Penn-Zala Lab
@pennzalalab.bsky.social
Behavioral biology, sexual selection, sexual conflict, animal communication, mechanisms & functions of courtship signals
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Don’t miss this opportunity to attend #ISBE2026 next year!
TRAVEL AWARDS - Apply for a travel award to support your trip, accommodation and registration! Application guidelines on www.isbe2026.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Don’t miss this opportunity to attend #ISBE2026 next year!
📣 Congratulations to Anna Kruppa who just finished her MSc thesis 🥳 and presented her study on USVs and inbreeding status in wild house mice! 🎉
How do 🐭 respond to USVs 🎶? Brava Anna! 👏
@klivvvienna.bsky.social
How do 🐭 respond to USVs 🎶? Brava Anna! 👏
@klivvvienna.bsky.social
October 29, 2025 at 1:21 PM
📣 Congratulations to Anna Kruppa who just finished her MSc thesis 🥳 and presented her study on USVs and inbreeding status in wild house mice! 🎉
How do 🐭 respond to USVs 🎶? Brava Anna! 👏
@klivvvienna.bsky.social
How do 🐭 respond to USVs 🎶? Brava Anna! 👏
@klivvvienna.bsky.social
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Interested in a PhD in ornithology? Funding available for projects at the interface of ecology, behaviour & evolution from Oct '26 working on long-term population studies of tits at Wytham, based in @biology.ox.ac.uk in the new Life & Mind Building in Oxford
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
October 20, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Interested in a PhD in ornithology? Funding available for projects at the interface of ecology, behaviour & evolution from Oct '26 working on long-term population studies of tits at Wytham, based in @biology.ox.ac.uk in the new Life & Mind Building in Oxford
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
So very rewarding teaching children about the ultrasonic songs of mice and seeing the kids’ (and their parents’ 😉) faces upon hearing them (which we made audible for human ears). Thanks to Maja Peng and Bettina Wernisch for their great teamwork! @klivvvienna.bsky.social
September 30, 2025 at 10:08 AM
So very rewarding teaching children about the ultrasonic songs of mice and seeing the kids’ (and their parents’ 😉) faces upon hearing them (which we made audible for human ears). Thanks to Maja Peng and Bettina Wernisch for their great teamwork! @klivvvienna.bsky.social
📣 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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Check it out: ▶️ doi.org/10.1371/jour...
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July 18, 2025 at 11:24 AM
📣 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...
@klivvvienna.bsky.social
Check it out: ▶️ doi.org/10.1371/jour...
@klivvvienna.bsky.social
📢 Should you be on a ketogenic diet when pregnant? We found that this is not a good idea for healthy 🐭, and we raise concerns that ketogenic diets during pregnancy may have detrimental effects on offspring health and longevity. Coming out soon! 😃
July 8, 2025 at 10:57 AM
📢 Should you be on a ketogenic diet when pregnant? We found that this is not a good idea for healthy 🐭, and we raise concerns that ketogenic diets during pregnancy may have detrimental effects on offspring health and longevity. Coming out soon! 😃
🎉 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 🎶 👏
@klivvvienna.bsky.social
@klivvvienna.bsky.social
July 8, 2025 at 10:51 AM
🎉 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 🎶 👏
@klivvvienna.bsky.social
@klivvvienna.bsky.social
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🔔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
🔔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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📸: Wikipedia
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📸: Wikipedia
📣 Paper alert! Here we show that inbreeding impacted primary and secondary sex traits in wild 🐭. It negatively impacted testes mass, sperm quantity & quality, altered male courtship vocalisations 🎶, and reduced courtship behaviors. Check it out ▶️ doi.org/10.1186/s129...
Pre- and post-copulatory traits are affected by experimental inbreeding, but they are not correlated - BMC Biology
Background It has been suggested that the expression of males’ secondary sexual traits provides reliable indicators of their sperm traits, predicting positive correlations between pre- and post-copula...
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June 4, 2025 at 11:33 AM
📣 Paper alert! Here we show that inbreeding impacted primary and secondary sex traits in wild 🐭. It negatively impacted testes mass, sperm quantity & quality, altered male courtship vocalisations 🎶, and reduced courtship behaviors. Check it out ▶️ doi.org/10.1186/s129...
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Don't miss this exciting workshop on "Honest signalling and communication: from microbes to humans", next week in Leiden. #SarahZala is one of the scientific organizers, and we are looking forward to this event!🗣️🧪
@klivvvienna.bsky.social @lorentzcenter.bsky.social @pennzalalab.bsky.social
@klivvvienna.bsky.social @lorentzcenter.bsky.social @pennzalalab.bsky.social
April 17, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Don't miss this exciting workshop on "Honest signalling and communication: from microbes to humans", next week in Leiden. #SarahZala is one of the scientific organizers, and we are looking forward to this event!🗣️🧪
@klivvvienna.bsky.social @lorentzcenter.bsky.social @pennzalalab.bsky.social
@klivvvienna.bsky.social @lorentzcenter.bsky.social @pennzalalab.bsky.social
Thank you #LorentzCenter for funding us!
April 7, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Thank you #LorentzCenter for funding us!
Looking forward to it!
Next @cost-teatime.bsky.social webinar will take place on March 13 - @pennzalalab.bsky.social present their work showing that the courtship vocalisations of wild house mice are much more complex and dynamic than has been assumed, and their role in male copulatory success
mailchi.mp/878e420349f5...
mailchi.mp/878e420349f5...
TEATIME Webinar - March 13th, 2 PM CET
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March 10, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Looking forward to it!
📢 Six papers 🐭, one wedding and one baby later 👶… congratulations to Dr. Doris Nicolakis 🥳, who just gave a great talk 👏 and defended her PhD entitled “Adaptive functions of courtship signals in male house mice (Mus musculus musculus)” 🎵 🎉 Looking forward to new great discoveries with Doris!
February 28, 2025 at 11:33 AM
📢 Six papers 🐭, one wedding and one baby later 👶… congratulations to Dr. Doris Nicolakis 🥳, who just gave a great talk 👏 and defended her PhD entitled “Adaptive functions of courtship signals in male house mice (Mus musculus musculus)” 🎵 🎉 Looking forward to new great discoveries with Doris!
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Do you know of a researcher working in the field of zoology and/or conservation who you think has made an outstanding contribution that deserves recognition? Nominations are due on Feb 25th for the ZSL awards program, which spans all career levels from UG onwards www.zsl.org/about-zsl/aw...
Awards | ZSL
ZSL's programme of science and conservation awards recognises outstanding contributions
www.zsl.org
February 24, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Do you know of a researcher working in the field of zoology and/or conservation who you think has made an outstanding contribution that deserves recognition? Nominations are due on Feb 25th for the ZSL awards program, which spans all career levels from UG onwards www.zsl.org/about-zsl/aw...
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Fabulous news! @ameliedesvars.bsky.social has been nominated by the Austrian Academy of Sciences to the Frontiers Planet Prize!
Congratulations, Amél! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽https://www.vetmeduni.ac.at/universitaet/infoservice/news/news-detail/frontiers-planet-prize-nominierung-fuer-amelie-desvars-larrive
Congratulations, Amél! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽https://www.vetmeduni.ac.at/universitaet/infoservice/news/news-detail/frontiers-planet-prize-nominierung-fuer-amelie-desvars-larrive
February 15, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Fabulous news! @ameliedesvars.bsky.social has been nominated by the Austrian Academy of Sciences to the Frontiers Planet Prize!
Congratulations, Amél! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽https://www.vetmeduni.ac.at/universitaet/infoservice/news/news-detail/frontiers-planet-prize-nominierung-fuer-amelie-desvars-larrive
Congratulations, Amél! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽https://www.vetmeduni.ac.at/universitaet/infoservice/news/news-detail/frontiers-planet-prize-nominierung-fuer-amelie-desvars-larrive
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The most iconic figure in the environmental sciences is the Keeling Curve, the CO₂ record from Mauna Loa, Hawaii.
@noaa.gov had a wonderful site where you could visualize and download these data, and now it's just gone. These data belong to us and we should not let this happen!
@noaa.gov had a wonderful site where you could visualize and download these data, and now it's just gone. These data belong to us and we should not let this happen!
February 5, 2025 at 11:38 AM
The most iconic figure in the environmental sciences is the Keeling Curve, the CO₂ record from Mauna Loa, Hawaii.
@noaa.gov had a wonderful site where you could visualize and download these data, and now it's just gone. These data belong to us and we should not let this happen!
@noaa.gov had a wonderful site where you could visualize and download these data, and now it's just gone. These data belong to us and we should not let this happen!
When you arrive at work and it looks like this! 😃
@KLIVVWien @VetmeduniVienna
@KLIVVWien @VetmeduniVienna
January 20, 2025 at 11:10 AM
When you arrive at work and it looks like this! 😃
@KLIVVWien @VetmeduniVienna
@KLIVVWien @VetmeduniVienna
📢 Teresa Klaus heroically classified >53000 USVs in wild🐭during courtship and mating. We found changes in their vocal composition, some USVs correlated with mating success, and there is evidence for vocal duetting! 🎶 @KLIVVWien @VetmeduniVienna🐭
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January 20, 2025 at 10:44 AM
📢 Teresa Klaus heroically classified >53000 USVs in wild🐭during courtship and mating. We found changes in their vocal composition, some USVs correlated with mating success, and there is evidence for vocal duetting! 🎶 @KLIVVWien @VetmeduniVienna🐭
▶️ doi.org/10.1016/j.an...
▶️ doi.org/10.1016/j.an...
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Big news for #behaviour2025 attendees !! 📣
We are thrilled to announce that @asab is offering travel grants for #behaviour2025 attendees! 🎉🎊 Hurry! apply now!
For more details, check out the post below 👇
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We are thrilled to announce that @asab is offering travel grants for #behaviour2025 attendees! 🎉🎊 Hurry! apply now!
For more details, check out the post below 👇
bsky.app/profile/ccio...
@asab.org has a new grants secretary - it's me! I've already been busy preparing boosted travel grants for the @behaviour2025.bsky.social conference in Kolkata, India. Next job is to revise grants in line with EDIA principles and better support for #ECRs.
Apply here: www.asab.org/grant-overview
Apply here: www.asab.org/grant-overview
Grants Overview — ASAB
www.asab.org
January 13, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Big news for #behaviour2025 attendees !! 📣
We are thrilled to announce that @asab is offering travel grants for #behaviour2025 attendees! 🎉🎊 Hurry! apply now!
For more details, check out the post below 👇
bsky.app/profile/ccio...
We are thrilled to announce that @asab is offering travel grants for #behaviour2025 attendees! 🎉🎊 Hurry! apply now!
For more details, check out the post below 👇
bsky.app/profile/ccio...
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PLEASE SHARE: Postdoc Opportunity in Montpellier France. 18 months starting May 2025: Generative AI for Studying the Influence of Habitats on the Diversification of Bird Color Patterns. Applications and information here: tinyurl.com/2368teak
@evoldir.bsky.social
@evoldir.bsky.social
January 8, 2025 at 10:52 AM
PLEASE SHARE: Postdoc Opportunity in Montpellier France. 18 months starting May 2025: Generative AI for Studying the Influence of Habitats on the Diversification of Bird Color Patterns. Applications and information here: tinyurl.com/2368teak
@evoldir.bsky.social
@evoldir.bsky.social
🎉 What a great job Martina Zani! Her MS thesis talk on USV discrimination in wild 🐭 was excellent. Congratulations! 🥳 @KLIVVWien @VetmeduniVienna🐭
January 7, 2025 at 12:38 PM
🎉 What a great job Martina Zani! Her MS thesis talk on USV discrimination in wild 🐭 was excellent. Congratulations! 🥳 @KLIVVWien @VetmeduniVienna🐭