@sercansayin.bsky.social
Postdoc @ Excellence Cluster “The Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour” VR, locust behavior and neurobiology
@dulaclab.bsky.socialReposted by @sercansayin.bsky.socialThis was so long overdue!... optogenetics truly revolutionized neuroscience and more. Congrats @deisseroth.bsky.social
@bahllab.bsky.socialReposted by @sercansayin.bsky.socialNew preprint from the lab!
We built an atlas of functional ensembles across the zebrafish hindbrain, linking whole-hindbrain activity to behavior, structural organization, and molecular features.
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@roesslerdaniela.bsky.socialReposted by @sercansayin.bsky.social🚨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
@sercansayin.bsky.socialMormon crickets are the OG cannibalistic swarms.
@andrejbicanski.bsky.socialReposted by @sercansayin.bsky.socialNow accepted and published --- with many thanks to the referees for helping sharpen the manuscript. Long time since the first notes. Good to see it officially out.
@sercansayin.bsky.socialImpossible without the work of @gkolyfetis.bsky.social and @jiv1066.bsky.social
@sercansayin.bsky.socialMany swarming animals display coloration, but testing function is hard because manipulating color in groups is laborious. We used VR to alter the appearance of desert locusts, which occur in two distinct social/color states. We believe this is the first evidence that coloration affects swarming.
@sercansayin.bsky.socialSwarm models are abstract, but life is full of color! Locust warning coloration modulates how individuals track others, especially in cluttered environments. Visual modeling, VR, remote sensing. With @jjfosterlab.bsky.social, @theswordlab.bsky.social, @icouzin.bsky.social
@andrewstraw.bsky.socialReposted by @sercansayin.bsky.socialWe 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...
@liberal-jen.bsky.socialReposted by @sercansayin.bsky.socialA murmuration of starlings above Sardinia, Italy. One of my favorite natural phenomena.
@jangrundemann.bsky.socialReposted by @sercansayin.bsky.social