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Tanvi Deora
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Faculty fellow at Shiv Nadar University, India. Insect neuroethologist, sci communication and art enthusiast. You can find more about our work at https://sites.google.com/view/tanvideora/home
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wolfgangstein.bsky.social
Climate Neuroscience Needs Integration and Guided Research! www.thetransmitter.org/environment/...
@kavlifoundation.org @jexpbiol.bsky.social @neuroethology.org @sfn.org
Climate neuroscience needs integration and guided research
Five years after a groundbreaking paper, can a young field move beyond piecemeal studies?
www.thetransmitter.org
August 21, 2026 at 5:27 PM
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sfnjournals.bsky.social
#eNeuro: Why does vision loss early in life heighten the sense of touch? Using blind and sighted opossums raised in different environments, Ramamurthy et al. found tactile experience, rather than vision loss itself, may drive this compensatory plasticity.
https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0059-26.2026
Diagrams showing animal movement paths, activity profiles, and data analysis in standard and enriched environments.
August 11, 2026 at 5:28 PM
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insect-vision.bsky.social
New paper from the lab 🎉🚨
We found that hummingbird hawkmoths show lateralised proboscis control on both the sensory and motor sides. 🦋 How plastic is this lateralised visuo-motor axis when sensory input is perturbed? Find out more 👇
lochlanw.bsky.social Lochlan W @lochlanw.bsky.social · Jul 22
🚨🦋 Thrilled to share my first PhD paper published in PNAS this week, in collaboration with Sören Kannegieser and @anna-stoeckl.bsky.social @insect-vision.bsky.social: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

We found hawkmoths use a convergent visual control strategy for appendage guidance. 👁️🫳

🧵 below.
PNAS
Proceedings 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...
www.pnas.org
July 23, 2026 at 6:21 AM
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tuthill.bsky.social
New preprint: Whole-body 3D kinematics of freely behaving 𝐷𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑎

New tech from @blobology.bsky.social & others at @hhmijanelia.bsky.social, which @ispizua.bsky.social and @elliottabe.bsky.social used to gain insight into 3D structure of locomotion & courtship

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
May 4, 2026 at 6:27 PM
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neurovenki.bsky.social
Our work on the perception of intermittent odor stimuli out in @natcomms.nature.com! Led by @luxorboero.bsky.social & former grad student Hao Wu; key contributions from @btolooshams.bsky.social, @siddjakes.bsky.social, @paulmasset.bsky.social, @josephdzak.bsky.social, Farhad Pashakhanloo, Demba Ba.
Perception and neural representation of intermittent odor stimuli in mice - Nature Communications
Animals navigate odor plumes by exploiting dynamic and intermittent cues. Here, the authors show that mice can discriminate among different fluctuating odor signals, and characterize their neural enco...
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May 1, 2026 at 2:17 PM
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stfabian.bsky.social
🧵 1/6 Our new paper is out in Journal of Experimental Biology! We've been studying the curious dancing flight of male mayflies and why they do it. Spoiler: it's not just to impress females. 🪲⬇️ journals.biologists.com/jeb/article-...
March 26, 2026 at 12:20 PM
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tuthill.bsky.social
New @currentbiology.bsky.social paper from Dr. Leila Elabbady on neural circuits that transform a touch stimulus into spatially targeted grooming.

Leila discovered a leg somatotopic map and used it to infer tactile receptive fields in the fly VNC connectome.

authors.elsevier.com/a/1mvu83QW8S...
April 17, 2026 at 4:40 AM
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steveroyle.bsky.social
A unique opportunity to lead the most wonderful company in scientific publishing (I might be slightly biased here). The Company of Biologists are searching for a CEO.

www.inspiredselection.com/jobs/jo00000...
Chief Executive Officer | Inspired Selection
www.inspiredselection.com
March 30, 2026 at 10:37 AM
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biologyopen.bsky.social
BiO is pleased to launch a new grant: BiO Global South Conference Travel Grants, to help ECRs based in the Global South attend international biological and biomedical science conferences.
Next application deadline: 19 June 2026.
tinyurl.com/22zx7msy
Advert for BiO Global South travel grants, deadline 19 June 2026, with audience photo and a Biology Open logo
March 27, 2026 at 11:25 AM
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beetzjerome.bsky.social
Have you ever asked yourself, how insect brains represent places? And whether insects do have place cells? Then move to Germany this summer and start your PhD in my lab. We conduct tetrode recordings from bumblebees that freely forage laboratory mazes. 🧠🐝#BeeSpace @erc.europa.eu @neuroethology.org
February 20, 2026 at 12:06 PM
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ukceh.bsky.social
🦋🌿Hiring 12 x Botanists or Entomologists for 2026 field surveys in England!

4-month, full-time roles from late April to early September.

Field sites in Yorkshire, Devon, Warwickshire, Kent/Sussex, Lincolnshire/Cambridge, Essex/Suffolk.

Apply now: ceh.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CEH_Ca... 🧪
Recruitment poster for 12 botanical or entomological field surveyors, April-September 2026. Closing date: January 30, 2026.
January 9, 2026 at 9:36 AM
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sicbjournals.bsky.social
Meet more of IOB's co authors of
Classification of #Odor -Derived #Electroantennograms with Machine Learning
doi.org/10.1093/iob/...
Marissa Dominguez
sites.uw.edu/wlaursen/peo...
Tom Daniel
formerly of Univ of Washington
www.wrfseattle.org/news/washing...

#insects #entomology #sensory
December 4, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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ebablab.bsky.social
One pronounced behaviour are circular flights around a floral resource, where they turn back on themselves in a loop. They do this repeatedly while feeding; loop, feed, repeat… 4/n
October 21, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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cp-iscience.bsky.social
🐝 Can #ElectricFields from #powerlines disrupt #honeybee foraging? A new #iScience study says yes — AC & +DC fields cut landings by 71% 🌸⚡

🧾Read here: www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

#ElectricPollution #PollinatorHealth #Entomology #Agroecology #EcoResearch #InsectScience #SaveTheBees #FieldEcology
May 26, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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beetzjerome.bsky.social
Insect spatial memory is thought to be based on panoramic snapshots that are modelled as retinotopic images. This idea won't allow a distinction of landmarks from the scene. Unexpectedly, our data suggest that 🐝 learn 3D-objects as individual landmarks. #neuroethology
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
September 28, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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tuthill.bsky.social
new pape from our lab, led by the indefatigable @chrisjdallmann.bsky.social. i am very proud of this one.
chrisjdallmann.bsky.social Chris J Dallmann @chrisjdallmann.bsky.social · Sep 17
Now out in @nature.com: Our study discovering a neural circuit in Drosophila that predictively inhibits proprioceptor axons during voluntary leg movements, such as walking and grooming. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
September 17, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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chrisjdallmann.bsky.social
Now out in @nature.com: Our study discovering a neural circuit in Drosophila that predictively inhibits proprioceptor axons during voluntary leg movements, such as walking and grooming. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
September 17, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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rm0sher.bsky.social
Three Associate Professor (or Professor) positions available at Oxford Biology. Come be my colleague! www.biology.ox.ac.uk/article/we-a...
We are hiring! Oxford biology has three associate professorships available as we move to new state-of-the-art facilities
www.biology.ox.ac.uk
September 15, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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macstronach.bsky.social
Spent hours being spellbound by Convolvulus Hawk Moths last night as they nectared on Nicotiana plants in my highland garden!. Up to 3 feeding at a time, their entire abdomens glowing red hot in the thermal from flight muscle use!! #teammoth @migrantmothuk.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social
September 8, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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beetzjerome.bsky.social
We are looking for a Postdoc (up to 5 years) who wants to study neural mechanisms of spatial memory in honeybees.

This includes tetrode recordings in behaving honeybees.

Application Deadline is 1st of October 2025.

More details:
www.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/services/...
Postdoctoral Position (f/m/d) at the Chair of Behavioral Physiology & Sociobiology
Biocenter of the University of Würzburg Am Hubland 97074 Würzburg
www.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de
August 1, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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Only a few days left to register for the India-EMBO Lecture Course on Neurethology meetings.embo.org/event/25-neu... taking place in Pune Dec 7-11, 2025. #EMBOneuroethology
Fantastic speaker line up!
Deadline July 31st.
Neuroethology: How the brain controls natural behaviours
Neuroethology, the study of the neural mechanisms underlying natural behaviours, has faced challenges due to the complexity of behaviours, limitations in genetic manipulation, and recording constrain…
meetings.embo.org
July 27, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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genmig.bsky.social
thanks a lot to all who attended, and made it such a wonderful event - full of cool science, great talks & posters, thought provoking discussions, lovely chats with wonderful peope, beautiful and very hot venue ☀️

bonus content: artsy highlight by Lukas Weiss - his programme summary in snippets 🦄🧬🧪
July 10, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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Really important work.

Also important not to merely frame this as, 'hey, women faculty, don't forget to say no!' That places the burden in the wrong place.

Organisations need to look critically at how requests are made and how workload is acknowledged.

Systemic problems need systemic solutions.
amydiehl.bsky.social Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · Jul 7
In a study of professors, women got 378 new work requests over 4 weeks vs 118 for men. Women spent more time on service, advising & teaching; men on research. Orgs should track who is taking extra duties & ensure they are rewarded and distributed fairly. www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...
Being Too Helpful At Work Can Hurt Your Career—Here’s How To Say No
Women are more likely to take on behind-the-scenes duties at work—extra tasks like onboarding or event planning—and it's hurting their careers. Here's how to say no.
www.forbes.com
July 8, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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neuroethology.org
Sweta Agrawal from Virgnia Tech kicks off the last session at the Neuroethology GRC and talks about motor control and proprioception in Mosquitos. Note, Sweta is currently recruiting.
www.agrawalneurolab.com/home
@hokuba.bsky.social
Agrawal Lab
Proprioception is the sense of the position and movement of our bodies. It is our most important sense -- without it, it would be very difficult to move our bodies to do anything. The Agrawal lab stu...
www.agrawalneurolab.com
July 3, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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dannastaaf.bsky.social
I have Opinions about octopus mer-people; the way they are usually drawn gives them 2 mouths and 0 ani which is a real problem!!!
Thought I'd gotten it out of my system a few years ago with a silly comic, but my daughter just pointed out an alternative design. Thus, a coda
Two half-human half-octopus creatures drawn in pen and colored pencil on paper. They are standing like humans and shaped like humans from the feet up to the torso. From the chest up, they have the head and arms of an octopus, with the octopus's eyes protruding slightly where the human's armpits would be, and the eight octopus arms reaching up toward the sky. The creatures' skin shades from light brown on the human half to light purple on the octopus half. The creature on the left has a visible belly button and is wearing a white loincloth. The creature on the right is naked with its digestive tract drawn as an anatomical diagram and labeled with the anus between the human legs, the stomach in the torso, and the mouth a beak at the center of the octopus arms. A photo of a 1-page comic titled "How to draw an Anatomically Correct Octoperson." The problem of a "classic" octopus-human having two mouths is solved by combining to upper half of a human with the mantle and funnel of an octopus.
October 26, 2023 at 10:20 PM