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Alexandros Vezyrakis

@avezyrakis.bsky.social

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PhD Candidate @mpi-evolbio.bsky.social Studying 🐭 innovation and social learning Ex-🦎 cognition and behaviour

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Ethological Society @ethoges.bsky.social · 4d

🧪ETHOLOGY: Condition-dependent risk-taking in mice! 🐭💥🍔
Lopez-Hervas et al. show that diet quality and body mass shape mice’s reactions to risk — heavier or better-fed individuals play it safer, supporting the asset-protection hypothesis! Read here, it's #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1111/eth....

Condition‐Dependent Responses to Risk in a Small Mammal

Responses to a predation risk gradient vary as a function of the resource environment and individual condition in a small mammal.

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Janire Castellano Bueno, PhD @janirecas.bsky.social · Aug 27

It was a pleasure to host a workshop on #LanguageBarriers yesterday at #Behaviour2025!

Thank you to everyone who came along!

@asab.org @behaviour2025.bsky.social @christopherwmiller.bsky.social @avezyrakis.bsky.social

Behaviour 2025 @behaviour2025.bsky.social · Aug 27

At #Behaviour2025, we celebrate diversity & inclusion. The workshop "Amplifying Global Voices: Removing Language Barriers in Student Research" fostered dialogue on challenges & solutions to make science more accessible & equitable across languages.

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Janire Castellano Bueno, PhD @janirecas.bsky.social · Aug 26

Thank you to everyone who joined our #LanguageBarriers workshop! 🎉

We had fantastic discussions and brainstormed practical solutions. We will work on these and bring them together, so watch this space!

@christopherwmiller.bsky.social
@avezyrakis.bsky.social
#Behaviour2025

Workshop on Language Barriers Chris Miller, Janire Castellano and Alexandros Vezyrakis

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Janire Castellano Bueno, PhD @janirecas.bsky.social · Aug 25

Our workshop on Language Barriers at academic conferences is tomorrow!

📅 27th August 2025 1.10pm
📍Hall 7

Hope to see you all there!

#Behaviour2025 #LanguageBarrier #DEI #EDI #JEDI

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Alexandros Vezyrakis @avezyrakis.bsky.social · Aug 21

Does language have to be a barrier for academic conferences?

If you think that we can do things better, join our workshop at #Behaviour2025 and fill out this short survey - we'd love to hear your experiences and ideas!

Janire Castellano Bueno, PhD @janirecas.bsky.social · Aug 16

🔔 Quick Survey #LanguageBarrier

We are hosting a workshop on 26th August at #Behaviour2025 about making academic conferences more inclusive for multilingual researchers.

If you have ever felt language impacted your conference experience, we would love your input! 👉 forms.gle/XkBDsocDS2ch...

Amplifying global voices: Removing language barriers in student conferences

We invite you to share your experiences with language barriers at academic conferences to help shape more inclusive, multilingual student-led events. This survey covers many of the topics that will ...

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Marina Papadopoulou @marinapapa.bsky.social · Jun 13

Excited (& a bit terrified) to officially share our #R #package with the world 🤩 swaRmverse provides a pipeline to analyze #collective #motion #data, promoting more comparative work across the Swarm-Verse 🐐🦬🐦🐒🐟 🦖🐑🕸️
With @sjmgarnier @SHOALgroup 🙏

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Alexandros Vezyrakis @avezyrakis.bsky.social · Apr 2

A big thanks to @oikosjournal.bsky.social for choosing a picture of our mice as the cover of this month's issue!
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MPI for Evolutionary Biology @mpi-evolbio.bsky.social · Apr 2

Think bold animals are the best problem-solvers? Think again. 🐭
New research shows shy mice are more persistent—and that makes all the difference.

🔍 Innovation is about showing up, not just being brave.

🔗 More Info: www.evolbio.mpg.de/3813083/mice...

#AnimalBehavior #Science

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Alexandros Vezyrakis @avezyrakis.bsky.social · Jan 15

Using mice who live in semi-natural enclosures, we show how different behavioural types approach novel problems differently, and how -even the same individuals- perform differently when the conditions change!

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Alexandros Vezyrakis @avezyrakis.bsky.social · Jan 15

Hello Bluesky! Beyond excited to share my first post here about our new paper on wild house mouse 🐭problem-solving with Anja Guenther and Valeria Mazza, published open access in @oikosjournal.bsky.social !

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