Verena Behringer
@verenab.bsky.social
Physiologist with a passion for primates especially bonobos @dpz.eu
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With #eseb2025 coming to a close, it is time to start making plans for 2026. Interested in the interface of evolution 🧬 and ecology 🌳? Come to our #ExE conference hosted by @uniexecec.bsky.social in beautiful #Cornwall. Leave your email address at tinyurl.com/EvolxEcol to join our mailing list!
August 22, 2025 at 1:32 PM
With #eseb2025 coming to a close, it is time to start making plans for 2026. Interested in the interface of evolution 🧬 and ecology 🌳? Come to our #ExE conference hosted by @uniexecec.bsky.social in beautiful #Cornwall. Leave your email address at tinyurl.com/EvolxEcol to join our mailing list!
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🎉Welcome to the official Bluesky account for EFP 2026 !!! 🎉
Join us in sunny Montpellier from 29 June to 3 July 2026 for an unforgettable conference.
Follow us for updates, sneak peeks, and all things EFP! ☀️📅🌿
Join us in sunny Montpellier from 29 June to 3 July 2026 for an unforgettable conference.
Follow us for updates, sneak peeks, and all things EFP! ☀️📅🌿
June 2, 2025 at 3:01 PM
🎉Welcome to the official Bluesky account for EFP 2026 !!! 🎉
Join us in sunny Montpellier from 29 June to 3 July 2026 for an unforgettable conference.
Follow us for updates, sneak peeks, and all things EFP! ☀️📅🌿
Join us in sunny Montpellier from 29 June to 3 July 2026 for an unforgettable conference.
Follow us for updates, sneak peeks, and all things EFP! ☀️📅🌿
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Neopterin is a neat marker for #cell-mediated #immunity in #primates. We think it has great potential for #ecoimmunology research in wild and captive settings!
Really happy that this review paper @verenab.bsky.social and I wrote is out!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Really happy that this review paper @verenab.bsky.social and I wrote is out!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Neopterin as a Tool for Primate Ecoimmunology: Current Knowledge, Practical Application, and New Directions From Captivity to the Wild
Neopterin is a sensitive and specific biomarker of intracellular pathogen infection and chronic inflammation, and affected by environmental, life-history, and sex-contextual factors. This review offe....
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October 15, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Neopterin is a neat marker for #cell-mediated #immunity in #primates. We think it has great potential for #ecoimmunology research in wild and captive settings!
Really happy that this review paper @verenab.bsky.social and I wrote is out!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Really happy that this review paper @verenab.bsky.social and I wrote is out!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Wound care in chimpanzees! Like chimpanzees in Central Africa, scientists have now shown that East African chimpanzees also apply flying insects to their own and each other's wounds. This is likely some form of medication, which is more widespread than we thought. 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Insect applications to open wounds by chimpanzees in the wild: first insights from East African chimpanzees - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Insect applications to open wounds by chimpanzees in the wild: first insights from East African chimpanzees
www.nature.com
August 31, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Wound care in chimpanzees! Like chimpanzees in Central Africa, scientists have now shown that East African chimpanzees also apply flying insects to their own and each other's wounds. This is likely some form of medication, which is more widespread than we thought. 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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🌍✨ Still time to apply! The MBCP is looking for a Field Site Manager to join us in one of the most beautiful parks on the planet—work with an amazing team, semi-habituated chimps, and boost your project management chops for a career in #conservation or #research.
Info ➡️ bit.ly/MBCPmanager2025
Info ➡️ bit.ly/MBCPmanager2025
July 3, 2025 at 2:42 PM
🌍✨ Still time to apply! The MBCP is looking for a Field Site Manager to join us in one of the most beautiful parks on the planet—work with an amazing team, semi-habituated chimps, and boost your project management chops for a career in #conservation or #research.
Info ➡️ bit.ly/MBCPmanager2025
Info ➡️ bit.ly/MBCPmanager2025
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🧠🐒 Neue Studie räumt mit dem Mythos vom Alpha-Männchen auf: In 70 % der untersuchten Primatenarten gibt es keine klare Geschlechterdominanz – weibliche Dominanz ist nicht die Ausnahme.
Mehr dazu vom #DPZ, #MPI & Uni Montpellier 👉 www.dpz.eu/im-dialog/ne...
Mehr dazu vom #DPZ, #MPI & Uni Montpellier 👉 www.dpz.eu/im-dialog/ne...
Jenseits des Alpha-Männchens
Neue Studie zeigt: Machtverhältnisse zwischen Männchen und Weibchen sind bei Primaten komplexer als gedacht
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July 9, 2025 at 12:12 PM
🧠🐒 Neue Studie räumt mit dem Mythos vom Alpha-Männchen auf: In 70 % der untersuchten Primatenarten gibt es keine klare Geschlechterdominanz – weibliche Dominanz ist nicht die Ausnahme.
Mehr dazu vom #DPZ, #MPI & Uni Montpellier 👉 www.dpz.eu/im-dialog/ne...
Mehr dazu vom #DPZ, #MPI & Uni Montpellier 👉 www.dpz.eu/im-dialog/ne...
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Grateful and honored to receive this award. Thank you @asab.org !!
Congrats to Christopher Barnard Award winner @lirsamuni.bsky.social ! You’ve done some really fantastic work 😍
There’s also nothing like some chimp and bonobo vocalizations to wake everyone up from the after-lunch slump 🙉🙉🙉 #ASABSpring2025
There’s also nothing like some chimp and bonobo vocalizations to wake everyone up from the after-lunch slump 🙉🙉🙉 #ASABSpring2025
April 24, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Grateful and honored to receive this award. Thank you @asab.org !!
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Seasonality and differential growth patterns of body dimensions were observed in preschool children from a rural Maya community in Yucatan, Mexico, primarily associated with the environmental stressor of illness.
Seasonality and Differential Growth Patterns of Body Dimensions of Children in a Rural Community of Yucatan, Mexico
Background Seasonality of human growth evinces the association between environmental variation, including the physical and the social–economic–political environment, and biological changes. The obje...
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April 24, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Seasonality and differential growth patterns of body dimensions were observed in preschool children from a rural Maya community in Yucatan, Mexico, primarily associated with the environmental stressor of illness.
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🌿 Become a Field Site Manager for the Moyen Bafing Chimpanzee Project in Guinea! 🌿 We're seeking a dedicated individual to oversee operations and support research starting as early as April 2025. Be part of a team exploring chimpanzee behavioral ecology in the stunning PNMB!
March 4, 2025 at 10:09 AM
🌿 Become a Field Site Manager for the Moyen Bafing Chimpanzee Project in Guinea! 🌿 We're seeking a dedicated individual to oversee operations and support research starting as early as April 2025. Be part of a team exploring chimpanzee behavioral ecology in the stunning PNMB!
Upcoming 9th ISWE Conference
February 27, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Upcoming 9th ISWE Conference
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This is a really fantastic review article by a leading expert on menopause, Lynnette Leidy Sievert 👇 Also will now be using the Obamas as my go-to example of grandmaternal investment; wasn’t previously aware the family included a maternal grandmother during their White House residence
February 17, 2025 at 1:29 PM
This is a really fantastic review article by a leading expert on menopause, Lynnette Leidy Sievert 👇 Also will now be using the Obamas as my go-to example of grandmaternal investment; wasn’t previously aware the family included a maternal grandmother during their White House residence
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So exciting to see MacaqueNet out into the world! 🤩
Learn about our global community & database centralizing standardized affiliative & agonistic data from 61 populations across 14 macaque species: doi/10.1111/1365...
Explore >600 networks & request data: macaquenet.github.io/database/
Learn about our global community & database centralizing standardized affiliative & agonistic data from 61 populations across 14 macaque species: doi/10.1111/1365...
Explore >600 networks & request data: macaquenet.github.io/database/
MacaqueNet: Advancing comparative behavioural research through large‐scale collaboration
We present MacaqueNet, a global community of macaque researchers who developed the first publicly searchable, standardised database on affiliative and agonistic behaviour. This cross-species database...
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February 12, 2025 at 10:09 AM
So exciting to see MacaqueNet out into the world! 🤩
Learn about our global community & database centralizing standardized affiliative & agonistic data from 61 populations across 14 macaque species: doi/10.1111/1365...
Explore >600 networks & request data: macaquenet.github.io/database/
Learn about our global community & database centralizing standardized affiliative & agonistic data from 61 populations across 14 macaque species: doi/10.1111/1365...
Explore >600 networks & request data: macaquenet.github.io/database/
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George Francis and Qian Wang analyze 2,787 skeletal remains from the Cayo Santiago rhesus macaque colony, revealing how hurricanes, genetics, and nutrition shape disease prevalence, bone mineral density, and development: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
History of Health at Cayo Santiago—An Investigation of Environmental and Genetic Influences on the Skeletal Remains of the Introduced Rhesus Macaque (Macaca mulatta) Colony
The Cayo Santiago rhesus macaque colony is a renowned primate population that has experienced significant natural and anthropogenic ecological variation in their 85-year history. Demographic and fami...
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January 9, 2025 at 8:27 AM
George Francis and Qian Wang analyze 2,787 skeletal remains from the Cayo Santiago rhesus macaque colony, revealing how hurricanes, genetics, and nutrition shape disease prevalence, bone mineral density, and development: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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“One Health” needs ecology | PNAS 2024 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
“One Health” needs ecology | PNAS
“One Health” needs ecology
www.pnas.org
December 11, 2024 at 1:17 AM
“One Health” needs ecology | PNAS 2024 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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New paper by ScienceCampus members Baptiste Sadoughi, R Mundry, O Schülke & J Ostner (@sfb1528.bsky.social) Longitudinal data show that wild Assamese macaques reduce social engagement and have smaller active & passive networks with age, not driven by increasing social selectivity
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s.gwdg.de/jHSAjB
March 14, 2024 at 5:57 PM
New paper by ScienceCampus members Baptiste Sadoughi, R Mundry, O Schülke & J Ostner (@sfb1528.bsky.social) Longitudinal data show that wild Assamese macaques reduce social engagement and have smaller active & passive networks with age, not driven by increasing social selectivity
s.gwdg.de/jHSAjB
s.gwdg.de/jHSAjB
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Exciting News! Our latest paper titled "Modulation of cell-mediated immunity during pregnancy in wild bonobos" has been published!
Here's a summary of our findings and why they matter in the field of reproductive immunology. #Bonobos #Pregnancy #Immunology
Here's a summary of our findings and why they matter in the field of reproductive immunology. #Bonobos #Pregnancy #Immunology
March 13, 2024 at 2:59 PM
Exciting News! Our latest paper titled "Modulation of cell-mediated immunity during pregnancy in wild bonobos" has been published!
Here's a summary of our findings and why they matter in the field of reproductive immunology. #Bonobos #Pregnancy #Immunology
Here's a summary of our findings and why they matter in the field of reproductive immunology. #Bonobos #Pregnancy #Immunology
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DEADLINE!! There are still two days to submit your abstract for #EFP2024 in Lausanne! Deadline is Wednesday the 17th of January. e-conferences.unil.ch/efp2024/subm...
January 15, 2024 at 7:44 PM
DEADLINE!! There are still two days to submit your abstract for #EFP2024 in Lausanne! Deadline is Wednesday the 17th of January. e-conferences.unil.ch/efp2024/subm...
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Yessss. Have you seen @noamross.bsky.social course on GAMs? It wiggles! noamross.github.io/gams-in-r-co...
Generalized Additive Models in R · A Free Interactive Course
<p>This is a free, open source course on fitting, visualizing, understanding, and predicting from Generalized Additive Models. It's made possible by a long and fruitful collaboration in teaching this ...
noamross.github.io
December 12, 2023 at 7:14 PM
Yessss. Have you seen @noamross.bsky.social course on GAMs? It wiggles! noamross.github.io/gams-in-r-co...
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Metabolic hormone #ReactionNorms in wild female bonobos show linear negative relationship between cortisol and T3 average phenotypes.
Awesome work by @verenab.bsky.social and colleagues
www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....
Awesome work by @verenab.bsky.social and colleagues
www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....
Average phenotype but not plasticity in two metabolic hormones covary in wild female bonobos (Pan pa...
Each individual is equipped with a distinct genetic disposition and ontogenetic history and experiences environmental conditions in a unique way. Consequently, individuals vary in terms of phenotype r...
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December 8, 2023 at 10:32 AM
Metabolic hormone #ReactionNorms in wild female bonobos show linear negative relationship between cortisol and T3 average phenotypes.
Awesome work by @verenab.bsky.social and colleagues
www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....
Awesome work by @verenab.bsky.social and colleagues
www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....
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Come to Münster in Feb 2024 for the next meeting of the Ethological Society🦋🐒🐀🦎🕷️🦜, organized by Melanie Dammhahn,, Helene Richter, Sylvia Kaiser and myself. Check out the homepage for the conference. Registration will open soon www.uni-muenster.de/Biologie.Neu...
Etho-Ges Conference
www.uni-muenster.de
November 15, 2023 at 8:17 AM
Come to Münster in Feb 2024 for the next meeting of the Ethological Society🦋🐒🐀🦎🕷️🦜, organized by Melanie Dammhahn,, Helene Richter, Sylvia Kaiser and myself. Check out the homepage for the conference. Registration will open soon www.uni-muenster.de/Biologie.Neu...
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Life history theory is a core part of evolutionary theory but is also confusing and underdeveloped (imo). Here's a digestible talk from @kokkonut.bsky.social for the theoretically and mathematically curious. 🧪 www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEtv...
Hanna Kokko - Life history theory: sometimes intuitive, sometimes not
Theoretical Ecology Seminar from the IITE (https://iite.info) by Hanna Kokko. Recorded 14th Nov 2023.Abstract:If lifespans are often cut short - in other wor...
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November 16, 2023 at 7:58 AM
Life history theory is a core part of evolutionary theory but is also confusing and underdeveloped (imo). Here's a digestible talk from @kokkonut.bsky.social for the theoretically and mathematically curious. 🧪 www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEtv...