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Anna Stöckl @anna-stoeckl.bsky.social · Sep 4

Very excited to take part in #ABL2025 👇

Animal Behaviour Live @animalbehaviour.live · Aug 25

#ABL2025 Plenary Spotlight: Dr Anna Stöckl @anna-stoeckl.bsky.social ⭐

Join us on Nov 13-14 to learn how Dr Stöckl’s team @insect-vision.bsky.social unravelled the fascinating ways in which pollinators see the hidden patterns of flowers.🦋🌻

Learn more about the conference: ablaoc25.sciencesconf.org

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George Kolyfetis @gkolyfetis.bsky.social · Sep 3

Our findings on bees' photoreceptors are now officially published in Biology Letters of the Royal Society Publishing!! Thanks again for a productive collaboration @jjfosterlab.bsky.social and @gregoeur.bsky.social !!
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

George Kolyfetis @gkolyfetis.bsky.social · May 4

I'm really happy to share the first preprint of my PhD work in @jjfosterlab.bsky.social! During a fruitful collaboration with @gregoeur.bsky.social, we uncovered a surprising feature of bees' eyes!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

www.biorxiv.org

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Anna Stöckl @anna-stoeckl.bsky.social · Aug 25

Bit of an orgy going on at the moment 😆... Every other Scabiosa flower is hosting one or more six-spot burnets (Blutströpfchen in German). I was wondering why they are mating this late: it is the caterpillar stage that overwinters in this species 🤓🦋❄️!
#insect
#nature
#photography

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Anna Stöckl @anna-stoeckl.bsky.social · Aug 9

Dressing up fancy for a day out?
This little guy made sure to match his flower background with a smashing yellow "moustache". 🐝🌸
Drone of Bombus lapidarius, the red-tailed #bumblebee (Steinhummel).
#photography #insect

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Anna Stöckl @anna-stoeckl.bsky.social · Aug 4

Beautiful work by @ronjabigge.bsky.social and Rebecca Grittner is out 🥳 How do the statistics of natural visual scenes and the relevance of these stimuli for the moths' flight safety shape the integration of parallel pathways for flight guidance? ✈️🦋

Visual Insect Neuroethology Group @insect-vision.bsky.social · Aug 4

New work from the lab - final version out: #parallel #processing #optic_flow #flight #vision In hummingbird hawkmoth flight control, natural input prevalence shapes the visual field partitioning of two parallel pathways, but safety relevance determines the integration hierarchy. tinyurl.com/bdfsxea2

Integration of parallel pathways for flight control in a hawkmoth reflects prevalence and relevance of natural visual cues

In vision-based flight control of hummingbird hawkmoths, the visual field partitions by natural cue prevalence into an optic flow and dorsal directional pathway, which integrate according to their rel...

elifesciences.org

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Anna Stöckl @anna-stoeckl.bsky.social · Aug 3

After days of torrential rains, we had a few hours of sunshine today - which were enjoyed by humans and insects alike 🌸🐝 there is a great number of large hoverflies around - any idea what species these might be?
#insect #pollinator #hoverfly #photography

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Anna Stöckl @anna-stoeckl.bsky.social · Aug 1

It was a pleasure to be part of this wonderful podcast!
I can highly recommend to check out all episodes (there is a whole first season to explore as well 🤓).

Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour @cbehav.bsky.social · Aug 1

Check out the newest episode of our podcast "In the Swarm"!

Have you ever wondered how tiny insects navigate the world? In this episode, @anna-stoeckl.bsky.social explains how the tiny but mighty insect brain controls behaviour of stunning complexity.

www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/collective-b...

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Visual Insect Neuroethology Group @insect-vision.bsky.social · Jun 15

Float like a hawkmoth and drink like one too! What better way to understand insect behaviour? 🍹🦋🍹
An exciting evening of science outreach by the lake, by @cbehav.bsky.social ‪‪‪@excinequality.bsky.social‬
With moth impersonators:
@emmarusconi.bsky.social @manel-a-pama.bsky.social ky.social‬

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Anna Stöckl @anna-stoeckl.bsky.social · Jun 4

Congratulations to @ronjabigge.bsky.social to an awesome #PhD and a great defense at Würzburg University! #proudPI
She was welcomed home and celebrated in style with @insect-vision.bsky.social and the whole neurobiology community in Konstanz.

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Anna Stöckl @anna-stoeckl.bsky.social · May 29

Really excited for our research to be featured in this beautiful #preLight article about our study Bumblebees flexibly adjust learning and decision strategies to sensory information content in a foraging task by Tim Schwanitz & Cemre Coskun. 🐝

preLights @prelights.bsky.social · May 29

So many features…so little time: bumblebees show optimization of cue integration in a memory task. 🐝🐝

Really entertaining #preLight prepared by Tim Schwanitz & Cemre Coskun in which they highlight recent work from @anna-stoeckl.bsky.social & team ⬇️ 👀

prelights.biologists.com/highlights/b...

Bumblebees flexibly adjust learning and decision strategies to sensory information content in a foraging task - preLights

so many features…so little time: bumblebees show optimization of cue integration in a memory task.

prelights.biologists.com

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George Kolyfetis @gkolyfetis.bsky.social · May 4

I'm really happy to share the first preprint of my PhD work in @jjfosterlab.bsky.social! During a fruitful collaboration with @gregoeur.bsky.social, we uncovered a surprising feature of bees' eyes!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

www.biorxiv.org

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Anna Stöckl @anna-stoeckl.bsky.social · May 2

I guess that's why we call them POLLEN-ators! 🐝

#insect #pollinator #photography #spring

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Anna Stöckl @anna-stoeckl.bsky.social · Apr 24

Spotted the first hummingbird #hawkmoth of the season
- and many adorable #bee-flies!
Long-tongued hover power squared 🐝🌸🦋

#insect #pollinator #photography #spring

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Visual Insect Neuroethology Group @insect-vision.bsky.social · Apr 8

We are excited to have Aruna visit our lab over the summer as part of her PhD! She is investigating how hawkmoths actively shape their flight trajectories to better sense the spatial layout of their environment while working towards a 3D tracking system to accurately capture their movement!

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Anna Stöckl @anna-stoeckl.bsky.social · Apr 4

Lepidoptera lovers in full support for these charming creatures! Cousins in spirit and looks to our dear hawkmoths.

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Visual Insect Neuroethology Group @insect-vision.bsky.social · Mar 21

Welcome to the LAB: Emma Rusconi @emmarusconi.bsky.social

We are excited that Emma has recently joined us as a research assistant! She is currently investigating how bumblebees generalize visual patterns, and will soon investigate how nocturnal moths navigate in different light conditions.

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Anna Stöckl @anna-stoeckl.bsky.social · Mar 20

New review about "Path integration and optic flow in flying insects" doi.org/10.1007/s003.... One of the questions asked, where in the visual field insects perceive optic flow, is addressed and discussed in our recent work: doi.org/10.1016/j.cu... doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

Redirecting

doi.org

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Anna Stöckl @anna-stoeckl.bsky.social · Mar 5

So excited to see all of this hard work coming together, as @ronjabigge.bsky.social has finalised her thesis and is submitting today 👏🥂#submission #PhDthesis

Visual Insect Neuroethology Group @insect-vision.bsky.social · Mar 5

Big Cheers to @ronjabigge.bsky.social who is submitting her PhD thesis today 🍾🥳.

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Visual Insect Neuroethology Group @insect-vision.bsky.social · Feb 25

We had a fantastic #retreat in the Black Forest together with @jjfosterlab.bsky.social and Nouvian labs. We escaped rooms, worked on laboratory code of conduct, went hiking, learned about first aid, data visualisation and pose estimation, brainstormed science and went wild playing games!

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Anna Stöckl @anna-stoeckl.bsky.social · Feb 5

Fantastische Location für einen Vortrag über das nächtliche Sehvermögen der Insekten mit einem wunderbaren Publikum! Vielen Dank an Kortizes und das Planetarium #Nürnberg für die Einladung und die tolle Organisation. 🙏 @jjfosterlab.bsky.social für die 📸

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Visual Insect Neuroethology Group @insect-vision.bsky.social · Dec 18

🎄🎁🎄We're celebrating another buzzing year at the insect vision lab. Season's greetings and a happy new year from our hive to yours 🎉🦋🐝🎉
#Moths #Happyholidays

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Anna Stöckl @anna-stoeckl.bsky.social · Dec 16

Wonderful news, big congratulations!!

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Visual Insect Neuroethology Group @insect-vision.bsky.social · Dec 11

Hello Bluesky 👋 we have buzzed and hummed our way here too 🦋🐝
As the Visual Neuroethology Lab @unikonstanz.bsky.social we are fascinated by the complex behaviour that the tiny but mighty insect brain generates.
Find us for more info on insect-vision.com
& watch this space for updates 😀.

Visual Neuroethology Lab

Insect Visual Neuroethology Lab, led by Anna Stöckl at Konstanz University

insect-vision.com

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Anna Stöckl @anna-stoeckl.bsky.social · Dec 9

interesting point... 🤔

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Anna Stöckl @anna-stoeckl.bsky.social · Dec 9

Since this platform seems to be full of #fungifriends,
asking for expertise:
anyone knows the name of these brain-like creatures?
🧠 appealed to me for professional reasons 🤓
( #naturephotography, black forest, Germany)
#fungi #mushrooms

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