃🏾👅 We’ll organize the next ESITO (Symposium of Insect Taste and Olfaction) from September 19-24 2025 in Sardinia at the beautiful Hotel Cormoran again. We are currently updating the website and will start the registration soon! Please stay tuned!

100.000 Menschen in Berlin, 70.000 in Köln: In dunklen Zeiten sind wir ein Lichtermeer der Hoffnung! ♥️ Wir stellen uns gegen die AfD und gegen die Pläne der Merz-CDU, gezielt eine gemeinsame Mehrheit mit den Rechtsextremen im Bundestag zu suchen. Wir sind die Brandmauer!

doi.org/10.1073/pnas... Olfaction in spiders. We found that the wall pore sensilla in spiders look similar from the outside to those of insects, but differ ultrastructurally in various ways. Independent evolution! 🧪

We just re-locate our twitter/X-history with the help of @blueark.app and then our moving will be final. Please help us to build a new #neuroethology community here by asking colleagues to follow us and by using hashtags or linking @neuroethology.org so that we can share your content 🧪🧠🦋🪲🐝🦑🐟🦐🐜🐦🐸🐢🦈🪼

Are you PhD student or Postdoc working in the field of Neuroethology? Then apply as a speaker for the Webinar Series 'The Future Of Neuroethology'

If you are a scientist (including graduate students) or professional science communicator who is at least 18 years old and are using Bluesky for any kind of professional purposes, please consider taking our survey. Link: umiami.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Please help share. 🧪🌎 #SciComm

Facebook & Instagram schaffen die professionellen Faktenchecks ab - ich habe ein Starterpack erstellt mit Menschen & Einrichtungen, die sich für Fakten einsetzen, die Faktenchecks erstellen oder für mehr Aufklärung forschen Als Reaktion auf diese Entwicklung empfehle ich, solchen Accounts zu folgen

Looking forward to a fabulous European fly meeting in Alicante! #EDRC2025 #Drosophila 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

We are hiring! We are looking for two PhD students interested in the regulation of habit formation. Habits are useful to decrease cognitive load, but carry the risk of becoming stereotyped and hard to control - it’s hard to shake a bad habit. The fruit fly Drosophila also forms habits and we […]

I finally deactivated my x account as a good resolution for 2025. It feels really good and can highly recommend it!!!

🪰The Never Given 2022 Pittendrigh/Aschoff Lecture: The Clock Network in the Brain—Insights From Insects - Charlotte Helfrich-Förster, 2024 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Is your summer 2025 looking boring and monotonous? Apply to the Neural Systems and Behavior course (www.mbl.edu/education/ad...) at MBL in Woods Hole for an 8-week experience that will change your (scientific) life. Deadline: Feb 1st, 2025.

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