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Niels Dingemanse

@dingemanselab.bsky.social

I love animal behaviour, behavioural ecology, life history strategies, quantitative genetics, social evolution, SQuID-teaching, mixed models, birding, dragonflies, chickens, diving, the sea & the mountains. Prof @lmumuenchen. Views are my own. He/him

215 Followers  |  268 Following  |  16 Posts  |  Joined: 22.05.2025  |  1.8244

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And thanks @rivers-disguise.bsky.social for another piece of wonderful sparrow artwork (can you spot the hybrid house x tree sparrow?)

18.07.2025 15:30 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Congrats Dr. @roriwijnhorst.bsky.social @lmumuenchen.bsky.social for an impressive PhD-presentation and defence. Thanks partner in crime @cdegroot.bsky.social and collaborators @ali--wilson.bsky.social, Henrik Jensen & Jon Wright and @dfg.de for funding his project on social evolution in sparrows

18.07.2025 15:24 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Big congrats to Dr. @cdegroot.bsky.social for a wonderful PhD defence @lmumuenchen.bsky.social. A big thanks to all collaborators and partner in crime @roriwijnhorst.bsky.social, and @rivers-disguise.bsky.social for producing wonderful artwork. Time to celebrate!

23.06.2025 13:53 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Β‘Hola, plancton! Unas criaturas acuΓ‘ticas fascinantes Este libro ilustrado explora el impacto del plancton en el planeta y su papel en el equilibrio de los ocΓ©anos. Sin Γ©l no podrΓ­amos respirar.

Thanks @dingemanselab.bsky.social @desiaguilas.bsky.social Stefan &others

@ibe-barcelona.bsky.social @prbb.org
@erc.europa.eu @csic.es

#scicomm #protists #animalorigins

πŸ‘‰the book: takatuka.cat/libros/hola-...

31.05.2025 14:08 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Nudibranch happy with it's first meal upon arrival in Spain

@annikaguse.bsky.social
@lmumuenchen.bsky.social
@multicellgenome.bsky.social

#Nudibranch #predation #anemone #aiptasia #sciencecommunication

30.05.2025 09:55 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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PhD position alert! Fully-funded PhD in my group to work on avian reproductive microbiomes and immunity. Please RT! Deadline June 29th, reach out for more information. #microbiomes #sparrows #spermbiology

30.04.2025 07:06 β€” πŸ‘ 29    πŸ” 37    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 3
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Last chance to apply for the SEB Conference Travel Grant Don't miss out on up to Β£400 in travel support to attend SEB Annual Conference in Antwerp – apply by 31 May!

🚨 Last chance!

Apply for the SEB Conference Travel Grant before Saturday and get help covering your costs to attend our Annual Conference in Antwerp.

Early career? Limited funding? This is for you.
www.sebiology.org/resource/las...

#SEB2025 #TravelGrant #SciComm

29.05.2025 13:16 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Research Grants β€” ASAB Research Grants of up to Β£10,000 support original research projects.

Don’t forget the deadline for this current round of grants is approaching on June 1!

www.asab.org/research-gra...

21.05.2025 15:36 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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A pair of blue tits begging for food on their first morning outside of their nestbox. Hopefully I will see them again next year!

30.05.2025 07:39 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Would you get any work done with this view?

29.05.2025 09:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Setting up the Plankton Exposition in the Auditorium for the official opening tonight

@annikaguse.bsky.social
@multicellgenome.bsky.social
@lmumuenchen.bsky.social

29.05.2025 08:53 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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To translate in Spanish πŸ€”

28.05.2025 11:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Finishing the Plankton memory game

28.05.2025 11:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Setting up the microscopes (with attempted predation in action 😍)

28.05.2025 11:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

@annikaguse.bsky.social @multicellgenome.bsky.social‬ @lmumuenchen.bsky.social‬

28.05.2025 09:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This week, we set up an exhibition in Águilas (Murcia, Spain) about the hidden and unseen world of plankton, its role for the functioning of planet earth, and for answering big questions in science

#exhibition #nature #plankton #art #ScienceCommunication #outreach #MarineConservation #aguilas

28.05.2025 09:37 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

☺️ @annikaguse.bsky.social

28.05.2025 08:46 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Student Research Assistant | Center for Adaptive Rationality

🚨(Another) Job Alert🚨

We're seeking a Student Research Assistant to support the ice-fishing project led by Ralf Kurvers (@ralfkurvers.bsky.social) at @mpib-berlin.bsky.social.

See the link for more details!πŸ‘‡
www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/2046424/2025...

27.05.2025 12:11 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Looking for a PhD project on sexual selection? Join us at UZH!

Application deadline: 9 June 2025.

jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...

27.05.2025 10:39 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 21    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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And some amazing #orchids (Lady's slipper!)

27.05.2025 10:49 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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With some amazing #birds and #mammals, including Ibex, black grouse & white-backed woodpecker (even Merlin @cornellbirds.bsky.social got it right 😊) ...

27.05.2025 10:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Tutzinger HΓΌtte at the Benediktenwand

Tutzinger HΓΌtte at the Benediktenwand

Some of my most favourite #teaching: the #Alpine #Ecology #Excursion to the Tutzinger HΓΌtte at the #Benediktenwand with our new cohort of Ecology, Evolution & Systematics #Master #student @lmumuenchen.bsky.social @mstockenreiter.bsky.social

27.05.2025 10:49 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Hi all, was out for a year but now back and very happy to findi all my sciency friends here at blue sky 😊

27.05.2025 09:23 β€” πŸ‘ 26    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Disentangling non-random assortment, indirect effects, and joint plasticity as causes of phenotypic (dis)similarity between social partners Abstract. Social partners frequently resemble each other. These correlations between the phenotypes of interacting individuals (e.g. social partners, group

Our paper on disentangling assortative mating and indirect genetic effects in empirical datasets has just been accepted in @jevbio.bsky.social ! It has been a long process (5 years in the making!) and I am very proud of the result πŸ₯³
academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-...

25.05.2025 09:29 β€” πŸ‘ 46    πŸ” 22    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1

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