Lars Chittka
@larschittka.bsky.social
Lars Chittka, Professor of Sensory and Behavioural Ecology and author of The Mind of a Bee
We have a PhD student opening for Insect Cognition via the CSC (Chinese citizens only in this case - deadline January 28) - please pass on to anyone who might be interested and qualified: www.qmul.ac.uk/sbbs/postgra...
November 7, 2025 at 6:47 PM
We have a PhD student opening for Insect Cognition via the CSC (Chinese citizens only in this case - deadline January 28) - please pass on to anyone who might be interested and qualified: www.qmul.ac.uk/sbbs/postgra...
Looking forward to giving a presentation at the Matthaei Botanical Gardens Auditorium in Ann Arbor next week
November 7, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Looking forward to giving a presentation at the Matthaei Botanical Gardens Auditorium in Ann Arbor next week
Happy to give a presentation in such illustrious company at the 3rd International Conference on Bee Health at the Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University in Fuzhou, China this coming week
October 26, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Happy to give a presentation in such illustrious company at the 3rd International Conference on Bee Health at the Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University in Fuzhou, China this coming week
Exciting new work from former team members Eric Romero, Cwyn Solvi, Fei Peng and colleagues makes the cover of Science: affective contagion in bumblebees! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
October 24, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Exciting new work from former team members Eric Romero, Cwyn Solvi, Fei Peng and colleagues makes the cover of Science: affective contagion in bumblebees! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
When bees carry individual marks, you realise that they are not "attracted to flowers" like some silly reflex machines - in fact they know where they're going and the same individuals often return to the same flowers whose locations, appearance and rewards they have learned. Go Orange 24!
September 19, 2025 at 9:31 AM
When bees carry individual marks, you realise that they are not "attracted to flowers" like some silly reflex machines - in fact they know where they're going and the same individuals often return to the same flowers whose locations, appearance and rewards they have learned. Go Orange 24!
Super happy to be on the shortlist for Outstanding Research Supervisor of the Year by the Times Higher Education's "Oscars of higher education": the-awards.co.uk/2025/en/page...
September 4, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Super happy to be on the shortlist for Outstanding Research Supervisor of the Year by the Times Higher Education's "Oscars of higher education": the-awards.co.uk/2025/en/page...
Morgen in der Eifel! www.lit-eifel.de/programm-202...
September 3, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Morgen in der Eifel! www.lit-eifel.de/programm-202...
The French version of The Mind of a Bee is now available- 13 translations already! 😊
August 23, 2025 at 12:26 PM
The French version of The Mind of a Bee is now available- 13 translations already! 😊
New manuscript out on BioRxiv: Synaptic high-frequency jumping synchronises vision to high-speed behaviour: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
August 22, 2025 at 8:22 AM
New manuscript out on BioRxiv: Synaptic high-frequency jumping synchronises vision to high-speed behaviour: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
I was moved beyond words to receive the Exemplar Award from the President of the Animal Behavior Society @animbehsociety.bsky.social, Prof Emily DuVal. Thank you!!! 🥹
July 15, 2025 at 2:15 PM
I was moved beyond words to receive the Exemplar Award from the President of the Animal Behavior Society @animbehsociety.bsky.social, Prof Emily DuVal. Thank you!!! 🥹
Important new paper by Luigi Baciadonna, Eleonora Rovegno, Giulia Bigazzi & David Baracchi: pronounced interindivual variation in delay gratification in bumblebees! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
July 11, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Important new paper by Luigi Baciadonna, Eleonora Rovegno, Giulia Bigazzi & David Baracchi: pronounced interindivual variation in delay gratification in bumblebees! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Our new paper in eLife: A neuromorphic model of active vision shows how spatiotemporal encoding in lobula neurons can aid pattern recognition in bees: elifesciences.org/articles/89929
July 1, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Our new paper in eLife: A neuromorphic model of active vision shows how spatiotemporal encoding in lobula neurons can aid pattern recognition in bees: elifesciences.org/articles/89929
Big congratulations to our team's Jasmin Richter, who won "best talk" at the London Interdisciplinary Doctoral Programme presentation day today!
June 27, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Big congratulations to our team's Jasmin Richter, who won "best talk" at the London Interdisciplinary Doctoral Programme presentation day today!
Looking forward to speaking at the the Sacramento Area Beekeepers Association tomorrow: sacbeekeepers.org
June 23, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Looking forward to speaking at the the Sacramento Area Beekeepers Association tomorrow: sacbeekeepers.org
Our string-pulling honeybees on TV for the first time! Amongst a lot of other interesting bee information, we're at minute 33:30 in The Secret Life of Bees (Channel 5): www.channel5.com/show/the-sec...
June 5, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Our string-pulling honeybees on TV for the first time! Amongst a lot of other interesting bee information, we're at minute 33:30 in The Secret Life of Bees (Channel 5): www.channel5.com/show/the-sec...
Hahaha this is quite wonderful: "The inconspicuous but indefatigable rise of behaviorism was
more of a barbarian invasion than a revolution"
more of a barbarian invasion than a revolution"
May 25, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Hahaha this is quite wonderful: "The inconspicuous but indefatigable rise of behaviorism was
more of a barbarian invasion than a revolution"
more of a barbarian invasion than a revolution"
Fun to give a presentation at the interestingly named Mile Hive Bee Club in Denver, Colorado, today
May 14, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Fun to give a presentation at the interestingly named Mile Hive Bee Club in Denver, Colorado, today
French translation of the Mind of a Bee out May 22 - preorder here: www.quae.com/produit/1945...
May 9, 2025 at 1:04 PM
French translation of the Mind of a Bee out May 22 - preorder here: www.quae.com/produit/1945...
Had a stimulating discussion after my presentation for the Long Beach Beekeepers' Association (California) today
May 4, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Had a stimulating discussion after my presentation for the Long Beach Beekeepers' Association (California) today
I'm super happy that Michelle Maldonado and I have both won awards for "best acting" in Osseily Hanna's film The Last Bee, at the Amsterdam New Cinema Film Festival
April 30, 2025 at 4:30 PM
I'm super happy that Michelle Maldonado and I have both won awards for "best acting" in Osseily Hanna's film The Last Bee, at the Amsterdam New Cinema Film Festival
How bumblebees solve pattern discrimination tasks using active scanning - our new paper now out in eLife (with HaDi MaBoudi, Jasmin Richter, Marie Guiraud, Mark Roper, James Marshall: elifesciences.org/articles/106...
April 11, 2025 at 9:39 AM
How bumblebees solve pattern discrimination tasks using active scanning - our new paper now out in eLife (with HaDi MaBoudi, Jasmin Richter, Marie Guiraud, Mark Roper, James Marshall: elifesciences.org/articles/106...
New Primer on Bumblebees now out in Current Biology (with Guillaume Ghisbain & Denis Michez):
www.cell.com/current-biol...
www.cell.com/current-biol...
March 26, 2025 at 7:11 AM
New Primer on Bumblebees now out in Current Biology (with Guillaume Ghisbain & Denis Michez):
www.cell.com/current-biol...
www.cell.com/current-biol...
Isabella Rossellini has my book, and I have hers! 😊
March 24, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Isabella Rossellini has my book, and I have hers! 😊
Aus dem Deutschen Bienenjournal: Verpeilte Bienen! 😉
March 20, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Aus dem Deutschen Bienenjournal: Verpeilte Bienen! 😉
Experiment by the founding mother of comparative psychology, Margaret Washburn (1871-1939), and coauthor Edwina Abbott, on whether rabbits distinguish red from shades of grey (they don't). Lovely paper with plenty of information on inter-individual variance in cognitive style
March 19, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Experiment by the founding mother of comparative psychology, Margaret Washburn (1871-1939), and coauthor Edwina Abbott, on whether rabbits distinguish red from shades of grey (they don't). Lovely paper with plenty of information on inter-individual variance in cognitive style