Several days in and slightly late with this tweet, but thanks very much particularly to @maikekittelmann.bsky.social and @hannazwaka.bsky.social for both giving fantastic talks, covering hardcore neuroanatomy to genetics to neuroethology.

First day of the @dzg-gerzoolsociety.bsky.social 2026 in beautiful Münster. Lot's of neuro planned for today. @danielkronauer.bsky.social 's plenary talk on his magnificent ant work, followed by our two invited speakers @hannazwaka.bsky.social and @maikekittelmann.bsky.social . 👏👏

🚨 I AM HIRING a 3-year postdoc & 4-year PhD student 🚨 [PLEASE SHARE WIDELY] My Emmy Noether @dfg.de funded Neural Circuit & Systems Evolution lab (🌟) at the @unimainz.bsky.socialÍ wants to start existing. So..., what do we need? WELL... we need you! APPLY UNTIL 21 SEPTEMBER.

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🚨 I am very happy (and relieved!) to announce that I secured Emmy Noether funding by the @dfg.de to start my own group at @unimainz.bsky.social , hosted by Marion Silies & Jakob von Engelhardt in August! 🚨 Website coming soon - open for name/logo suggestions. They better be funny tho!

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🚨Reminder to register for our mini symposium at the DZG 🚨

DZG Neurobiology@dzg-neurobiology.bsky.social · 3mo ago

website is updated now, so go register, simply by sending us an email!

🚨Reminder to register for our mini symposium at the DZG 🚨

DZG Neurobiology@dzg-neurobiology.bsky.social · 3mo ago

website is updated now, so go register, simply by sending us an email!

Angelika is invited speaker for our Neuro satellite/mini symposium of the DZG 2026. Really looking forward to hearing about her work!!

Universität Münster@uni-muenster.de · 3mo ago

Biologist Angelica Coculla is researching the internal circadian clock of fruit flies. A recent paper published in the journal Science shows that the insects can reset their internal clock through their behaviour. With the molecular rhythm, the sleep-wake cycle returned. #Biology

website is updated now, so go register, simply by sending us an email!

DZG Neurobiology@dzg-neurobiology.bsky.social · 3mo ago

We will have an interesting mini-symposium just before the conference on Monday 7 September 9-13, about "Neural Circuit Understanding in Changing Environments: Perturbance and Adaptation" dzg-meeting.de/en/satellite... Register - it's free!

#DZG2026 Registration Deadline is TODAY. dzg-meeting.de/en/welcome-ms/ As your Neurobiology prophets, we wanted to point to a few things for ya.

Woohoo, glad to hear NeuroDoWo went well! Fantastic job getting this organised!

@margaritahabib.bsky.social · 4mo ago

NeuroDoWo 2026 was a success 🎉 Grateful for an amazing team, inspiring speakers & workshops, and fantastic participants. Special thanks to @jln99.bsky.social and our team and to all our supporters & sponsors! Especially @neurowissg.bsky.social @dzg-neurobiology.bsky.social but also so many more!

See what your summer can look like if you register to NeuroDoWo '26 Get to know Würzburg with your peers; you can have insightful discussions along the river or while eating ice cream! Register until March 10th in our website 📸Anna-Lena Wießler, Julian Nausester, Lissy Liebeskind, Margarita Habib

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NeuroDoWo@neurodowo.bsky.social · 8mo ago

🎉 Registration is officially OPEN! 🎉 Registration for the NeuroDoWo is now open! Join us for amazing talks, interactive workshops and networking events. 🎟️ Sign up now — scan the QR code or visit our website (see bio) 🗓️ Deadline: 10th March

Today is Friday, 13th, and we are missing 13 followers until we reach 1000 😱 Challenge for the end of the week: Can we reach a bluesky community of 1000 neuroethologists!? #Neuroethology 🧠🧪 Please share widely 🫶

Also encourage all your fellow neurethologists to become a member of the International Society of #Neuroethology 👩‍🔬👨‍🔬🧑‍🔬 You can find more information about ISN and the benefits of being a member here: ↘️ members.neuroethology.org/member-appli... ↙️

Membership Application - International Society of Neuroethology

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🎤We are thrilled to present our first keynote speaker giving the opening lecture. Meet Prof. Dr. Charlotte Förster from the University of Würzburg⏰ Get ready for an amazing talk not only about Chronobiology but also about her impressive career path. 📍GSLS University of Würzburg 📅8 june 2026

To all neurobiology PhD students in Germany: this looks amazing, go register :-)

NeuroDoWo@neurodowo.bsky.social · 8mo ago

The registration for the NeuroDoWo 2026 will open on February 15th🧠 While you wait, you can check out our program on the website🔍 👉🏼Link in bio We hope to see you soon! Stay tuned for more details👀 Suported by @biologists.bsky.social, @neurowissg.bsky.social and @dzg-neurobiology.bsky.social

Jointly sponsored by the German Neuroscience Society and the German Zoological Society, this is a fantastic opportunity for PhD Students and alike! Definitely attend!

NeuroDoWo@neurodowo.bsky.social · 10mo ago

🧠The NeuroDoWo is coming to Würzburg The NeuroDoWo is a conference where neuroscience and phd students are brought together! 📍Würzrburg, Germany 🗓️ 8th to 12th June 2026 Stay tuned for speaker announcements, workshops, and registration info #phdlife #neuroscience #wuerzburg #conference #neurodowo

📢 Join us, the Haberkern lab, @uni-wuerzburg.de for a postdoc studying neural circuit mechanisms of navigation. You’ll spearheading neurophysiology experiments on our brand new 2P! ⏳ Apply by 28th February 2026 Details: www.haberkernlab.de/docs/ENPostd... #neuroscience #academicjobs #postdoc

This looks like a fantastic graduate meeting by our EvoBIo colleagues of the DZG! 👏

Tobias Lenz@biotobi.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Please share: We are hosting the 2026 DZG evolutionary biology graduate meeting at Uni Hamburg on March 25-27: "Interactions and Coevolution: from Molecules to Species". #PhD students, early postdocs and advanced Master students in evolutionary biology are welcome to register! t1p.de/dzg2026evolbio

🚨We are looking for neurobiologists who are interested in joining our team as section speakers of the German Zoological Society. If you enjoy interacting with your fellow neuro-addicts, want to help shape the direction of our society and section, and have a knack for organizing symposia let us know🚨

🚨We are looking for neurobiologists who are interested in joining our team as section speakers of the German Zoological Society. If you enjoy interacting with your fellow neuro-addicts, want to help shape the direction of our society and section, and have a knack for organizing symposia let us know🚨

New paper covering what we think is a pretty nice and comprehensive overview over tools suitable for neuroethology in butterflies and moths. Also, check out the whole special issue if you're an insect neuroethologist. @neuroethology.org @dzg-neurobiology.bsky.social doi.org/10.1007/s003...

Emerging tools to advance neuroethology in butterflies and moths - Journal of Comparative Physiology A

Journal of Comparative Physiology A - Butterflies and moths have played historically important roles in developing our understanding of both ecology and evolutionary biology, and neuroethology. In...

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🚨 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 💬

Excellent talk by Andrea Adden of the @neuroluci.bsky.social lab @crick.ac.uk. @neuroethology.org @dzg-neurobiology.bsky.social Check out her Nature paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Delighted that my PhD student @v-kirsch.bsky.social received an award for her poster on RHODOPSIN 7 in the @dzg-neurobiology.bsky.social section. Many thanks to the @dzg2025berlin.bsky.social for a wonderful and inspiring meeting! #DZG #Drosophila #Rhodopsin7

DZG Neurobiology@dzg-neurobiology.bsky.social · last yr.

Next was @pingkalai.bsky.social of @uni-wuerzburg.de presenting work on Rhodopsin-7. More on this here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... :-) FIrst author Valentina Kirsch also had a poster at our poster session!

Our paper on central complex evolution in Heliconiini butterflies is now available as reviewed preprint at @elife.bsky.social 🎉🎉. Please check out the helpful and constructive reviews which we are going to address in the next weeks 🤗 elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre... @ebablab.bsky.social

José Borrero from Richard Merrill's lab studies how the visual acuity changes with age in different species of Heliconius butterflies and how it is related to brain morphology and neurogenesis. #dzg2025 @borreroja.bsky.social @dickmerrill.bsky.social

Yesterday we also had two fantastic invited speakers, representing also the wide diversity of approaches and model system that the section of neurobiology covers. @dzg2025berlin.bsky.social @neuroethology.org

🤩 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 · last yr.

Fascinating talk by @cataglyphilosophy.bsky.social at the #dzg2025 about her research on the magnetic compass of 🐜.

Additional @neuroethology.org highlights of the @dzg2025berlin.bsky.social on the second day: The second @dzg-neurobiology.bsky.social invited talk was by @beetzjerome.bsky.social from @uni-wuerzburg.de on his work on compass and place coding in insects 🧭🧠🦋🐝