Ephemeral Resource Adaptations
@batichica.bsky.social
Crazy about evolution. Mother nature is my religion. Bats, bats, bats. and shrews. Leader of the best group ❤️. Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
Shrews loose their motivation for reward, which could be mistaken for cognitive impairment and run excessively, confounding the effects of the actual study about effects of brain size changes. @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @animaltracking.bsky.social 2/🧵
March 6, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Shrews loose their motivation for reward, which could be mistaken for cognitive impairment and run excessively, confounding the effects of the actual study about effects of brain size changes. @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @animaltracking.bsky.social 2/🧵
Almost all scientific research is done with lab animals. Surprisingly, there is barely any literature on how captivity may affect the results. And these effects can be profound. In shrews, remind us of depression as the paper published by @cecibaldoni.bsky.social shows doi.org/10.1098/rsos...
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March 6, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Almost all scientific research is done with lab animals. Surprisingly, there is barely any literature on how captivity may affect the results. And these effects can be profound. In shrews, remind us of depression as the paper published by @cecibaldoni.bsky.social shows doi.org/10.1098/rsos...
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looking for a good scientific read? This paper is out today and shows how much energy male bats can save by living in groups. Great for buffering environmental unexpectedness! Pic by Rene J doi.org/10.1242/jeb....
@mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @jexpbiol.bsky.social @uni-konstanz.de
@mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @jexpbiol.bsky.social @uni-konstanz.de
February 21, 2025 at 12:42 PM
looking for a good scientific read? This paper is out today and shows how much energy male bats can save by living in groups. Great for buffering environmental unexpectedness! Pic by Rene J doi.org/10.1242/jeb....
@mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @jexpbiol.bsky.social @uni-konstanz.de
@mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @jexpbiol.bsky.social @uni-konstanz.de
Edward Hurme on #npr 🤩: tiny new tags allowed us to discover how bats ride the storm during migration 🦇💨: www.wesa.fm/.../research....
Paper here: DOI:10.1126/science.ade7441 (or DM me)
@mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @unikonstanz.bsky.social drawing @jamesklarevas.bsky.social
Paper here: DOI:10.1126/science.ade7441 (or DM me)
@mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @unikonstanz.bsky.social drawing @jamesklarevas.bsky.social
January 4, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Edward Hurme on #npr 🤩: tiny new tags allowed us to discover how bats ride the storm during migration 🦇💨: www.wesa.fm/.../research....
Paper here: DOI:10.1126/science.ade7441 (or DM me)
@mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @unikonstanz.bsky.social drawing @jamesklarevas.bsky.social
Paper here: DOI:10.1126/science.ade7441 (or DM me)
@mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @unikonstanz.bsky.social drawing @jamesklarevas.bsky.social
Congratulations Sarah, for submitting you bachelor thesis. She fought valiant battles with giant data sets and algorithms spitting out false positives and prevailed: lesser fishing bats' morning foraging is determined by reproductive state. Also our lab culture very much revolves around cake 😇
November 21, 2024 at 4:08 PM
Congratulations Sarah, for submitting you bachelor thesis. She fought valiant battles with giant data sets and algorithms spitting out false positives and prevailed: lesser fishing bats' morning foraging is determined by reproductive state. Also our lab culture very much revolves around cake 😇
best European bat fur imho #vespertilio
December 13, 2023 at 8:13 AM
best European bat fur imho #vespertilio
November 27, 2023 at 3:13 AM
I learned how to make reels yesterday, but they do me no good here 😆 our new book is out today on the 🦇bats🦇 of Barro Colorado Island and the research that has been done on them. But don't worry, you'll enjoy by looking at the pictures alone! get it here: geni.us/batislandglo...
November 21, 2023 at 5:51 PM
I learned how to make reels yesterday, but they do me no good here 😆 our new book is out today on the 🦇bats🦇 of Barro Colorado Island and the research that has been done on them. But don't worry, you'll enjoy by looking at the pictures alone! get it here: geni.us/batislandglo...
I am here ❤️🇵🇦🦇
November 15, 2023 at 3:04 AM
I am here ❤️🇵🇦🦇
arrived at home away from home be prepared for lots of jealousy inducing pics!
November 13, 2023 at 12:09 PM
arrived at home away from home be prepared for lots of jealousy inducing pics!
6 more sleeps till Panama, so I‘ll continue group member intros with who I‘ll be working with there. First up: Jenna, she‘s a star and works with social foraging in the amazing Bulldog #bats. Check out our framework here doi: 10.1111/brv.12881. Can‘t wait! #noctilio #Panabats
November 5, 2023 at 7:02 PM
group member intros - we‘re the Ephemeral Resource Adaptations lab aka ERA. Meet Jenni, #cave #bat expert from #Brazil, visiting as a Herz fellow at Uni Konstanz to work on #Rousettus data (the cutie on the right). She‘s on her way to saving the bats of Brazil and a really fun woman to have around
October 27, 2023 at 8:02 PM
group member intros - we‘re the Ephemeral Resource Adaptations lab aka ERA. Meet Jenni, #cave #bat expert from #Brazil, visiting as a Herz fellow at Uni Konstanz to work on #Rousettus data (the cutie on the right). She‘s on her way to saving the bats of Brazil and a really fun woman to have around
join up bat people, we want to beat everyone else: xeno-canto.org upload and share your #batcalls!
October 24, 2023 at 8:11 AM
join up bat people, we want to beat everyone else: xeno-canto.org upload and share your #batcalls!
#echolocation is old. Really old. #bats have been badass for a long time! www.sci.news/paleontology...
October 23, 2023 at 3:35 PM
#echolocation is old. Really old. #bats have been badass for a long time! www.sci.news/paleontology...
the messages you get in my job 😂 „I didn‘t forget you and your feather-poop“ #nyctalus #lasiopterus #batscatchbirds
October 15, 2023 at 9:26 AM
the messages you get in my job 😂 „I didn‘t forget you and your feather-poop“ #nyctalus #lasiopterus #batscatchbirds
we are not only #scientists, we are #artists, too at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior. November by our very own Alona ❤️🦇
October 11, 2023 at 4:24 PM
we are not only #scientists, we are #artists, too at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior. November by our very own Alona ❤️🦇
let me introduce myself. I study bats. And shrews. And yes, there is a red thread. small size, high metabolism -> how do they deal with unpredictability in food availability. I am leaving the dark side and I‘ll be posting news from our research here. Pics for attention
October 4, 2023 at 7:46 PM
let me introduce myself. I study bats. And shrews. And yes, there is a red thread. small size, high metabolism -> how do they deal with unpredictability in food availability. I am leaving the dark side and I‘ll be posting news from our research here. Pics for attention