jjfosterlab.bsky.social @jjfosterlab.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Thank you @sercansayin.bsky.social for involving us in this study, which teaches us locusts care about looks, and won't march with just anyone! Featuring modelling of locust vision by @gkolyfetis.bsky.social 🪳👁️🤖🧪 063
jjfosterlab.bsky.social @jjfosterlab.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Congratulations George! Thank you @insectlabsu.bsky.social, @egkanias.bsky.social and Barbara Webb @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social for providing µCT data and modelling expertise, very neat combination. 🐝👁️🧭 doi.org/10.64898/202...doi.org 050
jjfosterlab.bsky.social @jjfosterlab.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Do bright lights change how you dance? 🔆💃 Waggle-dancing honeybees interpret bright UV & green as the sun, but dim UV as a patch of sky. Thanks Keram Pfeiffer @uni-wuerzburg.de for trusting me with your data & @jgraving.bsky.social for the circular GLMM. doi.org/10.21203/rs....doi.orgHigh intensity overrides spectral cues in dancing honeybeesForaging honeybees rely on a celestial compass to navigate to and from the hive, using the sun’s position as an orientation reference. When the sun is hidden from view,bees can determine its azi... 0135
jjfosterlab.bsky.social @jjfosterlab.bsky.social · 20/04/2026@gkolyfetis.bsky.social @uni-konstanz.de presenting his work on bee navigation at the annual meeting of the Beekeepers of Baden in Radolfzell 🍯🐝. Thank you for the invitation! Great to see the public interest in science and find out what we can learn from each other. 👁️🧭 0103
Reposted by @jjfosterlab.bsky.socialGeorge Kolyfetis @gkolyfetis.bsky.social · 03/09/2025Our findings on bees' photoreceptors are now officially published in Biology Letters of the Royal Society Publishing!! Thanks again for a productive collaboration @jjfosterlab.bsky.social and @gregoeur.bsky.social !! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... 01513
jjfosterlab.bsky.social @jjfosterlab.bsky.social · 09/05/2025Exciting preprint from our very own @gkolyfetis.bsky.social about coupled photoreceptors in the Dorsal Rim Areas of the eyes of honeybees and bumblebees. 🐝👁️🧭 020
