The miscalibration of the honeybee odometer
2024/05/08 by Laura Luebbert, Luebbert, Laura, Lior Pachter +1 · 3 voices · 1 citation
Computer Science · Engineering · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · #q-bio.OT #physics.bio-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2405.12998
Abstract
We examine a series of articles on honeybee odometry and navigation published between 1996 and 2010, and find inconsistencies in results, duplicated figures, indications of data manipulation, and incorrect calculations. This suggests that redoing the experiments in question is warranted.
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- 2/ The waggle dance is well documented, there is a ton of literature on it. Srinivasan's contributions were on the quantitative measurements that indicated how honeybees actually measure the distance [bsky, 11 points, 1 comments]
- Really formative paper for me seems to have fallen. Imo this is an example of good sleuthing, measured critique, and raises important questions for reconciling visual odometry research following this [bsky, 3 points, 0 comments]
- Was blüht uns noch, wenn die tanzenden Honigbienen bereits Wissenschaftsbetrug sein könnten? Wissenschaft setzt die falschen Anreize und bestraft Fehlverhalten zu wenig. arxiv.org/abs/2405.12998 #Wis [bsky, 0 points, 0 comments]
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