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We had an excellent week full of fascinating research on neuroethology. We met colleagues and friends. We thank all the organizers, funders @jexpbiol.bsky.social @kavlifoundation.org @thorlabs.bsky.social and wish everyone a safe trip back home. 🇨🇦 #ICN2026. See you at ICN2028 🇹🇼

Andrea Ferretti from the lab of Niels Rattenborg talks about his research on sleep in geese. One of his take home messages says "Geese are more like dolphins than seals" with regard to sleep.

Marco Gallio talks about how snow flies adapted to cold temperatures. Through comparative genomics he discovers a high abundance of Zinc-fingers in snow flies. Can snow flies produce heat through mitochondria thermogenesis to buffer cold temperatures for a short time?

ISN business meeting is starting now. 🚨You can also vote where the #ICN2030 will take please, i.e. join the meeting 😉 🌎🌍🌏

And #ICN2026 FINAL session of particpants talks covering diverse topics: 1️⃣ #Vertebrate #MotorControl 2️⃣ 3D #navigation and #SpatialCognition 3️⃣ Chemosensory-guided #behavior 4️⃣ #Modulation of social behavior #icn2026vancouver #neuroethology

The FINAL plenary of #ICN2026 is "How parrots speak" by Michael A. Long 🦜💬 #icn2026vancouver #neuralprocessing #communication #language #speech

Dear neuroethologists, please take Eric Warrant's plea seriously and become a member of our society @neuroethology.org. There are many advantages, e.g. 🧠 Eligibility for awards and prizes 🧠 Receive newsletter with news, fun facts and job ads 🧠 Right to vote and organise symposia #icn2026vancouver

The last #ICN2026 sessions of invited talks start 😊😭 🧠 #NeuralBasis of Acoustic #Communication across Vertebrates 👀 Periphery is key: adaptations to natural scenes in the visual periphery of #arthropods & vertebrates 🏛 Animal Architecture 🧭 #Orientation across modalities #icn2026

And here we go: Final day of the #ICN2026 is started by Maude Baldwin with the plenary talk "Functional #evolution of taste and digestive system in #vertebrates" #icn2026vancouver

Simon Sponberg shows us in his talk that all muscles act like an orchestra where spikes are precisely timed and coordinated in flying hawkmoths. #ICN2026

@chrisjdallmann.bsky.social from @jan-ache.bsky.social lab talks about motor control in fruit flies and how sensory feedback modulates motor output. Please also take a look on their preprint. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Yossi Yovel talks about the acoustic world experienced by hundreds of bats leaving a cave and how they succeed navigating in such a cocktail party nightmare. The second part of his talk was about acoustic cognitive maps in bats. 🦇🗺

Frederico Pedraja talks about collective sensing in electric fish. Electric fish could eavedrop on electrolocation signals of conspecifics. #ICN2026

Fred Wolf talks about the kinematics of jumping mouse lemur and the role of vision to estimate the leaping distance. #ICN2026

This morning we had three higlighted talks. First, Matasaburo Fukutomi talks about how social interaction affects the timing of electric organ discharges in pairs of weakly electric fish.🐠

Inside their hive, bees use a gravity compass during the waggle dance. @beetzjerome.bsky.social presents his research about how bees sense gravity.

Hui Chen from @lundvision.bsky.social continues the insect compass session with a talk about light-dependent magnetic navigation in bogong moths.

Rickesh Patel from @lundvision.bsky.social shares his research showing that bees use vector maps for navigation.

How do desert ants navigate a relatively featureless landscape? @cataglyphilosophy.bsky.social kicked off the #ICN2026 symposium on Insect Compass Systems with research on desert ant magnetoreception which helps them find their way!

New day, new science 🧠🧪 We start #ICN2026 Thursday with a plenary by Laura Quintana giving a talk about "#Neurosteroids regulating year-round #aggression: insights from #electricfish" 🐟⚡️ #icn2026vancouver #neuroethology