Today, our (@freelyflyingbee@Twitter and mine) first PhD student Brad Ohlinger successfully defended his thesis. He worked on costs and gains in honey bee foraging, and how to use the waggle dance to study these. He has won multiple awards for his talks, so it was a thoroughly enjoyable experience. We will miss him sorely, but we are also looking forward to read about his new adventures.

#HoneyBees #WaggleDance #ForagingEcology

I knew of #bee #waggledance before, but not that it was being decoded.

Scientists Have Figured Out How Honeybees Learn Their Waggle Dance Moves : ScienceAlert https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-have-figured-out-how-honeybees-learn-their-waggle-dance-moves

A good first day of #AireCon starting with getting here safely on a snowy day!

We got to play #Everdell at last which we loved, it seemed very slow at first but quickly accelerated. The teen had all the resources coming in but I got the most points 😃 Definitely one we want to play again.

Other hits were #InTheFootstepsOfDarwin and #WaggleDance.

#BoardGames

Honeybees are far from being mere robots. Their waggle dance requires social learning. Complex behaviours are seldom entirely innate.

#Science #Biology #AnimalBehaviour #communication #foraging #SocialLearning #cognition #ontogeny #WaggleDance #Honeybee

📄 Dong et al (2023) Social signal learning of the waggle dance in honey bees. Science 379:1015–1018 http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.ade1702

Referenced link: https://phys.org/news/2023-03-complex-social-behavior-bee-waggle.html
Discuss on https://discu.eu/q/https://phys.org/news/2023-03-complex-social-behavior-bee-waggle.html

Originally posted by Phys.org / @physorg_com: http://nitter.platypush.tech/physorg_com/status/1633905506514288643#m

Complex learned social behavior discovered in bee's '#waggledance' @ucsandiego @sciencemagazine https://phys.org/news/2023-03-complex-social-behavior-bee-waggle.html

Medford Tufts is bee-themed #scicomm. Like to see #WaggleDance descriptions. Also liked the nearby caterpillar unofficial graffiti.

We sat on this train for a long time before it left. But it was warm, and not too full--maybe 70% of seats in use as we left.