November 12, 2025 at 6:41 PM
They call it "magnetoreception."
Do you, you, as a person, understand magnetoreception?
Because I have asked so many people, and everyone eventually caves and says some form of, "it's magic."
Do you, you, as a person, understand magnetoreception?
Because I have asked so many people, and everyone eventually caves and says some form of, "it's magic."
November 10, 2025 at 11:04 PM
They call it "magnetoreception."
Do you, you, as a person, understand magnetoreception?
Because I have asked so many people, and everyone eventually caves and says some form of, "it's magic."
Do you, you, as a person, understand magnetoreception?
Because I have asked so many people, and everyone eventually caves and says some form of, "it's magic."
Why would men have magnetoreception and not women?
November 9, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Why would men have magnetoreception and not women?
As a compass needle trembles, seeking true north, so too must we oscillate between action and stillness to calibrate our path.
#magnetoreception #strategicpause #navigatinguncertainty
#magnetoreception #strategicpause #navigatinguncertainty
November 6, 2025 at 8:31 PM
As a compass needle trembles, seeking true north, so too must we oscillate between action and stillness to calibrate our path.
#magnetoreception #strategicpause #navigatinguncertainty
#magnetoreception #strategicpause #navigatinguncertainty
‼️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
Back home & filled with great memories of my Australia field trip🌏🇦🇺 Thanks to Eric Warrant & team @lundvision.bsky.social for hosting me & the chance for becoming a temporary moth-researcher #KonishiAward @neuroethology.org to study #magnetoreception & #navigation in the spectacular #Bogong moth🧭✨🦋
October 28, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Back home & filled with great memories of my Australia field trip🌏🇦🇺 Thanks to Eric Warrant & team @lundvision.bsky.social for hosting me & the chance for becoming a temporary moth-researcher #KonishiAward @neuroethology.org to study #magnetoreception & #navigation in the spectacular #Bogong moth🧭✨🦋
Some creatures hav geospatial intelligence skills. They use magnetoreception to detect earths magnetic fields for orientation navigation. Invisible to clueless humans, many creatures evolved specialized biological mechanisms to perceive geomagnetic info. Migratory birds, sea turtles, certain fish.
October 26, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Some creatures hav geospatial intelligence skills. They use magnetoreception to detect earths magnetic fields for orientation navigation. Invisible to clueless humans, many creatures evolved specialized biological mechanisms to perceive geomagnetic info. Migratory birds, sea turtles, certain fish.
Huh, I wonder if they basically just kept track of their orientation while walking into the room, or are somehow (possibly human magnetoreception?) capable of sensing it without visual reference
Do you know if any studies about that have been done?
Do you know if any studies about that have been done?
October 23, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Huh, I wonder if they basically just kept track of their orientation while walking into the room, or are somehow (possibly human magnetoreception?) capable of sensing it without visual reference
Do you know if any studies about that have been done?
Do you know if any studies about that have been done?
There are things that animals do naturally (echolocation, magnetoreception, deep diving, etc) that humans, with all our technology, STRUGGLE to replicate.
How intelligent all other animals are in comparison to humans is so cool and humbling from octopuses to peregrine falcons, etc.
Shit, I watched ants hide a dead body of a fly until the fly that was looking for that said fly left.
Humans really gotta get off their pedestal, they lapping us lowkey
Shit, I watched ants hide a dead body of a fly until the fly that was looking for that said fly left.
Humans really gotta get off their pedestal, they lapping us lowkey
October 14, 2025 at 6:35 PM
There are things that animals do naturally (echolocation, magnetoreception, deep diving, etc) that humans, with all our technology, STRUGGLE to replicate.
Correction: Biophysical mechanism of #animal magnetoreception, orientation and navigation SciReports
Correction: Biophysical mechanism of #animal magnetoreception, orientation and navigation
Scientific Reports, Published online: 06 October 2025; doi:10.1038/s41598-025-22317-3Correction: Biophysical mechanism of animal magnetoreception, orientation and navigation
dlvr.it
October 6, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Correction: Biophysical mechanism of #animal magnetoreception, orientation and navigation SciReports
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!
2/2 at the @cienciapioneira.bsky.social Instituto D'Or de Pesquisa e Ensino Quantum Biology School. Peter Hore is, of course, the master on all things bird-magnetoreception!
October 2, 2025 at 9:38 PM
2/2 at the @cienciapioneira.bsky.social Instituto D'Or de Pesquisa e Ensino Quantum Biology School. Peter Hore is, of course, the master on all things bird-magnetoreception!
3rd anniversary of this paper: Karwinkel et al. 2022 "A magnetic pulse does not affect free-flight navigation behaviour of a medium-distance songbird migrant in spring" in JEB, where we tried to reproduce old studies on magnetoreception, but found no effects. A thread:
doi.org/10.1242/jeb....
doi.org/10.1242/jeb....
October 2, 2025 at 6:08 PM
3rd anniversary of this paper: Karwinkel et al. 2022 "A magnetic pulse does not affect free-flight navigation behaviour of a medium-distance songbird migrant in spring" in JEB, where we tried to reproduce old studies on magnetoreception, but found no effects. A thread:
doi.org/10.1242/jeb....
doi.org/10.1242/jeb....
A fun one! In which we discuss...
- the deep evolutionary history of birds
- sci-fi-sounding structures in bird brains
- the perennial puzzle of magnetoreception
- seasonal changes in bird (and some mammal) brains
- unihemispheric sleep
- gynandromophry
- the extractive foraging hypothesis
etc.!
- the deep evolutionary history of birds
- sci-fi-sounding structures in bird brains
- the perennial puzzle of magnetoreception
- seasonal changes in bird (and some mammal) brains
- unihemispheric sleep
- gynandromophry
- the extractive foraging hypothesis
etc.!
Bird brains aren't the same as mammal brains. They took their own twisty evolutionary path. So what can they teach us about brains in general?
A lot, it turns out.
Just one of the topics discussed in our latest episode, w/ @evoneuro.bsky.social & Georg Striedter!
Listen: disi.org/brains-of-a-...
A lot, it turns out.
Just one of the topics discussed in our latest episode, w/ @evoneuro.bsky.social & Georg Striedter!
Listen: disi.org/brains-of-a-...
October 2, 2025 at 5:55 PM
A fun one! In which we discuss...
- the deep evolutionary history of birds
- sci-fi-sounding structures in bird brains
- the perennial puzzle of magnetoreception
- seasonal changes in bird (and some mammal) brains
- unihemispheric sleep
- gynandromophry
- the extractive foraging hypothesis
etc.!
- the deep evolutionary history of birds
- sci-fi-sounding structures in bird brains
- the perennial puzzle of magnetoreception
- seasonal changes in bird (and some mammal) brains
- unihemispheric sleep
- gynandromophry
- the extractive foraging hypothesis
etc.!
Chaos and Confusion or Smoke and Mirrors, whatever you want to call the Orange Plagues daily EO's, even my puppy Obi who poops using magnetoreception knows they are a diversion from the #EpsteinFiles
September 29, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Chaos and Confusion or Smoke and Mirrors, whatever you want to call the Orange Plagues daily EO's, even my puppy Obi who poops using magnetoreception knows they are a diversion from the #EpsteinFiles
Quantum biology is on the rise.
Other than photosynthesis, researchers are investigating quantum effects in avian magnetoreception, olfaction, and enzyme catalysis.
Quantum processes in biology could potentially make artificial systems better.
Solar cells, sensors, and molecular machines could be ..
Other than photosynthesis, researchers are investigating quantum effects in avian magnetoreception, olfaction, and enzyme catalysis.
Quantum processes in biology could potentially make artificial systems better.
Solar cells, sensors, and molecular machines could be ..
September 21, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Quantum biology is on the rise.
Other than photosynthesis, researchers are investigating quantum effects in avian magnetoreception, olfaction, and enzyme catalysis.
Quantum processes in biology could potentially make artificial systems better.
Solar cells, sensors, and molecular machines could be ..
Other than photosynthesis, researchers are investigating quantum effects in avian magnetoreception, olfaction, and enzyme catalysis.
Quantum processes in biology could potentially make artificial systems better.
Solar cells, sensors, and molecular machines could be ..
For me, this is just the beginning.
From my PhD on cryptochromes & magnetoreception → to my postdoc focus on viral vectors & retinal physiology, this journey is about building the tools to ask new questions.
Grateful to my collaborators & mentors 🙏
Full text here: doi.org/10.3389/fphy...
From my PhD on cryptochromes & magnetoreception → to my postdoc focus on viral vectors & retinal physiology, this journey is about building the tools to ask new questions.
Grateful to my collaborators & mentors 🙏
Full text here: doi.org/10.3389/fphy...
Frontiers | AAV-mediated transduction of songbird retina
IntroductionGenetic manipulation of murine retinal tissue through ocular administration of adeno-associated viruses (AAVs) has become a standard technique to...
doi.org
September 19, 2025 at 10:50 AM
For me, this is just the beginning.
From my PhD on cryptochromes & magnetoreception → to my postdoc focus on viral vectors & retinal physiology, this journey is about building the tools to ask new questions.
Grateful to my collaborators & mentors 🙏
Full text here: doi.org/10.3389/fphy...
From my PhD on cryptochromes & magnetoreception → to my postdoc focus on viral vectors & retinal physiology, this journey is about building the tools to ask new questions.
Grateful to my collaborators & mentors 🙏
Full text here: doi.org/10.3389/fphy...
🤗 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! 🤩
En premier il y a bien sûr les cryptochromes, qui sont impliqués dans la magnétoréception des oiseaux :
topoftheprots.com/2020/02/17/l...
topoftheprots.com/2020/02/17/l...
Les cryptochromes ne sont jamais à l’ouest
Beaucoup d’espèces animales se servent des variations du champ magnétique terrestre autour du globe (que ce soit son intensité ou son inclinaison par rapport à l’horizontale) pour s&rsq…
topoftheprots.com
September 14, 2025 at 12:03 PM
En premier il y a bien sûr les cryptochromes, qui sont impliqués dans la magnétoréception des oiseaux :
topoftheprots.com/2020/02/17/l...
topoftheprots.com/2020/02/17/l...
(from a study where they tried to scramble birds’ magnetoreception. i remembered my entire bike commute flawlessly but get lost and go in circles every time I leave my desk)
September 11, 2025 at 12:32 AM
(from a study where they tried to scramble birds’ magnetoreception. i remembered my entire bike commute flawlessly but get lost and go in circles every time I leave my desk)
Researchers Explore Radical Pair Mechanisms in Cryptochrome Flavoproteins for Animal Magnetoreception
Read more:
https://quantumzeitgeist.com/explore-radical-pair-mechanisms-cryptochrome-flavoproteins-animal-magnetoreception/
Read more:
https://quantumzeitgeist.com/explore-radical-pair-mechanisms-cryptochrome-flavoproteins-animal-magnetoreception/
Researchers Explore Radical Pair Mechanisms In Cryptochrome Flavoproteins For Animal Magnetoreception
Research suggests that a light-sensitive protein, utilising spin-dependent chemical reactions and potentially enhanced by other molecules, may allow migratory animals to sense the Earth’s magnetic field, offering a possible explanation for their remarkable navigational abilities
quantumzeitgeist.com
September 2, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Researchers Explore Radical Pair Mechanisms in Cryptochrome Flavoproteins for Animal Magnetoreception
Read more:
https://quantumzeitgeist.com/explore-radical-pair-mechanisms-cryptochrome-flavoproteins-animal-magnetoreception/
Read more:
https://quantumzeitgeist.com/explore-radical-pair-mechanisms-cryptochrome-flavoproteins-animal-magnetoreception/
Our work combines AlphaFold modeling, MD simulations, polarizable QM/MM calculations, and electron transfer modeling, to provide an unprecedented insight into the electron transfer cascade at the basis of birds’ magnetoreception. doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.5c01814
Multiscale Simulation of Photoinduced Electron Transfer in Cryptochrome 4 from European Robin and Pigeon Indicates a Conserved Dynamics
Cryptochrome 4 (Cry4) is a leading candidate for mediating magnetoreception in birds. Upon photoexcitation of its flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD) cofactor, Cry4 initiates an electron transfer (ET) c...
doi.org
August 28, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Our work combines AlphaFold modeling, MD simulations, polarizable QM/MM calculations, and electron transfer modeling, to provide an unprecedented insight into the electron transfer cascade at the basis of birds’ magnetoreception. doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.5c01814
10. Simulation quantique
o Modéliser matériaux, molécules.
o QSim avec atomes froids.
11. Chimie quantique
o Orbitales électroniques.
o Calculs ab initio.
12. Biologie quantique
o Photosynthèse (cohérence quantique).
o Magnétoréception des oiseaux.
o Possible rôle de la conscience.
o Modéliser matériaux, molécules.
o QSim avec atomes froids.
11. Chimie quantique
o Orbitales électroniques.
o Calculs ab initio.
12. Biologie quantique
o Photosynthèse (cohérence quantique).
o Magnétoréception des oiseaux.
o Possible rôle de la conscience.
August 27, 2025 at 1:34 PM
10. Simulation quantique
o Modéliser matériaux, molécules.
o QSim avec atomes froids.
11. Chimie quantique
o Orbitales électroniques.
o Calculs ab initio.
12. Biologie quantique
o Photosynthèse (cohérence quantique).
o Magnétoréception des oiseaux.
o Possible rôle de la conscience.
o Modéliser matériaux, molécules.
o QSim avec atomes froids.
11. Chimie quantique
o Orbitales électroniques.
o Calculs ab initio.
12. Biologie quantique
o Photosynthèse (cohérence quantique).
o Magnétoréception des oiseaux.
o Possible rôle de la conscience.
Ezekiel trying to explain the "wheel within a wheel" = a faint amalgamation of billion-fish smell in one cubic foot of water at the bottom of the Atlantic = any bird trying to explain to a human the artistic possibilities inherent in magnetoreception
August 26, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Ezekiel trying to explain the "wheel within a wheel" = a faint amalgamation of billion-fish smell in one cubic foot of water at the bottom of the Atlantic = any bird trying to explain to a human the artistic possibilities inherent in magnetoreception