Smulders Lab
@smulderslab.bsky.social
The Smulders Lab at Newcastle University (UK) studies how evolution changes brains and how brains can be used to assess animal welfare.
A new paper from the lab, finally publishing data collected by a group of brilliant students in 2012: rdcu.be/epFaJ
Responses of coal tits (Periparus ater) to aversive food: insights into hoarding motivation and memory
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June 6, 2025 at 7:48 AM
A new paper from the lab, finally publishing data collected by a group of brilliant students in 2012: rdcu.be/epFaJ
Our university is trying to save about £3.8M per year from their outgoings, and have decided that, even though this is only 0.5% of annual turnover, they need to fire academics, rather than cut down on major infrastructure plans. Anything you can do to support is much appreciated.
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End unnecessary redundancies at Newcastle University
Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
chng.it
May 23, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Our university is trying to save about £3.8M per year from their outgoings, and have decided that, even though this is only 0.5% of annual turnover, they need to fire academics, rather than cut down on major infrastructure plans. Anything you can do to support is much appreciated.
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chng.it/mdHVd8yRg6
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Our chair Tom @smulderslab.bsky.social
opening the meeting with his welcome address.
opening the meeting with his welcome address.
April 1, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Our chair Tom @smulderslab.bsky.social
opening the meeting with his welcome address.
opening the meeting with his welcome address.
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✳️ I am recruiting for a fully funded BBSRC NEEDL PhD!
✴️ Create Drosophila (fruit fly) models to study mtDNA mutations in ageing & disease at Teesside Uni!
✅ With Newcastle Uni researchers Prof. Laura Greaves & Dr. James Stewart ! 🤝
📅 Due 12noon on 31st March
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
✴️ Create Drosophila (fruit fly) models to study mtDNA mutations in ageing & disease at Teesside Uni!
✅ With Newcastle Uni researchers Prof. Laura Greaves & Dr. James Stewart ! 🤝
📅 Due 12noon on 31st March
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Investigating the roles of mtDNA mutations in ageing and disease at Teesside University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Investigating the roles of mtDNA mutations in ageing and disease at Teesside University, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
March 19, 2025 at 2:43 PM
✳️ I am recruiting for a fully funded BBSRC NEEDL PhD!
✴️ Create Drosophila (fruit fly) models to study mtDNA mutations in ageing & disease at Teesside Uni!
✅ With Newcastle Uni researchers Prof. Laura Greaves & Dr. James Stewart ! 🤝
📅 Due 12noon on 31st March
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
✴️ Create Drosophila (fruit fly) models to study mtDNA mutations in ageing & disease at Teesside Uni!
✅ With Newcastle Uni researchers Prof. Laura Greaves & Dr. James Stewart ! 🤝
📅 Due 12noon on 31st March
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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‼️ CogEvo 2025 🧠 🚨
A unique workshop on cognition, neuroscience, evolution and development organized by the Center for Mind/Brain Sciences.
🗓️ July 17-18, 2025
📍 Rovereto, Italy 🇮🇹
🔗 Registration: event.unitn.it/cogevo/
#CogEvo2025 #CogEvo #Cognition #Neuroscience
A unique workshop on cognition, neuroscience, evolution and development organized by the Center for Mind/Brain Sciences.
🗓️ July 17-18, 2025
📍 Rovereto, Italy 🇮🇹
🔗 Registration: event.unitn.it/cogevo/
#CogEvo2025 #CogEvo #Cognition #Neuroscience
CogEvo 25 - Workshop on Cognition and Evolution
CogEvo 25 Workshop on Cognition and Evolution will be held in Rovereto from 17 to 18 July 2025
event.unitn.it
March 12, 2025 at 7:52 AM
‼️ CogEvo 2025 🧠 🚨
A unique workshop on cognition, neuroscience, evolution and development organized by the Center for Mind/Brain Sciences.
🗓️ July 17-18, 2025
📍 Rovereto, Italy 🇮🇹
🔗 Registration: event.unitn.it/cogevo/
#CogEvo2025 #CogEvo #Cognition #Neuroscience
A unique workshop on cognition, neuroscience, evolution and development organized by the Center for Mind/Brain Sciences.
🗓️ July 17-18, 2025
📍 Rovereto, Italy 🇮🇹
🔗 Registration: event.unitn.it/cogevo/
#CogEvo2025 #CogEvo #Cognition #Neuroscience
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Join us for a 4-year PhD in Newcastle at @northumbriauni.bsky.social on a fun project (literally)!
Building on our recent publication about Drosophila playing on a carousel (doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...), we will explore:
Building on our recent publication about Drosophila playing on a carousel (doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...), we will explore:
February 27, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Join us for a 4-year PhD in Newcastle at @northumbriauni.bsky.social on a fun project (literally)!
Building on our recent publication about Drosophila playing on a carousel (doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...), we will explore:
Building on our recent publication about Drosophila playing on a carousel (doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...), we will explore:
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If you intend to apply, please get in contact with Dr. Huetteroth ([email protected]) with your CV and a brief statement why you’re interested in the project.
Application and full PhD advert:
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Deadline: March 31, 2025
Application and full PhD advert:
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Deadline: March 31, 2025
Play in Insects - genetic and neurobehavioural characterisation of carousel-seeking flies at Northumbria University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Play in Insects - genetic and neurobehavioural characterisation of carousel-seeking flies at Northumbria University, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
February 27, 2025 at 6:49 PM
If you intend to apply, please get in contact with Dr. Huetteroth ([email protected]) with your CV and a brief statement why you’re interested in the project.
Application and full PhD advert:
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Deadline: March 31, 2025
Application and full PhD advert:
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Deadline: March 31, 2025
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Loggerhead turtles have an uncontrollable urge to dance whenever they anticipate food—a trait scientists used to test whether the reptiles can memorize their favorite feeding sites based on Earth’s magnetic fields.
Learn more: https://scim.ag/42VqsSz
Learn more: https://scim.ag/42VqsSz
February 16, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Loggerhead turtles have an uncontrollable urge to dance whenever they anticipate food—a trait scientists used to test whether the reptiles can memorize their favorite feeding sites based on Earth’s magnetic fields.
Learn more: https://scim.ag/42VqsSz
Learn more: https://scim.ag/42VqsSz
Further musings about how food-hoarding titmice and chickadees remember the locations of their caches....
link.springer.com/10.1007/s100...
link.springer.com/10.1007/s100...
What is the nature of cache memory in Parids? A comment on Chettih et al. 2024 - Animal Cognition
Recent findings by Chettih et al. (Cell 187: 1922–1935, 2024) from electrophysiological recordings in the hippocampus of black-capped chickadees shed light on the debate about how food-hoarding Parids...
link.springer.com
February 12, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Further musings about how food-hoarding titmice and chickadees remember the locations of their caches....
link.springer.com/10.1007/s100...
link.springer.com/10.1007/s100...
PhD position advertised in my department. Please spread the word:
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Remembering as a Quantum-Like Process: Using the Quantum Formalism and eye-tracking to model temporal order effects for memories of emotional events at Newcastle University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Remembering as a Quantum-Like Process: Using the Quantum Formalism and eye-tracking to model temporal order effects for memories of emotional events at Newcastle University, listed on Fi...
www.findaphd.com
February 6, 2025 at 9:06 PM
PhD position advertised in my department. Please spread the word:
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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January 9, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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