A new documentary "Secrets of The Bees" will air on National Geographic on 31 March and land on Disney+ on 1 April and our bees are in it! See here for the trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mej2...
The aim is to be someone else’s nemesis.
FlyBase, a crucial resource for drosophila research, has lost its funding because its grant is awarded to Harvard. The team is scrambling to find other sources of funds, including donations from labs. Read more: www.thetransmitter.org/community/fl... @flybase.bsky.social
Exciting paper from our lab out today:
New insights into how bees use flight movements—such as body, head, and eye wiggles—to actively support their brain’s pattern learning and recognition with remarkable accuracy could inspire advances in next-generation AI.
elifesciences.org/articles/89929
Our latest paper reveals how active vision via scanning dynamically refines spatiotemporal neural representations, enabling efficient pattern recognition in minimal systems.
A step forward in understanding embedded cognition & AI
www.sheffield.ac.uk/news/new-stu... #bee #ActiveVision #Neuromorphic
A new preprint by our group 🧪🪰 and the culmination of many years of work! Learn how houseflies see the world clearly even while they’re dodging our swats…
prosopagnosia is my new favorite word, partly because i like the sound of it and partly because im relieved to know there’s a word for this thing i always thought was just a personal failing on my part
Lars Chittka
Calli McMurray
Alastair Meeks
Small Brain Cognition Lab
Really happy to present my work at @behaviour2025.bsky.social yesterday! Taking our puzzle solving bees on tour, all the way to India. So far a lovely and productive conference! 🐝
New paper by our group! 🧪🐝 Confirmation of the spread of "behavioural traditions" in groups - and between groups! - of bumblebees, using the string-pulling paradigm! With @procenko.bsky.social @larschittka.bsky.social and @minibraincognition.bsky.social .
doi.org/10.1016/j.an...
HaDi MaBouDi
The team behind the Drosophila genetics database is now requesting donations from labs to keep the resource afloat.
A new discovery of how bees use their flight movements to facilitate remarkably accurate learning & recognition of complex visual patterns could mark a major change in how next-generation AI is develo...
