Calling all Austrian academics who care about the situation in Gaza. researchers4palestine.org have an open letter you can sign (and a petition of support if you're a nonacademic). They also link to an EU letter calling for a stop to EU funding for Israeli institutions.

🪶🤖 Someone stored an image in a Starling song! “This little bird successfully learned and emulated the sound in the exact same frequency range that he heard it…transferring about 176 kilobytes of uncompressed information…” (!!!) www.iflscience.com/i-saved-a-pn...

This is not the time to step back. It’s unquestionably the time to step forward. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Although my work has often involved brains, I haven't often talked about how my own unruly brain (migraine) affects my work. Thanks to @carodeimel.bsky.social for suggesting we and another colleague contribute to this inspiring TREE series on disability in EcoEvo: dlvr.it/TLShPk

Hello & HAPPY FRIDAY, as promised an open letter by my lovely colleagues and myself. Everybody, feel free to sign this even if you are not NL-based and ‼️ share ‼️ (anonymous signature is poss): Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia openletter.earth/open-letter-...

Hopefully of interest to @univie.ac.at people at UBB. More info here: wobio.univie.ac.at/events-netwo...

Excellent thread about an important resource. Entertaining and relevant - do read to the end. 🤗

We’re standing up for science ! 🤝 On March 7 at 1 pm, the #MarchforScience will start in front of the University of Vienna - an initiative of scientists raising their voices worldwide for free science. The University of Vienna shares this important cause.‼️🏛️ #standupforscience2025 #scienceforall

Zotero is great and I think that anyone who needs to organise and cite more than a handful of references should be using it. Here's an intro to Zotero that I made for my undergrad students (but the info is relevant for anyone new to Zotero). Full vid [13 mins]: youtu.be/SlUHjOqVCyU Preview ⬇️

Caught our regular balcony visitor politely asking for a drink...

Can humans discriminate individual birds of the spotted bowerbird from photographs?🪶 Students from the @fusanilab.bsky.social @univie.ac.at need you to answer that question! You can test your visual discrimination skills with their online experiment (~15 min long): sosci.univie.ac.at/bowerbird_di...

Wonderful Etho2025 conference in Tutzing! It was really nice to be able to present some previous works 🐟 and my current project 🐦 at @univie.ac.at with the @fusanilab.bsky.social

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For my plant-loving friends in Vienna: the city makes excellent soil out of organic waste and it's on sale again at municipal trash centres. Very reasonably priced too!

Happy Valentine's day from the Dove Lab @fusanilab.bsky.social @univie.ac.at We're preparing Maria Santacà's new experiment investigating the possible role of visual illusions during courtship. Female birds will watch videos of courting males in different illusion-inducing configurations ♥️🕊️♥️

A beautiful insightful video about urban wildlife during new year’s eve in Berlin (sadly, representative of any German city) by @distrustful-dinos.bsky.social If you are tempted to light even just 1 explosive for your pleasure, this video is for you www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCfH...

Happy #Lawyercat Anniversary for all who celebrate! It's been four years since the kitten appeared in my Zoom courtroom, and I released the 48 second video that made the whole world laugh. Here is the full video showing the big reveal at the end (in two parts because Blue sky). Enjoy!

🚨 Call for Papers! 🚨 Don't miss the chance to apply for the interdisciplinary graduate conference "From Minds to Movements - Foresight in Cognition and Activism" in Vienna!