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Laure-Anne Poissonnier
@curiousant.bsky.social
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Insect behaviour researcher, mostly working with ants lately. Looking at learning, information use, and basically trying to understand what they understand. And a hobbit in my free time.
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animalbehaviour.live
📣 1 WEEK TO GO! 🐜

Leaf-cutting ants don’t just build nests; they build climate-controlled cities.
🎥 Watch the teaser for Prof. Flavio Roces’ talk on their environmental adaptations.

🗓️Tuesday 29 July – 14:00 GMT
📍Live on YouTube : www.youtube.com/watch?v=qORc...
July 22, 2025 at 6:20 AM
curiousant.bsky.social
Have you ever wished you were a small insect, just so you could sleep in a flower? Now you do ;) #sleep #bee #flower
May 23, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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tomerczaczkes.bsky.social
Our paper with @curiousant.bsky.social on

strategic pheromone deposition in ants

was selected as the @insectessociaux.bsky.social paper of the year 2024!
Insectes Sociaux is probably my favourite journal, so this is especially delightful.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Best paper announcement for 2024 - Insectes Sociaux
Insectes Sociaux -
link.springer.com
April 25, 2025 at 9:46 AM
curiousant.bsky.social
🚨New paper🐜 For the same duration of stimulus, Lasius niger ants learn better from a positive (sugar water) than a negative (falling into water) experience. For appetitive side learning, a single trial leads to a memory of a couple of hours.
#ProcB
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/....
Single-trial learning leads to mid-term memory formation in ants during an appetitive, but not an aversive, task | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Insects have been models of associative learning and its underlying memory mechanisms. Research on the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster and the honeybee Apis mellifera yielded deep insights into the ...
royalsocietypublishing.org
April 24, 2025 at 8:57 AM
curiousant.bsky.social
Look at this 'roll into a package ball' behaviour by some Formica being carried between 2 of their nests. I love spring 😎
April 5, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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r-honorio.bsky.social
Le site pour le colloque 2025 de l'Union Internationale pour l'Etude des Insectes Sociaux est en ligne : iussi-sf-2025.sciencesconf.org
Au plaisir de vous retrouver à Condorcet du 18 au 20 juin !! 😃
March 18, 2025 at 4:43 PM
curiousant.bsky.social
Social insect and cognition postdocs, check these positions in Berlin, with super nice supervisor Tomer! :)
March 19, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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animalta.bsky.social
We have not yet introduced #AnimalTA to the Bluesky community, but it’s a free and user-friendly tool for animal behavior research! 🕷️🔬 See here how it’s used to study spiderlings dispersal in our experiments. Have questions? Feel free to contact us! #Science #Spiders 🧪
January 15, 2025 at 7:57 PM
curiousant.bsky.social
Never thought tree resin could be such a danger to ants until I saw this on a hike🥺
January 14, 2025 at 2:31 PM