Tanvi Deora

🐝 Can #ElectricFields from #powerlines disrupt #honeybee foraging? A new #iScience study says yes — AC & +DC fields cut landings by 71% 🌸⚡

🧾Read here: www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

#ElectricPollution #PollinatorHealth #Entomology #Agroecology #EcoResearch #InsectScience #SaveTheBees #FieldEcology

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
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

new pape from our lab, led by the indefatigable @chrisjdallmann.bsky.social. i am very proud of this one.

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...

We are hiring! Oxford biology has three associate professorships available as we move to new state-of-the-art facilities

Three Associate Professor (or Professor) positions available at Oxford Biology. Come be my colleague! www.biology.ox.ac.uk/article/we-a...

Spent hours being spellbound by Convolvulus Hawk Moths last night as they nectared on Nicotiana plants in my highland garden!. Up to 3 feeding at a time, their entire abdomens glowing red hot in the thermal from flight muscle use!! #teammoth @migrantmothuk.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social

Congratulations!

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/...

Neuroethology: How the brain controls natural behaviours Neuroethology, the study of the neural mechanisms underlying natural behaviours, has faced challenges due to the complexity of behaviours, limitations in genetic manipulation, and recording constrain…

Only a few days left to register for the India-EMBO Lecture Course on Neurethology meetings.embo.org/event/25-neu... taking place in Pune Dec 7-11, 2025. #EMBOneuroethology
Fantastic speaker line up!
Deadline July 31st.

thanks a lot to all who attended, and made it such a wonderful event - full of cool science, great talks & posters, thought provoking discussions, lovely chats with wonderful peope, beautiful and very hot venue ☀️

bonus content: artsy highlight by Lukas Weiss - his programme summary in snippets 🦄🧬🧪

Really important work.

Also important not to merely frame this as, 'hey, women faculty, don't forget to say no!' That places the burden in the wrong place.

Organisations need to look critically at how requests are made and how workload is acknowledged.

Systemic problems need systemic solutions.

Agrawal Lab Proprioception is the sense of the position and movement of our bodies. It is our most important sense -- without it, it would be very difficult to move our bodies to do anything. The Agrawal lab stu...

Sweta Agrawal from Virgnia Tech kicks off the last session at the Neuroethology GRC and talks about motor control and proprioception in Mosquitos. Note, Sweta is currently recruiting.
www.agrawalneurolab.com/home
@hokuba.bsky.social

Two half-human half-octopus creatures drawn in pen and colored pencil on paper. They are standing like humans and shaped like humans from the feet up to the torso. From the chest up, they have the head and arms of an octopus, with the octopus's eyes protruding slightly where the human's armpits would be, and the eight octopus arms reaching up toward the sky. The creatures' skin shades from light brown on the human half to light purple on the octopus half. The creature on the left has a visible belly button and is wearing a white loincloth. The creature on the right is naked with its digestive tract drawn as an anatomical diagram and labeled with the anus between the human legs, the stomach in the torso, and the mouth a beak at the center of the octopus arms.

A photo of a 1-page comic titled "How to draw an Anatomically Correct Octoperson." The problem of a "classic" octopus-human having two mouths is solved by combining to upper half of a human with the mantle and funnel of an octopus.

I have Opinions about octopus mer-people; the way they are usually drawn gives them 2 mouths and 0 ani which is a real problem!!!
Thought I'd gotten it out of my system a few years ago with a silly comic, but my daughter just pointed out an alternative design. Thus, a coda

Jerome is also at the Neuroethology GRC and is happy to answer questions about the projects or how it is living and conducting research in Germany.

Natural image statistics in the dorsal and ventral visual field match a switch in flight behaviour of a hawkmoth Many animals rely on visual information to navigate their environment. Bigge et al. show that a hawkmoth uses the same visual cues in the dorsal and ventral parts of its visual field for different tas...

Anna Stöckl from the University Konstanz kicked off the meeting and gave an exciting talk about optic flow based flight control in Hawkmoths. For more scientific infos see her paper: www.cell.com/current-biol...

📣Extension of Registration Deadline

Regular Registration deadline for Behaviour 2025 has been extended to 31st July, 2025.

Register here: conferenceindia.in/behaviour202...

We welcome registrations from experts and enthusiasts in the field and look forward to seeing you in Kolkata soon!

So happy to share this project detailing fly wing sensory neurons! I started this project just by asking what the axons of the wing chordotonal organ looked like, and I found many other cool structures along the way.

Congratulations! Sounds super exciting!

An Immense World (Young Readers Edition): How Animals Sense Earth's Amazing Secrets How Animals Sense Earth's Amazing Secrets

AN IMMENSE WORLD: YOUNG READERS EDITION is out today! 🥳

I’m really grateful to AnnMarie Anderson for adapting it, Rebecca Mills for illustrating, Tom Russell for shepherding, and Rose Eveleth for reading the audiobook.

(And it’s dedicated to Typo.)

bookshop.org/p/books/an-i...

Congratulations!

The International Society for Neuroethology has a grant for disadvantaged scientists investigating the mechanisms of animal behaviour. Apply for funds to help overcome any barriers you face!

Membership fees can be included in your application.

Details here: www.neuroethology.org/diversity-aw...

Beetz Lab Our group studies the neural mechanisms underlying spatial memory in insects. As central place foragers, honeybees begin their foraging trip at a fixed location, i.e., their nest. This site fidelity.....

Let me introduce our new lab homepage.

www.spatial-navigation.com

We are looking for PhD students and one Postdoc that can start in November 2025.

Contact me if you are in to studying spatial memory of honeybees. @uni-wuerzburg.de
@neuroethology.org

Attention shutterbugs! @asab.org @naturemichelle.bsky.social @stevewaycott.bsky.social @carlosrivera.mx

The front cover of Journal of Experimental Biology, issue 5, Volume 228, published in March 2025. The cover shows the journal title at the top with the image beneath. The image shows a view in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Botswana and South Africa. A lion resting in the shade of a tree is in the background of the image. The WildPose 3D motion capture system is in the foreground, showing a zoom-lens camera and a LiDAR system.

Issue 5 has closed and issue 6 is open

The front cover shows a resting lion lying in the shade of a tree in Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Botswana and South Africa being observed with the WildPose system, a novel long-range 3D motion capture system

journals.biologists.com/jeb/issue/22...

NCBS Graduate school admissions are open. We have a vibrant #neuroscience community here (#molecules, #cognition, #breathing, #locomotion, #motor-control, #time, #action, #biomechanics, #glia, #circuits & more) across many systems!

Please repost and share with eligible applicants!

⏳ The Countdown is On! ⏳

📣🚨 Only 4 days left to submit your abstract! 🚨📣

✨We’ve already received several fascinating submissions and are looking forward to your contributions.

📅 submission deadline - 15th February 2025

Portal closes on 11:59 PM IST on 15th of February.