KLIVV Vienna
klivvvienna.bsky.social
KLIVV Vienna
@klivvvienna.bsky.social
Konrad Lorenz Institute of Ethology at Vetmeduni in Vienna
Konrad Lorenz Institut für Vergleichende Verhaltensforschung
https://www.vetmeduni.ac.at/en/konrad-lorenz-institute-of-ethology
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We had a great #WilhelminenbergSeminarTalk last week! Neal Dawson @nealdawson.bsky.social took us up high into the Andes, where he looked into the factors that make specific species 🦆🐦 adapt to high altitude, low temperature and low oxygen 🫁.
@klivvvienna.bsky.social @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk
November 19, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Next #WilhelminenbergSeminarTalk: 26.11. | 2:00 PM with Bea Maas/ @univie.ac.at
📍@klivvvienna.bsky.social , 1160 Wien or online 👩‍💻
vetmeduni.ac.at/fiwi/seminar...
📢 Tip for students: The participation is recognised as an elective! (KV 128 804) @fiwivienna.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Next #WilhelminenbergSeminarTalk: 5.11. | 2:00 PM with Marcus Clauss/ University of Zürich
📍@KLIVVWien, 1160 Wien or online 👩‍💻
vetmeduni.ac.at/fiwi/seminar...
📢 Tip for students: The participation is recognised as an elective! (KV 128 804) @fiwivienna.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Last week's talk by Martin Mayer (University of Inland Norway) gave us a lot of insight into moose monitoring🫎 - both on the ground and by drone - as well lots of info about beevers in Scandinavia. A truly informative #WilhelminenbergSeminarTalk! @fiwivienna.bsky.social
October 23, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Next #WilhelminenbergSeminarTalk: 15.10. | 2:00 PM with Martin Mayer / University of Inland Norway
📍@KLIVVWien, 1160 Wien or online 👩‍💻
vetmeduni.ac.at/fiwi/seminar...
📢Tip for students: The participation is recognised as an elective! (KV 128 804)
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October 9, 2025 at 1:02 PM
What a great start to the new term - a big thank you to Patricia Brennan for a wonderfully inspiring and lively talk on genital evolution in birds! 🦆🐦🦜 @fiwivienna.bsky.social
October 9, 2025 at 12:53 PM
📢 NÖ Forschungsfest | Come and visit us at this event for the entire family! With entertaining show acts and over 80 research stations, the world of science becomes an experience!

📅 Friday, 10 October 2025 | 1:00 p.m.–9:00 p.m.
📍 Palais NÖ, Herrengasse 13, 1010 Vienna
🌞 Admission free!
October 8, 2025 at 12:24 PM
📢 NEW PAPER: Do dogs form reputations of humans? Find the answer to this question in the recent publication by the Domestication Lab! 🐶
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
July 25, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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At our final #WilhelminenberSeminarTalk last semester, we got a history lessen by our own Elmira Mohandesan, who spoke about the impact of the Roman conquest of the northern Alpine foreland in 15 BCE on local horse populations! 🐴
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July 24, 2025 at 12:28 PM
📢NEW PAPER! Edina Nemeshazi and Co. studied the effect of chlorpyrifos on fitness-related traits in agile #frogs, and found that, at certain concentrations, this insecticide alters anti-predator behaviour and leads to decreased body mass at metamorphosis 🐸 👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.aquatox.2025.107400
July 23, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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One of those bitter-sweet moments in academic life… @carodittrich.bsky.social has been fundamental for the achievements we’ve had as a group and we will miss her greatly, but I’m already looking forward to hearing about the exciting science she’ll be doing in this new phase! 🤩🐸 🟡⚫️🦎⚫️🟡 🧬👩🏻‍🔬🫶🏼
July 22, 2025 at 3:17 PM
📢Congratulations to @ericacalabretta.bsky.social for the publication of her first PhD thesis chapter, "Passerine stopover physiology: weather variability does not alter corticosterone dynamics after sea crossing"! 👏🥳🐥 doi.org/10.1002/jav.... @fusanilab.bsky.social

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July 22, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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📣 Paper alert! Have you ever wondered what a ketogenic diet might do to unborn offspring? Here we show that pregnant healthy 🐭 on a ketogenic diet give birth to less females pups and that the male pups die earlier than controls.
Check it out: ▶️ doi.org/10.1371/jour...
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July 18, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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Our group’s first study on fire salamanders is out! 🟡⚫️🦎⚫️🟡 🧪🌍We report differences in predation rates between managed and non-managed forest areas, due mostly to increased 🐦 attacks in managed areas. Both types of areas differ mainly in 🌳 diversity and evenness (1/2) doi.org/10.1111/jzo....
July 2, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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🎉 Congratulations to Berta Retana Ferrés, who just defended her BS thesis at the University of Barcelona 🥳 presenting her work from the Erasmus internship that she did in our lab in Vienna! 😃 Berta found very interesting results on how 🐭 respond to USVs 🎶 👏
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July 8, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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And I had the opportunity to present our work (led by Mileidy Betancourth) on the impact of habitat disturbance on the morphology and behaviour of the Little Devil’s poison frog in Colombia # ATBC2025 @klivvvienna.bsky.social
July 3, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Two more presentations from our group at #ATBC2025 are done and dusted! 🐸🧪🌍Paul Kesseler presented a poster on Hg contamination in phytotelmata and their inhabitants at Nouragues (French Guiana), which he investigated during his Master’s (1/2)
July 3, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Super proud of Lia Schlippe Justicia, who gave an excellent talk on her PhD work involving frog disease, skin microbiome and habitat disturbance 🐸🧬🍄🏘️🏗️
#ATBC2025
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July 1, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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We had the pleasure of having Sylvain Giroud as a speaker for a #WilhelminenbergSeminarTalk and he gave us insights into early-life metabolic flexibility and its lifelong and intergenerational effects in a small hibernator 🐭 @klivvvienna.bsky.social
July 3, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Thank you to Kang Nian Yap who spoke about an integrative approach to studying lifehistory trade-offs: The roles of endoplasmic reticulum physiology, bioenergetics, and oxidative stress at his #WilhelminenbergSeminarTalk🗣️
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June 30, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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✴️ NEW PAPER! ✴️ In the beautiful Caucasian mountains of 🇬🇪 lives a moth whose wing colour variation (🔴🟠🟡) has intrigued us for ages. Here (doi.org/10.1111/1744...), we studied whether such variation is associated with 🧬 structure or other traits such as size. (1/3)
June 20, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Last week, @biobiiana.bsky.social was one of the plenary speakers at the European Meeting of PhD students in Evolutionary Biology (#EMPSEB30) in Milovy (Czech Republic), a conference for PhD students organised by PhD students! 🐸
Todays plenary talk was given by Bibiana Rojas. She showed us her thrilling research that focuses on the study of poisonous frogs that display unique behaviour in parental care and early life.🐸 Thank you Bibiana for not only the talk, but contribution to DEI Panel and friendly athmosphere!
June 11, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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The DEI panel is an important part of every EMPSEB. This year, participants discussed five selected scenarios in smaller groups. Thanks to all, for great discussions about Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Special thanks go to @biobiiana.bsky.social, who concluded the event with an encouraging talk.
June 6, 2025 at 6:40 AM
🔔NEW PAPER by the @pennzalalab.bsky.social! "Pre- and post-copulatory traits are affected by experimental inbreeding, but they are not correlated" out now in BMC Biology🐭
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June 11, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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Aletta Bonn held a wonderful online #WilhelminenbergSeminarTalk about biodiversity: "Biodiversity is good for you! Street trees, urban nature, citizen science, and health", convincing us (even more!) that it is crucially important and beneficial for us all! 🌲🐸 @klivvvienna.bsky.social
May 28, 2025 at 1:45 PM