Postdoc Research Associate | Insect Robotics team @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social | Ants / Behavioural experiments / Neuromorphic modelling
Florent Le Moël
Glad to be here, the old place really started to stink...
These "follow starter packs" are great, I already have a very science-y feed only 1 day in!
🪰How does a fruit fly walk or fly in a perfectly straight line — even at high speed? It’s not just sharp vision. A sophisticated neural computation is at work.
🧠New study led by @champalimaudf.bsky.social Eugenia Chiappe.
📖 www.fchampalimaud.org/news/researc...
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We usually assume 🐜 ants 🐜 learn views when facing their goal, but our data shows that it is not necessarily the case!
We combined field experiments with a biologically constrained model to show how a two-stage neural circuit (MB -> CX) could allow this:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
It's summer and TinyBVH updates are slow, but something cool happened nevetheless:
Florent Le Moël sends word that Python bindings for TinyBVH are now available.
Check out the repo:
github.com/FlorentLM/py...
Great stuff!
I know there's a 𝒍𝒐𝒕 going on right now, but I couldn’t be prouder to share this long-incubated labor of love: the complete connectome of the male 𝐷𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑎 optic lobe 🧠🪰
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Florent Le Moël
Florent Le Moël
Florent Le Moël
An Eciton burchellii army ant submajor carrying prey back to the nest. Submajors are a specialized porter caste with disproportionately long hind legs. This allows them to push themselves off the ground and to carry even bulky prey items slung underneath the body.
