🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

The 2021 Bioeng Lecture is moving online! We'll hear from renowned neuroscientist Prof Mandyam Srinivasan from Queensland Brain Institute, UQ on his research into the navigation of bees & birds and how this knowledge inspires designs of guidance systems for aerial vehicles imperial.ac.uk/events/134587/…

But that's not all! Join us after the lecture for the Bioinspired GNC Mini Symposium with guest speakers from @DeepMind, Imperial and Universität Würzburg #UniWürzburg giving talks on their research. The lecture and symposium are free and open to all. •🗓️26 May •🕘9AM BST imperial.ac.uk/events/134587/…

Join us online for the Bioengineering Lecture and Mini-Symposium targeted towards guidance, navigation and control. Sign up for a free ticket here: imperial.ac.uk/events/134587/…

#ICYMI Register for the 2021 Bioengineering Lecture and Bioinspired Guidance, Navigation and Control Symposium and hear from renowned researchers in the field of aircraft & drone navigation, robotics and more! •🗓️26 May, 9AM BST • ℹ️ bit.ly/ABL21_register •🔁Share & RT!

Find yourself travelling so fast that you can't quite turn that corner? You're not alone, killer flies do it too. Find out in our latest paper: doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2…

Research Assistant and Postdoc opportunities in my lab! Short term initially but extension possible. Right to work in the UK helpful. Come and fly drones with us. Research Assistant ad here: jobs.rvc.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?r…

Mayfly swarming behaviour captured upstream of the River Thames (likely Ephemera vulgata). Video by Dr. Huai-Ti Lin.

New paper, hot off the press! Workers of leaf-cutter ant colonies may be genetically identical sisters, but they can vary by more than two orders of magnitude in size. How does the capacity to produce bite force vary across worker size? royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs… 1/8

Could #robberflies inspire the drones of the future? An amazing study from bioengineers at Bioengineering + University of Minnesota examines how these aerial assassins avoid obstacles and catch their prey. Watch below or click here for more on Sam Fabian's study: ow.ly/jPVP50HVoMT

New open access paper out on the wonderful Gnat Ogre (Holcocephala fusca), with Paloma GB, in Journal of Experimental Biology . In it, you can find out how these tiny killers deal with physical obstacles on their way to hunt lunch on the wing. 1/6

This looks very interesting!

Our new article is finally out! We describe an elaborate sensor system on the wings of dragonflies, made up of thousands of microscopic sensors, each signalling real-time mechanical information for flight control purposes. Imperial Dragonfly Lab sciencedirect.com/.../pii/S25890…

This video shows quite how cluttered insect airspace is. This is just 6.5 seconds overlaid from an urban garden!

It's extremely clear to me that fairies do exist, we just call them mayflies.

Congratulations to the JEB-sponsored Young Investigator Award winners at this year’s ICN meeting #icn2022lisbon: Jay Stafstrom, Grace Capshaw, Mercedes Bendochea Mercedes Bengochea and Alexandra Yarger (Alex Yarger Imperial Dragonfly Lab). Don’t miss the symposium at 18:00BST

ICN update: following our talented Dr Yarger's talk, our lab head Dr Lin will speak more about the neuromechanics of dragonfly wings tomorrow (Making Biorobots Behave Symposium). Also, don't miss Dr Sam Fabian's talk about the dorsal-light-response on Friday (Visual System II)

Massive congratulations to lab member Alex Yarger (in picture, dragonfly for scale) on her young Investigator award at #icn2022lisbon! A superb talk on how insects use mechanosensors to detect what's going on during flight.

This is completely ridiculous. I love it.

This African lunar moth (Argema mimosae) is all warmed up and ready to participate in some flight measurements. I don't think we should value insects based on how pretty they are to us, but I would die for this one...