Eine internationale Forschungsgruppe unter Leitung der @fiwivienna.bsky.social hat mithilfe moderner und historischer Genomdaten gezeigt, dass Jaguare in drei geografisch und genetisch unterscheidbaren Populationen vorkommen. link.springer.com/article/10.1... Bild: Tiffany, AdobeStock 305995791

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!

📢📢Third-party funded PhD-Call: Conservation management and demographic monitoring of wild camels in the Mongolian Great Gobi “A” strictly protected area. 🐫 Apply now and until the 15th of January!🌱💻 Details about the position: www.vetmeduni.ac.at/fileadmin/v/...

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

🚨🚨NEW PAPER: “Our immunogenetic analyses of jaguars show that today's population has less diversity and more inbreeding than historical animals, which may hurt the adaptability of geographically distinct populations to their respective environments.” ➡️ doi.org/10.1186/s13059-025-03868-0

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

Next #WilhelminenbergSeminarTalk: 17.12. | 2:00 PM with Franz Essl @franzessl1.bsky.social / @univie.ac.at bioinvasions.univie.ac.at 📍@FIWIWien, 1160 Wien or online 👩‍💻 → vetmeduni.ac.at/fiwi/seminar... 📢 Tip for students: The participation is recognised as an elective! (KV 128 804)

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

Next #WilhelminenbergSeminarTalk: 10.12. | 2:00 PM with Radoslaw Karpienko / @wuvienna.bsky.social 📍@fiwivienna.bsky.social 1160 Wien or online 📷→ vetmeduni.ac.at/fiwi/seminar... @klivvvienna.bsky.social

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

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: 19.11. | 2:00 PM with Sasan Fereidouni / Vetmeduni, Vienna 📍@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)

We enjoyed last week's #WilhelminenbergSeminarTalk by Marcus Clauss - he spoke to us about the digestive systems of mammals, the role that teeth 🦷 play in it and - importantly - digestive adaptations. @klivvvienna.bsky.social

Next #WilhelminenbergSeminarTalk: 12.11. | 2:00 PM with Neal Dawson @nealdawson.bsky.social / University of Glasgow @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk 📍@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)

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

We were very happy to welcome Tsipe Aavik for a #WilhelminenbergSeminarTalk last week. She introduced us to the world of landscape genetics🧬and spoke about a succesful Citizen Science Project concerning the counting of cowslips🌼 @klivvvienna.bsky.social @pollinationut.bsky.social

Friederike Pohlin joined the IUCN World Conservation Congress 2025 in Abu Dhabi, contributing to a session on responsible wildlife translocation organized by the Conservation Translocation Specialist Group and Smithsonian Institution. A great opportunity to strengthen global conservation efforts!🐾🌿

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: 22.10. | 2:00 PM with Tsipe Aavik / University of Tartu, Estonia @pollinationut.bsky.social 📍FIWI, 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

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!

Join us for our first #WilhelminenbergSeminarTalk this semester: 1.10. | 2:00 PM with Patricia Brennan, Mount Holyoke College 📍@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)

📢 Vetmed Campus Open Day | Come along and experience animal research up close! 🐾 ----- 📅 Saturday, 27 September 2025 | 10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. 📍 Vetmeduni Campus, Veterinärplatz 1, 1210 Vienna 🌞 Admission free!

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

📢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

Yesterday on "Wien heute" (ORF), our pathologist Anna-Kübber Heiss and Angelika Auer from Vetmeduni spoke about the current rising infections of myxomatosis in rabbits and hares. Watch it here: on.orf.at/video/142847... (in German)

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....

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

Tomorrow is dormouse day 🐹 Here at the FIWI, we are not only researching its hibernation, but also its adaptability and way of life 🔍 Take a closer look at this nocturnal animal: www.vetmeduni.ac.at/en/research-...

🔔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

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! 🐸

Hathaipat Rattanathanya, Valentina Weiland, and Szilvia Kalogeropoulu from the FIWI Wildlife Medicine Group presented their research at the ZWHC in Györ, covering oxygen delivery in anaesthetized ungulates, Asiatic black bear anaesthesia, and post-euthanasia EEG studies in lions.

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 had a great AVA Spring Meeting, read more about it here: vetmeduni.ac.at/en/research-... Thank you to all the supporters! @klivvvienna.bsky.social

Another enjoyable and informative #WilhelminenbergSeminarTalk, this time by Wibke Peters: "Informing wildlife management through research on the spatial ecology of ungulates" - thank you for sharing your research with us! 📊 @klivvvienna.bsky.social

We very much enjoyed the #WilhelminenbergSeminarTalk by Thomas Müller - he spoke about "Animal movement in the Anthropocene", specifically about the benefits of monitoring animal movement and the difficulties of interpreting the collected data. 🐾

🔥Thrilled to share our OA review "Life at new extremes: Integrating stress physiology and the bio‐exposome in the Anthropocene"✨ with D Costantini, M Sebastiano, & S Messina #ecophysiology #wildlife nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @fiwivienna.bsky.social #VetmeduniVienna #Unitus

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...

We were very happy to welcome Martin Kuhlwilm for a #WilhelminenbergSeminarTalk at the beginning of April. He spoke about "Great ape genome diversity and museomics" 🦧🧬 @klivvvienna.bsky.social @univie.ac.at

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

#FriederikePohlin represented the FIWI at the XIII International Conference of FAUNA in Lisbon and gave two great talks about the complexity of rhino translocations and about wildlife anaesthesia monitoring. @klivvvienna.bsky.social

Another great #WilhelminenbergSeminarTalk was given by Julia Walochnik about medical parasitology🔬, specifically about emerging parasitic infections and current research projects - thank you so much for sharing your reasearch with us! 🥼🧪 @klivvvienna.bsky.social

In March Peter Adamík visited us and shared his informative #WilhelminenbergSeminarTalk with us. He spoke about cavity-nesting birds and dormice and gave an overview of half a century of interactions from a nest box population! 🐭🌲 @klivvvienna.bsky.social

Many thanks to @alicebalard.bsky.social who opened our #WilhelminenbergSeminarTalk series for the summer semester 2025 with a great talk about the role of methylation in adaptive response to environmental pressures. @klivvvienna.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk

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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! 🙏🏼