Dr Scarlett Howard

Bee cognition, pollination & adaptation | ARC DECRA Fellow | Head of the Integrative Cognition, Ecology & Bio-inspiration (ICEB) Group | @MonashBiol | She/Her

[Dr Scarlett Howard @TheBeesearcher]

How can we fully understand animal #cognition?

Our new paper in @CurrentBiology proposes that identifying what an animal can't do (cognitive limits) is as important as showing what an animal can do. We address the challenges of studying cognitive limits https://t.co/0FDI9T5wo2

[Dr Scarlett Howard @TheBeesearcher]

Have you ever wondered how bees could help humans develop a language to communicate with aliens?

Our new article in @ConversationEDU explains our thought experiment suggesting mathematics as a universal language.

https://t.co/exDh0YeI1H

[Giorgio Vallortigara @gVallortigara]

Is there an #innate sense of #number in the brain? Our paper is out in Cerebral Cortex @ElenaLorenzi3 @DKobylkov
with commentaries by
@Toshiya3Matsu3 @berent_iris @b_butterworth @benmarkharvey #Dos_Santos @TheBeesearcher #andreas_nieder
https://t.co/wXwLCFmbkm

[Dr Scarlett Howard @TheBeesearcher]

Do you order numbers like a bee?

Our new piece in @ConversationEDU explains the complexities of how tiny brains (and larger ones) represent and link the concepts of space and number 🐝🔢🧠

@ZazaKuo @OzBeeUVBG @beeleslieng

https://t.co/ZWsjtk3af1

[Dr Scarlett Howard @TheBeesearcher]

@ZazaKuo @OzBeeUVBG @beeleslieng Congratulations on your huge achievement! It was a pleasure to work together.

[Dr Scarlett Howard @TheBeesearcher]

Congratulations to PhD Rob Moore on his first publication! 🐝🗺️ Rob showed how non-traditional data sources (e.g. social media and community science) can alter species distribution models using a case study on native #Australian #bees. See our article: https://t.co/9xqzd9fqBH

[Dr Scarlett Howard @TheBeesearcher]

@dajmeyer @ZazaKuo @OzBeeUVBG @beeleslieng There is definitely individual variation - check out the original study here: https://t.co/xGdTcCOgY5. However, there is evidence showing left and right "handedness" in bees. See: https://t.co/9cr4s1btS1 & https://t.co/37cgTpmFcA

[Dr Scarlett Howard @TheBeesearcher]

Congratulations to @ZazaKuo on her first publication! Zaza's research explores how space and quantity are associated in the honeybee brain 🐝🔢🧠As it turns out, bees order quantities from left-to-right with a bias for the right side of space.
Full article-https://t.co/f0m8olsEW3

[Dr Scarlett Howard @TheBeesearcher]

📢 Call for papers! Dr. Vanessa Kellermann & I are co-editing a Journal of Insect Physiology special issue: "Non-eusocial Bees and Pollination: Biology, Behaviour, and Physiology in Climate Change Conditions." 🐝🌍 Submit by Dec 31, 2024!
More information: https://t.co/gJJyMXjNL2

[Dr Scarlett Howard @TheBeesearcher]

@OzBeeUVBG @AnimAlanDorin @JirGarci @MalikaRatnayake @TheFlwrSearcher

[Dr Scarlett Howard @TheBeesearcher]

Our research has been featured in @CSIROPublishing's blog.

Our article encapsulates a decade of comparative research principally conducted in Australia on the topic of understanding how different bee species tolerate changing environmental conditions.

https://t.co/qX0mhLPGB6

[Dr Scarlett Howard @TheBeesearcher]

@JamesBeeDorey @lin_yq0527 @OzBeeUVBG @beeleslieng Brutal! But, nonetheless, an anatomically correct critique 🐝🪰

[Dr Scarlett Howard @TheBeesearcher]

Last week the ICEB Lab celebrated the submission of @lin_yq0527's Honour's thesis 🎉 Congratulations to Yuqing on her incredibly hard work and truly fascinating results. Yuqing has expanded our understanding of plant-pollinator interactions and evolution🐝🌻🪻🌹🌷🪷🥀🐝

[Dr Scarlett Howard @TheBeesearcher]

@JamesBeeDorey @lin_yq0527 @OzBeeUVBG @beeleslieng 🤣 the team told me it was a bee. I believed them....

[Dr Scarlett Howard @TheBeesearcher]

This is not an easy feat! Amazing work by @LChittka and the bees 🐝

[Lars Chittka @LChittka]

Yesterday at 2pm the first honeybee (Apis mellifera) in this species’ evolutionary history managed to pull a string for reward. They are much harder to train than bumblebees, though!

[Dr Scarlett Howard @TheBeesearcher]

I try to do a lot of science communication, but I've been outdone on my own research here. Way to make research on bees ordering zero accessible and perhaps more humorous than it already was, @ScientistSpidey!

[Dr Scarlett Howard @TheBeesearcher]

Congratulations to @lin_yq0527 on the final seminar for Honours! 🐝🌻🎉It has been a great pleasure to work with this team!

Yuqing's research will greatly advance our understanding of pollinator flower choice and plant-pollinator evolution.

@beeleslieng @OzBeeUVBG

[Dr Scarlett Howard @TheBeesearcher]

Catching up with our newest collaborator - small brain, but big ideas! 🪰

@OzBeeUVBG

[MPI for Neurobiology of Behavior – caesar @MPINB_outreach]

How would your animal answer these questions? Get inspired by the interview, written by the authors of this @J_Exp_Biol article advocating for rethinking behavioral research design.
👉https://t.co/FBdhmjHx3W
@Monika_K_Scholz @SSerenaDing @elegansdiversus @LabLiao @RhythmicSpikes

[Dr Scarlett Howard @TheBeesearcher]

Awesome presentation by Honours student, @lin_yq0527, discussing the foraging decisons of honeybees at @VicBioCon in the "Flight of the Pollinators" session.

#VicBioCon24 @OzBeeUVBG