I still think this #SciComm deserves a #Pulitzer.

#InsectApocalypse
www.reuters.com/graphics/GLO...

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/...

Happy to share that I successfully defended my doctoral thesis early this week! 🐝🥳 Really can’t believe I did it! 😅🥹
Super thankful to my supervisors, Morgane Nouvian, and Giovanni Galizia, colleagues at the Neurobio group Konstanz, @imprs-qbee.bsky.social, and all my friends and family! 🐝 #PhDone

The Behavioural Neurobiology Summer School in Kosovo is back for the 2nd year and after just a few days we already made it onto live TV! For anyone who speaks Albanian, you can check out the full broadcast here: shorturl.at/kpUzp 🎙️

🚨 In our world riddled with misinformation and sensationalization, we must be cautious about handling accusations of scientific misconduct in our community. Weaponizing a public internet campaign is not the way.

📖 Read "A plea for academic decency"
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

“It’s the same sheet, w the same lights, in the same place, looking over the same vegetation. Same time of year, same time of the moon cycle, everything about it is identical. There’s just no moths on that sheet.” - Janzen

How long can we, like Wile e. Coyote, hang midair having run off the cliff?

New study in @science.org Science Advances: Clownfish can shrink to survive heatwaves and social conflict!
Led by Melissa Versteeg, with Chancey MacDonald, Morgan Bennett-Smith, Pete Buston
@newcastleuni.bsky.social
@sciencesncl.bsky.social
@bostonu.bsky.social

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Happy to share that our recent work on the individuality of honey bees in defensive behaviour got featured on German radio network yesterday 🤓🐝

Listen to my co-authors (also my PhD supervisors 😃) talk about it!

www.tagesschau.de/wissen/forsc...

Greetings, chordate comrades. #InverteFest is upon us.

tl;dr: Over the last 7 days every April, August, and December, we invite you to show the internet your coolest bugs & slugs.

Go find critters, post your art, write wikipedia pages, do whatever you like to celebrate invertebrates with us!

Forschende des #UniKonstanz Exzellenclusters „Kollektives Verhalten“ haben herausgefunden, dass Honigbienen ein und desselben Volkes unterschiedliche Vorlieben im Stechverhalten haben. Während die einen noch zögern, stechen die anderen bereits zu: https://t1p.de/rjqws

And hopefully you don’t get stung this bee season!! 🐝😅

🐝 To check out the full paper, see here: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....

🔎 To show this, we tested bees repeatedly in a stinging assay, with a decoy threat that doesn’t let the stinger attach to it. We also show that group composition does not have effect on individual bees.

🔎 We’ve discovered that individual bees vary in their stinging response - some choose to sting consistently whereas others don’t sting at all, despite the presence of social factors such as the alarm pheromone or other bees 🐝🚨⚡️

Hello BlueSky! 🦋 Thrilled to jump on this platform and make connections! 🐝 🥳
With the start of the bee season, I’m delighted to share that the findings of our latest research paper is featured on the Uni Konstanz website! 🐝

Here it is:
www.uni-konstanz.de/universitaet...