The bees that can learn like humans 🐝

Now this is something for the books!
Bumblebees learn from each other how to solve a task that is too complex to invent. That is cumulative culture.

How do animals see color? Fascinating PLOS Biology paper describes a camera & open-source software package that generates dynamic displays. Vera Vasas Daniel Hanley

Awesome videos in this The New York Times article by Emily Anthes:
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Animals see the world in different colours than humans – new camera reveals what this looks like theconversation.com/animals-see-th… via The Conversation
Daniel Hanley

Our camera paper reported as a Science Breakthrough by CNN!
cnn.com/videos/world/2…
The link to the paper:
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar…
Daniel Hanley

Fun fun FUN a new video technique shows how the world looks to birds & bees & other species that can see different wavelengths of light scientificamerican.com/article/animal… by Lauren Leffer on @SciAm

Most animals see the world differently from humans – and now it’s a little easier to take a look through their eyes.
Read more 👉 newscientist.com/article/241363…

What do animals actually see? Vera Vasas Daniel Hanley &co present a camera system & video processing pipeline that record animal-perceived colors in motion, allowing us to study color signals in their full complexity #VisualEcology #PLOSBiology plos.io/3U79so1

It does what it says on the tin: tells you how to build a camera that records in photoreceptor responses, letting you see the world in animal-view colours. Please share, use and adapt our system and let us know what you find!
Daniel Hanley George Mason University
Mason Biology

Some say insects clearly don't feel pain because they don't tend injuries. But new evidence from Matilda Gibbons, eva rose read, Andrew Crump, Chittka and team suggests this is wrong. Bees selectively groom the antenna touched by a heat probe. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

The Hanley Color Lab at George Mason University (GMU) is recruiting a postdoctoral fellow to study color perception in wild animals. The fellow will study avian brood parasitism, color vision, and decision-making. Please share and contact us for more info!
listings.jobs.gmu.edu/jobs/ab443f69-…

Come join our lab. If you're interested in this PhD project please get in touch and apply. Or pass on the word to anyone who might like to. Deadline: Jan 15th

findaphd.com/phds/project/b…

Exciting day for me - Lars Chittka and I have been awarded a grant of around $1m by Open Philanthropy to look for markers of sentience in insects, and we are recruiting *TWO* postdocs. The ads are here, and please DM or email if you have questions: qmul.ac.uk/jobs/vacancies…

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University of Washington OIST Visiting Program MPI for Brain Research Nature did a nice summary video on the octopus work, where you can see first authors Aditi Pophale and Tomo Mano at work, and a rare citing of Keishu Asada when he isn't diving. Octopus brain recordings were worked out by the inimitable Kazumichi Shimizu. youtube.com/watch?v=006DjA…

Our final speaker in this session, Vera Vasas, talks about how cats see and their perception. Fun fact: cats see differently from humans.
#catconference