The newest study from the @pennzalalab.bsky.social shows that female mice 🐭 are not attracted to male songs as assumed, which raises questions about the repeatability and generalizability of playback studies in house mice. Read all about it here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 📷: Bettina Wernisch

It was our great pleasure to have Hannah Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social as a guest to give a #WilhelminenbergSeminarTalk about "Chemically Mediated Interactions between Predators and Prey". 🐦🌿 @fiwivienna.bsky.social @liverpooluni.bsky.social

The @pennzalalab.bsky.social just published a review of the methods and tools for processing and analyzing #mousevocalizations, including #USVs, proposing new labels and a novel hierarchical classification for all types of 🐭 vocalizations. Check it out!▶️https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2026.116337

Another great #WilhelminenbergSeminarTalk was given by David Macdonald (University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk) with the title "The Badgers of Wytham Woods: two paradoxes, a state change, and a perplexing puzzle." 🦡🌲

We really enjoyed Adrian Garcia-Rodriguez #WilhelminenbergSemiarTalk about exploring the past, present and future of biodiversity from the intersection of ecology and evolution! @univie.ac.at @fiwivienna.bsky.social

We have a third-party funded PhD-Position in Movement Ecology, Genetics and Health of Red Deer in the Alpine Region available - don't miss your chance, the deadline is the 30th of June 2026! Find all the details below - we look forward to your applications! www.vetmeduni.ac.at/fileadmin/v/...

Next #WilhelminenbergSeminarTalk: 10.06. | 2:00 PM with David Macdonald @biology.ox.ac.uk 📍@klivvvienna.bsky.social , 1160 Wien or online 👩‍💻 → vetmeduni.ac.at/fiwi/seminar... 📢 Tip for students: The participation is recognised as an elective! (KV 128 804)

We are very happy that Rudy Brogi came for a visit and held a #WilhelminenbergSeminarTalk about "Behaviour under constraint: how mammals balance multiple pressures in a changing world" @fiwivienna.bsky.social

Next #WilhelminenbergSeminarTalk: 20.05. | 2:00 PM with Adrian Garcia-Rodriguez @univie.ac.at 📍@klivvvienna.bsky.social, 1160 Wien or online 👩‍💻 → vetmeduni.ac.at/fiwi/seminar... 📢 Tip for students: The participation is recognised as an elective! (KV 128 804)

We were very happy to have Kaja Wierucka give a lively #WilhelminenbergSeminarTalk about animal communication, looking at new technologies, cue diversity and social contexts! 🐒🌳 @kajawierucka.bsky.social @primatenzentrum.bsky.social @fiwivienna.bsky.social

So proud of Dr. Schlippe Justicia, a new metamorph coming out of the Rojas Lab pool👩🏻‍🎓🎉🐸 Congrats, Lia! 💚 @klivvvienna.bsky.social

Judith Janish gave a fascinating #WilhelminenbergSeminarTalk with the title "Influence of Substrate Variation on Kinematics and Performance in Wild Primate Locomotion" and we gathered new insights into this intriguing field of research.🐵🌲 @fiwivienna.bsky.social

Next #WilhelminenbergSeminarTalk: 22.04. | 2:00 PM with Mario Pesendorfer @mbpesendorfer.bsky.social @bokuvienna.bsky.social 📍@fiwivienna.bsky.social, 1160 Wien or online 👩‍💻 → vetmeduni.ac.at/fiwi/seminar... 📢 Tip for students: The participation is recognised as an elective! (KV 128 804)

Point of View: An easy way to improve lab meetings doi.org/10.7554/eLif... I'm really happy to see this one out @elife.bsky.social. Awesome Cara Glynn and I describe and reflect on a year-long, low-cost practice that transformed our group meetings. #researchculture #ECR #labmeetings

Point of View: An easy way to improve lab meetings

Sharing positive and negative experiences at lab meetings can make a career in science a little less hard, a little more pleasant, and a little more human.

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Next #WilhelminenbergSeminarTalk: 08.04. | 2:00 PM with Kaja Wierucka @kajawierucka.bsky.social @primatenzentrum.bsky.social 📍@klivvvienna.bsky.social , 1160 Wien or online 👩‍💻 → vetmeduni.ac.at/fiwi/seminar... 📢 Tip for students: The participation is recognised as an elective! (KV 128 804)

Sonja Hartnack's #WilhelminenbergSeminarTalk explored the complexities that lie beneath a One Health approach, looking at rabies control in Uganda - such an important issue! 🐕💉 @klivvvienna.bsky.social

Thomas Albrecht visited us to give an informative and detailed #WilhelminenbergSeminarTalk about extrapair paternity and postcopulatory sexual selection in birds!🐦‍⬛🦜 @fiwivienna.bsky.social

Here's why we should not (only) study global change drivers in isolation! Check our new preprint showing how a fungal pathogen interacts with habitat disturbance to shape the skin bacterial communities of an Amazonian frog: ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v... @klivvvienna.bsky.social

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🐸 🧪🍄🌎New Preprint alert! Our study on how habitat disturbance + deadly fungus (Bd) mess with the skin bacteria of Amazonian poison frogs (Dendrobates tinctorius). 🔗 ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v... #Conservation #Microbiome #MolBiol #evobio @biobiiana.bsky.social @f-hoelzl.bsky.social #LiaSchlippe

Last weekend the Mallnitzer Days took place in the Hohe Tauern National Park for the fourth time, focusing on current challenges in alpine birds of prey conservation. A wonderful collaboration! Read more about it here: vetmeduni.ac.at/en/research-... @klivvvienna.bsky.social 📷: Justina Heinz

Next #WilhelminenbergSeminarTalk: 25.03. | 2:00 PM with Judith Janisch 📍@FIWI, 1160 Wien or online 👩‍💻 → vetmeduni.ac.at/fiwi/seminar... 📢 Tip for students: The participation is recognised as an elective! (KV 128 804) @fiwivienna.bsky.social

We are very proud to share the @science.org publication by our Ass.Prof. Matthias Loretto @matthiasloretto.bsky.social showing that ravens anticipate wolf kill sites across broad scales www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Ravens anticipate wolf kill sites across broad scales

Scavengers generally rely on patchily distributed, unpredictable carrion. A long-standing hypothesis suggests scavenging ravens reliably locate such food by directly following large carnivores to thei...

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We loved having Virpi Lummaa as a speaker at our #WilhelminenbergSeminarTalk series - she shared her knowledge and research about Kin networks and natural selection in changing societies - what a treat! 🐘👶 @lummaalab.bsky.social @fiwivienna.bsky.social

"Who is who? Water makes frog image recognition 100% clear" Have a look at this article about the findings reported in our Edina Nemesházi's latest publication! @klivvvienna.bsky.social doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0341460 www.vetmeduni.ac.at/en/universit...

Who is who? Water makes frog image recognition 100% clear

An Austrian-Hungarian study led by the Konrad Lorenz Institute of Ethology (KLIVV) at the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna developed a new, optimized photography method. As the research on fro...

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Next #WilhelminenbergSeminarTalk: 28.01. | 2:00 PM with Ancuta Fedorca 📍@fiwivienna.bsky.social, 1160 Wien or online 👩‍💻 → vetmeduni.ac.at/fiwi/seminar... 📢 Tip for students: The participation is recognised as an elective! (KV 128 804) @klivvvienna.bsky.social

Our first #WilhelminenbergSeminarTalk of 2026 was given by Sandro Sehner and explored "Social Tolerance and Problem-Solving in Primate Groups"🐒 - a fascinating subject! @leibniz-gemeinschaft.de @fiwivienna.bsky.social

Next #WilhelminenbergSeminarTalk: 21.01. | 2:00 PM with Virpi Lummaa / @lummaalab.bsky.social 📍@KLIVV, 1160 Wien or online 👩‍💻 → vetmeduni.ac.at/fiwi/seminar... 📢 Tip for students: The participation is recognised as an elective! (KV 128 804)

Next #WilhelminenbergSeminarTalk: 14.01. | 2:00 PM with Sandro Sehner / German primate Centre, @leibniz-gemeinschaft.de 📍@klivvvienna.bsky.social, 1160 Wien or online 👩‍💻 → vetmeduni.ac.at/fiwi/seminar... 📢 Tip for students: The participation is recognised as an elective! (KV 128 804)

Our final #WilhelminenbergSeminarTalk this year was with Franz Essl @franzessl1.bsky.social, who gave us captivating new insights into the global re-shuffling of species. 🌿🧪 @klivvvienna.bsky.social @univie.ac.at bioinvasions.univie.ac.at Our next talk will be on the 14th of January!

We had another fascinating #WilhelminenbergSeminarTalk with Radoslaw Karpienko, who spoke to us about "Building Scientific Authority and How It May Harm Research Fields" 📊 @klivvvienna.bsky.social @wuvienna.bsky.social

Martin Jastroch joined us for a lively and informative #WilhelminenbergSeminarTalk with the following topic: "Reconstructing the evolution of brown fat thermogenesis". @klivvvienna.bsky.social