An interesting commentary by Jordanna Sprayberry on our recent @pnas.org paper (pinned on my profile) showing lateralized visuomotor control in hawkmoths 👁️🥤🦋

Cool to discuss additional context of neural circuit structure and ultimate consequences for such control axes

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Postdoc Alert! New Postdoc Position for 3 years (max 3 more)- offers the freedom to develop your own research projects in close interaction with my group. Research on invertebrates preferred. Apply by October 31. Please RP.
zoologie.uni-greifswald.de/en/organizat...
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DigiFish: A flexible open-source tool for animating realistic virtual fish and reconstructing visual fields from tracking data https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.02.755892v1

How spiders use dragline silk to control abseiling and jumping https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.29.755426v1

Generation of a transgenic cephalopod https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.23.753964v1

I'm excited to share our new preprint: Generation of a transgenic cephalopod
tinyurl.com/pc86jxz8

Cephalopods (cuttlefish, octopus & squid) are crazy critters that dynamically camouflage to their surroundings by changing the color, pattern, & texture of their skin, which they control w their brain.

In our newest issue, we interview Jennifer Mather, whose work involves cephalopod behaviour and human–animal interactions at the University of Lethbridge. Read the Q&A to find out what drew Jennifer to cephalopods and more! www.cell.com/current-biol...

New year, new conference! Registration for the next Annual Meeting of the Ethological Society is officially open! 🤩
Save the date, sign up, and join us in beautiful Konstanz 24–27 February, 2027 @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social
www.ab.mpg.de/etho-2027

Variability of Head Motion Reveals Development of Spatial Attention https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.23.753739v1

🚨New paper🚨

Garden #spiders are everywhere right now—big, beautiful ladies, still in the hub of their 🕸️
But they are not just waiting, at night they also 💤! We found behavioral signatures of sleep in the wild. Out in #AnimalBehaviour w/ @mherberstein.bsky.social

tinyurl.com/uznvv58y
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We just published the first study showing that a bird-of-prey goes through an ontogenetic window of exploratory play.

Young goshawks look like young cheetahs when tossing pine cones into the air, chasing after them.

Just published in Animal Behaviour:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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We are hiring! Come join us in the Straw Lab at the @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social . Seeking a scientist to work on the neural and computational mechanisms of visual navigation in honey bees. uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00005...

An interesting commentary by Jordanna Sprayberry on our recent @pnas.org paper (pinned on my profile) showing lateralized visuomotor control in hawkmoths 👁️🥤🦋

Cool to discuss additional context of neural circuit structure and ultimate consequences for such control axes

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Many thanks to @lochlanw.bsky.social and @prelights.bsky.social for highlighting our preprint!