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Dieter Lukas
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Investigating the evolution of social behaviour. Comparative Behavioral Ecology group leader (he/him) at the MPI EVA

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"Monk parakeets ‘test the waters’ when forming new relationships"

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2025.0399#d1e770

interesting new study by https://bsky.app/profile/elizabethhobson.bsky.social et al.

J. Manson once reminded me that not […]

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November 12, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Wettbewerb für Kreative in #leipzig zur Gestaltung von #science #comics auf Werbeflächen:

https://lauramayer.space/Science-Streets-OPEN-CALL

Open call for creatives in Leipzig to submit comics for Science Streets (the link has details also in English)
October 21, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Fieldwork simplifies bird identification: the bird on the left is "not a grackle", the bird in the middle is "not a grackle", as is the bird on the right #thegrackleproject

For actual ID's see alt text.
October 19, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Bird migration season: last week, radar "captured about 10% of the (North American) continent’s birds in flight at the same time"

https://www.birds.cornell.edu/home/record-breaking-night-of-bird-migration/
September 30, 2025 at 9:33 PM
"Overall, the message from this survey is positive– #evolutionary #biologists are readily employable outside of #academia, generally well-prepared for those jobs, and report high levels of satisfaction in their non-academic #careers"

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.19.671061v1
September 15, 2025 at 9:06 PM
The highly commended entries in this year's #wildlife Photographer of the Year competition:

https://bbc.com/news/articles/c70r7plrdndo

The photo below by Lakshitha Karunarathna documents a lone Asian elephant navigating a waste disposal site.
August 27, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Another fun one from xkcd:
"Various experts answer the question: where do babies come from?"

https://xkcd.com/3127/
August 12, 2025 at 8:29 AM
„behavioral flexibility, while helpful in allowing birds to adapt to new environments, is not the primary facilitator for range expansion“

https://news.ucsb.edu/2025/021980/both-flexibility-and-persistence-make-some-birds-successful-human-made-environments

#thegrackleproject
August 6, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Our #study finds that #male #dominance isn't the norm among #primates, and starts to unravel what shapes flexibility in intersexual power

paper (OA) https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2500405122

press release https://www.mpg.de/24986976/0630-evan-beyond-the-alpha-male-150495-x?c=2249
July 8, 2025 at 1:56 PM
New report from the WHO
"From #loneliness to #social connection:
charting a path to healthier societies"

https://www.who.int/groups/commission-on-social-connection/report

Looks like it can be relevant for those of us doing research in related field because […]

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June 30, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Want to explore the expected relatedness in different social groups - and how this can affect competition? Check out the neat app L. White did for our paper: https://bsky.app/profile/drlozwhite.bsky.social/post/3lsgieizk4k2a

paper: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.250385
June 25, 2025 at 1:47 PM
We have a new paper:

"intergenerational conflict among females may play a role in the evolution of #chimpanzee #menopause"

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.250385
June 25, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Observations from a seminar series in Biology shows that "Female speakers had smaller audiences, especially among professors, even with comparable productivity metrics."

https://ecoevorxiv.org/repository/view/7175/

recommended @PeerCommunityIn Ecology […]

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May 19, 2025 at 4:14 PM
"Immediate and longer-term impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on scientific productivity in ecology and evolution...We show that although submission rates spiked when the pandemic began, they have been plummeting since."

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.2025.0463
May 3, 2025 at 12:36 PM
New from #thegrackleproject: "using multiple different methods for measuring boldness and exploration...our findings improve our understanding of the traits that are linked with flexibility in a highly adaptable species" […]

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April 25, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Try to explain scientific journal publishing fees to non-academics...

https://xkcd.com/2085/
March 18, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Interesting new study looks at how ice fishermen integrate personal and social information to decide where to forage

https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/qbvp9_v1

thread by first author: https://bsky.app/profile/alexschakowski.bsky.social/post/3ljdgqlslc22h
March 7, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Siphoning money out of academia...

"Last year, Elsevier's publishing business had an operating profit of £1.17bn, growth of 5%, on a revenue of £3.05bn, giving it an operating margin of 38.4%...article submissions growing very strongly, particularly in […]

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February 24, 2025 at 12:55 PM
"Leistet passiven Widerstand – wo immer Ihr auch seid!" - 'Put up passive resistance, wherever you are'

Three members of the "Weiße Rose" were executed #otd 22 Feb 1943

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Rose

'Die "Weiße Rose" und die Geschwister […]

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February 22, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Mice react to unresponsive conspecifics similar to what we get taught as first aid - and their interventions speed up recovery.

Described in two new articles:
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adq2677
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adq2679
February 21, 2025 at 9:39 AM
New #survey on "#european citizens’ knowledge and attitudes towards #science and technology"

https://europa.eu/eurobarometer/surveys/detail/3227

Some key findings:
- 83% think that the influence of science/technology is positive

- 80% think that results […]

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February 13, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Catching up on #fieldwork #research with #thegrackleproject: the great-tailed grackles in California often foraged in the shade, however limited the shade was.

Not sure whether they don't want to stare into the sun, are better hidden from predators, prefer the lower temperature,...?
January 30, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Catching up on #fieldwork #research with #thegrackleproject: this female great-tailed grackle in California wanted to make sure that we collect the correct data...
January 28, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Catching up on #fieldwork #research with #thegrackleproject: grackles mostly ignore each other, but these two juvenile male boat-tailed grackles in Florida got into a disagreement....
January 27, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Was passiert eigentlich beim #recycling der 'Wertstoffe'? Gute Infographik des @ZDF zeigt das nur 35% wirklich wiederverwertet wird:

https://zdfheute-stories-scroll.zdf.de/gelbe-tonne-recycling/index.html

Also: Plastik vermeiden wenn möglich
January 24, 2025 at 8:34 AM