Lars Chittka

Professor of Sensory and Behavioural Ecology, Queen Mary University of London
Author of The Mind of a Bee

[Peter Godfrey-Smith @pgodfreysmith]

A good @NewYorker article (link below) by @shayla__love about recent work on insect pain (and other kinds of experience).
The initial stages of @matilda_gibbons's work, which is central, were improvised during Covid lockdowns. 1/

[Royal Entomological Society @RoyEntSoc]

Entomologists' views on #InsectWelfare are evolving. A recent study in @EcolEnt by @Bee_Bytes, Merritt Drewery & Bob Fischer provides valuable insights into the interest in insect welfare & the importance of ethical research guidelines.

Read the paper 🔽
https://t.co/NnisVW2QsJ

[Jolyon Troscianko @jTroscianko]

Hyperspectral Imager paper out! High sensitivity UV to nearIR, radiance & reflectance, runs from a smartphone. Build the system for about $450 from 3D printed parts & off-the-shelf components.

Paper: https://t.co/d3bg0sgZwS

Intro video: https://t.co/xDJPN0CPqC

[Jonathan Birch @birchlse]

The latest issue of the New Yorker has a profile of the insect sentience squad, featuring Tilda Gibbons, Lars Chittka, Meghan Barrett, Sarah Skeels and me. (Link in reply.)

[Lars Chittka @LChittka]

@BreastMilkEnjyr Try this 😊
https://t.co/H4g28WjIib

[Carolina Rezaval @crezaval]

We're delighted to see our study, "Mating proximity blinds threat perception", https://t.co/h5WxRpn2Ge, featured by @NatureSMB

Thank you for spotlighting our work!

https://t.co/js1dkypHdc

[Lars Chittka @LChittka]

@Dave_Hone Thank you - not quite what I had in mind, but it's possible that me seeing the two terms in 1 paragraph induced a false memory in me. Merry Christmas dude!

[Lars Chittka @LChittka]

A honeybee with two differently-coloured pollens (from the German Bee Journal). Bees are by no means preprogrammed to be flower-constant. If flowers of two species are equally rewarding & in close proximity, bees sometimes visit both

[Lars Chittka @LChittka]

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[Lars Chittka @LChittka]

See this Instagram post by @stadtbienenorg https://t.co/wuOeCPPxOE

[Lars Chittka @LChittka]

https://t.co/a51euiS04C

[Vita Bee Health @VitaBeeHealth]

Over on Facebook, @LChittka has shown just how quickly #bees can learn: https://t.co/5wnhsexCrz

[Lars Chittka @LChittka]

@12amAstronaut @businessbarista Thank you so much!

[Lars Chittka @LChittka]

Heute! Am Ossiacher See in Kaernten: https://t.co/I24ASDWMSY

[Lars Chittka @LChittka]

(Re-) discovered in my reprint collection- a 1972 study on individual recognition in a Crustacean

[Igualdad Animal México @IA_Mexico]

🚨 #ÚltimaHora

¡#AnimalesALaConstitución es una realidad!

Lee la nota aquí: https://t.co/bep9wMY0Tw

[Lars Chittka @LChittka]

@CaspervdKooi @JeffOllerton @KlausLunau Exactly- Peter Kevan has been making this point since the 70s - yet the cute fluorescence “signal” BS comes up again and again…

[Lars Chittka @LChittka]

@MartinGiurfa @Sorbonne_Univ_ @IBPS_Paris @InstUnivFr @Leopoldina @Academie_be @CNRSbiologie Herzlichen Glückwunsch!!!

[Lars Chittka @LChittka]

New paper out in Animal Cognition: bumblebee social learning, Lego, and DeepLabCut 🙂 https://t.co/8fcktKjxkG

[Lars Chittka @LChittka]

@CrumbMontgomery @bbboatclub @WiringTheBrain Haha no