Rebecca Rimbach

JOB ALERT: We have an exciting Senior Research Assistant post available for a project tracking predators and prey simultaneously starting early 2026. We need someone with experience tagging adult raptors or wader chicks. This you? app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car...

Want to know everything about bird smell?
I wrote an "Ornithological masterclass" on Avian Olfaction for BTO News @btobirds.bsky.social #ornithology
Link to the article 👉 www.researchgate.net/publication/...

With #eseb2025 coming to a close, it is time to start making plans for 2026. Interested in the interface of evolution 🧬 and ecology 🌳? Come to our #ExE conference hosted by @uniexecec.bsky.social in beautiful #Cornwall. Leave your email address at tinyurl.com/EvolxEcol to join our mailing list!

Congrats Avery!!!

How human activity impacts urban squirrels' problem-solving abilities How human activities negatively affect urban red squirrels' problem-solving skills and potentially their chances of thriving is revealed in newly published research from the universities of Chester an...

2025. How human activity impacts urban squirrels' problem-solving abilities phys.org/news/2025-09...

Come and work with us! Three new academic posts (including Animal Behaviour) and superb facilities in the new Life & Mind Building

Loving the colors of the sea

Actual footage of me on my way into the weekend...

Least weasel sitting in a trap set for small rodents

When you set traps to capture small rodents, but a least weasel only sees an easy meal

Enjoying lizard fieldwork in Croatia

Do animals dream? Here is a bank vole, sleeping (and dreaming?) in a metabolic chamber

Fieldwork prep has started! Looking forward to the next field season here in Münster. Let's hope there are loads of small rodents around

Community composition, species diversity and evenness did not vary with changing impervious surface cover or human population density. The overall neutral results are likely to be due to generalist species expressing high phenotypic plasticity to bypass the urban filters.

Kerrin scored > 50.000 photos. We recorded 8 taxa, with Apodemus spp. dominating (72.6%). The probability of occurrence of all species was not affected by increasing impervious surface cover.

City life does not change a small mammal community composition Context Urbanization is a global phenomenon with profound forms of land-use change. Urban areas are characterized by habitat fragmentation and replacement of natural habitat by human-made structures, ...

📸🐭🐿️🦔🐇🏙️New paper out! Using camera trap data we found that small mammal community composition, species diversity and evenness do not change along an urbanization gradient in and around Münster, Germany. First published study with @mdammhahn.bsky.social www.publish.csiro.au/WR/WR24196

A quick recap of our South Africa excursion! So much beauty and diversity @mdammhahn.bsky.social

Love the lil flex when they realise they just became the most famous bird in the world.

U.S. scientists’ lives and careers are being upended. Here are five of their stories As the second Trump administration sends U.S. science into upheaval, countless researchers are fighting for their futures

I am extremely pleased to share this feature articulating why I have lost my sanity lately. www.science.org/content/arti...

How your email finds me

And a dream came true. We got to visit the Kalahari Meerkat Project run by Marta Manser from Zurich

We also visited a very green Addo Elephant National Park

And some more pictures of African penguins and dassies (rock hyrax)

Just came back from a 3 week excursion to South Africa with 11 students and @mdammhahn.bsky.social. We covered over 4500km and explored 5 different biomes. Here are some of my favorite pictures (more to follow)

The function of plants collected by bush Karoo rats (Otomys unisulcatus): Do dried up food plants represent stored food? Food storing to cope with food reduction during winter has been observed in many rodents in the northern hemisphere. Food storing could also be adapti…

New paper alert! The function of plants collected by bush Karoo rats (Otomys unisulcatus): Do dried up food plants represent stored food? Fun collaboration using plant data I collected quite some time aho. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Looking forward to the @dzg2025berlin.bsky.social meeting! Who else is going?

My experience of speaking at a conference with a baby Hannah Chance spent a day during her parental leave telling a group of postdocs about her science-policy work. Aidan, aged six months, came along too.

2025. #DEI - My experience of speaking at a conference with a baby.
Hannah Chance spent a day during her parental leave telling a group of postdocs about her science-policy work. Aidan, aged six months, came along too. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Exciting new paper by Jens Ulrich & Risa Sargent: "Urban landscapes with more natural greenspace support higher pollinator diversity." esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

That's us! Loved working with the wall lizards. Hoping for more to come (fingers crossed for the grant application)

What a week - submitted a reprint, submitted a revised grant proposal 🦎🐁🦠 (with an amazing group of researchers: Isabel Damas Moreira & Öncü Maraci), supervised an exam, analysed new hormone data. Looking forward to this weekend