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International Society for Neuroethology @neuroethology.org · 01/08/2026

We had an excellent week full of fascinating research on neuroethology. We met colleagues and friends. We thank all the organizers, funders @jexpbiol.bsky.social @kavlifoundation.org @thorlabs.bsky.social and wish everyone a safe trip back home. 🇨🇦 #ICN2026. See you at ICN2028 🇹🇼

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International Society for Neuroethology @neuroethology.org · 01/08/2026

Floria Mora-Kepfer talks about her fascinating research on Xenos peckii (strepsiptera) that parasites wasps and turn them into zombies. Among others the parasites turn worker wasps into queens and extend their lifespan. @avispatica.bsky.social

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International Society for Neuroethology @neuroethology.org · 01/08/2026

Scott Juntti talks about parental care in cichlids and the role of pheromones in courtship behavior. Pheromone receptor knockouts turn males into mouthbreeding males. @scottjuntti.bsky.social

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International Society for Neuroethology @neuroethology.org · 01/08/2026

Andrew Bass talks about his research on acoustic communication in fish.

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International Society for Neuroethology @neuroethology.org · 01/08/2026

In the acoustic session: Ana Amador introduces her research and talks about vocal production in songbirds. Her lab records from motor nuclei of the brain during vocal production in singing canaries.

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International Society for Neuroethology @neuroethology.org · 01/08/2026

Kentaro Arikawa talks about color vision in Papilio butterflies and that they rival our color discrimination capabilities.

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International Society for Neuroethology @neuroethology.org · 01/08/2026

Andrea Ferretti from the lab of Niels Rattenborg talks about his research on sleep in geese. One of his take home messages says "Geese are more like dolphins than seals" with regard to sleep.

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International Society for Neuroethology @neuroethology.org · 01/08/2026

Marco Gallio talks about how snow flies adapted to cold temperatures. Through comparative genomics he discovers a high abundance of Zinc-fingers in snow flies. Can snow flies produce heat through mitochondria thermogenesis to buffer cold temperatures for a short time?

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International Society for Neuroethology @neuroethology.org · 01/08/2026

ISN business meeting is starting now. 🚨You can also vote where the #ICN2030 will take please, i.e. join the meeting 😉 🌎🌍🌏

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International Society for Neuroethology @neuroethology.org · 01/08/2026

Last talk of the #ICN2026 conference [in the 3d navigation & spatial cognition" session] is "A comparison of rodent #decisionmaking under diverse robotic pseudo-predator strategies" by Chris Angeloni #icn2026vancouver

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International Society for Neuroethology @neuroethology.org · 31/07/2026

Aditya Krishna speaks about "Predictive coding of moving objects in the #bat #hippocampus" 🦇🧠 #ICN2026

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International Society for Neuroethology @neuroethology.org · 31/07/2026

Next Martha Daniel @m3d-biology.bsky.social presents their work on " #Navigation in a three-dimensional marine landscape by wild mantis shrimp" 🦐 #ICN2026

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International Society for Neuroethology @neuroethology.org · 31/07/2026

The next speaker is @ronen-segev.bsky.social talking about "How three-dimensional position and head-directions are encoded in the #goldfish brain?" 🐟🧠 #icn2026vancouver

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International Society for Neuroethology @neuroethology.org · 31/07/2026

Ash Parker chairs the "3D #navigation and spatial #cognition" session and gives the first talk about "Experience-dependent hippocampal #plasticity in African elephants: a multi-scale approach" 🐘🧠 #hippocampus #icn2026

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International Society for Neuroethology @neuroethology.org · 31/07/2026

Last, but not least, James @jjfosterlab.bsky.social talks about "#Honeybees at high noon keep their #celestialcompass accurate" 🐝☀️ #ICN2026

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International Society for Neuroethology @neuroethology.org · 31/07/2026

Alayna Mackiewicz @agmackiewicz.bsky.social presents their research on "Behavioral and neural correlates of magnetic sensing in poison frogs" 🐸🧭 #ICN2026 #magnetoreception

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International Society for Neuroethology @neuroethology.org · 31/07/2026

The next talk is "Two forms, one function: connectomes of head-direction" by Griffin Badalamente who presents their work thst can also be found int this recent preprint ↘️ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... ↙️ @stanley-heinze.bsky.social

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International Society for Neuroethology @neuroethology.org · 31/07/2026

Next is Avner Wallach presenting that "Exploration dynamics enable path integration in predictive electrosensory learning" #ICN2026

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International Society for Neuroethology @neuroethology.org · 31/07/2026

James Foster @jjfosterlab.bsky.social chairs the "Orientation across modalities" session. First speaker is Evri Gkanias @egkanias.bsky.social with his talk "Mapping polarised sky views to the behaviour of oriented animals under clouds and trees" 🌳☁️ #polarisationpattern

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International Society for Neuroethology @neuroethology.org · 31/07/2026

Dear neuroethologists, please take Eric Warrant's plea seriously and become a member of our society @neuroethology.org. There are many advantages, e.g. 🧠 Eligibility for awards and prizes 🧠 Receive newsletter with news, fun facts and job ads 🧠 Right to vote and organise symposia #icn2026vancouver

Eric Warrant's plea: Please become a member and stay being a member

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International Society for Neuroethology @neuroethology.org · 31/07/2026

And here we go: Final day of the #ICN2026 is started by Maude Baldwin with the plenary talk "Functional #evolution of taste and digestive system in #vertebrates" #icn2026vancouver

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International Society for Neuroethology @neuroethology.org · 31/07/2026

Simon Sponberg shows us in his talk that all muscles act like an orchestra where spikes are precisely timed and coordinated in flying hawkmoths. #ICN2026

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International Society for Neuroethology @neuroethology.org · 31/07/2026

@chrisjdallmann.bsky.social from @jan-ache.bsky.social lab talks about motor control in fruit flies and how sensory feedback modulates motor output. Please also take a look on their preprint. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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International Society for Neuroethology @neuroethology.org · 31/07/2026

Yossi Yovel talks about the acoustic world experienced by hundreds of bats leaving a cave and how they succeed navigating in such a cocktail party nightmare. The second part of his talk was about acoustic cognitive maps in bats. 🦇🗺

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International Society for Neuroethology @neuroethology.org · 31/07/2026

Frederico Pedraja talks about collective sensing in electric fish. Electric fish could eavedrop on electrolocation signals of conspecifics. #ICN2026

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International Society for Neuroethology @neuroethology.org · 31/07/2026

Fred Wolf talks about the kinematics of jumping mouse lemur and the role of vision to estimate the leaping distance. #ICN2026

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International Society for Neuroethology @neuroethology.org · 31/07/2026

Last talk of the session was by Charlotte Rutledge, senior editor of @jexpbiol.bsky.social who talks about AI use in scientific publishing.

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International Society for Neuroethology @neuroethology.org · 31/07/2026

Halteres are relevant for flight control in flies. Payel Chatterjee talks about how inputs from halteres to the neck motor system are organized and stabilize gaze in fruit flies.

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International Society for Neuroethology @neuroethology.org · 31/07/2026

This morning we had three higlighted talks. First, Matasaburo Fukutomi talks about how social interaction affects the timing of electric organ discharges in pairs of weakly electric fish.🐠

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International Society for Neuroethology @neuroethology.org · 30/07/2026

Inside their hive, bees use a gravity compass during the waggle dance. @beetzjerome.bsky.social presents his research about how bees sense gravity.

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International Society for Neuroethology @neuroethology.org · 30/07/2026

Hui Chen from @lundvision.bsky.social continues the insect compass session with a talk about light-dependent magnetic navigation in bogong moths.

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International Society for Neuroethology @neuroethology.org · 30/07/2026

Rickesh Patel from @lundvision.bsky.social shares his research showing that bees use vector maps for navigation.

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International Society for Neuroethology @neuroethology.org · 30/07/2026

How do desert ants navigate a relatively featureless landscape? @cataglyphilosophy.bsky.social kicked off the #ICN2026 symposium on Insect Compass Systems with research on desert ant magnetoreception which helps them find their way!

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International Society for Neuroethology @neuroethology.org · 30/07/2026

The second plenary on #ICN2026 Thursday is "Elongate swimming helps explain relationships between #neurocontrol, body mechanics and the external environment" by Emily Standen. #nervoussystem #motorsystem #icn2026vancouver

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International Society for Neuroethology @neuroethology.org · 30/07/2026

New day, new science 🧠🧪 We start #ICN2026 Thursday with a plenary by Laura Quintana giving a talk about "#Neurosteroids regulating year-round #aggression: insights from #electricfish" 🐟⚡️ #icn2026vancouver #neuroethology

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International Society for Neuroethology @neuroethology.org · 30/07/2026

Driven by the shear amount of different opsins found in 🐠👁, Fabio Cortesi's group studies visual placticity in Nemo. He studies how the wavelength composition of the environment influences the opsin expression and color discrimination.

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International Society for Neuroethology @neuroethology.org · 30/07/2026

Duncan Leitch wanted to find out why Ceratophrys 🐸 wiggles its toes.

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International Society for Neuroethology @neuroethology.org · 30/07/2026

Matthew White studies how the nervous system 🧠 of the three spine stickleback 🐠 responds to dynamic environments found in Estuary. @scrippsocean.bsky.social

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International Society for Neuroethology @neuroethology.org · 30/07/2026

@jasongallant.bsky.social studies the function of electric organ discharge variability in Paramormyrops kingsleyae (weakly electric fish).

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International Society for Neuroethology @neuroethology.org · 30/07/2026

@jaystafstrom.bsky.social discovered that spiders that are actually adapted to a nocturnal lifestyle occassionally hunt during the day. 🕷 He is also looking for Phd students and postdocs. Apply if you want to learn more about the fascinating sensory world of spiders.

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International Society for Neuroethology @neuroethology.org · 30/07/2026

@ajblake05.bsky.social from @riffelllab.bsky.social lab talked about spectral sensitivity in mosquito 👁 and how the olfactory context affects color learning.

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International Society for Neuroethology @neuroethology.org · 30/07/2026

Antonio Fernandez-Ruiz talked about neuronal correlates of action planning in goal-directed navigation and how it can be studied in the wild.

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International Society for Neuroethology @neuroethology.org · 30/07/2026

Nachum Ulanovsky talks about brain recordings in bats flying over a remote oceanic island. Hippocampal neurons showed outdoors a higher dimensionality than indoors underlining the importance of recording outdoors. 🦇🏝🇹🇿

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International Society for Neuroethology @neuroethology.org · 30/07/2026

After the Heiligenberg plenary lecture, there was another session of concurrent participant talks, for example a session on #evolution of sensory and motor systems chaired by @fiorella.bsky.social who also gave the talk "One and done or back for more: stinging strategies in bees and ants" 🐝🐜

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International Society for Neuroethology @neuroethology.org · 30/07/2026

Next @jvoigts.bsky.social presented that "Mice navigate complex and natural environments by using sparse sets of paths" 🐀🧠🧪 #navigation

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International Society for Neuroethology @neuroethology.org · 30/07/2026

For example, @susannehoffmann.bsky.social introduced their research on #Neurophysiology in wild free-ranging #songbirds in South Africa reveals the neural mechanisms of duet singing 🐦🐦🎵🎶🧠🧪

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International Society for Neuroethology @neuroethology.org · 30/07/2026

The last poster session of #ICN2026 is successfully done ✅️ Thanks to all poster presenters and all visitors 🤗 We will share impressions of the #icn2026vancouver conference day below 👇

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International Society for Neuroethology @neuroethology.org · 29/07/2026

The Heiligenberg lecture this year was given by Auke Ijspeert whose group studies how central pattern generators control gait and uses an innovative computational and robotic approach to test experimental findings.

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International Society for Neuroethology @neuroethology.org · 29/07/2026

The morning session is ended by @hannahthomasy.bsky.social giving insights into "Science & Storytelling" 🤩

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