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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'
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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
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
December 6, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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
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
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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 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.🧪
![A blue and red feathered parakeet? with a simple bar magnet illustration overlayed on it, and yellow lines of force radiating out from the head. It also has the word "yes*" underneath it.
I stole this from a cover photo for a video on the topic from YouTuber "Learn with Kay" with title "Birds navigte with Magnets in their heads ??" [sic]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:r643qxafn6b3pxfffiodojbn/bafkreigvdthlwkzkkbjl63ykyyssyqbuhj4jxxkbxos6cfpanbfi7pwdv4@jpeg)
December 23, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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 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.🧪
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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!
December 23, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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!
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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
December 22, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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
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🚨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
@royalsociety.org
#shadowing #predator #experiment #marine #movement
December 22, 2025 at 10:47 AM
🚨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
@royalsociety.org
#shadowing #predator #experiment #marine #movement
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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/...
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/...
No Appeasement Through Vibrations: Male Vibratory Pre‐Copulatory Courtship in the Cursorial Spider Pisaura mirabilis Does Not Affect Female Predatory Response
Male courtship can serve various purposes such as species recognition, mate localization, or advertisement of individual quality and physical condition. In predatory species such as spiders, courtshi...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 20, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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/...
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/...
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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...
@uhl-lab.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
December 17, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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...
@uhl-lab.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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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
Our latest in @natrevneuro.nature.com
Link: rdcu.be/eMX3E
@jeffcolgren.bsky.social @msarscentre.bsky.social
The evolutionary origins of synaptic proteins and their changing roles in different organisms across evolution
Nature Reviews Neuroscience - Recent studies have shed further light on the evolutionary origins of chemical synapses, In this Review, Colgren and Burkhardt explore how ancient proteins were...
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October 27, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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
Our latest in @natrevneuro.nature.com
Link: rdcu.be/eMX3E
@jeffcolgren.bsky.social @msarscentre.bsky.social
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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 🧠✨🧬🌊🪼🧽
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@msarscentre.bsky.social 🧠✨🧬🌊🪼🧽
December 17, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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 🧠✨🧬🌊🪼🧽
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@msarscentre.bsky.social 🧠✨🧬🌊🪼🧽
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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
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
December 16, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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
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! 😻
Our new study shows that cats’ purrs are more individually distinct than their meows and suggests that domestication has made the meows of cats more variable than those of cheetah, cougar & Co.
Check it out!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Check it out!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
December 15, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Check out this super cool paper studying the meows and purrs of humans' other best friends and their comparison to wild felines! 😻
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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
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
December 15, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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
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
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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
December 13, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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
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New #BiologyLetters paper: Longer matings increase male competitive fertilization success in Drosophila melanogaster: doi.org/10.1098/rsbl... @avigayillev.bsky.social @alisonpischedda.bsky.social
December 13, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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... 🙊🙉🙈💃
Monkeys have rhythm
Synchronizing movements to music is a hallmark of human culture, but its evolutionary and neurobiological origins remain unknown. This ability requires (i) extracting a steady rhythmic pulse, or beat,...
www.science.org
December 14, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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... 🙊🙉🙈💃
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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/...
journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
December 12, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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/...
journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
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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...
Open to all nationalities, funded incl. stipend, set in a beautiful city, and with amazing collaborators ✨
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
December 13, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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...
Open to all nationalities, funded incl. stipend, set in a beautiful city, and with amazing collaborators ✨
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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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 🧵
- 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 🧵
November 21, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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 🧵
- 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 🧵
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New paper covering what we think is a pretty nice and comprehensive overview over tools suitable for neuroethology in butterflies and moths.
Also, check out the whole special issue if you're an insect neuroethologist.
@neuroethology.org @dzg-neurobiology.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1007/s003...
Also, check out the whole special issue if you're an insect neuroethologist.
@neuroethology.org @dzg-neurobiology.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1007/s003...
Emerging tools to advance neuroethology in butterflies and moths - Journal of Comparative Physiology A
Journal of Comparative Physiology A - Butterflies and moths have played historically important roles in developing our understanding of both ecology and evolutionary biology, and neuroethology. In...
doi.org
December 12, 2025 at 10:04 AM
New paper covering what we think is a pretty nice and comprehensive overview over tools suitable for neuroethology in butterflies and moths.
Also, check out the whole special issue if you're an insect neuroethologist.
@neuroethology.org @dzg-neurobiology.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1007/s003...
Also, check out the whole special issue if you're an insect neuroethologist.
@neuroethology.org @dzg-neurobiology.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1007/s003...
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New review out! 🔥🧊
We break down how rodents, primates & insects encode temperature in Nature Reviews Neuroscience.
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
View-only: rdcu.be/eThU1
We break down how rodents, primates & insects encode temperature in Nature Reviews Neuroscience.
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
View-only: rdcu.be/eThU1
The neuronal circuits and cellular encoding of thermosensation - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
The thermosensory system across insects and mammals has shared principles of neuronal wiring and encoding. In this Review, Carta, Vestergaard and Poulet discuss how the nervous systems of insects and ...
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December 8, 2025 at 6:23 AM
New review out! 🔥🧊
We break down how rodents, primates & insects encode temperature in Nature Reviews Neuroscience.
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
View-only: rdcu.be/eThU1
We break down how rodents, primates & insects encode temperature in Nature Reviews Neuroscience.
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
View-only: rdcu.be/eThU1
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🚨New #behavioural #mimicry paper out in Proc B!🚨
In which we show that hoverflies have evolved to prefer the flower colour choices of their #bee models instead of their #fly relatives.
Conversation article here: theconversation.com/natures-grea...
Paper here: doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
In which we show that hoverflies have evolved to prefer the flower colour choices of their #bee models instead of their #fly relatives.
Conversation article here: theconversation.com/natures-grea...
Paper here: doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
Nature’s greatest method actors: the insects that cosplay bumblebees
When you’re an animal undercover, sometimes it’s not enough just to look like someone else
theconversation.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:36 PM
🚨New #behavioural #mimicry paper out in Proc B!🚨
In which we show that hoverflies have evolved to prefer the flower colour choices of their #bee models instead of their #fly relatives.
Conversation article here: theconversation.com/natures-grea...
Paper here: doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
In which we show that hoverflies have evolved to prefer the flower colour choices of their #bee models instead of their #fly relatives.
Conversation article here: theconversation.com/natures-grea...
Paper here: doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
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New paper out today w @dalmaijer.bsky.social @barbaraklump.bsky.social and @lucymaplin.bsky.social as part of the Phil Trans special issue doi.org/10.1098/rstb.... Over 2 years, we studied a population of cockatoos thought to be the source of the innovation of bin-opening.
December 4, 2025 at 1:31 PM
New paper out today w @dalmaijer.bsky.social @barbaraklump.bsky.social and @lucymaplin.bsky.social as part of the Phil Trans special issue doi.org/10.1098/rstb.... Over 2 years, we studied a population of cockatoos thought to be the source of the innovation of bin-opening.
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The final version of the clonal raider ant reference brain is now out OA in @currentbiology.bsky.social:
🐜 🧠 🐜 🧠 🐜 🧠 🐜 🧠 🐜 🧠 🐜
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
🐜 🧠 🐜 🧠 🐜 🧠 🐜 🧠 🐜 🧠 🐜
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
December 5, 2025 at 4:30 PM
The final version of the clonal raider ant reference brain is now out OA in @currentbiology.bsky.social:
🐜 🧠 🐜 🧠 🐜 🧠 🐜 🧠 🐜 🧠 🐜
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
🐜 🧠 🐜 🧠 🐜 🧠 🐜 🧠 🐜 🧠 🐜
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
🚨 New paper out by Granados-Martínez et al. "Poison #frogs rely on vision for #homing in natural environments" 🐸👀🌳 @royalsocietypublishing.org
Check it out: ↘️ doi.org/10.1098/rspb... ↙️ #Navigation #Dendrobatidae #SpatialEcology
Check it out: ↘️ doi.org/10.1098/rspb... ↙️ #Navigation #Dendrobatidae #SpatialEcology
doi.org
December 4, 2025 at 7:49 PM
🚨 New paper out by Granados-Martínez et al. "Poison #frogs rely on vision for #homing in natural environments" 🐸👀🌳 @royalsocietypublishing.org
Check it out: ↘️ doi.org/10.1098/rspb... ↙️ #Navigation #Dendrobatidae #SpatialEcology
Check it out: ↘️ doi.org/10.1098/rspb... ↙️ #Navigation #Dendrobatidae #SpatialEcology
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🧠 Applications for the International Neuroscience Doctoral Programme (INDP) @champalimaudf.bsky.social open until 31 January 2026.
☀️ Join our vibrant and international research community in sunny Lisbon!
🔗 fchampalimaud.org/champalimaud...
☀️ Join our vibrant and international research community in sunny Lisbon!
🔗 fchampalimaud.org/champalimaud...
December 3, 2025 at 6:33 PM
🧠 Applications for the International Neuroscience Doctoral Programme (INDP) @champalimaudf.bsky.social open until 31 January 2026.
☀️ Join our vibrant and international research community in sunny Lisbon!
🔗 fchampalimaud.org/champalimaud...
☀️ Join our vibrant and international research community in sunny Lisbon!
🔗 fchampalimaud.org/champalimaud...