Professor of Sensory and Behavioural Ecology, Queen Mary University of London Author of The Mind of a Bee
London, England
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Lars Chittka retweeted
A good @NewYorker article (link below) by @shayla__love about recent work on insect pain (and other kinds of experience).
The initial stages of @matilda_gibbons's work, which is central, were improvised during Covid lockdowns. 1/
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Lars Chittka retweeted
Entomologists' views on #InsectWelfare are evolving. A recent study in @EcolEnt by @Bee_Bytes, Merritt Drewery & Bob Fischer provides valuable insights into the interest in insect welfare & the importance of ethical research guidelines.
Read the paper 🔽
royensoc.co.uk/news/what-do-…
ALT Treemap of selected reasons for concern about insect welfare (not mutually exclusive).
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Lars Chittka retweeted
Hyperspectral Imager paper out! High sensitivity UV to nearIR, radiance & reflectance, runs from a smartphone. Build the system for about $450 from 3D printed parts & off-the-shelf components.
Paper: doi.org/10.1186/s12915-024-0…
Intro video: piped.video/watch?v=9q8lyUpn…
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The latest issue of the New Yorker has a profile of the insect sentience squad, featuring Tilda Gibbons, Lars Chittka, Meghan Barrett, Sarah Skeels and me. (Link in reply.)
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We're delighted to see our study, "Mating proximity blinds threat perception", pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3919…, featured by @NatureSMB
Thank you for spotlighting our work!
nature.com/articles/s41594-0…
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A honeybee with two differently-coloured pollens (from the German Bee Journal). Bees are by no means preprogrammed to be flower-constant. If flowers of two species are equally rewarding & in close proximity, bees sometimes visit both
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See this Instagram post by @stadtbienenorg instagram.com/p/DDW73dYtYXx/…
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Over on Facebook, @LChittka has shown just how quickly #bees can learn: facebook.com/lars.chittka.9/…
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(Re-) discovered in my reprint collection- a 1972 study on individual recognition in a Crustacean
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New paper out in Animal Cognition: bumblebee social learning, Lego, and DeepLabCut 🙂 link.springer.com/article/10…
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"I fly, therefore I am"?? Not my choice of title, buut... the November issue cover story of Deutsches Bienenjournal (German Bee Journal) is a 6-page inteview with me about the minds of bees, illustrated with beautiful images by photographer Ingo Arndt
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Looking forward to giving a presentation at the Crick Institute in London this week. Also according to their website I have a whole new look, so come and see for yourself 😉
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Lars Chittka retweeted
Processing the travelled distance is crucial for vector-based navigation in insects. A new study shed some light on distance processing in the 🐝 brain.
journals.physiology.org/doi/…
@JNeurophysiol
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We have a PhD studenstip available in any area of insect cognition or welfare through the China Scholarship Council (CSC - Chinese applicants only) to start in September 2025. findaphd.com/phds/project/co…
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We're hiring! Please RT!
Exciting opportunities for #PhD students, #postdocs, and #research assistants to join us in exploring how the brain prioritises actions in conflict.
#Neuroscience #Drosophila
Interested? Get in touch! rezavallab.org/
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