Incredibly relieved & happy to share a preprint I've been working on for 7+ years (among other things), a project close to my heart & the foundation of my European Research Council (ERC) grant. My awesome lab members rolfslab & a sabbatical Dartmouth Psychological and Brain Sciences let me finally put this together. A🧵 1/n

Flight control of the banded digger bee

Excited to be presenting a poster on my research at the upcoming Foraging & Information Seeking conference in Lyon 🦋🌷🔍 let’s connect if you’re also going to be there!

🚨PhD siren #2!🚨A 4 year PhD project based in Exeter with Martin Stevens in collaboration with us taking a deep dive into the visually-guided colour change behaviour of chameleon prawns🦐Funded by SWBio DTP to start in Sept 2025! Apply here: swbio.ac.uk/animal-behavio…

📡9 days left to apply! Applications are due 11:59pm CET through the DAAD Rise portal. Get in touch if you want to know more about this opportunity and please share with any students you think may be interested.

Ever wondered how to move a tongue the length of your body to some yummy food? Tanvi Deora & Anna Stöckl anna-stoeckl.bsky.social summarised what is known about the most elegant of tongue-waggling - the sensorimotor control of the hawkmoth proboscis - in a review [email protected] t.ly/gZDHX

Hip, hop, and up in the air! Bird-inspired legs give winged drones multiple locomotion abilities and save energy when jumping for take-off nature.com/articles/s4158… EPFL with Auke Ijspeert and Monica Daley UC Irvine Open access (pre-review) version: arxiv.org/abs/2412.02389

Excited about our new paper showing that spider webs of all geometries are adjusted to capture precisely the amount of energy per unit mass spiders require (B), including creating in some (D) a hollow space within the web to grow the web's surface area without producing more silk

Cross-posting with 🦋☁️, but if you’re going to be at the Foraging/Information Seeking conference in Lyon this week, let’s talk! Excited to be presenting a poster (see preview) about visuomotor control, individuality, and computational ethology. 🔍

Happy to share our new publication! We found that spiders have super sensitive olfaction! Male spiders use their legs as “nose” to sniff out partners. Olfaction with legs—Spiders use wall-pore sensilla for pheromone detection | PNAS pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Cephalopod representation for Fastnacht! Eduardo Sampaio

The first paper from the lab is out on biorxiv - enjoy reading! Social context and interactions influence our behavioral decisions - the same is true for the little fly larva: Multimodal social context modulates behavior in larval Drosophila doi.org/10.1101/2025.0…

The arms of an octopus are multifunctional and they can even sense light. Chang & Hale recently showed that when light hits the skin of the arm, it sends a signal all the way to their brain suggesting this feature might help camouflage themselves journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/22… 🧵1/2

The new book Doctors by Nature "invites deeper reflection on what it means to medicate, how landscapes shape access to medicine, and whether we humans are as discerning in our self-medicating choices as our nonhuman counterparts." Read the #ScienceBooks Review:

I'm really happy to share the first preprint of my PhD work in JJFosterLab! During a fruitful collaboration with Gregor Belusic, we uncovered a surprising feature of bees' eyes! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

I am excited to share our new paper on anchovy retina connectomics! This was a great collaboration with Prof. Heß at LMU Munich and an incredible opportunity to explore neural circuitry in a unique visual system. bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

👀 For more than 15 years, Janelia researchers have been on a mission to catalogue the neurons of the fly optic lobes & develop genetic tools to study them. This effort has culminated in a complete inventory of all the visual neurons in the fruit fly ➡️ nature.com/articles/d4158…

On May 22, we learned #SCIoI won’t continue as a DFG Cluster of Excellence. A turning point—but not the end. For 7 years, we explored what makes systems truly intelligent 🤖🧠 The science goes on. The vision remains. 🔗 Read more: scienceofintelligence.de/scioi-current-…

Particularly informative spatial cues produce a higher and narrower bump of activity in the Drosophila head direction system. These informative cues can instruct the remapping of other cues to produce a self-consistent map. nature.com/articles/s4159…

Nature research paper: Eye structure shapes neuron function in Drosophila motion vision go.nature.com/4kXZLlD