This is a very accessible conference - fully online and completely free 🥳

Animal Behaviour Live@animalbehaviour.live · last wk.

⏳️ Only 42 days left to submit your abstract for #ABL2026! Share your research with our global, free and fully online animal behaviour community. Don't miss the opportunity to present your work! 📅 Abstract submission deadline: 6 September 2026 Send it now! https:// ablaoc.sciencesconf.org/

The Euro banknotes are being redesigned. Some of them feature European birds 🕊️! More info here www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/banknot... including a survey where you can share your opinions on the candidate designs

BirdLife Österreich@birdlife.at · 2w ago

🇪🇺 Die EZB hat heute die Entwürfe für die neue Euro-Banknotenserie veröffentlicht. Was uns besonders freut: die europäische Vogelwelt ist auf einigen der Designs präsent vertreten. Hier kannst du über dein Lieblingsdesign abstimmen: surveys.ecb.europa.eu/10b/neweuro/

Are bowers artwork? 🖼️ Do we (humans) like the same bower designs that the choosy females like? Please fill in this short survey asking you to "RATE MY BOWER" No expertise needed. We just want your aesthetic judgment🎨🖌️ exe.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Takes <10 mins

More of a field person? We have a work contract available on walnut dropping in carrion crows within the @wwtf.at funded project on "The interplay between cognition and ecology in extractive foraging behaviours". More info: barbaraklump.com Application deadline July 24th. Please share widely!

Join us in Vienna! We are looking for a PhD student and a Postdoc to investigate innovation in corvids within the “Comparative ecological innovation styles” project funded by @fwf-at.bsky.social. More info: barbaraklump.com Application deadline July 24th. Please share widely!

What is a harmonic? Check out the interactive comics about additive synthesis that @aleclongstreth.bsky.social and I made! melatonin.dev/additive-syn...

I have a new PhD position available on any topic related to musicality or animal communication that aligns well with our current research programs. Deadline March 31: oeaw.ac.at/jobs?jh=795a... For more info about my Musicality and Bioacoustics group: oeaw.ac.at/en/ari/resea...

This is one of the most reasoned & persuasive arguments for not allowing LLMs anywhere near reading & writing intensive classrooms. We can 100% choose not to outsource our reading & writing labor to a bot, and model for our students why they should do the same. #EduSky www.tue.nl/en/our-unive...

Are AI-generated summaries suitable for studying and research?

Despite didactic, ethical, and environmental concerns, the use of GenAI is on the rise in academia. For most applications, the jury is still out on whether and how they will benefit education and rese...

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📆 updated for 2026! list of summer schools & short courses in the realm of (computational) neuroscience or data analysis of EEG / MEG / LFP: 🔗 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

various computational neuroscience / MEEG / LFP short courses and summer schools

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Looking for a Postdoc position and have a background in bioacoustics and animal cognition? Interested in whether other animals might have something akin to language? Join our team: www.oeaw.ac.at/en/oeaw-home...

Open postdoc position!🚨 Passionate about gut microbes 🦠 and the brain 🧠? We are an interdisciplinary group at the Faculty of Psychology & @cemess.bsky.social 🌍 @univie.ac.at and invite individuals who self-identify as female. Details: 4 years, full-time ➡️ careers.univie.ac.at/en/postdoc/e...

Abstract submission closes soon for our local doctoral conference (focus: cognition, behaviour, neuroscience). Free to attend, always really fun and interesting! Masters students can submit abstracts for poster presentation, which is a great chance to present to a friendly crowd :)

Vienna Doctoral School CoBeNe@vdscobene.bsky.social · 8mo ago

We kindly invite every PhD candidate to present their research to the CoBeNe community at the PhD academy. It is an excellent opportunity to practice presenting in a friendly environment and receive input on the topic. Abstract Submission Deadline: 01.12.2025! ufind.univie.ac.at/en/course.ht...

5pm (CET) today, free, easy to register, very important topic for academics

Dan McQuillan@danmcquillan.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Resisting GenAI and Big Tech in Higher Education - Tuesday 25th Nov, free registration, great panel, big focus on climate justice. Register here: lmula.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

🚨We have an open part-time paid position for an *Austria-based* master student in #ComputerScience (incl. adjacent fields) to help develop an automatic stress assessment in wild #GreatTits 🐦 More info in the job description below Remote work is also possible for non-Viennese students🇦🇹 #AnimalWelfare

Since @mariasantaca.bsky.social joined @fusanilab.bsky.social , she's been doing amazing work measuring perception of visual illusions in our ring doves. Here are the first results: www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.... (and stay tuned for findings from a playback study on illusions and courtship...)

Maria Santacà@mariasantaca.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Can fish and birds be “fooled” by the same optical illusion? 🐟🐦 Our new study in Frontiers in Psychology compares guppies and ring doves in their perception of the Ebbinghaus illusion — with surprising results! 🔗 www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.... @univie.ac.at @fusanilab.bsky.social

Calling all Austrian academics who care about the situation in Gaza. researchers4palestine.org have an open letter you can sign (and a petition of support if you're a nonacademic). They also link to an EU letter calling for a stop to EU funding for Israeli institutions.

🪶🤖 Someone stored an image in a Starling song! “This little bird successfully learned and emulated the sound in the exact same frequency range that he heard it…transferring about 176 kilobytes of uncompressed information…” (!!!) www.iflscience.com/i-saved-a-pn...

"I Saved A PNG Image To A Bird": YouTuber Stores 176KB Drawing Of A Bird Inside A Bird's Song

According to Benn Jordan this effectively makes the birds capable of storing and transmitting image data.

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This is not the time to step back. It’s unquestionably the time to step forward. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

This is not the time to step back from diversity, equity, and inclusion

Recently, I exchanged views with a prominent Ivy League scientist who was complaining about the minority students and junior faculty applying to his program. He claimed that the university, through di...

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Although my work has often involved brains, I haven't often talked about how my own unruly brain (migraine) affects my work. Thanks to @carodeimel.bsky.social for suggesting we and another colleague contribute to this inspiring TREE series on disability in EcoEvo: dlvr.it/TLShPk

Disability in ecology and evolution

In this TrendsTalk series ‘Disability in ecology and evolution’ in Trends in Ecology and Evolution, we hear from people about their experiences being disabled in ecology and evolution. We are asking e...

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Caro Deimel@carodeimel.bsky.social · last yr.

@cvq.bsky.social, another colleague and I contributed to this great series by TREE. We talk about our experiences with neurological disorders, the effects on our careers, and give some suggestions on structural changes that would help researchers with invisible disabilities like ours in EcoEvo.

Hello & HAPPY FRIDAY, as promised an open letter by my lovely colleagues and myself. Everybody, feel free to sign this even if you are not NL-based and ‼️ share ‼️ (anonymous signature is poss): Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia openletter.earth/open-letter-...

Hopefully of interest to @univie.ac.at people at UBB. More info here: wobio.univie.ac.at/events-netwo...

DEI Reading Circle SS 2025 - Sexgender Diversity

DEI Reading Circle SS 2025 - Sexgender Diversity

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Women in Biology, University of Vienna@wobio-ubb.bsky.social · last yr.

The DEI Reading Circle is meeting again this summer semester to read and talk about Sexgender Diversity in Biology, starting next week! Join us for the first session on 25. 03. from 16:45-18:00 h in the UBB mensa! ✨️Why biologists need to talk about sex and gender?✨️

Excellent thread about an important resource. Entertaining and relevant - do read to the end. 🤗

Altmetric@altmetric.com · last yr.

THREAD The Wonderful World of Wikipedia (WWW) If you are of a certain age, Wikipedia has been a constant in your life. It was not always so. Here is a pre-history, a history and potential future of the world's great shared book that we all read and write. Also why is it called "Wikipedia"? 1/30

We’re standing up for science ! 🤝 On March 7 at 1 pm, the #MarchforScience will start in front of the University of Vienna - an initiative of scientists raising their voices worldwide for free science. The University of Vienna shares this important cause.‼️🏛️ #standupforscience2025 #scienceforall

Stand Up for Science!@standupforscience.net · last yr.

TWO WEEKS UNTIL #STANDUPFORSCIENCE2025! 📣☀️🌎

Zotero is great and I think that anyone who needs to organise and cite more than a handful of references should be using it. Here's an intro to Zotero that I made for my undergrad students (but the info is relevant for anyone new to Zotero). Full vid [13 mins]: youtu.be/SlUHjOqVCyU Preview ⬇️

Caught our regular balcony visitor politely asking for a drink...

Can humans discriminate individual birds of the spotted bowerbird from photographs?🪶 Students from the @fusanilab.bsky.social @univie.ac.at need you to answer that question! You can test your visual discrimination skills with their online experiment (~15 min long): sosci.univie.ac.at/bowerbird_di...

Wonderful Etho2025 conference in Tutzing! It was really nice to be able to present some previous works 🐟 and my current project 🐦 at @univie.ac.at with the @fusanilab.bsky.social

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For my plant-loving friends in Vienna: the city makes excellent soil out of organic waste and it's on sale again at municipal trash centres. Very reasonably priced too!

Stadt Wien@wien.gv.at · last yr.

Die Blumenerde „Guter Grund“ aus hochwertigem Kompost aus der Wiener Biotonne ist zurück! 🌿 Jetzt auf allen Wiener Mistplätzen. Torffrei, nachhaltig & perfekt für euren Garten oder euren Balkon! 🌍♻️ Mehr Infos: https://www.wien.gv.at/umwelt/ma48/beratung/muelltrennung/biogener-abfall/blumenerde.html

Happy Valentine's day from the Dove Lab @fusanilab.bsky.social @univie.ac.at We're preparing Maria Santacà's new experiment investigating the possible role of visual illusions during courtship. Female birds will watch videos of courting males in different illusion-inducing configurations ♥️🕊️♥️