Day three of #Inktober! How to say a Sorex araneus from a Sorex coronatus? Well, the #crown is telling!

🚨We want you! 🚨 Come join @saoirsekelleher.eco and me at the SORTEE Conference to talk about starting your Code Club! Find out more about the conference here: sortee.org/upcoming/

Take note, repost far and wide. The Dechmann Lab are hiring ✨

PhD Alert! 😍 Our lab is hiring a PhD student to study how shrews shrink in winter and grow in spring. Yes, you read that right! tinyurl.com/shrinkingshr... Join us at the @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social, study a super cool animal, and join the @imprs-qbee.bsky.social community! DM me for questions!

Happy Birthday MaxCine 🎂 This October, MaxCine celebrates 15 years of inspiring young scientists. Join us to celebrate this achievement at the MAXCINE FESTIVAL: three days of science, art, ideas, and community. Come in person or participate online. Talks are FREE. Registrations are open👉 maxcine.de

I might be biased (cat-biased?), but this #pawsitconf submission is just too cuuuuuute 🥹 Thank you for sharing Fennec's talk with us, @cecibaldoni.bsky.social ✨ This is truly getting me pumped for conf in the most adorable way possible 🐈 #rstats #python #databs

🕷️ 🚨 Are you at the #DZG in Berlin next week? @dzg2025berlin.bsky.social my PhD @nadjageiger.bsky.social and I are very excited to tell you the latest about our spider sleep 💤 work! Come check out our talks on Friday and ask all your questions! :) 🚨 🕷️

🚨 PhD alert! IMPRS brain & behavior in Bonn just opened their calls for applications. Great PhD funding opportunities. Check it out! PS- I just joined their faculty, meaning you could do a rotation in my lab or even a PhD with me on spider sleep 🙃 Apply! 🚨

📢 This year, we’re hosting seven public lectures that anyone can attend completely free of charge between Sept 15 and 18! 📅 Registration for online attendance is open. 🔗 www.pretix.osc.lmu.de/lmu-osc/OSSS... #OpenScience #OSSS25 #LMUOSC

WE WANT YOU! 🫵 Our organiser @kylieainslie.bsky.social is leaving us to go Down Under. 🦘 We're looking for new organisers to continue with @josefina-bernardo.bsky.social to keep @rladiesamsterdam.bsky.social the wonderful community it is. If you're in NL and interested, please get in touch! 💜

Scientists discover the secret behind the shrew’s amazing ability to shrink their brains 🧠 The clever trick sheds unwanted weight without compromising too much on cognition. Find the 5-letter word 👇 Study by @cecibaldoni.bsky.social Dechmann Lab #shrewcrew et al www.ab.mpg.de/743885/news_...

The secret to shrew brain shrinkage? 🤔 Not cell loss, but water loss! Our new paper shows that brain cells shrink by losing water, a wild feat of brain plasticity 🤯 Check the paper! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @labdavalos.bsky.social @batichica.bsky.social

I just learned that a group of stingrays is called a fever. It might be my favorite animal group noun so far. Right after a.gaggle.of.geese.

💎 Discovering hidden gems in scientific literature every Friday! 🧬🔍 This week's find is a fascinating insight into trash films. 🌱✨ Check out the paper here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0304422X16300821 #FridayFind

Great example of #quarto website, with JS and CSS features, and an amazing readme file! If you have time, give Kylie some feedback!

Next Open Science Meet-Up | 26.06.2025 | 14.00-14.45 CET: https://t1p.de/neows Topic: Open Science and the European Union II – OpenAIRE treasure hunt in the University Alliance Gateway.

Unbelievable.

Looking for Darwin, Finding #flamingos

Did you miss my talk about Scrollytelling with Quarto? 🥲 Well, despair no more! You can find it in the @rladiesamsterdam.bsky.social Youtube channel! Check out also the Github repo I built for this talk, you can find a working example and the slides I used: github.com/cecibaldoni/... <3

Ready! 😎 #EMBO #EMBOvertebratemodels #conference

Please tell me other people*write* in markdown even in their analog notebook? #markdown #notetaking

"Once again, I'm begging you not to leave me with the boys" #caturday #offtoaconference

Yesterday I made a shrew pattern, and I'm obsessed 😍 It's already my laptop wallpaper and my WhatsApp background 🤣 If you like it, you can find the downloadable set at this #kofi link ❤️ 👇🏽 ko-fi.com/s/1a22a60149

This is so exciting 🤩 #shrewsareweird, and never cease to impress! 👇🏽🤔

Our new preprint is out! 🧬 In this great study with @labdavalos.bsky.social, we looked at the mysterious pancreas of Aselli in #shrews: an unexpected site for plasma cell differentiation and a critical hub of immune function beyond the bone marrow! 😍 Have a look! 👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Next week! ⬇️ #rstats #rladies @quarto.org

Flamingos are just something else 😍🦩

Did this week’s #TidyTuesday… on a Wednesday 😅 Took a bit longer because I tried something new: my first #Shiny app! It's a bilingual (🇬🇧/🇮🇹) dashboard of seismic activity near Vesuvius 🌋 Repo in the first comment! 👇 #rstats #DataViz Thanks to @libbyheeren.bsky.social for curating the dataset!

Coming up later today!

Yuhuuu 🥳😍 thank you so much for the mention! And I take the opportunity to advertise SORTEE super quarto series this month: events.humanitix.com/sortee-works...

Join me on May 28th to talk about Scrollytelling 🥳😍

Shrew-news keep coming today! Look at the shrew genome assembly 😍🧬 (I saw that drawing too around 🤣) #shrewrules @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @dechman.bsky.social

🚨Shrew paper alert!🚨 In @elife.bsky.social, in this paper led by @labdavalos.bsky.social we found that shrews reprogram their hypothalamus to shrink in winter, tweaking gene expression to save energy and survive the cold! 👉🏼 doi.org/10.7554/eLif... @dechman.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social

Random, but very welcome, encounter ❤️ Always nice to see my stickers somewhere 🤩 #shrews

Ehi Bluesky! 🦋 I recently opened a Ko-fi page 🎉 and I’ll keep it updated with my silly illustrations. If you like what you see there, consider supporting it, so I can make some more shrew related art ❤️ Join me at ko-fi.com/cecibaldoni #KofiPromoteChallenge

I made a bunch of silly colourful animals!🐒❤️ Oh right! You can find the version with colours here 👇🏽 ko-fi.com/cecibaldoni

I came across this today, and couldn't agree more. "Extinction is forever" arutherford.substack.com/p/dire-wolve...

👇🏽 this!

I'm working on a new project, and I'm in love with the process ❤️ (and for once it's not shrews) #illustration

Getting ready for Wien, but someone is not sure she wants to be left with the boys #caturday

Join us! 🫂 Be part of the Member Engagement Committee in SORTEE 🎉 #sortee #openscience

🚨 New paper out on shrew and captivity!

🚨 Shrew paper alert! 🚨 Our latest study found that brain size changes stayed on track, but behavior? 🤔 Not so much❗ Captivity makes shrews hyperactive and less motivated to learn, hinting at chronic stress. 🐾 Curious? Full paper here: doi.org/10.1098/rsos... #Shrews @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social

As a scientist who studies a #shrinking brain, I'm flabbergasted by the report in this book. In the incredibly shocking research history of #Alzheimer's disease, I'm once again reminded the importance of #openscience #researchethics and the impact of our "publish or perish" culture. #doctored

Such an inspiring success story! ❤️👩🏽‍🔬 Read the interview to #MariaAlejandra and the Dávalos Lab @labdavalos.bsky.social about our latest shrew publication! 👉🏽 tbrnewsmedia.com/captivity-an... @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social

Such a great read ❤️ Scientific literature related to human health and disease treatment should be accessible, if we want to advance medical knowledge. Also available in English! 🇬🇧 #openscience

🚨Shrew Paper Alert!🚨 Our collaborators at Stony Brook University left this incredibly interesting paper about our shrews. Only after one month of captivity, captive shrews have different gene expression in pathways for neurodegeneration. Have a look! 👉🏽 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Am I the only one who thought *immediately* about the sofa in the staircase in Douglas Adams' Dirk Gently books? phys.org/news/2024-12...

3-year Postdoc Position Join our team @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social and investigate the dynamics of seasonal songbird migration using biologging technologies See details here: bit.ly/3ZojW38 Please get in touch if interested & share with anyone else who might be!

Our #shrews are on The Scientist! Pretty exciting, have a look! 🎉😎 @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @animaltracking.bsky.social @batichica.bsky.social