@animaltracking.bsky.social
Wikelski Dept. / www.ab.mpg.de/wikelski / Myriads of organisms migrate. We strive to predict animal decisions on their journeys, interactions with the environment, and consequences on ecosystems and humans.
Sometimes the timing of things that happen can't be beaten. To mark transition and progression, the moveTraits paper was published just before year's end. A movement based trait database. dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele.... @larissabeumer.bsky.social @thomasmueller.bsky.social @animaltracking.bsky.social
A quick introduction to the herbarium -home to more than 10,000 plant specimens - by Orlando Vargas from the #OrganizationforTropicalStudies, was a welcome break from laptop work for the participants. Thank you ! 🌱🌿 @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @animaltracking.bsky.social #CostaRica
Weekend break was fun, now back to work 👍 Whilst the first week was teaching heavy, the second week is focusing on the learned new methods using data sets that everyone has brought along to work with.
@mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @animaltracking.bsky.social
Day 5 of week 1 @animove-course.bsky.social was about analysing our movement data together with their environmental context, through resource selection and step selection functions.
#laselvaresearchstation #costarica @animaltracking.bsky.social
Happy and proud of the next fledgling of the Flack flock. Dr Hester Brønnvik @hbronnv.bsky.social defended her PhD thesis today. She has done a wonderful job. I could not be happier! @imprs-qbee.bsky.social @animaltracking.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social
🚀 Guess who’s back? 🛰️🥳💫
ICARUS, our global wildlife-tracking system, returns to orbit aboard the GENA-OT satellite, which launched from Vandenberg SFB today 🎉
This is step one for ICARUS 2.0: full global coverage, smaller sensors, near-real-time.
Congrats @animaltracking.bsky.social + team ICARUS
For your consideration, our paper about how we can build a better error culture around biologging is now out in Animal Behavio(u)r. A collaborative effort between researchers the veterinarians at @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
🥳64 more days until the start of #Animove at #LaSelva Organization of Tropical Studies in #CostaRica. 22 participants, 6 tutors,2077 plant species,125 mammal species,470 bird species,48 amphibian species,87 reptile species,45 fresh water fish species and 10000 insects, arachnids and other.🐒🦇🦜🐊🦂
Monitoring wildlife mortality 24/7 worldwide using participatory science
Paper 👉: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The Web Application 👉:
huggingface.co/spaces/diego...
#Biodiversity #iNaturalist #WildlifeMortality #DigitalOneHealth #ConservationTech #EcologicalForecasting
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From bio-logging to conservation 🔽
New paper by an @animaltracking.bsky.social dream team
@diegoellissoto.bsky.social @anflack.bsky.social @arispeshkin.bsky.social Timm Wild, Hannah Williams, @teagueo.bsky.social
@cbehav.bsky.social @uni-konstanz.de
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Waving our hands in the air like we don’t care
#mpiab #summer #konstanz #maxplanckinstitut #love
If there is an optimal behavior, why is there so much variation in the world? We found that, for white storks, context is everything. @anflack.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social
New paper! @cellpress.bsky.social doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2025.06.044
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🚨 New paper alert! 🚨
Excited to share our new review in @royalsocietypublishing.org Proceedings B! 🎉
We synthesize research on social factors influencing animal migration and offer guidelines for future research. Check it out here: doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
#OpenAccess #Migration #MovementEcology
(4) developing educational programs and ethical guidelines tailored to the unique challenges of biologging research
(3) demanding industry standards for biologging devices to ensure reliability and minimize harm
(2) implementing pre-registration as well as post-reporting of studies and devices to reduce publication bias and improve transparency
(1) establishing a biologging expert registry to enhance collaboration and knowledge sharing
Preprint @ecoevorxiv.bsky.social arising from @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social animal welfare workshops. How can we develop a better error culture in animal biologging where we can learn from our, and others, mistakes and experiences?
ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
🚨Shrew paper alert!🚨
In @elife.bsky.social, in this paper led by @labdavalos.bsky.social we found that shrews reprogram their hypothalamus to shrink in winter, tweaking gene expression to save energy and survive the cold!
👉🏼 doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
@dechman.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social
📄 New Paper!
Migratory Birds Advance Spring Arrival and Egg-Laying in the Arctic, Mostly by Travelling Faster doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
@globalchangebio.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @animaltracking.bsky.social
Crossing our fingers for the results World Illustration Awards. We think Javi should win with the commissioned orangutan illo, and we're not biased.
Heads up animal behavior researchers!
Amazing opportunity: 3 3-year independent postdoctoral fellowships based in Panama at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. Deadline July 15.
Come collaborate with @livingingroups @MPI_animalbehav...
Icarus Birds – just posted on the EOU noticeboard, an opportunity to collaborate in tracking common birds to understand where, how, and why they die – see eounion.org/latest-news/... #ornithology
ICARUS BIRDS
Where, how, and why do birds die?
We are launching the ICARUS BIRDS project to find out! Join us in tracking common birds across Europe to uncover the factors behind their decline.
Learn more on our website: www.ab.mpg.de/icarus
Almost all scientific research is done with lab animals. Surprisingly, there is barely any literature on how captivity may affect the results. And these effects can be profound. In shrews, remind us of depression as the paper published by @cecibaldoni.bsky.social shows doi.org/10.1098/rsos...
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We are hiring! We look for a person with programming skills in R and/or Python. Application deadline is March 14th 2025. All details here: www.ab.mpg.de/654153/job_f...
