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Wendel van der Sluis
@wendelvandersluis.bsky.social
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Associate Editor, Life Sciences at De Gruyter Brill: Promote articles on animal/human behavior, cognition, anthropology, primatology, amphibians, zoology, sensory perception, insects and related fields published by the Life Sciences unit.
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#OpenAccess study uses micro-CT + morphometrics to map skull evolution in Triturus. Marbled/pygmy newts have broad skulls; crested newts are narrow – yet both equally diverse. Shows distinct evolutionary paths. Contrib Zool: 👉 brill.com/view/journal...

@unileiden.bsky.social @naturalis.bsky.social
📷 Dorsal (left) and ventral (right) view on the surface model of the skull of Triturus rudolfi (specimen RMNH.RenA 51786 from Cercal, Portugal). The black dots are landmarks used to characterize skull shape.
November 25, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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🚀🪰 Insects are taking over … science!

#BugBook brings researchers together to standardize methods & speed up #Edible #Insect innovation. Crunching #Bugs, not data chaos! Fully #OpenAccess in the Journal of Insects as Food and Feed 🦗📊

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@chriszurbrugg.bsky.social
November 22, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door.

This is who it was:
A male Anna’s hummingbird at the door. So nosy! 🤣
November 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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🦗🪰🪲🐛 Insect chefs & cookbook collectors, ASIFF wants your recipes & cookbooks! Share edible insect recipes – traditional or modern – to help document culinary & cultural practices.
Send recipes or books titles to Diana Bogueva-Koprinkova at [email protected]
More info: www.linkedin.com/posts/asiff_...
Image of books, open and closed, together with insects like crickets and ants flying in the air with the following writing "Call for Resources, Recipes with edible insects" by ASIFF Working Group Consumer Perception of Insects as Food and Feed.
November 21, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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This image shows a Finnish Puutalo Oy prefab house in the ’40s–’50s that was exported globally. The company exported a whole model of agile, climate-specific, user-friendly design.

New research shows how its “standard” systems were anything but.

Read #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1163/2772...
Component parts of one complete house packed for transportation. Citation: "From Forests to Houses — The Standard Buildings of Puutalo Oy" by Laura Berger, Philip Tidwell & Kristo Vesikansa in the International Journal of Wood Culture 2025; Open Access, https://doi.org/10.1163/27723194-bja10053
November 21, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Reposted by Wendel van der Sluis
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Have you seen a movie or a series that had a real monkey or ape (or one you think might be real) "actor" in it recently?

I am compiling a list of such productions released since 2014 and could use your help (I am searching methodically but want to be sure I don't miss anything) (1/2) ...
November 20, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Research shows scratch-and-sniff books do more than entertain.👃📚 In 334 titles, scents shift by age: simple for little readers, playful for older kids. Smell aids inference, emotion and social understanding. #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1163/2213...

@jasxflowers.bsky.social @multisensoryres.bsky.social
Rank flow of the top 10 most frequently included smells across age groups, based on area under the curve (AUC) of each smell’s age distribution. Smells are ranked within each age group by the cumulative AUC of their presence across books within that developmental stage. Citation: How Scratch-and-Sniff Books Encode Smell Across Development by Jas Brooks, Natalia Kucirkova & Charles Spence in Multisensory Research 2025; https://doi.org/10.1163/22134808-bja10176
November 18, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Finnish autiotupa cabins − open, free shelters deep in the wild − show how simple wooden huts carry both tangible and intangible heritage. They bridge past and future, as Mari-Sohvi Miettinen @mahvimi.bsky.social notes in her #OpenAccess study:

doi.org/10.1163/2772...
This Porontimajoki cabin has a contemporary bitumen roof that is likely from a different era than its wood structures. Photo taken in 2022 by Mari-Sohvi Miettinen. Read more here: Three Heritage Perspectives on Inhabiting Finnish Wilderness Cabins, published in the International Journal of Wood Culture: https://doi.org/10.1163/27723194-bja10054.
November 15, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Discover the latest in Behaviour! 🐟 Pupfish show off territorial skills, 🐭 mice reveal behaviour patterns, 🐬 dolphins pair up in fascinating ways and 🪰 invasive flies share their mating secrets. A must-read for animal behaviour enthusiasts!

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November 13, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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New in Folia Primatologica: special issue on Domestic Animals and Wild Primates 🐒🐕🐄

From macaques in Bali to lemurs in Madagascar, explore how primates coexist with dogs, cats & livestock in shared landscapes.

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📷 Long-tailed macaques + cattle. Photo Jeffrey V. Peterson.
Cover of Folia Primatologica. Picture of juvenile long-tailed macaques grooming cattle near the Uluwatu temple grounds, Bali, Indonesia. Photograph by Jeffrey V. Peterson.
November 13, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Reposted by Wendel van der Sluis
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Big news: your donation for lemurs can go twice as far!
The Conservation Allies Giving Campaign is live—15 conservation groups in Madagascar are having every dollar matched through Dec.31. Double your impact for lemurs and forest communities!
Donations Matched for 15 Lemur Conservation Organizations – Lemur Conservation Network
Through December 31, donations for 14 conservation organizations in Madagascar will be matched by Conservation Allies! Donate online on Conservation Allies’ website.
www.lemurconservationnetwork.org
November 11, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Interested in nocturnal primates?🌙🦧

Submit to Folia Primatologica’s special issue on the Natural history of the nocturnal strepsirrhines and tarsiers!

Guest Editors: Marina B. Blanco, Lydia K. Greene, Sharon Gursky & Anna Nekaris

📅 New deadline: Dec 21, 2025

Details 👉 brill.com/fileasset/do...
Image of a lemur sitting in a tree. Extended deadline for the Call for Papers: natural history of the nocturnal strepsirrhines and tarsiers - Folia Primatologica.
November 11, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Each year, up to a million toads, frogs, and salamanders in the Netherlands get stuck in street drains with no way out. The toad trap gives them a safe escape route! 💚🐸

Watch the video to see it in action!
paduitdeput.nl Pad uit de put @paduitdeput.nl · Oct 15
Een kleine trap met groot effect!

Jaarlijks belanden in Nederland tot wel een miljoen padden, kikkers en salamanders in straat- en trottoirkolken, waar ze niet zelf uit kunnen. Dankzij de paddentrap kunnen ze eruit klimmen!

Bekijk de video en ontdek hoe het werkt!

Meer info op paduitdeput.nl
November 11, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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Girls are drawing more and more women when asked to draw a scientist.

How much more proof do we need? When children see women in science, they imagine women in science. 👩🧪💡

And of course, this doesn’t apply just to scientists!
science.org Science Magazine @science.org · 19d
When asked to draw a scientist, school-age kids in the United States are increasingly sketching women, according to a study from 2018.

Read more on #STEMSTEAMDay: https://scim.ag/4qFrPON
A child's drawing of a female scientist, with the text: What does a scientist look like? Children are drawing women more than ever before
November 8, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Reposted by Wendel van der Sluis
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📢 Call for abstracts!
🚀 The time has come — abstract submission for #EHBEA2026 is officially OPEN since this week! 🎉
🗓 Submission Nov 1st – Dec 15th
📝 300 words
🧠 Important: Make an OpenReview account before submitting — it takes time!
👉 www.ehbea2026.com
Overview | EHBEA2026
www.ehbea2026.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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European starlings outperform even the smartest and most intelligent parrots at imitating the iconic Star Wars robot R2-D2. Why is that?

Read in de Volkskrant @volkskrant.nl (in Dutch): www.volkskrant.nl/wetenschap/g...

Original paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

@musiccognition.bsky.social
Geen vogel doet de Star Wars-robot R2-D2 beter na dan de spreeuw, zelfs de papegaai niet
De spreeuw is de beste imitator van robotgeluiden uit de filmreeks Star Wars, dankzij zijn bijzondere stembanden. Dat blijkt uit onderzoek van de Universiteit Leiden onder tien vogelsoorten. Papegaaie...
www.volkskrant.nl
November 8, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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Humans perceive edges, shape & hardness reliably, even with variable touch. A new #OpenAccess article explores haptic invariants via skin–body–environment interactions. 🤲🧠

Insights also guide robotic haptic design. 🤖

📖 Multisensory Research @multisensoryres.bsky.social: brill.com/view/journal...
(A) Dedicated setup for identifying the biomechanical parameters of the skin model. (B) Skin model to approximate the dynamics of the skin tissue (from Rongala et al., 2024). Citation: Multisensory Research 2025; 10.1163/22134808-bja10165.
November 7, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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🧠✨ An Illusion of Tactile Slip

A 2-part haptic interface creates the feeling of slipping with no actual movement. Different motion frequencies can also control the perceived speed. 🤲

Published in Multisensory Research @multisensoryres.bsky.social #OpenAccess:
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Figure: (A) Results of Experiment 1 grouped by values of trise. Colour code indicates conditions. For 0.9 s rise time with larger spread, the individual data points are presented. (B) Pooled reaction times per condition. Error bars represent standard deviation of the mean. (C) Results of Experiment 2 grouped by values of common-mode motion amplitudes (0.15, 0.30, and 0.60 mm). Colour code indicates differential-mode motion amplitudes. Error bars represent standard deviations of the mean. Note that the estimated distance is in arbitrary units. Citation: Multisensory Research 2025; 10.1163/22134808-bja10164.
November 7, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Baby Hamadryas baboon 'McQueen' happy with his piece of cabbage #PaigntonZoo #baboon #primates
Baby Hamadryas baboon 'McQueen' sat eating cabbage
November 6, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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📣🐒 The latest issue of Folia Primatologica is now available online, featuring a lovely cover photo by Leila M. Porter capturing an adult Weddell’s saddleback tamarin consuming a bush katydid.

Explore the full issue here:
👉 brill.com/view/journal...

@efprimatology.bsky.social
Cover of the latest issue of Folia Primatologica featuring a lovely photo by Leila M. Porter capturing an adult Weddell’s saddleback tamarin consuming a bush katydid. Explore the full issue here: 👉 https://brill.com/view/journals/ijfp/96/3-4/ijfp.96.issue-3-4.xml
November 6, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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👃 Our sense of smell shapes emotion, memory & mental health. A new #OpenAccess study shows self-awareness of smell varies by task – less insight for faint scents, better alignment for discrimination & identification.

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@multisensoryres.bsky.social
Woman smelling a brow bottle. Part of an article exploring how accurately we understand our own sense of smell and perception. Published in Multisensory Research.
November 6, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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🐙 Octopuses, squids, cuttlefish … not just shape-shifters, they’re geniuses of the sea! 🌊 Share your research in Minds of the Deep: New Frontiers in #Cephalopod #Behavior #Research, special issue to be published in Behaviour.

📅 Deadline: Oct 31, 2026
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Image of a cuttlefish for a Call for Papers: New Frontiers in Cephalopod Behavior Research to be published in the journal Behaviour.
November 5, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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🐍 Slow worms of the Netherlands carry hidden genetic tales! mtDNA barcoding uncovers native lineages, French/Spanish hay-linked imports & unexpected Polish haplotypes 🌿🧬 Tracing origins, movements & hidden diversity across regions.
In #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1163/1568...
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Image of Anguis fragilis for article in Amphibia-Reptilia on mtDNA barcoding reveals native and introduced in Dutch slow worms.
November 5, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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👀🎶 Your brain naturally links moving shapes with sounds! Mid-level audiovisual patterns show how perception connects across senses – beyond simple features or meanings. Perfect for multimedia design, crossmodal art & immersive experiences.
@multisensoryres.bsky.social

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Review article on sounds and shapes that aren't random - your brain links them naturally! In Multisensory Research.
November 1, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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🎬 Music in film isn’t just background – it changes how we see, feel & remember. Guiding attention, shaping emotion, boosting memory … sound is both art & science. Perfect for movies, VR, & immersive experiences. 🎶In Multisensory Research @multisensoryres.bsky.social

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Review article on background music that shapes how we see, feel and remember films in the journal Multisensory Research.
November 1, 2025 at 5:24 PM