I’m incredibly pleased: for the first time, I presented my brand-new data from the line of research I set up at UCL. I was an invited speaker at the Gordon Research Seminar on Neuroethology: Behaviour, Evolution and Neurobiology. Over a sunny weekend in a small village of the swiss Alps, I was welcomed into the very smart, creative and kind community of neuroethologists. The common denominator is a focus on the quantitative analysis of natural behaviour and the underlying neuronal circuit mechanisms – whether in mice, fish, bats, birds, reptiles or salamanders.