Nicolas Scheuring

🧠The NeuroDoWo is coming to Würzburg

The NeuroDoWo is a conference where neuroscience and phd students are brought together!

📍Würzrburg, Germany
🗓️ 8th to 12th June 2026

Stay tuned for speaker announcements, workshops, and registration info
#phdlife #neuroscience #wuerzburg #conference #neurodowo

Why universities need to radically rethink exams in the age of AI Academia is unprepared for the rise in chatbot use among students — but with the right AI tools, personalized learning could soon become a reality.

Academia is unprepared for the rise in chatbot use among students

go.nature.com/4ox4KeR

Jumping spiders can recognise one another. This ability to learn, remember and represent images is quite surprising for such a tiny-brained animal!
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A graphic explaining how mRNA vaccines work, which was showed to study participants.

Teaching people how mRNA vaccines actually work protects against misconceptions about mRNA vaccination changing the recipient's DNA, without the need to repeat the false claims, according to experiments with over 3,500 participants. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/sVwH50Xzutc

1/n We have discovered that bees can keep track of time duration!
Bees can discriminate long 🟡🟡 vs short🟡 flashes, a bit like the "dash" and "dot" of the Morse code.
Check our new paper royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... and videoclip youtu.be/hsGxU65OMQk?... @preparedmindslab.bsky.social

From MRI to Ozempic: breakthroughs that show why fundamental research must be protected In these financially straitened times, funders must recognize that great discoveries often arise from work that was looking for something completely different.

Funders must recognise that great discoveries often come from studies that seeks to advance knowledge for its own sake

go.nature.com/47zrzYZ

Two individually marked bumble bees are shown in a tunnel used for affective contagion experiments.

This week in Science, researchers demonstrate positive affective contagion—a core component of empathy—in bumble bees.

The discovery shows that even insects can share affective states, tracing the roots of affect and social cognition deep into evolution. Learn more: https://scim.ag/4oblMQq

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

How journals can break down barriers for Latin American scientists The publishing ecosystem must do more to tackle inequities; quotas and partnerships with societies can help.

The publishing ecosystem must do more to tackle inequities; quotas and partnerships with societies can help, says Mariana Viglino

go.nature.com/47dn2Lr

Have to admit, those arachnids are beautiful 😍

This project was the result of @nicolas-scheuring.bsky.social bachelor thesis who is currently conducting his master thesis in my lab.

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
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Harvard vs Trump: research funds still mostly frozen despite court win US funding agencies might violate a judge’s ruling if they continue to withhold money.

Update to this story!! More than two weeks after Harvard's win in court against the Trump administration, millions in research grant money begin flowing back to the university.

go.nature.com/46Aoc3p

Censorship Is the Authoritarian’s Dream The right to free expression must include the right to say horrible and evil things.

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history."
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

PhDs & Postdocs of @uni-wuerzburg.de struggling to finish a project? Join our Long Night Against Procrastination!

✅ Tips on motivation & writing
✅ Pizza & plenty of coffee
✅ Work through the night with peers from all disciplines

📅 Oct 23, 2025 | 5pm–midnight
📍 Graduate Schools Building

Exclusive: retraction-prone editors identified at megajournal PLoS ONE Nature - Study says small editor group handled many problematic manuscripts — and a Nature investigation finds out who they are.

Nearly one-third of all retracted papers at PLoS ONE can be traced back to just 45 researchers who served as editors at the journal

go.nature.com/4frnv04

Our study is out in Nature!
Using wireless Neuropixels we recorded hippocampal activity in freely flying bats and uncovered replay and theta(less) sweeps, revealing striking differences from classic rodent models.

👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Enigmatic lizards somehow survived near Chicxulub asteroid impact The night lizards may have been the only terrestrial vertebrates that survived in the region of the asteroid impact 66 million years ago, which led to the extinction of non-avian dinosaurs

#BiologyLetters in @newscientist.com | Night lizards survived the Cretaceous–Palaeogene mass extinction near the asteroid impact: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

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.

Cataglyphis ants have a polarity-sensitive magnetic compass Grob et al. show that Cataglyphis ants do not rely on the inclination but rather use the polarity of the geomagnetic field for path integration during learning walks in their natural habitat. This sug...

Robin Grob from NTNU talks about the magnetic sense of ants and how he wants to study the magnetic compass of migratory monarch butteflies.

www.cell.com/current-biol...

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Every few minutes, a dragonfly dives into water and takes off again, turning several forward somersaults as it ascends.

The purpose of the behavior? The quick dip cools the insect down, and the loop-the-loops help it dry off by flicking away the water. Learn more during #InsectWeek: scim.ag/40mKKBI

Beetle grows ‘termite’ on back to steal food Puppet helps insect trick real termites into feeding it

In what may be one of Earth’s craziest forms of mimicry, researchers in 2023 reported a species of rove beetle that grows a termite puppet on its back to fool real termites into feeding it.

Learn more during #InsectWeek: scim.ag/40mj1S8

Title, abstract and keywords: a practical guide to maximizing the visibility and impact of your papers | Royal Society A new Royal Society Publishing blog post highlights how the right title, abstract and keywords can optimize the visibility and impact of research articles.

Title, abstract and keywords: a practical guide to maximizing the visibility and impact of your papers. In this blog post, our journal editors present tips for ways in which authors can increase search engine optimisation and appeal to readers: royalsociety.org/blog/2025/01... #ECR #AcademicChatter

Senators press NIH director on killed grants and proposal to slash agency’s funding Bhattacharya says NIH’s final budget will be “a collaboration”

Democrats on a key Senate spending committee today provided a less than warm welcome to the National Institutes of Health director, who was called in to testify about the agency’s 2026 budget proposal.

NIH chief stands by funding cuts to ‘politicized science’ at tense hearing Jayanta Bhattacharya says the US biomedical agency can’t continue ‘business as usual’ if it wants to restore its reputation.

US senators grilled NIH director Jayanta Bhattacharya at a hearing today about how his professed support for science squares with unprecedented grant terminations at the agency and enormous cuts that have been proposed for its 2026 budget.

https://go.nature.com/3FWM2wN

‘Another blow’: How Trump’s latest travel ban could harm research Nature - Restrictions on immigration from 19 countries could disrupt infectious disease research and international collaborations.

Restrictions on immigration from 19 countries could disrupt infectious disease research and international collaborations

https://go.nature.com/4kxGXu6

Trump moves to slash NSF: why are the proposed budget cuts so big? Nature - Major US science funder could lose more than half its budget — and researchers are reeling.

The US National Science Foundation could lose more than half its budget

https://go.nature.com/4kWVNdu

Memory and the scheduling of parental care in an insect population in the wild Animals are expected to schedule their activities so as to maximize fitness. Vertebrates achieve this using memories of previous events—what happened,…

Sand wasps lay one egg in up to 9 spatially distributed nests and provide food to larvae in order of age. Depending on food size they can delay food provision and they can also flexibly adjust age sequence. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Dive into our latest issue!🌊
www.cell.com/issue/S0960-...

On the cover:Yangtze porpoises in troubled waters🐬 by Yaoyao Zhang and colleagues www.cell.com/current-biol...

A beautiful Honeybee enjoying our blooming rosemary!
#honey #bee #garden #insect #nature