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Laura Grima @lauragrima.bsky.social · 1d

Pleased to have this review out in @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social. In it we discuss various aspects of the intersection between foraging behaviors and neuroscience, and offer some future directions: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Foraging as an ethological framework for neuroscience

The study of foraging is central to a renewed interest in naturalistic behavior in neuroscience. Applying a foraging framework grounded in behavioral …

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Elham Nourani @enourani.bsky.social · 2d

🦅PhD position 🦅 in my new group at @fbm-unil.bsky.social in Switzerland, studying how the social and resource landscapes shape the learning process for soaring flight. Deadline: Oct 30. Pls repost! career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

Golden eagle on the nest in Finland (by O. Karlin)

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 7d

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 9d

⚠️ Chinese researchers have invented bone glue that mimics how oysters stick to surfaces underwater.

The adhesive can reportedly repair orthopedic fractures in 2-3 minutes, even in blood-rich environments, and is bioabsorbable.

interestingengineering.com/science/chin...

China's oyster-inspired 'bone glue' bonds fractures in minutes

A new oyster-inspired Bone-02 adhesive can revolutionize bone repair without metal fasteners.

interestingengineering.com

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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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Animal-Environment Interactions Lab @safilab.bsky.social · 12d

Most people are right- some left-handed or ambidextrous - and so are honey buzzards when turning in thermals! But, unlike us, mastering flight means these birds must overcome laterality as they grow. A gem of a preprint led by @enourani.bsky.social. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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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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bioRxiv Animal Behavior and Cognition @biorxiv-behav.bsky.social · 13d

Overcoming Innate Lateralization Improves Avian Flight Performance https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.24.678238v1

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Tim O'Connell @tinosaurs.bsky.social · 15d

I still think this #SciComm deserves a #Pulitzer.

#InsectApocalypse
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Insect populations are declining at an unprecedented rate

The most diverse group of organisms on the planet are in trouble and the consequences could be dire.

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International Society for Neuroethology @neuroethology.org · 27d

Congratulations to Anna Stöckl receiving the prestigious Walther-Arndt award from the German Zoological Society. #dzg2025 @anna-stoeckl.bsky.social 🥳🥂

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Science X / Phys.org @sciencex.bsky.social · 28d

Carrion crows can be trained to use stick tools with precision and flexibility, demonstrating advanced motor and cognitive skills not typically seen in their wild behavior. doi.org/g927xw

Carrion crows can learn precise tool use

Animal training can teach carrion crows to use a stick tool to retrieve food. With increasing practice, they not only demonstrate great skill and achieve their objective in a few steps, they also respond flexibly to varying conditions in the experiment.

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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 27d

Information, Movement and Adaptation in Human Vision https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.05.674315v1

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Nature Neuroscience @natneuro.nature.com · 28d

Grid cells do not operate as a global positioning system but rather estimate position within multiple local reference frames

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Grid cells accurately track movement during path integration-based navigation despite switching reference frames - Nature Neuroscience

Grid cells do not maintain a stable pattern during a self-motion-based task, but track animal movement in multiple local reference frames and reanchor to task-relevant objects, thus estimating local r...

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Current Biology @currentbiology.bsky.social · 29d

Here, the 'ballistic tongues' paper by Yu Zeng and team
www.cell.com/current-biol...

plus dispatch by Sam Van Wassenbergh

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Biomechanics: Squeezing power drives ballistic tongues

Chameleons and lungless salamanders independently evolved very fast projectile tongues. In both cases, ballistic performance involves a long, blunt-ended skeletal rod that slides freely within a power...

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Florida Museum of Natural History @floridamuseum.bsky.social · Sep 5

Congrats to Moritz Lürig @mluerig.bsky.social! 👏👏👏 He has been awarded a group starter grant by the European Research Council @erc.europa.eu to create an atlas for moth and butterfly wing patterns using machine learning.
www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/mori...
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portrait photo of a person with long hair brushing the shoulders of a colorful button down shirt and a moderately sized mustache smiling confidently at the camera

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Daniele Carlesso @danielecarlesso.bsky.social · 29d

Excited to share an awesome piece by @drdavidhu.bsky.social in @currentbiology.bsky.social @cellpress.bsky.social about our latest paper!

Curious to know how weaver #ants achieve superefficiency when working together? Check it out! 🐜🐜🐜

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

Cooperative behavior: Superefficient weaver ants

Teamwork has long faced a dilemma: as team members are added, the effectiveness of each individual decreases — a phenomenon known as ‘Ringelmann’s effect’. A new study shows that weaver ants in pullin...

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Stone Tao @stonet2000.bsky.social · 29d

Opensourcing a tool to calibrate camera extrinsics painlessly in a minute, no checkerboards! It's based on EasyHEC, using diff. rendering to optimize extrinsics given object meshes+poses. Crazy that even a piece of paper works too.

Code:
github.com/StoneT2000/s...
(paper example in next post)

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Vanessa Penna Goncalves (she/her) @vanspidergirl.bsky.social · Aug 28

✨ It’s published! ✨

🕷️ Social spiders have bigger brains… but only in the right places! Our new study shows that in social huntsman spiders, regions for memory & vision processing are proportionally larger, supporting group living.

Read more: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Volumetric Comparison of Overall Brain and Neuropil Size Between Social and Non‐social Spiders: Exploring the Social Brain Hypothesis

Brain size may be influenced by the cognitive demands of sociality (social brain hypothesis). We used microCT to compare CNS and brain volumes in social versus solitary huntsman and crab spiders. Soc...

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Tessa Montague @tessamontague.bsky.social · Sep 8

Excited to share our new paper!

✨Natural habitat and wild behaviors of the dwarf cuttlefish, Ascarosepion bandense✨

tinyurl.com/bdew5x3s

Our first cuttlefish expedition - diving in the dark to observe our cuttlefish in the wild...

Check out the paper & new expedition tool on Cuttlebase.org 🧠

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Ned Dochtermann @neddochtermann.bsky.social · Sep 8

New preprint out from the lab, including @rroyaute.bsky.social:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

In this we test what we refer to as the "standard model" of behavioral variation.

This was inspired by recent work identifying intra-genotypic variation as a major contributor to "individuality".
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Genetic and environmental sources of behavioral individuality: a test of the standard model

Behavioral variation is typically assumed to arise from the combination and interaction of genetic and environmental variation. However, recent work with genetically identical individuals has found th...

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · Sep 6

Electrophysiological recordings reveal photoreceptor coupling in the dorsal rim areas of honeybee and bumblebee eyes buff.ly/ULfWjIB | #BiologyLetters #Behaviour #Neuroscience #Bees

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Mehrdad Kashefi @mkashefi.bsky.social · Sep 6

Excited to share my latest work with @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social & @andpru.bsky.social!
We asked: How does the motor cortex account for arm posture when generating movement?
Paper 👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Compositional neural dynamics during reaching

The complex mechanics of the arm make the neural control of reaching inherently posture dependent. Because previous reaching studies confound reach direction with final posture, it remains unknown how...

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Daniela Rößler @roesslerdaniela.bsky.social · Sep 6

🚨 PhD alert! IMPRS brain & behavior in Bonn just opened their calls for applications. Great PhD funding opportunities. Check it out! PS- I just joined their faculty, meaning you could do a rotation in my lab or even a PhD with me on spider sleep 🙃 Apply! 🚨

IMPRS for Brain and Behavior @imprsbb.bsky.social · Aug 27

📢Apply now! Join our IMPRS for Brain&Behavior to pursue a #PhD in #neuroethology. Learn how brain circuits are linked to interesting animal behaviors!
📅 Deadline: October 31, 2025
🔗 imprs-brain-behavior.mpg.de
#neuroscience #Neuroskyence #neurojobs #sciencejobs #PhDsky #PhDOffers #FundedPhD

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Nicholas Bellono @nbellono.bsky.social · Sep 4

Octopuses sense environmental microbiomes to drive predatory and parental behaviors. Artwork by Lily Soucy. #evolution #sensation #microbiome @cellpress.bsky.social

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New Scientist @newscientist.com · Sep 3

The first complete activity map of a mammalian brain has revealed unprecedented insights into how decisions are made – and may even hint at the roots of intuition.

First map of mammal brain activity may have shown intuition in action

Scientists have mapped the activity that takes place across a mouse's entire brain as it decides how to complete a task - and the results could explain the origin of our gut feelings

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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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