Cephalopod Whisperer
@ceph-whisperer.bsky.social
Cephalopod researcher, loves animals and outdoors and spending time with family.
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Lars Brudvig@lars-brudvig.bsky.social · 2d agoJoin us through the Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship in EEB! Conduct your own research, mentored by 2+ EEB faculty. $65k salary + research/moving $. All areas of EEB welcome. Apply by 11/1 I co-chair this search and am happy to field questions Spread the word! eeb.msu.edu/initiatives/...
1/8 Breathing seems automatic. But it's a finely tuned motor behavior that has to be controlled. In this preprint, I map the circuits that match a fly's respiration to the metabolic demands of flight and mitigate the risk of dehydration. 🧵🪰 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
ICYMI: Three animal groups have vision sharp enough to detect objects—vertebrates, arthropods and cephalopods—but only the first two have been studied. A lab in Oregon is changing that. By @callimcflurry.bsky.social #neuroethology www.thetransmitter.org/vision/cepha...
Cephalopods, vision’s next frontier
For decades, scientists have been teased by the strange but inaccessible cephalopod visual system. Now, thanks to a technological breakthrough from a lab in Oregon, data are finally coming straight…
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We’re combining science and art into double-sided cards featuring local scientists and leaving them at local coffee shops and breweries. Want to be featured or nominate a scientist? Fill out this interest survey by Sept 28th: forms.gle/CsTDjisunDMo...
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...
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
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This week in Science, researchers demonstrate positive affective contagion—a core component of empathy—in bumble bees. The discovery shows that even insects can share affective states, tracing the roots of affect and social cognition deep into evolution. Learn more: https://scim.ag/4oblMQq
Jumping spiders can recognise one another. This ability to learn, remember and represent images is quite surprising for such a tiny-brained animal! buff.ly/dCkwPr0
Bumble bees can apparently play with balls, count, recognize faces, & perceive rhythm. A new study out today in @science.org argues they can also solve novel tasks spontaneously without explicit training, challenging the idea that such cognitive skills are exclusive to large-brained vertebrates.😲🐝🧪👇
Spontaneous problem-solving in bumble bees
Problem-solving using novel solutions without explicit training is often considered a hallmark of cognitive flexibility. We investigated whether bumble bees (Bombus terrestris) could solve a novel obj...
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Foraging 🐝 encounter diverse sets of flower-specific visual cues. A new behavioral study from @insect-vision.bsky.social shows that bumblebees rely on color first and learn additional cues, e.g., shape or patterns, only if flowers are hard to discriminate. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Bees flexibly adjust decision strategies to information content in a foraging task
Bumblebees flexibly adjust their learning strategies to the sensory challenge, balancing costs and benefits of multicue learning.
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NEWS! Our new paper in Current Biology shows that killer fly males employ aerial trickery to avoid being cannibalized by the females and achieve mating success. Think of a cheetah chasing a prey, the predator is faster, but the prey is more maneuverable.
🧪⚛️ What is going on within NSF? What is an X-Lab? More on today's news of cuts. nanoscale.blogspot.com/2026/06/bad-...
Bad to worse at NSF? (June 2026 edition)
This is a US research ecosystem post. Feel free to skip if this isn't your cup of tea. I'm showing my internet age in thinking that the rig...
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Comet 3I/ATLAS, the interstellar visitor that blew through our solar system, might have been a truly ancient relic. A new analysis of its unusual composition suggests the comet could be up to 12 billion years old, dating from the earliest era of our galaxy. 🧪🔭 esawebb.org/news/weic2613/
Sporothrix brasiliensis is spreading worldwide, posing a epizootic risk to cats and zoonotic risk to humans. 🧪 #vetmed www.sciencenews.org/article/dead...
A deadly fungus that can infect cats and people is spreading
It’s just a matter of time before Sporothrix brasiliensis reaches the U.S. a CDC expert says.
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Fabulous news: #Cervical #cancer #mortality trends following #HPV #vaccination in England, 2001–24. Vaccines are a powerful way to prevent devastating cancers that kill young adults. We know this for #HBV too… let’s follow suit. 💪💉🧪 @thelancet.com @qmul.bsky.social www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Cervical cancer mortality trends following HPV vaccination in England, 2001–24: an analysis of population-based mortality data
Our findings provide the first robust national-level evidence, albeit observational, that high HPV vaccination coverage is associated with a substantial reduction in cervical cancer deaths. This is sh...
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We depend on cooperation for society to function. Despite how it may feel often (we constantly underestimate strangers’ willingness to cooperate), given a common task, two-thirds of people will choose to cooperate on it. 🧪 Link: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aec9483
New study on the evolution of primate cognition, brain size, sensory and motor functions, prompted by "recent work showing fishes perform as well as primates on various cognitive tests." 🐟🦍🧪 Great to see such broad comparative perspectives driving research. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Sensorimotor Complexity and Cognition as Predictors of Primate Brain Size
Objectives As animal brain size increases, cognitive performance generally increases. However, other key brain functions, such as the regulation of somatic processes, processing of sensory input, an...
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Monarch Butterfly (Danaus plexippus). From my book A Field Guide to Long Island Sound, Yale University Press. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300... 🧪🌿🌎🐡 #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #scicomm #butterflies #Monarch #MonarchButterfly
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Journal of Experimental Biology@jexpbiol.bsky.social · 2mo agoDEET is a key insect repellent that stops mosquitoes from biting but now research by @crlazzari.bsky.social & co reveals that the insects can learn to associate DEET with dinner if they smell it when dining on blood, leading them to bite people using DEET doi.org/10.1242/jeb....
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What does it actually take to build and maintain a durable research and innovation ecosystem? #ScienceHistory offers some clues, but it doesn’t fully prepare us for the influence of modern headwinds. But, looking at what China's progress does provide a more current example. (1/10) 🧪
Scientific figures can strongly influence how research findings are interpreted. This ‘How to’ Comment article in Nature Human Behaviour outlines a practical strategy for creating figures that communicate clearly across audiences and scientific contexts. go.nature.com/3R00b1t #Academicsky 🧪
The BRAIN Initiative has changed neuroscience, yet there is still a lot we don't know about the brain. BRAIN Initiative Director John Ngai shares a roadmap for the next decade and what's needed to achieve the next human health breakthroughs: https://bit.ly/4nVbmVP #studyBRAIN
🐙 Florida to end international export of manta rays for aquariums..The policy follows public outrage last year after a viral video showed the capture of a manta ray, destined for an aquarium in Abu Dhabi, off the coast of Panama City Beach. ⏬ www.orlandosentinel.com/2026/05/14/f...
Florida to end international export of manta rays for aquariums
The policy follows public outrage last year after a viral video showed the capture of a manta ray, destined for an aquarium in Abu Dhabi, off the coast of Panama City Beach.
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Smithsonian Fish Curator position announcement! Note the application dates of May 12 – June 2, 2026. Should be posted here tomorrow: trustcareers.si.edu#js-careers-j...
15 Minutes of Great Barracuda at the Neon Goby Dentist (Site 2) | 5.6.26
Coral City Camera | 15 Minutes of Great Barracuda at the Neon Goby Dentist (Site 2) | 5.6.26
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