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Dr Scarlett Howard @TheBeesearcher

Bee cognition, pollination & adaptation | ARC DECRA Fellow | Head of the Integrative Cognition, Ecology & Bio-inspiration (ICEB) Group | @MonashBiol | She/Her

Joined April 2015
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Dr Scarlett Howard@TheBeesearcher
11 Apr 2024
How can we fully understand animal #cognition? Our new paper in @CurrentBiology proposes that identifying what an animal can't do (cognitive limits) is as important as showing what an animal can do. We address the challenges of studying cognitive limits cell.com/current-biology/ful…

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Have you ever wondered how bees could help humans develop a language to communicate with aliens? Our new article in @ConversationEDU explains our thought experiment suggesting mathematics as a universal language. theconversation.com/can-we-u…

Can we use bees as a model of intelligent alien life to develop interstellar communication?

Humans and bees can both work with mathematics. Could aliens do the same?

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12 Feb 2025
Is there an #innate sense of #number in the brain? Our paper is out in Cerebral Cortex @ElenaLorenzi3 @DKobylkov with commentaries by @Toshiya3Matsu3 @berent_iris @b_butterworth @benmarkharvey #Dos_Santos @TheBeesearcher #andreas_nieder academic.oup.com/cercor/arti…
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Do you order numbers like a bee? Our new piece in @ConversationEDU explains the complexities of how tiny brains (and larger ones) represent and link the concepts of space and number 🐝🔢🧠 @ZazaKuo @OzBeeUVBG @beeleslieng theconversation.com/bees-cou…

Bees count from left to right just like some humans, apes and birds – new research

Did you know you have a ‘mental number line’, from smallest to largest? Turns out, so do bees.

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Congratulations to PhD Rob Moore on his first publication! 🐝🗺️ Rob showed how non-traditional data sources (e.g. social media and community science) can alter species distribution models using a case study on native #Australian #bees. See our article: sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Congratulations to @ZazaKuo on her first publication! Zaza's research explores how space and quantity are associated in the honeybee brain 🐝🔢🧠As it turns out, bees order quantities from left-to-right with a bias for the right side of space. Full article-sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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📢 Call for papers! Dr. Vanessa Kellermann & I are co-editing a Journal of Insect Physiology special issue: "Non-eusocial Bees and Pollination: Biology, Behaviour, and Physiology in Climate Change Conditions." 🐝🌍 Submit by Dec 31, 2024! More information: sciencedirect.com/special-is…
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Our research has been featured in @CSIROPublishing's blog. Our article encapsulates a decade of comparative research principally conducted in Australia on the topic of understanding how different bee species tolerate changing environmental conditions. blog.publish.csiro.au/invert…

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@OzBeeUVBG @AnimAlanDorin @JirGarci @MalikaRatnayake @TheFlwrSearcher
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Last week the ICEB Lab celebrated the submission of @lin_yq0527's Honour's thesis 🎉 Congratulations to Yuqing on her incredibly hard work and truly fascinating results. Yuqing has expanded our understanding of plant-pollinator interactions and evolution🐝🌻🪻🌹🌷🪷🥀🐝
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This is not an easy feat! Amazing work by @LChittka and the bees 🐝
Lars Chittka@LChittka
7 Apr 2024
Yesterday at 2pm the first honeybee (Apis mellifera) in this species’ evolutionary history managed to pull a string for reward. They are much harder to train than bumblebees, though!
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I try to do a lot of science communication, but I've been outdone on my own research here. Way to make research on bees ordering zero accessible and perhaps more humorous than it already was, @ScientistSpidey!
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Congratulations to @lin_yq0527 on the final seminar for Honours! 🐝🌻🎉It has been a great pleasure to work with this team! Yuqing's research will greatly advance our understanding of pollinator flower choice and plant-pollinator evolution. @beeleslieng @OzBeeUVBG
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Catching up with our newest collaborator - small brain, but big ideas! 🪰 @OzBeeUVBG
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22 Feb 2024
How would your animal answer these questions? Get inspired by the interview, written by the authors of this @J_Exp_Biol article advocating for rethinking behavioral research design. 👉journals.biologists.com/jeb/… @Monika_K_Scholz @SSerenaDing @elegansdiversus @LabLiao @RhythmicSpikes
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Awesome presentation by Honours student, @lin_yq0527, discussing the foraging decisons of honeybees at @VicBioCon in the "Flight of the Pollinators" session. #VicBioCon24 @OzBeeUVBG
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"Unveiling the homes of insects" 🪲🐝🦋🪰 Huge congratulations to @SesaSR02 on her poster presentation at @VicBioCon. This poster represents an immense amount of work that bridges the gap between ecology questions and computer science methods. #VicBioCon24 @AnimAlanDorin
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This is the reason we should have all meetings outside! You might get the chance to see blue-banded bees (Amegilla). Of course, then the 3 of us spent 10 minutes trying to capture a picture...
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Shout out to all the fabulous collaborators, friends, colleagues, and students I am honoured to work with on International Day of Women and Girls in Science 🧪🔭👩‍🔬🥼🐝🐞🪲🌼🌸 Keep up the wonderful breakthroughs advancing our understanding of the natural world.
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Love this panel discussion title at @VicBioCon #VicBioCon24 - "Not so cute and fluffy!" I'm always keen on discussions of how to conserve, support, and popularise less charismatic species. Seems like a good place to push my own publication on this topic: wellbeingintlstudiesreposito…
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