Dreaming of a cloudy sky | Associate Prof. | Computer Science & BioFrontiers, CUBoulder | Ext. Faculty, Santa Fe Institute | www.peleglab.com
Orit Peleg
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Fun to play a small part in this new work led by Tsevi Beatus and team: when the lights go off, honeybees simply stop flying and fall!
(unlike flies and mosquitoes, which pull off smart maneuvers)
Thanks to Richard Terrile in our lab for turning the lights off on bees, in the name of science 🐝🪰🦟
I’m honored to join the Scouts of the Hypothesis Fund @hypothesisfund.bsky.social and help bring beautiful, hard-to-categorize, and easy-to-underestimate biological questions to the fore. Excited for this!
Honeybee swarms do not come together and fall apart in the same way 🐝
In this new preprint led by Danielle Chase, we report how to trick swarms to repeatedly assemble and disassemble in front of our cameras, while tracking individual bees in 3D!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
Some of you saw a preview of this result at my Cosyne talk last week. We may have had too much fun working on this worm-fly model 🤣🤓🤣
(The digital sphinx may be imagery, but the lessons are real.)
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👋 Meet #HFScout Orit Peleg (@oritpeleg.bsky.social), trained as a physicist + computer scientist whose research combines theory, computation, experiments, & field biology to study how groups of organisms sense, decide, & build together, e.g. the fascinating collective behavior of honeybees🐝. 1/
Orit Peleg
Orit Peleg
15 researchers from the United States and Canada have won awards in the second year of Scialog: Neurobiology and Changing Ecosystems, cosponsored with @allenphilanthro.bsky.social, the Frederick Gardner Cottrell Foundation, and @kavlifoundation.org.
Orit Peleg
Orit Peleg
How do fireflies synchronize their magical light shows? BioFrontiers Institute researcher Orit Peleg will present her findings on the mathematical rules behind firefly synchrony at the American Physical Society’s 2026 Global Physics Summit on March 16. #APSSummit26
https://bit.ly/4ru1L8e
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In this amazing multidisciplinary collaboration, we report our early experience with the @openclaw-x.bsky.social ->
Six cross-disciplinary projects to advance fundamental understanding of how neural systems adapt to today’s rapid environmental changes have won awards in the second year of Scialog: Neurobiology and ...
🤩 We’re thrilled to announce 4 new Hypothesis Fund Scouts - congratulations and welcome to Orit Peleg, Kay Bidle, Denise Okafor, and Cigall Kadoch! Follow along today to learn more about each new Scout and join us in celebrating them! 1/
Bing Wen Brunton
Summary: Upon sudden darkness in mid-air, fruit flies and mosquitoes maintain flight and perform a new startle maneuver; in contrast, honey bees crash down.
🧵 New preprint led by @bingbrunton.bsky.social, @elliottabe.bsky.social, @lawrencehu.bsky.social
We gave a worm brain control of a fly body and it walked
What did we learn? Nothing, other than deep reinforcement learning is effective
We call it the digital sphinx
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder)
Hypothesis Fund
Engineers have uncovered the mathematical rules fireflies follow to sync up their flashes.
