Jannes Meyer
@jannesdoesscience.bsky.social
28 year old Biologist
Master of Science
Assistant Curator at Zoo Dortmund
Animal Behavior and (Behavioral) Ecology
Travel, Books, Animals, Video Games, Football ⚽
Master of Science
Assistant Curator at Zoo Dortmund
Animal Behavior and (Behavioral) Ecology
Travel, Books, Animals, Video Games, Football ⚽
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In 2018, Charles Murray challenged me to a bet: "We will understand IQ genetically—I think most of the picture will have been filled in by 2025—there will still be blanks—but we’ll know basically what’s going on." It's now 2025, and I claim a win. I write about it in The Atlantic.
Your Genes Are Simply Not Enough to Explain How Smart You Are
Seven years ago, I took a bet with Charles Murray about whether we’d basically understand the genetics of intelligence by now.
www.theatlantic.com
October 13, 2025 at 1:33 PM
In 2018, Charles Murray challenged me to a bet: "We will understand IQ genetically—I think most of the picture will have been filled in by 2025—there will still be blanks—but we’ll know basically what’s going on." It's now 2025, and I claim a win. I write about it in The Atlantic.
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Impressions from #gradmeet25 @dzg-behaviour.bsky.social
October 10, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Impressions from #gradmeet25 @dzg-behaviour.bsky.social
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Our 2nd session of the morning focuses on personality and flexibility — from aggression rates in lemurs to inhibition in cichlids, showcasing again the incredible diversity of behavioural research! 🐒🐀🐟
#gradmeet25
@jannesdoesscience.bsky.social @saskiasp.bsky.social
#gradmeet25
@jannesdoesscience.bsky.social @saskiasp.bsky.social
October 9, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Our 2nd session of the morning focuses on personality and flexibility — from aggression rates in lemurs to inhibition in cichlids, showcasing again the incredible diversity of behavioural research! 🐒🐀🐟
#gradmeet25
@jannesdoesscience.bsky.social @saskiasp.bsky.social
#gradmeet25
@jannesdoesscience.bsky.social @saskiasp.bsky.social
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Kicking off day 3 of #GradMeet25 with more talks on sociality — linking it to dispersal, cognition, and endocrinology! From social dispersal in burying beetles to hormonal changes in cheetahs 🐘🐅🦀🪲
@paulhuber.bsky.social @carolin-schlarb.bsky.social @robotowilliam.bsky.social
@paulhuber.bsky.social @carolin-schlarb.bsky.social @robotowilliam.bsky.social
October 10, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Kicking off day 3 of #GradMeet25 with more talks on sociality — linking it to dispersal, cognition, and endocrinology! From social dispersal in burying beetles to hormonal changes in cheetahs 🐘🐅🦀🪲
@paulhuber.bsky.social @carolin-schlarb.bsky.social @robotowilliam.bsky.social
@paulhuber.bsky.social @carolin-schlarb.bsky.social @robotowilliam.bsky.social
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Our final session focused again on methodologies 🧩 — with exciting applications from form-based approaches to assess chimpanzee gestures to facial action coding in rabbits 🐒🐇
@chiarazulberti.bsky.social
#gradmeet25
@chiarazulberti.bsky.social
#gradmeet25
October 10, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Our final session focused again on methodologies 🧩 — with exciting applications from form-based approaches to assess chimpanzee gestures to facial action coding in rabbits 🐒🐇
@chiarazulberti.bsky.social
#gradmeet25
@chiarazulberti.bsky.social
#gradmeet25
Thank you very much for having me on today! Had a great time presenting my results about the adorable mouse lemurs.
Our 2nd session of the morning focuses on personality and flexibility — from aggression rates in lemurs to inhibition in cichlids, showcasing again the incredible diversity of behavioural research! 🐒🐀🐟
#gradmeet25
@jannesdoesscience.bsky.social @saskiasp.bsky.social
#gradmeet25
@jannesdoesscience.bsky.social @saskiasp.bsky.social
October 9, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Thank you very much for having me on today! Had a great time presenting my results about the adorable mouse lemurs.
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Is it ok to acknowledge in papers funding opportunities that did not give you any $?
Like "We’d like to specially thank the NSX grant panel ABC for not giving us a cent and for pushing our creativity to a level we didn’t know we had—allowing us to complete this project with no funding"?
#academia 🧪
Like "We’d like to specially thank the NSX grant panel ABC for not giving us a cent and for pushing our creativity to a level we didn’t know we had—allowing us to complete this project with no funding"?
#academia 🧪
September 15, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Is it ok to acknowledge in papers funding opportunities that did not give you any $?
Like "We’d like to specially thank the NSX grant panel ABC for not giving us a cent and for pushing our creativity to a level we didn’t know we had—allowing us to complete this project with no funding"?
#academia 🧪
Like "We’d like to specially thank the NSX grant panel ABC for not giving us a cent and for pushing our creativity to a level we didn’t know we had—allowing us to complete this project with no funding"?
#academia 🧪
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Sir David Attenborough’s latest film reveals the truth about bottom trawling — a fishing method that razes the seafloor like a bulldozer.
This #WorldOceansDay, let’s raise our voices and take a stand.
This #WorldOceansDay, let’s raise our voices and take a stand.
June 3, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Sir David Attenborough’s latest film reveals the truth about bottom trawling — a fishing method that razes the seafloor like a bulldozer.
This #WorldOceansDay, let’s raise our voices and take a stand.
This #WorldOceansDay, let’s raise our voices and take a stand.
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Are you into 🐟🦐 ,🌊&💻📈?
Come join us at the Theoretical Ecology Group @unibergen.bsky.social
We’ve got 2 #PhD and 1 #Postdoc openings—fully funded, all for 3 years, all part of a funtastic team.
🔗 PhD: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
🔗 Postdoc: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
#AcademicJobs
Come join us at the Theoretical Ecology Group @unibergen.bsky.social
We’ve got 2 #PhD and 1 #Postdoc openings—fully funded, all for 3 years, all part of a funtastic team.
🔗 PhD: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
🔗 Postdoc: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
#AcademicJobs
PhD Research Fellow (two positions) in marine evolutionary ecology (281140) | University of Bergen
Job title: PhD Research Fellow (two positions) in marine evolutionary ecology (281140), Employer: University of Bergen, Deadline: Sunday, June 15, 2025
www.jobbnorge.no
May 24, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Are you into 🐟🦐 ,🌊&💻📈?
Come join us at the Theoretical Ecology Group @unibergen.bsky.social
We’ve got 2 #PhD and 1 #Postdoc openings—fully funded, all for 3 years, all part of a funtastic team.
🔗 PhD: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
🔗 Postdoc: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
#AcademicJobs
Come join us at the Theoretical Ecology Group @unibergen.bsky.social
We’ve got 2 #PhD and 1 #Postdoc openings—fully funded, all for 3 years, all part of a funtastic team.
🔗 PhD: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
🔗 Postdoc: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
#AcademicJobs
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To add to your annual report
May 21, 2025 at 9:41 PM
To add to your annual report
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On a remote Panamanian island, capuchin monkeys began kidnapping baby howlers and carrying them for days. Nobody was on the island to witness the origin and spread of this strange social tradition. But camera traps were there: www.ab.mpg.de/677569/news_...
Study from @livingingroups.bsky.social ⬇️
Study from @livingingroups.bsky.social ⬇️
Capuchin monkeys caught abducting baby howlers
On Panama’s Jicarón island, biologists documented five male capuchin monkeys carrying at least eleven different infant howler monkeys—a behavior never before seen in wild primates.
www.ab.mpg.de
May 19, 2025 at 4:04 PM
On a remote Panamanian island, capuchin monkeys began kidnapping baby howlers and carrying them for days. Nobody was on the island to witness the origin and spread of this strange social tradition. But camera traps were there: www.ab.mpg.de/677569/news_...
Study from @livingingroups.bsky.social ⬇️
Study from @livingingroups.bsky.social ⬇️
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Humans have many unusual traditions. But did you know animals’ strange behaviors can become culture too? Out now in Current Biology (doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...) we show the rise and spread of a surprising tradition: interspecies infant abduction. Interactive timeline (www.ab.mpg.de/671374) 🧵 (1/12)
May 19, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Humans have many unusual traditions. But did you know animals’ strange behaviors can become culture too? Out now in Current Biology (doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...) we show the rise and spread of a surprising tradition: interspecies infant abduction. Interactive timeline (www.ab.mpg.de/671374) 🧵 (1/12)
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Cross-species teamwork from @livingingroups.bsky.social reveals unexpected similarities in three social mammals 🤔
By lead author @pminasandra.bsky.social with Emily Grout, Katrina Brock, Meg Crofoot, Vlad Demartsev, Amlan Nayak, Eli
Strauss, Ari Strandburg-Peshkin🧵1/2
www.ab.mpg.de/679000/news_...
By lead author @pminasandra.bsky.social with Emily Grout, Katrina Brock, Meg Crofoot, Vlad Demartsev, Amlan Nayak, Eli
Strauss, Ari Strandburg-Peshkin🧵1/2
www.ab.mpg.de/679000/news_...
Very different mammals follow the same rules of behavior
Research hints at an underlying architecture that orders the movements of animals
www.ab.mpg.de
May 19, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Cross-species teamwork from @livingingroups.bsky.social reveals unexpected similarities in three social mammals 🤔
By lead author @pminasandra.bsky.social with Emily Grout, Katrina Brock, Meg Crofoot, Vlad Demartsev, Amlan Nayak, Eli
Strauss, Ari Strandburg-Peshkin🧵1/2
www.ab.mpg.de/679000/news_...
By lead author @pminasandra.bsky.social with Emily Grout, Katrina Brock, Meg Crofoot, Vlad Demartsev, Amlan Nayak, Eli
Strauss, Ari Strandburg-Peshkin🧵1/2
www.ab.mpg.de/679000/news_...
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In related news: arstechnica.com/science/2025...
Europe launches program to lure scientists away from the US
EU will spend over $500 million to recruit researchers and scientists.
arstechnica.com
May 10, 2025 at 2:39 AM
In related news: arstechnica.com/science/2025...
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For German and French speakers interested in animal culture, this doco will be well worth 43 mins of your time. For everyone else, great tits solving puzzle boxes speak for themselves 🐦🧩🧠@lucymaplin.bsky.social @mchimento.bsky.social
www.arte.tv/de/videos/11...
www.arte.tv/de/videos/11...
Kultur im Tierreich - Voneinander lernen - Die ganze Doku | ARTE
Bei Menschen wie bei Tieren beruht die Weitergabe von Kultur auf sozialem Lernen. Vier Arten geben Einblicke in die Kulturvermittlung im Tierreich: Kohlmeisen und Grünmeerkatzen lernen die Tricks der ...
www.arte.tv
May 5, 2025 at 2:52 PM
For German and French speakers interested in animal culture, this doco will be well worth 43 mins of your time. For everyone else, great tits solving puzzle boxes speak for themselves 🐦🧩🧠@lucymaplin.bsky.social @mchimento.bsky.social
www.arte.tv/de/videos/11...
www.arte.tv/de/videos/11...
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Bonobo societies are famous for being “female dominant.” But females are weaker than males, so how can this be? Study by Barbara Fruth and Martin Surbeck on wild bonobos explains how.
Hint: it has to do with female solidarity.
Paper ▶️ www.nature.com/articles/s42...
www.ab.mpg.de/673281/news_...
Hint: it has to do with female solidarity.
Paper ▶️ www.nature.com/articles/s42...
www.ab.mpg.de/673281/news_...
Female solidarity keeps male bonobos in check
Study on wild bonobos reveals that females team up to maintain power in their societies
www.ab.mpg.de
April 24, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Bonobo societies are famous for being “female dominant.” But females are weaker than males, so how can this be? Study by Barbara Fruth and Martin Surbeck on wild bonobos explains how.
Hint: it has to do with female solidarity.
Paper ▶️ www.nature.com/articles/s42...
www.ab.mpg.de/673281/news_...
Hint: it has to do with female solidarity.
Paper ▶️ www.nature.com/articles/s42...
www.ab.mpg.de/673281/news_...
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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
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
ICARUS Projects
www.ab.mpg.de
March 18, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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
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
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2025. A new approach for better understanding animal consciousness phys.org/news/2025-02...
A new approach for better understanding animal consciousness
A team of researchers has outlined a new approach for better understanding the depths of animal consciousness, a method that may yield new insights into the similarities and differences among living o...
phys.org
February 21, 2025 at 2:58 AM
2025. A new approach for better understanding animal consciousness phys.org/news/2025-02...
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🐶🐕🐩
My colleagues in the Department of Ethology at Eötvös Loránd University (Hungary) are conducting a survey of dog owners. So if you are a dog owner, please consider completing their survey at tally.so/r/nPXKPb.
#dogs
My colleagues in the Department of Ethology at Eötvös Loránd University (Hungary) are conducting a survey of dog owners. So if you are a dog owner, please consider completing their survey at tally.so/r/nPXKPb.
#dogs
March 5, 2025 at 8:58 PM
🐶🐕🐩
My colleagues in the Department of Ethology at Eötvös Loránd University (Hungary) are conducting a survey of dog owners. So if you are a dog owner, please consider completing their survey at tally.so/r/nPXKPb.
#dogs
My colleagues in the Department of Ethology at Eötvös Loránd University (Hungary) are conducting a survey of dog owners. So if you are a dog owner, please consider completing their survey at tally.so/r/nPXKPb.
#dogs