New from Jessie Foley!
#Heliconius have elongated lives and excellent memory, but do they have excellent memory across their elongated lives? Find out now!*
Featuring learning and memory assays in 330 butterflies, and an absolute pig of an experiment to do.
*the title is a spoiler 🧪
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Huge thanks to @ebablab.bsky.social and @maxfarnworth.bsky.social for all of their support and supervision in both my MSc and now my PhD, as well as their patience with this paper!
Image credit: Louise Bestea
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Excited that my 2nd MSc paper is out in @journal-evo.bsky.social 🦋🎉 doi.org/10.1093/evol...
We find Heliconius’ impressive visual memory is not due to increased visual-structure investment over that of their outgroup relatives, but instead consistent with specialisation of the central circuitry.
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Associate Professor in Animal Behaviour & Ecology @University of Bristol🇬🇧 |🐝 🐜| immigrant 🇨🇭| he/him | https://www.socialinsect-research.com/
Neuroethologist studying spatial navigation in diverse species 🐝🦇🦋. For more infos visit my lab homepage:
https://www.spatial-navigation.com/
Evolutionary biologist @sheffielduni.bsky.social
Committee member @gensocuk.bsky.social
(views my own)
https://nadeau-lab.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/
Royal Society Research Fellow at the University of Exeter, UK. Interested in visual ecology, animal behaviour, illusions, and all things bowerbirdy www.laurakelleyresearch.wordpress.com
I research behaviour. Writing. Illustration. Improv. Scicomm. Views my own. (He/Him) 🏳️🌈
website: www.viveknityananda.com
Research Fellow at University of Bristol and Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama. Fascinated by Heliconius butterflies, their behaviour and ecology in tropical forest.
PhD Candidate University of Bristol | Coral Reef Bioacoustics 🪸
Promoting the study of the neural bases of behavior.
Mexican Historian & Philosopher of Biology • Postdoctoral Fellow at @theramseylab.bsky.social (@clpskuleuven.bsky.social) • Book Reviews Editor for @jgps.bsky.social • https://www.alejandrofabregastejeda.com • #PhilSci #HistSTM #philsky • Escribo y edito
Neuroscience researcher - cell biologist - mitochondriac - fruit fly wrangler- studies neurodegenerative diseases. Senior Lecturer (Assistant Prof.) at Cardiff University.
🦋 #Vision #science| #butterfly wrangler | Distinguished Professor | #Guggenheim | American Academy of Arts and Sciences | NAS | Words: NPR, PBS, ConversationUS | Macondista | Interested in #history | Latina in #STEM
Lab website: www.visiongene.org
PhD Student in Evolutionary Biology with
@LMU_Munchen
| studying visual and olfactory #behaviour in #Heliconius #butterflies | 🇪🇨
PhD student at University of Bath, exploring digital, self-help interventions for LGBTQ+ youth mental health 🏳️🌈🧠🏴🌱
Interests: mixed methods, coproduction, intervention implementation/dissemination
PhD student @uobppn.bsky.social, studying astrocytes in stress and mental health
Here for glia and cat pics
The GW4 BioMed MRC DTP brings together the Universities of Bath, Bristol, Cardiff and Exeter to develop the next generation of biomedical researchers. Applications open: https://gw4biomed.ac.uk
The official BlueSky account for the University of Cambridge, School of Biological Sciences, home to animal, human, plant, and microbial science.
🔗 https://www.bio.cam.ac.uk/
PhD Student in the Bee Behaviour, Ecology & Conservation Lab | University of Bristol 🌼 she/her
linktr.ee/victoria_mallinson
