#ICN2026 has been fantastic 🤩 ✅️ Great #science 🧪 ✅️ Meeting old friends 🤗 ✅️ Getting to know new people 🤝 ✅️ Beautiful venue 🇨🇦 ✅️ #Neuroethology at its best 🧠❤️ Thanks @neuroethology.org for a wonderful conference! 🐜🐝🐸🦎🐛🦋🪰🐦🕷🦇🐀🐘
Pauline Fleischmann
@cataglyphilosophy.bsky.social
Cataglyphilosophine: Philosophisticated Anthusiast (she/her)🐜 #Neuroethology #Navigation #Magnetoreception, views my own
It was my pleasure to chair the "Insect Compass Systems" symposium 🧭🧠🐜🐝🦋🪰🧪 and to give the first talk of that #ICN2026 session 😊 #navigation #magnetoreception #centralcomplex #neuroethology #icn2026vancouver #insetcresearch
International Society for Neuroethology@neuroethology.org · 6d agoHow 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!
Yesterday was the official kick-off meeting of the booster units of the University of Oldenburg where we presebted our #AnHuNav project ↘️ www.uol.de/anhunav ↙️ 🐏🐐🫏🐪🕊🏛🧭🗺 It was a pleasure to meet all other members and to discuss about #interdisciplinarity and related advantages, challenges and needs 🤩
In addition to all the cool #neuroscience input 🧠🧪, we were fed with amazing food 😋 and had guided through the campus in Dahlem to learn more about the last 100 years of science in the "German Oxford". Thanks to @mpinb.mpg.de and @maxplanck.de for making it possible 🙏
Pauline Fleischmann@cataglyphilosophy.bsky.social · 2mo agoThanks to @sepikeshavarzi.bsky.social, @petrznam.bsky.social and Jason Kerr for a fantastic conference in Berlin! I am still filled with joy about the discussions and processing all new facts about how animals (species diverse as 🐀🐵🐳🐬🐟🦋🐜🪰🐦🦅) sense the world around them while moving through it 🧠🧭🗺
Thanks to @sepikeshavarzi.bsky.social, @petrznam.bsky.social and Jason Kerr for a fantastic conference in Berlin! I am still filled with joy about the discussions and processing all new facts about how animals (species diverse as 🐀🐵🐳🐬🐟🦋🐜🪰🐦🦅) sense the world around them while moving through it 🧠🧭🗺
Sepiedeh Keshavarzi @sepikeshavarzi.bsky.social · 2mo agoWe had a wonderful time at the 3rd Senses in Motion Conference, with so many exciting talks, posters, and discussions. A big thank you to all the participants, our funders — @maxplanck.de and @mpinb.mpg.de — and my fellow co-organisers, @petrznam.bsky.social and Jason Kerr. sensesinmotion.org
✨️The RIN conference on Animal Navigation was great! My highlights: 🏅Neurobiology session including a talk by nobel laureate John O'Keefe and that @katejj.bsky.social advertised the navigation challenges book 🏅Introducing my team to the community, meeting old friends & new people 🏅London at night 🤩
28 months later: In December 2024, I participated in the Ernst Strüngmann Forum on #Navigation #Research 🧭🧪 Now the book has been published including our chapter of group 2 ("team zoo" 🦠🐜🐦🦞🐒🦍🐢🤖) on the "Universal Principles of Navigation across Species and Spatial Scales" ↘️ doi.org/10.1007/978-... ↙️
✨️💜 Women's power 💜✨️ At today's @sfb1372.bsky.social meeting we had discussion on #diversity #equity and #inclusion and are solidary with #WomensStrikeDay #OhneUnsStehtAllesStill #WomenInSTEM 💜👩🔬🧪🙎♀️💜
🐜 Super interesting & important @pnas.org study by @mpi-ce.bsky.social research team @yukoulrich.bsky.social revealing how complex the consequences of pollutants can be 😱 I was asked for my opinion about the study for @trouw.nl. A friend living in Amsterdam just sent me a copy of the newspaper 📰🥰
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences@pnas.org · 6mo agoAir pollution isn’t just bad for us—tiny increases in ozone can scramble ants’ chemical signals, making them misidentify nestmates and unraveling their social order. 😮🪲 In Smithsonian Magazine: https://ow.ly/jYcx50Yh6vI In PNAS: https://ow.ly/EW2T50Yh6r4
Today we celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science by highlighting the incredible women of SFB 1372 advancing our understanding of birds, behaviour, and the natural world 🐦🔬 A small glimpse of the brilliant minds behind our research ⬇️ ##WomenInScience
I am proud to present our recent #neuroethology paper on #magnetoreception in #ants today on the #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience where all authors are #WomenInSTEM @chiaratenne.bsky.social 🤩👩🔬🧪🧠🐜🧭 Thanks to @sfb1372.bsky.social for featuring our research in a video 🤩 doi.org/10.1007/s003...
International Society for Neuroethology@neuroethology.org · 6mo agoToday is #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience 💜👩🔬🧪🧠🧫🔬 #WomenInSTEM #Neuroethology Check out the #Unesco virtual museum about #Women in #Science ↘️ www.unesco.org/en/virtual-s... ↙️ Feel free to post interesting facts about women researchers and link women neuroethologists below 👇
New study shows that Cataglyphis hellenica 🐜 learns a nest direction by using a magnetic compass 🧲🧭. Demonstrating that a magnetic compass is widespread in Cataglyphis ants. @chiaratenne.bsky.social @cataglyphilosophy.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Magnetoreception in Cataglyphis hellenica ants - Journal of Comparative Physiology A
Magnetoreception is the ability of animals to detect and use the geomagnetic field (GMF) for spatial orientation. Cataglyphis ants are experimental models for insect navigation and magnetoreception. A...
link.springer.com
🤩 Very proud to announce that today @chiaratenne.bsky.social first #ant paper has been published in #JCP-A @springernature.com 🥳🧪👩🔬 We show that also C. hellenica has a magnetic sense suggesting that magnetoreception is rather common than unique in #Cataglyphis ants 🧭🐜🇬🇷 ↘️ doi.org/10.1007/s003... ↙️
Magnetoreception in Cataglyphis hellenica ants - Journal of Comparative Physiology A
Magnetoreception is the ability of animals to detect and use the geomagnetic field (GMF) for spatial orientation. Cataglyphis ants are experimental models for insect navigation and magnetoreception. A...
link.springer.com
I love that ants are chosen to visualize the conference topic #GrandChallenges 😍🐜 #AntsForFuture
Berlin University Alliance@berlinualliance.bsky.social · 6mo ago⏳ Just under 60 days to go until the #GrandChallenges Conference begins — and we’re excited to announce that registration is now open. Secure your spot and register via our website today! We look forward to seeing you at the conference. 👉 Register here: gc-conference-bua.de/
To learn more details, watch our #SciCom video on this surprising finding!
Such a cool study with surprise result 🤯 The #bird #retina works under anoxic conditions 👀 🐦 Check out the paper with in @nature.com ⬇️ And watch the supercool video of @sfb1372.bsky.social 🎞
SFB 1372@sfb1372.bsky.social · 6mo ago#Birds can see without #oxygen. At least part of their retina does. A new @nature.com study of scientists from @au.dk with #SFB1372 contribution shows that the avian inner #retina functions under chronic anoxia, supported by anaerobic metabolism and the #pecten. 🐔👁️ doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09978-w
Back home & filled with great memories of my Australia field trip🌏🇦🇺 Thanks to Eric Warrant & team @lundvision.bsky.social for hosting me & the chance for becoming a temporary moth-researcher #KonishiAward @neuroethology.org to study #magnetoreception & #navigation in the spectacular #Bogong moth🧭✨🦋
And I think, I have a found first christmas present for my kids 😍🎁🐦🧭🧪📖 Such a cool project by a @sfb1372.bsky.social team around @genmig.bsky.social from the @ifv-whv.bsky.social and with amazing illustrations by @co-la.bsky.social transferring research results in a children book 😱🥰 Check it out 👇
liedvogel lab@genmig.bsky.social · 10mo agocoffee breaks inspire the coolest things, no? It certainly inspired this wonderful project – a kids book on a robin that takes you under its wing on its journey to their wintering grounds. gorgeously illustrated @co-la.bsky.social and beautifully written by a #dreamteam within @sfb1372.bsky.social
The history of escalation of the #honeybee #odometer controversy in the @neuroethology.org research community can now be tracked in this collection of @springernature.com #JCP-A 🧪🧠🐝 I highly recommend reading Eric Warrant's editorial @lundvision.bsky.social and the follow-up replies ⬇️
International Society for Neuroethology@neuroethology.org · 10mo ago🚨 Journal of Comparative Physiology A #JCP-A has published a collection on "The #Honeybee #Odometer Controversy" 🐝 ↘️ link.springer.com/collections/... ↙️ Read and discuss the issue of the "most serious allegation of scientific misconduct in the history of #neuroethology" with students & colleagues 💬
🤩 And here we go - thrilled to announce that two #AnHuNav postdoc positions are availble now ⬇️ Join us in exploring how humans navigated the ancient world - with the aid of animals!? 🧭🗺💫🐫🕊🐜🏛 1️⃣ Cognitive and textual #navigation uol.de/job785 2️⃣ #Archaeology of trade&pilgramage routes uol.de/job786en
Postdoktorand*in im Rahmen des Forschungsprojektes AnHuNav, Forschungsbereich 1 // Universität Oldenburg
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Pauline Fleischmann@cataglyphilosophy.bsky.social · 11mo agoWith a homepage, everything becomes more concrete 🥰 Check out our #AnHuNav project on Animal and Human Navigation in Antiquity 🧭🕊🐫🐜🏛 ↘️ www.uol.de/anhunav ↙️ Stay tuned, we will soon advertise positions 🤗
🤩 Another new PI-milestone: Being at meetings with the whole team and several contributions from our lab. @chiaratenne.bsky.social, Yibo Ma and Dhanashree presented their research 🧪 on #InsectNavigation at the annual meetings of the @sfb1372.bsky.social and the #ForschungszentrumNeurosensorik 🐜🧠🧭
Chiara Tenneriello@chiaratenne.bsky.social · 10mo agoLast week was full of interesting talk about #science at our #sfb1372 autumn meeting at the #University of Oldenburg and at the #neuroscience meeting at the #HanseWissenschaftskollegen. Me, my team and our supervisor @cataglyphilosophy.bsky.social could talk about #neuroethology in #insects! 🐜🧭🧲
With a homepage, everything becomes more concrete 🥰 Check out our #AnHuNav project on Animal and Human Navigation in Antiquity 🧭🕊🐫🐜🏛 ↘️ www.uol.de/anhunav ↙️ Stay tuned, we will soon advertise positions 🤗
🤗 Welcome to our two new lab members: Yibo Ma, @sfb1372.bsky.social short-term fellow, and Dhanashree Kishor Alshi, #Neuroscience 🧠🧪 master student, both curious about #neuroethology of #insect #navigation and #magnetoreception 🐜🧭 Looking forward to working together and their projects! 🤩
Thanks also to the @dzg-neurobiology.bsky.social section, especially to the speaker team Suanne Neupert and @maxfarnworth.bsky.social, for doing a great job in taking care of the #neurobiology content at the #DZG 💖🧠💕
The #DZG2025 is over and I am filled with great memories and zoological input 🥰 Thanks to the organisers @dzg2025berlin.bsky.social for this ✨️great✨️ conference! 👏👏👏 @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social @humboldtuni.bsky.social @mfnberlin.bsky.social Below I share are my favourite facts that I learned ⬇️
Chiara Tenneriello, PhD student of @cataglyphilosophy.bsky.social talked today about her research on testing whether desert ants have a particle-based magentic compass. #dzg2025 @chiaratenne.bsky.social
🤩 It's always a pleasure to present our #ant #research 🧪🐜🧭☀️, especially to such a nice audience 🧠💖 @dzg-neurobiology.bsky.social ✨️New level of proudness: @chiaratenne.bsky.social presents parts of her project in her very 1st conference talk @dzg2025berlin.bsky.social🥳 Brilli🐜 presentation🤩 #ProudPi
International Society for Neuroethology@neuroethology.org · 11mo agoFascinating talk by @cataglyphilosophy.bsky.social at the #dzg2025 about her research on the magnetic compass of 🐜.
