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
Today we celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science by highlighting the incredible women of SFB 1372 advancing our understanding of birds, behaviour, and the natural world 🐦🔬
A small glimpse of the brilliant minds behind our research ⬇️
##WomenInScience
A small glimpse of the brilliant minds behind our research ⬇️
##WomenInScience
February 11, 2026 at 4:08 PM
Today we celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science by highlighting the incredible women of SFB 1372 advancing our understanding of birds, behaviour, and the natural world 🐦🔬
A small glimpse of the brilliant minds behind our research ⬇️
##WomenInScience
A small glimpse of the brilliant minds behind our research ⬇️
##WomenInScience
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This #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience I would like to say a big THANK YOU to the amazing women and girls I currently have the pleasure of sharing my #ternscience journey with. Onwards and upwards we go! ❤️
February 11, 2026 at 10:50 AM
This #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience I would like to say a big THANK YOU to the amazing women and girls I currently have the pleasure of sharing my #ternscience journey with. Onwards and upwards we go! ❤️
No GPS.📍
No map.🗺
Just tiny brains of Cataglyphis hellenica doing elite navigation. 🐜🧭
Find a #video on the story of our SFB researchers @chiaratenne.bsky.social and @cataglyphilosophy.bsky.social below & the article at link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#Cataglyphis #ants #magneticsense #navigation
No map.🗺
Just tiny brains of Cataglyphis hellenica doing elite navigation. 🐜🧭
Find a #video on the story of our SFB researchers @chiaratenne.bsky.social and @cataglyphilosophy.bsky.social below & the article at link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#Cataglyphis #ants #magneticsense #navigation
February 7, 2026 at 1:28 PM
No GPS.📍
No map.🗺
Just tiny brains of Cataglyphis hellenica doing elite navigation. 🐜🧭
Find a #video on the story of our SFB researchers @chiaratenne.bsky.social and @cataglyphilosophy.bsky.social below & the article at link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#Cataglyphis #ants #magneticsense #navigation
No map.🗺
Just tiny brains of Cataglyphis hellenica doing elite navigation. 🐜🧭
Find a #video on the story of our SFB researchers @chiaratenne.bsky.social and @cataglyphilosophy.bsky.social below & the article at link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#Cataglyphis #ants #magneticsense #navigation
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A warm welcome to @mguidotti29.bsky.social who joined our lab now as an @sfb1372.bsky.social fellow
In the next 10 months he will work on orientation 🧭
in Northern Wheatears together with @annikapeter.bsky.social
In the next 10 months he will work on orientation 🧭
in Northern Wheatears together with @annikapeter.bsky.social
January 30, 2026 at 12:40 PM
A warm welcome to @mguidotti29.bsky.social who joined our lab now as an @sfb1372.bsky.social fellow
In the next 10 months he will work on orientation 🧭
in Northern Wheatears together with @annikapeter.bsky.social
In the next 10 months he will work on orientation 🧭
in Northern Wheatears together with @annikapeter.bsky.social
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Meet Matteo!
Our new @sfb1372.bsky.social songbird orientation fellow
With a background in waterbirds, he is excited to dive deeper into migration research
Originally from 🇮🇹, he is strongly motivated to contribute to various research activities & firmly believes that lunch should never be rushed
Our new @sfb1372.bsky.social songbird orientation fellow
With a background in waterbirds, he is excited to dive deeper into migration research
Originally from 🇮🇹, he is strongly motivated to contribute to various research activities & firmly believes that lunch should never be rushed
February 3, 2026 at 8:41 AM
Meet Matteo!
Our new @sfb1372.bsky.social songbird orientation fellow
With a background in waterbirds, he is excited to dive deeper into migration research
Originally from 🇮🇹, he is strongly motivated to contribute to various research activities & firmly believes that lunch should never be rushed
Our new @sfb1372.bsky.social songbird orientation fellow
With a background in waterbirds, he is excited to dive deeper into migration research
Originally from 🇮🇹, he is strongly motivated to contribute to various research activities & firmly believes that lunch should never be rushed
We're excited to welcome Dr. Alina Sigaeva, a cell biologist, to SFB 1372👩🔬🙌
Her research explores how cells organize themselves, their architecture, stem cell differentiation, and the fascinating world of cryptochromes, where biology meets quantum mechanisms. 🔬
#SFB1372 #FEL03 #universitätoldenburg
Her research explores how cells organize themselves, their architecture, stem cell differentiation, and the fascinating world of cryptochromes, where biology meets quantum mechanisms. 🔬
#SFB1372 #FEL03 #universitätoldenburg
January 26, 2026 at 7:43 AM
We're excited to welcome Dr. Alina Sigaeva, a cell biologist, to SFB 1372👩🔬🙌
Her research explores how cells organize themselves, their architecture, stem cell differentiation, and the fascinating world of cryptochromes, where biology meets quantum mechanisms. 🔬
#SFB1372 #FEL03 #universitätoldenburg
Her research explores how cells organize themselves, their architecture, stem cell differentiation, and the fascinating world of cryptochromes, where biology meets quantum mechanisms. 🔬
#SFB1372 #FEL03 #universitätoldenburg
#Birds can see without #oxygen. At least part of their retina does. A new @nature.com study of scientists from @au.dk with #SFB1372 contribution shows that the avian inner #retina functions under chronic anoxia, supported by anaerobic metabolism and the #pecten. 🐔👁️ doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09978-w
January 23, 2026 at 8:28 AM
#Birds can see without #oxygen. At least part of their retina does. A new @nature.com study of scientists from @au.dk with #SFB1372 contribution shows that the avian inner #retina functions under chronic anoxia, supported by anaerobic metabolism and the #pecten. 🐔👁️ doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09978-w
Happy to share that our Nav05 leader Miriam Liedvogel @genmig.bsky.social will talk about her reserach at the upcoming @eoufledglings.bsky.social meeting in March 2026!
🎤 We’re excited to introduce another plenary speaker for the 5th EOU Fledglings Meeting in Gdańsk (27–29 March 2026)!
🌿 Miriam Liedvogel (@genmig.bsky.social) will share her work on blackcap migration - a fascinating look into one of Europe’s most dynamic songbird species.
#EOU26 #Ornithology
🌿 Miriam Liedvogel (@genmig.bsky.social) will share her work on blackcap migration - a fascinating look into one of Europe’s most dynamic songbird species.
#EOU26 #Ornithology
December 17, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Happy to share that our Nav05 leader Miriam Liedvogel @genmig.bsky.social will talk about her reserach at the upcoming @eoufledglings.bsky.social meeting in March 2026!
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[1/2] Thank you to everyone who joined our Young Researchers Symposium 2025 in Hamburg! In these 3 days, we learned about fascinating day and night science and connected with other early career researchers. It was a pleasure to organize this symposium as part of an amazing team! @sfb1372.bsky.social
November 22, 2025 at 9:01 PM
[1/2] Thank you to everyone who joined our Young Researchers Symposium 2025 in Hamburg! In these 3 days, we learned about fascinating day and night science and connected with other early career researchers. It was a pleasure to organize this symposium as part of an amazing team! @sfb1372.bsky.social
We were delighted to spot members of our #SFB and @migecol.bsky.social on this trip to the fågelstation on the Falsterbo peninsula! 🦉🐦🦅🏰🏝
Field trip to Falsterbo ringing station with the migration ecology course from Lund University
November 15, 2025 at 8:14 PM
We were delighted to spot members of our #SFB and @migecol.bsky.social on this trip to the fågelstation on the Falsterbo peninsula! 🦉🐦🦅🏰🏝
‼️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! 🤩