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Pauline Fleischmann @cataglyphilosophy.bsky.social · 2d

🤩 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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Pauline Fleischmann @cataglyphilosophy.bsky.social · 20d

With a homepage, everything becomes more concrete 🥰 Check out our #AnHuNav project on Animal and Human Navigation in Antiquity 🧭🕊🐫🐜🏛
↘️ www.uol.de/anhunav ↙️
Stay tuned, we will soon advertise positions 🤗

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Pauline Fleischmann @cataglyphilosophy.bsky.social · 23d

🤗 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! 🤩

Team photo, from left to right: Dhanashree, Chiara, Pauline Fekea, Yibo.

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Pauline Fleischmann @cataglyphilosophy.bsky.social · 26d

Thanks also to the @dzg-neurobiology.bsky.social section, especially to the speaker team Suanne Neupert and @maxfarnworth.bsky.social, for doing a great job in taking care of the #neurobiology content at the #DZG 💖🧠💕

Exanple of a neurobiology talk: Max Farnworth's stsrt slide

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Pauline Fleischmann @cataglyphilosophy.bsky.social · 26d

And my favorite non-insect facts are 😉👇
🥉 #Petrichor, the smell of rain, is mainly caused by one substance: geosmin @silkesachse.bsky.social 🌧👃
🥈 The trigenimal nerve of elephants is 2.1m long 😱🐘
🥇 Spiders have REMsleep & it is possible to track their eye movements 🕷💤 @roesslerdaniela.bsky.social

View out of the window at the conference venue: heavy rain

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Pauline Fleischmann @cataglyphilosophy.bsky.social · 26d

My favourite facts (slight bias towards insects - sorry for that 🙃)
🥉 Bombardier beetles defend themselves with tiny explosions 🤯🪲
🥈 Gall wasps are seconday vegetarians
🥇 Ants are fANTastic 😇🐜 They employ therapeutic wound care @etf1989.bsky.social and evade toxic baits @tomerczaczkes.bsky.social

Start slide of Erik Frank's talk ln social wound care in ants

Slide of Tomer Czaczkes' talk on invasive ants thst evade toxic baits

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Pauline Fleischmann @cataglyphilosophy.bsky.social · 26d

The #DZG2025 is over and I am filled with great memories and zoological input 🥰

Thanks to the organisers @dzg2025berlin.bsky.social for this ✨️great✨️ conference! 👏👏👏 @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social @humboldtuni.bsky.social @mfnberlin.bsky.social
Below I share are my favourite facts that I learned ⬇️

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Pauline Fleischmann @cataglyphilosophy.bsky.social · 27d

And @anna-stoeckl.bsky.social received the ✨️Walther-Arndt-Research-Award✨️ 🧪🏆 for her amazing research on @insect-vision.bsky.social 🦋👁🧠 @uni-konstanz.de @cbehav.bsky.social

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Pauline Fleischmann @cataglyphilosophy.bsky.social · 27d

Additional @neuroethology.org highlights of the @dzg2025berlin.bsky.social on the second day:

The second @dzg-neurobiology.bsky.social invited talk was by @beetzjerome.bsky.social from @uni-wuerzburg.de on his work on compass and place coding in insects 🧭🧠🦋🐝

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International Society for Neuroethology @neuroethology.org · 27d

Chiara Tenneriello, PhD student of @cataglyphilosophy.bsky.social talked today about her research on testing whether desert ants have a particle-based magentic compass. #dzg2025

@chiaratenne.bsky.social

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Pauline Fleischmann @cataglyphilosophy.bsky.social · 27d

🤩 It's always a pleasure to present our #ant #research 🧪🐜🧭☀️, especially to such a nice audience 🧠💖 @dzg-neurobiology.bsky.social
✨️New level of proudness: @chiaratenne.bsky.social presents parts of her project in her very 1st conference talk @dzg2025berlin.bsky.social🥳 Brilli🐜 presentation🤩 #ProudPi

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Pauline Fleischmann @cataglyphilosophy.bsky.social · 29d

🤩 Phenomenal start @dzg2025berlin.bsky.social with special insights into #Botany & #Paleontology: Tomato specimen collected by Humboldt 😱🍅🌱 at the Herbarium of the Botanical Garden and Icebreaker event at the the Dinosaur Hall 🦕🦖🏛 of @mfnberlin.bsky.social Looking forward to the next #Zoology days 😍

Humboldt's tomato - "the first cherry tomsto in Berlin"

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SFB 1372 @sfb1372.bsky.social · Aug 26

Spread the word: we’re #hiring! We offer two short-term #fellowships for master’s degree holders and PhD candidates for 6-12 months to excellent researchers, who are interested in doing research within one dedicated project of our SFB/CRC 1372. Find more information on www.sfb1372.de/jobs

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Pauline Fleischmann @cataglyphilosophy.bsky.social · Aug 26

Come and join us here in Oldenburg 🤗
@sfb1372.bsky.social has two open short-term fellowships for master degree holders that want to do resesarch with us 🧭🐜🐦🦇🧪🔬🥼🧬
More information: ↘️ www.sfb1372.de/jobs ↙️
If you have any questions, feel free to ask 🗨💬 Please share or apply 🤩

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SFB 1372 @sfb1372.bsky.social · Jul 28

New mission for our SFB fellow Pauline - together with two historians of our university she will now be researching the question: were animals in antiquity the forerunners of modern navigation systems with their migrations and did they show people the way? uol.de/aktuelles/fe...

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Pauline Fleischmann @cataglyphilosophy.bsky.social · Jul 24

🤩 I am incredible happy and excited that our interdisciplinary project " #AnHuNav - Animal and Human #Navigation in the Ancient Southern Levant" receives funding by the University of Oldenburg in the framework of #zukunft.niedersachsen ↘️ uol.de/aktuelles/fe... ↙️
✨️☀️🌊🕊🐫🐫🐫💫🧭🏛
#NaviSense

https://uol.de/aktuelles/feature/interdisziplinaritaet-setzt-impulse↙️

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Pauline Fleischmann @cataglyphilosophy.bsky.social · Jul 18

Here we go again: field resesarch 🧪🌳✨️
First #LightTrapping session for our @sfb1372.bsky.social #arthropod #biodiversity project in collaboration with @robertrollins1892.bsky.social in @genmig.bsky.social lab from the @ifv-whv.bsky.social 💡🦋 🕷🪲🦟
I just love the trap that looks like a 👻! Or 🪼?

Light trap that looks like a ghost or a jellyfish

Biologists at work: light trapping in the night

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Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · Jul 8

Okay, my philosophy of biology peeps! Is there any good literature comparing Western and non-Western views on the "essence" of species - what makes an organism the kind of thing it is (if kinds exist!) - where that comes from, how it could be encoded or transmitted...?

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SFB 1372 @sfb1372.bsky.social · Jul 2

Registration is open for our 2nd international conference for early career researchers on Magnetoreception and Navigation in Animals.

19.-21.11.2025 in Hamburg, Germany.

Abstract submission extended to 8/8/25 :-)

www.sfb1372.de/young-resear...

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Pauline Fleischmann @cataglyphilosophy.bsky.social · Jul 2

😭 Sad to miss the #GRC #neuroethology conference co-organised by Miriam Liedvogel @genmig.bsky.social from our @sfb1372.bsky.social, 😊 but very happy that our #research on #magnetoreception in #ants 🧪🐜🧠🧭🌞 is presented by my dear friend and co-antpert Robin Grob to the @neuroethology.org community 😊👍

International Society for Neuroethology @neuroethology.org · Jul 1

Robin Grob from NTNU talks about the magnetic sense of ants and how he wants to study the magnetic compass of migratory monarch butteflies.

www.cell.com/current-biol...

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Cataglyphis ants have a polarity-sensitive magnetic compass

Grob et al. show that Cataglyphis ants do not rely on the inclination but rather use the polarity of the geomagnetic field for path integration during learning walks in their natural habitat. This sug...

www.cell.com

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Pauline Fleischmann @cataglyphilosophy.bsky.social · Jul 1

The past two weeks showed me why being a #neuroethologist is the best job 😍 Field work in Greece 🇬🇷:
➡️ observing #ants 🐜
➡️ lab experiments 🔬🧠
➡️ scientific discussions🧪💬
➡️ teaching & supervision
➡️ great food 🍽.
I can't wait to discuss the data in the future🤩
Thanks @chiaratenne.bsky.social & team🤗

Impressions if the field season 2025: test ant, field team, pine forest, house

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Pauline Fleischmann @cataglyphilosophy.bsky.social · Jun 19

Oh, desert ants are included 😍🐜😊👍 Great song and performance!

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Pauline Fleischmann @cataglyphilosophy.bsky.social · Jun 19

How do animals navigate? A recent study in @nature.com reveals that #BogongMoths use a stellar compass for their long-distance migration ✨️🧭🌏
I was asked for my opinion about this fascinating result by my dear colleagues @lundvision.bsky.social 🤩
↘️ www.npr.org/2025/06/18/n... ↙️ @sfb1372.bsky.social

How migrating Australian moths find caves hundreds of miles away

Billions of nocturnal Bogong moths migrate up to 1,000 km to cool caves in the Australian Alps that they have never previously visited. New research shows how they may find their way there and back.

www.npr.org

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Pauline Fleischmann @cataglyphilosophy.bsky.social · Jun 2

Congratulations Dr. Bigge 🤩🥳🤗

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Pauline Fleischmann @cataglyphilosophy.bsky.social · May 22

🥳🥳🥳 We are thrilled that #NaviSense will be funded as a #ClusterOfExcellence by @dfg.de for the next seven years. Here you can find more information about our 🧪 research:
↘️ www.navisense.org ↙️
🗺🧭🐜🐦🐟🦇🦋🦐 #ExStra

🤗 Congratulations also to our fellow clusters #Hearing4all 🦻and #OceanFloor 🌊

University president and the cluster speakers

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