Bee cognition, pollination & adaptation | ARC DECRA Fellow | Head of the Integrative Cognition, Ecology & Bio-inspiration (ICEB) Group | @MonashBiol | She/Her
Melbourne, Australia
Joined April 2015
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How can we fully understand animal #cognition?
Our new paper in @CurrentBiology proposes that identifying what an animal can't do (cognitive limits) is as important as showing what an animal can do. We address the challenges of studying cognitive limits cell.com/current-biology/ful…
Have you ever wondered how bees could help humans develop a language to communicate with aliens?
Our new article in @ConversationEDU explains our thought experiment suggesting mathematics as a universal language.
theconversation.com/can-we-u…
Dr Scarlett Howard retweeted
Is there an #innate sense of #number in the brain? Our paper is out in Cerebral Cortex @ElenaLorenzi3 @DKobylkov
with commentaries by
@Toshiya3Matsu3 @berent_iris @b_butterworth @benmarkharvey #Dos_Santos @TheBeesearcher #andreas_nieder
academic.oup.com/cercor/arti…
Do you order numbers like a bee?
Our new piece in @ConversationEDU explains the complexities of how tiny brains (and larger ones) represent and link the concepts of space and number 🐝🔢🧠
@ZazaKuo @OzBeeUVBG @beeleslieng
theconversation.com/bees-cou…
Congratulations to PhD Rob Moore on his first publication! 🐝🗺️ Rob showed how non-traditional data sources (e.g. social media and community science) can alter species distribution models using a case study on native #Australian #bees. See our article: sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
Congratulations to @ZazaKuo on her first publication! Zaza's research explores how space and quantity are associated in the honeybee brain 🐝🔢🧠As it turns out, bees order quantities from left-to-right with a bias for the right side of space.
Full article-sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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📢 Call for papers! Dr. Vanessa Kellermann & I are co-editing a Journal of Insect Physiology special issue: "Non-eusocial Bees and Pollination: Biology, Behaviour, and Physiology in Climate Change Conditions." 🐝🌍 Submit by Dec 31, 2024!
More information: sciencedirect.com/special-is…
Our research has been featured in @CSIROPublishing's blog.
Our article encapsulates a decade of comparative research principally conducted in Australia on the topic of understanding how different bee species tolerate changing environmental conditions.
blog.publish.csiro.au/invert…
Last week the ICEB Lab celebrated the submission of @lin_yq0527's Honour's thesis 🎉 Congratulations to Yuqing on her incredibly hard work and truly fascinating results. Yuqing has expanded our understanding of plant-pollinator interactions and evolution🐝🌻🪻🌹🌷🪷🥀🐝
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This is not an easy feat! Amazing work by @LChittka and the bees 🐝
I try to do a lot of science communication, but I've been outdone on my own research here. Way to make research on bees ordering zero accessible and perhaps more humorous than it already was, @ScientistSpidey!
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Congratulations to @lin_yq0527 on the final seminar for Honours! 🐝🌻🎉It has been a great pleasure to work with this team!
Yuqing's research will greatly advance our understanding of pollinator flower choice and plant-pollinator evolution.
@beeleslieng @OzBeeUVBG
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Catching up with our newest collaborator - small brain, but big ideas! 🪰
@OzBeeUVBG
ALT Image shows a fly on a wooden table looking in the direction of a book - "Principles of neural science".
Dr Scarlett Howard retweeted
How would your animal answer these questions? Get inspired by the interview, written by the authors of this @J_Exp_Biol article advocating for rethinking behavioral research design.
👉journals.biologists.com/jeb/…
@Monika_K_Scholz @SSerenaDing @elegansdiversus @LabLiao @RhythmicSpikes
Awesome presentation by Honours student, @lin_yq0527, discussing the foraging decisons of honeybees at @VicBioCon in the "Flight of the Pollinators" session.
#VicBioCon24 @OzBeeUVBG
"Unveiling the homes of insects"
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Huge congratulations to @SesaSR02 on her poster presentation at @VicBioCon. This poster represents an immense amount of work that bridges the gap between ecology questions and computer science methods. #VicBioCon24 @AnimAlanDorin
This is the reason we should have all meetings outside! You might get the chance to see blue-banded bees (Amegilla). Of course, then the 3 of us spent 10 minutes trying to capture a picture...
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Shout out to all the fabulous collaborators, friends, colleagues, and students I am honoured to work with on International Day of Women and Girls in Science
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Keep up the wonderful breakthroughs advancing our understanding of the natural world.
Love this panel discussion title at @VicBioCon #VicBioCon24 - "Not so cute and fluffy!"
I'm always keen on discussions of how to conserve, support, and popularise less charismatic species.
Seems like a good place to push my own publication on this topic: wellbeingintlstudiesreposito…
