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Amaia Alcalde Anton

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Max Farnworth @maxfarnworth.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
🚨 I am very happy (and relieved!) to announce that I secured Emmy Noether funding by the @dfg.de to start my own group at @unimainz.bsky.social , hosted by Marion Silies & Jakob von Engelhardt in August! 🚨 Website coming soon - open for name/logo suggestions. They better be funny tho!
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Sophia Petrillo with Megaphone in Golden Girls
ALT: Sophia Petrillo with Megaphone in Golden Girls
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Amaia Alcalde Anton @pinpilinpauxa-aaa.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
A great podcast by the outreach queen!🫶
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José Antonio Borrero @borreroja.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Excited to share our new paper on pollen foraging in Heliconius himera @behavecol.bsky.social! 🦋🌼 academic.oup.com/beheco/artic... We explored how female and male H. himera differ in pollen foraging & sensory traits. 1/6🧵👇
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Sexual dimorphism in pollen foraging and sensory traits in Heliconius butterflies
Male and female butterflies often face different ecological and sensory demands, yet how this shapes their foraging behaviour remains unclear. In Heliconiu
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Richard Merrill @dickmerrill.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Really excited to see @borreroja.bsky.social’s tour de force exploring the behavioural consequences of coordinated visual adaptations in *Heliconius*, and how these may break down in hybrids, out in the world. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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ASAB @asab.org · 14/04/2026
🎉 Congratulations to the ASAB Video Competition winner Amaia Alcalde Anton! Check out her video: “What Did I Leave in the Fridge” 🎉 #ASABSpring2026 

Want to know more? Read the paper this entry was based on: doi.org/10.1098/rstb...
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Stephen Montgomery @ebablab.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
New preprint from us and @emiliapsantos.bsky.social’s #NERC grant, led by Jake Morris, @gadusmo.bsky.social et al Using an interspecific cross between two #cichlids to think about models of #brainevolution 🐟🧠 Feedback and suggestions welcome! 🙏🏻 🧪
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Max Farnworth @maxfarnworth.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
allevents.in/bristol/scie... Giving a public talk as part of the Science Cafe, happening on a BOAT (!!) in Bristol Harbour. I am pretty bad at explaining things accessibly, so if you want to poke fun, join! @bristolbiosci.bsky.social
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Science Cafe, Dr Max Farnworth, University of Bristol talk on Butterfly brains and navigation
Find tickets & information for Science Cafe, Dr Max Farnworth, University of Bristol talk on Butterfly brains and navigation. happening at MV Balmoral, Bristol, EN on Tue, 07 Apr, 2026 at 07:00 pm BST...
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ASAB Spring 2027 @asab-meetings.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Great talks this morning at #ASABSpring2026 on horse-rider conflicts, paca farm welfare, bonobo facial expressions, free-ranging dog feeding, AI for horse welfare, fruit fly mating & butterfly memory 🏇🧑‍🌾 🙊🐕🐴🪰🦋
A collage of speakers at the podium with their talks in the background
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ASAB Spring 2027 @asab-meetings.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
And #ASABSpring2026 is finished! A huge thank you to the organizer Sean Rands, his big group of volunteers, and Uni Bristol for hosting👏 Don’t forget ECBB (@ecbb2026.bsky.social) Sept 1-4 in Cambridge and our joint #ASABWinter2026 meeting with PSGB (@asabpsgb2026.bsky.social) Dec 8-10 in Edinburgh
Group of volunteers with Sean in the centre on a patio with a view of Bristol
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ASAB Spring 2027 @asab-meetings.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Big congrats to our video contest winner Amaia Alcalde and runner up Taruna Verma, poster winners Ayla Webb (PhD) and Maria Maclaren (MSc), and talk winners Charlotte Wiltshire (PhD) and Maria Filippou (MSc)! #ASABSpring2026
Amaia Alcalde in front of a slide reading "ASAB Video Competition
Winner Amaia Alcalde What did I leave in the fridge?" Taruna Verma in front of a slide reading "ASAB Video Competition Runner Up Mate finding strategies in Nasonia males." Poster winners Ayla Webb and Maria Maclaren. Talk winners Charlotte Wiltshire and Maria Filippou
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Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales @mncn-csic.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
¡Nuevo episodio!🎧 Os invitamos a descubrir un diorama centenario que recrea una colonia de abejarucos. A través de esta obra de J.M Benedito, exploramos la unión entre arte y ciencia. Una oportunidad de mirar con calma la naturaleza desde dentro del museo. open.spotify.com/episode/0H4J...
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eahodge.bsky.social @eahodge.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Excited that my 2nd MSc paper is out in @journal-evo.bsky.social 🦋🎉 doi.org/10.1093/evol... We find Heliconius’ impressive visual memory is not due to increased visual-structure investment over that of their outgroup relatives, but instead consistent with specialisation of the central circuitry.
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Max Farnworth @maxfarnworth.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
New paper covering what we think is a pretty nice and comprehensive overview over tools suitable for neuroethology in butterflies and moths. Also, check out the whole special issue if you're an insect neuroethologist. @neuroethology.org @dzg-neurobiology.bsky.social doi.org/10.1007/s003...
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Emerging tools to advance neuroethology in butterflies and moths - Journal of Comparative Physiology A
Journal of Comparative Physiology A - Butterflies and moths have played historically important roles in developing our understanding of both ecology and evolutionary biology, and neuroethology. In...
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Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales @mncn-csic.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
🤩 ¡Ya podéis leer el último número de #NaturalMente! Descubrid las nuevas exposiciones y aprended sobre geodiversidad, mariposas🦋, pulpos🐙o anfibios🐸 en las páginas de la revista digital trimestral del #MNCN. 👉 revista.mncn.csic.es/nm48/
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CSICdivulga @csicdivulga.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
😂¡Noche de monólogos científicos en el @mncn-csic.bsky.social! ¿La película de Nemo está mal contada? ¿Nanotecnología para matar piojos? ¿Cuánta paciencia tienen mis células? Mucho más, el 29 de noviembre a las 19:15h en el museo ➡️ csic.es/es/agenda-de...
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Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales @mncn-csic.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
😎¡Noche de monólogos científicos! ¿La peli de Nemo está mal contada? ¿Nanotecnología para matar piojos? ¿Cuánta paciencia tienen mis células?🤭 📆29 noviembre, 19:15h 💰10€ (incluye la entrada al museo desde las 15) Edad recomendada: a partir de 15 años www.mncn.csic.es/es/visita-el...
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Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales @mncn-csic.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
🤫¡Participaremos en la XVI edición de la Noche Europea de los Investigadores e Investigadoras de #Madrid y las entradas se podrán conseguir a partir del 15 de septiembre a las 9h hasta completar aforo! 📅26 y 27 de septiembre #EuropeanResearchersNight 👉 www.mncn.csic.es/es/Comunicac...
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katja heuer @k4tj4.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Amaia Alcalde Anton sharing her insights on How to build a bigger brain–cellular basis of expanded mushroom bodies in Heliconius butterflies. Beautiful images. Proliferating cells into adulthood! #ESEB2025 @tibbe-evolneuro.bsky.social @ebablab.bsky.social @alealisousa.bsky.social @r3rt0.bsky.social
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Max Farnworth @maxfarnworth.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Elizabeth presenting her cool data and papers at a big conference. 🥳🤩
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Stephen Montgomery @ebablab.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
very interesting collection, expertly compiled by @ellileadbeater.bsky.social & @cornishjackdaws.bsky.social! Featuring Hodge*, Alcalde Anton et al! ‘Modality specific long term #memory enhancement in #Heliconius butterflies’ 🧪 *Elizabeth’s 1st paper 🍾 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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Modality-specific long-term memory enhancement in Heliconius butterflies | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
How animals perceive, process and respond to environmental cues is tightly tuned to species-specific ecological demands and reflected by the structure of neural systems. In the Neotropical butterflies, Heliconius, the mushroom bodies, insect learning and ...
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Stephen Montgomery @ebablab.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Congrats to @pinpilinpauxa-aaa.bsky.social for getting her image of a developing Dryas iulia brain to the final of the @wellcometrust.bsky.social photography competition in the “The Marvels of Scientific and Medical Imaging” section! One of my favourites too… wellcome.org/engagement-a...
A brightly stained brain caught in metamorphosis, with visible cytoskeletal tracts, large progenitor cells and many smaller cells
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Amaia Alcalde Anton @pinpilinpauxa-aaa.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Teaching on a Monday feels way less Monday with coffee and owls around! :)☕
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