Felicity Muth stands up on the podium, talking to a large room of attendees. Slide has a photo of a bee visiting a flower, highlighting the cues they can use: visual, olfactory, temperature, texture, electric field.

@felicitymuth.bsky.social starts our day with a plenary on bumblebee cognition. Bees get different rewards from plants (nectar, pollen, heat, resin, etc.), but cognition studies usually only use sucrose solution. Turns out bees learn both pollen & nectar, w asymmetric effects on learning!
#ABS2025

An example of negative incentive contrast, demonstrated with adorable bee pictures

Felicity Muth @felicitymuth.bsky.social starting the day with several awesome stories on bee cognition and a quick reading of her children’s book, “Am I Even a Bee?”.

Such a great way to kick off day 2 (wait, only day 2? I’m so tired)

#ABS2025

Thanks!

Chores of a tropical worker bee: drinking excess condensation water inside the hive, then spitting it out at the hive entrance 💦 🐝

This is the way.

U.S. Park Service Strikes Transgender References From Stonewall Website The “T” was removed in references to L.G.B.T.Q.+ on the official site for the Greenwich Village monument, which marks a milestone in the fight for gay rights. Later, the Q+ also disappeared.

Erasing our history won't erase us.

Transgender people have always been here — and we always will be.

Best alternatives to Google? I’m de-googling my life.

Today, honor a King, not a Felon. #mlkday2025

One of my favorite photos of the park A lone Bison walking across a sage field in front of a row of cottonwood along the edge of the Lamar River with a pine forest rising up on the cloud draped mountains in the background

We're going to pay as little attention to the Orange Idiot in orifice as possible.
Their plan is to baffle us with bullsh!t
Our's to relax and sue the bastads
Everyone should be following these two
@earthjustice.bsky.social
And
@aclu.org (we also follow their affiliates)

Happy thoughts

Seen on the california coast… can anyone tell me what this is?

'How Bad For The Environment Can Throwing Away One Plastic Bottle Be?' 30 Million People Wonder

'How Bad For The Environment Can Throwing Away One Plastic Bottle Be?' 30 Million People Wonder
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Thanks!!

YES. Can’t wait to watch this.

You know that amazing feeling when you’re searching for an experiment that you think someone should have done, and then you find it. And the more niche the topic/ experiment, the better the feeling when you find it.

I agree, this was my favourite talk of the conference. Lots to think about.

Architectural traditions in the structures built by cooperative weaver birds Humans cooperate to build complex structures with culture-specific architectural styles. However, they are not the only animals to build complex structures nor to have culture. We show that social gro...

🚨New paper alert 🚨

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A team effort between the #University of St Andrews, #University of Exeter and #University of Alberta. All done at the marvellous #Tswalu Kalahari Reserve. @cogwild.bsky.social

Great to see people working on cognition in more species of bee!

Nicola, Vivek, Claudia, Cedric and Chiara at the front of the conference room

The #ASABWinter2024 conference on Addressing Biases in the Field of Animal Behaviour has been extraordinary. A huge THANK YOU to the volunteers & the organizers: @nicolakoyama.bsky.social @viveknityananda.bsky.social @wascherclaudia.bsky.social @cedricaumont.bsky.social & @cbenvenuto.bsky.social 😀

Enough people at #ASABwinter2024 have talked about bluesky that I decided to get back on social media.