Will Oestreich
@will-oestreich.bsky.social
www.woestreich.com Exploring behavioral ecology, collective behavior/sensing/intelligence/science, life in the ocean, & more Group Leader, Collective Ecology Group, University of Zurich
Grateful to get to know a few bats (and a woolly opossum) in Panama
Grateful to get to know a few bats (and a woolly opossum) in Panama
Natural history on canvas: Brueghel knew about bird-eating noctule bats Just published in @pnas.org, OA for all eyes Led by the one-and-only @romero-vidal.bsky.social, with the amazing @elena-tena.bsky.social and Sonia Sánchez-Navarro @ebdonana.bsky.social LINK: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Lots of sperm whale action on the MBARI hydrophone in recent days. Check out the live audio stream here: www.mbari.org/project/soun... @mbarinews.bsky.social
Soundscape Listening Room • MBARI
Access a live stream and a library of sounds recorded using a hydrophone (underwater microphone) off the Central California coast.
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Rocks falling from melting icebergs host deep-sea oases of biodiversity A ripple effect of climate change is providing habitat for corals, sponges and other Arctic animals. #marineecology www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Rocks falling from melting icebergs host deep-sea oases of biodiversity
A ripple effect of climate change is providing habitat for corals, sponges and other Arctic animals.
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To see how important US science is, consider measurements of changes in ocean heat content. US data are ~53% of the total. Over half! But removing the US data is worse than randomly removing 80% of the total data, because unlike other countries, the US makes measurements everywhere. 🧪🌊
Critical dependence of global ocean heat monitoring on the ocean observing system - Nature Climate Change
International collaboration has facilitated a global ocean observing system, providing data to measure ocean heat content at a resolution that enables the tracking of climate change. This study looks ...
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As an ocean scientist, I'm frankly amazed at the attention the dismantlement of OOI has gotten, while the removal of the RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer (our only Antarctic icebreaker) and the failure to replace the JOIDES Resolution (our only scientific drilling ship) were met with near silence. 🌊
Trump Administration to Dismantle Ocean Monitoring System
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Still early in the process of working through this collection on "World models in natural and artificial intelligence", but so far, finding these pieces very thought provoking: royalsocietypublishing.org/rsta/issue/3...
Volume 384 Issue 2320 | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A | The Royal Society
Influential themed journal issues across the physical mathematical and engineering sciences.
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New paper in @pnas.org - using playback experiments we provide further evidence that bottlenose dolphins can use individual identity signals + social memory to guide decision-making. Female dolphins use individual vocal labels to track coercive males | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Researchers have identified superparamagnetic macrophages in the livers of rock pigeons to be crucial for magnetic sensing. The finding uncovers an unexpected role for immune cells in sensory perception and may fundamentally change our understanding of animal navigation. https://scim.ag/4nTQ3nq
Our paper about how resource variability shapes the ecology of social information is out in this issue of TREE! This eco-evolutionary lens helps explain why collective sensing has evolved across such a wide range of lifeforms, from microbes to blue whales. www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
Trends in Ecology & Evolution@cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social · 3mo agoMay issue of TREE out online now! www.cell.com/ecology-evol... Cover article from Eamonn Wooster et al. Featured articles from Kou et al, Morente et al and Noble et al Articles from Chan et al, Chen & Siemann, Lee et al, Oestreich et al, Perrier et al.
Our paper about how resource variability shapes the ecology of social information is out in this issue of TREE! This eco-evolutionary lens helps explain why collective sensing has evolved across such a wide range of lifeforms, from microbes to blue whales. www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
Trends in Ecology & Evolution@cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social · 3mo agoMay issue of TREE out online now! www.cell.com/ecology-evol... Cover article from Eamonn Wooster et al. Featured articles from Kou et al, Morente et al and Noble et al Articles from Chan et al, Chen & Siemann, Lee et al, Oestreich et al, Perrier et al.
Is bigger always better? For social animals, group size is a dilemma: big groups face more internal competition, yet hold an edge over smaller neighbors. 33 years of data on 12 wild capuchin groups reveals how these forces shape behavior. Out today in *Nat Eco & Evo*: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Excellent inaugural lecture by Millie Chapman today at ETH Zürich on ‘Biosphere governance in the age of algorithms’. 🥳 Well done and big congratulations 👏 epl.ethz.ch @milliechapman.bsky.social @usyseth.bsky.social
Our recent paper on human-induced trait shifts and predator–prey interactions is on the cover of the May issue of Trends in Ecology & Evolution 😭😵💫 The paper is available open access here -> www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
Finished the latest in @aptshadow.bsky.social 's "Children of..." series over the weekend. Spectacular exploration of interdependence in ecology, "bottom-up" and "top-down" intelligent design, cultural evolution, and the complex inner life of a stomatopod. Give it a read!
New for @undark.org: "What I Learned from Teaching Darwin" "For Darwin at least, science was a conversation between humans and nature, more than it was an industry. I wish that were true today, for all of us." undark.org/2026/04/23/o...
What I Learned from Teaching Darwin
Opinion | Charles Darwin’s books offer lessons for how to grapple with the current state of science and its complicated future.
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Midwater worms >> terrestrial worms. 😍 #tomopteris 🦑🧪🌊 #DesigningtheFuture3 @mbarinews.bsky.social @schmidtocean.bsky.social
This perspective of a galaxy siphonophore is incredible!!! Look at the spiral!! 🤩 🦑 @schmidtocean.bsky.social @mbarinews.bsky.social #Designingthefuture3
PLS RT📣 Two Postdoc jobs at #mpaib with Serena Ding on collective behavior of worms (Never seen a "wormuration"? That's them in green) 🪱 social dynamics of collective dispersal: bewerbermanagement.net/jobposting/2... 🪱 sensory ecology of worm towers: bewerbermanagement.net/jobposting/7...
Electric stealth through bidirectional signal suppression in electric eels and their knifefish prey CurrentBiology
Electric stealth through bidirectional signal suppression in electric eels and their knifefish prey
Poon and Crampton report bidirectional suppression of electrolocation during encounters between wild electric eels and their weakly electric knifefish prey. Predator and prey alternate between signal emission and silence to balance active sensing with concealment. This electric stealth dynamic parallels acoustic stealth in killer whales and their echolocating toothed-whale prey.
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Some favorites from Ray Troll's gorgeous "blue seas, green seas" California Current murals on the old NOAA building at Point Pinos in Pacific Grove, California
Evolution is amazing both for creating this spider and iNaturalist (which helped humans understand how remarkable this spider is)
Marco Festa-Bianchet 🇨🇦@marcofesta.bsky.social · 4mo agoEvolution is amazing! 🧪 www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha...
Extraordinary footage of a sperm whale birth shows coordinated help from family and non-family members for hours after birth, social behavior usually associated with primates www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....
For millions of years the traits of predators and prey have dictated their interactions. In the Anthropocene, humans are altering these traits. In @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social, we explore how human-induced traits shifts reshape predator-prey interactions. tinyurl.com/TREEshifts
