Friederike [freddy; she/her] Hillemann

Aym, I only just saw this! Sending belated but heartfelt congratulations!! You both look so happy, the photos are just full of joy and love. What a gorgeous day that must’ve been! 💕

In ADHD science podcast's new episode we talk to @maxdavie.bsky.social about our paper on women's experiences being late diagnosed with ADHD

Thanks so much for having us!

Listen to the ep here:
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Find the paper here:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@natureportfolio.nature.com

"academic culture, which prioritises and celebrates relentless productivity and competitiveness, creates barriers that prevent full participation of those who cannot consistently adhere to these narrow standards"

The Göttingen Cognition Forum: Curiosity & Interaction We are pleased to announce the First Göttingen Cognition Forum: Curiosity & Interaction Social and physical interactions with the environment shape cognition in humans and non-human animals alike. Und...

🚨 Abstract Deadline approaching!
Submit your contribution to the Göttingen Cognition Forum: Curiosity and Interaction by August 1st!
📍 Göttingen, Oct 13–15, 2025
🎟️ Participation is free, but registration required

All details & submission portal: events.gwdg.de/e/goettingen...

See you in Göttingen!

I've just cleaned the insect water saucer & bird water! Look after your local wildlife 🐦 🦋 🐝

#BeesNeedWater #Bees #Water #Heatwave

Happy gotcha-day to our precious princess Mellori!

11 years of unmatched chaotic energy, yet the gentlest soul when it comes to people. These days, toys are safe. Not food though, nor lip balm or chewing gum or hand cream -- will. eat. everything.

@wascherclaudia.bsky.social

Hi Bluesky! 👋 We're the account for the Clever Cockie Project, researching culture and cognition in urban sulphur-crested cockatoos. We'll post updates from the field, along with our recent results and publications. You can find more, including our current team, here: www.clevercockies.com/the-team

🚀 We’re live!
The Biogeography, Ecology & Modelling Lab at UTS finally has a website! 🎉

🌐 Check it out: www.biogeographyuts.org

#Ecology #Biogeography #ClimateChange #Conservation #ScienceWithImpact #Science
@ecologybrad.bsky.social @globecoflinders.bsky.social
@ciehf.bsky.social

Experimentology cover: title and curves for distributions.

Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.

@danielbolnick.bsky.social: "Keep doing science: the pursuit of knowledge is an act of resistance." #Evol2025

De-identify your data before you share it. De-identify your data before you share it. De-identify your data before you share it. De-identify your data before you share it. De-identif

some fridge magnets including, centrally, a polaroid of two terriers in tall grass. next to it, out of focus, a photo of the same dogs from a few years ago. the black dog is a lot more grey now.

Happy birthday to our greying gent, Sir Siro!

(the shelter set this former stray's birthday to 1 July 2011, but when we adopted him in 2013, we were told he was 3–4. whatever his true age, he’s still up to mischief with partner in crime Madame Mellori)

@wascherclaudia.bsky.social

laptop a pub: presentation with title slide "Practical Skills for Teamwork and Reproducibility - Shifting from individual workflows to effective collaboration"

Slide titled Scenario 3. Text reads: “If you were leaving a project tomorrow, what do you prepare? What would you document? What would you share? What would you prioritise?” Bullet points: • A clear folder structure • Sensible file names • A README with notes on data and scripts • A hand-over status-log document • Contact information

simplistic slide with shaking-hands emoji: left "collaboration", right "reproducibility" -- practices that support one often also serve the other

Slide titled: Designing Projects for Teamwork How can this project be cut into pieces? And how do those pieces stay connected? Foundational Practices: Clear planning, Simple standards, Useful documentation (Modular scripts, naming conventions, README files, change logs,...)

many thanks to @paddytkaczynski.bsky.social and @cebeardsworth.bsky.social for inviting me to contribute to your Research Culture Workshop series focused on improving reproducibility, research collaboration, and data management at @ljmuofficial.bsky.social 🧪

The coevolution of cognition and sociality | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Cognition serves to resolve uncertainty. Living in social groups is widely seen as a source of uncertainty driving cognitive evolution, but sociality can also mitigate sources of uncertainty, reducing...

Societies might shape minds, but minds can shape societies. In this new paper we discuss how this feedback changes how we think about social and cognitive evolution. Led by @lucahahn.bsky.social

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Tweet from 2023 saying: 'I resigned as an Associate Editor for a Frontiers journal because of the way their automated system took away much of my editorial autonomy. some details that might also explain odd reviewer/author experiences:' (1/7)

Originally posted on Twitter in 2023—reposting after a chat with a colleague about possibly publishing in an MDPI journal (whose review practices are similar to Frontiers). Not sure if either has since addressed the issues raised, but I feel process should be public knowledge.

New Review in #ProcB - The study of social animal #migrations: a synthesis of the past and guidelines for future research #OpenAccess #Behaviour ‪@irisdb.bsky.social‬ royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

We provide the first evidence from a randomized double-blind placebo control study of oral contraceptives on women's preferences for masculine and symmetric faces in men. We find no evidence of an effect. Similar, our correlational results testing for an association between menstrual cycle phases and facial preferences fail to reject the null hypothesis of no association, as do our estimated correlations between hormone levels and facial preferences. Although the early literature largely found support for variation in facial preferences over the menstrual cycle and with oral contraceptive use (Feinberg et al., 2008; Johnston et al., 2001; Little et al., 2002; Little et al., 2013; Penton-Voak et al., 1999; Roney & Simmons, 2008), our null results align with more recent large-sample correlational studies (Jones et al., 2018; Marcinkowska et al., 2019). One possible motivation of the hypothesis that oral contraceptives lower the preferences for facial masculinity and symmetry is in terms of the dual mating theory. In a recent review of the literature Jones et al. (2019) point out several methodological problems in the early work testing this hypothesis, such as low statistical power, and conclude that recent and methodologically stronger work fails to support the hypothesis. Our findings lend further support for their conclusions. There are also several reasons for why false positive results could have been published in the earlier literature. Low statistical power increases the probability for false positive results as well as inflated effect sizes. Many of the older studies also rely on self-reported menstrual cycle data, which is subject to mismeasurement. In addition, without pre-analysis plans there is room for the so-called “researcher degrees of freedom” (Simmons et al., 2011) to influence the analysis such that statistically significant results become more likely to be false positive ones. This can occur through excluding observations, using covariates, testing…

Table 2. The effect of OC on facial preferences. Empty Cell % Change in Facial Preferences (Follow-Up - Baseline) Difference P-value of difference Empty Cell Treatment (N = 165) Placebo (N = 168) Empty Cell Empty Cell Masculine Faces −0.083 −0.034 −0.049 0.162 Empty Cell (0.026) (0.023) (0.035) Symmetric Faces −0.025 0.027 −0.052 0.132 Empty Cell (0.024) (0.025) (0.034)

New results from one of the few preregistered, placebo-controlled combined oral contraceptive RCTs. No pill effects found on preferences for masculine or symmetric faces, no menstrual cycle effects.
N=340, so small effects may have gone undetected.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A display of taxidermy of several species of Australian mammal, with a big green map of Australia.

A taxidermy eastern quoll. The map on its label suggests the quoll lives in Tasmania (where it still does live today) and the southeast of the mainland (where it became extinct)

You can date a display of Australian mammals by whether the distribution maps recognise recent extinctions. Eastern #quolls went extinct in mainland Australia in the 1960s, but they're still on this historic display at @hunterianglasgow.bsky.social Zoology Museum.
#taxidermy #extinction

What is common in your field but shocks outsiders?

Translation is about 80% skill in your native language, 20% skill in your second language.

It's not about knowing what is being said. Anyone can do that. It's about saying the same thing in a different language with the same emotional impact.

But by all means, continue to listen to them screech about the unfairness of DEI.

Dear Zoologists (in Germany)!
Before leaving for your extended public holiday weekend... Consider registering for the #DZG2025 to secure the Early Bird fee.
Early bird registration is ending soon.

Why join #DZG2025 in Berlin? Reason #5: Discover the outstanding invited speakers across our eight subject groups! This conference showcases the incredible diversity of zoological research.

Early Bird ends June 11th.

web: dzg-meeting.de
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Very pleased that our online course about how to learn and thrive in an online world (thebullshitmachines.com) is mentioned in @johnthornhill.bsky.social's latest Financial Times piece.

Applications are now open for our 2025 Field Skills Workshop! The Field Skills Workshop is a 3-day workshop aimed to develop theory and practice in field skills. See 🧵

Proudly presenting the (for now) final version of "Why experiments work." To share the materials in a slightly more professional manner, I added a "Resources" page to my website: juliarohrer.com/resources/.

That was long overdue anyway; now there's also a curated list of my papers and blog posts.

Upcoming events Upcoming conference by Society for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary biology (SORTEE)

Registration for the 5th annual SORTEE conference (Oct 15-16) is open! Join us for discussions in ecology and evolution. More info: https://www.sortee.org/upcoming/ and membership: https://www.sortee.org/join. #conference

Left: Colourful image of cells and neurons with the text "The Royal Society Publishing" Right: Phlosophical Transactions B. Submit a proposal to edit an influential themed issue in your field by 18 July. For more information visit bit.ly/PTBproposals

Next deadline for submitting a proposal for a special issue in @royalsocietypublishing.org #PhilTransB is July 18th. I'm on the editorial board and would highly recommend it as an opportunity for new networks, insights and highlighting your field. Find out more at bit.ly/PTBproposals

Global tracking of marine megafauna space use reveals how to achieve conservation targets The recent Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) sets ambitious goals but no clear pathway for how zero loss of important biodiversity areas and halting human-induced extinction of thre...

We can do great things when we are working together...
🦭🐋🦈🐻‍❄️🐟🐧🦢*🐢*

Global tracking of marine megafauna space use reveals how to achieve conservation targets | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Do ADHD awareness materials increase self-diagnosis of ADHD?

This is a really important new study (still preprint) indicating that these materials increase liklihood of self-diagnosis but *don't* increase symptom reporting, suggesting the materials change not symptoms but the framing of them

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