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Interdisciplinary research lab, Center for Mind/Brain Sciences #CIMeC PI: Albrecht Haase | #Neuroscience | #QuantumBiology | #Olfaction | #Vision | #Magnetoreception | #CalciumImaging | #Insects | #Honeybees | #UniTrento r.unitn.it/en/cimec/nphys

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Neurophysics Lab, University of Trento @neurophysicstn.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Scholars at Risk Research Positions 2 Predoc + 1 Postdoc positions for refugees in the EU. Neuroscientists are encouraged to apply to CIMeC, applications to other departments are also welcome. 🌐 Details & Application: tinyurl.com/SARpredoc & tinyurl.com/SARpostdoc 📅 Deadline 05/10/26 🌍 Please share!
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Neurophysics Lab, University of Trento @neurophysicstn.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Postdoc in Insect Neuroscience 📍 Center for Mind/Brain Sciences, Trento University, Italy Seasonal adaptation in Drosophila suzukii: Functional brain imaging, Behaviour, Computational analysis 🌐 Details & Application: tinyurl.com/mpujed46 📅 Deadline: 31 Aug 📩 albrecht.haase@unitn.it 🌍 Please share!
Photons of the Rovereto city center, the CIMeC campus, and the nearby Garda Lake
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Behaviour 2027 @behaviour2027.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
We are excited to announce that #Behaviour2027 (XXXIX International Ethological Congress) will be taking place in Vienna, Austria! We are looking forward to having you all join us next year from August 23-27. Please follow and share!
Logo of a gosling looking up at a bee on its beak. "Behaviour" underneath.
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CIMeC_UniTrento @cimecunitrento.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
UniTrento invites expressions of interest for 2026 fellowships for at-risk scholars: 1 Senior Post-Doc + 2 Junior Post-Master’s positions. For eligible foreign scholars, incl. refugees/asylum seekers/SAR-recognized scholars Deadline: 26 June CIMeC contact: Albrecht Haase 🛈 www.unitn.it/en/news/1001
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Neurophysics Lab, University of Trento @neurophysicstn.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
📢 The University of Trento invites expressions of interest for #ScholarsAtRisk fellowships: 1 postdoc fellowship, 2 junior fellowships for researchers in all disciplines affected by conflict, displacement, or restrictions on academic freedom. Details: www.unitn.it/en/news/1001 #AcademicFreedom
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Call of interest: University of Trento 2026 Fellowships for at-risk Scholars | Department of Mathematics
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Amélie Cabirol @acabirol.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Really happy to see our paper finally published in PNAS 🎉 We used honey bees to study how gut microbiota shape cognition and found that learning benefits only appear when the full microbial community is present — not with individual bacterial species alone. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
New mechanism for magnetic sensing in pigeons 🧭 Homing pigeons use magnetically responsive immune cells in their livers to sense Earth’s magnetic field, helping them navigate without visual cues like the sun. Published in Science: doi.org/10.1126/scie... @unibonn.bsky.social @unidue.bsky.social
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Neurophysics Lab, University of Trento @neurophysicstn.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Yesterday, a lecture hall at the Institute of Physics was named after our late colleague Lev Pitaevskii. Particularly fascinating was the talk given by Marina Sakharov Liberman, the granddaughter of Andrei Sakharov, on Lev’s fascinating life and work: mag.unitn.it/vita-univers... (English below)
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L’equazione dell’amicizia | UniTrentoMag
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CIMeC_UniTrento @cimecunitrento.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
1/8 Bees are essential for biodiversity & for the balance of ecosystems. They are also complex organisms, sensitive to environmental conditions & capable of remarkable behaviours. At @cimecunitrento.bsky.social, several lines of research have contributed to a better understanding of the world of 🐝🐝
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Theo Sanderson @theo.io · 08/02/2026
I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself! bluesky-map.theo.io I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail
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Bluesky Map
Interactive map of 3.4 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern.
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Neurophysics Lab, University of Trento @neurophysicstn.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Public presentation (in Italian, in Trento) of our project on the impact of climate change on the health of pollinators:
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Jakub Szymanik @szymanikjakub.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
🚀 Hiring: Tenure Track Researcher at CiMeC, UniTrento! 🧠💻 Field: #CompLing, #AI & Cognitive Modeling. Join an interdisciplinary hub (AI + Neuroscience + Psych) in beautiful Trentino! 🏔️✨ 📅 Deadline: Feb 12, 12:00 CET 🔗 lavoraconnoi.unitn.it/bando-dr-val... #AcademicJobs #NLP
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Tobias Ackels @tobiasackels.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Postdoc position in systems neuroscience! Excited to recruit a postdoc for my lab at the University of Bonn. 🔬 In vivo physiology (Neuropixels, 2P/miniscope) 🐭 Head-fixed & freely moving behaviour 💡 Optogenetics/chemogenetics ⏳ Start: ASAP | Application deadline: 28.02.2026 More info below ⬇️
The research group “Sensory Dynamics and Behaviour” of Prof. Dr. Tobias Ackels at the Institute of Experimental Epilepsy and Cognition Research at the
University Hospital Bonn invites applications for a position as:
Postdoctoral Researcher (m/f/d)
The position is initially limited to three years (TV-L E13/100%),
starting from April 2026 or as soon as possible.
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Neurophysics Lab, University of Trento @neurophysicstn.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Our Master's program is now open for applications. The Neurophysics lab is engaged in the FBN track: Fundamental Behavioural Neuroscience.
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IMP @impvienna.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Scientists around former IMP group leader David Keays (@lmumuenchen.bsky.social show that #pigeons detect magnetic fields through their inner ear. Their discovery was now published in the journal @science.org: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... More: www.imp.ac.at/news/article...
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A global screen for magnetically induced neuronal activity in the pigeon brain
How animals detect the Earth’s magnetic field remains a mystery in sensory biology. Despite extensive behavioral evidence, the neural circuitry and molecular mechanisms responsible for magnetic sensin...
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Misha Ahrens @mishaahrens.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Preprint - Excited to present WHOLISTIC, which extends the concept of whole-brain functional imaging to the entire body. Pioneering work by incredibly talented Virginia Ruetten @vmsruetten.bsky.social, this platform reveals whole-organism cellular dynamics in vivo. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Neurophysics Lab, University of Trento @neurophysicstn.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
PhD position in Magnetoreception Research!🐝🧠🔬 📍 Center for Mind/Brain Sciences #cimec_unitreno, University of Trento #unitrento, Italy Reception🦟,Neural processing🧠🔬,Behaviour🌀 🌐 Apply: phd.unitn.it/drcimec/116/... 📅 Deadline: June 5, 2025 📩 Contact: albrecht.haase@unitn.it 🌍 Please spread the word!
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fly paper broadcast @fly-broadcast.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Control of odor sensation by light and cryptochrome in the Drosophila antenna #Drosophila
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Control of odor sensation by light and cryptochrome in the Drosophila antenna #Drosophila
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Cell Press @cellpress.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
"Weak anthropogenic electric fields affect honeybee foraging" dlvr.it/TKvZJt @bristoluni.bsky.social @victoriamallinson.bsky.social‪, Fraser Woodburn, & Liam O’Reilly @cp-iscience.bsky.social
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Neurophysics Lab, University of Trento @neurophysicstn.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
🐝 Happy World Bee Day, everyone! 🐝 RAI Leonardo showed on this occasion a short feature (in Italian) about our recent publication on imaging the brain of honey bees during sleep: www.rainews.it/tgr/rubriche... Min. 4:45 @cimecunitrento.bsky.social #Honeybees #Neuroscience #Sleep
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Puntata del 20/05/2025 ore 14:50 | TGR Leonardo, Rubrica del TGR
TGR Leonardo. Leonardo è un telegiornale tematico, un'esperienza unica in Europa che coniuga l'attenzione all'attualità del quotidiano con il rigore della documentazione e dell'approfondimento. Tra gl...
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Neurophysics Lab, University of Trento @neurophysicstn.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
#Calcium_imaging in sleeping #bees: Antennal lobe neurons synchronise stronger during #sleep, likely due to reduced GABAergic coupling. #SNN simulations show reduced #odour processing, similar to human sleep: doi.org/10.1016/j.ne... Thanks to all collaborators at #CIMeC, e.g. @urihasson.bsky.social
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CIMeC_UniTrento @cimecunitrento.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Researchers at CIMeC UniTrento have observed brain activity in sleeping #bees🐝 The study reveals striking similarities with human sleep and offers insight into pollinator health and memory. 🛈 pressroom.unitn.it/comunicato-stampa/sleep-bees-so-human @neurophysicstn.bsky.social @urihasson.bsky.social
The sleep of bees. So human
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Neurophysics Lab, University of Trento @neurophysicstn.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
PhD position in Magnetoreception Research!🐝🧠🔬 📍 Center for Mind/Brain Sciences #cimec_unitreno, University of Trento #unitrento, Italy Reception🦟,Neural processing🧠🔬,Behaviour🌀 🌐 Apply: phd.unitn.it/drcimec/116/... 📅 Deadline: June 5, 2025 📩 Contact: albrecht.haase@unitn.it 🌍 Please spread the word!
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Carles Bosch @carlesbosch.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
#preprint: We mapped the structure and function of olfactory bulb circuits with in vivo 2-photon microscopy and synchrotron #Xray holographic nanotomography. doi.org/10.1101/2025... @yuxinzhang.bsky.social @andreas-t-schaefer.bsky.social @apacureanu.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk @esrf.fr
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NITheCS @nithecs.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
NITheCS Mini-school: 'An Introduction to Quantum Biology' by Dr Betony Adams (Stellenbosch University). Attend 4 lectures online – taking place on Wed 7, 14, 21 & 28 May 2025 @ 14h00-15h00 SAST. buff.ly/itI4ok9 #quantum #biology #quantumbiology #iyq2025
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Matt Wachowiak @dmattw.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Glad to share this review of odor concentrations in nature versus experiments, just out in J Neurosci. Spoiler: they are far apart. We discuss implications for olfactory neuroscience and welcome debate. With @neuroboz.bsky.social @dewanlab.bsky.social, Betty Hong. www.jneurosci.org/content/45/1...
Comparison of odorant concentrations in experimental studies, headspace of natural sources, and detection thresholds in rodents.
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Silke Sachse @silkesachse.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Dear colleagues fascinated by olfaction and taste! 👃🏾👅 We are happy to announce that the registration has started for the upcoming ESITO 2025 meeting taking place September 19-24, 2025 in Sardinia, Italy. Please register and submit your abstract here: events.gwdg.de/e/esito2025 Deadline: July 1st!
Beach at Hotel Cormoran in Sardinia, Italy.
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Neurophysics Lab, University of Trento @neurophysicstn.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Open call for papers on #Olfaction and #Taste covering the full spectrum of these research areas. Deadline for submissions: 22 July 2025 Edited by @paulfeinstein-phd.bsky.social, Massimiliano Zampini, and myself. Please spread the word. @natureportfolio.nature.com www.nature.com/collections/...
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Olfaction and taste
This Collection welcomes original research articles that investigate the senses of olfaction and taste. Animal studies as well as clinical studies that report ...
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Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology @mpi-ce.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Alcohol makes male fruit flies sexier! New study from Ian Keesey, Bill Hansson et al. in Science Advances shows that alcohol boosts sex pheromone production in male D. melanogaster, making them more attractive to females. But too much is a turnoff! www.ice.mpg.de/493119/PR_Ke...
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Alcohol makes male flies sexy
Alcohol consumption has a direct and positive effect on the mating success of male fruit flies. This effect is due to the increased production of sex pheromones after alcohol consumption: males who ha...
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CIMeC_UniTrento @cimecunitrento.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
📢 CIMeC is now on BlueSky! From now on, we’ll be sharing updates from our Center for Mind/Brain Sciences, including research highlights, academic activities, events, and much more! 🔗 www.cimec.unitn.it #neuroscience #cognitivescience #unitrento #cimec_unitreno
Welcome to the official profile of our Centre for Mind/Brain Sciences - University of Trento (Italy).
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Lars Chittka @larschittka.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
New Primer on Bumblebees now out in Current Biology (with Guillaume Ghisbain & Denis Michez): www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Paul Feinstein @paulfeinstein-phd.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
www.nature.com/collections/... @achems.bsky.social @olfalabs.bsky.social
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Olfaction and taste
This Collection welcomes original research articles that investigate the senses of olfaction and taste. Animal studies as well as clinical studies that report ...
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Annika Peter @annikapeter.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
❗️Symposium for Early Career Researchers working on Magnetoreception and/or Navigation in Animals, 19.-21.11.2025 in Hamburg, Germany❗️ Are you interested in joining us? As part of the Organizing Team, I will happily answer your questions and hope to see you there! @sfb1372.bsky.social
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Kristin Andrews 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @kristinandrews.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
@jeffsebo.bsky.social @birchlse.bsky.social and I put a lot of philosophy into our new Science Perspective on animal consciousness. Mill's analogical argument + inference to the best explanation + careful experiments = justification for consciousness in many animals. Where might it end?
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Evaluating animal consciousness
An emerging field shows how animal feelings can be studied scientifically
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Björn Brembs @brembs.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/02/2025
Save the date! CogEvo 2025 - Rovereto Workshop on #Cognition and #Evolution 16 July 2025 18 July 2025 Palazzo Piomarta - Corso Bettini 84, Rovereto, Italy webmagazine.unitn.it/en/evento/cime… #neuroscience
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CogEvo 2025 - Rovereto Workshop on Cognition and Evolution
16 Luglio 2025: Lectio Magistralis per la cittadinanza (in italiano) Ore 17:30 Relatore: Prof. Gianvito Martino, Direttore Scientifico del San Raffaele di Milano Titolo: Cosa è la vita: dal simbionte al cyborg Il Prof. Martino esplorerà come le nuove tecnologie stanno trasformando la nostra comprensione della vita, analizzando il passaggio dall'essere umano biologico al concetto di "cyborg". Verranno affrontate questioni chiave sulle interazioni tra uomo e macchina e le implicazioni filosofiche, etiche e sociali di un mondo sempre più tecnologico. Accesso libero, sino ad esaurimento di posti.
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Neurophysics Lab, University of Trento @neurophysicstn.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Please support and spread this appeal by Senator Elena Cattaneo to the Italian Senate on the future of Italian research funding: www.scienzainrete.it/articolo/app...
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Un appello per il futuro dell’Italia: sostenere la ricerca scientifica
La ricerca scientifica rappresenta un elemento strategico per lo sviluppo economico e sociale del nostro Paese. Tuttavia, la ricerca pubblica in Italia continua a soffrire di risorse limitate e spesso...
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Nature @nature.com · 13/02/2025
Nature research paper: Learned magnetic map cues and two mechanisms of magnetoreception in turtles go.nature.com/40U04WB
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Learned magnetic map cues and two mechanisms of magnetoreception in turtles - Nature
Loggerhead sea turtles, which undergo long-distance migrations, can learn magnetic signatures associated with different geographic areas and have two different magnetic senses, each based on a different underlying mechanism.
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Chiara Stringari @chiarastringari.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
See you on Friday February 21st for the @eurobioimaging.bsky.social Virtual Pub on "Fluorescence Lifetime Microscopy (FLIM) for label-free metabolic imaging of living tissues"! #FLIM #labelfree #microscopy #metabolism You can register online here! www.eurobioimaging.eu/events/flim-...
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Wolf Huetteroth @wolfhuette.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Our story about flies on carousels is out in @currentbiology.bsky.social! After formally engaging the fantastic @clarahowcroft.bsky.social and integrating helpful reviewer feedback, we present a more concise story with detailed behavioural quantification and cooler videos! doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...
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a dog sits on a merry go round while a boy sits on a scooter
ALT: a dog sits on a merry go round while a boy sits on a scooter
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 04/02/2025
Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines? Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take. thebullshitmachines.com
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INTRODUCTION
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John Dennehy @drjdennehy.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Diversity may be a dirty word for some these days, making it crucial to to fight back against those who would push us down. These stories are inspiring. I commend @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social for amplifying the voices of those who have been historically marginalized www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
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Disability in ecology and evolution
In this TrendsTalk series ‘Disability in ecology and evolution’ in Trends in Ecology and Evolution, we will be hearing from people about their experiences being disabled in ecology & evolution. We are...
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Ahmed El Hady @zamakany.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Pls share: Konstanz School of Collective behavior from 21st July - 8th August. Application deadline: April, 15. An amazing line up of speakers spanning all aspects of collective behavior . For info: www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/kscb/ @cbehav.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social
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iBartomeus @ibartomeus.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Still some false positives, but extracting data is the most tedious task ever, and if AI can help with this, we can unleash a lot of data. Thanks for making the code public (github.com/fkeck/gpt_in...)!
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GitHub - fkeck/gpt_interactions: Data and code for the manuscript
Data and code for the manuscript. Contribute to fkeck/gpt_interactions development by creating an account on GitHub.
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gtavosanis.bsky.social @gtavosanis.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Excited to share our new preprint: How does the fly mushroom body support odour categorisation and discrimination? 🧠✨ Dive into Ivy Chan's @ivychanchiwai.bsky.social findings on how neural circuits enable complex olfactory processing in flies. Check it out here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Odour representations supporting ethology-relevant categorisation and discrimination in the Drosophila mushroom body
Neural representations of sensory stimuli serve multiple distinct purposes, from the rapid recognition of familiar environments, to the precise identification of individual salient cues. In the insect...
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Silke Sachse @silkesachse.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Dear colleagues fascinated by olfaction and taste! 👃🏾👅 We’ll organize the next ESITO (Symposium of Insect Taste and Olfaction) from September 19-24 2025 in Sardinia at the beautiful Hotel Cormoran again. We are currently updating the website and will start the registration soon! Please stay tuned!
Beach at Hotel Cormoran in Sardinia. Hotel Cormoran in Villasimius, Sardinia.
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soft/living matter fanclub @softlivmatfc.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
I. K. Kominis, E. Gkoudinakis, Approaching the quantum limit of energy resolution in animal magnetoreception. PRX Life 3 (2025). dx.doi.org/10.1103/PRXLife.3.013004
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Jonas Wietek @jwietek.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
In vivo fluorescence lifetime fiber photometry www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Absolute measurement of fast and slow neuronal signals with fluorescence lifetime photometry at high temporal resolution
The concentrations of extracellular and intracellular signaling molecules, such as dopamine and cAMP, change over both fast and slow timescales and impact downstream pathways in a cell-type specific m...
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Central European section of IUSSI @ceiussi.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
The 2026 international conference of the IUSSI will be in Freiburg, Germany, August 16th – 20st iussi2026.org
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International Union for the Study of Social Insects
International Congress of the Insternational Union for the Study of Social Insects
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SFB 1372 @sfb1372.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Less than 5 weeks until our #symposium on #animalnavigation at the #oldenburguniversity! The final programme is now online here: www.sfb1372.de/programme.
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