Our @commonternproject.bsky.social researchers Sandra Bouwhuis and Nathalie Kürten report on the oldest common tern ever tracked with a transmitter - more on this in the following postings:

Common Tern Project@commonternproject.bsky.social · 2w ago

Two photos that make us very happy this morning – story below. :-)

Excited to celebrate the opening of the Kids4Kids Mobile Exhibition on Bird Migration with @genmig.bsky.social ! 🐦🎙 A project where children communicate science to their peers through podcasts, interactive exhibits, and a VR journey following a robin's migration.🌍✨ #Kids4Kids

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/...

Great news: The German Science and Humanities Council has recommended funding the new “NaviGate” research building at the University of Oldenburg - a globally unique facility for animal navigation research! 🐦🦇🦋🧭🔬 Congrats to the team and all SFB members involved! 🎉 uol.de/pressemittei...

Huge thanks to the SFB team for a fantastic spring meeting at Thülsfelder Talsperre! 🌿 Inspiring exchanges, poster sessions, walk & talks, and working groups on DEI and gender equity for #InternationalWomensStrike made it a true boost for collaboration and team spirit. 🌱

✨️💜 Women's power 💜✨️ At today's @sfb1372.bsky.social meeting we had discussion on #diversity #equity and #inclusion and are solidary with #WomensStrikeDay #OhneUnsStehtAllesStill #WomenInSTEM 💜👩‍🔬🧪🙎‍♀️💜

“Empowered women empower women.” 👭 As we celebrate International Women's Day, we asked our fantastic senior female scientists to share a few words for the next generation of researchers; about curiosity, resilience, and lifting each other up along the way. Illustrated by Charlotte Hintzmann.

No GPS. No maps. 🧭 Just molecular teamwork. Ümmügülsüm Güzelsoy Flügge & Srdan Vujinovic @sfb1372.bsky.social reveal how birds anchor their magnetic compass inside the eye. #Magnetoreception #Biochemistry #BirdNavigation #sfb1372

I’m so over-the-moon happy to share that our lovely @mjgarciabianco.bsky.social, so far with us as a fellow funded by @sfb1372.bsky.social, will be able to continue her work in the common tern team as a PhD student, co-funded by ANID and the @daadworldwide.bsky.social.

12th RIN Conference on Animal Navigation - one of my favourites 🧭🦉🐟🦇🐝🐜 - this time we tried a new format, inviting topical sessions to make sure we represent the wonderfully broad range of research in #animal #orientation and #navigation and are super excited about the lineup s.gwdg.de/EBROf7

Great to have Sandra Bouwhuis and her @commonternproject.bsky.social in our SFB team! Check out her latest outreach project:

Common Tern Project@commonternproject.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Proud to present: Suitcase Science, a new outreach format containing 6 assignments to take on a journey to schools in the region, to teach kids about terns, how to study them, their fascinating behaviour and some of the things that threaten them. Wanna book us? Drop me a line. :-)

Today we celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science by highlighting the incredible women of SFB 1372 advancing our understanding of birds, behaviour, and the natural world 🐦🔬 A small glimpse of the brilliant minds behind our research ⬇️ ##WomenInScience

This #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience I would like to say a big THANK YOU to the amazing women and girls I currently have the pleasure of sharing my #ternscience journey with. Onwards and upwards we go! ❤️

No GPS.📍 No map.🗺 Just tiny brains of Cataglyphis hellenica doing elite navigation. 🐜🧭 Find a #video on the story of our SFB researchers @chiaratenne.bsky.social and @cataglyphilosophy.bsky.social below & the article at link.springer.com/article/10.1... #Cataglyphis #ants #magneticsense #navigation

A warm welcome to @mguidotti29.bsky.social who joined our lab now as an @sfb1372.bsky.social fellow In the next 10 months he will work on orientation 🧭 in Northern Wheatears together with @annikapeter.bsky.social

Meet Matteo! Our new @sfb1372.bsky.social songbird orientation fellow With a background in waterbirds, he is excited to dive deeper into migration research Originally from 🇮🇹, he is strongly motivated to contribute to various research activities & firmly believes that lunch should never be rushed

We're excited to welcome Dr. Alina Sigaeva, a cell biologist, to SFB 1372👩‍🔬🙌 Her research explores how cells organize themselves, their architecture, stem cell differentiation, and the fascinating world of cryptochromes, where biology meets quantum mechanisms. 🔬 #SFB1372 #FEL03 #universitätoldenburg

#Birds can see without #oxygen. At least part of their retina does. A new @nature.com study of scientists from @au.dk with #SFB1372 contribution shows that the avian inner #retina functions under chronic anoxia, supported by anaerobic metabolism and the #pecten. 🐔👁️ doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09978-w

Happy to share that our Nav05 leader Miriam Liedvogel @genmig.bsky.social will talk about her reserach at the upcoming @eoufledglings.bsky.social meeting in March 2026!

EOU Fledglings@eoufledglings.bsky.social · 8mo ago

🎤 We’re excited to introduce another plenary speaker for the 5th EOU Fledglings Meeting in Gdańsk (27–29 March 2026)! 🌿 Miriam Liedvogel (@genmig.bsky.social) will share her work on blackcap migration - a fascinating look into one of Europe’s most dynamic songbird species. #EOU26 #Ornithology

[1/2] Thank you to everyone who joined our Young Researchers Symposium 2025 in Hamburg! In these 3 days, we learned about fascinating day and night science and connected with other early career researchers. It was a pleasure to organize this symposium as part of an amazing team! @sfb1372.bsky.social

We were delighted to spot members of our #SFB and @migecol.bsky.social on this trip to the fågelstation on the Falsterbo peninsula! 🦉🐦🦅🏰🏝

𝙱.𝙺. 𝚂𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚛𝚌𝚘𝚌𝚔@bksandercock.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Field trip to Falsterbo ringing station with the migration ecology course from Lund University

‼️Save the date: 19/10/2025 8pm Villa Viva, Hamburg‼️ Join our fun pub quiz about Animal Navigation & Magnetoreception, the quiz is open everyone! Enjoy a drink while trying to answer our interesting questions 🥂 The quiz is our icebreaker event of our #YoungResearcherSymposium 🧭🐦🐜🦇🐠 #pubquiz #Hamburg

Thrilled to discover our SFB PhD student Pedro doing outreach activities in faraway Brazil!

Quantum Biology Institute@quantumbioorg.bsky.social · 10mo ago

1/3 Brazilian Scientific Adventures of @claricedaiello.bsky.social #8: As part of the @cienciapioneira.bsky.social Instituto D'Or de Pesquisa e Ensino Quantum Biology School, Clarice & Pedro a dear scientist friend went to a public school in Paraty to talk to the students about what scientists do.

The really cool cross-disciplinary project where our SFB research fellow Pauline Fleischmann @cataglyphilosophy.bsky.social is involved in has now 2 #postdoc positions advertised!

Pauline Fleischmann@cataglyphilosophy.bsky.social · 10mo ago

🤩 And here we go - thrilled to announce that two #AnHuNav postdoc positions are availble now ⬇️ Join us in exploring how humans navigated the ancient world - with the aid of animals!? 🧭🗺💫🐫🕊🐜🏛 1️⃣ Cognitive and textual #navigation uol.de/job785 2️⃣ #Archaeology of trade&pilgramage routes uol.de/job786en

"There is a playbook. It was written by men. I always felt I didn't have the play- book." - Picture A Scientist🔬 The SFB 1372 team hosted a screening of "Picture a Scientist"🎬 with around 50 participants, sparking meaningful discussions on strength, solidarity, and equality in science.

We’re #hiring! Our new fellowship holder Dr. Alina Sigaeva will soon be establishing her research group on #cell #physiology 🥼🔬🧪🧫 🧬of avian #magnetoreception 🐣🧭🧲. She is looking for a talented PhD student 🧑‍🎓👩‍🎓. Apply by 2 November at uol.de/job764en Please share widely!

coffee breaks inspire the coolest things, no? It certainly inspired this wonderful project – a kids book on a robin that takes you under its wing on its journey to their wintering grounds. gorgeously illustrated @co-la.bsky.social and beautifully written by a #dreamteam within @sfb1372.bsky.social

We’re hiring a doctoral researcher in the area of migration ecology. The work will focus on the question of how and when migratory songbirds learn where their home is using #Motus. Part of the Cluster of Excellence NaviSense and linked with @sfb1372.bsky.social uol.de/job788en #ornithology

Watch this: A 4‑minute video from #WeizmannInstitute showing how the researchers recorded bat brains in the wild on Latham Island — the first time single-neuron neural compass activity has been captured outdoors! www.youtube.com/watch?v=46sv...

Bat Island: The New Era of Science

YouTube video by Weizmann Institute of Science

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