We are a small research team studying Orientation and Navigation in Birds 🐦⬛, Bats 🦇, and Butterflies 🦋 with a focus on Magnetoreception. Open Science and DIY enthusiasts.
Virtual home - www.magbbb.com
MagBBB Research Group
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Our central complex paper with Yi Peng Toh, Theodora Loupasaki, Basil el Jundi, @eahodge.bsky.social & @ebablab.bsky.social has now emerged, like a butterfly, in it's final form. Some heavy grant-writing induced heterochrony has delayed eclosion, but...finally done.
elifesciences.org/articles/107...
A piece about our study on anthropogenic electromagnetic noise out in @science.org “Silent interference” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#Engineering_Day:
Prototyping a flight simulator with different visual light cues placed inside magnetic coils to study spatial orientation in insects.
#NavigationNews
Animal magnetoreception in @science.org
🧭 Liver macrophages guide pigeons on cloudy days during homing
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
🦇 Electromagnetic noise disrupts orientation of migratory bats, with effects persisting for hours after exposure
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
🚨Job claxon🚨
4-year #Postdoc available in our lab in @camzoology.bsky.social developing molecular and anatomical approaches to mapping evolutionary changes in the brain, using #Heliconiini butterflies.
Come join us, we are nice. 🧪
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
Breaking news: Indiana University plant microbiologist Roger Innes has been locked out of his laboratory by the school in response to a request by one of his federal funders. The move comes after Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs. https://scim.ag/4tsDqRr
PhD Opportunity! 4-year funded PhD @uniexecec.bsky.social: “From cognition to conservation: using cognitive and behavioural research to enhance animal reintroductions”. Closes: 5 June 2026. Funding: @royalsociety.org (UK/Home students only). More info & to apply: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... 1/
Great news: The German Science and Humanities Council has recommended funding the new “NaviGate” research building at the University of Oldenburg - a globally unique facility for animal navigation research! 🐦🦇🦋🧭🔬
Congrats to the team and all SFB members involved! 🎉
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This is the first of many collaborations to build novel anatomical atlases. We want to expand advanced computational anatomy to new fields. If this sounds interesting, get in touch!
Working in R or #RStudio?
In this free virtual training course, Dr. Carlos Abrahams introduces R and RStudio as powerful tools for exploring, analyzing, and visualizing Kaleidoscope Pro outputs.
Sign-up for free: training.wildlifeacoustics.com/course/april...
A cognitive adaptation in Heliconius butterflies, accompanied by strikingly divergent changes in two principal insect integration centres, reveals that neural circuits can differ strongly in their pro...
How anthropogenic electromagnetic noise can affect living systems is a poorly understood impact of an increasingly urbanized natural environment, especially when occurring in a sublethal manner. In th...
www.science.org
Move comes after Roger Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs
The University of Exeter’s Centre for Ecology and Conservation, Penryn Campus, Cornwall, is inviting applications for a 4-year PhD studentship (UK fees), ideally commencing Sept 2026.
New NIU paper in @currentbiology.bsky.social, in collaboration with @neuroweiler.bsky.social and colleagues at the University of Oldenburg.
We built the first anatomical atlas for the Eurasian blackcap.
Paper: www.cell.com/current-biol...
More details: brainglobe.info/projects/bla...
