Do you know a parrot that talks or sings? Tell us about it at www.manyparrots.org @birdsingalong.bsky.social @laurynbenedict.bsky.social et al.

Nature research paper: Plastic landmark anchoring in zebrafish compass neurons go.nature.com/4qP4HwB

The Neural Systems & Behavior Course (Marine Biol. Lab) is an amazing opportunity to learn about many different approaches to studying nervous system control of many behaviors. Learn from experts, expand your science network, go to "science summer camp"!

Last weekend to apply!

1/6: New publication from the lab: “Plastic landmark anchoring in zebrafish compass neurons” by Ryosuke Tanaka (@ryosuketanaka.bsky.social) and Ruben is available here: rdcu.be/eX1L4

🚨 The deadline for the #FENS2026 call for abstracts, travel grants and registrations is approaching quickly! Don’t miss your chance to participate in the #FENSForum and connect with the global #neuroscience community. 🧠 🗓️ Deadline: 27 January 2026 👉 buff.ly/klWSVOg

Four days left to apply for two postdocs in social evolution with me and @dustinrubenstein.com Based at the University of Bristol (UK), conducting fieldwork with wasps in Cameroon, Kenya, and South Africa.

🚨New paper out in #JCP-A @springernature.com " #Electrosensitivity in #planthoppers (Insecta: Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Fulgoromorpha)" by Bräunig, Hoch and Baumgartner ↘️ doi.org/10.1007/s003... ↙️ #SensoryPits #Electropysiology #ElectricFields

www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... We had a lot of fun working on this project (led by Itzel Ishida, not on bluesky). Some interesting highlights from the paper -

🔔 Deadline tomorrow: Highlight scientists driving progress in diversity, equity and inclusion in #BrainResearch. 🧠 🗓️ Submit your nominations by 8 January 2026 👉 buff.ly/KZo99B2 (Quote: FENS)

Less than two weeks left to apply for the Cephalopod Neuroscience Gordon Conference! An exciting lineup of speakers and posters, and financial aid is available upon request. 🐙🦑 www.grc.org/cephalopod-n...

I am recruiting postbacs for my parakeet sociality and cognition project, ideally to start in Feb/Mar this year. Help spreading the word would be appreciated! More information and application link available here: ornithologyexchange.org/jobs/board/s...

If you work on corvid ecology, behaviour, cognition, or conservation, this might be useful for you 👇 I’ve just published CORVIDATA in Scientific Data 🐦 doi.org/10.1038/s415... (1/4)

I’m thrilled to announce that I’m recruiting a funded PhD student at Nottingham Trent University to study the cognitive mechanisms underlying individual differences in parenting in rhesus macaques! Deadline: 2 February | Start date: April 2026

📢📢PhD opportunity! We are looking for enthusiastic researchers to develop a project looking at the ontogeny of migratory behaviour! Deadline for expression of interest: 8 February 2026 👉Check details here: drive.google.com/file/d/1wow2... #migration #ornithology #GPStracking

We are looking to hire a Seabird Field Assistant for 2026 for our Manx Shearwater research project. Please share this to anyone who'd like to get out in the field this summer and learn about biotelemetry, bird handling and research into animal behaviour. drive.google.com/file/d/1SGZt...

Please repost: 🚨Field assistant position 🐧 We offer a 14-months field assistant position through the French Polar Institute to work on king penguin ecophysiology and behavioral ecology. Requirements: EU citizen < 30yo having experience with harsh fieldwork & wild bird/mammal handling/sampling.

🎉 What a way to end the year! Very excited to see our new paper on 🐭 innovation and mate choice out in @currentbiology.bsky.social! doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2025.11.077 With the amazing @fragdarm.bsky.social, @valmazza.bsky.social & Anja Guenther

📢 #FENS CARE Writing Competition 2026 is open for Early-Career scientists! ✍️ Write a letter to a fictional MEP on the role of animal research in #neuroscience for a chance to win 1000€, with outstanding entries highlighted at #FENS2026! 🗓️ 23 February 2026, 17:00 CET 👉 buff.ly/8PqkNqn (Quote: FENS)

We are excited to announce the 2026 GRC Neurobiology of Cognition (7/19-24) in beautiful Waterville Valley, NH! Registration/abstract submission open. Wonderful speakers/program covering cognition across scales & species, incl. AI & neuromodulation! @desrocherslab.bsky.social @erinlrich.bsky.social

New paper: habituation to threatening stimuli in bumblebees is far from simple! psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

SO EXCITED to be finally talking about some funky preliminary results on the eyes of this funky harvestman at #SICB2026 on Tuesday! Here are a few sneak peak pics :D

Happy new year! I wanted to share my new Python package called chatter that streamlines the process of applying AI/ML models to animal communication 🦜🦇🐋🐵👨‍🌾 masonyoungblood.github.io/chatter/

Happy to start the year with the publication of the third chapter from my PhD! 🎉 Special thanks to my supervisor Claudio Lazzari for his invaluable support during the manuscript revisions. journals.biologists.com/jeb/article-...

I found this image on my computer but can't locate the source. From memory, it's from Sigmund Exner's work on the visual resolution of insect compound eyes, but I haven't found the original publication that contains the image. Does anyone know?

What looked like a hearing organ on a tiny stinkbug’s leg turned out to be something far stranger: a fungal nursery that mother bugs use to coat their newly laid eggs in protective symbiotic hyphae, shielding their offspring from parasitic wasps, a Science study finds. https://scim.ag/3MXQ4bt

Naked-mole rats are specialized to a subterranean lifestlye. Besides of having an extraordinary sense of touch, they show an eusocial lifestlye. The neural underpinnings can now be studied as @malkemper-lab.bsky.social managed to record from freely moving mole-rats. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

We wish all of you a happy new year and we hope to see many of you at this year's ICN which will take place in Vancouver 🇨🇦 (icn2026vancouver.com). A perfect platform for people interested in Neuroethology and would like to connect with our society.

Beautiful review on the sense of taste in Lepidoptera 🦋 by @alexhaverkamp.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

A new study @jexpbiol.bsky.social reveals that female antennae in the butterfly Bicyclus anynana show diurnal rythmicity in gene expression associated with learning and sexual receptivity peaking in the morning albeit males court most often in dusk. journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

A new comparative study of seven lizard species, including chameleons and bearded dragons, finds an ancient sleep rhythm conserved over millennia. By Lauren Schenkman www.thetransmitter.org/sleep/snoozi...

Closely related taxa that geographically overlap may show adaptations to avoid maladaptive hybridization. A new study shows that long-interval neurons of the anuran midbrain are selectively tuned to species-specific call rates only in sympatric populations. 🐸 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Have you ever wondered what you would find if you could keep your eyes on a bee for more than a few meters? Us, too! preprint (with videos!) + thread 🧵 Precise, individualized foraging flights in honey #bees 🐝 revealed by multicopter drone-based tracking www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/9

We know that birds can sense magnetic fields for navigation. But how does that work? Do they have little magnets wired up to their brains? The most likely answer is 1000X times weirder than that, and involves quantum spin. Let's talk about 'cryptochromes' & magnetic sensing.🧪

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 🧵