Lars Chittka, Professor of Sensory and Behavioural Ecology and author of The Mind of a Bee
Where am I? Where was I going? What was I doing? Memories that guide orb web construction (by William G. Eberhard): constructionhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0376635726000719
www.sciencedirect.comNew paper: spatial movement strategies of male bumblebees: academic.oup.com/beheco/artic...
Acute stress modulates early visual perception and decision-making speed in bees journals.biologists.com/jeb/article-...
Excited by this new paper from Olli Loukola's team! edition.cnn.com/2026/06/04/s...
Are bumblebees as smart as chimps? A new problem-solving experiment makes the case | CNNScientists observe bumblebees rolling a ball underneath a flower to get sugar, showing complex problem-solving abilities.edition.cnn.comIn case this wasn't amply clear already, here you can find out how insects beat AI 😉https://www.buzzsprout.com/2405788/episodes/19212921-why-houseflies-see-faster-than-ai
🪰 Why Houseflies See Faster Than AI - Heliox: Where Evidence Meets Empathy 🇨🇦📖 Read: https://helioxpodcast.substack.com/archive?sort=newThrough self-motion, flies efficiently translate image motion into temporally-precise, predictive high-speed vision.The humble, infuriating, ...www.buzzsprout.comMikko Juusola is interviewed on Chinese television about our recent paper on high-speed vision in flies: m.mgtv.com/b/820868/244...
Thank you so much to the @royalsociety.org for this wonderful honour and to all the wonderful young people who have, over the years, been bold enough to join our somewhat eccentric endeavour of trying to understand an insect mind! And a big thank you to the bees of course! 🥹🙏
The Royal SocietyProfessor Lars Chittka FRS is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. His work has transformed our understanding of animal intelligence by demonstrating that bees, despite their tiny brains, exhibit advanced cognitive abilities such as counting, attention and others. #RSFellows https://bit.ly/49xJuRy
Looking forward to speaking at the BLOOM Science Festival in Copenhagen next week: www.bloom.ooo/english-prog...
BLOOMBloom is the biggest nature and science festival in Denmark with over 20.000 participants each year. The festival has free entrance and takes place in…www.bloom.oooHow to begin a proper introduction to a scientific paper. 😉From: Rau, P., and Rau, N.L. 1929. The sex attraction and rhythmic periodicity in giant Saturniid moths.Acad. Sci. St. Louis. Trans. 26:83–221. Have a lovely weekend everyone!
Tiny insect brain discovery offers a blueprint for faster and more efficient AI and robotsThe secret behind insects' lightning-fast reactions could offer a blueprint for more energy-efficient robots and self-driving cars, according to a new study challenging our understanding of how brains...phys.org
