Reposted by Lochlan WbioRxiv Genetics @biorxiv-genetic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Generation of a transgenic cephalopod www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20… 097
Reposted by Lochlan WTessa Montague @tessamontague.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I'm excited to share our new preprint: Generation of a transgenic cephalopod tinyurl.com/pc86jxz8 Cephalopods (cuttlefish, octopus & squid) are crazy critters that dynamically camouflage to their surroundings by changing the color, pattern, & texture of their skin, which they control w their brain. 13321101
Reposted by Lochlan WCurrent Biology @currentbiology.bsky.social · 28/09/2026In our newest issue, we interview Jennifer Mather, whose work involves cephalopod behaviour and human–animal interactions at the University of Lethbridge. Read the Q&A to find out what drew Jennifer to cephalopods and more! www.cell.com/current-biol...cell.comJennifer MatherInterview with Jennifer Mather, whose work involves cephalopod behaviour and human–animal interactions at the University of Lethbridge. 073
Reposted by Lochlan WEthological Society @ethoges.bsky.social · 28/09/2026New year, new conference! Registration for the next Annual Meeting of the Ethological Society is officially open! 🤩 Save the date, sign up, and join us in beautiful Konstanz 24–27 February, 2027 @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social www.ab.mpg.de/etho-2027static.klipy.comGraceful Deer Hopping at SunsetALT: Graceful Deer Hopping at Sunset 0159
Reposted by Lochlan WbioRxiv Animal Behavior and Cognition @biorxiv-behav.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Variability of Head Motion Reveals Development of Spatial Attention www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20… 011
Reposted by Lochlan WDaniela Rößler @roesslerdaniela.bsky.social · 25/09/2026🚨New paper🚨 Garden #spiders are everywhere right now—big, beautiful ladies, still in the hub of their 🕸️ But they are not just waiting, at night they also 💤! We found behavioral signatures of sleep in the wild. Out in #AnimalBehaviour w/ @mherberstein.bsky.social tinyurl.com/uznvv58y 🧵1/5 13515
Reposted by Lochlan WPip Wren @lollibeepop.bsky.social · 24/09/2026A joyous fat bear week to all 🐻 106194726470
Reposted by Lochlan WJohan Lind @johanlind.bsky.social · 23/09/2026We just published the first study showing that a bird-of-prey goes through an ontogenetic window of exploratory play. Young goshawks look like young cheetahs when tossing pine cones into the air, chasing after them. Just published in Animal Behaviour: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/4 24016
Reposted by Lochlan WAndrew Straw @andrewstraw.bsky.social · 04/09/2026We are hiring! Come join us in the Straw Lab at the @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social . Seeking a scientist to work on the neural and computational mechanisms of visual navigation in honey bees. uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00005... 18061
Reposted by Lochlan WLochlan W @lochlanw.bsky.social · 22/09/2026An interesting commentary by Jordanna Sprayberry on our recent @pnas.org paper (pinned on my profile) showing lateralized visuomotor control in hawkmoths 👁️🥤🦋 Cool to discuss additional context of neural circuit structure and ultimate consequences for such control axes www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...pnas.orgPNASProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans... 093
Lochlan W @lochlanw.bsky.social · 22/09/2026An interesting commentary by Jordanna Sprayberry on our recent @pnas.org paper (pinned on my profile) showing lateralized visuomotor control in hawkmoths 👁️🥤🦋 Cool to discuss additional context of neural circuit structure and ultimate consequences for such control axes www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...pnas.orgPNASProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans... 093
Reposted by Lochlan WRyan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 21/09/2026NEW BRAIN DROPPEDmed.stanford.eduHuman brain is two separate organs, Stanford Medicine-led research findsStanford Health Care delivers the highest levels of care and compassion. SHC treats cancer, heart disease, brain disorders, primary care issues, and many more. 232604779
Reposted by Lochlan WDare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 21/09/2026A typical morning at the Anthropic head office 522781375
Reposted by Lochlan WAshkaan K. Fahimipour @akfbio.bsky.social · 05/08/2026I'd be grateful if you could circulate to good students: I'm recruiting PhD students for Fall '27 in the areas of species interactions and animal behavior. Ad here - jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu/view-job/?id... 02840
Reposted by Lochlan WLisa Fenk @fleyes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Many thanks to @lochlanw.bsky.social and @prelights.bsky.social for highlighting our preprint! 0256
Reposted by Lochlan WpreLights @prelights.bsky.social · 18/09/2026To see, or not to see... 👀 @lochlanw.bsky.social highlights recent work showing that fruit flies selectively suppress visual input via electrical transmission of an efference copy. #neuroscience #preprint @fleyes.bsky.social #preLight ⬇️ prelights.biologists.com/highlights/v...prelights.biologists.comVectorial efference copy and visuomotor transformation through gap junctions - preLightsTo see, or not to see: fruit flies selectively suppress visual input via electrical transmission of an efference copy 051
Lochlan W @lochlanw.bsky.social · 17/09/2026excited to share my first preLight summarizing such an exciting preprint! from Tjalda Falt et al. @fleyes.bsky.social Vectorial efference copy and visuomotor transformation through gap junctions prelights.biologists.com/highlights/v...prelights.biologists.comVectorial efference copy and visuomotor transformation through gap junctions - preLightsTo see, or not to see: fruit flies selectively suppress visual input via electrical transmission of an efference copy 0244
Reposted by Lochlan WEd Yong is offline @edyong209.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Briefly popping my head back in to unveil the cover of my upcoming book, LIFE BEYOND MEASURE: Nature's Hidden Wonders at Every Scale. It’ll be out on April 6 in the U.S. and April 29 in the U.K. and you can pre-order it right now! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/757705... 1/ 261612357
Reposted by Lochlan WJay Gallagher @jay-gallagher.bsky.social · 15/09/2026🐟🚨 New paper! 🚨🐟 Where do behavioral differences come from? Early life environment clearly matters... ...or not? Early environment affected behavior, but NOT how different individuals became from each other. Those differences were seeded before birth through factors OTHER than genetic variation 🤯onlinelibrary.wiley.comBorn This Way: Individuality Is Seeded Before Birth and Robust to Ecological StressWe reared and recorded behaviours of clonal Amazon mollies in standardized environments, with and without predation stress, from birth through week four of life, to understand how the developmental e... 39540
Reposted by Lochlan WAjay Narendra @pipilika.bsky.social · 15/09/2026We have a fully funded 3-year PhD position to study jumping spider navigation. Open to both domestic and international candidates. Details below. Join us! @animbehav.bsky.social @austentsoc.bsky.social @ausevosoc.bsky.social @neuroethology.org @asab.org 14038
Reposted by Lochlan WbioRxiv Animal Behavior and Cognition @biorxiv-behav.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Cheetahs Combine Head Pitch Stabilisation with Predictive Yaw Tracking during High-speed Pursuit www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20… 021
Reposted by Lochlan WJolyon Troscianko @jtroscianko.bsky.social · 08/09/2026BehaveAI can now measure orientation. So now you can work out the behaviour of your animal in each frame as well as its direction - e.g. tells you which way animals are pointing or whether they're turning. Video guide: youtu.be/FgmtHoardWg Install: github.com/troscianko/B...youtu.beBehaveAI - orientation tracking - v1.4YouTube video by Jolyon Troscianko 02311
Reposted by Lochlan WMax Farnworth @maxfarnworth.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Reminder I am hiring a postdoc and PhD student. Thanks to all the applications I already received 🙏 If you know anyone particularly with single cell expertise for the postdoc position, please let me know! 178
Reposted by Lochlan WGeorge Kolyfetis @gkolyfetis.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Great work on the effects of desert locust coloration on swarming!! Thanks @sercansayin.bsky.social for including me and @jjfosterlab.bsky.social in this exciting study!! 082
Lochlan W @lochlanw.bsky.social · 07/09/2026There seemed to be a lot of public panic (at least on X) over the recent simulation of a fruit fly being controlled by the virtual connectome - this was by far the funniest response 0122
Reposted by Lochlan WDr. Or M. Bialik |📚|🔬|🌊|⚒️ @obialik.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Fish with electrical senses have unique brain cells specifically to process that information. The real trick they pull is separating the electricity they emit from the ones they sense. 🧪 Link: www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-… 06015
Reposted by Lochlan WCat Hobaiter @nakedprimate.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Are you sitting comfortably…? TLDR: In which, gentle reader, we outline an idea on how language originated in fireside storytelling & make new predictions for studying the evolution of language.. 1/n 🔥🔥🔥 royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...royalsocietypublishing.orgFirelight and the origins of spoken languageAbstract. Language and fire are hallmarks of the human condition, but most scholars treat them as independent traits. We develop a theory for the origin of 25020
Reposted by Lochlan WASAB Education Committee @asabeducation.bsky.social · 03/09/2026🤯🤯 again! Tim Caro explains more things… American black bears not always black… of course, we teach within every population there is huge variation of characteristics, but who knew?! The second photo is an American brown bear. #ECBB2026 083
Reposted by Lochlan WIMPRS-QBEE @imprs-qbee.bsky.social · 03/09/2026🎉Congratulations to Akhila Mudunuri 🎓 for successfully defending her thesis "Small brains in complex environments: Social and environmental contexts shape decision-making in Drosophila larvae", supervised by @katrinvogt.bsky.social 1154
Reposted by Lochlan WMBARI @mbarinews.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Your Wednesday just got an upgrade: a new MBARI bigfin squid sighting just dropped! 🦑👀 During a recent expedition to study seamounts offshore of Central California, MBARI scientists and NOAA collaborators encountered a rarely seen Magnapinna squid. Learn more: youtu.be/cEw74DoCv6Qyoutu.beMBARI researchers film chance encounter with a rare deep-sea bigfin squidYouTube video by MBARI (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute) 16425
Reposted by Lochlan WMax Farnworth @maxfarnworth.bsky.social · 31/08/2026🚨 I AM HIRING a 3-year postdoc & 4-year PhD student 🚨 [PLEASE SHARE WIDELY] My Emmy Noether @dfg.de funded Neural Circuit & Systems Evolution lab (🌟) at the @unimainz.bsky.socialÍ wants to start existing. So..., what do we need? WELL... we need you! APPLY UNTIL 21 SEPTEMBER.static.klipy.comALT: 15765
Reposted by Lochlan WMax Farnworth @maxfarnworth.bsky.social · 31/08/2026I am also advertising a 4 year (!) PhD student position. The PhD student will design developmental brain atlases and help establish comparative projectomics in key cell groups of the central complex and mushroom bodies. See details in the ad. 1812
Reposted by Lochlan WProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 28/08/2026A deep dive into the capacity for trees to physiologically adapt to drought reaches a sobering conclusion: Trees have little ability to change their inner hydraulic systems to accommodate increasing levels of drought as the climate changes. In PNAS: ow.ly/rcBR50ZFVIC 095
Reposted by Lochlan WScience X / Phys.org @sciencex.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Hummingbird hawkmoths inspect flowers with a left- or right-side bias, pairing one preferred proboscis side with one dominant eye. That alignment holds even when part of the eye is blocked. doi.org/hcb9wmphys.orgLeft or right? Moths use a preferred side to inspect flowers for nectarJust as humans exhibit right- or left-handedness, moths also have a preferred side on which they place their proboscis when inspecting a flower for nectar. 043
Reposted by Lochlan WbioRxiv Animal Behavior and Cognition @biorxiv-behav.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Takeoff dynamics are stereotyped across jumping spiders www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20… 022
Reposted by Lochlan WAnn Kennedy @antihebbiann.bsky.social · 24/08/2026There's still time to apply for our Short Course on the Application of #MachineLearning for Automated Quantification of Behavior! Join us October 11 – 16 at #JAXBehavior for expert lectures, hands-on workshops, evening sessions & more: www.jax.org/education-an... #Neuroskyencejax.orgShort Course Machine Learning for Automated Quantification of BehaviorThis course covers fundamentals of quantitative behavior analysis, machine learning, and data science for neuroscience, genetics, and biomedical researchers. 064
Reposted by Lochlan WMartin Hebart @martinhebart.bsky.social · 24/08/2026I have been meaning to write a post about a preprint that I'm pretty excited about: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... In neuroscience we often assume that we can learn something general about “the brain” using different species. But is this true? Do monkeys even see the world the way we do? 36022
Reposted by Lochlan WJonathan Tsay @tsay.bsky.social · 21/08/2026New preprint! 🎉 How can we measure how the nervous system knows, moment to moment, where the body is as it moves? We introduce a continuous tracking paradigm to measure the hidden dynamics of proprioception—revealing it is faster and more precise than vision during movement. tinyurl.com/yf297k53tinyurl.comTracking the hidden dynamics of proprioceptionEvery movement unfolds with a simple question: Where is my body? The nervous system answers through proprioception - the sense of limb position (static position sense) and movement (dynamic propriocep... 15120
Reposted by Lochlan Wvoigtvision.bsky.social @voigtvision.bsky.social · 20/08/2026🤩 It's time for some invertebrate eye candy! 🤩 Here's a ctenophore (or comb jelly) stained with phalloidin by John Alexander Salazar Hernandez & imaged on an exaSPIM built by Kaelin Wulf of the team of @adamkglaser.bsky.social as part of the FHL Functional Biodiversity course #microscopy 213732
Reposted by Lochlan WSFB 1372 @sfb1372.bsky.social · 18/08/2026NaviSense, the Cluster of Excellence on Animal Navigation at the University of Oldenburg, is looking for motivated doctoral researchers to join their interdisciplinary team! Find more details here: 🔗 uol.de/job1191en #DoctoralResearcher #AnimalNavigation #Oldenburg 01223
Reposted by Lochlan WbioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Vectorial efference copy and visuomotor transformation through gap junctions www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20… 022
Reposted by Lochlan WRichard Mann @richardpmann.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Why do some groups adopt a collective 'many-eyes' approach to vigilance, while in others sentinels keep watch for all? Our paper, led by @charliepilgrim.bsky.social, shows the shape of the cost function determines the optimal strategy. @templetonworld.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...pnas.orgMany-eyes and sentinels in selfish and cooperative groups | PNASCollective vigilance describes how animals in groups benefit from the predator detection efforts of others. Empirical observations typically find e... 32011
Lochlan W @lochlanw.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Not big on sharing personal stuff here, but finally updated photos for my choreography/dance teaching adverts and they were too good to not share 😎 090
Reposted by Lochlan WGeorge Kolyfetis @gkolyfetis.bsky.social · 03/06/2026I am thrilled to share my second PhD manuscript! We modelled bee polarisation vision and tested two navigational models. Many thanks to @jjfosterlab.bsky.social and all our collaborators (@egkanias.bsky.social,@edinburgh-uni.bsky.social,@insectlabsu.bsky.social) for such a productive collaboration! 0183
Reposted by Lochlan WAnn Clemens @annmclemens.bsky.social · 12/08/2026preprint🚨 ✨A Stickiness Response System in Rats tinyurl.com/4wnu88v9 What underlies that sticky, icky feeling? Sticky sensing is surprisingly underexplored. we investigated its neural and behavioural basis Congrats to Sandra, @simonerencken.bsky.social @jasmine-stone.bsky.social Adam, Tom & Pam! 👏 26013
Reposted by Lochlan WTim Verstynen @tdverstynen.bsky.social · 11/08/2026🚨Preprint alert!🚨 Have you ever wondered what imagination is good for? A new preprint from our lab tests the idea that imagination helps us develop generalizable strategies by bootstrapping experiences that haven’t happened in order to learn. We look at this in both man and machine. 1/9 13210
Reposted by Lochlan WLauren Sumner-Rooney @laurensr.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Two weeks left to apply for our postdoc position on vision in trilobites! Come and explore the exciting world of reconstructing vision in the fossil record, using some of the most iconic extinct animals to grace our oceans! Please reach out + RT! (*Deadline in fact 23.59 BST on the 26th August!*) 02838
Reposted by Lochlan WPawel Burkhardt @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Postdoc opportunity in Copenhagen! Interested in marine bioluminescence, comb jellies & experimental biology? A great 2-year postdoc (possibility of 1-year extension), working with CRISPR, imaging & EM in the labs of Anders Garm & Cornelia Jaspers. Deadline: 16.08 jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...jobportal.ku.dkPostdoc in Marine Bioluminescence - re-advertisement 03539
Reposted by Lochlan WUniversität Konstanz @uni-konstanz.de · 28/07/2026Hummingbird hawkmoths show a form of "handedness": #UniKonstanz @cbehav.bsky.social researchers found that they preferentially place their proboscis on one side when searching for nectar. Full story: t1p.de/v09qd @insect-vision.bsky.social @anna-stoeckl.bsky.social @lochlanw.bsky.social 0146