Kavitha Kannan
@kavikan.bsky.social
PhD researcher @UniKonstanz studying how honeybees regulate their social information in their defensive behaviour 🐝🧠
Interested in everything that’s biology 🌳🌍
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Kavitha Kannan
@kavikan.bsky.social
· Apr 21
Bienen im Persönlichkeitstest
www.uni-konstanz.de
Hello BlueSky! 🦋 Thrilled to jump on this platform and make connections! 🐝 🥳
With the start of the bee season, I’m delighted to share that the findings of our latest research paper is featured on the Uni Konstanz website! 🐝
Here it is:
www.uni-konstanz.de/universitaet...
With the start of the bee season, I’m delighted to share that the findings of our latest research paper is featured on the Uni Konstanz website! 🐝
Here it is:
www.uni-konstanz.de/universitaet...
Reposted by Kavitha Kannan
Reposted by Kavitha Kannan
Our findings on bees' photoreceptors are now officially published in Biology Letters of the Royal Society Publishing!! Thanks again for a productive collaboration @jjfosterlab.bsky.social and @gregoeur.bsky.social !!
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
I'm really happy to share the first preprint of my PhD work in @jjfosterlab.bsky.social! During a fruitful collaboration with @gregoeur.bsky.social, we uncovered a surprising feature of bees' eyes!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org
September 3, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Our findings on bees' photoreceptors are now officially published in Biology Letters of the Royal Society Publishing!! Thanks again for a productive collaboration @jjfosterlab.bsky.social and @gregoeur.bsky.social !!
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Happy to share that I successfully defended my doctoral thesis early this week! 🐝🥳 Really can’t believe I did it! 😅🥹
Super thankful to my supervisors, Morgane Nouvian, and Giovanni Galizia, colleagues at the Neurobio group Konstanz, @imprs-qbee.bsky.social, and all my friends and family! 🐝 #PhDone
Super thankful to my supervisors, Morgane Nouvian, and Giovanni Galizia, colleagues at the Neurobio group Konstanz, @imprs-qbee.bsky.social, and all my friends and family! 🐝 #PhDone
July 24, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Happy to share that I successfully defended my doctoral thesis early this week! 🐝🥳 Really can’t believe I did it! 😅🥹
Super thankful to my supervisors, Morgane Nouvian, and Giovanni Galizia, colleagues at the Neurobio group Konstanz, @imprs-qbee.bsky.social, and all my friends and family! 🐝 #PhDone
Super thankful to my supervisors, Morgane Nouvian, and Giovanni Galizia, colleagues at the Neurobio group Konstanz, @imprs-qbee.bsky.social, and all my friends and family! 🐝 #PhDone
Reposted by Kavitha Kannan
The Behavioural Neurobiology Summer School in Kosovo is back for the 2nd year and after just a few days we already made it onto live TV! For anyone who speaks Albanian, you can check out the full broadcast here: shorturl.at/kpUzp 🎙️
July 11, 2025 at 10:58 AM
The Behavioural Neurobiology Summer School in Kosovo is back for the 2nd year and after just a few days we already made it onto live TV! For anyone who speaks Albanian, you can check out the full broadcast here: shorturl.at/kpUzp 🎙️
Reposted by Kavitha Kannan
🚨 In our world riddled with misinformation and sensationalization, we must be cautious about handling accusations of scientific misconduct in our community. Weaponizing a public internet campaign is not the way.
📖 Read "A plea for academic decency"
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
📖 Read "A plea for academic decency"
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
A plea for academic decency - Journal of Comparative Physiology A
In an internet age when a viral sensationalist story gains far more traction than a nuanced and balanced discussion, we have become used to some politicians, media and web-based influencers bending th...
link.springer.com
June 24, 2025 at 2:57 PM
🚨 In our world riddled with misinformation and sensationalization, we must be cautious about handling accusations of scientific misconduct in our community. Weaponizing a public internet campaign is not the way.
📖 Read "A plea for academic decency"
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
📖 Read "A plea for academic decency"
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Reposted by Kavitha Kannan
“It’s the same sheet, w the same lights, in the same place, looking over the same vegetation. Same time of year, same time of the moon cycle, everything about it is identical. There’s just no moths on that sheet.” - Janzen
How long can we, like Wile e. Coyote, hang midair having run off the cliff?
How long can we, like Wile e. Coyote, hang midair having run off the cliff?
‘Half the tree of life’: ecologists’ horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects
A new point in history has been reached, entomologists say, as climate-led species’ collapse moves up the food chain even in supposedly protected regions free of pesticides
www.theguardian.com
June 5, 2025 at 11:42 AM
“It’s the same sheet, w the same lights, in the same place, looking over the same vegetation. Same time of year, same time of the moon cycle, everything about it is identical. There’s just no moths on that sheet.” - Janzen
How long can we, like Wile e. Coyote, hang midair having run off the cliff?
How long can we, like Wile e. Coyote, hang midair having run off the cliff?
Reposted by Kavitha Kannan
New study in @science.org Science Advances: Clownfish can shrink to survive heatwaves and social conflict!
Led by Melissa Versteeg, with Chancey MacDonald, Morgan Bennett-Smith, Pete Buston
@newcastleuni.bsky.social
@sciencesncl.bsky.social
@bostonu.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Led by Melissa Versteeg, with Chancey MacDonald, Morgan Bennett-Smith, Pete Buston
@newcastleuni.bsky.social
@sciencesncl.bsky.social
@bostonu.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Individual clown anemonefish shrink to survive heat stress and social conflict
Clown anemonefish survive heatwaves by shrinking together with their breeding partner.
www.science.org
May 22, 2025 at 1:27 AM
New study in @science.org Science Advances: Clownfish can shrink to survive heatwaves and social conflict!
Led by Melissa Versteeg, with Chancey MacDonald, Morgan Bennett-Smith, Pete Buston
@newcastleuni.bsky.social
@sciencesncl.bsky.social
@bostonu.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Led by Melissa Versteeg, with Chancey MacDonald, Morgan Bennett-Smith, Pete Buston
@newcastleuni.bsky.social
@sciencesncl.bsky.social
@bostonu.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Happy to share that our recent work on the individuality of honey bees in defensive behaviour got featured on German radio network yesterday 🤓🐝
Listen to my co-authors (also my PhD supervisors 😃) talk about it!
www.tagesschau.de/wissen/forsc...
Listen to my co-authors (also my PhD supervisors 😃) talk about it!
www.tagesschau.de/wissen/forsc...
Honigbienen sind individuelle Persönlichkeiten. Forscher machen das an ihrem Stechverhalten fest
Die Persönlichkeit der Bienen prägt ihr Stechverhalten. Während die einen noch zögern, stechen die anderen bereits zu. Das haben Forschende der Uni Konstanz herausgefunden. Von A. Braun.
www.tagesschau.de
May 6, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Happy to share that our recent work on the individuality of honey bees in defensive behaviour got featured on German radio network yesterday 🤓🐝
Listen to my co-authors (also my PhD supervisors 😃) talk about it!
www.tagesschau.de/wissen/forsc...
Listen to my co-authors (also my PhD supervisors 😃) talk about it!
www.tagesschau.de/wissen/forsc...
Reposted by Kavitha Kannan
Greetings, chordate comrades. #InverteFest is upon us.
tl;dr: Over the last 7 days every April, August, and December, we invite you to show the internet your coolest bugs & slugs.
Go find critters, post your art, write wikipedia pages, do whatever you like to celebrate invertebrates with us!
tl;dr: Over the last 7 days every April, August, and December, we invite you to show the internet your coolest bugs & slugs.
Go find critters, post your art, write wikipedia pages, do whatever you like to celebrate invertebrates with us!
August 9, 2024 at 3:06 PM
Greetings, chordate comrades. #InverteFest is upon us.
tl;dr: Over the last 7 days every April, August, and December, we invite you to show the internet your coolest bugs & slugs.
Go find critters, post your art, write wikipedia pages, do whatever you like to celebrate invertebrates with us!
tl;dr: Over the last 7 days every April, August, and December, we invite you to show the internet your coolest bugs & slugs.
Go find critters, post your art, write wikipedia pages, do whatever you like to celebrate invertebrates with us!
Reposted by Kavitha Kannan
Forschende des #UniKonstanz Exzellenclusters „Kollektives Verhalten“ haben herausgefunden, dass Honigbienen ein und desselben Volkes unterschiedliche Vorlieben im Stechverhalten haben. Während die einen noch zögern, stechen die anderen bereits zu: https://t1p.de/rjqws
April 17, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Forschende des #UniKonstanz Exzellenclusters „Kollektives Verhalten“ haben herausgefunden, dass Honigbienen ein und desselben Volkes unterschiedliche Vorlieben im Stechverhalten haben. Während die einen noch zögern, stechen die anderen bereits zu: https://t1p.de/rjqws
Hello BlueSky! 🦋 Thrilled to jump on this platform and make connections! 🐝 🥳
With the start of the bee season, I’m delighted to share that the findings of our latest research paper is featured on the Uni Konstanz website! 🐝
Here it is:
www.uni-konstanz.de/universitaet...
With the start of the bee season, I’m delighted to share that the findings of our latest research paper is featured on the Uni Konstanz website! 🐝
Here it is:
www.uni-konstanz.de/universitaet...
Bienen im Persönlichkeitstest
www.uni-konstanz.de
April 21, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Hello BlueSky! 🦋 Thrilled to jump on this platform and make connections! 🐝 🥳
With the start of the bee season, I’m delighted to share that the findings of our latest research paper is featured on the Uni Konstanz website! 🐝
Here it is:
www.uni-konstanz.de/universitaet...
With the start of the bee season, I’m delighted to share that the findings of our latest research paper is featured on the Uni Konstanz website! 🐝
Here it is:
www.uni-konstanz.de/universitaet...