SFB 1372
@sfb1372.bsky.social
Collaborative Research Centre on Magnetoreception & Navigation in Vertebrates. www.sfb1372.de
Uni Oldenburg, Bochum, Berlin, @ifv-whv.bsky.social, Weizmann Institute, Uni Oxford. Funded by @dfg.de.
Find our tweets from X here: @sfb1372-x.bsky.social
Uni Oldenburg, Bochum, Berlin, @ifv-whv.bsky.social, Weizmann Institute, Uni Oxford. Funded by @dfg.de.
Find our tweets from X here: @sfb1372-x.bsky.social
‼️Save the date: 19/10/2025 8pm Villa Viva, Hamburg‼️
Join our fun pub quiz about Animal Navigation & Magnetoreception, the quiz is open everyone!
Enjoy a drink while trying to answer our interesting questions 🥂
The quiz is our icebreaker event of our #YoungResearcherSymposium
🧭🐦🐜🦇🐠
#pubquiz #Hamburg
Join our fun pub quiz about Animal Navigation & Magnetoreception, the quiz is open everyone!
Enjoy a drink while trying to answer our interesting questions 🥂
The quiz is our icebreaker event of our #YoungResearcherSymposium
🧭🐦🐜🦇🐠
#pubquiz #Hamburg
November 3, 2025 at 1:21 PM
‼️Save the date: 19/10/2025 8pm Villa Viva, Hamburg‼️
Join our fun pub quiz about Animal Navigation & Magnetoreception, the quiz is open everyone!
Enjoy a drink while trying to answer our interesting questions 🥂
The quiz is our icebreaker event of our #YoungResearcherSymposium
🧭🐦🐜🦇🐠
#pubquiz #Hamburg
Join our fun pub quiz about Animal Navigation & Magnetoreception, the quiz is open everyone!
Enjoy a drink while trying to answer our interesting questions 🥂
The quiz is our icebreaker event of our #YoungResearcherSymposium
🧭🐦🐜🦇🐠
#pubquiz #Hamburg
Thrilled to discover our SFB PhD student Pedro doing outreach activities in faraway Brazil!
1/3 Brazilian Scientific Adventures of @claricedaiello.bsky.social #8:
As part of the @cienciapioneira.bsky.social Instituto D'Or de Pesquisa e Ensino Quantum Biology School, Clarice & Pedro a dear scientist friend went to a public school in Paraty to talk to the students about what scientists do.
As part of the @cienciapioneira.bsky.social Instituto D'Or de Pesquisa e Ensino Quantum Biology School, Clarice & Pedro a dear scientist friend went to a public school in Paraty to talk to the students about what scientists do.
October 31, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Thrilled to discover our SFB PhD student Pedro doing outreach activities in faraway Brazil!
The really cool cross-disciplinary project where our SFB research fellow Pauline Fleischmann @cataglyphilosophy.bsky.social is involved in has now 2 #postdoc positions advertised!
🤩 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 29, 2025 at 6:49 PM
The really cool cross-disciplinary project where our SFB research fellow Pauline Fleischmann @cataglyphilosophy.bsky.social is involved in has now 2 #postdoc positions advertised!
"There is a playbook. It was written by men. I always felt I didn't have the play- book."
- Picture A Scientist🔬
The SFB 1372 team hosted a screening of "Picture a Scientist"🎬 with around 50 participants, sparking meaningful discussions on strength, solidarity, and equality in science.
- Picture A Scientist🔬
The SFB 1372 team hosted a screening of "Picture a Scientist"🎬 with around 50 participants, sparking meaningful discussions on strength, solidarity, and equality in science.
October 28, 2025 at 1:14 PM
"There is a playbook. It was written by men. I always felt I didn't have the play- book."
- Picture A Scientist🔬
The SFB 1372 team hosted a screening of "Picture a Scientist"🎬 with around 50 participants, sparking meaningful discussions on strength, solidarity, and equality in science.
- Picture A Scientist🔬
The SFB 1372 team hosted a screening of "Picture a Scientist"🎬 with around 50 participants, sparking meaningful discussions on strength, solidarity, and equality in science.
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We’re #hiring! Our new fellowship holder Dr. Alina Sigaeva will soon be establishing her research group on #cell #physiology 🥼🔬🧪🧫 🧬of avian #magnetoreception 🐣🧭🧲. She is looking for a talented PhD student 🧑🎓👩🎓. Apply by 2 November at uol.de/job764en Please share widely!
Doctoral researcher in cell physiology of avian magnetoreception // University of Oldenburg
uol.de
October 6, 2025 at 9:50 AM
We’re #hiring! Our new fellowship holder Dr. Alina Sigaeva will soon be establishing her research group on #cell #physiology 🥼🔬🧪🧫 🧬of avian #magnetoreception 🐣🧭🧲. She is looking for a talented PhD student 🧑🎓👩🎓. Apply by 2 November at uol.de/job764en Please share widely!
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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 9:25 AM
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
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We’re hiring a doctoral researcher in the area of migration ecology.
The work will focus on the question of how and when migratory songbirds learn where their home is using #Motus.
Part of the Cluster of Excellence NaviSense and linked with @sfb1372.bsky.social
uol.de/job788en
#ornithology
The work will focus on the question of how and when migratory songbirds learn where their home is using #Motus.
Part of the Cluster of Excellence NaviSense and linked with @sfb1372.bsky.social
uol.de/job788en
#ornithology
October 20, 2025 at 10:13 AM
We’re hiring a doctoral researcher in the area of migration ecology.
The work will focus on the question of how and when migratory songbirds learn where their home is using #Motus.
Part of the Cluster of Excellence NaviSense and linked with @sfb1372.bsky.social
uol.de/job788en
#ornithology
The work will focus on the question of how and when migratory songbirds learn where their home is using #Motus.
Part of the Cluster of Excellence NaviSense and linked with @sfb1372.bsky.social
uol.de/job788en
#ornithology
Watch this:
A 4‑minute video from #WeizmannInstitute showing how the researchers recorded bat brains in the wild on Latham Island — the first time single-neuron neural compass activity has been captured outdoors! www.youtube.com/watch?v=46sv...
A 4‑minute video from #WeizmannInstitute showing how the researchers recorded bat brains in the wild on Latham Island — the first time single-neuron neural compass activity has been captured outdoors! www.youtube.com/watch?v=46sv...
Bat Island: The New Era of Science
YouTube video by Weizmann Institute of Science
www.youtube.com
October 17, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Watch this:
A 4‑minute video from #WeizmannInstitute showing how the researchers recorded bat brains in the wild on Latham Island — the first time single-neuron neural compass activity has been captured outdoors! www.youtube.com/watch?v=46sv...
A 4‑minute video from #WeizmannInstitute showing how the researchers recorded bat brains in the wild on Latham Island — the first time single-neuron neural compass activity has been captured outdoors! www.youtube.com/watch?v=46sv...
Congratulation to our #SFB1372 project members in Israel, @shakedpa.bsky.social and Prof. Nachum Ulanovsky, with #UniOldenburg Prof. Henrik Mouritsen & co-workers, on their findings on head-direction cells in free-flying bats, just published @science.org: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adw6202
Head-direction cells as a neural compass in bats navigating outdoors on a remote oceanic island
Animals and humans rely on their navigation skills to survive. However, spatial neurons in the brain’s “navigation circuit” had not previously been studied under real-world conditions. We conducted an...
www.science.org
October 17, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Congratulation to our #SFB1372 project members in Israel, @shakedpa.bsky.social and Prof. Nachum Ulanovsky, with #UniOldenburg Prof. Henrik Mouritsen & co-workers, on their findings on head-direction cells in free-flying bats, just published @science.org: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adw6202
🎬 Movie Screening Alert!
Join us for "Picture a Scientist" Insporing journeys of women in science.
📅 October 16th, 20:00
📍 Unikino Gegenlicht, University of Oldenburg
🎟️ Admission is free!
Reserve your seat here 👉 gegenlicht.net/movie/261/
#PictureAScientist #UniOldenburg #SFB1372
Join us for "Picture a Scientist" Insporing journeys of women in science.
📅 October 16th, 20:00
📍 Unikino Gegenlicht, University of Oldenburg
🎟️ Admission is free!
Reserve your seat here 👉 gegenlicht.net/movie/261/
#PictureAScientist #UniOldenburg #SFB1372
October 15, 2025 at 11:22 AM
🎬 Movie Screening Alert!
Join us for "Picture a Scientist" Insporing journeys of women in science.
📅 October 16th, 20:00
📍 Unikino Gegenlicht, University of Oldenburg
🎟️ Admission is free!
Reserve your seat here 👉 gegenlicht.net/movie/261/
#PictureAScientist #UniOldenburg #SFB1372
Join us for "Picture a Scientist" Insporing journeys of women in science.
📅 October 16th, 20:00
📍 Unikino Gegenlicht, University of Oldenburg
🎟️ Admission is free!
Reserve your seat here 👉 gegenlicht.net/movie/261/
#PictureAScientist #UniOldenburg #SFB1372
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🤩 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 🐜🧠🧭
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Last week was full of interesting talk about #science at our #sfb1372 autumn meeting at the #University of Oldenburg and at the #neuroscience meeting at the #HanseWissenschaftskollegen. Me, my team and our supervisor @cataglyphilosophy.bsky.social could talk about #neuroethology in #insects! 🐜🧭🧲
October 5, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Last week was full of interesting talk about #science at our #sfb1372 autumn meeting at the #University of Oldenburg and at the #neuroscience meeting at the #HanseWissenschaftskollegen. Me, my team and our supervisor @cataglyphilosophy.bsky.social could talk about #neuroethology in #insects! 🐜🧭🧲
We’re #hiring! Our new fellowship holder Dr. Alina Sigaeva will soon be establishing her research group on #cell #physiology 🥼🔬🧪🧫 🧬of avian #magnetoreception 🐣🧭🧲. She is looking for a talented PhD student 🧑🎓👩🎓. Apply by 2 November at uol.de/job764en Please share widely!
Doctoral researcher in cell physiology of avian magnetoreception // University of Oldenburg
uol.de
October 6, 2025 at 9:50 AM
We’re #hiring! Our new fellowship holder Dr. Alina Sigaeva will soon be establishing her research group on #cell #physiology 🥼🔬🧪🧫 🧬of avian #magnetoreception 🐣🧭🧲. She is looking for a talented PhD student 🧑🎓👩🎓. Apply by 2 November at uol.de/job764en Please share widely!
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🤗 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! 🤩
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Interested in the brain 🧠 & in doing a PhD 👩🎓 🧑🎓 in the field of Cognitive NeuroImaging @mpicbs.bsky.social @unileipzig.bsky.social @tudresden.bsky.social @uclbrainscience.bsky.social? Check out lnkd.in/egb9quuj & apply until 📅 Nov 2 through lnkd.in/eepFkaJs. 👉Excited to receiving your application! 🤩
September 11, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Interested in the brain 🧠 & in doing a PhD 👩🎓 🧑🎓 in the field of Cognitive NeuroImaging @mpicbs.bsky.social @unileipzig.bsky.social @tudresden.bsky.social @uclbrainscience.bsky.social? Check out lnkd.in/egb9quuj & apply until 📅 Nov 2 through lnkd.in/eepFkaJs. 👉Excited to receiving your application! 🤩
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
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Glad to see this one out! The product of some thought-provoking discussions with lots of cool people 🗺️ might be worth a read for those interested in #navigation or #migration 🦅 🐝 🐟 🐁
Ever wondered how animals know where they are? Or how they find where they need to be?
The answer is that they have maps and compasses built into their heads! Excited to see this new review of map-and-compass navigation led by Joe Morford out in Animal Behaviour @asab.org
doi.org/10.1016/j.an...
The answer is that they have maps and compasses built into their heads! Excited to see this new review of map-and-compass navigation led by Joe Morford out in Animal Behaviour @asab.org
doi.org/10.1016/j.an...
July 22, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Glad to see this one out! The product of some thought-provoking discussions with lots of cool people 🗺️ might be worth a read for those interested in #navigation or #migration 🦅 🐝 🐟 🐁
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...
Impressions from our SFB research fellow Pauline Fleischmann @cataglyphilosophy.bsky.social from her field work investigating #magnetoreception in desert #ants:
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 14, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Impressions from our SFB research fellow Pauline Fleischmann @cataglyphilosophy.bsky.social from her field work investigating #magnetoreception in desert #ants:
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...
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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
Congrats to our SFB colleagues @shakedpa.bsky.social, Nachum Ulanovsky & coworkers @weizmanninstitute.bsky.social: They report in Cell that the replay of large environments in the hippocampus of fruit #bats is fragmented; this may facilitate memory chunking for hippocampal-neocortical communication
🚨New in @cellpress.bsky.social
We discovered that hippocampal replays in natural-scale environments are highly fragmented, not full-length.
doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...
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We discovered that hippocampal replays in natural-scale environments are highly fragmented, not full-length.
doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...
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June 18, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Congrats to our SFB colleagues @shakedpa.bsky.social, Nachum Ulanovsky & coworkers @weizmanninstitute.bsky.social: They report in Cell that the replay of large environments in the hippocampus of fruit #bats is fragmented; this may facilitate memory chunking for hippocampal-neocortical communication
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Abstract submission is still open for two more weeks and we would love to receive more contributions for the Young-Researchers-Symposium on Magnetoreception & Navigation in Animals. Travel grants are also available.
www.sfb1372.de/young-resear...
@sfb1372.bsky.social
www.sfb1372.de/young-resear...
@sfb1372.bsky.social
June 17, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Abstract submission is still open for two more weeks and we would love to receive more contributions for the Young-Researchers-Symposium on Magnetoreception & Navigation in Animals. Travel grants are also available.
www.sfb1372.de/young-resear...
@sfb1372.bsky.social
www.sfb1372.de/young-resear...
@sfb1372.bsky.social
New accepted paper of our SFB colleagues working on #sun #compass #orientation in #migrating sticklebacks: Behavioural experiments revealed ecotype-dependent differences: The orientation ability is present in the anadromous ecotype, but random in the freshwater ecotype. doi.org/10.1093/iob/...
June 10, 2025 at 9:18 AM
New accepted paper of our SFB colleagues working on #sun #compass #orientation in #migrating sticklebacks: Behavioural experiments revealed ecotype-dependent differences: The orientation ability is present in the anadromous ecotype, but random in the freshwater ecotype. doi.org/10.1093/iob/...
13 days left to apply for our #CRC #fellowship #job position for experienced #postdocs with your own project proposal for research on animal #navigation and/or #magnetoreception. Apply until 15 June! sfb1372.de/jobs
Spread the word: we're #hiring! We have an open #research fellowship position for #postdocs with their own research idea: It includes an own budget, a #PhD student position and the possibility to conduct independent research on animal #navigation and/or #magnetoreception 🧭🦤🦇🐟⚛️🧪👩🔬! sfb1372.de/jobs
June 2, 2025 at 9:34 AM
13 days left to apply for our #CRC #fellowship #job position for experienced #postdocs with your own project proposal for research on animal #navigation and/or #magnetoreception. Apply until 15 June! sfb1372.de/jobs