Neurons don't just fire more for important sounds, their activity becomes more precisely timed and rhythmic Representations of spatial saliency in auditory cortex are selectively organized through temporal coordination www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #neuroscience

Representations of spatial saliency in auditory cortex are selectively organized through temporal coordination

Selective processing of behaviorally relevant sounds in complex environments requires dynamic modulation of auditory representations. Here, we show that behaviorally relevant sound locations selective...

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Donald Griffin, discoverer of bat echolocation, was born OTD 1915. I imagine “small mammals enough like ourselves to feel that I could understand what their lives would be like, and yet different enough to make it a sort of adventure and exploration to see what they were doing.” 🐋🌱🧪 #HistSTM

Tom Collett’s new book “Insects and How They Navigate Their World” is out and seemingly the pdf is free 👀 (for me anyway) link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Insects and How They Navigate Their World

Discover how insects navigate using vision, memory and cues from nature. A clear, engaging look at ants, bees, and the remarkable abilities of tiny brains.

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Do you find mutualisms fascinating? Work on behavior, neurobiology, or sensory biology in mutualistic animals? Join us at our symposium or complementary session on the neuroethology of mutualisms at SICB 2027! @sicb.bsky.social @biologists.bsky.social

Very happy to share our new review on visual computation in the cephalopod brain, with @vangeliqueallen.bsky.social, out now! We discuss exciting recent advances in understanding how the radically different brain of cephalopods processes the visual scene. 🐙🔬👀 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Our Dispatch "Evolution: Ancient monoamines in a neuron-less animal" out in @currentbiology.bsky.social. Monoamine signaling and behavioral responses in placozoans suggest this system predates bilaterians. authors.elsevier.com/a/1nYJl3QW8S... @annaferraioli.bsky.social @msarscentre.bsky.social

This is the last call to early-career researchers applying for the 7 August deadline for the next round of JEB Travelling Fellowships Get your application in so you can visit an international lab to perform that essential experiment or learn a technique www.biologists.com/grants/trave...

Killer flies show sexual cannibalism, i.e., males are both potential food and mating partners. How ♂️ avoid being cannibalized by a ♀️ is described @currentbiology.bsky.social. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @ceph-whisperer.bsky.social

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?

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

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 🇹🇼

One of my favorite talks at this year's #ICN2026

Floria Mora-Kepfer Uy@avispatica.bsky.social · 6d ago

How do parasites reprogram brains so your host becomes a zombie? If you are still at #ICN2026 tomorrow Friday, come to my talk at 3:30 pm (room 2306/2309) #strepsiptera #zombiewasp

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

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

It was a lot of fun talking this year at the #ICN2026 about our brand new results. Thank you to all the feedback, questions, and comments.

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

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. 🦇🏝🇹🇿

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

@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.

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

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 🐦🐦🎵🎶🧠🧪

A really interesting new two-photon miniscope study for all the retrosplenial geeks out there! Anterior and posterior retrosplenial cortex employ distinct strategies for egocentric–allocentric transformation in spatial coding

If you're at #ICN2026 in Vancouver, don't miss JEB Senior Editor, Charlotte Rutledge's talk AI and the future of scientific publishing in the Great Hall at 10:15am on Thursday 30 July

New research just dropped today that makes octopuses even weirder than they already are… let me explain🧵🧪🐙🐡🦑

A new #ICN2026 day starts with a plenary funded by @jexpbiol.bsky.social: Dr. Lisa Fenk @fleyes.bsky.social presents their work on "Spontaneous and reflexive eyemovements in flies" 👀🪰 #insectvision #pseudopupil #Drosophila

Are wasps feeling the heat this summer? Be kind to wasps at your picnic this summer: share your meal & tell us what they're after. Is it Ham (protein-rich)? or Jam (sugary) @uclnews.bsky.social @theconversation.com @femi-benny.bsky.social @cintiaoi.bsky.social theconversation.com/where-have-a...

Where have all the wasps gone this summer?

And why you should let them share your picnic ham and jam.

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Seals have a superpower: they are the only mammals with amphibious hearing! They hear well both in-air and underwater. My collagues and I have a new study in Proceedings B on the origins and evolution of amphibious hearing in pinnipeds 🦭🔊🧪 doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

The origin and evolution of amphibious hearing in pinnipeds

Abstract. Pinnipeds (true seals, eared seals and walruses) are the only mammals that can hear effectively in both air and water. How and when they achieved

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🚨 Calling all mentees and mentors: Interested in chatting with someone about science, career paths, shared identities? Please fill out the mentoring meet-up survey to get paired with a mentor/mentee for an informal chat at the congress: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

ICN 2026 Mentoring Meet-Up

We are surveying registered participants to identify those interested in serving as a mentor or mentee during the upcoming Congress in Vancouver. This would entail getting together for a coffee, lunch...

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Neuroscientist Brenda Milner turns an incredible 108 years old today! In the 1950s she uncovered the role the hippocampus plays in consolidating memories, and in the 1970s she published her seminal studies of speech lateralization. Wishing her all the best today! tinyurl.com/3am8syhf #WomenInSTEM

Building a Kingdom in the Brain’s Unfashionable District: Brenda Milner’s Century of Neuropsychology

There are scales and metrics you use to evaluate the lives of most neuropsychologists, and then there are those you have to invent in order to speak with any degree of justice about people like Brenda...

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Do you have a background in behavioural ecology and are you interested in doing a PhD in Australia? I’m looking for new grad students so check out our website (BobWongLab.org) or come find me in Torino at #ISBE2026. 🐟🐠

📢 Heads-up: I'm currently finalising the job description for a 30-month postdoc modelling visual abilities in these very gorgeous and very dead creatures! If you're interested, please get in touch - anticipated start is late 2026/early 2027 and the project combines great colleagues in UK + S Korea!

Lauren Sumner-Rooney@laurensr.bsky.social · 4mo ago

So excited to have received an #HFSPResearchGrant to study trilobite eyes with Luke Parry @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social and Gil Ju Lee (Pusan National University)!🥳 I'll be recruiting a postdoc @bristolbiosci.bsky.social - if 3D data, optical modelling, and fossils tickle your interest, stay tuned!