Hiruni Samadi, Galpayage Dona | Postdoc | Biology - Behaviour - Bees | Pronounced sʌmɑ:ði: gʌlpɑ:aɪəge | She/her

Joined January 2020
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Our paper is out! Do bumble bees play?doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.20… @CwynSolvi @AmeliaKowalewska @KaarleMakela @HaDiMaBouDi @LChittka @QM_SBBS @QMULSciEng
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One dream for a scientist is to discover something that changes the textbooks. Big congratulations to @SamadiHGD - her work on insect play has found its way into this new biology book! @QM_SBBS @QMUL
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Delighted to start my new postdoc 🐝🧠 in my home country 🇮🇹 @cimec_unitrento in @gVallortigara 's lab. ✨💪🙏
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18 Dec 2023
Our emotional bees, and specifically @SamadiHGD's ball rolling bees, made the cover of Nikkei Science (the Japanese version of Scientific American)
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Thank you so much @SamadiHGD for visiting us these past two weeks! It was wonderful to have you here in person and for you to talk about your incredible work on bumblebee cognition through play!
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28 Nov 2023
Congratulations to @SamadiHGD who led a multinational team that has won the Pineapple Science Award for their work on bumblebee play (some of which you will have read about in the June BeeCraft).
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Our CIBER grad students and guest Samadi Galpayage @SamadiHGD at the California State Beekeeper's Association Conference!
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Super honoured that our work received the Pineapple Science Award🍍from China. Immensely grateful to my team and the bees 🐝
11 Nov 2023
Happy that our team led by @SamadiHGD on play behaviour in bumblebees is recognised with the Pineapple Science Award, awarded by Zhejiang Science and Technology Museum Hangzhou, China "to honor research with great imagination and to arouse the public enthusiasm for science".
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Bumblebees play? Yes, they do, and @QM_SBBS's @SamadiHGD, @LChittka just won Pineapple Science Award for proving it! This award recognises imaginative research that aims to arouse public enthusiasm for science. qmul.ac.uk/media/news/2023/s…
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Lovely article by @caroring in the current issue of German Greenpeace Magazin about our work on bee sentience and its welfare implications @SamadiHGD @QM_SBBS
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Exciting day for me - @LChittka and I have been awarded a grant of around $1m by @open_phil to look for markers of sentience in insects, and we are recruiting *TWO* postdocs. The ads are here, and please DM or email if you have questions: qmul.ac.uk/jobs/vacancies/it…

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Ever wondered if flies enjoy a carousel ride as much as we do? Wonder no more, it seems they do – flies play! Out now: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… (1/7)

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26 Jun 2023
Thank you for featuring the bumblebee art! This was actually the idea of team members Samadi Galpayage @SamadiHGD and Joanna Brebner @turlminwebs
26 Jun 2023
How's this for the cover of the BeeCraft July issue? Created by bumblebees in @LChittka bee lab at the Queen Mary University of London.
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It’s nice to dress up for the bees once in a while 😌🌸🐝🍯 Bee garden party fundraiser yesterday at Marlborough House by @BeesForDev
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23 May 2023
Have you got yours yet? It might change your mind about the care you give your #bees. Read about the investigations into bees' pain, pleasure and brainpower in our article about @LarsChittka's bee lab.
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24 Mar 2023
Exploring entomology is crucial to understand insects’ emotions northernstar.info/?p=104961

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8 Mar 2023
Here is @SamadiHGD, Samadi is interested in🐝cognition. She uses behavioural experiments to study play behaviour in bumblebees to find out how far a tiny brain can go. Samadi advocates for diversity & inclusion in academia. #WomenAndGirlsInScience #ASAB_EDIA #SciComm #IWD23
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Here's the fab four who wouldn't fit in the montage! A massive thanks to everyone 💚💚💚#WomenAndGirlsInScience #ASAB_EDIA #IWD2023
8 Mar 2023
Today is the day! We showcased 37 fantastic scientists for #WomenAndGirlsInScience culminating in #IWD23 today. A huge round of applause for everyone who joined in & an even bigger ovation for the rest of our female #AnimalBehaviour academics #ASAB_EDIA 💚🐝🐶🐯🐸🐧🦋🪰🐙🦀🐳🦭
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My first primary research article is finally here: in #PLOSBiology ! "Bumblebees acquire alternative puzzle-box solutions via social learning". doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio…
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