Come and work with us! Three new academic posts (including Animal Behaviour) and superb facilities in the new Life & Mind Building

Loving the colors of the sea

Actual footage of me on my way into the weekend...

When you set traps to capture small rodents, but a least weasel only sees an easy meal

Enjoying lizard fieldwork in Croatia

Do animals dream? Here is a bank vole, sleeping (and dreaming?) in a metabolic chamber

Fieldwork prep has started! Looking forward to the next field season here in Münster. Let's hope there are loads of small rodents around

📸🐭🐿️🦔🐇🏙️New paper out! Using camera trap data we found that small mammal community composition, species diversity and evenness do not change along an urbanization gradient in and around Münster, Germany. First published study with @mdammhahn.bsky.social www.publish.csiro.au/WR/WR24196

A quick recap of our South Africa excursion! So much beauty and diversity @mdammhahn.bsky.social

Love the lil flex when they realise they just became the most famous bird in the world.

I am extremely pleased to share this feature articulating why I have lost my sanity lately. www.science.org/content/arti...

How your email finds me

And a dream came true. We got to visit the Kalahari Meerkat Project run by Marta Manser from Zurich

We also visited a very green Addo Elephant National Park

Just came back from a 3 week excursion to South Africa with 11 students and @mdammhahn.bsky.social. We covered over 4500km and explored 5 different biomes. Here are some of my favorite pictures (more to follow)

New paper alert! The function of plants collected by bush Karoo rats (Otomys unisulcatus): Do dried up food plants represent stored food? Fun collaboration using plant data I collected quite some time aho. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Looking forward to the @dzg2025berlin.bsky.social meeting! Who else is going?

2025. #DEI - My experience of speaking at a conference with a baby. Hannah Chance spent a day during her parental leave telling a group of postdocs about her science-policy work. Aidan, aged six months, came along too. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Exciting new paper by Jens Ulrich & Risa Sargent: "Urban landscapes with more natural greenspace support higher pollinator diversity." esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

That's us! Loved working with the wall lizards. Hoping for more to come (fingers crossed for the grant application)

What a week - submitted a reprint, submitted a revised grant proposal 🦎🐁🦠 (with an amazing group of researchers: Isabel Damas Moreira & Öncü Maraci), supervised an exam, analysed new hormone data. Looking forward to this weekend

I usually reserve this account for my personal views; but today I want to represent my position as President of @asn-amnat.bsky.social to post a message that will shortly go out to the membership of the American Society of Naturalists from the ASN Executive Council

WANTED: Suggestions of field ecology/animal behavior papers that have just super great "Methods" sections. Everything is clearly explained and anyone could replicate it just from reading that section. Self-nominations are fine. (Using this for my "marine biology field research methods" course) 🧪🌎🦑

Trying out my new board game - when you're a biologist and it's your birthday... quick and fun game with beautiful art

Join us as a Doctoral student in Biology w/focus in ecological physiology. A PhD project with @cyanistesnord.bsky.social “HotLife – Pathways to survival in a hotter world” supported by @ercresearch.bsky.social. #lunduniversity Please apply no later than 18 February! lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

More than 60 German-speaking universities and research institutes have just jointly announced they will cease activities on X because “the current orientation of the platform is not compatible with their core values” incl. scientific integrity, transparency and democratic discourse” 🧪

Actual footage of me and collaborators trying to fit our proposal to the page limit 🐀🦎🏙️

🎉 New paper out now! 🎉 We found that the unpredictability level in escape behavior of grasshoppers is relatively constant throughout an individual's life, but that differences among individuals increase during ontogeny! More here: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

What a cool paper! 🤩 Using @inaturalist.bsky.social observations, Mayer et al. found that there are more melanistic snakes in colder regions than in warmer ones AND that melanistic snakes are more abundant with ⬆️ avian predator density 🐍🐦 Have look at it here: doi.org/10.1111/jbi....

PhD position available 🚨Öncu Maraci is looking for a #PhDstudent to study the impact of #anthropogenicnoise on fitness-related behaviours, #geneexpression profiles, and #gutmicrobiome in #birds. Read all about it here: tinyurl.com/4xknfw8n

Very cool new study by @danielwanoble.bsky.social and colleagues

Gemütlich im Mittelbau #einkuscheln?! Ihr wisst: Ich habe #IchBinHanna gestern im Wissenschaftsausschuss des NRW-Landtags vertreten. Was ich da alles gesagt hab? 1 🧵! Da ich vermute, dass Euch das besonders interessiert, fange ich mal mit meiner Reaktion auf das Einkuscheln an. (1/8)

Quite an interesting and important read by @taphozoan.bsky.social and a paper we talked about in our weekly journal club (when talking about the publishing system in general) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Interested in fitness consequences of the gut microbiome in the wild? Keen on being involved with an iconic long-term study system? Check out a PhD opportunity working on Soay sheep microbiomes! Info below and feel free to contact with q's. e4-dtp.ed.ac.uk/e5-dtp/super...

How does pollution impact behavioural evolution? We're looking for an awesome PhD student to find out. Project spans behaviour, genetics + ecotox, working with cherry shrimp @exetercec.bsky.social. Cosupervised with @lauraakelley.bsky.social and Dave Spurgeon at CEH. App + info tinyurl.com/yvthn7xn

This never gets old...also works with grants or teaching...

Phillipines - a very beautiful place with loads of marine wildlife to discover

Throughback to last December when we visited my Dad in the Philippines and went snorkeling every day

Bye Bye cranes... I prefer seeing you come back

Game night with biologists. What do we play? Of course, biology-related board games such as Wingspan 🐦🐛🦢🐧🦆🐓🐔🦉

🚨Final reminder! If a faculty position in ecology / biodiversity / conservation at the University of Namur (Belgium) sounds appealing to you, please consider applying! 😁 ‼️Deadline soon: 30 Nov! ⏳️ Happy to chat about atmosphere etc. 😊 @ilee-unamur.bsky.social euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/284721

🐀🏙️🧪I had a fun and engaging time during an outreach event at a school today! Enjoyed talking about the small mammal projects we run here in Münster with @mdammhahn.bsky.social

I do a module about this exact topic in my undergrad ENVS class! Here’s one of my favourites that contains many of the fundamentals: pineapplesandwhales.wordpress.com/2019/08/28/a...

The Institute of #ecology and #evolution at @unibern.bsky.social is looking for two tenure-track assistant professors (APTT): APTT Mathematical or Computational Ecology 👩‍💻 APTT #Conservation #Biology 👨🏾‍🔬 More info: tinyurl.com/IEEjobs Application deadline: 1 March 2025

📢 JOB ALERT ‼️ Interested in animal behaviour and ecology?🔎🦗🐛🐒🐝 👉 Then check out our webpage imprs-qbee.mpg.de/66685/current 👀 for exciting PhD positions 👨‍🎓 Application deadline is Nov 24th, 2024 📨

Weather fits the current mood

Are you a Phd student or post doc? Planning on going to a metabolism conference in 2025? Life metabolism have FOUR 700$ travel prizes available to help. Three generously sponsored by @sablesys.bsky.social deadline 24th DEC 2024. Very short form to apply. academic.oup.com/lifemeta/pag...

These days I get my exercise by moving around my equipment by bike - #urban field work fun @sablesys.bsky.social 🐁🧪🏙️🪤

Finally back to field work. We've had a very successful first week trapping bank voles, and wood and yellow-necked mice in Münster with @mdammhahn.bsky.social & Jules Petit

A paper in Nature Communications suggests that males are not larger than females in most mammal species, contrary to common belief. The authors suggest that biases in the scientific literature, which have existed for well over a century, may have led to this misconception. go.nature.com/4abNXY6 🧪