Postdoc in Insect Neuroscience 📍 Center for Mind/Brain Sciences, Trento University, Italy Seasonal adaptation in Drosophila suzukii: Functional brain imaging, Behaviour, Computational analysis 🌐 Details & Application: tinyurl.com/mpujed46 📅 Deadline: 31 Aug 📩 albrecht.haase@unitn.it 🌍 Please share!

We are excited to announce that #Behaviour2027 (XXXIX International Ethological Congress) will be taking place in Vienna, Austria! We are looking forward to having you all join us next year from August 23-27. Please follow and share!

UniTrento invites expressions of interest for 2026 fellowships for at-risk scholars: 1 Senior Post-Doc + 2 Junior Post-Master’s positions. For eligible foreign scholars, incl. refugees/asylum seekers/SAR-recognized scholars Deadline: 26 June CIMeC contact: Albrecht Haase 🛈 www.unitn.it/en/news/1001

📢 The University of Trento invites expressions of interest for #ScholarsAtRisk fellowships: 1 postdoc fellowship, 2 junior fellowships for researchers in all disciplines affected by conflict, displacement, or restrictions on academic freedom. Details: www.unitn.it/en/news/1001 #AcademicFreedom

Really happy to see our paper finally published in PNAS 🎉 We used honey bees to study how gut microbiota shape cognition and found that learning benefits only appear when the full microbial community is present — not with individual bacterial species alone. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

New mechanism for magnetic sensing in pigeons 🧭 Homing pigeons use magnetically responsive immune cells in their livers to sense Earth’s magnetic field, helping them navigate without visual cues like the sun. Published in Science: doi.org/10.1126/scie... @unibonn.bsky.social @unidue.bsky.social

Yesterday, a lecture hall at the Institute of Physics was named after our late colleague Lev Pitaevskii. Particularly fascinating was the talk given by Marina Sakharov Liberman, the granddaughter of Andrei Sakharov, on Lev’s fascinating life and work: mag.unitn.it/vita-univers... (English below)

1/8 Bees are essential for biodiversity & for the balance of ecosystems. They are also complex organisms, sensitive to environmental conditions & capable of remarkable behaviours. At @cimecunitrento.bsky.social, several lines of research have contributed to a better understanding of the world of 🐝🐝

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself! bluesky-map.theo.io I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

Bluesky Map

Interactive map of 3.4 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern.

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Public presentation (in Italian, in Trento) of our project on the impact of climate change on the health of pollinators:

CIMeC_UniTrento@cimecunitrento.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🐝 IBC: Impollinatori, biodiversità e cambiamento “Grazie alle api assicuriamoci il futuro” 📅 19/02 ore 18:00, Palazzo Benvenuti , Sala Nones (TN) Aggiornamenti, demo sperimentale e Q&A Intervengono: Debora Cont, Elisa Frasnelli, Davide Liga e Albrecht Haase Info: eventi.unitn.it/it/ibc-impol...

🚀 Hiring: Tenure Track Researcher at CiMeC, UniTrento! 🧠💻 Field: #CompLing, #AI & Cognitive Modeling. Join an interdisciplinary hub (AI + Neuroscience + Psych) in beautiful Trentino! 🏔️✨ 📅 Deadline: Feb 12, 12:00 CET 🔗 lavoraconnoi.unitn.it/bando-dr-val... #AcademicJobs #NLP

Postdoc position in systems neuroscience! Excited to recruit a postdoc for my lab at the University of Bonn. 🔬 In vivo physiology (Neuropixels, 2P/miniscope) 🐭 Head-fixed & freely moving behaviour 💡 Optogenetics/chemogenetics ⏳ Start: ASAP | Application deadline: 28.02.2026 More info below ⬇️

Our Master's program is now open for applications. The Neurophysics lab is engaged in the FBN track: Fundamental Behavioural Neuroscience.

CIMeC_UniTrento@cimecunitrento.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Applications are open for the 2026/27 MSc in Cognitive Science at @cimecunitrento.bsky.social. First-call deadline for non-EU applicants: 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝟰, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲. Apply now: corsi.unitn.it/en/cognitive... #cimec_unitrento #neuroscience

Scientists around former IMP group leader David Keays (@lmumuenchen.bsky.social show that #pigeons detect magnetic fields through their inner ear. Their discovery was now published in the journal @science.org: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... More: www.imp.ac.at/news/article...

A global screen for magnetically induced neuronal activity in the pigeon brain

How animals detect the Earth’s magnetic field remains a mystery in sensory biology. Despite extensive behavioral evidence, the neural circuitry and molecular mechanisms responsible for magnetic sensin...

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Preprint - Excited to present WHOLISTIC, which extends the concept of whole-brain functional imaging to the entire body. Pioneering work by incredibly talented Virginia Ruetten @vmsruetten.bsky.social, this platform reveals whole-organism cellular dynamics in vivo. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

PhD position in Magnetoreception Research!🐝🧠🔬 📍 Center for Mind/Brain Sciences #cimec_unitreno, University of Trento #unitrento, Italy Reception🦟,Neural processing🧠🔬,Behaviour🌀 🌐 Apply: phd.unitn.it/drcimec/116/... 📅 Deadline: June 5, 2025 📩 Contact: albrecht.haase@unitn.it 🌍 Please spread the word!

Control of odor sensation by light and cryptochrome in the Drosophila antenna #Drosophila

"Weak anthropogenic electric fields affect honeybee foraging" http://dlvr.it/TKvZJt @bristoluni.bsky.social @victoriamallinson.bsky.social‪, Fraser Woodburn, & Liam O’Reilly @cp-iscience.bsky.social

🐝 Happy World Bee Day, everyone! 🐝 RAI Leonardo showed on this occasion a short feature (in Italian) about our recent publication on imaging the brain of honey bees during sleep: www.rainews.it/tgr/rubriche... Min. 4:45 @cimecunitrento.bsky.social #Honeybees #Neuroscience #Sleep

Puntata del 20/05/2025 ore 14:50 | TGR Leonardo, Rubrica del TGR

TGR Leonardo. Leonardo è un telegiornale tematico, un'esperienza unica in Europa che coniuga l'attenzione all'attualità del quotidiano con il rigore della documentazione e dell'approfondimento. Tra gl...

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#Calcium_imaging in sleeping #bees: Antennal lobe neurons synchronise stronger during #sleep, likely due to reduced GABAergic coupling. #SNN simulations show reduced #odour processing, similar to human sleep: doi.org/10.1016/j.ne... Thanks to all collaborators at #CIMeC, e.g. @urihasson.bsky.social

Researchers at CIMeC UniTrento have observed brain activity in sleeping #bees🐝 The study reveals striking similarities with human sleep and offers insight into pollinator health and memory. 🛈 pressroom.unitn.it/comunicato-stampa/sleep-bees-so-human @neurophysicstn.bsky.social @urihasson.bsky.social

PhD position in Magnetoreception Research!🐝🧠🔬 📍 Center for Mind/Brain Sciences #cimec_unitreno, University of Trento #unitrento, Italy Reception🦟,Neural processing🧠🔬,Behaviour🌀 🌐 Apply: phd.unitn.it/drcimec/116/... 📅 Deadline: June 5, 2025 📩 Contact: albrecht.haase@unitn.it 🌍 Please spread the word!

#preprint: We mapped the structure and function of olfactory bulb circuits with in vivo 2-photon microscopy and synchrotron #Xray holographic nanotomography. doi.org/10.1101/2025... @yuxinzhang.bsky.social @andreas-t-schaefer.bsky.social @apacureanu.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk @esrf.fr

NITheCS Mini-school: 'An Introduction to Quantum Biology' by Dr Betony Adams (Stellenbosch University). Attend 4 lectures online – taking place on Wed 7, 14, 21 & 28 May 2025 @ 14h00-15h00 SAST. buff.ly/itI4ok9 #quantum #biology #quantumbiology #iyq2025

Glad to share this review of odor concentrations in nature versus experiments, just out in J Neurosci. Spoiler: they are far apart. We discuss implications for olfactory neuroscience and welcome debate. With @neuroboz.bsky.social @dewanlab.bsky.social, Betty Hong. www.jneurosci.org/content/45/1...

Dear colleagues fascinated by olfaction and taste! 👃🏾👅 We are happy to announce that the registration has started for the upcoming ESITO 2025 meeting taking place September 19-24, 2025 in Sardinia, Italy. Please register and submit your abstract here: events.gwdg.de/e/esito2025 Deadline: July 1st!

Open call for papers on #Olfaction and #Taste covering the full spectrum of these research areas. Deadline for submissions: 22 July 2025 Edited by @paulfeinstein-phd.bsky.social, Massimiliano Zampini, and myself. Please spread the word. @natureportfolio.nature.com www.nature.com/collections/...

Olfaction and taste

This Collection welcomes original research articles that investigate the senses of olfaction and taste. Animal studies as well as clinical studies that report ...

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Alcohol makes male fruit flies sexier! New study from Ian Keesey, Bill Hansson et al. in Science Advances shows that alcohol boosts sex pheromone production in male D. melanogaster, making them more attractive to females. But too much is a turnoff! www.ice.mpg.de/493119/PR_Ke...

Alcohol makes male flies sexy

Alcohol consumption has a direct and positive effect on the mating success of male fruit flies. This effect is due to the increased production of sex pheromones after alcohol consumption: males who ha...

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📢 CIMeC is now on BlueSky! From now on, we’ll be sharing updates from our Center for Mind/Brain Sciences, including research highlights, academic activities, events, and much more! 🔗 www.cimec.unitn.it #neuroscience #cognitivescience #unitrento #cimec_unitreno

New Primer on Bumblebees now out in Current Biology (with Guillaume Ghisbain & Denis Michez): www.cell.com/current-biol...