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Laure-Anne Poissonnier

@curiousant.bsky.social

Insect behaviour researcher, mostly working with ants lately. Looking at learning, information use, and basically trying to understand what they understand. And a hobbit in my free time.

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Programme 2026 France L'Oréal-UNESCO - Pour les Femmes et la Science | Académie des sciences Programme 2026 France L'Oréal-UNESCO - Pour les Femmes et la Science

Appel à candidature 2026 : Prix Jeunes Talents France L'Oréal-UNESCO Pour les Femmes et la Sciences. Toutes les infos ici: buff.ly/C6zqKSE date limite 23 mars 2026

16.02.2026 09:30 — 👍 4    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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📣 1 WEEK TO GO! 🐜

Leaf-cutting ants don’t just build nests; they build climate-controlled cities.
🎥 Watch the teaser for Prof. Flavio Roces’ talk on their environmental adaptations.

🗓️Tuesday 29 July – 14:00 GMT
📍Live on YouTube : www.youtube.com/watch?v=qORc...

22.07.2025 06:20 — 👍 25    🔁 12    💬 0    📌 0
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Have you ever wished you were a small insect, just so you could sleep in a flower? Now you do ;) #sleep #bee #flower

23.05.2025 12:53 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Best paper announcement for 2024 - Insectes Sociaux Insectes Sociaux -

Our paper with @curiousant.bsky.social on

strategic pheromone deposition in ants

was selected as the @insectessociaux.bsky.social paper of the year 2024!
Insectes Sociaux is probably my favourite journal, so this is especially delightful.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

25.04.2025 09:46 — 👍 13    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Single-trial learning leads to mid-term memory formation in ants during an appetitive, but not an aversive, task | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Insects have been models of associative learning and its underlying memory mechanisms. Research on the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster and the honeybee Apis mellifera yielded deep insights into the ...

🚨New paper🐜 For the same duration of stimulus, Lasius niger ants learn better from a positive (sugar water) than a negative (falling into water) experience. For appetitive side learning, a single trial leads to a memory of a couple of hours.
#ProcB
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/....

24.04.2025 08:57 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Look at this 'roll into a package ball' behaviour by some Formica being carried between 2 of their nests. I love spring 😎

05.04.2025 17:30 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Le site pour le colloque 2025 de l'Union Internationale pour l'Etude des Insectes Sociaux est en ligne : iussi-sf-2025.sciencesconf.org
Au plaisir de vous retrouver à Condorcet du 18 au 20 juin !! 😃

18.03.2025 16:43 — 👍 8    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 1

Social insect and cognition postdocs, check these positions in Berlin, with super nice supervisor Tomer! :)

19.03.2025 13:08 — 👍 9    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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We have not yet introduced #AnimalTA to the Bluesky community, but it’s a free and user-friendly tool for animal behavior research! 🕷️🔬 See here how it’s used to study spiderlings dispersal in our experiments. Have questions? Feel free to contact us! #Science #Spiders 🧪

15.01.2025 19:57 — 👍 28    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0

Can i also join those please? :)

15.01.2025 07:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Please add me as well! :)

15.01.2025 07:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Never thought tree resin could be such a danger to ants until I saw this on a hike🥺

14.01.2025 14:31 — 👍 11    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hi, could I please be added to this as well if it's not too late?

14.01.2025 13:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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