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Christian Nawroth @goatswhostare.bsky.social · 4h

Getting side-eyed in the barn

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Ahana Aurora Fernandez @ahanaaurora.bsky.social · 3d

Congrats to the winners of the best poster and best talk of the #gradmeeg25.
But all the contributions were really stunning!! @dzg-behaviour.bsky.social @denisebe.bsky.social

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Ahana Aurora Fernandez @ahanaaurora.bsky.social · 3d

Impressions from #gradmeet25 @dzg-behaviour.bsky.social

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DZG section Behavioural Biology @dzg-behaviour.bsky.social · 3d

Our final session focused again on methodologies 🧩 — with exciting applications from form-based approaches to assess chimpanzee gestures to facial action coding in rabbits 🐒🐇

@chiarazulberti.bsky.social

#gradmeet25

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DZG section Behavioural Biology @dzg-behaviour.bsky.social · 3d

Kicking off day 3 of #GradMeet25 with more talks on sociality — linking it to dispersal, cognition, and endocrinology! From social dispersal in burying beetles to hormonal changes in cheetahs 🐘🐅🦀🪲

@paulhuber.bsky.social @carolin-schlarb.bsky.social @robotowilliam.bsky.social

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Denise Becker @denisebe.bsky.social · 3d

We’re really enjoying the #gradmeet25 of the @dzg-behaviour.bsky.social so far! It’s already been two days of learning about cool behaviors in various animals🦇🐒🐜

🕷️I’m super excited that I also got to share my own work on the effects of differential prey availability on Pisaura mirabilis females!🕷️

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Christian Nawroth @goatswhostare.bsky.social · 3d

Great conversations today at our discussion round on perspectives in academia! Thanks to everyone who shared their insights and experiences.

#gradmeet25

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COST Action - Positive animal welfare (LIFT) @liftcostaction.bsky.social · 3d

Join us for our next Synergy Webinar on Animal Welfare, by
@affect-evo.bsky.social, @liftcostaction.bsky.social & COST IMPROVE!

“Animal happiness" with Ass. Prof. Laura Webb.

📅 Date & Time: 15 October 2025 | 16:00 CEST
🔗 Registration link: forms.gle/jxHjULq5UrQ9...

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DZG section Behavioural Biology @dzg-behaviour.bsky.social · 4d

Our last session of the day is all about the socials — structure, interactions, and information! From relationship quality in ravens to cooperative behaviour in vampire bats 🐦🐒🦇

@sofiaepsilva.bsky.social

#gradmeet25

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DZG section Behavioural Biology @dzg-behaviour.bsky.social · 4d

In our first session of day 2 at #GradMeet25, it’s all about sending and receiving information — from chemical communication in spiders to alarm calls in monkeys. 🕷️🦇🐒

@michellebeyer.bsky.social

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Ahana Aurora Fernandez @ahanaaurora.bsky.social · 4d

Inspiring talk about raven sociality and cognition from Thomas Bugnyar at #gradmeet25. Impressively shows how important long-term studies and observations in the wild are! @dzg-behaviour.bsky.social

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Ahana Aurora Fernandez @ahanaaurora.bsky.social · 4d

The first day of our #gradmeet25 was filled with stunning student talks, a lot of questions and networking. Way to go!

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DZG section Behavioural Biology @dzg-behaviour.bsky.social · 4d

Our 2nd session of the morning focuses on personality and flexibility — from aggression rates in lemurs to inhibition in cichlids, showcasing again the incredible diversity of behavioural research! 🐒🐀🐟

#gradmeet25

@jannesdoesscience.bsky.social @saskiasp.bsky.social

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Christian Nawroth @goatswhostare.bsky.social · 4d

A buzzing 🐝 poster session at #GradMeet25 — great science, great conversations, great energy! ✨

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DZG section Behavioural Biology @dzg-behaviour.bsky.social · 4d

Our first keynote speaker is Thomas Bugnyar from @univie.ac.at, exploring social complexity and intelligence in ravens!

#gradmeet25

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DZG section Behavioural Biology @dzg-behaviour.bsky.social · 5d

Our second session of the day dives into methodologies in animal behaviour research — from facial action coding in wolves to clicker training goats for eye-tracking. Fantastic talks all around!

@nataliekes.bsky.social

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DZG section Behavioural Biology @dzg-behaviour.bsky.social · 5d

We are almost there - we are looking forward to three exciting days of animal behaviour science and networking!

#gradmeet25

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Christian Nawroth @goatswhostare.bsky.social · 5d

One of the perks of being a section speaker of @dzg-behaviour.bsky.social - providing opportunities for young researchers to showcase their projects, discuss results, and network with peers. Three of the best days of the year are ahead of us! 😍

DZG section Behavioural Biology @dzg-behaviour.bsky.social · 5d

We are almost there - we are looking forward to three exciting days of animal behaviour science and networking!

#gradmeet25

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 11d

From policy to practice: Progress towards #data- and #code-sharing in ecology and evolution #ProcB
@asanchez-tojar.bsky.social @eivimeycook.bsky.social tell us more in our blog royalsociety.org/blog/2025/09...

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COST Action - Positive animal welfare (LIFT) @liftcostaction.bsky.social · 20d

We’d love your input on translating “Positive animal welfare” into local languages — esp. Spanish, Portuguese & Mandarin 🌍

Share your translation here: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...

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Christian Nawroth @goatswhostare.bsky.social · 21d

Ten simple rules for leading a many-author non-empirical paper

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Ten simple rules for leading a many-author non-empirical paper

Many-author non-empirical papers include recommendations or consensus statements, catalogs of ideas, roadmaps for future research, calls to action, or “how to” articles. These papers have great potent...

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Drew Altschul @dremalt.bsky.social · 21d

Recently I spoke about @manyprimates.bsky.social for @liftcostaction.bsky.social about distributed research projects and teams in animal sciences!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKrA...
If you're interested in BTS projects, comparative cognition etc, have a watch

[Drew Altschul & Bernhard Voelkl] Strategies to optimize cross-institute collaborations

YouTube video by Animal Welfare Slack

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Andrea Sommese @asommese.bsky.social · 25d

Excited to share the latest (but still not the last!) study I had the chance to work on with the Family Dog Project 🐶🇭🇺

We found that Gifted Word Learner dogs' talent goes beyond what we expected; they can generalise words based on function, not just looks.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Dogs extend verbal labels for functional classification of objects

The relationship between language and human thought is an ongoing debate,1 and it has been proposed that language shapes object categorization.2 Words…

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Christian Nawroth @goatswhostare.bsky.social · 25d

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