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Lena Riabinina

@lenariab.bsky.social
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Bees, flies, mosquitoes, neurons, ecology and genetics. @Lena_Riab on Twitter. Associate Professor at Durham Biology in the UK. Head of @InsectNeuroLab.bsky.social 👩‍🔬👩‍💻🤦‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤯🦟🪰🐝👁️👄🧠👃🥀🌻🌸🏖️🌊

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Christian Drerup @handle.invalid · 27/07/2026
🚨 Excited to share our new paper published in @ecol-evol.bsky.social ! 🦟 🏊 Here, we compared the surface swimming behaviour of 11 mosquito species across three major disease-vector genera and found clear, genus-specific differences in how they move! 📄 Read the paper here: doi.org/10.1002/ece3...
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Vivek Nityananda @viveknityananda.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
New PhD alert! We'll be applying animal welfare ideas to look at how stress affects bees, looking at the effect on bee brains with @lenariab.bsky.social, and working with @sensibee.bsky.social developing new monitoring methods. Please spread the word! #bees #PhD 🧪 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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The effect of stress on pollinator behaviour at Newcastle University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - The effect of stress on pollinator behaviour at Newcastle University, listed on FindAPhD.com
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InsectNeuroLab @insectneurolab.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
We have a fully-funded PhD project on mosquito behaviour and AI, based at @durham.ac.uk and supervised by Amir Atapour Abarghouei (Durham Computer Science), @viveknityananda.bsky.social and myself. Check the project description here tinyurl.com/2hven83a and apply here: www.needl.org.uk/apply/.
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Novel behavioural assays to study mosquito pheromone signalling at Newcastle University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Novel behavioural assays to study mosquito pheromone signalling at Newcastle University, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Sha Liu 刘沙 @flysleeplab.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
🚨 Postdoc openings! We’re looking for postdocs excited about sleep, synapses & cellular neurophysiology (fly or mouse). Yes, we also have mouse projects! See details: www.flysleeplab.com/positions
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Positions | flysleeplab
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Lena Riabinina @lenariab.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Please drop me a line is you are interested to work in my lab and are eligible for the CSC funding!
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Vivek Nityananda @viveknityananda.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
New #PhD ad alert! Interested in wild #bee #cognition and #brains in different #bumblebees? Want to live in #Newcastle and the beautiful north-east of England? Check out this project with me, @lenariab.bsky.social and Sarah Scott. Contact me for further information. iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
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The cognitive ecology of wild bumblebees
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InsectNeuroLab @insectneurolab.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Very happy to see our first paper on Black Soldier Flies out! A chemically defined oviposition attractant and repellent of black soldier flies (Hermetia illucens) doi.org/10.1163/2352... This was a Master project of amazing Nyasha Thomas, who set up the BSF work in the lab.
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Vivek Nityananda @viveknityananda.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
In March we put on an insect cabaret show I developed with Cap-A-Pie Theatre about insects and the threats they face. We've now uploaded the songs and everyone can now see how brilliant the actors and song-writer were. Thread of songs below 👇🧪 #Insects #cabaret #theatre #scicomm #songs
A poster for a play: "The Vanishing Act: A new cabaret about Earth's disappearing insects". On the right is a black and white ant in a top hat with one leg extended. Radiating from the finger are children's drawings of insect- bees, butterflies, beetles and so on.
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Stephen Montgomery @ebablab.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
🚨Anyone want a job?🚨 We have two #postdocs up for grabs! 🧪 - cell developmental biology/#evodevo/#neuroevodevo - bioinformatics and molecular biology Both working on brain evolution in Heliconiini butterflies Details below! Please repost 🙏 1/n
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InsectNeuroLab @insectneurolab.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Massive congratulations to Matthew Quinn for passing his PhD viva today!! And many thanks to the examiners @ebablab.bsky.social and Sean Twiss. Matt is the first student to graduate from the lab - very exciting! 👨‍🎓🎓📖🦟🦟
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Christian Drerup @handle.invalid · 04/03/2025
I'm thrilled to announce that I've started a Postdoctoral Research Associate position at @insectneurolab.bsky.social @durham-university.bsky.social this week, working with @lenariab.bsky.social on behavioural and physiological adaptations in mosquito pupae. In summary, I'll be working on 🦟🚱🦟👁️👃➡️💧?
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Lena Riabinina @lenariab.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Please spread the word - 2 new PhD positions, one fully funded and one self-funded, with us at Durham and @clarahowcroft.bsky.social at Northumbria Uni! We are looking for people with interdisciplinary experience (biology, computer vision, engineering) and interest to work across disciplines.
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Saskya van Nouhuys @saskyavn.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Folks looking for a PhD position to study chemical ecology, have a look at this excellent opportunity at the University of Eastern Finland. Application deadline 6 Feb. Position starting in March 2025. uef.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
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Doctoral Researcher (PhD student), Chemical Ecology
The University of Eastern Finland is inviting applications for a Doctoral Researcher (PhD student) position in Chemical Ecology at the Department of Environmental and Biological Sciences, on Kuopio ca
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Daniel Kronauer @danielkronauer.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
@NatGeo just published an article about mound-building Formica wood ants, featuring a series of spectacular photographs by Ingo Arndt: www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti... Here is Ingo’s winning wood ant photo from @NHM_WPY last year:
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Lena Riabinina @lenariab.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
We have competitively funded PhD projects on bees, mosquitoes,robotics and computer vision. Would suit candidates with interdisciplinary expertise. Please email us with your CV and Motivation letter by the 22nd of January.
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Alicia Hidalgo Lab @aliciahidalgolab.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Looking for a keen PhD student to investigate how experience shapes the brain, and/or mechanisms of central nervous system regeneration, plasticity and degeneration. Apply here: select "Biosciences", then my projects. Fully funded. Deadline 12 January. www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/act...
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Midlands Integrative Biosciences Training Partnership
Midlands Integrative Biosciences Training Partnership
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Lena Riabinina @lenariab.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Today we received an email from Durham Uni, signed as below ("Gold Command"). I wish to believe this person's account was hacked, but something tells me it wasn't. Do other Universities also come up with this bizzarreness?
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Lena Riabinina @lenariab.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Could anyone please "sponsor" me for the SfN membership? I'd need to know your name and membership ID, please. Thank you!
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Vivek Nityananda @viveknityananda.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
In the spirit of this post - I've got a book out in India about why overconfidence persists and what it's doing to the world. You might be interested in giving it a read. I've got my first book event today (eep!) - come along if you're in Bangalore. Authors- any advice on what to expect?
Three images. First book cover of a book called Beyond Doubt: Overconfidence and what is means for Modern Society. Then a photo of the author Vivek Nityananda. Then a photo of journalist Anupama Bijur. Event details: Saturday 4 January 2025, 630 PM. Library, Bangalore International Centre
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Lena Riabinina @lenariab.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
A map made in ...Excel. This is the first one for me! @drosostalis.bsky.social I think you are personally responsible for this one 🤣
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Lena Riabinina @lenariab.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Science is hard and the progress is slow and often hard to register. So it's nice to have some fast and easy progress elsewhere :P Happy New Year everyone!
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Vivek Nityananda @viveknityananda.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
How do overconfidence and politics interact? Read here for a short version of the chapter from my book on overconfidence: scroll.in/article/1077... #BeyondDoubt #Overconfidence Book available in India: amazon.in/Beyond-Doubt...
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How do overconfident politicians hurt their country’s people? A behavioural scientist finds out
Vivek Nityananda is the author of ‘Beyond Doubt: Overconfidence and What It Means for Modern Society’.
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Lena Riabinina @lenariab.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
UK students - still time to apply for this project! Please send me your enquiries by the 31st December. 🐝🧠
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Carolina Rezaval @crezaval.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
We're hiring! Please share! Exciting opportunities for #PhD students, #postdocs, and #research assistants to join our team in exploring how the brain prioritizes actions in conflict. #Neuroscience #Drosophila Interested? Reach out! rezavallab.org
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Mario Vallejo-Marin @nicrodemo.bsky.social · 03/01/2024
We are searching for an Assoc. Professor in Plant Ecology! Join us at the Plant Ecology and Evolution program @UU_University in beautiful Sweden. We are looking for a highly motivated and friendly colleague with complementary expertise to us. Apply here: uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
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Oliver Biehlmaier @biehli.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
🌟We are looking for a new member of our image analysis team at the Imaging Core Facility of the Biozentrum in Basel 🌟 Are you passionate about science and technology? Are you interested in bioimaging? Please check the job ad below #JobOpportunity #ImageAnalysis #DeepLearning @biozentrum.bsky.social
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Margaret Stanley @ecostanley.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Interesting that the issues faced by ecologists at universities in the UK are very similar to Aotearoa NZ #theniche @britishecolsoc.bsky.social
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InsectNeuroLab @insectneurolab.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
as seen elsewhere... Visual Neuro Course in Woods Hole!!
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Lena Riabinina @lenariab.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
These stats may create an impression that all native speakers understand papers well, write well and give good presentations. In my experience, none of this is true, and more often than not native speakers don't write well at all, and it's probably too late for them to learn, as it takes time.
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Lena Riabinina @lenariab.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
2 new interdisciplinary PhD projects on Insects, Robots and Computer Vision! Please re-post and email us with your CVs, Cover/Motivation letters and enquiries by the *22nd of January 2025* 🐝🦟🤖💻
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Marcus Stensmyr @marcusstensmyr.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
🦟 Pestered by mosquitoes? Fear not—grapefruit might hold the key! 🍊In our latest paper in @currentbiology.bsky.social, led by Merybeth Triana and Felipe Andreazza, we explore how nootkatone, a compound derived from grapefruit, affects mosquitoes. authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
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Kelsey H Jensen, PhD @soilcarbonsci.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Does anyone have connections to soil scientists in India or experience sampling in India? I'm working on a Nutrient Network study and trying to negotiate the process of shipping soils back from India to the US for processing. Would love to connect with anyone who has done this before! #soil
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iBartomeus @ibartomeus.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
[new paper] You probably suspected that loss of pollinator diversity consistently reduces reproductive success for wild and cultivated plants, but here we quantify it: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Loss of pollinator diversity consistently reduces reproductive success for wild and cultivated plants
Nature Ecology & Evolution - A meta-analysis finds that decreasing diversity of pollinator species has a negative affect on multiple measures of plant reproductive success, with wild plant...
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Lena Riabinina @lenariab.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
and a lot, if not most, of the work we do is just a pointless busywork, box ticking exercises - yes they are easy to do, but they eat up the time and energy, and could be either done by someone else who doesn't also need to do research, or even better - noone, because...busywork, innit.
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Lena Riabinina @lenariab.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-5...
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Understanding your biases in collecting organismal VOCs
Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) play a fundamental role in organismal interactions, facilitating intra- and interspecific communication. Accurate collection and analysis of VOCs are essential for un...
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Dan Jagger @auditorynerves.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
If talent and opportunity were equally distributed, the average #NobelPrize winner would come from a middle income background. The reality? The average laureate grew up in a household just below the top 10%. More than 50% come from the top 5%. 🧪🎩💰 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The science behind winning a Nobel Prize? Being a man from a wealthy family | Torsten Bell
A lot of talent is wasted in a world where more than half of laureates come from households in the richest 5%
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Lena Riabinina @lenariab.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
ok, we all had emails from UG students that start with "Hi," , "Hi Ms X" or "Dear Your_Name_Terribly_Misspelt", but "Hi @your_email" is the first one for me... Are we at the point where we need to teach UGs how to write an email yet?
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Natalie Hempel @nataliehempel.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Pls RT: Interested in doing a PhD on the behaviour of #bees & other animals at CRAB Uni Exeter and Bristol Uni? Check out SWBio swbio.ac.uk www.swbio.ac.uk/programme/pr... (apply by 11.12.) & NERC GW4 www.nercgw4plus.ac.uk/projects-202... @seanrands.bsky.social @bethbees.bsky.social apply by 13.01.
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Prof Chris Jackson @seismatters.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
I know this is not unique to Elsevier...but fuck me if that publisher, given it's size and resources, doesn't have the absolutely laziest copy-editing in the entire world. The number of grammatical errors, starting from the paper titles onwards in many cases, is so very poor.
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Yannick Wurm @yannickwurm.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
We're delighted to host North-western Europe's premier meeting on ants, bees, wasps and termites on December 16th at QMUL. 🐜🐝🐜🐝🐜🐝🐜🐝🐜🐝🐜 Registration closes on the 8th: bit.ly/2024-iussi-q... Supported by QM's Centre for Biodiversity & Sustainability: bit.ly/QMUL-Biodive...
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InsectNeuroLab @insectneurolab.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Please remember to attach your CV and a cover letter outlining: 1) why you are interested in this project specifically; 2) what relevant skills you have and what skills you want to learn; 3) what's in it for you? how will this PhD help you advance towards your goals?
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InsectNeuroLab @insectneurolab.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
The window for non- UK applicants is sadly closed now, but the *UK* applicants can still send me enquiries until the *31st of December*!
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Saskya van Nouhuys @saskyavn.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Here is a link to an exciting collection of 14 new review articles in Current Opinions in Insect Science on "Parasitoid Biology in the Anthropocene" edited by Editors: R.M. Borges, R. Venkatesan and S. van Nouhuys. www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu... Message me if you want PDFs you can't access.
A parasitoid wasp, Hyposoter horticola, parasitizing eggs of the butterfly Melitaea cinxia.
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Lena Riabinina @lenariab.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
colour matching STEM way🫶
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Dezene Huber 🍁 🌻 @dezene.me · 04/12/2024
One of the most alarming things about this study on the effect of pesticides on native bees is that some bumblebee queens (Bombus impatiens) preferred pesticide-contaminated soil when looking for a site to spend the winter. 🧪🪲🪳🌎 🚜🕳️🐝❄️ OA 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.sc... www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Digging below the surface: Hidden risks for ground-nesting bees
Hidden risks for ground-nesting bees
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Vector-Borne Diseases in the UK @ukvbd.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Thrilled to be in Liverpool for the 6th UK VBD Conference - the UK’s largest ever meeting on vector-borne diseases! 🦟🌍 #UKVBD2024
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InsectNeuroLab @insectneurolab.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Congratulations to @imanmuktar.bsky.social on winning a poster prize at the @ukvbd.bsky.social today!!! Well done Iman!
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Vivek Nityananda @viveknityananda.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Reminder that there's one week left to apply for this job. Please pass on the information to anyone who might be interested!
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InsectNeuroLab @insectneurolab.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Only a couple of days left for non-UK applicants to express interest in this project!
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Lena Riabinina @lenariab.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
I made the Insect Sensory Neuro starter pack - let me know in the comments if you'd like to be added! (and also I'm sure I missed tons of people - tag them in!) go.bsky.app/JW7c5LN
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