Ephemeral Resource Adaptations
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Crazy about evolution. Mother nature is my religion. Bats, bats, bats. and shrews. Leader of the best group ❤️. Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
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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March 6, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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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looking for a good scientific read? This paper is out today and shows how much energy male bats can save by living in groups. Great for buffering environmental unexpectedness! Pic by Rene J doi.org/10.1242/jeb....
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February 21, 2025 at 12:42 PM
looking for a good scientific read? This paper is out today and shows how much energy male bats can save by living in groups. Great for buffering environmental unexpectedness! Pic by Rene J doi.org/10.1242/jeb....
@mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @jexpbiol.bsky.social @uni-konstanz.de
@mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @jexpbiol.bsky.social @uni-konstanz.de
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Looking to read📖 something inspiring today? #MariaAlejandra tells the story behind her recent paper on brain captivity effects! @batichica.bsky.social @cecibaldoni.bsky.social @drcorthals.bsky.social
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Maria Alejandra Bedoya Duque on LinkedIn: #bioinformatics #rnaseq #transcriptomics #captivity
I am very pleased to finally share our most recent publication in Biology Letters: “Gene expression comparisons between captive and wild shrew brains reveal…
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January 22, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Looking to read📖 something inspiring today? #MariaAlejandra tells the story behind her recent paper on brain captivity effects! @batichica.bsky.social @cecibaldoni.bsky.social @drcorthals.bsky.social
www.linkedin.com/posts/maria-...
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tadaa- second paper of the year out! This time on shrews and how quickly and massively they are affected by captivity. Congrats to the junior student who is the first author on this awesome paper: doi.org/10.1098/rsbl... @animaltracking.bsky.social @unikonstanz.bsky.social @labdavalos.bsky.social
Gene expression comparisons between captive and wild shrew brains reveal captivity effects | Biology Letters
Compared with their free-ranging counterparts, wild animals in captivity experience
different conditions with lasting physiological and behavioural effects. Although
shifts in gene expression are expe...
doi.org
January 8, 2025 at 10:44 AM
tadaa- second paper of the year out! This time on shrews and how quickly and massively they are affected by captivity. Congrats to the junior student who is the first author on this awesome paper: doi.org/10.1098/rsbl... @animaltracking.bsky.social @unikonstanz.bsky.social @labdavalos.bsky.social
Edward Hurme on #npr 🤩: tiny new tags allowed us to discover how bats ride the storm during migration 🦇💨: www.wesa.fm/.../research....
Paper here: DOI:10.1126/science.ade7441 (or DM me)
@mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @unikonstanz.bsky.social drawing @jamesklarevas.bsky.social
Paper here: DOI:10.1126/science.ade7441 (or DM me)
@mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @unikonstanz.bsky.social drawing @jamesklarevas.bsky.social
January 4, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Edward Hurme on #npr 🤩: tiny new tags allowed us to discover how bats ride the storm during migration 🦇💨: www.wesa.fm/.../research....
Paper here: DOI:10.1126/science.ade7441 (or DM me)
@mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @unikonstanz.bsky.social drawing @jamesklarevas.bsky.social
Paper here: DOI:10.1126/science.ade7441 (or DM me)
@mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @unikonstanz.bsky.social drawing @jamesklarevas.bsky.social
auf deutsch und zum Zuhören: wie Fledermäuse den Sturm reiten: www.swr.de/swrkultur/wi... @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @unikonstanz.bsky.social
Vom Winde verweht – So reisen Fledermäuse
Vögel wandern oft tausende Kilometer, das ist schon lange bekannt. Aber das auch Fledermäuse lange Strecken zurücklegen können, ist kaum erforscht. Eine neue Studie konnte zeigen, dass sie Wind und zu...
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January 4, 2025 at 10:39 AM
auf deutsch und zum Zuhören: wie Fledermäuse den Sturm reiten: www.swr.de/swrkultur/wi... @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @unikonstanz.bsky.social
lovely write-up about our new paper in @science.org by @science.org 😍 @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @unikonstanz.bsky.social www.science.org/content/arti...
Migrating bats surf warm winds to soar hundreds of kilometers
Tiny transmitters reveal at least one bat species is surprisingly flexible in its migration timing and pathfinding
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January 3, 2025 at 9:27 AM
lovely write-up about our new paper in @science.org by @science.org 😍 @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @unikonstanz.bsky.social www.science.org/content/arti...
how about starting the new year with a @science.org paper? Congrats Edward Hurme and other coauthors, this makes me incredibly happy 🦇💨
New paper out @science.org shows that bats surf warm storm fronts to power continental migrations 🌀⛈️🦇🤙
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
By Edward Hurme; Ivan Lenzi; Martin Wikelski; Timm Wild; and Dina Dechmann
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
By Edward Hurme; Ivan Lenzi; Martin Wikelski; Timm Wild; and Dina Dechmann
Bats surf storm fronts during spring migration
Long-distance migration, common in passerine birds, is rare and poorly studied in bats. Piloting a 1.2-gram IoT (Internet of Things) tag with onboard processing, we tracked the daily location, tempera...
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January 3, 2025 at 9:12 AM
how about starting the new year with a @science.org paper? Congrats Edward Hurme and other coauthors, this makes me incredibly happy 🦇💨
loving the X-odus! Everybody join here - it's friendly, tolerant, open-armed and -minded, not owned by a horrible person and the orange desaster is absent
December 5, 2024 at 4:21 PM
loving the X-odus! Everybody join here - it's friendly, tolerant, open-armed and -minded, not owned by a horrible person and the orange desaster is absent
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Our #shrews are on The Scientist! Pretty exciting, have a look! 🎉😎
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Exciting news! Our research with @labdavalos.bsky.social on shrews' ability to shrink and regrow their brains is featured in The Scientist! www.the-scientist.com/gene-express...
eLife Link: elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
🧠🌟 Feel free to share and spread the wonder of science!
#Science #neurology
eLife Link: elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
🧠🌟 Feel free to share and spread the wonder of science!
#Science #neurology
Gene Expression Shifts as Shrews Shrink and Regrow Their Brains
Transcriptomic studies of the shrew’s remarkably plastic brain could provide new insights into neurodegenerative diseases.
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December 4, 2024 at 4:19 PM
Our #shrews are on The Scientist! Pretty exciting, have a look! 🎉😎
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greater spear-nosed bats choose foraging sites based on tradition, even if it means commuting across the sea. Great results from the PhD of Camilla Calderon, out bin Biology Letters today: doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...
Consistent long-distance foraging flights across years and seasons at colony level in a neotropical bat | Biology Letters
All foraging animals face a trade-off: how much time should they invest in exploitation of known resources versus exploration to discover new resources? For group-living central place foragers, this balance is challenging. Due to the nature of their ...
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December 4, 2024 at 4:22 PM
greater spear-nosed bats choose foraging sites based on tradition, even if it means commuting across the sea. Great results from the PhD of Camilla Calderon, out bin Biology Letters today: doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...
Congratulations Sarah, for submitting you bachelor thesis. She fought valiant battles with giant data sets and algorithms spitting out false positives and prevailed: lesser fishing bats' morning foraging is determined by reproductive state. Also our lab culture very much revolves around cake 😇
November 21, 2024 at 4:08 PM
Congratulations Sarah, for submitting you bachelor thesis. She fought valiant battles with giant data sets and algorithms spitting out false positives and prevailed: lesser fishing bats' morning foraging is determined by reproductive state. Also our lab culture very much revolves around cake 😇
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#shrew paper alert! 📣🐭
Did you know the shrews shrink their brain🧠 in winter❄️?
Our study shows unique changes in hypothalamus gene expression, related to energy regulation🔋, which helps shrews adapt to seasonal challenges 🍂
Have a look! 👀
doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
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Did you know the shrews shrink their brain🧠 in winter❄️?
Our study shows unique changes in hypothalamus gene expression, related to energy regulation🔋, which helps shrews adapt to seasonal challenges 🍂
Have a look! 👀
doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
@mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social
November 20, 2024 at 8:03 PM
#shrew paper alert! 📣🐭
Did you know the shrews shrink their brain🧠 in winter❄️?
Our study shows unique changes in hypothalamus gene expression, related to energy regulation🔋, which helps shrews adapt to seasonal challenges 🍂
Have a look! 👀
doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
@mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social
Did you know the shrews shrink their brain🧠 in winter❄️?
Our study shows unique changes in hypothalamus gene expression, related to energy regulation🔋, which helps shrews adapt to seasonal challenges 🍂
Have a look! 👀
doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
@mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social
best European bat fur imho #vespertilio
December 13, 2023 at 8:13 AM
best European bat fur imho #vespertilio
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Wenn jemand den Anfang macht, folgen die anderen.
Respekt!
Wenn jemand den Anfang macht, folgen die anderen.
Respekt!
December 2, 2023 at 9:33 AM
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Wenn jemand den Anfang macht, folgen die anderen.
Respekt!
Wenn jemand den Anfang macht, folgen die anderen.
Respekt!
November 27, 2023 at 3:13 AM
I learned how to make reels yesterday, but they do me no good here 😆 our new book is out today on the 🦇bats🦇 of Barro Colorado Island and the research that has been done on them. But don't worry, you'll enjoy by looking at the pictures alone! get it here: geni.us/batislandglo...
November 21, 2023 at 5:51 PM
I learned how to make reels yesterday, but they do me no good here 😆 our new book is out today on the 🦇bats🦇 of Barro Colorado Island and the research that has been done on them. But don't worry, you'll enjoy by looking at the pictures alone! get it here: geni.us/batislandglo...
why would you do that? but they do: copulation without intromission in bats: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Mating without intromission in a bat
Copulatory behaviours stand as cornerstones of sexual selection, yet they remain mysterious in many species. Because of their nocturnal and elusive li…
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November 20, 2023 at 9:20 PM
why would you do that? but they do: copulation without intromission in bats: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
African bats are just an example -share,share,share! www.mpg.de/21135641/111...
November 17, 2023 at 1:38 PM
African bats are just an example -share,share,share! www.mpg.de/21135641/111...
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🚨How strong is the evidence linking bats and viruses in #Africa? Thanks to indefatigable work by Natalie Weber, Martina Nagy, Wanda Markotter, @batichica.bsky.social and DeeAnn Reeder, here is a review and call for robust research in Biology Letters! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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November 15, 2023 at 2:09 PM
🚨How strong is the evidence linking bats and viruses in #Africa? Thanks to indefatigable work by Natalie Weber, Martina Nagy, Wanda Markotter, @batichica.bsky.social and DeeAnn Reeder, here is a review and call for robust research in Biology Letters! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
big day for me, this paper is hugely important. please share : using Africa as an example we reviewed bat virus research and the result is baffling. This is a call to plan bat virus research and present results carefully royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
royalsocietypublishing.org
November 15, 2023 at 12:57 PM
big day for me, this paper is hugely important. please share : using Africa as an example we reviewed bat virus research and the result is baffling. This is a call to plan bat virus research and present results carefully royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
one of my favourite papers ever - the hippo metagut. And guess what: I collaborate with them now, on #bat #poop 😍🦇💩🦛 #nerdfun #microbiome #shotgunbarcoding www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The meta-gut: community coalescence of animal gut and environmental microbiomes - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - The meta-gut: community coalescence of animal gut and environmental microbiomes
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November 15, 2023 at 11:55 AM
one of my favourite papers ever - the hippo metagut. And guess what: I collaborate with them now, on #bat #poop 😍🦇💩🦛 #nerdfun #microbiome #shotgunbarcoding www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I am here ❤️🇵🇦🦇
November 15, 2023 at 3:04 AM
I am here ❤️🇵🇦🦇