Frontiers in Social Evolution Seminar FINE
@fine-seminar.bsky.social
International Remote Seminar on Frontiers in Social Evolution (FINE).
https://www.socialevolutionseminar.com/
https://www.youtube.com/@seminaronfrontiersinsocial1478
The FINE Seminar allows students and researchers from all over the world to meet online.
https://www.socialevolutionseminar.com/
https://www.youtube.com/@seminaronfrontiersinsocial1478
The FINE Seminar allows students and researchers from all over the world to meet online.
The 12th season of FINE starts the 24th of February with an exciting program.
To register for weekly reminders and the video link
email social.evolution.seminar@gmail.com
To register for weekly reminders and the video link
email social.evolution.seminar@gmail.com
February 12, 2026 at 4:02 AM
The 12th season of FINE starts the 24th of February with an exciting program.
To register for weekly reminders and the video link
email social.evolution.seminar@gmail.com
To register for weekly reminders and the video link
email social.evolution.seminar@gmail.com
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Here @linde-makuya.bsky.social shows that in the central place foragers bush Karoo rat, daily ranges are a very good estimate for home ranges.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Sex-specific differences in daily ranges and home ranges as determined by GPS data loggers in a small central place forager - Mammalian Biology
Animals use home ranges for daily activities such as foraging, mating, and caring for young. Home ranges are often smaller than daily ranges — the areas used within a single day — though the two can b...
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December 16, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Here @linde-makuya.bsky.social shows that in the central place foragers bush Karoo rat, daily ranges are a very good estimate for home ranges.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Adaptation to harshness is fundamentally different from the adaptive stress response: Results from a 20 years long case study in African striped mice
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Adaptation to harshness is fundamentally different from the adaptive stress response: Results from a 20‐year‐long case study in African striped mice
Animals in harsh environments rely on specialised adaptations. Two decades of field research on African striped mice (Rhabdomys pumilio) in the Succulent Karoo semi-desert reveal a distinct ‘harshnes...
zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 10, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Adaptation to harshness is fundamentally different from the adaptive stress response: Results from a 20 years long case study in African striped mice
zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Unfortunately the last FINE for this season had to be cancelled.
But here you get a first glimpse to the FINE program in spring 2026, which will start end of February.
The full program will be sent around in time.
But here you get a first glimpse to the FINE program in spring 2026, which will start end of February.
The full program will be sent around in time.
December 9, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Unfortunately the last FINE for this season had to be cancelled.
But here you get a first glimpse to the FINE program in spring 2026, which will start end of February.
The full program will be sent around in time.
But here you get a first glimpse to the FINE program in spring 2026, which will start end of February.
The full program will be sent around in time.
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@carsten-schradin.bsky.social @michael-griesser.bsky.social @dustinrubenstein.com @luciabruscagnin.bsky.social
@vbaglione.bsky.social @odedkeynan.bsky.social
@linde-makuya.bsky.social
@andyradford.bsky.social @nataliekes.bsky.social @anavleitao.bsky.social
@miyawarrington.bsky.social
@vbaglione.bsky.social @odedkeynan.bsky.social
@linde-makuya.bsky.social
@andyradford.bsky.social @nataliekes.bsky.social @anavleitao.bsky.social
@miyawarrington.bsky.social
Check out the story behind our work on Co-BreeD, written by fabulous @maikewoith.bsky.social and published as a blog in @animalecology.bsky.social
animalecologyinfocus.com/2025/11/11/h...
animalecologyinfocus.com/2025/11/11/h...
How Co-BreeD can change how we see cooperation in animals
This blog post is provided by Maike Woith and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the article “An integrative, peer-reviewed and open-source cooperative-breeding database (Co-BreeD)”, wh…
animalecologyinfocus.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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Here we show - using long-term data of 12 years - that serum osmolality increases in striped mice in the dry season, and the harsher the dry season, the stronger the increase, indicating dehydration. @antoinestier.bsky.social @iphc-strasbourg.bsky.social
journals.biologists.com/jeb/article-...
journals.biologists.com/jeb/article-...
Seasonal increase in blood serum osmolality reflects environmental harshness in the striped mouse: a decade-long field study
Highlighted Article: Osmolality is a biomarker for dehydration in mammals: data from 12 years show that striped mice have increased blood osmolality during the dry season, especially when food availab...
journals.biologists.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Here we show - using long-term data of 12 years - that serum osmolality increases in striped mice in the dry season, and the harsher the dry season, the stronger the increase, indicating dehydration. @antoinestier.bsky.social @iphc-strasbourg.bsky.social
journals.biologists.com/jeb/article-...
journals.biologists.com/jeb/article-...
Watch here the great talk by Cyril Grüter last night about multi-level societies in primates.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1SE...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1SE...
Cyril Grüter: Inter-group social dynamics, multilevel organization in primates (2 Dec. 2025)
YouTube video by Seminar on Frontiers in Social Evolution
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December 3, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Watch here the great talk by Cyril Grüter last night about multi-level societies in primates.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1SE...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1SE...
Todays FINE
2nd December, Cyril Grüter, University of Oxford, UK
Title: Evolution of Inter-Group Social Dynamics and Multilevel Organization in Primates
Zoom link opens at 16 :45 /10:45
urosario.zoom.us/j/87594920134
YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/channel/UClX...
2nd December, Cyril Grüter, University of Oxford, UK
Title: Evolution of Inter-Group Social Dynamics and Multilevel Organization in Primates
Zoom link opens at 16 :45 /10:45
urosario.zoom.us/j/87594920134
YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/channel/UClX...
December 2, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Todays FINE
2nd December, Cyril Grüter, University of Oxford, UK
Title: Evolution of Inter-Group Social Dynamics and Multilevel Organization in Primates
Zoom link opens at 16 :45 /10:45
urosario.zoom.us/j/87594920134
YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/channel/UClX...
2nd December, Cyril Grüter, University of Oxford, UK
Title: Evolution of Inter-Group Social Dynamics and Multilevel Organization in Primates
Zoom link opens at 16 :45 /10:45
urosario.zoom.us/j/87594920134
YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/channel/UClX...
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An integrative, peer‐reviewed and open‐source cooperative‐breeding database (Co‐BreeD) - Ben Mocha - Journal of Animal Ecology - Wiley Online Library besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
An integrative, peer‐reviewed and open‐source cooperative‐breeding database (Co‐BreeD)
Co-BreeD is the first updatable and open-source database dedicated to cooperative breeding. It enables continuous, non-binary measurement of cooperative breeding, transforming how we study breeding s....
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 24, 2025 at 9:22 AM
An integrative, peer‐reviewed and open‐source cooperative‐breeding database (Co‐BreeD) - Ben Mocha - Journal of Animal Ecology - Wiley Online Library besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Overall, our findings indicate mutual tolerance between neighbours of this solitary species in relation to shared foraging grounds. This mutual tolerance may facilitate spatial overlap among kin and could represent a precursor to more complex cooperative behaviour.
Overall, our findings indicate mutual tolerance between neighbours of this solitary species in relation to shared foraging grounds. This mutual tolerance may facilitate spatial overlap among kin and could represent a precursor to more complex cooperative behaviour.
Shared foraging grounds in a solitary rodent: evidence for mutual tolerance and kin-based spatial overlap?
rdcu.be
October 24, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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Overall, our findings indicate mutual tolerance between neighbours of this solitary species in relation to shared foraging grounds. This mutual tolerance may facilitate spatial overlap among kin and could represent a precursor to more complex cooperative behaviour.
Overall, our findings indicate mutual tolerance between neighbours of this solitary species in relation to shared foraging grounds. This mutual tolerance may facilitate spatial overlap among kin and could represent a precursor to more complex cooperative behaviour.
An integrative, peer‐reviewed and open‐source cooperative‐breeding database (Co‐BreeD) - Ben Mocha - Journal of Animal Ecology - Wiley Online Library besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 24, 2025 at 9:21 AM
An integrative, peer‐reviewed and open‐source cooperative‐breeding database (Co‐BreeD) - Ben Mocha - Journal of Animal Ecology - Wiley Online Library besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
FINE SEMINAR ANNOUNCEMENT
21 October, 11:00 New York / 17:00 Paris
Ally Harari, Department of Entomology, ARO Volcani Center, Israel
Title: Decision making in relation to sex in a moth
YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/channel/UClX...
21 October, 11:00 New York / 17:00 Paris
Ally Harari, Department of Entomology, ARO Volcani Center, Israel
Title: Decision making in relation to sex in a moth
YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/channel/UClX...
Seminar on Frontiers in Social Evolution
International Remote Seminar on Frontiers in Social Evolution (FINE)
• Meet weekly with people worldwide who are fascinated by social evolution.
• Hear talks about sociality of naturally occurring p...
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October 19, 2025 at 12:56 PM
FINE SEMINAR ANNOUNCEMENT
21 October, 11:00 New York / 17:00 Paris
Ally Harari, Department of Entomology, ARO Volcani Center, Israel
Title: Decision making in relation to sex in a moth
YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/channel/UClX...
21 October, 11:00 New York / 17:00 Paris
Ally Harari, Department of Entomology, ARO Volcani Center, Israel
Title: Decision making in relation to sex in a moth
YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/channel/UClX...
Note that there will be no FINE the 7th Oct and 14th Oct.
FINE will be back 21st Oct with a talk by Alli Harari.
FINE will be back 21st Oct with a talk by Alli Harari.
October 7, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Note that there will be no FINE the 7th Oct and 14th Oct.
FINE will be back 21st Oct with a talk by Alli Harari.
FINE will be back 21st Oct with a talk by Alli Harari.
Special FINE 30th September 2025
17:00 Paris / 11:00 New York
60min panel talks followed by 60min general discussion
Zoom link opens at 16 :45 /10:45
urosario.zoom.us/j/83337249371
Meeting ID: 833 3724 9371
YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/channel/UClX...
17:00 Paris / 11:00 New York
60min panel talks followed by 60min general discussion
Zoom link opens at 16 :45 /10:45
urosario.zoom.us/j/83337249371
Meeting ID: 833 3724 9371
YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/channel/UClX...
September 29, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Special FINE 30th September 2025
17:00 Paris / 11:00 New York
60min panel talks followed by 60min general discussion
Zoom link opens at 16 :45 /10:45
urosario.zoom.us/j/83337249371
Meeting ID: 833 3724 9371
YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/channel/UClX...
17:00 Paris / 11:00 New York
60min panel talks followed by 60min general discussion
Zoom link opens at 16 :45 /10:45
urosario.zoom.us/j/83337249371
Meeting ID: 833 3724 9371
YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/channel/UClX...
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Reposted by Frontiers in Social Evolution Seminar FINE
Ultrasonic signals support a large-scale communication landscape in wild mice: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...
Ultrasonic signals support a large-scale communication landscape in wild mice
Perrier et al. show that wild African striped mice (R. pumilio) use short-range ultrasonic
signals for large-scale communication. By vocalizing at key territorial locations,
they extend the functional...
www.cell.com
September 11, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Ultrasonic signals support a large-scale communication landscape in wild mice: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...
DONT miss todays FINE
23rd September, James Tumulty, Rhodes College, USA
Title: Evidence of a selective link between cooperation and individual recognition in a paper wasp.
Live on YoutTube 11:00 New York / 17:00 Paris
www.youtube.com/channel/UClX...
23rd September, James Tumulty, Rhodes College, USA
Title: Evidence of a selective link between cooperation and individual recognition in a paper wasp.
Live on YoutTube 11:00 New York / 17:00 Paris
www.youtube.com/channel/UClX...
September 23, 2025 at 8:19 AM
DONT miss todays FINE
23rd September, James Tumulty, Rhodes College, USA
Title: Evidence of a selective link between cooperation and individual recognition in a paper wasp.
Live on YoutTube 11:00 New York / 17:00 Paris
www.youtube.com/channel/UClX...
23rd September, James Tumulty, Rhodes College, USA
Title: Evidence of a selective link between cooperation and individual recognition in a paper wasp.
Live on YoutTube 11:00 New York / 17:00 Paris
www.youtube.com/channel/UClX...
Today FINE
9th September, Adam Reddon, Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom
17:00 Paris / 11:00 New York
Title: Conflict management in social fishes
Zoom link opens at 16 :45 /10:45 urosario.zoom.us/j/82256099694
9th September, Adam Reddon, Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom
17:00 Paris / 11:00 New York
Title: Conflict management in social fishes
Zoom link opens at 16 :45 /10:45 urosario.zoom.us/j/82256099694
September 9, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Today FINE
9th September, Adam Reddon, Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom
17:00 Paris / 11:00 New York
Title: Conflict management in social fishes
Zoom link opens at 16 :45 /10:45 urosario.zoom.us/j/82256099694
9th September, Adam Reddon, Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom
17:00 Paris / 11:00 New York
Title: Conflict management in social fishes
Zoom link opens at 16 :45 /10:45 urosario.zoom.us/j/82256099694
Join us tomorrow for the first FINE of the Fall 2025:
2nd September, Andrew Bass, Cornell University (USA)
Title: Crystal Clear Brains: Benefits & Tradeoffs of Miniaturization in Danionella Fishes
When: 2nd September, presentation starts at 11:00 NYC / 17:00 Paris.
2nd September, Andrew Bass, Cornell University (USA)
Title: Crystal Clear Brains: Benefits & Tradeoffs of Miniaturization in Danionella Fishes
When: 2nd September, presentation starts at 11:00 NYC / 17:00 Paris.
September 1, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Join us tomorrow for the first FINE of the Fall 2025:
2nd September, Andrew Bass, Cornell University (USA)
Title: Crystal Clear Brains: Benefits & Tradeoffs of Miniaturization in Danionella Fishes
When: 2nd September, presentation starts at 11:00 NYC / 17:00 Paris.
2nd September, Andrew Bass, Cornell University (USA)
Title: Crystal Clear Brains: Benefits & Tradeoffs of Miniaturization in Danionella Fishes
When: 2nd September, presentation starts at 11:00 NYC / 17:00 Paris.
FINE Fall 2025 will start in just 4 weeks.
Here is the preliminary program.
Stay tuned!
Here is the preliminary program.
Stay tuned!
August 8, 2025 at 4:40 AM
FINE Fall 2025 will start in just 4 weeks.
Here is the preliminary program.
Stay tuned!
Here is the preliminary program.
Stay tuned!
Here is a first glimpse of our program in fall, FINE season 11. The full program will be available in August.
May 27, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Here is a first glimpse of our program in fall, FINE season 11. The full program will be available in August.
Last week season 10 of Fine finished.
You can watch each of the exciting talks we had in this and all previous seasons on our YouTube channel
www.youtube.com/@seminaronfr...
You can watch each of the exciting talks we had in this and all previous seasons on our YouTube channel
www.youtube.com/@seminaronfr...
Seminar on Frontiers in Social Evolution
International Remote Seminar on Frontiers in Social Evolution (FINE)
• Meet weekly with people worldwide who are fascinated by social evolution.
• Hear talks about sociality of naturally occurring p...
www.youtube.com
May 27, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Last week season 10 of Fine finished.
You can watch each of the exciting talks we had in this and all previous seasons on our YouTube channel
www.youtube.com/@seminaronfr...
You can watch each of the exciting talks we had in this and all previous seasons on our YouTube channel
www.youtube.com/@seminaronfr...