{"id":32771,"date":"2026-04-14T12:52:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T11:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robinmeier.net\/?p=32771"},"modified":"2026-08-02T13:05:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T12:05:02","slug":"plos-biology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robinmeier.net\/?p=32771","title":{"rendered":"PLOS Biology"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fascinating publication on synchronisation between crickets and fireflies. Published in PLOS Biology by Guy Amichay, Vijay Balasubramanian and Daniel M. Abrams, partly initiated by a conversation Guy and I had back in Thailand in 2022 whilst working on Synchronicity: Chimera States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosbiology\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pbio.3003735\">https:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosbiology\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pbio.3003735<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A widespread animal communication tempo may resonate with the receiver\u2019s brain<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During fieldwork in Thailand, we observed nearly identical tempos of co-located flashing fireflies and chirping crickets. Motivated by this, we survey published data showing that an abundance of evolutionarily distinct species communicate isochronously at ~0.5\u20134 Hz, suggesting that this might be a tempo \u201chotspot.\u201d We hypothesize that this timescale may have a universal basis in the biophysics of the receiver\u2019s neurons. We test this by demonstrating that small receiver circuits constructed from elements representing typical neurons will be most responsive in the observed tempo range.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fascinating publication on synchronisation between crickets and fireflies. Published in PLOS Biology by Guy Amichay, Vijay Balasubramanian and Daniel M. Abrams, partly initiated by a conversation Guy and I had back in Thailand in 2022 whilst working on Synchronicity: Chimera States. https:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosbiology\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pbio.3003735 A widespread animal communication tempo may resonate with the receiver\u2019s brain During fieldwork [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32772,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[86,19,82,47],"class_list":["post-32771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-media","tag-crickets","tag-fireflies","tag-publications","tag-sync"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>PLOS Biology - robin meier wiratunga<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/robinmeier.net\/?p=32771\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"PLOS Biology - robin meier wiratunga\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Fascinating publication on synchronisation between crickets and fireflies. 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