#neuroethology is an active hashtag on Bluesky. In the last 30 days, 5 people shared 21 posts with it — around 1 a day. Activity is down 100% versus the previous week, peaking on Jul 27 with 4 posts.

Posts with #neuroethology

Andrew Iwaniuk

@evoneuro.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

For #WoodpeckerWednesday, a reminder that many birds have lateralized vision such that their visual acuity is often better on one side than another. The more you know! #birds #birding #ornithology #neuroethology 🪶🧪

A male downy woodpecker, small black and white woodpecker with a red patch on the back of its head, is perched on a willow trunk that has a crack in it. Its head is cocked to one side so that it can look into the crack with its right eye.

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Andrew Iwaniuk

@evoneuro.bsky.social

17 days ago

New paper out today led by @gallinaciega.bsky.social We show that seed-eating songbirds have enlarged a somatosensory nucleus, especially the part associated with the tongue, suggesting that seed-cracking is dependent on a fine sense of touch. #ornithology #neuroethology doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

A multipanel figure showing a cartoon of a songbird head, a cartoon diagram of a songbird brain, and three black and white images showing the cellular structure of the brain region we focused on, PrV. The following is the legend that accompanies the figure. (a) Shows in different colours the areas of the innervation in the head, beak and tongue by the three branches of the trigeminal nerve (V1-V3) and the hypoglossal nerve (XII) in a songbird and the respective areas of innervation in the principal sensory nucleus of the trigeminal nerve (PrV; based on Faunes & Wild [26]). (b–d) Microphotographs of Nissl-stained coronal sections through the principal sensory in nucleus of the trigeminal nerve (PrV) in three species of songbirds: (b) the pine grosbeak (Pinicola enucleator, Fringillidae); (c) the field sparrow (Spizella pusilla, Passerellidae); (d) the Carolina chickadee (Poecile carolinensis, Parulidae).

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Andrew Iwaniuk

@evoneuro.bsky.social

9 months ago

A reminder to anyone interested in #brains #birds or behaviour, our new book is available for FREE as an ebook in addition to print copies. #neuroethology #neuroskyence #ornithology 🧪🧠🪶 direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...

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Bird Brains and Behavior: A Synthesis

From two avian neurobiologists, a captivating deep dive into the mechanisms that control avian behavior.The last few decades have produced extensive resear

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Pauline Fleischmann

@cataglyphilosophy.bsky.social

7 days ago

#ICN2026 has been fantastic 🤩 ✅️ Great #science 🧪 ✅️ Meeting old friends 🤗 ✅️ Getting to know new people 🤝 ✅️ Beautiful venue 🇨🇦 ✅️ #Neuroethology at its best 🧠❤️ Thanks @neuroethology.org for a wonderful conference! 🐜🐝🐸🦎🐛🦋🪰🐦🕷🦇🐀🐘

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Andrew Iwaniuk

@evoneuro.bsky.social

10 months ago

New paper out today on hippocampus neuron morphology in homing and feral pigeons. 🧵 link.springer.com/article…. #neuroskyence #neuroethology #anatomy

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Homing and feral pigeons differ in hippocampal formation neuron size: a Golgi study - Brain Structure and Function

Artificial selection for behavioural traits can significantly affect the anatomy of brain regions related to the behaviour under selection. The homing pigeon (Columba livia) is a prime example of how ...

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Andrew Iwaniuk

@evoneuro.bsky.social

12 months ago

For anyone interested, here is a link to a CBC Radio interview this morning about our new book on bird brains and behaviour: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-... And the open access link can be found in my bio. #birds #neuroskyence #neuroethology #Canada 🪶🇨🇦🧪🧠

A flyer for the book Bird Brains and Behavior: A Synthesis authored by Georg F. Striedter and Andrew N. Iwaniuk. The book cover features photos of a turkey vulture, song sparrow, and whimbrel as well as a drawing of an albatross brain.

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International Society for Neuroethology

@neuroethology.org

over 1 year ago

We just re-locate our twitter/X-history with the help of @blueark.app and then our moving will be final. Please help us to build a new #neuroethology community here by asking colleagues to follow us and by using hashtags or linking @neuroethology.org so that we can share your content 🧪🧠🦋🪲🐝🦑🐟🦐🐜🐦🐸🐢🦈🪼

International Society for Neuroethology @neuroethology.org

Dear #ISN members, neuroethologists & followers, the ISN council decided to agree that we delete our X account 👋 We will continue to update you here on #Bluesky & we look forward to creating a new #neuroethology community to discuss neurothology topics & research 🧠🧪 Please share in your networks 🙏

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International Society for Neuroethology

@neuroethology.org

over 1 year ago

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Andrew Iwaniuk

@evoneuro.bsky.social

10 days ago

This afternoon at #ICN2026 in Vancouver @evolsara.bsky.social will be talking about Dodos! And if you miss it, keep an eye out for the paper next week! #ornithology #neuroethology

A multipanel image featuring three rows. The top row are ventral, semi-transparent views of the skull of a Nicobar pigeon (left) and Dodo (right). The middle row are lateral, semi-transparent views of the skulls of a Nicobar pigeon (left) and Dodo (right). In the bottom row are three pinkish blobs that represent the brains of the Nicobar pigeon, Dodo, and Rodrigues Solitaire. In all three brains, the olfactory bulbs are highlighted in a brighter pink.

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Andrew Iwaniuk

@evoneuro.bsky.social

5 months ago

My annual reminder that contrary to claims made by other labs, the hummingbird brain is NOT the size of a grain of rice. It's closer to a peanut. The brain-rice comparison is a misquote of a news article of one of our early papers. #themoreyouknow #ornithology #neuroskyence #neuroethology

A photo of: a side view of an Anna's hummingbird brain, an uncooked grain of white rice, a peanut and a Canadian 10 cent piece.

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Jerome Beetz

@beetzjerome.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

I am so excited to share the incredible news that I have received funding from the DFG to start my Emmy-Noether group in Würzburg next year to study the neural mechanisms of the bee's waggle dance including their spatial memory. #Neuroethology

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Jerome Beetz

@beetzjerome.bsky.social

10 months ago

Insect spatial memory is thought to be based on panoramic snapshots that are modelled as retinotopic images. This idea won't allow a distinction of landmarks from the scene. Unexpectedly, our data suggest that 🐝 learn 3D-objects as individual landmarks. #neuroethology www.biorxiv.org/content/1….