#neuroethology — Public Fediverse posts

🧠 Interesting review by Montague & Kocher on #naturalistic #neuroscience: Nature-inspired neuroscience argues that neuroscience gains by looking beyond a few standard model organisms. Across the animal kingdom, nervous systems have evolved many different solutions for sensing, acting, and learning. Embracing this diversity may reveal both shared principles and mechanisms that mainstream models have missed:

📝 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conb.2026.103202

#Neuroethology #Evolution #AnimalBehavior

Had a blast teaching the "Animals in Motion" course last week as part of @neuroinformatics Open Software Week!

All course materials—including hands-on coding exercises—are freely available as an online book:
🔗 https://animals-in-motion.neuroinformatics.dev/latest/

This should be a useful resource for anyone interested in using free, open-source tools to track animal motion from video and extract quantitative descriptions of behaviour from the resulting data.

Thanks to @SoftwareSaved and @SWC_Neuro for the support.

#neuroscience #ethology #neuroethology #opensource #openscience

We’re excited to welcome Dr Wen-Sung Chung ( University of Queensland) as plenary speaker at #ABL2025! 🙌
Discover how sexual dimorphism and neural plasticity shape the brains—and behaviours—of octopuses. A deep dive into cognition beyond the vertebrate world. 🐙

Learn more, register, submit an abstract : https://ablaoc25.sciencesconf.org/

#OctopusBehaviour #Neuroethology #Plasticity

We welcome the 2nd plenary speaker at #ABL2025. 🙌

Dr. Anna Stöckl (Universität Konstanz) reveals how insect pollinators interpret floral patterns to guide foraging. From hawkmoth vision to neural templates—this talk will bridge behaviour, neuroethology & sensory biology. 🦋🪻

#InsectVision #Neuroethology #Pollinators #Hawkmoths

#PostocJob: Postdoctoral Researcher in computational neurophysiology and neuroethology

"A fully-funded 24-month (with 36 additional months possible) postdoctoral position is now available in Dr Arthur Lefevre group at the Institute of Cognitive Sciences in Lyon, France.

Topic: Study of neural bases of acoustic communication and affiliation in freely moving and spontaneously behaving marmosets using neurophysiological data already acquired and/or to be acquired. Additionally, we will investigate the effects of oxytocin, a neurohormone that modulates social behavior, on communication and affiliation, as well as the underlying neural activity. [...]"

Deadline: July 2025

-> for more info, contact Dr. Arthur Lefevre on the linked website, or check out the full job advert in this pdf: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/xdpuelsb2lawvfxj2md8c/Postdoctoral-Researcher-in-computational-neurophysiology-and-neuroethology.pdf?rlkey=be5ypcv90w733phg6umfslpic&st=xco6f3w7&dl=0

#Neuroscience #NeuroEthology #NeuroMarmoset

As part of this week-long event, I will be hosting a 2-day “Animals in Motion” workshop in London, with the generous support of @SoftwareSaved.

It’s for anyone who wants to get hands-on experience with using open-source software to track animals from video footage and analyse their motion.

Attendance is free of charge, but spots are limited. A small number of travel stipends are available. More info at https://neuroinformatics.dev/open-software-week/

#neuroscience #behavior #ethology #neuroethology #python

From: @neuroinformatics
https://mastodon.online/@neuroinformatics/114348660994777557

The International Society for Neuroethology has a grant for disadvantaged scientists investigating the mechanisms of animal behaviour. Apply for funds to help overcome any barriers you face!

Membership fees can be included in your application.

Details here: https://www.neuroethology.org/diversity-award/

#diversity #edi #neuroethology #science #funding

movement—our free, open-source Python package for analysing animal motion—just got an upgrade (v0.0.21) and it’s first blogpost. Good time to check it out.

#neuroscience #neuroethology #ethology #behavior

From: @neuroinformatics
https://mastodon.online/@neuroinformatics/113624043410144421

Arrived in Berlin for a week full of #neuroethology and #neuroscience
https://www.icn2024-berlin.org/

Yoo-hoo we received our new #SpikeGadgets order!!
It has all we need to do 128ch and 32ch wired or wireless recordings!!

For context this is in my new lab at the #UniversityOfGlasgow (apparently we might be the only ones in the UK to use SpikeGadgets ?!?!) with Roddy Grieves as PI! Our lab name is #NeuroeSC for #Neuroethology and #SpatialCognition 😁

Anyone here working on #PoseEstimation #animalbehavior #neuroethology ?

You may be interested in the free and open-source Python 🐍 package I’m currently working on, together with @adamltyson @bd_peri and others.

It’s called movement, and it’s made for analysing the pose tracks produced by pose estimation frameworks, like #DeepLabCut and #SLEAP.

Website: https://movement.neuroinformatics.dev
GitHub: https://github.com/neuroinformatics-unit/movement

It’s still in early development 🏗️ but we appreciate feedback/feature requests.

Check out the detailed thread on our team’s mastodon account: @neuroinformatics

Anyone here working on #PoseEstimation #animalbehavior #neuroethology ?

You may be interested in the free and open-source Python 🐍 package I’m currently working on, together with @adamltyson @bd_peri and others.

It’s called movement, and it’s made for analysing the pose tracks produced by pose estimation frameworks, like #DeepLabCut and #SLEAP.

Website: https://movement.neuroinformatics.dev
GitHub: https://github.com/neuroinformatics-unit/movement

It’s still in early development 🏗️ but we appreciate feedback/feature requests.

Check out the detailed thread on our team’s mastodon account: @neuroinformatics

Anyone here working on #PoseEstimation #animalbehavior #neuroethology ?

You may be interested in the free and open-source Python 🐍 package I’m currently working on, together with @adamltyson @bd_peri and others.

It’s called movement, and it’s made for analysing the pose tracks produced by pose estimation frameworks, like #DeepLabCut and #SLEAP.

Website: https://movement.neuroinformatics.dev
GitHub: https://github.com/neuroinformatics-unit/movement

It’s still in early development 🏗️ but we appreciate feedback/feature requests.

Check out the detailed thread on our team’s mastodon account: @neuroinformatics

Anyone here working on #PoseEstimation #animalbehavior #neuroethology ?

You may be interested in the free and open-source Python 🐍 package I’m currently working on, together with @adamltyson @bd_peri and others.

It’s called movement, and it’s made for analysing the pose tracks produced by pose estimation frameworks, like #DeepLabCut and #SLEAP.

Website: https://movement.neuroinformatics.dev
GitHub: https://github.com/neuroinformatics-unit/movement

It’s still in early development 🏗️ but we appreciate feedback/feature requests.

Check out the detailed thread on our team’s mastodon account: @neuroinformatics

Anyone here working on #PoseEstimation #animalbehavior #neuroethology ?

You may be interested in the free and open-source Python 🐍 package I’m currently working on, together with @adamltyson @bd_peri and others.

It’s called movement, and it’s made for analysing the pose tracks produced by pose estimation frameworks, like #DeepLabCut and #SLEAP.

Website: https://movement.neuroinformatics.dev
GitHub: https://github.com/neuroinformatics-unit/movement

It’s still in early development 🏗️ but we appreciate feedback/feature requests.

Check out the detailed thread on our team’s mastodon account: @neuroinformatics

"High Resolution Outdoor Videography of Insects Using Fast Lock-On Tracking"

We glue a tiny reflector on a bee. Using its reflection, robotic Fast Lock-On (FLO) tracking keeps a telescope focused on the bee flying in the wild. FLO also works from a drone.

Check out the movies!

Huge thanks to the #VolkswagenStiftung for supporting this work at @unifreiburg

#insects #animal #bees #pollinators #agriculture #biomechanics #neuroethology #video #ScienceMastodon

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.12.20.572558

@volephd
I see #NeuroEthology in your profile so I would say follow #NeuroJobs!
If you’re looking in the UK I’d strongly recommend this position (feel free to ask me more info about it!)
https://www.nature.com/naturecareers/job/12804781/research-associate/

@elduvelle_neuro I agree with @beneuroscience @kofanchen and @alicia_izquierdo here. One very broad way to look at it could be the classic nature (genes, evolution --> #neuroethology) vs nurture (environment, epigenetics --> behavioral #neuroscience)?

To slightly rephrase what others have stated - #neurothology studies the mechanisms that the brain has evolved to function in its natural conditions. If I were to draw a venn diagram for this, there could be/is an intersection between the 2 sets (behavioral neuroscience and neuroethology) but they are 2 different sets. There's #EfficientCoding based on response to natural statistics of the animal's environment that I think lies at the intersection. While there may be a behavioral response to a stimulus in the lab, it doesn't mean that the stimulus even exists in the statistics of the animal's natural environment.

In a lab, you can rewire the auditory cortex of a ferret's brain and they can start "seeing" with their auditory cortex but it doesn't mean that in a "normal" animal's brain that's what happens.

https://www.nature.com/articles/35009043
https://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/25/science/rewired-ferrets-overturn-theories-of-brain-growth.html
https://web.mit.edu/surlab/publications/Newton_Sur04.pdf

I think of it this way -- there could be several mechanisms to achieve the same output (behavior) in a lab setting but that doesn't mean that the brain actually uses any or all of those mechanisms in its natural environment. Heck, even in the natural environment the brain could (and very likely does) exhibit #degeneracy where distinct structural units could give rise to the same function (behavior) under different circumstances.

Also, given the diversity of responses to the OP, adding #neurobuzz @neurobuzz 🙂​

@elduvelle_neuro I agree with @beneuroscience @kofanchen and @alicia_izquierdo here. One very broad way to look at it could be the classic nature (genes, evolution --> #neuroethology) vs nurture (environment, epigenetics --> behavioral #neuroscience)?

To slightly rephrase what others have stated - #neurothology studies the mechanisms that the brain has evolved to function in its natural conditions. If I were to draw a venn diagram for this, there could be/is an intersection between the 2 sets (behavioral neuroscience and neuroethology) but they are 2 different sets. There's #EfficientCoding based on response to natural statistics of the animal's environment that I think lies at the intersection. While there may be a behavioral response to a stimulus in the lab, it doesn't mean that the stimulus even exists in the statistics of the animal's natural environment.

In a lab, you can rewire the auditory cortex of a ferret's brain and they can start "seeing" with their auditory cortex but it doesn't mean that in a "normal" animal's brain that's what happens.

https://www.nature.com/articles/35009043
https://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/25/science/rewired-ferrets-overturn-theories-of-brain-growth.html
https://web.mit.edu/surlab/publications/Newton_Sur04.pdf

I think of it this way -- there could be several mechanisms to achieve the same output (behavior) in a lab setting but that doesn't mean that the brain actually uses any or all of those mechanisms in its natural environment. Heck, even in the natural environment the brain could (and very likely does) exhibit #degeneracy where distinct structural units could give rise to the same function (behavior) under different circumstances.

Also, given the diversity of responses to the OP, adding #neurobuzz @neurobuzz 🙂​

@elduvelle_neuro I agree with @beneuroscience @kofanchen and @alicia_izquierdo here. One very broad way to look at it could be the classic nature (genes, evolution --> #neuroethology) vs nurture (environment, epigenetics --> behavioral #neuroscience)?

To slightly rephrase what others have stated - #neurothology studies the mechanisms that the brain has evolved to function in its natural conditions. If I were to draw a venn diagram for this, there could be/is an intersection between the 2 sets (behavioral neuroscience and neuroethology) but they are 2 different sets. There's #EfficientCoding based on response to natural statistics of the animal's environment that I think lies at the intersection. While there may be a behavioral response to a stimulus in the lab, it doesn't mean that the stimulus even exists in the statistics of the animal's natural environment.

In a lab, you can rewire the auditory cortex of a ferret's brain and they can start "seeing" with their auditory cortex but it doesn't mean that in a "normal" animal's brain that's what happens.

https://www.nature.com/articles/35009043
https://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/25/science/rewired-ferrets-overturn-theories-of-brain-growth.html
https://web.mit.edu/surlab/publications/Newton_Sur04.pdf

I think of it this way -- there could be several mechanisms to achieve the same output (behavior) in a lab setting but that doesn't mean that the brain actually uses any or all of those mechanisms in its natural environment. Heck, even in the natural environment the brain could (and very likely does) exhibit #degeneracy where distinct structural units could give rise to the same function (behavior) under different circumstances.

Also, given the diversity of responses to the OP, adding #neurobuzz @neurobuzz 🙂​

@elduvelle_neuro I agree with @beneuroscience @kofanchen and @alicia_izquierdo here. One very broad way to look at it could be the classic nature (genes, evolution --> #neuroethology) vs nurture (environment, epigenetics --> behavioral #neuroscience)?

To slightly rephrase what others have stated - #neurothology studies the mechanisms that the brain has evolved to function in its natural conditions. If I were to draw a venn diagram for this, there could be/is an intersection between the 2 sets (behavioral neuroscience and neuroethology) but they are 2 different sets. There's #EfficientCoding based on response to natural statistics of the animal's environment that I think lies at the intersection. While there may be a behavioral response to a stimulus in the lab, it doesn't mean that the stimulus even exists in the statistics of the animal's natural environment.

In a lab, you can rewire the auditory cortex of a ferret's brain and they can start "seeing" with their auditory cortex but it doesn't mean that in a "normal" animal's brain that's what happens.

https://www.nature.com/articles/35009043
https://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/25/science/rewired-ferrets-overturn-theories-of-brain-growth.html
https://web.mit.edu/surlab/publications/Newton_Sur04.pdf

I think of it this way -- there could be several mechanisms to achieve the same output (behavior) in a lab setting but that doesn't mean that the brain actually uses any or all of those mechanisms in its natural environment. Heck, even in the natural environment the brain could (and very likely does) exhibit #degeneracy where distinct structural units could give rise to the same function (behavior) under different circumstances.

Also, given the diversity of responses to the OP, adding #neurobuzz @neurobuzz 🙂​

@elduvelle_neuro I agree with @beneuroscience @kofanchen and @alicia_izquierdo here. One very broad way to look at it could be the classic nature (genes, evolution --> #neuroethology) vs nurture (environment, epigenetics --> behavioral #neuroscience)?

To slightly rephrase what others have stated - #neurothology studies the mechanisms that the brain has evolved to function in its natural conditions. If I were to draw a venn diagram for this, there could be/is an intersection between the 2 sets (behavioral neuroscience and neuroethology) but they are 2 different sets. There's #EfficientCoding based on response to natural statistics of the animal's environment that I think lies at the intersection. While there may be a behavioral response to a stimulus in the lab, it doesn't mean that the stimulus even exists in the statistics of the animal's natural environment.

In a lab, you can rewire the auditory cortex of a ferret's brain and they can start "seeing" with their auditory cortex but it doesn't mean that in a "normal" animal's brain that's what happens.

https://www.nature.com/articles/35009043
https://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/25/science/rewired-ferrets-overturn-theories-of-brain-growth.html
https://web.mit.edu/surlab/publications/Newton_Sur04.pdf

I think of it this way -- there could be several mechanisms to achieve the same output (behavior) in a lab setting but that doesn't mean that the brain actually uses any or all of those mechanisms in its natural environment. Heck, even in the natural environment the brain could (and very likely does) exhibit #degeneracy where distinct structural units could give rise to the same function (behavior) under different circumstances.

Also, given the diversity of responses to the OP, adding #neurobuzz @neurobuzz 🙂​

Nightingales are great singers, but how well can they hit the tone? 🎶 Scientists from Daniela Vallentin’s group at our institute found that nightingales can imitate the pitch of whistles in real time! Read more: https://www.bi.mpg.de/news/2023-07-vallentin

#nightingale #birdsong #vocalcommunication #ornithology #birdresearch #researchnews #maxplanck #maxplanckinstitute #neuroethology #animalbehavior #behavioralneuroscience

Hello synapse.cafe!

Just migrated from sciencemastodon, a perfectly good instance, but I think this will feel a little more like home. Anyway, #introduction time again!

I’m an assistant #professor at the University of Manitoba in #Winnipeg. I run the #Invertebrate #Neuroethology #Laboratory, where we study #AnimalBehavior, #Neuroscience, and #BehavioralEcology. We are interested in the #NeuralCircuits of #Learning, #Memory, and #DecisionMaking, especially with respect to #TimeMemory, other areas of #Chronobiology, and #MultisensoryIntegration. We work mostly with #HoneyBees (#Apis #mellifera), but we like all #inverts!

@PessoaBrain @SussilloDavid @cogneurophys @complexsystems Hmm, I agree about the importance of capturing #multisensory #ActiveSensing and #natural species typical #behavior. I would not agree that there has been little dev’t of these experiments except in rodents. (?!) In any event we need more! #neuroethology neuroscience

#introduction

I’m an assistant #professor at the University of Manitoba in #Winnipeg. I run the #Invertebrate #Neuroethology #Laboratory, where we study #AnimalBehavior, #Neuroscience, and #BehavioralEcology. We are interesting in the #NeuralCircuits of #Learning, #Memory, and #DecisionMaking, especially with respect to #TimeMemory, other areas of #Chronobiology, and #MultisensoryIntegration. We work mostly with #HoneyBees (#Apis #mellifera), but we like all #inverts!

Okay, #introduction time.

I'm in the middle of a weird disciplinary leap right now but #neuroethology might be the right name. I did my PhD at UT Austin on #EnergyBalance and social context as factors in decisions about whether to signal in singing mice, with a pretty standard #BehavioralEcology perspective; currently, I'm working with #SLEAP and #PoseEstimation on mouse models of neurodivergence in the Grissom lab at UMN, experimenting with #BigData large scale behavioral collection.

Okay, #introduction time.

I'm in the middle of a weird disciplinary leap right now but #neuroethology might be the right name. I did my PhD at UT Austin on #EnergyBalance and social context as factors in decisions about whether to signal in singing mice, with a pretty standard #BehavioralEcology perspective; currently, I'm working with #SLEAP and #PoseEstimation on mouse models of neurodivergence in the Grissom lab at UMN, experimenting with #BigData large scale behavioral collection.

Okay, #introduction time.

I'm in the middle of a weird disciplinary leap right now but #neuroethology might be the right name. I did my PhD at UT Austin on #EnergyBalance and social context as factors in decisions about whether to signal in singing mice, with a pretty standard #BehavioralEcology perspective; currently, I'm working with #SLEAP and #PoseEstimation on mouse models of neurodivergence in the Grissom lab at UMN, experimenting with #BigData large scale behavioral collection.

Okay, #introduction time.

I'm in the middle of a weird disciplinary leap right now but #neuroethology might be the right name. I did my PhD at UT Austin on #EnergyBalance and social context as factors in decisions about whether to signal in singing mice, with a pretty standard #BehavioralEcology perspective; currently, I'm working with #SLEAP and #PoseEstimation on mouse models of neurodivergence in the Grissom lab at UMN, experimenting with #BigData large scale behavioral collection.

Okay, #introduction time.

I'm in the middle of a weird disciplinary leap right now but #neuroethology might be the right name. I did my PhD at UT Austin on #EnergyBalance and social context as factors in decisions about whether to signal in singing mice, with a pretty standard #BehavioralEcology perspective; currently, I'm working with #SLEAP and #PoseEstimation on mouse models of neurodivergence in the Grissom lab at UMN, experimenting with #BigData large scale behavioral collection.

A lot has changed since my #introduction:
Now I'm a #postdoc in Liège (Belgium) trying to figure out how #neuroethology works.
I will be working with two #Peromyscus species.
My focus is the processing of #smell, especially #predator #odours, but most likely also #SocialOdors

I'm still looking for more #AnimalBehaviour, #BehavioralEcology, and #ChemicalEcology folks to follow!

#AnimalBehavior
#biology
#ecology
#mammals
#science
#ethology
#Evolution
#ChemicalCommunication
#semiochmistry

A lot has changed since my #introduction:
Now I'm a #postdoc in Liège (Belgium) trying to figure out how #neuroethology works.
I will be working with two #Peromyscus species.
My focus is the processing of #smell, especially #predator #odours, but most likely also #SocialOdors

I'm still looking for more #AnimalBehaviour, #BehavioralEcology, and #ChemicalEcology folks to follow!

#AnimalBehavior
#biology
#ecology
#mammals
#science
#ethology
#Evolution
#ChemicalCommunication
#semiochmistry

A lot has changed since my #introduction:
Now I'm a #postdoc in Liège (Belgium) trying to figure out how #neuroethology works.
I will be working with two #Peromyscus species.
My focus is the processing of #smell, especially #predator #odours, but most likely also #SocialOdors

I'm still looking for more #AnimalBehaviour, #BehavioralEcology, and #ChemicalEcology folks to follow!

#AnimalBehavior
#biology
#ecology
#mammals
#science
#ethology
#Evolution
#ChemicalCommunication
#semiochmistry

A lot has changed since my #introduction:
Now I'm a #postdoc in Liège (Belgium) trying to figure out how #neuroethology works.
I will be working with two #Peromyscus species.
My focus is the processing of #smell, especially #predator #odours, but most likely also #SocialOdors

I'm still looking for more #AnimalBehaviour, #BehavioralEcology, and #ChemicalEcology folks to follow!

#AnimalBehavior
#biology
#ecology
#mammals
#science
#ethology
#Evolution
#ChemicalCommunication
#semiochmistry