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Laure-Anne Poissonnier

@curiousant.bsky.social

Insect behaviour researcher, mostly working with ants lately. Looking at learning, information use, and basically trying to understand what they understand. And a hobbit in my free time.

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Laure-Anne Poissonnier@curiousant.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Excited to have our new paper published in Insectes Sociaux! Lasius niger ants discovering a pre-existing trail do not modify their trail-following behaviour with distance from the nest or motivation. The straightness of their trajectories was affected by how far they had walked before though! 🐜

Insectes Sociaux@insectessociaux.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New research article! 📰 Poissonnier (curiousant.bsky.social), tomerczaczkes.bsky.social et al. show that workers follow pheromone trails with fidelity, regardless of their foraging context 🐜 🔗 doi.org/10.1007/s000... #SocialInsects #AntForaging #ChemicalCommunication #AntBehavior #Pheromones

Laure-Anne Poissonnier@curiousant.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨New paper🐜 For the same duration of stimulus, Lasius niger ants learn better from a positive (sugar water) than a negative (falling into water) experience. For appetitive side learning, a single trial leads to a memory of a couple of hours. #ProcB royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/....

Single-trial learning leads to mid-term memory formation in ants during an appetitive, but not an aversive, task | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Insects have been models of associative learning and its underlying memory mechanisms. Research on the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster and the honeybee Apis mellifera yielded deep insights into the ...

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AnimalTA@animalta.bsky.social · 2y ago

We have not yet introduced #AnimalTA to the Bluesky community, but it’s a free and user-friendly tool for animal behavior research! 🕷️🔬 See here how it’s used to study spiderlings dispersal in our experiments. Have questions? Feel free to contact us! #Science #Spiders 🧪