Animal Navigation

News on animal navigation/movement ecology/migration/magnetic sense/spatial cognition/led by Dmitry Kishkinev/Keele University/ UK/Views my own

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Liu, M., Benitez-Paez, F., Padget, O. et al. Machine-learned dimethyl sulphide (DMS) for the North Atlantic (2002–2024) to support movement studies. Sci Rep (2026). https://t.co/gEJFlQ581R

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Liu, M., Benitez-Paez, F., Padget, O. et al. Machine-learned dimethyl sulphide (DMS) for the North Atlantic (2002–2024) to support movement studies. Sci Rep (2026). https://t.co/gEJFlQ581R

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How do seabirds navigate thousands of km across open ocean and still head straight home? We don’t fully know. We built the first daily 4 km maps of a key “smell” cue (DMS) + an open tool (AniDMS) to link it to bird tracks. Now we can finally test olfactory navigation. Link below.

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Excited to share that our new results on magnetic and star compass and magnetic navigation in migratory Red Underwing moths is pre-printed here https://t.co/83IulNHnmb

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Our cover on the recent fall armyworm paper (Ma et al) in eLife showing evidence of their magnetic compass dependent on visual landmarks: Insect Migration: A sense of direction.https://t.co/fQ4FOR1Evu

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First evidence that free-ranging animals (bats on a small island) do have and use Head Direction Cells in their brain to navigate in real world, not just lab. https://t.co/l5O6holngP

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🕊️ How do birds know when to migrate? Our new Biology Open paper shows that spring migration timing in great reed warblers has a genetic component—linked to fat metabolism genes suggesting that birds that fuel up faster may be ready to leave Africa sooner. Doi 10.1242/bio.062039

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An international course for postgraduate students
This November (2025) the international PhD course on the Ecology of Animal Migration will run again in Lund Uni. More here https://t.co/hAup4aDvBQ

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Nature study showing that Australian Bogong moths possess a star compass based on Milky Way https://t.co/SebABxrk7O

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Our recent exciting results about Red Admirals - Not All Butterflies Are Monarchs: Compass Systems in the Red Admiral (Vanessa atalanta), a European Diurnal Migrant https://t.co/M1xO3kEj38

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CORRECTION: The offering is primarily for "home" tuition fee paying students (meaning UK / Irish nationals or people in the UK with Indefinite Leave to remain) - 5 out of 8 PhD projects in this call but only one place for international applicants (highly competitive!)

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PhD Offering in movement ecology in the UK! Pls spread the word to folks who might be interested. More details in posts and here https://t.co/FdIq0ewGrx

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The supervisory team: Dr. Dmitry Kishkinev (ecology) and Pawas Bisht (public communication), both Keele University, UK. Further detail in the root post link. Apply via "Visit institution website" on the link page

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What do pesticides to the honey bee brains? What is the truth about the safety of sub lethal doses? See our new work with MarcoPaoli in @EJNeuroscience on how neonicotinoids affect multiple areas of the bee brain. Necessary for debates on pesticides.
https://t.co/3A4twCMtzm

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Delayed but link to Royal Soc Blog post about our recent paper Packmor et al. 2024 in Royal Soc P https://t.co/H33YCciJnP