Luigi Baciadonna @lbaciadonna.bsky.social on how a stressful experience modulates attention in bumble bees 🐝 at #ICN2026 in Vancouver. Great talk !!

Really happy to have given a talk on our project (with @lbaciadonna.bsky.social , @martingiurfa.bsky.social and @davidbaracchi.bsky.social ) on the Fear-like state in honey bees 🐝 at #ICN2026 #ICN2026Vancouver! Grateful for the invitation and the YRI conference grant from @affect-evo.bsky.social 🙌

#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! 🐜🐝🐸🦎🐛🦋🪰🐦🕷🦇🐀🐘

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 🇹🇼

Andrea Ferretti from the lab of Niels Rattenborg talks about his research on sleep in geese. One of his take home messages says "Geese are more like dolphins than seals" with regard to sleep.

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?

ISN business meeting is starting now. 🚨You can also vote where the #ICN2030 will take please, i.e. join the meeting 😉 🌎🌍🌏

Wolff lab really stepped up this year at #ICN2026. Mike Rauscher with the ISN Young Investigator Award and Alex Gurgis with a Heiligenberg Student Travel Award. So proud!

And #ICN2026 FINAL session of particpants talks covering diverse topics: 1️⃣ #Vertebrate #MotorControl 2️⃣ 3D #navigation and #SpatialCognition 3️⃣ Chemosensory-guided #behavior 4️⃣ #Modulation of social behavior #icn2026vancouver #neuroethology

The FINAL plenary of #ICN2026 is "How parrots speak" by Michael A. Long 🦜💬 #icn2026vancouver #neuralprocessing #communication #language #speech

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

Bird nests as evidence of avian culture. @laurenguillette.bsky.social at #ICN2026 tells us about her fun research showing how zebra finches develop preferences for colours of strings depending on what the majority of their neighbouring nests look like and their own preferences. @neuroethology.org

Sanjay Sane at #ICN2026 introduces us to the fascinating world of #insect architecture, and tells us how termites build their impressive mounds. @neuroethology.org

Dear neuroethologists, please take Eric Warrant's plea seriously and become a member of our society @neuroethology.org. There are many advantages, e.g. 🧠 Eligibility for awards and prizes 🧠 Receive newsletter with news, fun facts and job ads 🧠 Right to vote and organise symposia #icn2026vancouver

The last #ICN2026 sessions of invited talks start 😊😭 🧠 #NeuralBasis of Acoustic #Communication across Vertebrates 👀 Periphery is key: adaptations to natural scenes in the visual periphery of #arthropods & vertebrates 🏛 Animal Architecture 🧭 #Orientation across modalities #icn2026

And here we go: Final day of the #ICN2026 is started by Maude Baldwin with the plenary talk "Functional #evolution of taste and digestive system in #vertebrates" #icn2026vancouver

Great plenary talk by Joe Parker on the evolution of symbiotic entrenchment at #ICN2026 ! A story on CHC and chemical mimicry, seeking ant hosts and hugging them to not die? 🤯

At #ICN2026 @pipilika.bsky.social brings Kannada to Canada and gives a fantastic plenary on ant navigation in deserts, the night andVR (never mind his early interest in cricket(s)) ಸಕ್ಕತ್ talk!

Mantra to live bye #ajaynarendra at #ICN2026 @neuroethology.org What a great talk about #ants and their incredible abilities to find their way home.

Hey #ICN2026! Come by my poster this afternoon if you want to hear about some beautiful tiny sea stars and their beautiful tiny eyes!

Stop by poster panel 99 (and/or 69 as I have two posters in this session) to check the latest FERAL updates! @neuroethology.org #icn2026

...and if you happen to be at #ICN2026, Griffin Badalamente will present parts of this work on Friday!

Simon Sponberg shows us in his talk that all muscles act like an orchestra where spikes are precisely timed and coordinated in flying hawkmoths. #ICN2026

@chrisjdallmann.bsky.social from @jan-ache.bsky.social lab talks about motor control in fruit flies and how sensory feedback modulates motor output. Please also take a look on their preprint. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Yossi Yovel talks about the acoustic world experienced by hundreds of bats leaving a cave and how they succeed navigating in such a cocktail party nightmare. The second part of his talk was about acoustic cognitive maps in bats. 🦇🗺

Frederico Pedraja talks about collective sensing in electric fish. Electric fish could eavedrop on electrolocation signals of conspecifics. #ICN2026

Fred Wolf talks about the kinematics of jumping mouse lemur and the role of vision to estimate the leaping distance. #ICN2026

This morning we had three higlighted talks. First, Matasaburo Fukutomi talks about how social interaction affects the timing of electric organ discharges in pairs of weakly electric fish.🐠

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

Hui Chen from @lundvision.bsky.social continues the insect compass session with a talk about light-dependent magnetic navigation in bogong moths.