AnimalTA

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16.08.2025 13:24 — 👍 62    🔁 49    💬 1    📌 0

Fruitful collaboration with MiIZ (Polish Academy of Sciences) on insect locomotion.

Let's TRACK them all!

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26.05.2025 06:54 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Complexity shapes uniqueness: Neuropil volumes and synaptic clusters shape behavioural plasticity under challenging environments in the invasive Argentine ants https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.10.642356v1

13.03.2025 23:45 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

New preprint: Understanding and predicting animal movements and distributions in the Anthropocene
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dx.doi.org/10.22541/au....

28.01.2025 10:40 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Please share to spread the word! #academicsky #ecotox #gradschool 🧪🙏

22.01.2025 03:22 — 👍 22    🔁 13    💬 0    📌 0

👋 ¿Te interesa la ecología del movimiento 🛰️ y la selección de hábitat 🗺️?

Hemos publicado un artículo de divulgación sobre ello en la revista AmbioCiencias de la Universidad de León.

¡No te lo pierdas!
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17.01.2025 11:49 — 👍 14    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0

Now out in @oikosjournal.bsky.social l.bsky.social led by Kaitlyn Barthell 🧪🌎🐝🏵️

Competition for floral resources among bumble bees intensifies at higher elevations. As climate change pushes new bumble bee species upslope, pressures of climate and competition mount.

doi.org/10.1111/oik....

16.01.2025 03:57 — 👍 69    🔁 9    💬 2    📌 0

We have not yet introduced #AnimalTA to the Bluesky community, but it’s a free and user-friendly tool for animal behavior research! 🕷️🔬 See here how it’s used to study spiderlings dispersal in our experiments. Have questions? Feel free to contact us! #Science #Spiders 🧪

15.01.2025 19:57 — 👍 28    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0

Hi Erik!
I am representing the open-source and free video tracking program AnimalTA, whose aim is to provide an accessible tool for researchers on animal behavior (associated article besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....) could you please add me? Personal orcid:0000-0002-3442-5336

15.01.2025 20:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

We have not yet introduced #AnimalTA to the Bluesky community, but it’s a free and user-friendly tool for animal behavior research! 🕷️🔬 See here how it’s used to study spiderlings dispersal in our experiments. Have questions? Feel free to contact us! #Science #Spiders 🧪

15.01.2025 19:57 — 👍 28    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0

Data analysis day - trout response to novel object (🐖). Some fish not bothered. Others really don't like the pig. Is this related to the different husbandry / enrichment environment the fish were held under 🤔. Time will tell. #fishwelfare

@animalta.bsky.social working well for the tracking 🙂

19.11.2024 16:26 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

PhD Advert - title "Examining ecological shifts and impacts of adaptive divergence in response to geothermal habitats" Climate change poses a major threat to biodiversity, but some populations will undergo ecological shifts to persist with impacts on the supporting ecosystem. How this will occur is unknown but in some areas of geothermal warming provides unique opportunities to investigate the ecological impacts of a warmed habitat. In Iceland’s geothermally warmed habitats, we have discovered several populations of threespine stickleback. This has driven adaptive divergence in metabolism, morphology, and behaviour (Pilakouta et al 2020, 2023). However, evidence also suggests that ecological differences in diet occur. This could drive much of the adaptive divergence observed, while also impacting the broader community. This project will look directly at the dietary changes that occur in these populations to better understand the ecological drivers of thermally-driven adaptive change. To achieve this the project will address three main aims: 1. Analysis of long-term dietary variation between populations from geothermal and ambient habitats (across multiple locations) 2. Assess ontogenetic variation in diet to determine at what life stage ecological divergence occurs 3. Tests of heritable divergence in diet preferences, performance, and bioenergetic partitioning through the use of lab-rearing and mesocosm experiments

images showing a cleared and stained stickleback (above) from a geothermal habitat in Iceland (below)

A very exciting PhD on the ecological implications of divergence & adaption to warm water habitats in 3-spined sticklebacks combining field work in Iceland, mesocosms, tank studies & lab-work in the UK. Great team, lots of exciting ideas and techniques to test them.

iapetus2.ac.uk/studentships...

17.11.2024 11:47 — 👍 34    🔁 22    💬 1    📌 0

16.11.2024 18:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A few examples of what can be performed with the program!

16.11.2024 18:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0