Excited to share a new article written with fantastic co-authors

Towards an Integrated Understanding of Animal Weapons

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

@gkolyfetis.bsky.social @uni-konstanz.de presenting his work on bee navigation at the annual meeting of the Beekeepers of Baden in Radolfzell 🍯🐝. Thank you for the invitation! Great to see the public interest in science and find out what we can learn from each other. 👁️🧭

really interesting work overall - the optic lobe stainings are just so nice to look at 😍

Excited to share a new review by @kocherlab.bsky.social and me:

Nature-inspired neuroscience

We discuss diverse sensory systems and behaviors across the animal kingdom and argue for their integration into neuroscience. New tools in diverse systems are making this possible ✨

tinyurl.com/y5y9du27

Delighted to share this amazing news for the Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour @cbehav.bsky.social and @uni-konstanz.de !!! Thanks so much to the Hector Foundation! www.uni-konstanz.de/en/universit...

New @currentbiology.bsky.social paper from Dr. Leila Elabbady on neural circuits that transform a touch stimulus into spatially targeted grooming.

Leila discovered a leg somatotopic map and used it to infer tactile receptive fields in the fly VNC connectome.

authors.elsevier.com/a/1mvu83QW8S...

📢 Mark your calendars for the Joint Graduate Meeting 2026, sponsored by @ethoges.bsky.social and the German Zoological Society (DZG)!

Don't miss this fantastic opportunity to showcase your research & network with peers!

📆 30.09. - 02.10.2026
🌍 @uni-muenster.de

Abstract submission will open soon.

I don't have experience with EthoVision, but I suppose a major difference would be that OCTRON is free to use. :-)

Just the GUI for now! I haven't had much time to fully explore it. The only pain point so far has been reloading an existing project, or trying to analyze new videos with a previously trained model. But maybe this will be easier with some more focused time using it..

A very quick (and dirty) test of OCTRON on hawkmoth data 🦋 From installation to getting quite good CoM tracking, maybe 45 minutes total (with GPU and minimal training data)

Researchers reveal the neural basis of evolving new capabilities by investigating behavioral and morphological differences between deer mouse subspecies. #neuroskyence

By @siddhantpusdekar.bsky.social

www.thetransmitter.org/evolution/ar...

Wind history shapes olfactory search response in free flying Drosophila melanogaster www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04...

A retinotopic wiring principle of the human brain www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04...

COLOR VISION UNDER BLUR: IMPLICATIONS FOR PERCEPTION AND EVOLUTION www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03...

Electric stealth through bidirectional signal suppression in electric eels and their knifefish prey Poon and Crampton report bidirectional suppression of electrolocation during encounters between wild electric eels and their weakly electric knifefish prey. Predator and prey alternate between signal emission and silence to balance active sensing with concealment. This electric stealth dynamic parallels acoustic stealth in killer whales and their echolocating toothed-whale prey.

Electric stealth through bidirectional signal suppression in electric eels and their knifefish prey CurrentBiology

Pollinators of the sea: A discovery of animal-mediated fertilization in seaweed The isopod Idotea balthica transports the gametes of the red alga Gracilaria gracilis, which increases algal fertilization success.

L'article :

Pollinators of the sea: A discovery of animal-mediated fertilization in seaweed

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Honeybee swarms do not come together and fall apart in the same way 🐝

In this new preprint led by Danielle Chase, we report how to trick swarms to repeatedly assemble and disassemble in front of our cameras, while tracking individual bees in 3D!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Excited to share our work exploring how fly larvae flexibly adjust their foraging decisions based on resource quality and valence, shaped by prior experience 🪰🥳! Check it out: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Meet the PI / Episode 3 / Anna Stöckl Spotify video

🎙️ New Meet the P.I. podcast episode with Anna Stöckl @anna-stoeckl.bsky.social is out!

From vision to interdisciplinary science, navigating new fields, dealing with rejection, and finding your own path ✨

🎧 Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/1DGh...
📺 YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iemB...

My drawing of a wasp-mimic moth - an incredible black and yellow specimen with long orange antennae.

My drawing of a bright pink and yellow elephant hawkmoth.

A mottled green and brown Oleander hawkmoth, with small pink bits on its wings.

A striped hawmoth - mostly brown, with flashes of hot pink on its lower wings.

Thinking about how cool moths are.

The nontraditional model organism renaissance Each month, The Transmitter explores creative approaches neuroscientists are taking to solve problems that arise in their research. In this installment, we see how researchers work backward from speci...

Explore “Brainstorming,” @thetransmitter.bsky.social’s new LinkedIn newsletter that looks at how neuroscientists are solving research challenges. The first edition features nontraditional model organisms that are well suited for studying certain behaviors or neurological conditions.

bit.ly/4v6x506

Job 🚨 Please share!!

We have a teaching track faculty opening in our undergraduate behavioral biology program at Johns Hopkins University

Teaching animal behavior plus self-developed courses

facultyjobs.jhu.edu/Positions/De...

@jhu.edu @jhuartssciences.bsky.social

🚨 New paper out in @jexpbiol.bsky.social! doi.org/10.1242/jeb....
Some robber flies hunt resting prey and judge their distance well despite limited vision. We show their looping flights help them estimate this via motion parallax. A neat example of active vision making up for optical limitations! 👀🪰

Bees flexibly adjust decision strategies to information content in a foraging task Bumblebees flexibly adjust their learning strategies to the sensory challenge, balancing costs and benefits of multicue learning.

Foraging 🐝 encounter diverse sets of flower-specific visual cues. A new behavioral study from @insect-vision.bsky.social shows that bumblebees rely on color first and learn additional cues, e.g., shape or patterns, only if flowers are hard to discriminate.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

3️⃣ days left to submit an abstract for poster and oral contributions for #ICN2026Vancouver

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Share widely and come to the most inspiring #neuroethology conference 🧠🪱🐟🦋🐦🐸🦎🐢🐝🐜🦀🦞🐙

How does an animal choose between exploring for a better food source and taking advantage of a known one? Our recent work in Current Biology demonstrates how recent feeding and metabolic state dynamically influence fly local search. bit.ly/3PfrIv3 #Science #Neurosky #Foraging #Drosophila

Vision guides directed orienting movements during obstacle avoidance in mice www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03...

Predation via motion parallax in one of two gleaning insects A predator's survival is highly dependent on correctly deciding whether to attack potential prey. Pursuit predators, for example, can estimate the size of a moving target from the ratio between its an...

Predators must estimate the size of a potential prey. Size of a moving target is assessed by angular speed/size, rules that not apply for stationary prey. Unlike damselflies, pixie robber flies use motion parallax to infer prey size. @rossonisergio.bsky.social journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

Our recent paper made it to the cover of Science Advances. In this paper, Tuhin Chakrabortty and I studied sheepdog trials, where skilled dog-handler teams control small flocks of sheep, and showed that trained dogs exploit indecisiveness to herd and divide the flock.

Neuroethology on the move with butterflies and moths - Journal of Comparative Physiology A Journal of Comparative Physiology A - Lepidopteran insects, namely butterflies and moths, are visually striking and have fascinated scientists as well as the general public for decades, prompting...

Special issue editors @anna-stoeckl.bsky.social, Basil el Jundi & Kentaro Arikawa introduce their special issue on the neuroethology of lepidoptera 🦋. The issue covers a broad field of research spanning from neuroanatomy, sensory perception to behavior. link.springer.com/article/10.1...