So very rewarding teaching children about the ultrasonic songs of mice and seeing the kids’ (and their parents’ 😉) faces upon hearing them (which we made audible for human ears). Thanks to Maja Peng and Bettina Wernisch for their great teamwork! @klivvvienna.bsky.social

📣 Paper alert! Have you ever wondered what a ketogenic diet might do to unborn offspring? Here we show that pregnant healthy 🐭 on a ketogenic diet give birth to less females pups and that the male pups die earlier than controls. Check it out: ▶️ doi.org/10.1371/jour... @klivvvienna.bsky.social

📢 Should you be on a ketogenic diet when pregnant? We found that this is not a good idea for healthy 🐭, and we raise concerns that ketogenic diets during pregnancy may have detrimental effects on offspring health and longevity. Coming out soon! 😃

🎉 Congratulations to Berta Retana Ferrés, who just defended her BS thesis at the University of Barcelona 🥳 presenting her work from the Erasmus internship that she did in our lab in Vienna! 😃 Berta found very interesting results on how 🐭 respond to USVs 🎶 👏 @klivvvienna.bsky.social‬

🔔NEW PAPER by the @pennzalalab.bsky.social! "Pre- and post-copulatory traits are affected by experimental inbreeding, but they are not correlated" out now in BMC Biology🐭 pbs.twimg.com/media/GtIyYn... 📸: Wikipedia

📣 Paper alert! Here we show that inbreeding impacted primary and secondary sex traits in wild 🐭. It negatively impacted testes mass, sperm quantity & quality, altered male courtship vocalisations 🎶, and reduced courtship behaviors. Check it out ▶️ doi.org/10.1186/s129...

Don't miss this exciting workshop on "Honest signalling and communication: from microbes to humans", next week in Leiden. #SarahZala is one of the scientific organizers, and we are looking forward to this event!🗣️🧪 @klivvvienna.bsky.social @lorentzcenter.bsky.social @pennzalalab.bsky.social

Thank you #LorentzCenter for funding us!

Looking forward to it!

📢 Six papers 🐭, one wedding and one baby later 👶… congratulations to Dr. Doris Nicolakis 🥳, who just gave a great talk 👏 and defended her PhD entitled “Adaptive functions of courtship signals in male house mice (Mus musculus musculus)” 🎵 🎉 Looking forward to new great discoveries with Doris!

Do you know of a researcher working in the field of zoology and/or conservation who you think has made an outstanding contribution that deserves recognition? Nominations are due on Feb 25th for the ZSL awards program, which spans all career levels from UG onwards www.zsl.org/about-zsl/aw...

Fabulous news! @ameliedesvars.bsky.social has been nominated by the Austrian Academy of Sciences to the Frontiers Planet Prize! Congratulations, Amél! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽https://www.vetmeduni.ac.at/universitaet/infoservice/news/news-detail/frontiers-planet-prize-nominierung-fuer-amelie-desvars-larrive

The most iconic figure in the environmental sciences is the Keeling Curve, the CO₂ record from Mauna Loa, Hawaii. @noaa.gov had a wonderful site where you could visualize and download these data, and now it's just gone. These data belong to us and we should not let this happen!

When you arrive at work and it looks like this! 😃 @KLIVVWien @VetmeduniVienna

📢 Teresa Klaus heroically classified >53000 USVs in wild🐭during courtship and mating. We found changes in their vocal composition, some USVs correlated with mating success, and there is evidence for vocal duetting! 🎶 @KLIVVWien @VetmeduniVienna🐭 ▶️ doi.org/10.1016/j.an...

Big news for #behaviour2025 attendees !! 📣 We are thrilled to announce that @asab is offering travel grants for #behaviour2025 attendees! 🎉🎊 Hurry! apply now! For more details, check out the post below 👇 bsky.app/profile/ccio...

PLEASE SHARE: Postdoc Opportunity in Montpellier France. 18 months starting May 2025: Generative AI for Studying the Influence of Habitats on the Diversification of Bird Color Patterns. Applications and information here: tinyurl.com/2368teak @evoldir.bsky.social

🎉 What a great job Martina Zani! Her MS thesis talk on USV discrimination in wild 🐭 was excellent. Congratulations! 🥳 @KLIVVWien @VetmeduniVienna🐭