Jerome Beetz

Simultaneous awake replay of multiple spatial representations www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

How does sensory-induced arousal affect spatial navigation? A new study @currentbiology.bsky.social discovered that an alerting sound recruit head-direction cells in the thalamus which enhances the fidelity of head-direction coding. 🐀🧭 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Neural coordination of wing and leg movements during a terrestrial threat display: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...

@neuroethology.org for those who teach neuroethology classes. Which book do you use or which reviews that are related to your research give a good overview of the topic?

Now online! A high-dimensional population code in the bat motor cortex during natural dexterous flight

How does a brain remember a particular orientation or goal? In this new fascinating paper from the Nagel lab, authors show the role of disinhibition in the head-direction circuit and the interaction of sensory input and ongoing behavior. Read it here 🪰🧭 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A chemical odour produced by naked mole-rat queens may suppress reproduction in other females, reports a study in @nature.com. The finding reveals a mechanism behind one of the most extreme social systems known in mammals: spklr.io/63325ErZKv #AnimalBehaviour #Neuroskyence

In his Conversation, Stefan Schuster tells us about archer fish, which hunt prey above the surface by squirting jets of water to knock them down and predict precisely where the morsel will land to intercept it before other fish arrive doi.org/10.1242/jeb....

I wanted to highlight the work of Alison Comrie et al. that recently came out in Neuron and I don’t think it is getting enough attention: paper: cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(26)00674-4 #neuroskyence

Usually, the orientation behaviour of migratory butterfly/moth species are tested when tethered in flight simulators at ground level. In this new study, monarch butterflies are tethered on a balloon to test their orientation behaviour at a height of 30 m. 🦋 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Mosquitoes escape with a higher success rate than fruit flies when attacked by dragonflies. Could they be using their sense of hearing to initiate escape maneuvers? We explore this question in our new (and improved) preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

When a fish sees the world move, it immediately swims with it. This is the optomotor response: a visual reflex found across animals that helps us maintain our position and orientation as our surroundings appear to drift. 🐟👀

Overall, our work shows the ability of our brain to flexibly allocate resources to solve memory based tasks!

After a long journey it's finally out! My work on navigation strategy-dependent hippocampal representations during plnning with Richard Morris is out on @natcomms.nature.com ! rdcu.be/iS72dYSzBxya

🦇 Bat1K's biggest paper yet is out. Largest bat genome + fossil study ever: 103 genomes, 44 fossils, 137 researchers. We rewrote the bat family tree! Bats likely originated in Europe ~65 million years ago, not Asia, Africa or Americas. @bat1kgenomes.bsky.social doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-11007-3

The cerebral cortex that is reading this sentence (yours, to be explicit) did not come out of nowhere. It has evolved over hundreds of millions of years... To study this evolutionary process, we decided to focus on non-avian reptiles for our new paper in Cerebral Cortex 🐢🦎🧠 🧵

🚨 new work from the lab! "Hippocampal astrocytic sequences emerge during learning and memory recall" by @ryguy.io & @rsuthard.bsky.social thank you to the entire team for your camaraderie and for muscling through science together 🧠 -- we welcome all feedback! nature.com/articles/s41...

Fantastic talk by Amy Courtney @amycourtneyyy.bsky.social on novel modes of neurotransmission in the octopus visual system 🐙🧠. Beautiful biology & a fascinating reminder of how much there is still to discover about the diversity of nervous systems! @msarscentre.bsky.social @thembauk.bsky.social

Congrats to @ethoges.bsky.social’s Niko Tinbergen postdoc award winner @ahanaaurora.bsky.social 🏆 A talk on social learning and vocal communication in bats was the perfect way to close out #ECBB2026 🦇🦇🦇 Best of luck with your exciting new projects and field site!

Interesting review on what we can learn about sleep in insects. 🪰🐝 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Prestigious, fully funded, 3 yearlong postdoctoral fellowship ($90,000/year salary plus benefits) in neural computation and NeuroAI is available starting October 2027. The Candidate must have a very strong CV, including empirical publications. See our lab's page for our research directions.

Imaging of activity in the telencephalon of adult zebrafish moving through a virtual reality revealed amazingly precise, structured internal representations of spatial environments. And they get better over time! Great work by Kim! Thanks also to Sriram and Jan. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Over 80% of insect species live in the tropics, yet these are often the species we know least about. Our new BioScience paper asks why and how we can change this. We cannot conserve insects if tropical species remain invisible to science and policy. doi.org/10.1093/bios... @monashbiol.bsky.social

This is brilliant! I was born in 1745 in the Bengal Delta, married at 14, widowed at 19, 2 daughters, lived to 77. Lived through the Laki year-of-no-sun when I was 38

We are hiring! Come join us in the Straw Lab at the @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social . Seeking a scientist to work on the neural and computational mechanisms of visual navigation in honey bees. uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00005...

We wrote a commentary with @martingiurfa.bsky.social on the book 'The Edge of Sentience' written by @birchlse.bsky.social, published in Animal Sentience. It was hard to keep it short, this book inspired me a lot during my PhD ! 🐝🧠

Textbook: tracking position during navigation is primarily the job of the hippocampus. Recent findings suggest a more complicated story. Recording >20k neurons brainwide, we indeed find spatial representations in every region! With @kenneth-harris.bsky.social and @carandinilab.net

Hydra vulgaris is one of few Cnidarians living in freshwater. To avoid hypoosmosis intracellularly, Hydra periodically excretes water. @wayamamo.bsky.social from Rafael Yuste's lab studied the neural control of osmoregulation in Hydra. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

JCPA published a special issue dedicated to Peter Narins, a former ISN president. Peter is an inspiring neuroethologist and a great mentor. Many ISN members are strongly influenced by his research which gets underlined by 21 papers featured in this issue. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

We are looking to hire a postdoc to join our team and help build a dynamic neuronal atlas of a sea slug brain that grows and adds neurons. sites.google.com/a/umass.edu/...

Olfactory cues are undoubtedly relevant for fruitflies seeking for rotten 🍊🍒🍐🍌. The Ruta demonstrates the neural computations of olfactory-guided vector memories in the central complex and their relevance for plume tracking. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Very nice work setting out efference copy circuitry in fly visual system from @fleyes.bsky.social lab 👏 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

How do you recognize who’s who when you live mostly in the dark? 👂👃✋ Our review explores how naked mole-rats use sound, smell, and touch to maintain their remarkable social organization! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @garyrlewin.bsky.social, Firdevs Murad, Wenhan Luo, Alison Barker

We are hiring a #postdoc to work on our NSF funded project on metabolic rate as a driver of individual variation in treefrog acoustic communication. Please spread the word to potentially interested candidates (or apply if you are one of them): jobs.okstate.edu/jobs/postdoc...

Looming stimuli, rapidly expanding cues ⚫️ often elicit escape behavior. @puh23.bsky.social et al. show that hoverflies mostly respond to ventral looming stimuli matching neural data. It is still unclear whether the behavior aims escape or landing. journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

Fantastic new work from Nikita Finger in the lab, investigating sensory conflict in Egyptian fruit bats by fitting them with prisms!!

In this month’s “Liftoff,” our Q&A series with PIs who opened new labs, @jhennig.bsky.social discusses fostering a culture of polite and constructive disagreement and @droligo.bsky.social talks about the value of being kind. By @franciscorr25.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/liftoff-new-...

Do you have trouble sleeping when away from home or your partner and family? In our latest, we find that shells 🐚🏠 (homes) and conspecifics 🐟❤️ (family) control (or mask) circadian rhythms in shell dwelling cichlid fish: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

How did cognition evolve? 🧠 On the sandy bottom of Lake Tanganyika, scientists asked wild fish how they make decisions, revealing how two closely related species diverge in surprising ways. Paper ▶️ www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Story ▶️ www.ab.mpg.de/1452608/news...

Different lab, different continent, different species — same curiosity 🇯🇵 The extensive PDH-ir arborization pattern of a male Sieboldius albardae dragonfly 🐉🪰. The projections are color coded from anterior (blue) to posterior (yellow). Drosophila brain for scale. #FluorescenceFriday Detail images 👇

📣OPEN CALL for Associate Editors for the Journal of Zoology📣 We are looking for active researchers with relevant expertise to join our editorial team! For more information and how to apply, please visit zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/... @elissazcameron.bsky.social

#eNeuro: Why does vision loss early in life heighten the sense of touch? Using blind and sighted opossums raised in different environments, Ramamurthy et al. found tactile experience, rather than vision loss itself, may drive this compensatory plasticity. https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0059-26.2026

Neuroscience hasn’t been able to investigate the role of astrocytes in memory because “all the tools we have to understand how the brain works are related to neurons." #neuroskyence By @davidbrz.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/memory/are-p...

Check out our newest research paper! We looked at touch in Surinam toads (Pipa pipa), showing huge neural representation of and reliance upon their unusual fingertips. rdcu.be/fy3SE

New research from #ProcB: A morphological phylogenetic approach to the evolution of symmetry in animals doi.org/10.1098/rspb... | #Ecology #Evolution #Palaeontology

Two weeks left to apply for our postdoc position on vision in trilobites! Come and explore the exciting world of reconstructing vision in the fossil record, using some of the most iconic extinct animals to grace our oceans! Please reach out + RT! (*Deadline in fact 23.59 BST on the 26th August!*)

Female garter snakes were clearly much more social than males, and older females were found among friends most frequently of all, researchers reported in 2023. #ScienceMagArchives https://scim.ag/4fzev9J

Check out this new resource from the Jarvis lab! Zebra finches have been a traditional model for neuroethology, and the genome will be very useful to study the evolution of communication and behavior. 🐧 🧬 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

What happens when evolution adds an extra pair of eyes? Male mayflies evolve an extra pair of dorsal compound eyes, the Turbanate eyes, thought to help males detect females during mating swarms. we have investigate how this remarkable evolutionary novelty develops. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Beautiful comparative study on the active sensing strategies employed by Rousettus aegyptiacus and Carollia perspicillata that were navigating in a "L" shaped corridor🦇. Sonar gaze reliably anticipated the direction of subsequent heading changes in both species. link.springer.com/article/10.1...