Experience helps bumblebees fly home faster through the clutter Like the explorers of old, bumblebees are remarkable navigators. Flying up to 5 km away from their hives, bumblebees travel far and wide in search of tasty treats to bring home. But these insects can'...

Pssst🤫 New bumblebee research hot out of the press 👇
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No one prepares you for the day when you have to hand over your lab 😭😂😭😂
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Bumblebees Reveal a Smart Shortcut for Visual Recognition New research led by Queen Mary University of London uncovers how bees use active scanning to solve visual tasks—offering insights for bio-inspired AI and robotics. Bumblebees may have tiny brains,...

www.seresearch.qmul.ac.uk/cbb/news/495...

New Primer on Bumblebees now out in Current Biology (with Guillaume Ghisbain & Denis Michez):
www.cell.com/current-biol...

Navigating in clutter: How bumblebees optimize flight behaviour through experience www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03....

Dear #ISN members, neuroethologists & followers, the ISN council decided to agree that we delete our X account 👋 We will continue to update you here on #Bluesky & we look forward to creating a new #neuroethology community to discuss neurothology topics & research 🧠🧪
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During the holidays, my niece asked what my job was. My family replied: ‘She builds mazes for bees’ 😂

What was your most creative job description?
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Visual discrimination learning in the Australian stingless bee Tetragonula carbonaria (Hymenoptera: Apidae) Karl von Frisch's ground-breaking research first demonstrated visual learning in the European honey bee (Apis mellifera). The study of Australian native bees and their cognitive abilities, however, i...

The second chapter of my PhD thesis has been published, on the visual discrimination learning of my favourite Aussie stingless bee, Tetragonula carbonaria 🐝🧠

Check it out!

doi.org/10.1111/aen.12725

#science 🧪 #entomology #stinglessbee #zoology

Sarah writing some words on some flipchart paper.

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Great work Vivek! Thanks for your effort. Could you please add me? :)

the first starter pack is already full so here is pack no. 2 with even more wonderful ethologists! as before, let me know if you would like to be included and also feel free to nominate others! 🌍🧪😊 go.bsky.app/JS5YC4s

Check this out 👇

25 minutes (first paper) 😂😂

How To Bluesky How To Bluesky Ver 0.7 2025 Nov 05 By @ctsinclair.bsky.social Introduction Welcome to Bluesky! I am glad you are finding your way here. If you are used to Twitter (aka X), this is a brief guide to ...

Made a tip sheet on "How to Bluesky"

Highlights: Mute, Block, Requiring Alt Text, Moderation lists, Labels, Badges, Feeds, Starter Packs, etc.

Hopefully it makes the experience of getting started here a little bit easier. Feedback welcomed.

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Critical reviewer 2
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My main source of motivation:
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Setting up a new experiment 🐝
Welcome to a #neuroethology lab!

Nice to see you here :)

🚨New paper out! We show that experimentally altered magnetic fields affect both #Behavior and #NeuronalPlasticity during intial learning walks in #Cataglyphis #ants ↘️https://pnas.org/doi/10.1073↙️/pnas.2320764121 #navigation #neuroethology #magnetoreception #compass

Bluesky is now open. Science Twitter, here’s how to use it! The once-great science twitter is, depending on who you talk to, either dying or dead. Once a vibrant place for many discussions related to my fields of marine biology, ocean conservation, and publ…

Friends, I wrote up a quick guide to getting started on Bluesky for folks who are used to old Science Twitter.

Please share it with your folks who are joining. And please let me know if I missed anything or got anything wrong. 🧪

www.southernfriedscience.com/bluesky-is-n...

Switching perspective: Comparing ground-level and bird's-eye views for bees navigating clutter https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.12.21.572344v1 Animals navigating in three dimensions encounter different perspectives of their world, often transi

Switching perspective: Comparing ground-level and bird's-eye views for bees navigating clutter www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.12....