There's something "odd" going on in honeybees... We trained bees to categorise numbers as being odd or even - they could even do it with novel numbers! A simple artificial neural network of 5 neurons was also able to categorise odd/even numbers. theconversation.com/honeybees-join…

Awesome new work in collaboration with Dr Scarlett Howard , Andrew Greentree , Adrian G Dyer on the "odd" capacity of bees to categorise numbers as even or odd.

Martin Giurfa, Prof #UT3 et son équipe ont prouvé l'existence d'un système de l’appétence chez les #abeilles, dans Science Magazine. Une découverte qui peut permettre, à terme, d'agir pour leur survie 🐝! #CRCA CBI Toulouse CNRS Occitanie Ouest En savoir ➕➡️ univ-tlse3.fr/des-butineuses…

The miniature brains of honeybees were able to understand the concepts of odd and even, despite only having 960,000 neurons (compared to 86 billion in humans). Until now this had only been shown in humans. Dr Scarlett Howard Monash University RMIT University bit.ly/3OO0gjf

"Neuroscience has solved part of the mystery, by identifying a system that drives wanting in mammals involving specific brain regions. Desire may help an animal to survive, [ex.] experiencing pleasure from nutritious food." Story: Adrian G Dyer & Jair García theconversation.com/why-do-we-want…

Delighted that our research on #bees and art theconversation.com/from-rock-carv… with Dr Kit Prendergast Zong-Xin Ren Dr Scarlett Howard Jair García Stuart Mcfarlane is featured on cover of Art and Perception

New research on #bees at academic.oup.com/beheco/advance… with Leslie Ng Laura Bibiana Ospina-Rozo (she/her) 🇨🇴 Jair García and Devi @unimelb shows how iridescent hues can be processed in space and time.

Dr Scarlett Howard Monash Science School of Biological Sciences, Monash Big congratulations!

A fascinating study by Luke Greenacre Monash Marketing, Adrian Dyer Adrian G Dyer, Jair García Jair García & Scarlett Howard Dr Scarlett Howard School of Biological Sciences, Monash and published in PLOS ONE has found that we process numbers faster when they are displayed vertically. theconversation.com/counting-from-…

Digital Dimensions 📐➕: Dr Scarlett Howard from School of Biological Sciences, Monash has contributed to a study in PLOS ONE which revealed that people process numbers more quickly when they are listed vertically from lowest to highest rather than horizontally: bit.ly/3e69gm1 Dr Scarlett Howard

Twins! Second #PhD paper is out! 💖🎉 In my head it is titled: There and back again... My adventures alongside the spectrometer bit.ly/3fo8TE8 Writing this one really changed me ☺️. I hope is useful for other #colsci researchers in ecology. #cienciacriolla

Great to work with amazing team below, Jair García, Klaus Lunau to test stingless- and honey- bees on their comparative colour preferences. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

How have #bees inspired and been represented through #art throughout #history? Check out the summary of our paper here #scicomm #art #savethebees #culture youtube.com/watch?v=Y4EoCA…

Today has been exciting! Don Chathurika Amarathunga has a cool new paper accepted on thrip classification. And Malika Ratnayake's PhD thesis has been certified by Monash Information Technology/Monash University. This is a preliminary tweet without a current celebratory group photo. Congratulations!

New native bee species with distinctive 'snout' discovered in Perth's Kings Park abc.net.au/news/2022-11-0…

*AJB Accepted Article* Intrafloral patterns of color & scent in caper bush & the ghosts of its selection past (by Aphrodite Kantsa, PhD, Jair García, Robert Raguso, Adrian G Dyer et al) bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.100… #botany #pollination #hawkmoths #carpenterbees Wiley Plant Science Wiley Ecology & Evolution

Intrafloral patterns of color & scent in caper bush & the ghosts of its selection past (new #AJB research by Aphrodite Kantsa, PhD, Jair García, Robert Raguso, Adrian G Dyer, Ronny Steen, Thomas Tscheulin, Theodora Petanidou) bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aj… #botany #hawkmoth Wiley Plant Science Wiley Ecology & Evolution

Delighted our study on Einstein, von Frisch and the honeybee with Dr Scarlett Howard Jair García Andrew Greentree received JCPA Readers’ Choice Award 2023 dlvr.it/SgNtyG

Our new paper just out Today #island #FLOWER #color #insectvision Disturbance Ecology @unibt Adrian G Dyer Jair García