@sfb1372.bsky.social
Collaborative Research Centre on Magnetoreception & Navigation in Vertebrates. www.sfb1372.de Uni Oldenburg, Bochum, Berlin, @ifv-whv.bsky.social, Weizmann Institute, Uni Oxford. Funded by @dfg.de. Find our tweets from X here: @sfb1372-x.bsky.social
[1/2] Thank you to everyone who joined our Young Researchers Symposium 2025 in Hamburg! In these 3 days, we learned about fascinating day and night science and connected with other early career researchers. It was a pleasure to organize this symposium as part of an amazing team! @sfb1372.bsky.social
22.11.2025 21:00 β π 10 π 1 π¬ 1 π 1We were delighted to spot members of our #SFB and @migecol.bsky.social on this trip to the fΓ₯gelstation on the Falsterbo peninsula! π¦π¦π¦ π°π
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βΌοΈSave the date: 19/10/2025 8pm Villa Viva, HamburgβΌοΈ
Join our fun pub quiz about Animal Navigation & Magnetoreception, the quiz is open everyone!
Enjoy a drink while trying to answer our interesting questions π₯
The quiz is our icebreaker event of our #YoungResearcherSymposium
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#pubquiz #Hamburg
Thrilled to discover our SFB PhD student Pedro doing outreach activities in faraway Brazil!
31.10.2025 21:20 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The really cool cross-disciplinary project where our SFB research fellow Pauline Fleischmann @cataglyphilosophy.bsky.social is involved in has now 2 #postdoc positions advertised!
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"There is a playbook. It was written by men. I always felt I didn't have the play- book."
- Picture A Scientistπ¬
The SFB 1372 team hosted a screening of "Picture a Scientist"π¬ with around 50 participants, sparking meaningful discussions on strength, solidarity, and equality in science.
Weβre #hiring! Our new fellowship holder Dr. Alina Sigaeva will soon be establishing her research group on #cell #physiology π₯Όπ¬π§ͺ𧫠π§¬of avian #magnetoreception π£π§π§². She is looking for a talented PhD student π§βππ©βπ. Apply by 2 November at uol.de/job764en Please share widely!
06.10.2025 09:50 β π 2 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0coffee breaks inspire the coolest things, no? It certainly inspired this wonderful project β a kids book on a robin that takes you under its wing on its journey to their wintering grounds. gorgeously illustrated @co-la.bsky.social and beautifully written by a #dreamteam within @sfb1372.bsky.social
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Weβre hiring a doctoral researcher in the area of migration ecology.
The work will focus on the question of how and when migratory songbirds learn where their home is using #Motus.
Part of the Cluster of Excellence NaviSense and linked with @sfb1372.bsky.social
uol.de/job788en
#ornithology
Watch this:
A 4βminute video from #WeizmannInstitute showing how the researchers recorded bat brains in the wild on Latham Island β the first time single-neuron neural compass activity has been captured outdoors! www.youtube.com/watch?v=46sv...
Congratulation to our #SFB1372 project members in Israel, @shakedpa.bsky.social and Prof. Nachum Ulanovsky, with #UniOldenburg Prof. Henrik Mouritsen & co-workers, on their findings on head-direction cells in free-flying bats, just published @science.org: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adw6202
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π¬ Movie Screening Alert!
Join us for "Picture a Scientist" Insporing journeys of women in science.
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October 16th, 20:00
π Unikino Gegenlicht, University of Oldenburg
ποΈ Admission is free!
Reserve your seat here π gegenlicht.net/movie/261/
#PictureAScientist #UniOldenburg #SFB1372
π€© Another new PI-milestone: Being at meetings with the whole team and several contributions from our lab. @chiaratenne.bsky.social, Yibo Ma and Dhanashree presented their research π§ͺ on #InsectNavigation at the annual meetings of the @sfb1372.bsky.social and the #ForschungszentrumNeurosensorik ππ§ π§
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Last week was full of interesting talk about #science at our #sfb1372 autumn meeting at the #University of Oldenburg and at the #neuroscience meeting at the #HanseWissenschaftskollegen. Me, my team and our supervisor @cataglyphilosophy.bsky.social could talk about #neuroethology in #insects! ππ§π§²
05.10.2025 19:06 β π 13 π 1 π¬ 1 π 1Weβre #hiring! Our new fellowship holder Dr. Alina Sigaeva will soon be establishing her research group on #cell #physiology π₯Όπ¬π§ͺ𧫠π§¬of avian #magnetoreception π£π§π§². She is looking for a talented PhD student π§βππ©βπ. Apply by 2 November at uol.de/job764en Please share widely!
06.10.2025 09:50 β π 2 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
Photo of the two new lab members
Team photo, from left to right: Dhanashree, Chiara, Pauline Fekea, Yibo.
π€ Welcome to our two new lab members: Yibo Ma, @sfb1372.bsky.social short-term fellow, and Dhanashree Kishor Alshi, #Neuroscience π§ π§ͺ master student, both curious about #neuroethology of #insect #navigation and #magnetoreception ππ§ Looking forward to working together and their projects! π€©
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Interested in the brain π§ & in doing a PhD π©βπ π§βπ in the field of Cognitive NeuroImaging @mpicbs.bsky.social @unileipzig.bsky.social @tudresden.bsky.social @uclbrainscience.bsky.social? Check out lnkd.in/egb9quuj & apply until π Nov 2 through lnkd.in/eepFkaJs. πExcited to receiving your application! π€©
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Spread the word: weβre #hiring! We offer two short-term #fellowships for masterβs degree holders and PhD candidates for 6-12 months to excellent researchers, who are interested in doing research within one dedicated project of our SFB/CRC 1372. Find more information on www.sfb1372.de/jobs
26.08.2025 08:39 β π 7 π 10 π¬ 0 π 1Glad to see this one out! The product of some thought-provoking discussions with lots of cool people πΊοΈ might be worth a read for those interested in #navigation or #migration π¦ π π π
22.07.2025 20:30 β π 13 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0@cataglyphilosophy.bsky.social
28.07.2025 20:59 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0New mission for our SFB fellow Pauline - together with two historians of our university she will now be researching the question: were animals in antiquity the forerunners of modern navigation systems with their migrations and did they show people the way? uol.de/aktuelles/fe...
28.07.2025 20:58 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0Impressions from our SFB research fellow Pauline Fleischmann @cataglyphilosophy.bsky.social from her field work investigating #magnetoreception in desert #ants:
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Registration is open for our 2nd international conference for early career researchers on Magnetoreception and Navigation in Animals.
19.-21.11.2025 in Hamburg, Germany.
Abstract submission extended to 8/8/25 :-)
www.sfb1372.de/young-resear...
How do animals navigate? A recent study in @nature.com reveals that #BogongMoths use a stellar compass for their long-distance migration β¨οΈπ§π
I was asked for my opinion about this fascinating result by my dear colleagues @lundvision.bsky.social π€©
βοΈ www.npr.org/2025/06/18/n... βοΈ @sfb1372.bsky.social
Congrats to our SFB colleagues @shakedpa.bsky.social, Nachum Ulanovsky & coworkers @weizmanninstitute.bsky.social: They report in Cell that the replay of large environments in the hippocampus of fruit #bats is fragmented; this may facilitate memory chunking for hippocampal-neocortical communication
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Abstract submission is still open for two more weeks and we would love to receive more contributions for the Young-Researchers-Symposium on Magnetoreception & Navigation in Animals. Travel grants are also available.
www.sfb1372.de/young-resear...
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New accepted paper of our SFB colleagues working on #sun #compass #orientation in #migrating sticklebacks: Behavioural experiments revealed ecotype-dependent differences: The orientation ability is present in the anadromous ecotype, but random in the freshwater ecotype. doi.org/10.1093/iob/...
10.06.2025 09:18 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 013 days left to apply for our #CRC #fellowship #job position for experienced #postdocs with your own project proposal for research on animal #navigation and/or #magnetoreception. Apply until 15 June! sfb1372.de/jobs
02.06.2025 09:34 β π 0 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0Are you a young ornithologist? Consider registering for the DOG Fledglings Meeting - deadline for registration will be prolonged π£ #ornithology
28.05.2025 11:12 β π 7 π 7 π¬ 0 π 0Big congrats to the Navisense excellence cluster www.navisense.org that will be funded by the DFG for the next 7 years! Congrats to all of our SFB members that are involved! @genmig.bsky.social @commonternproject.bsky.social @migecol.bsky.social @cataglyphilosophy.bsky.social @olindecke.bsky.social
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