Lochlan W
@w_lochlan
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PhD researcher at @imprs_qbee with the @insectvision group 🦋🧠🛩️ @HFA_academy Young Researcher. Sensorimotor control, Computer Vision, Behaviour 🇨🇦
Konstanz, Germany
Joined March 2020
Open-source tools like @DeepLabCut allow us (@insectvision) to investigate the active sensing strategies of freely-flying insects with greater detail than previously available 👀🦋 Here is a hummingbird hawkmoth in action, using DLC3.0🔥 #OpenScienceWeek
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RT @NatureNeuro: Particularly informative spatial cues produce a higher and narrower bump of activity in the Drosophila head direction syst….
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Nature Neuroscience - Basnak et al. show that particularly informative spatial cues produce a higher and narrower bump of activity in the Drosophila head direction system. More informative cues can...
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RT @Nature: Nature research paper: Eye structure shapes neuron function in Drosophila motion vision.
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Nature - In Drosophila, the physical structure of the eye has a key role in the directional tuning of motion-sensitive neurons, showing how navigational behaviour is tightly associated with anatomy.
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RT @scioi_cluster: On May 22, we learned #SCIoI won’t continue as a DFG Cluster of Excellence. A turning point—but not the end. For 7 year….
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On 22 May 2025, the German Research Foundation (DFG) announced its decision not to extend funding for Science of Intelligence as part of its Excellence
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RT @HHMIJanelia: 👀 For more than 15 years, Janelia researchers have been on a mission to catalogue the neurons of the fly optic lobes & dev….
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RT @MartinRolfs: Incredibly relieved & happy to share a preprint I've been working on for 7+ years (among other things), a project close to….
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RT @kolyfetis: I am excited to share our new paper on anchovy retina connectomics! This was a great collaboration with Prof. Heß at LMU Mun….
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Background Block-face scanning electron microscopy has opened a new era of connectomics research, in which it is possible to make dense reconstructions of all cells in a clipping of a neuronal...
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RT @kolyfetis: I'm really happy to share the first preprint of my PhD work in @JJFosterLab! During a fruitful collaboration with @gregoeur,….
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Many insects rely on skylight polarization patterns to navigate their habitats. To perform this vital task, most insect species have evolved specialized ommatidia in the dorsal rim area (DRA) of...
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RT @ScienceMagazine: The new book Doctors by Nature "invites deeper reflection on what it means to medicate, how landscapes shape access to….
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RT @J_Exp_Biol: The arms of an octopus are multifunctional and they can even sense light. Chang & Hale recently showed that when light hits….
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RT @KatrinVogt3: The first paper from the lab is out on biorxiv - enjoy reading! Social context and interactions influence our behavioral d….
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RT @Dandan63741: Happy to share our new publication! We found that spiders have super sensitive olfaction! Male spiders use their legs as “….
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The sense of smell is a central sensory modality of most terrestrial species. However, our knowledge of olfaction is based on vertebrates and insec...
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Cross-posting with 🦋☁️, but if you’re going to be at the Foraging/Information Seeking conference in Lyon this week, let’s talk! Excited to be presenting a poster (see preview) about visuomotor control, individuality, and computational ethology. 🔍
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RT @DrLAviles: Excited about our new paper showing that spider webs of all geometries are adjusted to capture precisely the amount of energ….
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RT @DFloreano: Hip, hop, and up in the air! Bird-inspired legs give winged drones multiple locomotion abilities and save energy when jumpin….
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RT @insectvision: Ever wondered how to move a tongue the length of your body to some yummy food? @_tanvideora_ & @anna_stoeckl summarised w….
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Synopsis. Reaching and inspecting objects is an intricate part of human life, which is shared by a diversity of animals across phyla. In addition to append
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RT @insectvision: 📡9 days left to apply! Applications are due 11:59pm CET through the DAAD Rise portal. Get in touch if you want to know m….
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RT @EcologyofVision: 🚨PhD siren #2!🚨A 4 year PhD project based in Exeter with @SensoryEcology in collaboration with us taking a deep dive i….
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Excited to be presenting a poster on my research at the upcoming Foraging & Information Seeking conference in Lyon 🦋🌷🔍 let’s connect if you’re also going to be there!.
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