Oliver Lindecke 🦇

@olindecke.bsky.social

PI at UniOldenburg 🧭 Interested in sensory ecology, animal navigation, magnetic sense, migration, focus on #Bats #MSCActions alumnus EU-UK Website: www.oliverlindecke.org Also on ResearchGate

As part-night lighting by turning off streetlights in the middle of the night becomes more widespread among local authorities, three studies focusing on different species show that, often, turning off the lights for a few hours is not enough. Read more in The Conversation: https://ow.ly/V5yw50Z9LOk

How does street lighting impact wildlife and when should we turn off the lights?

For biodiversity, it’s not just about switching off street lighting, it’s about knowing when and where to turn the lights off.

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Exciting new research on bat migration! 🦇🧭📻📡〰️ Can human-generated electromagnetic noise influence the migratory behavior of pipistrelle bats? Congratulations to @olindecke.bsky.social and his team on their publication in @science.org! Learn more: doi.org/10.1126/science.aei2381

Oliver Lindecke 🦇@olindecke.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A piece about our study on anthropogenic electromagnetic noise out in @science.org “Silent interference” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🍾💥 We are on the map! The new www.navisense.org cluster will be funded by the DFG for the next 7 years! Thx for great companionship along the way. Exciting collaborations are ahead of us. And we’ve got them all 🐦 🦐🐜🦋 and 🦇, of course 🙂 But also robotics and quantum physics, so check it out!

Home - NaviSense

NaviSense - International Cluster of Excellence Proposal for the Sensory Basis, Mechanisms, and Impacts of Animal Navigation.

navisense.org

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft@dfg.de · last yr.

The #ClustersOfExcellence have been selected: today, the Excellence Commission approved 70 projects for funding. 45 clusters will continue and 25 will be newly established. Funding starts on 1 Jan 2026 for 7 years, with €539 million per year. The full list: www.dfg.de/resource/blo... 1/3

Map of Germany with the Clusters of Excellence

Big congrats to the Navisense excellence cluster www.navisense.org that will be funded by the DFG for the next 7 years! Congrats to all of our SFB members that are involved! @genmig.bsky.social @commonternproject.bsky.social @migecol.bsky.social @cataglyphilosophy.bsky.social @olindecke.bsky.social

Home - NaviSense

NaviSense - International Cluster of Excellence Proposal for the Sensory Basis, Mechanisms, and Impacts of Animal Navigation.

navisense.org

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft@dfg.de · last yr.

Die #Exzellenzcluster stehen fest: Heute hat die Exzellenzkommission 70 Projekte zur Förderung ausgewählt. 45 Cluster werden fortgesetzt, 25 neu eingerichtet. Die Förderung beginnt ab 1. Jan. 2026 für 7 Jahre, die Fördersumme beträgt insg. 539 Mio. €/Jahr. Die Liste: www.dfg.de/resource/blo... 1/3

Deutschlandkarte der Verteilung der Exzellenzcluster auf Bundesländer und Universitäten.

You are what you eat...and what your mother ingested and managed to compensate for. #seabirds 🐣

Common Tern Project@commonternproject.bsky.social · last yr.

Common terns are assortatively mated with respect to their levels of #mercury #pollution, and transfer mercury to their eggs. Another amazing body of work from Justine's PhD thesis has turned into a paper. To be found in Environmental Research and open access: doi.org/10.1016/j.en...

When bats can't hear... 🦇Plan B(at)🦇 ... they compensate by adapting their flight path and vocalizations. They flew lower, oriented themselves along walls and increased both the number and length of their calls, boosting the power of echo signals used for navigation. 🧪 hub.jhu.edu/2024/11/25/b...

Bats' amazing Plan B for when they can't hear

New research by Johns Hopkins neuroscientists reveals instant compensation strategy that other animals might share

hub.jhu.edu

Did you know that Claude Shannon also developed maze solving algorithms? Which he implemented physically using a wooden mouse named Theseus. To solve a given maze, on a grid, Theseus used two modes: 🧵

An image of Claude Shannon, holding a wooden mouse in a small maze.