Do bright lights change how you dance? 🔆💃
Waggle-dancing honeybees interpret bright UV & green as the sun, but dim UV as a patch of sky.
Thanks Keram Pfeiffer @uni-wuerzburg.de for trusting me with your data & @jgraving.bsky.social for the circular GLMM.
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Foraging honeybees rely on a celestial compass to navigate to and from the hive, using the sun’s position as an orientation reference. When the sun is hidden from view,bees can determine its azi...
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Our findings on bees' photoreceptors are now officially published in Biology Letters of the Royal Society Publishing!! Thanks again for a productive collaboration @jjfosterlab.bsky.social and @gregoeur.bsky.social !!
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Exciting preprint from our very own @gkolyfetis.bsky.social about coupled photoreceptors in the Dorsal Rim Areas of the eyes of honeybees and bumblebees. 🐝👁️🧭
Congratulations George! Thank you @insectlabsu.bsky.social, @egkanias.bsky.social and Barbara Webb @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social for providing µCT data and modelling expertise, very neat combination. 🐝👁️🧭
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@gkolyfetis.bsky.social @uni-konstanz.de presenting his work on bee navigation at the annual meeting of the Beekeepers of Baden in Radolfzell 🍯🐝. Thank you for the invitation! Great to see the public interest in science and find out what we can learn from each other. 👁️🧭
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George Kolyfetis
I am thrilled to share my second PhD manuscript! We modelled bee polarisation vision and tested two navigational models. Many thanks to @jjfosterlab.bsky.social and all our collaborators (@egkanias.bsky.social,@edinburgh-uni.bsky.social,@insectlabsu.bsky.social) for such a productive collaboration!
George Kolyfetis
I'm really happy to share the first preprint of my PhD work in @jjfosterlab.bsky.social! During a fruitful collaboration with @gregoeur.bsky.social, we uncovered a surprising feature of bees' eyes!
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I'm really happy to share the first preprint of my PhD work in @jjfosterlab.bsky.social! During a fruitful collaboration with @gregoeur.bsky.social, we uncovered a surprising feature of bees' eyes!
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George Kolyfetis
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George Kolyfetis
From eye anatomy to navigation: a biologically accurate model of bees polarisation vision https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.01.729196v1
