Two years ago I was doing fieldwork working with this amazing model system, my Twitter post went viral! Today, the paper on nest architecture in Scaptotrigona depilis is out in Current Biology! You can download the full paper here authors.elsevier.com/c/1inWS3QW8S6D…

How can we fully understand animal #cognition? Our new paper in Current Biology proposes that identifying what an animal can't do (cognitive limits) is as important as showing what an animal can do. We address the challenges of studying cognitive limits cell.com/current-biolog…

Reati contro gli animali: giusto perseguirli, ma non penalizzando preventivamente chi li alleva rispettando le norme di legge, soprattutto per importanti scopi medico-scientifici  research4life.it/reati-contro-g…

Thrilled to share a *NEW PRE-PRINT* I’ve been working on for the last few years! Michael Sheehan, W. Freiwald, and I describe the neural correlates of individual facial recognition in a social wasp, Polistes fuscatus. biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 1/10

Check out our recent story highlighted in nature ! "How to freeze a memory" nature.com/articles/d4158…

Editor sending rejection emails before the weekend

"Yes, thank you, everything is ok at work"

Excited to share our latest paper in Journal of Experimental Biology! We explored the expression of GABA-related genes in the brains of honey bees naturally infected with DWV and their varying complex learning responses. With Fabio Manfredini journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/do…

“Wound-dependent leg amputations to combat infections in an ant society” Erik Frank, Keller Lab Learn more in Current Biology: cell.com/current-biolog…

Honeybees as workers in a bumblebee colony ... what kind of cross-species interactions happen? New paper by Eric Romero et al. in Apidologie. Drawing by Meredith Johnson @MeliponiniMere link.springer.com/article/10.100…

It’s no secret that animals see, hear, and smell differently to humans. Yet when we design experiments to test animal behaviour, we often inadvertently use ourselves as a reference point. A new #ProcB paper investigates these biases: ow.ly/sZIt50SEkNV Joanna Brebner

Il professor Giorgio Vallortigara del Centro interdipartimentale mente/cervello svilupperà uno strumento su tablet per ridurre l’impatto del disturbo lungo tutta la vita: ildolomiti.it//ricerca-e-uni…

Wow! Il nostro ultimo lavoro che racconta della stabile emergenza agricola in cui viviamo e dei conseguenti impatti sull'essere umano, gli impollinatori e l'ambiente, è disponibile qui per chiunque: doi.org/10.1016/j.scit… Luca Carisio noa #UNITO-DISAFA_INT Department of Veterinary Sciences DSV - UNITO Università di Torino

Numerosity but not spatial frequency guides preference in zebrafish larvae #Elisabeth_Adam Andrea Messina Mirko Zanon link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Se vi pagassero rinuncereste ai social? I social sono una trappola? Il mio commento riguardo a uno studio, con la preziosa opinione di Giorgio Vallortigara, oggi sul Giornale, per tutti noi scimmie con gli smarthphone: ilgiornale.it/autore/massimi…

"he's not the same since he published in Nature"

1+1=2 anche per gli zebrafish su Heliyon Cell #number #number_sense #arithmetic #zero Davide Potrich doi.org/10.1016/j.heli…

New research by our Prof. Massimo Turatto, Andrea Dissegna & Prof. Cinzia Chiandetti Università di Trieste reveals that Tenebrio molitor larvae can display goal-directed behavior! 🐛 More info🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s41598…

Researchers challenged longhorn crazy ants and humans with the same task: maneuvering a T-shaped object through two consecutive open doorways. Single humans always outperformed single ants, but ant groups could beat human groups. In PNAS: ow.ly/5vat50UwZAo

Discendiamo dalle scimmie? No. 7 luoghi comuni su Darwin e l’evoluzionismo da sfatare per il #DarwinDay. Il mio pezzo su ilGiornale: ilgiornale.it/news/scienze/d… UAAR Richard Dawkins Giorgio Vallortigara Sasha Grey Radio3 Scienza