Nicolas Scheuring
@nicolas-scheuring.bsky.social
B.Sc. in Biology
Master student in the Beetz lab 🐝
@uni-wuerzburg.de
#Neuroethology 🔬🧭
evidence-based thinking over authoritarian delusion!
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Master student in the Beetz lab 🐝
@uni-wuerzburg.de
#Neuroethology 🔬🧭
evidence-based thinking over authoritarian delusion!
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Jumping spiders can recognise one another. This ability to learn, remember and represent images is quite surprising for such a tiny-brained animal!
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November 29, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Jumping spiders can recognise one another. This ability to learn, remember and represent images is quite surprising for such a tiny-brained animal!
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Teaching people how mRNA vaccines actually work protects against misconceptions about mRNA vaccination changing the recipient's DNA, without the need to repeat the false claims, according to experiments with over 3,500 participants. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/sVwH50Xzutc
November 29, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Teaching people how mRNA vaccines actually work protects against misconceptions about mRNA vaccination changing the recipient's DNA, without the need to repeat the false claims, according to experiments with over 3,500 participants. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/sVwH50Xzutc
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1/n We have discovered that bees can keep track of time duration!
Bees can discriminate long 🟡🟡 vs short🟡 flashes, a bit like the "dash" and "dot" of the Morse code.
Check our new paper royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... and videoclip youtu.be/hsGxU65OMQk?... @preparedmindslab.bsky.social
Bees can discriminate long 🟡🟡 vs short🟡 flashes, a bit like the "dash" and "dot" of the Morse code.
Check our new paper royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... and videoclip youtu.be/hsGxU65OMQk?... @preparedmindslab.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 8:58 AM
1/n We have discovered that bees can keep track of time duration!
Bees can discriminate long 🟡🟡 vs short🟡 flashes, a bit like the "dash" and "dot" of the Morse code.
Check our new paper royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... and videoclip youtu.be/hsGxU65OMQk?... @preparedmindslab.bsky.social
Bees can discriminate long 🟡🟡 vs short🟡 flashes, a bit like the "dash" and "dot" of the Morse code.
Check our new paper royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... and videoclip youtu.be/hsGxU65OMQk?... @preparedmindslab.bsky.social
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Funders must recognise that great discoveries often come from studies that seeks to advance knowledge for its own sake
go.nature.com/47zrzYZ
go.nature.com/47zrzYZ
From MRI to Ozempic: breakthroughs that show why fundamental research must be protected
In these financially straitened times, funders must recognize that great discoveries often arise from work that was looking for something completely different.
go.nature.com
October 29, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Funders must recognise that great discoveries often come from studies that seeks to advance knowledge for its own sake
go.nature.com/47zrzYZ
go.nature.com/47zrzYZ
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This week in Science, researchers demonstrate positive affective contagion—a core component of empathy—in bumble bees.
The discovery shows that even insects can share affective states, tracing the roots of affect and social cognition deep into evolution. Learn more: https://scim.ag/4oblMQq
The discovery shows that even insects can share affective states, tracing the roots of affect and social cognition deep into evolution. Learn more: https://scim.ag/4oblMQq
October 23, 2025 at 6:05 PM
This week in Science, researchers demonstrate positive affective contagion—a core component of empathy—in bumble bees.
The discovery shows that even insects can share affective states, tracing the roots of affect and social cognition deep into evolution. Learn more: https://scim.ag/4oblMQq
The discovery shows that even insects can share affective states, tracing the roots of affect and social cognition deep into evolution. Learn more: https://scim.ag/4oblMQq
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The publishing ecosystem must do more to tackle inequities; quotas and partnerships with societies can help, says Mariana Viglino
go.nature.com/47dn2Lr
go.nature.com/47dn2Lr
How journals can break down barriers for Latin American scientists
The publishing ecosystem must do more to tackle inequities; quotas and partnerships with societies can help.
go.nature.com
October 15, 2025 at 1:30 PM
The publishing ecosystem must do more to tackle inequities; quotas and partnerships with societies can help, says Mariana Viglino
go.nature.com/47dn2Lr
go.nature.com/47dn2Lr
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This project was the result of @nicolas-scheuring.bsky.social bachelor thesis who is currently conducting his master thesis in my lab.
September 28, 2025 at 11:44 AM
This project was the result of @nicolas-scheuring.bsky.social bachelor thesis who is currently conducting his master thesis in my lab.
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Insect spatial memory is thought to be based on panoramic snapshots that are modelled as retinotopic images. This idea won't allow a distinction of landmarks from the scene. Unexpectedly, our data suggest that 🐝 learn 3D-objects as individual landmarks. #neuroethology
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
September 28, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Insect spatial memory is thought to be based on panoramic snapshots that are modelled as retinotopic images. This idea won't allow a distinction of landmarks from the scene. Unexpectedly, our data suggest that 🐝 learn 3D-objects as individual landmarks. #neuroethology
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Update to this story!! More than two weeks after Harvard's win in court against the Trump administration, millions in research grant money begin flowing back to the university.
go.nature.com/46Aoc3p
go.nature.com/46Aoc3p
Harvard vs Trump: research funds still mostly frozen despite court win
US funding agencies might violate a judge’s ruling if they continue to withhold money.
go.nature.com
September 19, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Update to this story!! More than two weeks after Harvard's win in court against the Trump administration, millions in research grant money begin flowing back to the university.
go.nature.com/46Aoc3p
go.nature.com/46Aoc3p
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"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history."
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
Censorship Is the Authoritarian’s Dream
The right to free expression must include the right to say horrible and evil things.
www.insidehighered.com
September 19, 2025 at 10:24 AM
"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history."
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
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PhDs & Postdocs of @uni-wuerzburg.de struggling to finish a project? Join our Long Night Against Procrastination!
✅ Tips on motivation & writing
✅ Pizza & plenty of coffee
✅ Work through the night with peers from all disciplines
📅 Oct 23, 2025 | 5pm–midnight
📍 Graduate Schools Building
✅ Tips on motivation & writing
✅ Pizza & plenty of coffee
✅ Work through the night with peers from all disciplines
📅 Oct 23, 2025 | 5pm–midnight
📍 Graduate Schools Building
August 25, 2025 at 10:34 AM
PhDs & Postdocs of @uni-wuerzburg.de struggling to finish a project? Join our Long Night Against Procrastination!
✅ Tips on motivation & writing
✅ Pizza & plenty of coffee
✅ Work through the night with peers from all disciplines
📅 Oct 23, 2025 | 5pm–midnight
📍 Graduate Schools Building
✅ Tips on motivation & writing
✅ Pizza & plenty of coffee
✅ Work through the night with peers from all disciplines
📅 Oct 23, 2025 | 5pm–midnight
📍 Graduate Schools Building
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Nearly one-third of all retracted papers at PLoS ONE can be traced back to just 45 researchers who served as editors at the journal
go.nature.com/4frnv04
go.nature.com/4frnv04
Exclusive: retraction-prone editors identified at megajournal PLoS ONE
Nature - Study says small editor group handled many problematic manuscripts — and a Nature investigation finds out who they are.
go.nature.com
August 9, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Nearly one-third of all retracted papers at PLoS ONE can be traced back to just 45 researchers who served as editors at the journal
go.nature.com/4frnv04
go.nature.com/4frnv04
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Our study is out in Nature!
Using wireless Neuropixels we recorded hippocampal activity in freely flying bats and uncovered replay and theta(less) sweeps, revealing striking differences from classic rodent models.
👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Using wireless Neuropixels we recorded hippocampal activity in freely flying bats and uncovered replay and theta(less) sweeps, revealing striking differences from classic rodent models.
👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Replay and representation dynamics in the hippocampus of freely flying bats - Nature
Nature - Replay and representation dynamics in the hippocampus of freely flying bats
www.nature.com
July 9, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Our study is out in Nature!
Using wireless Neuropixels we recorded hippocampal activity in freely flying bats and uncovered replay and theta(less) sweeps, revealing striking differences from classic rodent models.
👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Using wireless Neuropixels we recorded hippocampal activity in freely flying bats and uncovered replay and theta(less) sweeps, revealing striking differences from classic rodent models.
👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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#BiologyLetters in @newscientist.com | Night lizards survived the Cretaceous–Palaeogene mass extinction near the asteroid impact: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Enigmatic lizards somehow survived near Chicxulub asteroid impact
The night lizards may have been the only terrestrial vertebrates that survived in the region of the asteroid impact 66 million years ago, which led to the extinction of non-avian dinosaurs
www.newscientist.com
July 7, 2025 at 11:00 AM
#BiologyLetters in @newscientist.com | Night lizards survived the Cretaceous–Palaeogene mass extinction near the asteroid impact: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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Jerome is also at the Neuroethology GRC and is happy to answer questions about the projects or how it is living and conducting research in Germany.
I am looking for a Postdoc and a PhD student who want to study the neuronal mechanisms of the bee's waggle dance. 🐝 More details can be found on our webpage:
www.spatial-navigation.com/open-positio...
www.spatial-navigation.com/open-positio...
Open Positions
If our research profile evoked your interest of working with us on the spatial memory of honeybees, then you are warmly welcommed to contact us. What we offer We offer the infrastructure of...
www.spatial-navigation.com
July 2, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Jerome is also at the Neuroethology GRC and is happy to answer questions about the projects or how it is living and conducting research in Germany.
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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 1, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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/...
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Every few minutes, a dragonfly dives into water and takes off again, turning several forward somersaults as it ascends.
The purpose of the behavior? The quick dip cools the insect down, and the loop-the-loops help it dry off by flicking away the water. Learn more during #InsectWeek: scim.ag/40mKKBI
The purpose of the behavior? The quick dip cools the insect down, and the loop-the-loops help it dry off by flicking away the water. Learn more during #InsectWeek: scim.ag/40mKKBI
June 25, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Every few minutes, a dragonfly dives into water and takes off again, turning several forward somersaults as it ascends.
The purpose of the behavior? The quick dip cools the insect down, and the loop-the-loops help it dry off by flicking away the water. Learn more during #InsectWeek: scim.ag/40mKKBI
The purpose of the behavior? The quick dip cools the insect down, and the loop-the-loops help it dry off by flicking away the water. Learn more during #InsectWeek: scim.ag/40mKKBI
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In what may be one of Earth’s craziest forms of mimicry, researchers in 2023 reported a species of rove beetle that grows a termite puppet on its back to fool real termites into feeding it.
Learn more during #InsectWeek: scim.ag/40mj1S8
Learn more during #InsectWeek: scim.ag/40mj1S8
Beetle grows ‘termite’ on back to steal food
Puppet helps insect trick real termites into feeding it
scim.ag
June 25, 2025 at 7:38 PM
In what may be one of Earth’s craziest forms of mimicry, researchers in 2023 reported a species of rove beetle that grows a termite puppet on its back to fool real termites into feeding it.
Learn more during #InsectWeek: scim.ag/40mj1S8
Learn more during #InsectWeek: scim.ag/40mj1S8
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Title, abstract and keywords: a practical guide to maximizing the visibility and impact of your papers. In this blog post, our journal editors present tips for ways in which authors can increase search engine optimisation and appeal to readers: royalsociety.org/blog/2025/01... #ECR #AcademicChatter
Title, abstract and keywords: a practical guide to maximizing the visibility and impact of your papers | Royal Society
A new Royal Society Publishing blog post highlights how the right title, abstract and keywords can optimize the visibility and impact of research articles.
royalsociety.org
June 10, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Title, abstract and keywords: a practical guide to maximizing the visibility and impact of your papers. In this blog post, our journal editors present tips for ways in which authors can increase search engine optimisation and appeal to readers: royalsociety.org/blog/2025/01... #ECR #AcademicChatter
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Democrats on a key Senate spending committee today provided a less than warm welcome to the National Institutes of Health director, who was called in to testify about the agency’s 2026 budget proposal.
Senators press NIH director on killed grants and proposal to slash agency’s funding
Bhattacharya says NIH’s final budget will be “a collaboration”
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June 10, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Democrats on a key Senate spending committee today provided a less than warm welcome to the National Institutes of Health director, who was called in to testify about the agency’s 2026 budget proposal.
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US senators grilled NIH director Jayanta Bhattacharya at a hearing today about how his professed support for science squares with unprecedented grant terminations at the agency and enormous cuts that have been proposed for its 2026 budget.
https://go.nature.com/3FWM2wN
https://go.nature.com/3FWM2wN
NIH chief stands by funding cuts to ‘politicized science’ at tense hearing
Jayanta Bhattacharya says the US biomedical agency can’t continue ‘business as usual’ if it wants to restore its reputation.
go.nature.com
June 11, 2025 at 2:13 AM
US senators grilled NIH director Jayanta Bhattacharya at a hearing today about how his professed support for science squares with unprecedented grant terminations at the agency and enormous cuts that have been proposed for its 2026 budget.
https://go.nature.com/3FWM2wN
https://go.nature.com/3FWM2wN
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Restrictions on immigration from 19 countries could disrupt infectious disease research and international collaborations
https://go.nature.com/4kxGXu6
https://go.nature.com/4kxGXu6
‘Another blow’: How Trump’s latest travel ban could harm research
Nature - Restrictions on immigration from 19 countries could disrupt infectious disease research and international collaborations.
go.nature.com
June 7, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Restrictions on immigration from 19 countries could disrupt infectious disease research and international collaborations
https://go.nature.com/4kxGXu6
https://go.nature.com/4kxGXu6
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The US National Science Foundation could lose more than half its budget
https://go.nature.com/4kWVNdu
https://go.nature.com/4kWVNdu
Trump moves to slash NSF: why are the proposed budget cuts so big?
Nature - Major US science funder could lose more than half its budget — and researchers are reeling.
go.nature.com
June 7, 2025 at 6:30 PM
The US National Science Foundation could lose more than half its budget
https://go.nature.com/4kWVNdu
https://go.nature.com/4kWVNdu