So proud of Dr. Schlippe Justicia, a new metamorph coming out of the Rojas Lab pool👩🏻‍🎓🎉🐸 Congrats, Lia! 💚 @klivvvienna.bsky.social

Check out a full video explainer about this about this research here : www.instagram.com/reel/DXHOFal...

Thrilled to see our first paper as PhD students out there 🎊🫶🏽🎉

"Who is who? Water makes frog image recognition 100% clear" Have a look at this article about the findings reported in our Edina Nemesházi's latest publication! @klivvvienna.bsky.social doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0341460 www.vetmeduni.ac.at/en/universit...

Formatted version out at last! “Defensive colouration is not a reliable indicator of 🍄 infection in aposematic poison 🐸” academic.oup.com/beheco/artic... @klivvvienna.bsky.social @behavecol.bsky.social 👩🏻‍🔬🧪

Are you an animal behavior researcher? 🐸🦜🐒🪲🦋🦇🐍🐏Consider supporting @abcmicrogrants.bsky.social this holiday season ❄️🐝 It takes less than a minute and your money goes directly towards supporting #AnimalBehavior students!! 🎄🎄🎄 opencollective.com/animal-behav...

Wishing everyone a joyful holiday season ❄️🎄⛄ At @abcmicrogrants.bsky.social 🐝🐝🐝, we’re excited to support even more #AnimalBehavior students through #microgrants + #mentorship. Your generosity makes this possible - consider donating to help us keep this work going!

This #GivingTuesday please consider donating to @abcmicrogrants.bsky.social to support undergraduate students globally!! 🫶🗺️ Help us make #animalbehaviourresearch more inclusive 🐝🐝🐝 Sign up to be a monthly donor, or make a one time contribution using this link opencollective.com/animal-behav...

New paper out in @behavecol.bsky.social! Multiple studies show that sexually selected traits such as colours can reflect the presence of pathogens/parasites, but, can defensive coloration do the same? L. Schlippe Justicia, @carodittrich.bsky.social, O. Nokelainen & I tackled that question (1/3)

Our #mentorshipmatching event is two days away now!! 📣 --> Sign up to be a mentor/mentee, join the @abcmicrogrants.bsky.social community!! 🐝🐝🐝 --> Share this with interested students and ECRs in your group! --> Become a monthly donor to help us keep growing!

We’re thrilled to announce the ABC's fourth mentorship-matching event!! 📣📣 This is a unique opportunity for you to meet and connect with experienced mentors. The mentorship match event - more of an informal "vibe check" - will be on Nov 6 2025 at 14:00 GMT 🐝🐝 Help us spread the word!! #mentorship

#CrowCoG is hiring🚨MULTIPLE PAID RESEARCH ASSISTANT POSITIONS 🚨for our 2026 field season (May - Sep)! Field and aviary-based positions - come help us study the remarkable tool-making New Caledonian crows. Apply here: bit.ly/3WlxxHE

Our new paper is out! @camillasoravia.bsky.social leads this research, which looks into the relationship between heat- mediated cognitive impairment and the antipredator response in wild pied babblers. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

The Suriname Toad (Pipa pipa) is a horror inducing frog. During mating, the eggs are laid into the backs of the female frog. There, they develop and then hatch out of the back. 📸 Chaline Olivier discover more at buff.ly/RCBnUSE

In memory of Jane Goodall, English primatologist and anthropologist and the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees. Take a look at her 1985 article published in #PhilTransB 'Conditions of innovative behaviour in primates': royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Want to help make the field of animal behaviour more accessible to help? Visit the @abcmicrogrants.bsky.social at poster 72 to learn about how to apply for microgrants and mentorship, become a mentor or financial contributor. 🐝🐝🐝 @behaviour2025.bsky.social @asab.org

I had a blast at the @ecobhvr2025.bsky.social in Montpellier last week 🎉 what a friendly (and free) conference to start off sharing the first findings of my PhD 🙏🏽

Having Sir David Attenborough narrate a story based on our findings on the dyeing poison frog was something that I never imagined, even in my wildest dreams. Now it’s happening, in the new BBC series “Parenthood” (Episode on Freshwater)! 🤩 www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Zih... 📸: Screenshot from trailer

Two more presentations from our group at #ATBC2025 are done and dusted! 🐸🧪🌍Paul Kesseler presented a poster on Hg contamination in phytotelmata and their inhabitants at Nouragues (French Guiana), which he investigated during his Master’s (1/2)

Super proud of Lia Schlippe Justicia, who gave an excellent talk on her PhD work involving frog disease, skin microbiome and habitat disturbance 🐸🧬🍄🏘️🏗️ #ATBC2025 @klivvvienna.bsky.social

Why did some birds evolve to be so clever? Mark O'Hara & Berenika Mioduszewska took on the challenge of studying wild Goffin's cockatoos on a small Indonesian island. Their exciting findings help answer that question. Listen: linktr.ee/wild_behavior_pod Photo: Goffin Lab Tanimbar

You can find the job offers here: evolvinglanguage.ch/jobs/#getapo... Looking forward to hearing from you 😊

First #fieldwork of my PhD in French Guiana is now completed 🇬🇫🐸 I don't have the words yet to describe how amazing this place is, but I believe these few videos will do some justice ☀️🎥 #wildlife #experiments #Nouragues

Over the past 4 years, ABC has collected donations and distributed the funds as microgrants to animal behaviour students in financial need. These microgrants have helped students cover costs such as books, travel, registration fees, etc. Thank you to everyone who donated to ABC!

What a great weekend at the #WienerForschungsfest! 100s of visitors learned about how the spots of fire salamanders work as fingerprints, which we can use to count them in the wild (even faster now, with the help of AI!) ⚫️🟡🦎🟡⚫️ @klivvvienna.bsky.social MASSIVE thanks to our wonderful helpers! 🙏🏼

Have a look at this coverage of the new paper led by Daniel Shaykevich, featuring Andrius Pasukonis, both currently at @klivvvienna.bsky.social 😊 Link to paper in the comments 🐸 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I have already been fortunate enough to find these guys around the institute in Vienna, what will it be like in French Guiana..? More frogs for sure ! 🐸☀️✈️

💑 Relationships can be hard work. In fact, the challenges of maintaining social relationships are often thought to have favoured the evolution of intelligence in humans and other social animals. Photo credits: @cornishjackdaws.bsky.social and @stancaf.bsky.social

We have an exciting new position in our lab for a PhD on parrot tool use! See below

Save the date! We will be in the "Wiener Forschungsfest 2025" (Vienna Research Festival) with a stand that combines our beloved fire salamanders and AI. Come and find out how! 📆March 21-23, 📌Rathaus. Everybody welcome! @klivvvienna.bsky.social forschungsfest.at

Let's celebrate all of the female scientists we know! Who is the woman in science that inspires you the most? :) Recommended reading on Women in Animal Behaviour and Welfare: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

So proud of #KristinSzydlik, who did an excellent job in her MSc thesis defence yesterday 🥳🙌🏽 Stay tuned to learn about her findings on #firesalamanders from the Vienna woods! ⚫️🟡🦎🟡⚫️

(1/9) Our new paper "Pair-bond strength is consistent and related to partner responsiveness in a wild corvid" is now out in Proc R Soc B! Research together with Beki Hooper, @guillmcivor.bsky.social, and @cornishjackdaws.bsky.social Link: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Fonseca Species Conservation Fund $$$: early career, 35 y.o. GEF-recipient countries. $25,000 grants for: amphibians, FW fish, primates, small mammals, tortoises & FW turtles. 🐟🐸🐢🐒🐿️ action.https://www.rewild.org/the-fonseca-species-conservation-fund

New book: “Atlas des Amphibiens de Guyane”, by Antoine Fouquet, Elodie Courtois, Maël Dewynter. A milestone in Guianan herpetology. Right now in French, and soon an English edition should be available: crbe.cnrs.fr/en/parution-... 🐸🐸🐸 #herpetology #frogs #caecilians

So lucky to work with this fun and talented bunch! 🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼 Happy holidays, everyone! 🎄 @klivvvienna.bsky.social

A warm (and belated) welcome to our new PhD student, @stancaf.bsky.social, who has joined our (with A Pašukonis, who’s not yet in 🦋) project on sensory ecology and cognition in #poisonfrogs funded by @fwf-at.bsky.social!