Alper Yelimlieş
@alperyelimlies.bsky.social
PhD student at University of Vienna studying female birdsong and duetting
Pinned
Excited to share our new preprint!
Unlike the North American yellow warblers, females in Galápagos commonly sing and duet with their paired partners. Here, we tested possible functions with a playback experiment: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Unlike the North American yellow warblers, females in Galápagos commonly sing and duet with their paired partners. Here, we tested possible functions with a playback experiment: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
New paper led by Lauren Common on the “seet” alarm calls of superb fairy-wrens is out today: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Interestingly, this is the second paper this week on these previously undescribed calls (see below)! I think the two studies complement each other really well.
Interestingly, this is the second paper this week on these previously undescribed calls (see below)! I think the two studies complement each other really well.
November 26, 2025 at 9:35 PM
New paper led by Lauren Common on the “seet” alarm calls of superb fairy-wrens is out today: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Interestingly, this is the second paper this week on these previously undescribed calls (see below)! I think the two studies complement each other really well.
Interestingly, this is the second paper this week on these previously undescribed calls (see below)! I think the two studies complement each other really well.
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🔊Negative valence overrides identity information in ungulate vocalisations.
Happy to share new work by @ebriefer.bsky.social Romain Lefèvre & myself
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
Happy to share new work by @ebriefer.bsky.social Romain Lefèvre & myself
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
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November 26, 2025 at 1:39 PM
🔊Negative valence overrides identity information in ungulate vocalisations.
Happy to share new work by @ebriefer.bsky.social Romain Lefèvre & myself
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
Happy to share new work by @ebriefer.bsky.social Romain Lefèvre & myself
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
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Origins of language, one of humanity’s most distinctive traits, may be best explained as a unique convergence of multiple capacities each with its own evolutionary history, involving intertwined roles of biology & culture. This framing can expand research horizons. A 🧵 on our @science.org paper.🧪1/n
What enables human language? A biocultural framework
Explaining the origins of language is a key challenge in understanding ourselves as a species. We present an empirical framework that draws on synergies across fields to facilitate robust studies of l...
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November 23, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Origins of language, one of humanity’s most distinctive traits, may be best explained as a unique convergence of multiple capacities each with its own evolutionary history, involving intertwined roles of biology & culture. This framing can expand research horizons. A 🧵 on our @science.org paper.🧪1/n
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📢NEW paper out NOW in @asab.org Animal Behaviour on how a novel #call changes subsequent responses to #alarms in #fairywrens
🌟CONGRATULATIONS #NatalieTegtman on #first paper from #PhD
👥With #RobMagrath
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
#animalcommunication #birds #fieldwork #ECR
doi.org/10.1016/j.an...
🌟CONGRATULATIONS #NatalieTegtman on #first paper from #PhD
👥With #RobMagrath
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
#animalcommunication #birds #fieldwork #ECR
doi.org/10.1016/j.an...
November 24, 2025 at 4:30 PM
📢NEW paper out NOW in @asab.org Animal Behaviour on how a novel #call changes subsequent responses to #alarms in #fairywrens
🌟CONGRATULATIONS #NatalieTegtman on #first paper from #PhD
👥With #RobMagrath
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
#animalcommunication #birds #fieldwork #ECR
doi.org/10.1016/j.an...
🌟CONGRATULATIONS #NatalieTegtman on #first paper from #PhD
👥With #RobMagrath
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
#animalcommunication #birds #fieldwork #ECR
doi.org/10.1016/j.an...
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The goal was a scientifically accurate but aesthetically appealing cover, capturing the fundamentally conservative nature of the vertebrate brain over millions of years of evolution. The brains by themselves weren't enough, so I decided little figures of the animals to clarify this message.
November 21, 2025 at 7:31 PM
The goal was a scientifically accurate but aesthetically appealing cover, capturing the fundamentally conservative nature of the vertebrate brain over millions of years of evolution. The brains by themselves weren't enough, so I decided little figures of the animals to clarify this message.
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I am very proud of the artwork on the cover of our recent Phil Trans issue on consciousness. It is based on watercolor paintings and ink drawings on paper I did myself, based on published diagrams by recognized experts on comparative brain anatomy (detailed in the caption which it seems no one read)
November 21, 2025 at 7:27 PM
I am very proud of the artwork on the cover of our recent Phil Trans issue on consciousness. It is based on watercolor paintings and ink drawings on paper I did myself, based on published diagrams by recognized experts on comparative brain anatomy (detailed in the caption which it seems no one read)
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📢 #Ethology2026 – A Double Event
Join us for:
• Ethologische Gesellschaft Annual Meeting, 18–21 Feb, Grünau
• DK Symposium: Cognition & Communication, 23–24 Feb, Vienna
A full week of ethology, cognition, and communication.
univie.eventsair.com/etho26-dkcog...
@ethoges.bsky.social @univie.ac.at
Join us for:
• Ethologische Gesellschaft Annual Meeting, 18–21 Feb, Grünau
• DK Symposium: Cognition & Communication, 23–24 Feb, Vienna
A full week of ethology, cognition, and communication.
univie.eventsair.com/etho26-dkcog...
@ethoges.bsky.social @univie.ac.at
November 17, 2025 at 12:47 PM
📢 #Ethology2026 – A Double Event
Join us for:
• Ethologische Gesellschaft Annual Meeting, 18–21 Feb, Grünau
• DK Symposium: Cognition & Communication, 23–24 Feb, Vienna
A full week of ethology, cognition, and communication.
univie.eventsair.com/etho26-dkcog...
@ethoges.bsky.social @univie.ac.at
Join us for:
• Ethologische Gesellschaft Annual Meeting, 18–21 Feb, Grünau
• DK Symposium: Cognition & Communication, 23–24 Feb, Vienna
A full week of ethology, cognition, and communication.
univie.eventsair.com/etho26-dkcog...
@ethoges.bsky.social @univie.ac.at
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Good guardian, bad parent: tradeoffs between territory defense and parental care in Darwin's finches
#Bird #TradeOff #PlaybackExperiment
doi.org/10.1093/behe...
#Bird #TradeOff #PlaybackExperiment
doi.org/10.1093/behe...
a pixel art of three birds with the word beep on the bottom
ALT: a pixel art of three birds with the word beep on the bottom
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November 15, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Good guardian, bad parent: tradeoffs between territory defense and parental care in Darwin's finches
#Bird #TradeOff #PlaybackExperiment
doi.org/10.1093/behe...
#Bird #TradeOff #PlaybackExperiment
doi.org/10.1093/behe...
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November 3, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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New paper, led by Vlad Demartsev:
Alerting components in animal vocalization
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Alerting components in animal vocalization
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Alerting components in animal vocalization
Effective communication relies on signals that are detectable and informative, yet the structural acoustic properties supporting these qualities are n…
www.sciencedirect.com
October 31, 2025 at 3:35 PM
New paper, led by Vlad Demartsev:
Alerting components in animal vocalization
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Alerting components in animal vocalization
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Still scratching my head about whether female #magnificentriflebirds display back at males or if all those copulations I’ve filmed actually involve immature males
November 2, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Still scratching my head about whether female #magnificentriflebirds display back at males or if all those copulations I’ve filmed actually involve immature males
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new preprint led by @alperyelimlies.bsky.social: Flexibility of territorial aggression in urban and rural Chaffinches
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #ornithology
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #ornithology
October 31, 2025 at 5:13 PM
new preprint led by @alperyelimlies.bsky.social: Flexibility of territorial aggression in urban and rural Chaffinches
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #ornithology
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #ornithology
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New #PhD ad alert!
Interested in wild #bee #cognition and #brains in different #bumblebees? Want to live in #Newcastle and the beautiful north-east of England?
Check out this project with me, @lenariab.bsky.social and Sarah Scott. Contact me for further information.
iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
Interested in wild #bee #cognition and #brains in different #bumblebees? Want to live in #Newcastle and the beautiful north-east of England?
Check out this project with me, @lenariab.bsky.social and Sarah Scott. Contact me for further information.
iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
The cognitive ecology of wild bumblebees
iapetus.ac.uk
October 28, 2025 at 11:22 AM
New #PhD ad alert!
Interested in wild #bee #cognition and #brains in different #bumblebees? Want to live in #Newcastle and the beautiful north-east of England?
Check out this project with me, @lenariab.bsky.social and Sarah Scott. Contact me for further information.
iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
Interested in wild #bee #cognition and #brains in different #bumblebees? Want to live in #Newcastle and the beautiful north-east of England?
Check out this project with me, @lenariab.bsky.social and Sarah Scott. Contact me for further information.
iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
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Researchers gave female canaries testosterone, which causes them to sing. Two-photon in vivo imaging reveals that songs emerge due to changes in brain cell function rather than by increasing the size of a key brain region, as was once thought. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/pn1750XhFL5
October 24, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Researchers gave female canaries testosterone, which causes them to sing. Two-photon in vivo imaging reveals that songs emerge due to changes in brain cell function rather than by increasing the size of a key brain region, as was once thought. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/pn1750XhFL5
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#CrowCoG is hiring🚨MULTIPLE PAID RESEARCH ASSISTANT POSITIONS 🚨for our 2026 field season (May - Sep)! Field and aviary-based positions - come help us study the remarkable tool-making New Caledonian crows. Apply here: bit.ly/3WlxxHE
October 27, 2025 at 8:57 AM
#CrowCoG is hiring🚨MULTIPLE PAID RESEARCH ASSISTANT POSITIONS 🚨for our 2026 field season (May - Sep)! Field and aviary-based positions - come help us study the remarkable tool-making New Caledonian crows. Apply here: bit.ly/3WlxxHE
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"Unsung Songbirds: Advances in the Study of Corvid Communication" - a new review paper (preprint) https://ecoevorxiv.org/repository/view/10600/ Corvids are amazing, so I'm v pleased to be a small part of this review led by Claudia Wascher and Valerie Dufour. #corvids #bioacoustics
Unsung Songbirds: Advances in the Study of Corvid Communication
ecoevorxiv.org
October 24, 2025 at 8:38 AM
"Unsung Songbirds: Advances in the Study of Corvid Communication" - a new review paper (preprint) https://ecoevorxiv.org/repository/view/10600/ Corvids are amazing, so I'm v pleased to be a small part of this review led by Claudia Wascher and Valerie Dufour. #corvids #bioacoustics
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New paper: Anti-predator behaviour in Darwin’s finches after predator removal. After invasive mammals were removed from Floreana Island in 2023, how did finches adjust their anti-predator behaviour in a changed world?
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Picture: A. Katsis
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Picture: A. Katsis
October 23, 2025 at 9:52 AM
New paper: Anti-predator behaviour in Darwin’s finches after predator removal. After invasive mammals were removed from Floreana Island in 2023, how did finches adjust their anti-predator behaviour in a changed world?
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Picture: A. Katsis
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Picture: A. Katsis
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Since @mariasantaca.bsky.social joined @fusanilab.bsky.social , she's been doing amazing work measuring perception of visual illusions in our ring doves. Here are the first results: www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.... (and stay tuned for findings from a playback study on illusions and courtship...)
Can fish and birds be “fooled” by the same optical illusion? 🐟🐦
Our new study in Frontiers in Psychology compares guppies and ring doves in their perception of the Ebbinghaus illusion — with surprising results!
🔗 www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....
@univie.ac.at @fusanilab.bsky.social
Our new study in Frontiers in Psychology compares guppies and ring doves in their perception of the Ebbinghaus illusion — with surprising results!
🔗 www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....
@univie.ac.at @fusanilab.bsky.social
October 22, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Since @mariasantaca.bsky.social joined @fusanilab.bsky.social , she's been doing amazing work measuring perception of visual illusions in our ring doves. Here are the first results: www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.... (and stay tuned for findings from a playback study on illusions and courtship...)
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The very first book dedicated to baby cries, with a scientific perspective. For parents & grand-parents
(and anyone interested in why and how babies cry).
www.amazon.com/intimate-wor...
#parenting #parent #baby #babies #cry #cries #grandparent #birth
(and anyone interested in why and how babies cry).
www.amazon.com/intimate-wor...
#parenting #parent #baby #babies #cry #cries #grandparent #birth
The intimate world of babies’ cries: The best ways to understand and calm your baby
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October 11, 2025 at 5:41 PM
The very first book dedicated to baby cries, with a scientific perspective. For parents & grand-parents
(and anyone interested in why and how babies cry).
www.amazon.com/intimate-wor...
#parenting #parent #baby #babies #cry #cries #grandparent #birth
(and anyone interested in why and how babies cry).
www.amazon.com/intimate-wor...
#parenting #parent #baby #babies #cry #cries #grandparent #birth
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This bower was located next to a nursery, something tells me the male bowerbird owner has been pinching from the kids 😆
October 8, 2025 at 7:41 AM
This bower was located next to a nursery, something tells me the male bowerbird owner has been pinching from the kids 😆
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#bowerbirds are the only birds that build structures used specifically for courtship. But why and how did this remarkable ability evolve?
We discuss some possibilities in our new review in Emu - Austral Ornithology!
@fusanilab.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1080/0158...
We discuss some possibilities in our new review in Emu - Austral Ornithology!
@fusanilab.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1080/0158...
October 7, 2025 at 9:07 AM
#bowerbirds are the only birds that build structures used specifically for courtship. But why and how did this remarkable ability evolve?
We discuss some possibilities in our new review in Emu - Austral Ornithology!
@fusanilab.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1080/0158...
We discuss some possibilities in our new review in Emu - Austral Ornithology!
@fusanilab.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1080/0158...
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New episode!! 🎉🎙️
A chat w/ @evoneuro.bsky.social & Georg Striedter about their new book, 'Bird Brains and Behavior.'
Birds do some astonishing things. They sing, fly, migrate, cache food, and hunt in total darkness. How do their brains make all this possible?
Listen: disi.org/brains-of-a-...
A chat w/ @evoneuro.bsky.social & Georg Striedter about their new book, 'Bird Brains and Behavior.'
Birds do some astonishing things. They sing, fly, migrate, cache food, and hunt in total darkness. How do their brains make all this possible?
Listen: disi.org/brains-of-a-...
September 26, 2025 at 5:49 PM
New episode!! 🎉🎙️
A chat w/ @evoneuro.bsky.social & Georg Striedter about their new book, 'Bird Brains and Behavior.'
Birds do some astonishing things. They sing, fly, migrate, cache food, and hunt in total darkness. How do their brains make all this possible?
Listen: disi.org/brains-of-a-...
A chat w/ @evoneuro.bsky.social & Georg Striedter about their new book, 'Bird Brains and Behavior.'
Birds do some astonishing things. They sing, fly, migrate, cache food, and hunt in total darkness. How do their brains make all this possible?
Listen: disi.org/brains-of-a-...
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Half Male-Half Female Spider Discovered In Thailand Is New To Science
#SciComm🧪 by @grrlscientist.bsky.social
#Biodiversity #Spider🕷️ #NewToScience #NewSpecies #Thailand🇹🇭 #Gynandromorph #Wildlife #Halloween🏮 #SpookySeason😵💫 www.forbes.com/sites/grrlsc...
#SciComm🧪 by @grrlscientist.bsky.social
#Biodiversity #Spider🕷️ #NewToScience #NewSpecies #Thailand🇹🇭 #Gynandromorph #Wildlife #Halloween🏮 #SpookySeason😵💫 www.forbes.com/sites/grrlsc...
Half Male-Half Female Spider Discovered In Thailand Is New To Science
Not only is this species new to science, but this remarkable individual is the first record of a rare biological phenomenon in this previously unknown species.
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October 4, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Half Male-Half Female Spider Discovered In Thailand Is New To Science
#SciComm🧪 by @grrlscientist.bsky.social
#Biodiversity #Spider🕷️ #NewToScience #NewSpecies #Thailand🇹🇭 #Gynandromorph #Wildlife #Halloween🏮 #SpookySeason😵💫 www.forbes.com/sites/grrlsc...
#SciComm🧪 by @grrlscientist.bsky.social
#Biodiversity #Spider🕷️ #NewToScience #NewSpecies #Thailand🇹🇭 #Gynandromorph #Wildlife #Halloween🏮 #SpookySeason😵💫 www.forbes.com/sites/grrlsc...
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Hi everyone, it's a pleasure to share with you our newest paper, lead by @melaniekaluppa.bsky.social!!! Have a look and enjoy it!!!
Cultural and morphological divergence of Darwin’s cactus finches (Geospiza scandens) across Galápagos Islands url: academic.oup.com/biolinnean/a...
Cultural and morphological divergence of Darwin’s cactus finches (Geospiza scandens) across Galápagos Islands url: academic.oup.com/biolinnean/a...
Cultural and morphological divergence of Darwin’s cactus finches (Geospiza scandens) across Galápagos Islands
Abstract. Understanding the divergence of cultural traits, such as bird song, provides crucial insights into evolutionary processes. In geographically isol
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October 3, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Hi everyone, it's a pleasure to share with you our newest paper, lead by @melaniekaluppa.bsky.social!!! Have a look and enjoy it!!!
Cultural and morphological divergence of Darwin’s cactus finches (Geospiza scandens) across Galápagos Islands url: academic.oup.com/biolinnean/a...
Cultural and morphological divergence of Darwin’s cactus finches (Geospiza scandens) across Galápagos Islands url: academic.oup.com/biolinnean/a...