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Jerome Beetz

@beetzjerome.bsky.social
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Neuroethologist studying spatial navigation in diverse species 🐝🦇🦋. For more infos visit my lab homepage: www.spatial-navigation.com

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Jerome Beetz @beetzjerome.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Have you ever asked yourself, how insect brains represent places? And whether insects do have place cells? Then move to Germany this summer and start your PhD in my lab. We conduct tetrode recordings from bumblebees that freely forage laboratory mazes. 🧠🐝#BeeSpace @erc.europa.eu @neuroethology.org
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Jerome Beetz @beetzjerome.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
That is the longer one 😉
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Jerome Beetz @beetzjerome.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
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 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Jerome Beetz @beetzjerome.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Me too 😁 #dzg2025
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Jerome Beetz @beetzjerome.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
The rig for conducting intracellular recordings from the 🐝🧠 is getting in shape. If you are interested using it here in Würzburg 🇩🇪 contact me. We have an open PhD position expected to be filled until spring 2026. www.spatial-navigation.com/open-positio... #neurethology
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Jerome Beetz @beetzjerome.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Thanks @waspwoman.bsky.social for writing this inspiring book. Although feeling guilty as being part of "ying" (a bee-guy 😉), I always enjoy observing "yin", i.e., sandwasps and adore their episodic spatial memory. Wish I could breed them in the lab.
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Jerome Beetz @beetzjerome.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Heading to Lucca 🇮🇹 to my 1st Neuroethology Gordon Research Conference. An exciting week full of science and nice colleagues ahead. 😊 @neuroethology.org
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Jerome Beetz @beetzjerome.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
A must read for all neuroethologists. The new book by Nachum Ulanovsky addresses recent advancements of studying brain and behavior in the field. @neuroethology.org @mitpress.bsky.social
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Jerome Beetz @beetzjerome.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
With 12 photoreceptor classes, mantis shrimps have highly complex eyes. A study from Justin Marshall's lab shows behavioral evidence for color opponency, shedding light on visual processing in these eyes. journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/... 🧠 🧪 @jexpbiol.bsky.social Photo credit: Roy Caldwell
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Jerome Beetz @beetzjerome.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
My highlight was #inav2024 (interdisciplinary navigation symposium) in Merano and having lunch with Jeff Taube, Nachum Ulanovsky & @mameister4.bsky.social
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Jerome Beetz @beetzjerome.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
I am so excited to share the incredible news that I have received funding from the DFG to start my Emmy-Noether group in Würzburg next year to study the neural mechanisms of the bee's waggle dance including their spatial memory. #Neuroethology
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