Emotional Contagion of Positive Mood in Insects | Request PDF Request PDF | Emotional Contagion of Positive Mood in Insects | A recent study provided evidence for emotional contagion in bumble bees, thus raising questions about the evolutionary origins of emotio...

Our comment on the recent paper by Romero-Gonzalez et al. (2025) on positive affective contagion in bumblebees 🐝 is now available to read : www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Emotional Contagion of Positive Mood in Insects | Request PDF Request PDF | Emotional Contagion of Positive Mood in Insects | A recent study provided evidence for emotional contagion in bumble bees, thus raising questions about the evolutionary origins of emotio...

Our comment on the recent paper by Romero-Gonzalez et al. (2025) on positive affective contagion in bumblebees 🐝 is now available to read : www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Got the much-awaited mug with my first paper printed on it! I love this lab tradition. Sipping coffee while appreciating the end result of years of hard work ☕.
Thank you for the gift @martingiurfa.bsky.social 😁🐝

Got the much-awaited mug with my first paper printed on it! I love this lab tradition. Sipping coffee while appreciating the end result of years of hard work ☕.
Thank you for the gift @martingiurfa.bsky.social 😁🐝

🎓Training School: Phylogenetic Study of Affective States Across Species

Join us in Thessaloniki, Greece (April 14-15) with experts Liz Paul, Mike Mendl, & László Garamszegi.

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Apply by Feb 23: 🔗 forms.office.com/e/U9jSVsH09S

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New #PhD on #bees (BeeHd?)! Despite the ad saying "UK Students only", a limited number of scholarships are available for international candidates. So please apply!

Meet the PI / Episode 1 / Amir Patel Spotify video

🎙️ New Meet the P.I. podcast episode with Amir Patel (UCL) is out!

From engineering to animal behaviour & robotics, cheetahs, career advice, Global South research, and finding your unique strengths ✨

🎧 Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/13uO...

📺 YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhWu...

Scientific strides #comedy #standup YouTube video by Jordan Jensen

Postdoc Yannick Günzel, who studies how clonal raider ants interact with their larvae, went to a comedy show in NYC. Now he’s famous… 🤪

youtube.com/shorts/ZETUy...

Animal Consciousness (first paragraph of the article). First published Sat Dec 23, 1995; substantive revision Tue Jan 13, 2026. Is there something it’s like to be an octopus, a bee, a snail? For much of the twentieth century, research into animal cognition tended to avoid questions of consciousness, following the lead of human neuroscience, where such questions were also marginalized (see the entries on animal cognition, methods in comparative cognition). However, the growing profile of consciousness science since 2000 has brought the topic of consciousness back into the scientific mainstream (see the entry on the neuroscience of consciousness), and this has led to resurgent interest in studying conscious experience in other animals.

I've been working for ages on a comprehensive revamp of the Stanford Encyclopedia Entry on "Animal Consciousness", with new sections on non-Western perspectives, methodological challenges and evolutionary big pictures, and it's out today: plato.stanford.edu/entries/cons.... Hope you find it useful!

Thank you so much!!

Thank you Vivek! ☺️

🎓 PhD defended #PhDone (1/3)

On Dec 17, I defended my PhD thesis entitled “Exploring dimensions of consciousness in the miniature brain of an insect” 🐝

My first experimental PhD paper is finally out! 🎉

We investigate trace conditioning in honeybees and its links to awareness processes and serotonin 🐝🧠
Combining behaviour, computational modelling (by Andrea Alamia), and neuropharmacology

⭐ Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.is...

(3/3) Warm thanks to the jury for their thoughtful and encouraging evaluation:
Julie Carcaud, Matthieu Dacher, Christelle Jozet-Alves & Graziano Fiorito.
Feeling grateful and excited to move forward 🌱

(2/3) Huge thanks to my supervisors @martingiurfa.bsky.social and Guillaume Isabel for their guidance and support.
Between Toulouse and Paris (and even a lab move!), this PhD was a real adventure : full of inspiring people and moments I’ll always cherish. ✨🏙️

🎓 PhD defended #PhDone (1/3)

On Dec 17, I defended my PhD thesis entitled “Exploring dimensions of consciousness in the miniature brain of an insect” 🐝

Thank you so much for such a nice summary !! 🐝

https://nodglobal.com/what-is-it-like-to-be-a-bee-part-1/

1/12 Consciousness and attention in honeybees

This study provides evidence of consciousness-like states in bees, revealing strong and fascinating parallels with vertebrate awareness. I will try to explain it in a few "tweets".

(paper) www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
by @catherinemacri.bsky.social

Serotonergic-dependent awareness is required for trace conditioning in honeybees Entomology; Neuroscience; Behavioral neuroscience; Sensory neuroscience; Cognitive neuroscience

🧪 Friends of all backgrounds: please enjoy this new paper whose findings “reveal that bees engage higher-order cognitive mechanisms under temporal uncertainty, suggesting that core features of awareness may be evolutionarily conserved across distant taxa.”

Yeah. 🫢

www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

I also love poetry and philosophy so, in my opinion.. that's a cool title !!
Wow, minus 20! They are so strong 🐝🐝

Such a great pic !! They are inspiring animals, I love watching them too (in the lab but also outside at any chance I get) 🌻

They really are a magic well, as Karl Von Frisch aptly said

I’m very lucky to have such an inspiring (and fun!) PhD project. 🥰 Thank you so much, and likewise, your work sounds timely and incredibly important 💪

That is so nice, I am not sure I deserve such great advertisement, thank you so much ! 🫶

My first experimental PhD paper is finally out! 🎉

We investigate trace conditioning in honeybees and its links to awareness processes and serotonin 🐝🧠
Combining behaviour, computational modelling (by Andrea Alamia), and neuropharmacology

⭐ Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.is...

Antonio Damasio explores consciousness in Self Comes to Mind. Consciousness used to be the crazy aunt in psychology's attic. Behaviorists and cognitive scientists alike practiced denial, but the squeaking...

What an amazing piece of writing, such a fun read!! Highly recommend 🙂

"How is consciousness possible at all? How could the few pounds of gray goo in my skull give rise to my experience of the particular blue tint of the sky?" slate.com/culture/2010...

Antonio Damasio explores consciousness in Self Comes to Mind. Consciousness used to be the crazy aunt in psychology's attic. Behaviorists and cognitive scientists alike practiced denial, but the squeaking...

What an amazing piece of writing, such a fun read!! Highly recommend 🙂

"How is consciousness possible at all? How could the few pounds of gray goo in my skull give rise to my experience of the particular blue tint of the sky?" slate.com/culture/2010...

The conference is next week!✨

Join us on 13–14 November for a rich two-day schedule of fascinating talks on animal behaviour 🦋🐟🐆

💻 Free, online & open to all worldwide
👉 Explore the program and register 🔗 ablaoc25.sciencesconf.org/resource/pag...

Science isn't done until it's shared! 🔬🌍 Make your research matter beyond the lab & join our outreach workshop at 12:00GMT, 13 Nov at #ABL2025

With: Fran Sconce (@royentsoc.bsky.social) Dr Andy Howe (Insect Investigators) Dr @ellenrotheray.bsky.social (BuzzClub)
Register➡️ ablaoc25.sciencesconf.org

Make your science heard 🎙️🌍

Join our second outreach workshop on 14 Nov #ABL2025 at 12:00 GMT, with oceanographer, marine ecologist & communicator Sakina-Dorothée Ayata, sharing how to choose the right media for the right audience.

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