33% der Menschen in Sachsen-Anhalt wollen eine Revolution, 22% wollen die Bundesrepublik abschaffen, über ein Viertel würde den Einsatz von Gewalt befürworten. Ein Interview mit dem Leiter des Sachsen-Anhalt-Monitors, Gert Pickel. (Geschenklink) www.zeit.de/politik/deut...

Jetzt gerade @zeit.de: Ein interview von @christianbangel.bsky.social, dessen Inhalt unser aller Aufmerksamkeit bräuchte (geschenkt): www.zeit.de/politik/deut...

interested in a collaborative project at #unifreiburg linking tick ecology and vector-pathogen interactions check out a PhD position in my lab here uni-freiburg.de/stellenangeb...

We are happy to announce that the next EOU Conference will be in Brno, Czech Republic in 2027! Check our website eounion.org and follow us on social media for regular updates! #ornithology #EOU2027

Happy and proud of the next fledgling of the Flack flock. Dr Hester Brønnvik @hbronnv.bsky.social defended her PhD thesis today. She has done a wonderful job. I could not be happier! @imprs-qbee.bsky.social @animaltracking.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social

🚀 Guess who’s back? 🛰️🥳💫 ICARUS, our global wildlife-tracking system, returns to orbit aboard the GENA-OT satellite, which launched from Vandenberg SFB today 🎉 This is step one for ICARUS 2.0: full global coverage, smaller sensors, near-real-time. Congrats @animaltracking.bsky.social + team ICARUS

After the Ngogo chimpanzee group killed 21 members of neighboring groups and expanded their territory by 22%, female birth rates more than doubled and infant survival increased sharply—showing clear fitness benefits from intergroup killing. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/TKmf50XuPjY

Take three minutes to look at pretty birds, explore radar data, and see how we connect the structure of skies to MacArthur's ideas of niche partitioning. 📡🐦☁️🎧

How do storks learn to migrate efficiently? IMPRS-QBEE student @hbronnv.bsky.social, working with @anflack.bsky.social use GPS ani accelerometer tags to study how white storks balance the costs and benefits of migratory decisions @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/A-kNB...

Out today in @plosbiology.org (1/5) Siblings and non-parental adults provide alternative pathways to cultural inheritance in juvenile great tits 🐦🧩 Link to study: 10.0.5.91/journal.pbio... Co-authors: @lucymaplin.bsky.social @galarconnieto.bsky.social

More bad news for butterflies. Our new paper led by Wendy Leuenberger shows common species are declining even more rapidly than rare ones. @ZipkinLab Three decades of declines restructure butterfly communities in the Midwestern United States | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2501340122

I found this in the forest next to my house today… any idea what on earth this could possibly be??? I am a biologist - but come on… this is sick!! I am sure these are 👾 that have arrived here without anyone noticing!!? 🤯

From bio-logging to conservation 🔽 New paper by an @animaltracking.bsky.social dream team @diegoellissoto.bsky.social @anflack.bsky.social @arispeshkin.bsky.social Timm Wild, Hannah Williams, @teagueo.bsky.social @cbehav.bsky.social @uni-konstanz.de www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

You can read more on wildlife.berkeley.edu/news/2025/07...

Thrilled to share our new article in @pnas.org highlighting global gaps in where we study animal movement—and outlining the next generation of smart bio-loggers. 👉 Read the full study in PNAS: lnkd.in/exP8NCeZ 1/

Genau wie viele Menschen zeigen Tiere Anzeichen von Stress, wenn sie versuchen, für eine Gruppe von Artgenossen die Führung zu übernehmen. Zu diesem Ergebnis kommt ein internationales Forschungsteam unter Beteiligung von #UniKonstanz @cbehav.bsky.social BiologInnen: t1p.de/zud05

What migrating storks can teach us about working smarter AND harder with age: elizabethgpreston.substack.com/p/how-to-sto... 🧪

Featuring research by @anflack.bsky.social and @hbronnv.bsky.social!

New special issue of OSIRIS: "Animal Mobilities" 🐫🐠🐛 The volume was edited by MPIWG Research Scholars Tamar Novick, @lisaonaga.bsky.social, and Gabriel N. Rosenberg of the working groups "Out of Place, Out of Time" and "Proteins and Fibers." 🔗 bit.ly/amv4025 #HistSci #EnvHist #STS #Zoology

4 year fixed term postdoc position in Tasmania, Australia. Drones, camera traps, population monitoring. careers.utas.edu.au/en/job/50114...

Es ist doch einigermaßen erstaunlich, wie ein komplett haltloser Vorwurf eines angeblichen Plagiats den Ruf und die Karriere einer Richterin bedroht, während ein ehemaliger Gesundheitsminister, der Milliarden versenkt, völlig unbeschädigt weitermacht, obwohl es Belege und heftigen Widerstand gibt.

Our new #OpenAccess paper How can long-term #ecology studies survive & resist political & social change, authoritarianism, war, but also embrace positive change? The Białowieża Forest as an example of the resilience of long-term studies in a changing world: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/

In our new paper led by Ursula Heize, we show that >90% of #WhiteStork nests have anthropogenic materials (plastics, paper, etc). Ropes are particularly dangerous: ~12% of the chicks became entangled on ropes, particularly on baler twine! Check out the paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

2/5 We tracked 151 storks over up to 8 migrations (at 1 Hz!) to ask whether they improve their soaring skills to migrate efficiently. We identified > 55,000 soaring & > 6,000 flapping events that allowed us to compare flight across ages & seasons.

If there is an optimal behavior, why is there so much variation in the world? We found that, for white storks, context is everything. @anflack.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social New paper! @cellpress.bsky.social doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2025.06.044 🧵1/5

Look at this beautiful new study by @hbronnv.bsky.social in @cellpress.bsky.social, and it even has a pretty animation! Experience AND motivation count when white storks migrate! #birds #migration #biologging #ontogeny #whitestork #ornithology Very proud supervisor here @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social

Unlocking the hidden biodiversity of Europe’s villages | EurekAlert! www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

Wonderful! Happy birthday to Bill! My favourite:

What a beautiful map of our data! I just found this, very nice!

New Review in #ProcB - The study of social animal #migrations: a synthesis of the past and guidelines for future research #OpenAccess #Behaviour ‪@irisdb.bsky.social‬ royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Habitat availability is insufficient to explain regional variations in white stork breeding habitat preference vist.ly/3n7aixg 📷 © David Ledan/Acrola #HabitatPreferences #NestingHabitatSelection #SpeciesDistributionModels #ModelTransferability #CiconiaCiconia

We performed a systematic literature review and summarized the methodological approaches, scientific strength and more of 116 papers. @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @animaltracking.bsky.social @imprs-qbee.bsky.social @uni-konstanz.de

🚨 New paper alert! 🚨 Excited to share our new review in @royalsocietypublishing.org Proceedings B! 🎉 We synthesize research on social factors influencing animal migration and offer guidelines for future research. Check it out here: doi.org/10.1098/rspb... #OpenAccess #Migration #MovementEcology

Delayed post, but we are excited to share this study on decades of monitoring of translocations launched by the late Reed Bowman. We show a demographic boost (i.e., rescue!), but success was largely driven by a few individuals leading to erosion of genetic diversity. www.kbs.msu.edu/2025/05/scru...

Totally missed this last year's paper: A great introduction to continuous-time modelling (deterministic & stochastic)!

Congrats, Iain! Fantastic news!

Would you like to decipher how animals perceive the world from their movement and activity data collected by tracking devices? I am looking for a postdoctoral researcher to develop approaches for extraction of animal condition from the tracks of wild birds.

Heute durften wir Ministerin Petra Olschowski @mwk-bw.bsky.social begrüßen. Auf Einladung von Nese Erikli, MdL, wird sie an einer Podiumsdiskussion zum Thema „Was sind uns Kunst und Kultur im Land wert?“ in Konstanz teilnehmen. Vor der Diskussion gab es eine Kinderführung durch unsere...🧵 1/2

Happy 99th birthday to the man who gave voice to the wild. 🎉 Sir David Attenborough, thank you for a lifetime dedicated to the natural world, and for sharing its story with wisdom, wonder, and grace. You've inspired generations to fall in love with nature.

This iconic stork flocks in the thousands! The African-Eurasian flyway links cultures, landscapes and people in over 120 countries. With its graceful flight, the White Stork is a renowned migrant along this flyway.🌍 Join in on World Migratory Bird Day on 10th May👉 www.birdlife.org/getcounting/

thanks to Noah, Lea-Marleen, Greta, Charlotte, Tobias and Milan for making this possible and moderating so beautifully, and all experts for playing along so enthusiastically! @larsbu.bsky.social @commonternproject.bsky.social @anflack.bsky.social Gregor Scheiffarth and Sonia Kleindorfer

www.ardmediathek.de/video/extra-... Danke dafür 😘

Something German media could learn from. Don’t make the same mistake.

This is high art

🌍 We are launching a new #ManyLabs!!! Join the Heat & Cognition project! We're studying how extreme heat affects human thinking, social behavior & well-being — globally. Contribute & co-author: 🔗 Info: heatandmind.wordpress.com 📋 Sign up: www.soscisurvey.de/HeatandCogni... #EnvironmentalPsychology

In case you need more depressing news this week. (Remember how thriving duck populations were supposed to be a bright spot amid general North American bird declines? Yeah, not anymore.) www.audubon.org/magazine/swe...

Let's talk about this Nature piece in more detail. I've rarely read something so anti-scientific anywhere short of the National Review. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

My BFFL Marco Gallio, @mlcapek.bsky.social, and colleagues just dropped an absolute banger of a paper in @nature.com! The Evanston flylords reveal the molecular and neuronal basis of thermal niche adaptation in drosophilid flies. A must-read! 🔥🔥 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Now this is exciting. Antonin and his team have just published a study showing that the number of migrating hoverflies through Czechia are positively correlated with the numbers of birds! Suggests that the birds are using the flies as fuel on migration. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10....

Na, Robert Habeck kann sich immerhin freuen, dass eins seiner zentralen Wahlversprechen - der Deutschlandfonds für Infrastruktur-Investitionen - jetzt von Friedrich Merz umgesetzt wird (der zusätzliche Schulden im Wahlkampf noch für unnötig hielt).