Almost all scientific research is done with lab animals. Surprisingly, there is barely any literature on how captivity may affect the results. And these effects can be profound. In shrews, remind us of depression as the paper published by @cecibaldoni.bsky.social shows doi.org/10.1098/rsos... 1/🧵

looking for a good scientific read? This paper is out today and shows how much energy male bats can save by living in groups. Great for buffering environmental unexpectedness! Pic by Rene J doi.org/10.1242/jeb.... @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @jexpbiol.bsky.social @uni-konstanz.de

Looking to read📖 something inspiring today? #MariaAlejandra tells the story behind her recent paper on brain captivity effects! @batichica.bsky.social @cecibaldoni.bsky.social @drcorthals.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/posts/maria-...

tadaa- second paper of the year out! This time on shrews and how quickly and massively they are affected by captivity. Congrats to the junior student who is the first author on this awesome paper: doi.org/10.1098/rsbl... @animaltracking.bsky.social @unikonstanz.bsky.social @labdavalos.bsky.social

Edward Hurme on #npr 🤩: tiny new tags allowed us to discover how bats ride the storm during migration 🦇💨: www.wesa.fm/.../research.... Paper here: DOI:10.1126/science.ade7441 (or DM me) @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @unikonstanz.bsky.social drawing @jamesklarevas.bsky.social

auf deutsch und zum Zuhören: wie Fledermäuse den Sturm reiten: www.swr.de/swrkultur/wi... @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @unikonstanz.bsky.social

lovely write-up about our new paper in @science.org by @science.org 😍 @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @unikonstanz.bsky.social www.science.org/content/arti...

how about starting the new year with a @science.org paper? Congrats Edward Hurme and other coauthors, this makes me incredibly happy 🦇💨

loving the X-odus! Everybody join here - it's friendly, tolerant, open-armed and -minded, not owned by a horrible person and the orange desaster is absent

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

greater spear-nosed bats choose foraging sites based on tradition, even if it means commuting across the sea. Great results from the PhD of Camilla Calderon, out bin Biology Letters today: doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...

Congratulations Sarah, for submitting you bachelor thesis. She fought valiant battles with giant data sets and algorithms spitting out false positives and prevailed: lesser fishing bats' morning foraging is determined by reproductive state. Also our lab culture very much revolves around cake 😇

#shrew paper alert! 📣🐭 Did you know the shrews shrink their brain🧠 in winter❄️? Our study shows unique changes in hypothalamus gene expression, related to energy regulation🔋, which helps shrews adapt to seasonal challenges 🍂 Have a look! 👀 doi.org/10.7554/eLif... @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social

best European bat fur imho #vespertilio

this is a woman who makes a difference! Jenni Barros, our Brazilian guest really tackles her country‘s legislation to ptotect #bats and their #caves. Thanks for an excellent talk!

Cool. Wenn jemand den Anfang macht, folgen die anderen. Respekt!

today wasn‘t about #bats, it was about #socks. Awesome haul! ❤️🇵🇦

I learned how to make reels yesterday, but they do me no good here 😆 our new book is out today on the 🦇bats🦇 of Barro Colorado Island and the research that has been done on them. But don't worry, you'll enjoy by looking at the pictures alone! get it here: geni.us/batislandglo...

why would you do that? but they do: copulation without intromission in bats: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

African bats are just an example -share,share,share! www.mpg.de/21135641/111...

🚨How strong is the evidence linking bats and viruses in #Africa? Thanks to indefatigable work by Natalie Weber, Martina Nagy, Wanda Markotter, @batichica.bsky.social and DeeAnn Reeder, here is a review and call for robust research in Biology Letters! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

big day for me, this paper is hugely important. please share : using Africa as an example we reviewed bat virus research and the result is baffling. This is a call to plan bat virus research and present results carefully royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

one of my favourite papers ever - the hippo metagut. And guess what: I collaborate with them now, on #bat #poop 😍🦇💩🦛 #nerdfun #microbiome #shotgunbarcoding www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I am here ❤️🇵🇦🦇

next round of positions for our graduate school is open for applications: imprs-qbee.mpg.de/66685/current check them out. Konstanz is great. Pls share!!

arrived at home away from home be prepared for lots of jealousy inducing pics!

6 more sleeps till Panama, so I‘ll continue group member intros with who I‘ll be working with there. First up: Jenna, she‘s a star and works with social foraging in the amazing Bulldog #bats. Check out our framework here doi: 10.1111/brv.12881. Can‘t wait! #noctilio #Panabats

group member intros - we‘re the Ephemeral Resource Adaptations lab aka ERA. Meet Jenni, #cave #bat expert from #Brazil, visiting as a Herz fellow at Uni Konstanz to work on #Rousettus data (the cutie on the right). She‘s on her way to saving the bats of Brazil and a really fun woman to have around

join up bat people, we want to beat everyone else: xeno-canto.org upload and share your #batcalls!

#echolocation is old. Really old. #bats have been badass for a long time! www.sci.news/paleontology...

it was about time to look at the genomics underlying seasonal #brainsize change in #shrews. #collaborations are what make science worth sciencing and look what @labdavalos.bsky.social found: talk across the #bbb with the liver and metabolic changes that bear huge promise for applied research

one of these „that doesn‘t surprise me“-papers? We still showed it first. Lab effects are huge and we at least need to be aware of them. Led by a brilliant young Latin American student! Also cute #shrews #DehnelsPhenomenon #gowild #sorex #brainsize

A nice write-up about a recent paper, in which we used GoPros and computer vision to count a massive fruit bat colony in Zambia 🧪 theconversation.com/worlds-bigge...

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of bats and frogs and us youtu.be/VnRXR3g8yJ4?...

Dank dem Umweltforum Osnabrück gibt es jetzt eine ausführliche Studie zum Torfabbau in #Niedersachsen. Auf >8000ha wird derzeit Torf aus Regenmooren abgebaut, das sind ~95% der Gesamt-"Produktion" von Deutschland. Die Genehmigungen laufen bis 2040, teils auch unbegrenzt. Das Umweltforum... /1/

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the messages you get in my job 😂 „I didn‘t forget you and your feather-poop“ #nyctalus #lasiopterus #batscatchbirds

wollt Ihr wissen was wir so mit Flughunden machen und warum? Dann tut es beim chillen auf dem Sofa: www.ndr.de/fernsehen/se...

we are not only #scientists, we are #artists, too at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior. November by our very own Alona ❤️🦇

some really nice people passed by the house here in Italy and tried to convince us that if the world had only one government (the one of god) it would save all problems including climate change. Sounds amazing. 🤭🤔😬

morning #blsky it‘s a new day

I whipped up a basic Shiny app (using the PubMedWordCloud R package) to generate word cloud summaries of any researcher based on their abstracts in PubMed. Here's mine! The app is available here: shiny.rcg.sfu.ca/u/rdmorin/pu...

let me introduce myself. I study bats. And shrews. And yes, there is a red thread. small size, high metabolism -> how do they deal with unpredictability in food availability. I am leaving the dark side and I‘ll be posting news from our research here. Pics for attention

I don‘t have invite codes yet, but I wanna invite. Anyone have spares?