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Jerome Beetz

@beetzjerome.bsky.social

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Neuroethologist studying spatial navigation in diverse species 🐝🦇🦋. Currently, launching my group to study spatial memory in 🐝. https://www.spatial-navigation.com/

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Jerome Beetz @beetzjerome.bsky.social · Mar 24

Let me introduce our new lab homepage.

www.spatial-navigation.com

We are looking for PhD students and one Postdoc that can start in November 2025.

Contact me if you are in to studying spatial memory of honeybees. @uni-wuerzburg.de
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Beetz Lab

Our group studies the neural mechanisms underlying spatial memory in insects. As central place foragers, honeybees begin their foraging trip at a fixed location, i.e., their nest. This site fidelity.....

www.spatial-navigation.com

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Janelia FlyEM @janelia-flyem.bsky.social · 3d

We're very proud to be releasing the complete male fly CNS connectome!

It's the product of a huge team effort here at Janelia in partnership with the Cambridge Fly Connectomics group (@jefferis.bsky.social and colleagues), plus invaluable collaborators.

More soon...
www.janelia.org/project-team...

Male CNS Connectome

A team of researchers has unveiled the complete connectome of a male fruit fly central nervous system —a seamless map of all the neurons in the brain and nerve cord of a single male fruit fly and the ...

www.janelia.org

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Jerome Beetz @beetzjerome.bsky.social · 8d

Only one day left to apply for this 5 year Postdoc. Everyone with experience in electrophysiology and a keen interest in #neuroethology is welcomed to apply. More infos about our lab can also be found here: www.spatial-navigation.com
🐝🧠🇩🇪

Jerome Beetz @beetzjerome.bsky.social · Aug 1

We are looking for a Postdoc (up to 5 years) who wants to study neural mechanisms of spatial memory in honeybees.

This includes tetrode recordings in behaving honeybees.

Application Deadline is 1st of October 2025.

More details:
www.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/services/...

Postdoctoral Position (f/m/d) at the Chair of Behavioral Physiology & Sociobiology

Biocenter of the University of Würzburg Am Hubland 97074 Würzburg

www.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de

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iScience @cp-iscience.bsky.social · May 26

🐝 Can #ElectricFields from #powerlines disrupt #honeybee foraging? A new #iScience study says yes — AC & +DC fields cut landings by 71% 🌸⚡

🧾Read here: www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

#ElectricPollution #PollinatorHealth #Entomology #Agroecology #EcoResearch #InsectScience #SaveTheBees #FieldEcology

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Jerome Beetz @beetzjerome.bsky.social · 10d

That is the longer one 😉

Jerome Beetz @beetzjerome.bsky.social · 10d

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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Jerome Beetz @beetzjerome.bsky.social · 10d

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...

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Springer @springer.springernature.com · 11d

Check out new research into the fascinating and challenging world of #AvianNavigation! 🦉 'How Birds Find Their Way', by Helmut Satz, describes our current understanding of the navigation of birds, their methods, capabilities, and achievements. bit.ly/42bC5Um #BookSky

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Katrin Vogt @katrinvogt.bsky.social · 11d

How is valence computed in the brain? Check out our new preprint about a single cell that integrates excitatory and inhibitory input across modalities according to valence and impacts behavioral decisions. An exciting collaboration across many labs. Enjoy reading!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A multisensory, bidirectional, valence encoder guides behavioral decisions

A key function of the brain is to categorize sensory cues as repulsive or attractive and respond accordingly. While we have some understanding of how sensory information is processed in the sensory pe...

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Chris J Dallmann @chrisjdallmann.bsky.social · 21d

Now out in @nature.com: Our study discovering a neural circuit in Drosophila that predictively inhibits proprioceptor axons during voluntary leg movements, such as walking and grooming. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Jerome Beetz @beetzjerome.bsky.social · 20d

Congrats to this amazing study. 🙂

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Adrien Peyrache @apeyrache.bsky.social · 21d

« Diverse calcium dynamics underlie place field formation in hippocampal CA1 pyramidal cells. »

A fundamental study now published @elife.bsky.social

elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

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Hugo Spiers @hugospiers.bsky.social · 20d

New from @katejj.bsky.social group!

bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 20d

Head direction cells use a head-referenced dual-axis updating rule in 3D space https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.17.676760v1

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Abhilasha Joshi, PhD @rhythmicspikes.bsky.social · 20d

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🚨 New preprint! 🚨

Excited and proud (& a little nervous 😅) to share our latest work on the importance of #theta-timescale spiking during #locomotion in #learning. If you care about how organisms learn, buckle up. 🧵👇

📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
💻 code + data 🔗 below 🤩

#neuroskyence

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Jerome Beetz @beetzjerome.bsky.social · 20d

Two weeks are left to apply for a 5 year Postdoc position in #neuroscience, #behavior, #neuroethology in collaboration with @puh23.bsky.social from Flinders University. 🇦🇺🇩🇪🐝 👀

Jerome Beetz @beetzjerome.bsky.social · Aug 1

Postdoctoral Position (f/m/d) at the Chair of Behavioral Physiology & Sociobiology

Biocenter of the University of Würzburg Am Hubland 97074 Würzburg

www.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de

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European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · 23d

Based on feedback from applicants, reviewers and broader research community, the ERC Scientific Council decided to make changes in the 2026–27 calls for proposal for research funding.

More details from the ERC President 👉 europa.eu/!hP3WWF

What’s your take on this? Tell us! 👇

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 24d

A gallery of Cephalotes turtle ants.

I've been photographing ants for over two decades, and I still haven't managed to shoot even 20% of the species in one of my favorite genera.

Cephalotes - Alex Wild

is a diverse genus of heavily-armored, tree-dwelling myrmicine ants found in forested regions of the new world tropics and subtropics. A number of canopy species show the unusual habit of controlled ...

www.alexanderwild.com

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Niki Schlöglová @niki-schloglova.bsky.social · 25d

Attending my first international conference, Behaviour 2025, was an amazing experience😊 I got to meet so many people interested in the same field and received a lot of valuable feedback. Excited to turn this work into a publication!

#vetmeduni #Behaviour2025 #kea #poster

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Xavier Mouy @xaviermouy.bsky.social · 24d

New Sonic Connexions online meet-up coming up on Sep 24! This one will be on Bioacoustics AI with Liz Ferguson. Register now to join the discussions!! #bioacoustics 🔊🧪

whoi-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Pranav Seth @thebuddhabird93.bsky.social · 26d

#FluorescenceFriday
#Seahorse retina stained with #GNB3 (green) + #DAPI (cyan). GNB3 labels cone photoreceptors + ON #bipolarcells, tracing pathways from outer to inner retina. Amazing to see conserved visual #circuits in this non-traditional model

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Max Farnworth @maxfarnworth.bsky.social · 25d

Our paper on central complex evolution in Heliconiini butterflies is now available as reviewed preprint at @elife.bsky.social 🎉🎉. Please check out the helpful and constructive reviews which we are going to address in the next weeks 🤗 elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre... @ebablab.bsky.social

Distinct evolutionary trajectories of two integration centres, the central complex and mushroom bodies, across Heliconiini butterflies

elifesciences.org

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International Society for Neuroethology @neuroethology.org · 26d

José Borrero from Richard Merrill's lab studies how the visual acuity changes with age in different species of Heliconius butterflies and how it is related to brain morphology and neurogenesis. #dzg2025
@borreroja.bsky.social
@dickmerrill.bsky.social

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International Society for Neuroethology @neuroethology.org · 26d

Traplining-behavior requires extensive spatial memory which is linked to Mushroom Body expansion in the brain of Heliconius 🦋. @maxfarnworth.bsky.social from @ebablab.bsky.social lab talks about the neural lineages that may underly this anatomical expansion. #dzg2025

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DZG Neurobiology @dzg-neurobiology.bsky.social · 26d

And switching to neuroethology from start to finish, we heard about @beetzjerome.bsky.social 's amazing work into navigation and neural coding in the monarch butterfly and bee brain. FInd out more abotu Jerome's research here: www.spatial-navigation.com

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International Society for Neuroethology @neuroethology.org · 28d

It was a pleasure listening to @jmappes.bsky.social talk @dzg2025berlin.bsky.social about anti-predator strategies in lepidoptera and how predation affects moth color morphs.
predatorpreyinteractions.com

Ecology & Evolution of Interactions

Investigating the behaviours and genetics behind diversity and dynamism in animal interactions

predatorpreyinteractions.com

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International Society for Neuroethology @neuroethology.org · 28d

This evening, @dzg2025berlin.bsky.social presented a wonderful opening ceremonie at the natural history museum of Berlin. Great place to kick off the annual meeting of the German Zoological Society. #dzg2025

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