Pauline Fleischmann
@cataglyphilosophy.bsky.social
Cataglyphilosophine: Philosophisticated Anthusiast (she/her)🐜
#Neuroethology #Navigation #Magnetoreception, views my own
#Neuroethology #Navigation #Magnetoreception, views my own
Back home & filled with great memories of my Australia field trip🌏🇦🇺 Thanks to Eric Warrant & team @lundvision.bsky.social for hosting me & the chance for becoming a temporary moth-researcher #KonishiAward @neuroethology.org to study #magnetoreception & #navigation in the spectacular #Bogong moth🧭✨🦋
October 28, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Back home & filled with great memories of my Australia field trip🌏🇦🇺 Thanks to Eric Warrant & team @lundvision.bsky.social for hosting me & the chance for becoming a temporary moth-researcher #KonishiAward @neuroethology.org to study #magnetoreception & #navigation in the spectacular #Bogong moth🧭✨🦋
And I think, I have a found first christmas present for my kids 😍🎁🐦🧭🧪📖
Such a cool project by a @sfb1372.bsky.social team around @genmig.bsky.social from the @ifv-whv.bsky.social and with amazing illustrations by @co-la.bsky.social transferring research results in a children book 😱🥰 Check it out 👇
Such a cool project by a @sfb1372.bsky.social team around @genmig.bsky.social from the @ifv-whv.bsky.social and with amazing illustrations by @co-la.bsky.social transferring research results in a children book 😱🥰 Check it out 👇
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
October 22, 2025 at 11:47 PM
And I think, I have a found first christmas present for my kids 😍🎁🐦🧭🧪📖
Such a cool project by a @sfb1372.bsky.social team around @genmig.bsky.social from the @ifv-whv.bsky.social and with amazing illustrations by @co-la.bsky.social transferring research results in a children book 😱🥰 Check it out 👇
Such a cool project by a @sfb1372.bsky.social team around @genmig.bsky.social from the @ifv-whv.bsky.social and with amazing illustrations by @co-la.bsky.social transferring research results in a children book 😱🥰 Check it out 👇
The history of escalation of the #honeybee #odometer controversy in the @neuroethology.org research community can now be tracked in this collection of @springernature.com #JCP-A 🧪🧠🐝 I highly recommend reading Eric Warrant's editorial @lundvision.bsky.social and the follow-up replies ⬇️
🚨 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 💬
↘️ 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 💬
The Honeybee Odometer Controversy
Research around the turn of the millennium showed that honeybees use the amount of optic flow during foraging flights to estimate the distance between a food ...
link.springer.com
October 21, 2025 at 9:19 AM
The history of escalation of the #honeybee #odometer controversy in the @neuroethology.org research community can now be tracked in this collection of @springernature.com #JCP-A 🧪🧠🐝 I highly recommend reading Eric Warrant's editorial @lundvision.bsky.social and the follow-up replies ⬇️
🤩 And here we go - thrilled to announce that two #AnHuNav postdoc positions are availble now ⬇️
Join us in exploring how humans navigated the ancient world - with the aid of animals!? 🧭🗺💫🐫🕊🐜🏛
1️⃣ Cognitive and textual #navigation uol.de/job785
2️⃣ #Archaeology of trade&pilgramage routes uol.de/job786en
Join us in exploring how humans navigated the ancient world - with the aid of animals!? 🧭🗺💫🐫🕊🐜🏛
1️⃣ Cognitive and textual #navigation uol.de/job785
2️⃣ #Archaeology of trade&pilgramage routes uol.de/job786en
October 16, 2025 at 10:10 AM
🤩 And here we go - thrilled to announce that two #AnHuNav postdoc positions are availble now ⬇️
Join us in exploring how humans navigated the ancient world - with the aid of animals!? 🧭🗺💫🐫🕊🐜🏛
1️⃣ Cognitive and textual #navigation uol.de/job785
2️⃣ #Archaeology of trade&pilgramage routes uol.de/job786en
Join us in exploring how humans navigated the ancient world - with the aid of animals!? 🧭🗺💫🐫🕊🐜🏛
1️⃣ Cognitive and textual #navigation uol.de/job785
2️⃣ #Archaeology of trade&pilgramage routes uol.de/job786en
🤩 Another new PI-milestone: Being at meetings with the whole team and several contributions from our lab. @chiaratenne.bsky.social, Yibo Ma and Dhanashree presented their research 🧪 on #InsectNavigation at the annual meetings of the @sfb1372.bsky.social and the #ForschungszentrumNeurosensorik 🐜🧠🧭
October 6, 2025 at 1:26 PM
🤩 Another new PI-milestone: Being at meetings with the whole team and several contributions from our lab. @chiaratenne.bsky.social, Yibo Ma and Dhanashree presented their research 🧪 on #InsectNavigation at the annual meetings of the @sfb1372.bsky.social and the #ForschungszentrumNeurosensorik 🐜🧠🧭
With a homepage, everything becomes more concrete 🥰 Check out our #AnHuNav project on Animal and Human Navigation in Antiquity 🧭🕊🐫🐜🏛
↘️ www.uol.de/anhunav ↙️
Stay tuned, we will soon advertise positions 🤗
↘️ www.uol.de/anhunav ↙️
Stay tuned, we will soon advertise positions 🤗
September 18, 2025 at 4:48 PM
With a homepage, everything becomes more concrete 🥰 Check out our #AnHuNav project on Animal and Human Navigation in Antiquity 🧭🕊🐫🐜🏛
↘️ www.uol.de/anhunav ↙️
Stay tuned, we will soon advertise positions 🤗
↘️ www.uol.de/anhunav ↙️
Stay tuned, we will soon advertise positions 🤗
🤗 Welcome to our two new lab members: Yibo Ma, @sfb1372.bsky.social short-term fellow, and Dhanashree Kishor Alshi, #Neuroscience 🧠🧪 master student, both curious about #neuroethology of #insect #navigation and #magnetoreception 🐜🧭 Looking forward to working together and their projects! 🤩
September 15, 2025 at 11:33 AM
🤗 Welcome to our two new lab members: Yibo Ma, @sfb1372.bsky.social short-term fellow, and Dhanashree Kishor Alshi, #Neuroscience 🧠🧪 master student, both curious about #neuroethology of #insect #navigation and #magnetoreception 🐜🧭 Looking forward to working together and their projects! 🤩
Thanks also to the @dzg-neurobiology.bsky.social section, especially to the speaker team Suanne Neupert and @maxfarnworth.bsky.social, for doing a great job in taking care of the #neurobiology content at the #DZG 💖🧠💕
September 13, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Thanks also to the @dzg-neurobiology.bsky.social section, especially to the speaker team Suanne Neupert and @maxfarnworth.bsky.social, for doing a great job in taking care of the #neurobiology content at the #DZG 💖🧠💕
The #DZG2025 is over and I am filled with great memories and zoological input 🥰
Thanks to the organisers @dzg2025berlin.bsky.social for this ✨️great✨️ conference! 👏👏👏 @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social @humboldtuni.bsky.social @mfnberlin.bsky.social
Below I share are my favourite facts that I learned ⬇️
Thanks to the organisers @dzg2025berlin.bsky.social for this ✨️great✨️ conference! 👏👏👏 @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social @humboldtuni.bsky.social @mfnberlin.bsky.social
Below I share are my favourite facts that I learned ⬇️
September 13, 2025 at 6:40 AM
The #DZG2025 is over and I am filled with great memories and zoological input 🥰
Thanks to the organisers @dzg2025berlin.bsky.social for this ✨️great✨️ conference! 👏👏👏 @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social @humboldtuni.bsky.social @mfnberlin.bsky.social
Below I share are my favourite facts that I learned ⬇️
Thanks to the organisers @dzg2025berlin.bsky.social for this ✨️great✨️ conference! 👏👏👏 @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social @humboldtuni.bsky.social @mfnberlin.bsky.social
Below I share are my favourite facts that I learned ⬇️
Reposted by Pauline Fleischmann
Chiara Tenneriello, PhD student of @cataglyphilosophy.bsky.social talked today about her research on testing whether desert ants have a particle-based magentic compass. #dzg2025
@chiaratenne.bsky.social
@chiaratenne.bsky.social
September 11, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Chiara Tenneriello, PhD student of @cataglyphilosophy.bsky.social talked today about her research on testing whether desert ants have a particle-based magentic compass. #dzg2025
@chiaratenne.bsky.social
@chiaratenne.bsky.social
🤩 It's always a pleasure to present our #ant #research 🧪🐜🧭☀️, especially to such a nice audience 🧠💖 @dzg-neurobiology.bsky.social
✨️New level of proudness: @chiaratenne.bsky.social presents parts of her project in her very 1st conference talk @dzg2025berlin.bsky.social🥳 Brilli🐜 presentation🤩 #ProudPi
✨️New level of proudness: @chiaratenne.bsky.social presents parts of her project in her very 1st conference talk @dzg2025berlin.bsky.social🥳 Brilli🐜 presentation🤩 #ProudPi
September 11, 2025 at 8:56 PM
🤩 It's always a pleasure to present our #ant #research 🧪🐜🧭☀️, especially to such a nice audience 🧠💖 @dzg-neurobiology.bsky.social
✨️New level of proudness: @chiaratenne.bsky.social presents parts of her project in her very 1st conference talk @dzg2025berlin.bsky.social🥳 Brilli🐜 presentation🤩 #ProudPi
✨️New level of proudness: @chiaratenne.bsky.social presents parts of her project in her very 1st conference talk @dzg2025berlin.bsky.social🥳 Brilli🐜 presentation🤩 #ProudPi
🤩 Phenomenal start @dzg2025berlin.bsky.social with special insights into #Botany & #Paleontology: Tomato specimen collected by Humboldt 😱🍅🌱 at the Herbarium of the Botanical Garden and Icebreaker event at the the Dinosaur Hall 🦕🦖🏛 of @mfnberlin.bsky.social Looking forward to the next #Zoology days 😍
September 9, 2025 at 8:34 PM
🤩 Phenomenal start @dzg2025berlin.bsky.social with special insights into #Botany & #Paleontology: Tomato specimen collected by Humboldt 😱🍅🌱 at the Herbarium of the Botanical Garden and Icebreaker event at the the Dinosaur Hall 🦕🦖🏛 of @mfnberlin.bsky.social Looking forward to the next #Zoology days 😍
Reposted by Pauline Fleischmann
Spread the word: we’re #hiring! We offer two short-term #fellowships for master’s degree holders and PhD candidates for 6-12 months to excellent researchers, who are interested in doing research within one dedicated project of our SFB/CRC 1372. Find more information on www.sfb1372.de/jobs
August 26, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Spread the word: we’re #hiring! We offer two short-term #fellowships for master’s degree holders and PhD candidates for 6-12 months to excellent researchers, who are interested in doing research within one dedicated project of our SFB/CRC 1372. Find more information on www.sfb1372.de/jobs
Come and join us here in Oldenburg 🤗
@sfb1372.bsky.social has two open short-term fellowships for master degree holders that want to do resesarch with us 🧭🐜🐦🦇🧪🔬🥼🧬
More information: ↘️ www.sfb1372.de/jobs ↙️
If you have any questions, feel free to ask 🗨💬 Please share or apply 🤩
@sfb1372.bsky.social has two open short-term fellowships for master degree holders that want to do resesarch with us 🧭🐜🐦🦇🧪🔬🥼🧬
More information: ↘️ www.sfb1372.de/jobs ↙️
If you have any questions, feel free to ask 🗨💬 Please share or apply 🤩
August 26, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Come and join us here in Oldenburg 🤗
@sfb1372.bsky.social has two open short-term fellowships for master degree holders that want to do resesarch with us 🧭🐜🐦🦇🧪🔬🥼🧬
More information: ↘️ www.sfb1372.de/jobs ↙️
If you have any questions, feel free to ask 🗨💬 Please share or apply 🤩
@sfb1372.bsky.social has two open short-term fellowships for master degree holders that want to do resesarch with us 🧭🐜🐦🦇🧪🔬🥼🧬
More information: ↘️ www.sfb1372.de/jobs ↙️
If you have any questions, feel free to ask 🗨💬 Please share or apply 🤩
Reposted by Pauline Fleischmann
New mission for our SFB fellow Pauline - together with two historians of our university she will now be researching the question: were animals in antiquity the forerunners of modern navigation systems with their migrations and did they show people the way? uol.de/aktuelles/fe...
July 28, 2025 at 8:58 PM
New mission for our SFB fellow Pauline - together with two historians of our university she will now be researching the question: were animals in antiquity the forerunners of modern navigation systems with their migrations and did they show people the way? uol.de/aktuelles/fe...
🤩 I am incredible happy and excited that our interdisciplinary project " #AnHuNav - Animal and Human #Navigation in the Ancient Southern Levant" receives funding by the University of Oldenburg in the framework of #zukunft.niedersachsen ↘️ uol.de/aktuelles/fe... ↙️
✨️☀️🌊🕊🐫🐫🐫💫🧭🏛
#NaviSense
✨️☀️🌊🕊🐫🐫🐫💫🧭🏛
#NaviSense
https://uol.de/aktuelles/feature/interdisziplinaritaet-setzt-impulse↙️
July 24, 2025 at 6:11 PM
🤩 I am incredible happy and excited that our interdisciplinary project " #AnHuNav - Animal and Human #Navigation in the Ancient Southern Levant" receives funding by the University of Oldenburg in the framework of #zukunft.niedersachsen ↘️ uol.de/aktuelles/fe... ↙️
✨️☀️🌊🕊🐫🐫🐫💫🧭🏛
#NaviSense
✨️☀️🌊🕊🐫🐫🐫💫🧭🏛
#NaviSense
Here we go again: field resesarch 🧪🌳✨️
First #LightTrapping session for our @sfb1372.bsky.social #arthropod #biodiversity project in collaboration with @robertrollins1892.bsky.social in @genmig.bsky.social lab from the @ifv-whv.bsky.social 💡🦋 🕷🪲🦟
I just love the trap that looks like a 👻! Or 🪼?
First #LightTrapping session for our @sfb1372.bsky.social #arthropod #biodiversity project in collaboration with @robertrollins1892.bsky.social in @genmig.bsky.social lab from the @ifv-whv.bsky.social 💡🦋 🕷🪲🦟
I just love the trap that looks like a 👻! Or 🪼?
July 18, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Here we go again: field resesarch 🧪🌳✨️
First #LightTrapping session for our @sfb1372.bsky.social #arthropod #biodiversity project in collaboration with @robertrollins1892.bsky.social in @genmig.bsky.social lab from the @ifv-whv.bsky.social 💡🦋 🕷🪲🦟
I just love the trap that looks like a 👻! Or 🪼?
First #LightTrapping session for our @sfb1372.bsky.social #arthropod #biodiversity project in collaboration with @robertrollins1892.bsky.social in @genmig.bsky.social lab from the @ifv-whv.bsky.social 💡🦋 🕷🪲🦟
I just love the trap that looks like a 👻! Or 🪼?
Reposted by Pauline Fleischmann
Okay, my philosophy of biology peeps! Is there any good literature comparing Western and non-Western views on the "essence" of species - what makes an organism the kind of thing it is (if kinds exist!) - where that comes from, how it could be encoded or transmitted...?
July 8, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Okay, my philosophy of biology peeps! Is there any good literature comparing Western and non-Western views on the "essence" of species - what makes an organism the kind of thing it is (if kinds exist!) - where that comes from, how it could be encoded or transmitted...?
Reposted by Pauline Fleischmann
Registration is open for our 2nd international conference for early career researchers on Magnetoreception and Navigation in Animals.
19.-21.11.2025 in Hamburg, Germany.
Abstract submission extended to 8/8/25 :-)
www.sfb1372.de/young-resear...
19.-21.11.2025 in Hamburg, Germany.
Abstract submission extended to 8/8/25 :-)
www.sfb1372.de/young-resear...
July 2, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Registration is open for our 2nd international conference for early career researchers on Magnetoreception and Navigation in Animals.
19.-21.11.2025 in Hamburg, Germany.
Abstract submission extended to 8/8/25 :-)
www.sfb1372.de/young-resear...
19.-21.11.2025 in Hamburg, Germany.
Abstract submission extended to 8/8/25 :-)
www.sfb1372.de/young-resear...
😭 Sad to miss the #GRC #neuroethology conference co-organised by Miriam Liedvogel @genmig.bsky.social from our @sfb1372.bsky.social, 😊 but very happy that our #research on #magnetoreception in #ants 🧪🐜🧠🧭🌞 is presented by my dear friend and co-antpert Robin Grob to the @neuroethology.org community 😊👍
Robin Grob from NTNU talks about the magnetic sense of ants and how he wants to study the magnetic compass of migratory monarch butteflies.
www.cell.com/current-biol...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.cell.com/current-biol...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Cataglyphis ants have a polarity-sensitive magnetic compass
Grob et al. show that Cataglyphis ants do not rely on the inclination but rather use
the polarity of the geomagnetic field for path integration during learning walks in
their natural habitat. This sug...
www.cell.com
July 2, 2025 at 6:12 AM
😭 Sad to miss the #GRC #neuroethology conference co-organised by Miriam Liedvogel @genmig.bsky.social from our @sfb1372.bsky.social, 😊 but very happy that our #research on #magnetoreception in #ants 🧪🐜🧠🧭🌞 is presented by my dear friend and co-antpert Robin Grob to the @neuroethology.org community 😊👍
The past two weeks showed me why being a #neuroethologist is the best job 😍 Field work in Greece 🇬🇷:
➡️ observing #ants 🐜
➡️ lab experiments 🔬🧠
➡️ scientific discussions🧪💬
➡️ teaching & supervision
➡️ great food 🍽.
I can't wait to discuss the data in the future🤩
Thanks @chiaratenne.bsky.social & team🤗
➡️ observing #ants 🐜
➡️ lab experiments 🔬🧠
➡️ scientific discussions🧪💬
➡️ teaching & supervision
➡️ great food 🍽.
I can't wait to discuss the data in the future🤩
Thanks @chiaratenne.bsky.social & team🤗
July 1, 2025 at 10:53 AM
The past two weeks showed me why being a #neuroethologist is the best job 😍 Field work in Greece 🇬🇷:
➡️ observing #ants 🐜
➡️ lab experiments 🔬🧠
➡️ scientific discussions🧪💬
➡️ teaching & supervision
➡️ great food 🍽.
I can't wait to discuss the data in the future🤩
Thanks @chiaratenne.bsky.social & team🤗
➡️ observing #ants 🐜
➡️ lab experiments 🔬🧠
➡️ scientific discussions🧪💬
➡️ teaching & supervision
➡️ great food 🍽.
I can't wait to discuss the data in the future🤩
Thanks @chiaratenne.bsky.social & team🤗
How do animals navigate? A recent study in @nature.com reveals that #BogongMoths use a stellar compass for their long-distance migration ✨️🧭🌏
I was asked for my opinion about this fascinating result by my dear colleagues @lundvision.bsky.social 🤩
↘️ www.npr.org/2025/06/18/n... ↙️ @sfb1372.bsky.social
I was asked for my opinion about this fascinating result by my dear colleagues @lundvision.bsky.social 🤩
↘️ www.npr.org/2025/06/18/n... ↙️ @sfb1372.bsky.social
How migrating Australian moths find caves hundreds of miles away
Billions of nocturnal Bogong moths migrate up to 1,000 km to cool caves in the Australian Alps that they have never previously visited. New research shows how they may find their way there and back.
www.npr.org
June 19, 2025 at 3:36 AM
How do animals navigate? A recent study in @nature.com reveals that #BogongMoths use a stellar compass for their long-distance migration ✨️🧭🌏
I was asked for my opinion about this fascinating result by my dear colleagues @lundvision.bsky.social 🤩
↘️ www.npr.org/2025/06/18/n... ↙️ @sfb1372.bsky.social
I was asked for my opinion about this fascinating result by my dear colleagues @lundvision.bsky.social 🤩
↘️ www.npr.org/2025/06/18/n... ↙️ @sfb1372.bsky.social
🥳🥳🥳 We are thrilled that #NaviSense will be funded as a #ClusterOfExcellence by @dfg.de for the next seven years. Here you can find more information about our 🧪 research:
↘️ www.navisense.org ↙️
🗺🧭🐜🐦🐟🦇🦋🦐 #ExStra
🤗 Congratulations also to our fellow clusters #Hearing4all 🦻and #OceanFloor 🌊
↘️ www.navisense.org ↙️
🗺🧭🐜🐦🐟🦇🦋🦐 #ExStra
🤗 Congratulations also to our fellow clusters #Hearing4all 🦻and #OceanFloor 🌊
May 22, 2025 at 6:33 PM
🥳🥳🥳 We are thrilled that #NaviSense will be funded as a #ClusterOfExcellence by @dfg.de for the next seven years. Here you can find more information about our 🧪 research:
↘️ www.navisense.org ↙️
🗺🧭🐜🐦🐟🦇🦋🦐 #ExStra
🤗 Congratulations also to our fellow clusters #Hearing4all 🦻and #OceanFloor 🌊
↘️ www.navisense.org ↙️
🗺🧭🐜🐦🐟🦇🦋🦐 #ExStra
🤗 Congratulations also to our fellow clusters #Hearing4all 🦻and #OceanFloor 🌊
Reposted by Pauline Fleischmann
Überragender Erfolg für die Universität Oldenburg: Im Exzellenzwettbewerb war sie mit den drei Exzellenzclustern Hearing4all, Ocean Floor und NaviSense erfolgreich. In den Vorhaben geht es um Hörforschung, Meeresforschung und Tiernavigation...
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May 22, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Überragender Erfolg für die Universität Oldenburg: Im Exzellenzwettbewerb war sie mit den drei Exzellenzclustern Hearing4all, Ocean Floor und NaviSense erfolgreich. In den Vorhaben geht es um Hörforschung, Meeresforschung und Tiernavigation...
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