Neurophysics Lab, University of Trento

PhD position in Magnetoreception Research!🐝🧠🔬
📍 Center for Mind/Brain Sciences #cimec_unitreno, University of Trento #unitrento, Italy
Reception🦟,Neural processing🧠🔬,Behaviour🌀
🌐 Apply: phd.unitn.it/drcimec/116/...
📅 Deadline: June 5, 2025
📩 Contact: albrecht.haase@unitn.it
🌍 Please spread the word!

Control of odor sensation by light and cryptochrome in the Drosophila antenna
#Drosophila

"Weak anthropogenic electric fields affect honeybee foraging" http://dlvr.it/TKvZJt

@bristoluni.bsky.social @victoriamallinson.bsky.social‪, Fraser Woodburn, & Liam O’Reilly
@cp-iscience.bsky.social

Puntata del 20/05/2025 ore 14:50 | TGR Leonardo, Rubrica del TGR TGR Leonardo. Leonardo è un telegiornale tematico, un'esperienza unica in Europa che coniuga l'attenzione all'attualità del quotidiano con il rigore della documentazione e dell'approfondimento. Tra gl...

🐝 Happy World Bee Day, everyone! 🐝

RAI Leonardo showed on this occasion a short feature (in Italian) about our recent publication on imaging the brain of honey bees during sleep:

www.rainews.it/tgr/rubriche...

Min. 4:45

@cimecunitrento.bsky.social

#Honeybees #Neuroscience #Sleep

#Calcium_imaging in sleeping #bees: Antennal lobe neurons synchronise stronger during #sleep, likely due to reduced GABAergic coupling. #SNN simulations show reduced #odour processing, similar to human sleep: doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...
Thanks to all collaborators at #CIMeC, e.g. @urihasson.bsky.social

The sleep of bees. So human

Researchers at CIMeC UniTrento have observed brain activity in sleeping #bees🐝
The study reveals striking similarities with human sleep and offers insight into pollinator health and memory.
🛈 pressroom.unitn.it/comunicato-stampa/sleep-bees-so-human
@neurophysicstn.bsky.social
@urihasson.bsky.social

PhD position in Magnetoreception Research!🐝🧠🔬
📍 Center for Mind/Brain Sciences #cimec_unitreno, University of Trento #unitrento, Italy
Reception🦟,Neural processing🧠🔬,Behaviour🌀
🌐 Apply: phd.unitn.it/drcimec/116/...
📅 Deadline: June 5, 2025
📩 Contact: albrecht.haase@unitn.it
🌍 Please spread the word!

#preprint:

We mapped the structure and function of olfactory bulb circuits with in vivo 2-photon microscopy and synchrotron #Xray holographic nanotomography.

doi.org/10.1101/2025...

@yuxinzhang.bsky.social @andreas-t-schaefer.bsky.social @apacureanu.bsky.social
@crick.ac.uk @esrf.fr

NITheCS Mini-school: 'An Introduction to Quantum Biology' by Dr Betony Adams (Stellenbosch University). Attend 4 lectures online – taking place on Wed 7, 14, 21 & 28 May 2025 @ 14h00-15h00 SAST. buff.ly/itI4ok9
#quantum #biology #quantumbiology #iyq2025

Comparison of odorant concentrations in experimental studies, headspace of natural sources, and detection thresholds in rodents.

Glad to share this review of odor concentrations in nature versus experiments, just out in J Neurosci. Spoiler: they are far apart. We discuss implications for olfactory neuroscience and welcome debate. With @neuroboz.bsky.social @dewanlab.bsky.social, Betty Hong. www.jneurosci.org/content/45/1...

Beach at Hotel Cormoran in Sardinia, Italy.

Dear colleagues fascinated by olfaction and taste! 👃🏾👅
We are happy to announce that the registration has started for the upcoming ESITO 2025 meeting taking place September 19-24, 2025 in Sardinia, Italy.
Please register and submit your abstract here: events.gwdg.de/e/esito2025
Deadline: July 1st!

Olfaction and taste This Collection welcomes original research articles that investigate the senses of olfaction and taste. Animal studies as well as clinical studies that report ...

Open call for papers on #Olfaction and #Taste covering the full spectrum of these research areas.
Deadline for submissions: 22 July 2025
Edited by @paulfeinstein-phd.bsky.social, Massimiliano Zampini, and myself.
Please spread the word. @natureportfolio.nature.com
www.nature.com/collections/...

Alcohol makes male flies sexy Alcohol consumption has a direct and positive effect on the mating success of male fruit flies. This effect is due to the increased production of sex pheromones after alcohol consumption: males who ha...

Alcohol makes male fruit flies sexier! New study from Ian Keesey, Bill Hansson et al. in Science Advances shows that alcohol boosts sex pheromone production in male D. melanogaster, making them more attractive to females. But too much is a turnoff!
www.ice.mpg.de/493119/PR_Ke...

Welcome to the official profile of our Centre for Mind/Brain Sciences - University of Trento (Italy).

📢 CIMeC is now on BlueSky!

From now on, we’ll be sharing updates from our Center for Mind/Brain Sciences, including research highlights, academic activities, events, and much more!

🔗 www.cimec.unitn.it

#neuroscience #cognitivescience #unitrento #cimec_unitreno

New Primer on Bumblebees now out in Current Biology (with Guillaume Ghisbain & Denis Michez):
www.cell.com/current-biol...

Olfaction and taste This Collection welcomes original research articles that investigate the senses of olfaction and taste. Animal studies as well as clinical studies that report ...

www.nature.com/collections/...

@achems.bsky.social @olfalabs.bsky.social

❗️Symposium for Early Career Researchers working on Magnetoreception and/or Navigation in Animals, 19.-21.11.2025 in Hamburg, Germany❗️
Are you interested in joining us? As part of the Organizing Team, I will happily answer your questions and hope to see you there!
@sfb1372.bsky.social

Evaluating animal consciousness An emerging field shows how animal feelings can be studied scientifically

@jeffsebo.bsky.social @birchlse.bsky.social and I put a lot of philosophy into our new Science Perspective on animal consciousness. Mill's analogical argument + inference to the best explanation + careful experiments = justification for consciousness in many animals. Where might it end?

CogEvo 2025 - Rovereto Workshop on Cognition and Evolution 16 Luglio 2025: Lectio Magistralis per la cittadinanza (in italiano) Ore 17:30 Relatore: Prof. Gianvito Martino, Direttore Scientifico del San Raffaele di Milano Titolo: Cosa è la vita: dal simbionte al cyborg Il Prof. Martino esplorerà come le nuove tecnologie stanno trasformando la nostra comprensione della vita, analizzando il passaggio dall'essere umano biologico al concetto di "cyborg". Verranno affrontate questioni chiave sulle interazioni tra uomo e macchina e le implicazioni filosofiche, etiche e sociali di un mondo sempre più tecnologico. Accesso libero, sino ad esaurimento di posti.

Save the date!

CogEvo 2025 - Rovereto Workshop on #Cognition and #Evolution

16 July 2025
18 July 2025
Palazzo Piomarta - Corso Bettini 84, Rovereto, Italy

https://webmagazine.unitn.it/en/evento/cimec/123193/cogevo-2025-rovereto-workshop-on-cognition-and-evolution

#neuroscience

Un appello per il futuro dell’Italia: sostenere la ricerca scientifica La ricerca scientifica rappresenta un elemento strategico per lo sviluppo economico e sociale del nostro Paese. Tuttavia, la ricerca pubblica in Italia continua a soffrire di risorse limitate e spesso...

Please support and spread this appeal by Senator Elena Cattaneo to the Italian Senate on the future of Italian research funding: www.scienzainrete.it/articolo/app...

Learned magnetic map cues and two mechanisms of magnetoreception in turtles - Nature Loggerhead sea turtles, which undergo long-distance migrations, can learn magnetic signatures associated with different geographic areas and have two different magnetic senses, each based on a different underlying mechanism.

Nature research paper: Learned magnetic map cues and two mechanisms of magnetoreception in turtles

https://go.nature.com/40U04WB

See you on Friday February 21st for the @eurobioimaging.bsky.social Virtual Pub on "Fluorescence Lifetime Microscopy (FLIM) for label-free metabolic imaging of living tissues"!
#FLIM #labelfree #microscopy #metabolism

You can register online here!
www.eurobioimaging.eu/events/flim-...

a dog sits on a merry go round while a boy sits on a scooter ALT: a dog sits on a merry go round while a boy sits on a scooter

Our story about flies on carousels is out in @currentbiology.bsky.social! After formally engaging the fantastic @clarahowcroft.bsky.social and integrating helpful reviewer feedback, we present a more concise story with detailed behavioural quantification and cooler videos! doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

INTRODUCTION

Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines?

Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take.

thebullshitmachines.com

Disability in ecology and evolution In this TrendsTalk series ‘Disability in ecology and evolution’ in Trends in Ecology and Evolution, we will be hearing from people about their experiences being disabled in ecology & evolution. We are...

Diversity may be a dirty word for some these days, making it crucial to to fight back against those who would push us down. These stories are inspiring. I commend @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social for amplifying the voices of those who have been historically marginalized

www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

Pls share: Konstanz School of Collective behavior from 21st July - 8th August. Application deadline: April, 15. An amazing line up of speakers spanning all aspects of collective behavior . For info: www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/kscb/
@cbehav.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social

Still some false positives, but extracting data is the most tedious task ever, and if AI can help with this, we can unleash a lot of data. Thanks for making the code public (github.com/fkeck/gpt_in...)!

"The present and future of peer review: Ideas, interventions, and evidence"
New Open Access paper in PNAS (@pnas.org): www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Odour representations supporting ethology-relevant categorisation and discrimination in the Drosophila mushroom body Neural representations of sensory stimuli serve multiple distinct purposes, from the rapid recognition of familiar environments, to the precise identification of individual salient cues. In the insect...

Excited to share our new preprint: How does the fly mushroom body support odour categorisation and discrimination? 🧠✨ Dive into Ivy Chan's @ivychanchiwai.bsky.social findings on how neural circuits enable complex olfactory processing in flies. Check it out here:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Beach at Hotel Cormoran in Sardinia.

Hotel Cormoran in Villasimius, Sardinia.

Dear colleagues fascinated by olfaction and taste! 👃🏾👅
We’ll organize the next ESITO (Symposium of Insect Taste and Olfaction) from September 19-24 2025 in Sardinia at the beautiful Hotel Cormoran again. We are currently updating the website and will start the registration soon! Please stay tuned!