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International Society for Neuroethology @neuroethology.org · 2h

🚨 In a new synthesis of 🦍 primate neuroethology, Parodi et al. argue for an integrative approach combining 🧠 neuroscience with naturalistic behavior, function, development, and evolution (Tinbergen's framework).

🚨 Check it out!
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Primate neuroethology: a new synthesis

Neuroscience has probed only a sliver of the rich cognitive, emotional, and social behaviors that enable primates to thrive in the real world. Technol…

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Christian Broberger @broberger.bsky.social · 2d

1/n. New paper from us: here we explore the mechanisms underlying maternal aggression in mice as a means of addressing how an individual transiently can gain access to a behaviour normally outside of its repertoire. Lead investigator Stefanos Stagkourakis (not on 🦋)🧵:

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Maternal aggression driven by the transient mobilisation of a dormant hormone-sensitive circuit - Nature Communications

Mothers can fiercely defend their young, but how the brain triggers this response remains to a large extent a mystery. Here, authors show that a dormant, hormone-sensitive brain circuit switches on to spark maternal aggression during the lactation period.

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Janelia FlyEM @janelia-flyem.bsky.social · 2d

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...
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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 ...

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International Society for Neuroethology @neuroethology.org · 4d

How do primates cooperate to solve a task? Pairs 🐵🐵 of marmosets were tested in a cooperative lever-pulling task. They were successful in solving the task by coordinating through social vision. Also, social relationships shaped the strength of colaboration! Find out more www.cell.com/current-biol...

Diverse and flexible strategies enable successful cooperation in marmoset dyads

Meisner and Shi et al. show that common marmosets flexibly coordinate with partners using both gaze-dependent and rhythmic strategies. Cooperation depends on active social monitoring and is shaped by ...

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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
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International Society for Neuroethology @neuroethology.org · 6d

Way before humans began performing agriculture, social insects like 🐜 and termites had already developed similar behaviors. This paper shows that a termites species uses fungicide-releasing microbes to protect their crops. Check out these fascinating behaviours here! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Fungus-farming termites can protect their crop by confining weeds with fungistatic soil boluses

The symbiotic agriculture of fungus-farming termites can collapse if they fail to prevent invading weeds. Previous studies suggest a role for symbiotic fungistatic microbes in bringing about weed cont...

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Felix W. Moll @mollfw.bsky.social · 9d

Thanks for sharing! Don't miss out on the videos --> bsky.app/profile/moll...

Felix W. Moll @mollfw.bsky.social · 27d

New paper on precise tool use learning in carrion crows @currentbiology.bsky.social. We show that—like New Caledonian crows—expert carrion crows pay close attention to the working end of their tool, suggesting tool integration into their peripersonal space. 🧵 & vids! 👇

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International Society for Neuroethology @neuroethology.org · 9d

Some animals are able to use objects in their environment as tools, like 🐒, 🦜 and corvids. In this new report from the Nieder lab, they show that carrions crows, with no tool-use adaptations are able to use a stick as a tool and refine their precision through learning! 🐦‍⬛ www.cell.com/current-biol...

Learned precision tool use in carrion crows

Moll et al. show that carrion crows—which do not habitually use tools in the wild—can be trained to use a stick tool as an extension of their body. Trained crows flexibly adjust tool orientation and d...

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Angelo Forli @aforli89.bsky.social · 14d

Interested in the brain, circuits, and behavior?
Enjoy tinkering and asking bold questions in neuroscience?

The Forli Lab (IIT, Genova, Italy) is hiring!

🧠 🔬 🟩◻️🟥->🍕🚫🍍

Check out our website for updates:
sites.google.com/view/forli-lab

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Melanie Brien @melbrien.bsky.social · 14d

Funded PhD position available 🎉 Come and work with me in Helsinki to uncover the pathways producing colourful tiger moth wings. Lots of options for genomics, CRISPR, fieldwork, behaviour experiments… Email with questions! jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

Wood tiger moth on leaf. Photo: Juhani Maamela.

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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 14d

Flies fly thanks to local circuits of sensory and effector neurons that control specific body parts and enable behaviors such as feeding and walking, new work shows.

By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social

#neuroskyence

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Local circuit loops within body control fly behavior, new ‘embodied’ connectome reveals

The mapping, which traces how the central nervous system interacts with the rest of the body, challenges the idea that behavior control is centralized.

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International Society for Neuroethology @neuroethology.org · 14d

How #stress shapes #insect minds: hormones and neuropeptides alter learning and memory in complex, surprising ways. 🪰 ➡️Review 📝 Learning under stress: how the insect brain copes www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#Neurobiology #InsectScience #StressResearch

Learning under stress: how the insect brain copes

Insects can adjust their behaviours through learning and memory, but this rather costly capacity is often impacted by stressors. Here, we address how …

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Kathy Darragh @kdarragh.bsky.social · 27d

I'm looking for PhD students to join the lab starting August 2026. We study the evolution of insect chemical signals so if you're interested in evolutionary biology, chemical ecology, molecular biology, behavior, or genetics, this could be a good fit for you! More info here: tinyurl.com/mrxchwfm

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Steve Portugal @sjportugal.bsky.social · 19d

We're looking for a new postdoc on our new BBSCR grant (Graham Taylor/Tim Guilford/Cait Newport). See link below!

my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

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Behavioral Ecology and Endocrinology Lab @behavecol-lab.bsky.social · 18d

Please share!🙏
🚨 PhD Oportunity in Avian Behavioural Ecology in Spain
The BirdBond Project (MNCN & IREC) studies how pair bonds form, change & affect reproduction/survival in the spotless starling 🐦

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Janelia Research Campus @hhmijanelia.bsky.social · 20d

🌟 Launch your own lab at Janelia 🌟

Advance our understanding of biology through theory, computational modeling & machine learning.

🔹 No teaching requirements
🔹 100% internally funded
🔹 Collaborate with expert support teams

📅 Apply by Nov. 4 👉 https://janelia.link/groupleader

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The Rockefeller University @handle.invalid · 19d

A new study in ants from @danielkronauer.bsky.social reveals a previously unknown mechanism that ensures that each olfactory neuron expresses only one odorant receptor, with broad implications for the study of gene regulation. #RockefellerScience
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Daniel Kronauer @danielkronauer.bsky.social · 19d

The final version of our paper on how ants and possibly other insects use a crazy mechanism involving extensive transcriptional interference to regulate odorant receptor expression is now open access in my favorite journal, @currentbiology.bsky.social

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ScienceDirect.com | Science, health and medical journals, full text articles and books.

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Dr. Ornella Bertrand @ornellabertrand.bsky.social · 19d

Interested in doing your PhD in Spain on 🧠 ? Contact me to discuss projects and apply for this position! www.icp.cat/index.php/en...

Open positions

Predoctoral Researcher 'Miquel Crusafont' - [ICPJA021] POSITION DESCRIPTION Predoctoral Researcher 'Miquel Crusafont' REFERENCE ICPJA021 NUMBER OF POSITIONS 1 AREA / RESEARCH GROUP Dep...

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Dr. Nikki Crowley @nicoleacrowley.bsky.social · 20d

WE ARE... hiring!

Penn State Biology & the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences is recruiting a tenure track or tenured neurobiologist (Assistant or Associate Professor rank), and the committee is open to a broad scope of scientific questions.

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Willem Laursen @willemlaursen.bsky.social · 19d

Thrilled to announce our lab just received an NIAID DP2 New Innovator Award!! 🎉

We’re looking for discovery-hungry postdocs + grad students who want to dig into sensory mechanisms of mosquito blood feeding. 🩸🦟🧬🧪

Join our swarm! 👉 sites.uw.edu/wlaursen/

Laursen Lab

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pwashlab.bsky.social @pwashlab.bsky.social · 19d

A POSTDOCTORAL POSITION ON THE NEUROBIOLOGY OF REPRODUCTION IN A CHANGING ENVIRONMENT: We are recruiting a postdoctoral fellow to work on a Neurobiology in Changing Ecosystems (NiCE) award from NSF and the Kavli Foundation (www.kavlifoundation.org/news/kavli-a...).

Kavli and NSF Announce New Grant Awards to Advance Neurobiology in…

An initiative to explore how nervous systems function and evolve in dynamic natural environments

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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

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

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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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International Society for Neuroethology @neuroethology.org · 20d

🚨New paper out by Harrap et al. in @jexpbiol.bsky.social " #Bumblebees learn to use antennal and tarsal taste to predict the presence of nectar rewards in flowers"
↘️ journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/... ↙️ #gustation #insects #cognition

Bumblebees learn to use antennal and tarsal taste to predict the presence of nectar rewards in flowers

Learning cues such as tastes associated with palatable food is an important mechanism animals have for foraging optimally. Insects can use gustatory receptor neurons (GRNs) in their mouthparts to dete...

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