Insect behaviour researcher, mostly working with ants lately. Looking at learning, information use, and basically trying to understand what they understand. And a hobbit in my free time.
Laure-Anne Poissonnier
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Excited to have our new paper published in Insectes Sociaux! Lasius niger ants discovering a pre-existing trail do not modify their trail-following behaviour with distance from the nest or motivation. The straightness of their trajectories was affected by how far they had walked before though! 🐜
Look at this 'roll into a package ball' behaviour by some Formica being carried between 2 of their nests. I love spring 😎
Have you ever wished you were a small insect, just so you could sleep in a flower? Now you do ;) #sleep #bee #flower
Social insect and cognition postdocs, check these positions in Berlin, with super nice supervisor Tomer! :)
🚨New paper🐜 For the same duration of stimulus, Lasius niger ants learn better from a positive (sugar water) than a negative (falling into water) experience. For appetitive side learning, a single trial leads to a memory of a couple of hours.
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Appel à candidature 2026 : Prix Jeunes Talents France L'Oréal-UNESCO Pour les Femmes et la Sciences. Toutes les infos ici: buff.ly/C6zqKSE date limite 23 mars 2026
Insects have been models of associative learning and its underlying memory mechanisms.
Research on the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster and the honeybee Apis mellifera yielded deep insights into the ...
Programme 2026 France L'Oréal-UNESCO - Pour les Femmes et la Science
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📣 1 WEEK TO GO! 🐜
Leaf-cutting ants don’t just build nests; they build climate-controlled cities.
🎥 Watch the teaser for Prof. Flavio Roces’ talk on their environmental adaptations.
🗓️Tuesday 29 July – 14:00 GMT
📍Live on YouTube : www.youtube.com/watch?v=qORc...
Le site pour le colloque 2025 de l'Union Internationale pour l'Etude des Insectes Sociaux est en ligne : iussi-sf-2025.sciencesconf.org
Au plaisir de vous retrouver à Condorcet du 18 au 20 juin !! 😃
We have not yet introduced #AnimalTA to the Bluesky community, but it’s a free and user-friendly tool for animal behavior research! 🕷️🔬 See here how it’s used to study spiderlings dispersal in our experiments. Have questions? Feel free to contact us! #Science #Spiders 🧪
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New research article! 📰
Poissonnier (curiousant.bsky.social),
tomerczaczkes.bsky.social et al. show that workers follow pheromone trails with fidelity, regardless of their foraging context 🐜
🔗 doi.org/10.1007/s000...
#SocialInsects #AntForaging #ChemicalCommunication #AntBehavior #Pheromones
