Cecilia Baldoni
@cecibaldoni.bsky.social
Researcher @
Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
📍Konstanz 🇩🇪
brain 🧠 | behaviour 🎬 | shrews🐭
Unexplainably obsessed with flamingoes 🦩
cecibaldoni.github.io 💁🏽♀️🌐
Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
📍Konstanz 🇩🇪
brain 🧠 | behaviour 🎬 | shrews🐭
Unexplainably obsessed with flamingoes 🦩
cecibaldoni.github.io 💁🏽♀️🌐
Reposted by Cecilia Baldoni
SPAR supermarkets are promoting a broom and stick set in Austria with Veronika.
It reads:
“Einstein among the cows: Spar sells Vroni's back scratcher set”
Vroni is the diminutive form of Veronika, of course.
Thanks to Özge Nasa for the tip!
It reads:
“Einstein among the cows: Spar sells Vroni's back scratcher set”
Vroni is the diminutive form of Veronika, of course.
Thanks to Özge Nasa for the tip!
January 22, 2026 at 2:56 PM
SPAR supermarkets are promoting a broom and stick set in Austria with Veronika.
It reads:
“Einstein among the cows: Spar sells Vroni's back scratcher set”
Vroni is the diminutive form of Veronika, of course.
Thanks to Özge Nasa for the tip!
It reads:
“Einstein among the cows: Spar sells Vroni's back scratcher set”
Vroni is the diminutive form of Veronika, of course.
Thanks to Özge Nasa for the tip!
@biotay.bsky.social we still like the cows more 🤣
Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.
January 21, 2026 at 4:56 PM
@biotay.bsky.social we still like the cows more 🤣
Reposted by Cecilia Baldoni
What matters most for meaningful #CitizenEngagement with science? 🗣️ 🔬
🗳️ Vote in our latest online poll! ➡️ bit.ly/3NUbCGk
We’ll be exploring how to make #PublicEngagement meaningful, inclusive and impactful at our online event next week.
🗓️ 27 January | 10:00–12:00 CET
🔗 Programme ➡️ bit.ly/49vNUsv
🗳️ Vote in our latest online poll! ➡️ bit.ly/3NUbCGk
We’ll be exploring how to make #PublicEngagement meaningful, inclusive and impactful at our online event next week.
🗓️ 27 January | 10:00–12:00 CET
🔗 Programme ➡️ bit.ly/49vNUsv
Engaging citizens with science: Insights and success stories from across Europe - Inspiring Era
How can we make citizen engagement in research more meaningful, more inclusive, and more impactful? This INSPIRING ERA online event on Tuesday 27 January at 10-12 CET will explore what works in public...
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January 21, 2026 at 9:51 AM
What matters most for meaningful #CitizenEngagement with science? 🗣️ 🔬
🗳️ Vote in our latest online poll! ➡️ bit.ly/3NUbCGk
We’ll be exploring how to make #PublicEngagement meaningful, inclusive and impactful at our online event next week.
🗓️ 27 January | 10:00–12:00 CET
🔗 Programme ➡️ bit.ly/49vNUsv
🗳️ Vote in our latest online poll! ➡️ bit.ly/3NUbCGk
We’ll be exploring how to make #PublicEngagement meaningful, inclusive and impactful at our online event next week.
🗓️ 27 January | 10:00–12:00 CET
🔗 Programme ➡️ bit.ly/49vNUsv
After a trip to the ER for an extremely avoidable silly accident, I started wondering about the neuroscience behind being clumsy.
Sounds interesting? Have a look at my post on Substack!
Sounds interesting? Have a look at my post on Substack!
The science behind clumsiness
How a snowy trip to the ER made me wonder about brains and being clumsy.
open.substack.com
January 15, 2026 at 3:12 PM
After a trip to the ER for an extremely avoidable silly accident, I started wondering about the neuroscience behind being clumsy.
Sounds interesting? Have a look at my post on Substack!
Sounds interesting? Have a look at my post on Substack!
Reposted by Cecilia Baldoni
A recent cartoon for @newscientist.com. To order my new book of science cartoons 'Physics for Cats', see here: www.tomgauld.com
January 14, 2026 at 1:20 PM
A recent cartoon for @newscientist.com. To order my new book of science cartoons 'Physics for Cats', see here: www.tomgauld.com
Go reqd this amazing work led by @cinig.bsky.social on the incredibly interesting Pūkekos 🤩
My latest article is finally published:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
we examine how Australasian swamphen (Pukeko) combine different sounds into all the different calls. We also examine call sequences and find that calls become longer along some calling sequences
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
we examine how Australasian swamphen (Pukeko) combine different sounds into all the different calls. We also examine call sequences and find that calls become longer along some calling sequences
Examining combinatoriality within the pūkeko vocal repertoire
Most animals use various vocalizations to communicate with others and coordinate activities. However, animals are limited in the number of sounds they…
www.sciencedirect.com
January 9, 2026 at 4:33 PM
Go reqd this amazing work led by @cinig.bsky.social on the incredibly interesting Pūkekos 🤩
Reposted by Cecilia Baldoni
It is OK to put down your phone
You have seen the horror
You will not be able to do anything about it until you put your phone down
Put your phone down. Close your eyes. Say a prayer to whatever divine power you believe in, even if it’s just yourself
Don’t stop until you feel stillness
Then:
You have seen the horror
You will not be able to do anything about it until you put your phone down
Put your phone down. Close your eyes. Say a prayer to whatever divine power you believe in, even if it’s just yourself
Don’t stop until you feel stillness
Then:
January 7, 2026 at 7:24 PM
It is OK to put down your phone
You have seen the horror
You will not be able to do anything about it until you put your phone down
Put your phone down. Close your eyes. Say a prayer to whatever divine power you believe in, even if it’s just yourself
Don’t stop until you feel stillness
Then:
You have seen the horror
You will not be able to do anything about it until you put your phone down
Put your phone down. Close your eyes. Say a prayer to whatever divine power you believe in, even if it’s just yourself
Don’t stop until you feel stillness
Then:
Reposted by Cecilia Baldoni
🧪Continuity is essential to scientific discovery as shown by the many projects bearing 🥑🥝🍇🍒this year. Here is the 2025 lab recap! Intermittent, unpredictable and likely to be incomplete 1/?
December 31, 2025 at 4:38 PM
🧪Continuity is essential to scientific discovery as shown by the many projects bearing 🥑🥝🍇🍒this year. Here is the 2025 lab recap! Intermittent, unpredictable and likely to be incomplete 1/?
I'm back from holiday, and someone is happy.
December 8, 2025 at 9:20 PM
I'm back from holiday, and someone is happy.
This is the BEST SHREW PAPER you'll read this year!
Finally understanding better how these shrews DO IT 🤩
Finally understanding better how these shrews DO IT 🤩
🧪New #shrewcrew #OA @genomeresearch.bsky.social 📃shows how tiny shrews remain active in ❄️❄️! As it gets 🥶tiny mammals hibernate or migrate, but not shrews. They shrink, thus reducing their overall⚡️demand 👉🏽 genome.cshlp.org/content/earl... 1/4
December 1, 2025 at 7:43 PM
This is the BEST SHREW PAPER you'll read this year!
Finally understanding better how these shrews DO IT 🤩
Finally understanding better how these shrews DO IT 🤩
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📊 New course!
Dealing with Messy Data in R: Cleaning & Visualisation
8–10 April • Online • with @cecibaldoni.bsky.social
Learn tidyverse + ggplot2 to clean, wrangle, & visualise real-world messy data.
www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...
#Rstats #MessyData #Dataviz
Dealing with Messy Data in R: Cleaning & Visualisation
8–10 April • Online • with @cecibaldoni.bsky.social
Learn tidyverse + ggplot2 to clean, wrangle, & visualise real-world messy data.
www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...
#Rstats #MessyData #Dataviz
Dealing with messy data in R: data cleaning and visualisation
8-10 April 2026
www.physalia-courses.org
November 30, 2025 at 8:59 AM
📊 New course!
Dealing with Messy Data in R: Cleaning & Visualisation
8–10 April • Online • with @cecibaldoni.bsky.social
Learn tidyverse + ggplot2 to clean, wrangle, & visualise real-world messy data.
www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...
#Rstats #MessyData #Dataviz
Dealing with Messy Data in R: Cleaning & Visualisation
8–10 April • Online • with @cecibaldoni.bsky.social
Learn tidyverse + ggplot2 to clean, wrangle, & visualise real-world messy data.
www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...
#Rstats #MessyData #Dataviz
Reposted by Cecilia Baldoni
The fuck? Hard to even know where to start with all the things wrong here. (Also hope Glenn Northcutt doesn't see it -- he'll have a stroke.) Just appalling. not #neuroethology
November 20, 2025 at 1:04 AM
The fuck? Hard to even know where to start with all the things wrong here. (Also hope Glenn Northcutt doesn't see it -- he'll have a stroke.) Just appalling. not #neuroethology
Reposted by Cecilia Baldoni
Meet the award winners 🏆
@madeline-eppley.bsky.social
Dr. Roberta Rosa Valtorta
@anaikowl.bsky.social
Dr. Fawad Ahmed Najam
Dr. Patrick Manser
Dr. Allie Sinclair
Dr. Tetine Sentell
Dr. Erika Iveth Cedillo-González
@cecibaldoni.bsky.social
@invertebabe.bsky.social
Hira Javed
Dr. Ana Rebeka Kamšek
@madeline-eppley.bsky.social
Dr. Roberta Rosa Valtorta
@anaikowl.bsky.social
Dr. Fawad Ahmed Najam
Dr. Patrick Manser
Dr. Allie Sinclair
Dr. Tetine Sentell
Dr. Erika Iveth Cedillo-González
@cecibaldoni.bsky.social
@invertebabe.bsky.social
Hira Javed
Dr. Ana Rebeka Kamšek
November 13, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Meet the award winners 🏆
@madeline-eppley.bsky.social
Dr. Roberta Rosa Valtorta
@anaikowl.bsky.social
Dr. Fawad Ahmed Najam
Dr. Patrick Manser
Dr. Allie Sinclair
Dr. Tetine Sentell
Dr. Erika Iveth Cedillo-González
@cecibaldoni.bsky.social
@invertebabe.bsky.social
Hira Javed
Dr. Ana Rebeka Kamšek
@madeline-eppley.bsky.social
Dr. Roberta Rosa Valtorta
@anaikowl.bsky.social
Dr. Fawad Ahmed Najam
Dr. Patrick Manser
Dr. Allie Sinclair
Dr. Tetine Sentell
Dr. Erika Iveth Cedillo-González
@cecibaldoni.bsky.social
@invertebabe.bsky.social
Hira Javed
Dr. Ana Rebeka Kamšek
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Congratulations! 🎉🏆
@madeline-eppley.bsky.social
Dr. Roberta Rosa Valtorta
@anaikowl.bsky.social
Dr. Fawad Ahmed Najam
Dr. Patrick Manser
Dr. Allie Sinclair
Dr. Tetine Sentell
Dr. Erika Iveth Cedillo-González
@cecibaldoni.bsky.social
@invertebabe.bsky.social
Hira Javed
Dr. Ana Rebeka Kamšek
@madeline-eppley.bsky.social
Dr. Roberta Rosa Valtorta
@anaikowl.bsky.social
Dr. Fawad Ahmed Najam
Dr. Patrick Manser
Dr. Allie Sinclair
Dr. Tetine Sentell
Dr. Erika Iveth Cedillo-González
@cecibaldoni.bsky.social
@invertebabe.bsky.social
Hira Javed
Dr. Ana Rebeka Kamšek
November 7, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Congratulations! 🎉🏆
@madeline-eppley.bsky.social
Dr. Roberta Rosa Valtorta
@anaikowl.bsky.social
Dr. Fawad Ahmed Najam
Dr. Patrick Manser
Dr. Allie Sinclair
Dr. Tetine Sentell
Dr. Erika Iveth Cedillo-González
@cecibaldoni.bsky.social
@invertebabe.bsky.social
Hira Javed
Dr. Ana Rebeka Kamšek
@madeline-eppley.bsky.social
Dr. Roberta Rosa Valtorta
@anaikowl.bsky.social
Dr. Fawad Ahmed Najam
Dr. Patrick Manser
Dr. Allie Sinclair
Dr. Tetine Sentell
Dr. Erika Iveth Cedillo-González
@cecibaldoni.bsky.social
@invertebabe.bsky.social
Hira Javed
Dr. Ana Rebeka Kamšek
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@sortee.bsky.social’s code club has made it onto RDM weekly :D
Excellent article by:
@cecibaldoni.bsky.social
@disnatalie.bsky.social
@cdegroot.bsky.social
@saoirsekelleher.eco
Excellent article by:
@cecibaldoni.bsky.social
@disnatalie.bsky.social
@cdegroot.bsky.social
@saoirsekelleher.eco
Issue 20 of RDM Weekly is out! 📬
- Automate File Management in R With the {fs} Package @jadeynryan.bsky.social
- How to Start Your Own Code Club @sortee.bsky.social
- Guide to Social Science Data Preparation and Archiving @icpsr.bsky.social
and more!
rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...
- Automate File Management in R With the {fs} Package @jadeynryan.bsky.social
- How to Start Your Own Code Club @sortee.bsky.social
- Guide to Social Science Data Preparation and Archiving @icpsr.bsky.social
and more!
rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...
RDM Weekly - Issue 020
A weekly roundup of Research Data Management resources.
rdmweekly.substack.com
November 4, 2025 at 2:10 PM
@sortee.bsky.social’s code club has made it onto RDM weekly :D
Excellent article by:
@cecibaldoni.bsky.social
@disnatalie.bsky.social
@cdegroot.bsky.social
@saoirsekelleher.eco
Excellent article by:
@cecibaldoni.bsky.social
@disnatalie.bsky.social
@cdegroot.bsky.social
@saoirsekelleher.eco
I have a problem.
Wait for the Italian version and risk spoilers, or buy the English one and have MISMATCHING editions?
These are the questions that keep me awake at night.
#philippullman #thebookofdust
Wait for the Italian version and risk spoilers, or buy the English one and have MISMATCHING editions?
These are the questions that keep me awake at night.
#philippullman #thebookofdust
October 28, 2025 at 2:41 PM
I have a problem.
Wait for the Italian version and risk spoilers, or buy the English one and have MISMATCHING editions?
These are the questions that keep me awake at night.
#philippullman #thebookofdust
Wait for the Italian version and risk spoilers, or buy the English one and have MISMATCHING editions?
These are the questions that keep me awake at night.
#philippullman #thebookofdust
📚 We just launched a guide on starting code clubs—born from #SORTEE (un)conference!
Real tips, real experiences, from the community to the community!
Read it, use it, adapt it, and most importantly, help us make it better!
Open science communities for the win! 💙💚
sortee.github.io/start-your-c...
Real tips, real experiences, from the community to the community!
Read it, use it, adapt it, and most importantly, help us make it better!
Open science communities for the win! 💙💚
sortee.github.io/start-your-c...
How to Start Your Own Code Club – How to Start Your Code Club
sortee.github.io
October 28, 2025 at 12:52 PM
📚 We just launched a guide on starting code clubs—born from #SORTEE (un)conference!
Real tips, real experiences, from the community to the community!
Read it, use it, adapt it, and most importantly, help us make it better!
Open science communities for the win! 💙💚
sortee.github.io/start-your-c...
Real tips, real experiences, from the community to the community!
Read it, use it, adapt it, and most importantly, help us make it better!
Open science communities for the win! 💙💚
sortee.github.io/start-your-c...
Reposted by Cecilia Baldoni
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October 25, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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Coming up on Monday! Excited for this one
Happy to announce the next edition of the @sortee.bsky.social Workshop & Webinar series on October 27 at 16:00UTC, ‘The Risks and Rewards of Large Language Models in (open) Scientific Research’ with @tanyadoesscience.bsky.social !! Sign up here:
events.humanitix.com/sortee-webin...
events.humanitix.com/sortee-webin...
SORTEE Webinar: The Risks and Rewards of Large Language Models in (Open) Scientific Research
SORTEE Workshop & Webinar Series
events.humanitix.com
October 24, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Coming up on Monday! Excited for this one
What's the last thing you see before going to sleep?
For me it's a vampire dog.
For me it's a vampire dog.
October 20, 2025 at 7:21 PM
What's the last thing you see before going to sleep?
For me it's a vampire dog.
For me it's a vampire dog.
Data sharing discouraged institutionally.
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:
"Statistical analysis used SPSS"
"Statistical analysis used SPSS"
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand
I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.
I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.
October 13, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Data sharing discouraged institutionally.
Reposted by Cecilia Baldoni
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:
"Statistical analysis used SPSS"
"Statistical analysis used SPSS"
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand
I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.
I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.
October 12, 2025 at 8:39 AM
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:
"Statistical analysis used SPSS"
"Statistical analysis used SPSS"
Reposted by Cecilia Baldoni
“Data available on request”
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:
"Statistical analysis used SPSS"
"Statistical analysis used SPSS"
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand
I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.
I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.
October 13, 2025 at 5:06 AM
“Data available on request”
🚨 Just one week left until our conference kicks off!
Join us for unconferences, workshops, and hackathons.
Register now at sortee.org/upcoming #SORTEE2025
Join us for unconferences, workshops, and hackathons.
Register now at sortee.org/upcoming #SORTEE2025
Upcoming events
Upcoming conference by Society for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary biology (SORTEE)
sortee.org
October 8, 2025 at 8:55 AM