Thomas Albrecht visited us to give an informative and detailed #WilhelminenbergSeminarTalk about extrapair paternity and postcopulatory sexual selection in birds!🐦‍⬛🦜 @fiwivienna.bsky.social

Here's why we should not (only) study global change drivers in isolation! Check our new preprint showing how a fungal pathogen interacts with habitat disturbance to shape the skin bacterial communities of an Amazonian frog: ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v... @klivvvienna.bsky.social

Last weekend the Mallnitzer Days took place in the Hohe Tauern National Park for the fourth time, focusing on current challenges in alpine birds of prey conservation. A wonderful collaboration! Read more about it here: vetmeduni.ac.at/en/research-... @klivvvienna.bsky.social 📷: Justina Heinz

Next #WilhelminenbergSeminarTalk: 25.03. | 2:00 PM with Judith Janisch 📍@FIWI, 1160 Wien or online 👩‍💻 → vetmeduni.ac.at/fiwi/seminar... 📢 Tip for students: The participation is recognised as an elective! (KV 128 804) @fiwivienna.bsky.social

We are very proud to share the @science.org publication by our Ass.Prof. Matthias Loretto @matthiasloretto.bsky.social showing that ravens anticipate wolf kill sites across broad scales www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

We loved having Virpi Lummaa as a speaker at our #WilhelminenbergSeminarTalk series - she shared her knowledge and research about Kin networks and natural selection in changing societies - what a treat! 🐘👶 @lummaalab.bsky.social @fiwivienna.bsky.social

"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...

Next #WilhelminenbergSeminarTalk: 28.01. | 2:00 PM with Ancuta Fedorca 📍@fiwivienna.bsky.social, 1160 Wien or online 👩‍💻 → vetmeduni.ac.at/fiwi/seminar... 📢 Tip for students: The participation is recognised as an elective! (KV 128 804) @klivvvienna.bsky.social

Our first #WilhelminenbergSeminarTalk of 2026 was given by Sandro Sehner and explored "Social Tolerance and Problem-Solving in Primate Groups"🐒 - a fascinating subject! @leibniz-gemeinschaft.de @fiwivienna.bsky.social

Next #WilhelminenbergSeminarTalk: 21.01. | 2:00 PM with Virpi Lummaa / @lummaalab.bsky.social 📍@KLIVV, 1160 Wien or online 👩‍💻 → vetmeduni.ac.at/fiwi/seminar... 📢 Tip for students: The participation is recognised as an elective! (KV 128 804)

Next #WilhelminenbergSeminarTalk: 14.01. | 2:00 PM with Sandro Sehner / German primate Centre, @leibniz-gemeinschaft.de 📍@klivvvienna.bsky.social, 1160 Wien or online 👩‍💻 → vetmeduni.ac.at/fiwi/seminar... 📢 Tip for students: The participation is recognised as an elective! (KV 128 804)

Our final #WilhelminenbergSeminarTalk this year was with Franz Essl @franzessl1.bsky.social, who gave us captivating new insights into the global re-shuffling of species. 🌿🧪 @klivvvienna.bsky.social @univie.ac.at bioinvasions.univie.ac.at Our next talk will be on the 14th of January!

We had another fascinating #WilhelminenbergSeminarTalk with Radoslaw Karpienko, who spoke to us about "Building Scientific Authority and How It May Harm Research Fields" 📊 @klivvvienna.bsky.social @wuvienna.bsky.social

Martin Jastroch joined us for a lively and informative #WilhelminenbergSeminarTalk with the following topic: "Reconstructing the evolution of brown fat thermogenesis". @klivvvienna.bsky.social

Another great #WilhelminenbergSeminarTalk, held by Bea Maas, where we enjoyed learning about "Tropical ecology in practice – biodiversity, ecosystem services, and lessons from sustainable cacao" 🌱🍫 @fiwivienna.bsky.social @univie.ac.at

Many thanks to Sasan Fereidouni who gave an informative #WilhelminenbergSeminarTalk with the title "Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza: Eco-Epidemiological Shifts and a Global Perspective" 🐦🦠 @klivvvienna.bsky.social

We had a great #WilhelminenbergSeminarTalk last week! Neal Dawson @nealdawson.bsky.social took us up high into the Andes, where he looked into the factors that make specific species 🦆🐦 adapt to high altitude, low temperature and low oxygen 🫁. @klivvvienna.bsky.social @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk

Next #WilhelminenbergSeminarTalk: 26.11. | 2:00 PM with Bea Maas/ @univie.ac.at 📍@klivvvienna.bsky.social , 1160 Wien or online 👩‍💻 → vetmeduni.ac.at/fiwi/seminar... 📢 Tip for students: The participation is recognised as an elective! (KV 128 804) @fiwivienna.bsky.social

Next #WilhelminenbergSeminarTalk: 5.11. | 2:00 PM with Marcus Clauss/ University of Zürich 📍@KLIVVWien, 1160 Wien or online 👩‍💻 → vetmeduni.ac.at/fiwi/seminar... 📢 Tip for students: The participation is recognised as an elective! (KV 128 804) @fiwivienna.bsky.social

Last week's talk by Martin Mayer (University of Inland Norway) gave us a lot of insight into moose monitoring🫎 - both on the ground and by drone - as well lots of info about beevers in Scandinavia. A truly informative #WilhelminenbergSeminarTalk! @fiwivienna.bsky.social

Next #WilhelminenbergSeminarTalk: 15.10. | 2:00 PM with Martin Mayer / University of Inland Norway 📍@KLIVVWien, 1160 Wien or online 👩‍💻 → vetmeduni.ac.at/fiwi/seminar... 📢Tip for students: The participation is recognised as an elective! (KV 128 804) @FIWIvienna

What a great start to the new term - a big thank you to Patricia Brennan for a wonderfully inspiring and lively talk on genital evolution in birds! 🦆🐦🦜 @fiwivienna.bsky.social

📢 NÖ Forschungsfest | Come and visit us at this event for the entire family! With entertaining show acts and over 80 research stations, the world of science becomes an experience! 📅 Friday, 10 October 2025 | 1:00 p.m.–9:00 p.m. 📍 Palais NÖ, Herrengasse 13, 1010 Vienna 🌞 Admission free!

📢 NEW PAPER: Do dogs form reputations of humans? Find the answer to this question in the recent publication by the Domestication Lab! 🐶 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

At our final #WilhelminenberSeminarTalk last semester, we got a history lessen by our own Elmira Mohandesan, who spoke about the impact of the Roman conquest of the northern Alpine foreland in 15 BCE on local horse populations! 🐴 @klivvvienna.bsky.social

📢NEW PAPER! Edina Nemeshazi and Co. studied the effect of chlorpyrifos on fitness-related traits in agile #frogs, and found that, at certain concentrations, this insecticide alters anti-predator behaviour and leads to decreased body mass at metamorphosis 🐸 👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.aquatox.2025.107400

One of those bitter-sweet moments in academic life… @carodittrich.bsky.social has been fundamental for the achievements we’ve had as a group and we will miss her greatly, but I’m already looking forward to hearing about the exciting science she’ll be doing in this new phase! 🤩🐸 🟡⚫️🦎⚫️🟡 🧬👩🏻‍🔬🫶🏼

📢Congratulations to @ericacalabretta.bsky.social for the publication of her first PhD thesis chapter, "Passerine stopover physiology: weather variability does not alter corticosterone dynamics after sea crossing"! 👏🥳🐥 doi.org/10.1002/jav.... @fusanilab.bsky.social 📸: Wikipedia

📣 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

Our group’s first study on fire salamanders is out! 🟡⚫️🦎⚫️🟡 🧪🌍We report differences in predation rates between managed and non-managed forest areas, due mostly to increased 🐦 attacks in managed areas. Both types of areas differ mainly in 🌳 diversity and evenness (1/2) doi.org/10.1111/jzo....

🎉 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

And I had the opportunity to present our work (led by Mileidy Betancourth) on the impact of habitat disturbance on the morphology and behaviour of the Little Devil’s poison frog in Colombia # ATBC2025 @klivvvienna.bsky.social

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

We had the pleasure of having Sylvain Giroud as a speaker for a #WilhelminenbergSeminarTalk and he gave us insights into early-life metabolic flexibility and its lifelong and intergenerational effects in a small hibernator 🐭 @klivvvienna.bsky.social

Thank you to Kang Nian Yap who spoke about an integrative approach to studying lifehistory trade-offs: The roles of endoplasmic reticulum physiology, bioenergetics, and oxidative stress at his #WilhelminenbergSeminarTalk🗣️ @fiwivienna.bsky.social

✴️ NEW PAPER! ✴️ In the beautiful Caucasian mountains of 🇬🇪 lives a moth whose wing colour variation (🔴🟠🟡) has intrigued us for ages. Here (doi.org/10.1111/1744...), we studied whether such variation is associated with 🧬 structure or other traits such as size. (1/3)

Last week, @biobiiana.bsky.social was one of the plenary speakers at the European Meeting of PhD students in Evolutionary Biology (#EMPSEB30) in Milovy (Czech Republic), a conference for PhD students organised by PhD students! 🐸

The DEI panel is an important part of every EMPSEB. This year, participants discussed five selected scenarios in smaller groups. Thanks to all, for great discussions about Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Special thanks go to @biobiiana.bsky.social, who concluded the event with an encouraging talk.

🔔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

Aletta Bonn held a wonderful online #WilhelminenbergSeminarTalk about biodiversity: "Biodiversity is good for you! Street trees, urban nature, citizen science, and health", convincing us (even more!) that it is crucially important and beneficial for us all! 🌲🐸 @klivvvienna.bsky.social

We are ready for the #BiosphärenparkCup2025! Join @carodittrich.bsky.social Kristin Szydlik and me at the Kartause Mauerbach to play our #SalaMemo ⚫️🟡🦎🟡🟤 @klivvvienna.bsky.social

We had a great time with Jéremy Lemaire, who gave a wonderful and entertaining #WilhelminenbergSeminarTalk about mercury monitoring and it's impacts in Caimans 🐊 💧🧪 @univie.ac.at @fiwivienna.bsky.social

Save the date! Next month, the #BiosphärenparkWienerwald will be hosting the #BiosphärenparkCup & @biobiiana.bsky.social will be there with a stand on #firesalamanders 🟡🦎⚫️ Join us! @carodittrich.bsky.social 📆 24.05 📌Kartäuserplatz 2, 3001 Mauerbach ⏰ 11-16:30 More info 👉 bpww.at/de/veranstal...

Great talk, Edina! So proud to have you as part of our group! 🤩 @klivvvienna.bsky.social

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

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! 🙏🏼

The biggest surprise: Passerines have lost ghrelin, the 'hunger hormone'. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... @klivvvienna.bsky.social @univie.ac.at

🙌" Promoting a supportive & collaborative working culture is key to boosting equality in science" - @panemma.bsky.social discusses how we can #AccelerateAction within #ecology & science, to move towards gender equality 🧪🌎 #IWD2025 🔗 functionalecologists.com/2025/03/07/i...

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