Ioannis Pisokas

Roboticist and Computational Neuroscientist, University of Edinburgh

[Ioannis Pisokas @IPisokas]

A fantastic review of the differences and similarities in the architecture of the central complex across multiple species.

[Ioannis Pisokas @IPisokas]

@tomaspueyo Historical mistake in your plot. The capital of Macedonia was Aigai and later Pella, both located in the Macedonia prefecture of modern Greece. Skopje is a city in North Macedonia which is a separate country not related to ancient Macedonia and established much much later.

[Ioannis Pisokas @IPisokas]

British Airways top spot on my worst airlines list. 3 flights cancelled in a week. The 1st because “it’s raining in London” 😂 No warning/update messages/emails, phone centre not answering, conflicting/fake information provided. British Crapways, pay and… you might fly.

[Lars Chittka @LChittka]

@NatGeo How often do scientists have to say it? The domesticated honeybee is not under threat anywhere. On the contrary, managed honeybees are a threat to wild bees. Please do not do this.

[Ioannis Pisokas @IPisokas]

@GaryMarcus I can almost hear people from the depths of computer history claiming the same about digital computer capabilities.

[Ioannis Pisokas @IPisokas]

@cian_neuro @RangamaniUCSD That’s an important clarification I was looking through the discussion for that. Yes, definitely >2 years.

[Ioannis Pisokas @IPisokas]

@GaryMarcus Are we sure Elon is not a comedian? Or less than worse, an aspiring comedian chat bot?

[Ioannis Pisokas @IPisokas]

@pskatz These papers should cite Socrates for saying "One I know, that I know nothing." "Little is known" is an impressive achievement in comparison. 😝 Also, having moved from engineering to neuroscience, it surprises me how often neuroscientists claim to be surprised by their results.

[Lars Chittka @LChittka]

Cognition in natural settings that don't require training is understudied. Check out the rescue behavior of ants in this vid. Some ants carry larger pebbles away, others brush sand, bite at a tether. This requires... (1/n)
https://t.co/d9iWBXPLws

[Gregor Belusic @gregoeur]

Goodbye #icn2022lisbon!

[Michael Bok @mikebok]

Excited to be presenting a talk today at #icn2022lisbon about the weird and wonderful eyes of fan worms.

At 16:15 in Room 2.

You won't want to miss all the exciting font, video, and animation glitches caused by Powerpoint version incompatibility!

[Ioannis Pisokas @IPisokas]

An animated cartoon version of my #icn2022lisbon poster because science can be fun! https://t.co/4dsrgj0T0D #ICN2022 @neuroethology

[Ioannis Pisokas @IPisokas]

Attending #icn2022lisbon and curious how to make your #ants forget their way home? Come find me at my poster on Thursday’s poster session. Poster A44, “Too cool to remember” #ICN2022 @neuroethology

[Ioannis Pisokas @IPisokas]

@stanley_heinze @RickeshNPatel @CurrentBiology @MSCActions @ERC_Research Congratulations! It’s so cool to see that there is difference in the effect of chill-coma on the path integration memory in different species. Lots of cool new questions and cool experiments to follow.

[Ioannis Pisokas @IPisokas]

@_fernando_rosas 1. Less Energy required when transmitting only when you have a useful message. 2. Amplitude attenuates with distance; transmitting events avoids amplitude dependence. 3. Longer Distance transmission because events can be regenerated along the “cable”. 4. Noise …

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@AacharyaAaditya @ConversationUK @InfAtEd @PokharelSijal Also this one https://t.co/dv7vhzKTrf

[Ioannis Pisokas @IPisokas]

The insect brain: we froze ants and beetles to learn how they remember their way home, via @ConversationUK @InfAtEd https://t.co/8Ozsx05fjE

[Ioannis Pisokas @IPisokas]

@AacharyaAaditya @ConversationUK @InfAtEd @PokharelSijal Some very nice experiments have shown that if the food item is heavy they can pull it walking backwards instead of carrying it walking forward. https://t.co/YkHazUiyqY

[Ioannis Pisokas @IPisokas]

@AacharyaAaditya @ConversationUK @InfAtEd @PokharelSijal So they can definitely pull or push depending on what's convenient and still travel in the correct direction. How they do the angular transform is an interesting question!

[Ioannis Pisokas @IPisokas]

@AacharyaAaditya @ConversationUK @InfAtEd @PokharelSijal Impressive! Let me pull Ajay Narendra into this @pipilika_aj