Dr. Alexandrina Guran

Short stories are such an amazing way of communicating science! Check out my short story and all the other amazing content on @scienceandfiction.net!

Last years field assistant holding a Manx Shearwater on the isle of Rum (under a towel), retrieving a GPS device after a bird has returned from a foraging trip!

We are looking to hire a Seabird Field Assistant for 2026 for our Manx Shearwater research project.

Please share this to anyone who'd like to get out in the field this summer and learn about biotelemetry, bird handling and research into animal behaviour.

drive.google.com/file/d/1SGZt...

Please repost: 🚨Field assistant position 🐧

We offer a 14-months field assistant position through the French Polar Institute to work on king penguin ecophysiology and behavioral ecology.

Requirements: EU citizen < 30yo having experience with harsh fieldwork & wild bird/mammal handling/sampling.

Statistik zur Verteilung der weltweiten Erdölreserven. Venezuela ist auf Platz 1.

Venezuela hat die größten #Erdölreserven. Wer auf #fossileEnergien setzt, sichert sie #militärisch. Europa hat kaum eigene Vorräte – und droht Spielball von Verteilungskämpfen zu werden. Eine schnelle #Energiewende, #Erneuerbare und das #VerbrennerAus sichern unseren #Frieden.

Vienna is beautiful in every season 😍 #SAA2026

Are you a woman interested in a postdoc in STEM @univie.ac.at and perhaps specifically in working with me on early brain development and cognition @kinderstudien.bsky.social Check out this call 👇 careers.univie.ac.at/en/postdoc/e...

parrots that appreciate magic - what a time to be alive :)

oh, thankfully I generally deal with happy and alive animals :)

Can you tell what I do for a living by looking at these cookie shapes? :) #christmas

Ihr wollt vielleicht selber gute Klimakommunikation betreiben? Schaut euch diesen Post von Jana Dreston und Luna Frauhammer an, in dem die beiden ein paar wichtige Tipps und Grundlagen zusammenfassen!

Wollt ihr Forschung unterstützen, unser Verständnis von Einstellungen gegenüber Klimawandel verbessern UND die Chance auf einen 20 € Gutschein haben? Macht mit, wenn ihr in Deutschland, Österreich, oder der Schweiz lebt und aktuell studiert! @realscientists.de @scanunit.bsky.social

Good department, great city, go ahead and apply!

screenshot of the aforementioned paper, showing the abstract. The last sentence is highlighted. It reads: "Continued research into procrastination should not be delayed, especially since its prevalence appears to be growing."

I love when authors have a sense of humour:
From a Paper entitled "The Nature of Procrastination" (Steel, 2007, Psych Bulletin)
"Continued research into procrastination should not be delayed, especially since its prevalence appears to be growing." 🥸

Images show effortful pro-environmental behaviours of recycling and cycling and alternatives of an overflowing bin or driving

🌎 New paper in @commspsychol.nature.com 🌍

doi.org/10.1038/s442...

There is an urgent need to choose behaviours that mitigate climate change, but these are often more effortful. Can we increase pro-environmental motivation?

Joint w/ Luis Sebastian Contreras-Huerta & amazing international team 👇🧵

Parlamentarischer Abend – Tenure Track & nachhaltige Karrierewege: Politische Rahmenbedingungen für attraktive Perspektiven in der Wissenschaft Vertreter*innen aus Politik & Wissenschaft diskutieren über notwendige Reformen & Rahmenbedingungen für verlässliche Karrierewege in der Wissenschaft. Mit Ayşe Asar (Grüne), Oliver Kaczmarek (SPD), So...

Ich hab meine feste Stelle in der Wissenschaft - jetzt habe ich endlich Energie, mich dafür einzusetzen, dass dies nicht mehr länger ein Privileg weniger bleibt!

Parlamentarischer Abend zu Karriereperspektiven in der Wissenschaft. Ich geh hin. Wer noch?
eveeno.com/259629766

#Call for Postdoc.Mobility. Expand your #research experience with a stay abroad. If you would like to find out more about this call, take part in our online information event on 17. November 2025.

➡️ sohub.io/51a4
🗓️Submission deadline: 3 February 2026

Genau so ist es! Danke fürs Teilen :)

Background image of the book cover of "Wonderdog" by Jules Howard. Overlaid text: Book Review - Wonderdog, by Jules Howard A personal pick from my bookshelf, for anyone interested in dogs and/or science.

A new post on my Substack - this time, a book recommendation from a dog researcher, but more importantly, a dog and science lover to all other dog or science lovers that may be on here.

everythingisdata.substack.com/p/book-revie...

Wonderdog, by @juleshoward.bsky.social

Ich hab mal bisschen Luft rausgelassen.

Our colleague @rinaguran.bsky.social is giving insights in her life as PostDoc this week. Check out @realscientists.de if you are interested in animal research or just want to see what everyday life looks like for a scientist 🤓

Habt ihr noch mehr Ideen? :)

Look mom, I´m famous :D

📃 Beim #psychoSoph #Comic geht es weiter! Ich bin mit den Papern durch und kann mich ans Skript setzen!

💌 In der Zwischenzeit könnt ihr euch beim #Newsletter anmelden: tinyurl.com/wam9su6y

#Wissenschaft #Wissenschaftscomic

guess who will be curating @realscientists.de starting tomorrow? It´s me!

So tune in if you want to find out more about (my) research with and on animals 🐶🐄🐷😼🐝, about my life in and outside of academia, and more.

There were 14 separate, weather-related disasters causing at least $1 billion in damages between January and June in the #USA, compared to an average of three billion-dollar disasters each year in the 1980s. There are now around 20 each year.

Read More: mailchi.mp/americangeo/...

Unter anderem wegen solchem Geschludere bei dem Berichten von Umfragen brauchen wir ein Statistik-Grundverständnis für alle!

Collage of three images. The first reads: "Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. Career. We're hiring." The second image shows bookshelves in the institute's library (Photo by Vivienne Rischke, 2024). The third image shows the MPIWG Summer Publications Slam held in the institute's library (Photo by Marvin Müller (2024).

Three new funded #DoctoralPositions in the International Max Planck School "Knowledge and Its Resources: Historical Reciprocities!"

🗓️ Deadline: Jan 15, 2026
🔗 bit.ly/4peeKez

#HistSci #DH #STS #HistSTM #EnvHum #PolSci #SocSci

Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Image showing Hobson Lab logo (with parakeets, a social network, and R code), two Monk Parakeets, and several individually-marked parakeets with the text "Now recruiting PhD students!!"

**PhD POSITIONS** I am recruiting 1-2 PhD students to work on sociality and cognition in Monk Parakeets, starting Fall 2026. Full ad is here: hobsonresearch.com/index.php/20... (please help spread the word!)

Risk factors for anxiety disorders and environmental influences Sex Females are twice as likely as men to suffer from an anxiety disorder. The cause of this could be a genetic or neurobiological difference in females (Table 1) [3].

Absolutely wild that, in the year of our lord two-thousand and twenty-five, there's a new research article that calls women "females" but calls men "men"