UDIPTA CHAKRABORTI

Cognitive Neuroethology | MSCA Postdoc @ IBPS-Sorbonne University-CNRS | IISER K Postdoc | PhD & Researcher @ Zoological Survey of India @ University of Kalyani

[APS journals @apsjournals]

Research in Physical Review E combines experiments and game-theoretic modeling to extend behavioral game theory to tandem-running ants, showing how the ants exhibit behavior consistent with sampling equilibrium rather than the classical Nash equilibrium: https://t.co/Wj44eLccAO

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# New Article
Who will take the U-turn? Game theory explains how ants resolve traffic jams.
Our new study in Physical Review E shows how tandem-running ants resolve head-on encounters on narrow paths.
https://t.co/mmlsndRfwE

#animalbehabiour #gametheory #eusocial

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🕷️ Can plant-derived compounds offer a greener solution for tick control?
Find it in our new study
https://t.co/Wdppq11M5c

#TickControl #Acaricide #Toxicology

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@I5hanimukherjee Thank you very much.
The structure of antennae and the distribution of sensilla may have evolved with their behaviour. Nevertheless, there is some research which shows flexibility in antennal movement while other sensory inputs are compromised.

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New paper out! 🐜

Can the freedom to move a single antennal joint shape the performance of goal-oriented tasks in ants?

https://t.co/xrroUsoNKR

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@I5hanimukherjee But it could be assumed that as movement of antennae helps to integrate several environmental cues, thus behaviour like foraging or brood care might have been impacted by the restriction of antennal movement.

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@I5hanimukherjee However, this study showed that the movement dynamics of exploratory walk of individual ants was unaffected by the restriction. But to the best of our knowledge there was no study that has addressed these questions.

[Martin Giurfa @MartinGiurfa]

Check out our latest article on awareness in honeybees and its dependence on serotonergic signaling: https://t.co/RuU2Wyr7pJ
Fantastic work by @CatherineMacri and coworkers showing that facets of consciousness once considered uniquely human may also occur in insects.

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

BREAKING NEWS
The 2025 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi “for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance.”

[Martin Giurfa @MartinGiurfa]

La Société de Biologie m'a demandé d'organiser une journée sur la Cognition Animale. Tout le monde est bienvenu écouter des conferences allant de l'insecte et la seiche aux oiseaux et les primates! Ca sera le 23/09 à Sorbonne Université (Place Jussieu) Bât. Cassan, Salle C404.

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An excellent mind boggling discovery, a mother can give birth of two different species. Reshaping the rule of biology.

[nature @Nature]

A common type of ant in Europe breaks a fundamental rule in biology: its queens can produce male offspring that are a whole different species

https://t.co/2vgdjcuFPH

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@EuraxessChina @MartinGiurfa Thank you

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Happy to share that I’ve joined the Institut de Biologie Paris Seine #SorbonneUniversity #CNRS as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow in the ICON team of Prof. @MartinGiurfa. I'll be exploring how the #honeybee brain guides complex behaviors
#MSCA #Postdoc #Neuroethology

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@ManishJNV99 @RoyEntSoc @iiserkol Congratulations

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@HarishKaushik97 @iccon_india @wii_india Congratulations

[Sanjeev Varshney @skvdst]

Summer Internship in @maxplanckpress Institutes for 10 weeks
A fully funded summer internship in Germany designed for UG and PG students in Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Math, Neuroscience, Physics, Psychology.
Apply at https://t.co/SPWM1ELSlR
Apply by 15th Sep 2025

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@minivets @HarishKaushik97 @lab_behavioural @IiserMohali @iccon_india @wii_india Congratulations @HarishKaushik97

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Save nature...and nature will protect you...

[Martin Giurfa @MartinGiurfa]

May 20th: world bee day! Protect the environnement, save the bees and all the living creatures!

[Anindita Bhadra @Abhadra7]

We are proud to be declared the #summer meeting of @asab_org. If you are an #ethology enthusiast, you need to be in #Kolkata #India this August. #Register and submit an abstract! Check out the #travelgrants offered by ASAB. @EthologyScience @AnimalOpps