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Animal-Environment Interactions Lab
@safilab.bsky.social
A team of scientists at the Max-Planck Institute of Animal Behavior studying how animals move in and thus negotiate their natural world. You can find more information here: https://www.ab.mpg.de/safi
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How can we learn about animals that hide from view? IMPRS student @galarconnieto.bsky.social, working in @safilab.bsky.social tells us more about his research on oilbirds!
@mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social

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Gustavo Alarcon-Nieto | Movement of oilbirds
YouTube video by Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
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November 3, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Most people are right- some left-handed or ambidextrous - and so are honey buzzards when turning in thermals! But, unlike us, mastering flight means these birds must overcome laterality as they grow. A gem of a preprint led by @enourani.bsky.social. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
September 26, 2025 at 12:36 PM
A behind the scene story that exemplifies what can happen if brilliant and motivated people work together to turn cheap ideas into precious outcome. methodsblog.com/2025/08/28/c...
Citizen scientist coders for wildlife conservation – a MoveApps story
Post provided by Andrea Kölzsch. I am a movement ecologist and have until recently worked as a PostDoc at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior in Radolfzell, Germany. My research focusses, o…
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August 29, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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Do you use Earth Observation #data for #wildlife #ecology? Take this survey to share how you use remotesensing, climate and weather data. Part of SOS (www.dfg-sos.de), a project of @dlr-de.bsky.social, @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social, ‪@uni-wuerzburg.de‬

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May 27, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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Preprint @ecoevorxiv.bsky.social arising from @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social animal welfare workshops. How can we develop a better error culture in animal biologging where we can learn from our, and others, mistakes and experiences?

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The burden of a failed error culture in biologging
ecoevorxiv.org
May 15, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Apply for a MSCA fellowship to pursue a postdoc in your dream research institution in Europe.
MSCA opens €404.3 million call for Postdoctoral Fellowships
Postdoctoral Fellowships offer researchers holding a PhD the opportunity to acquire new skills through advanced training and international, interdisciplinary, and inter-sectoral mobility.
marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu
May 8, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Although I stay out of politics, today going to work this image popped up in my mind.
April 9, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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To all Animovers out there: Our next workshop will take place from the 30th of November until the 13th of December 2025. More information about location, price and how to apply will follow soon....🤗🐒🦥🌎🐸🐊🕷️🪱
February 19, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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We are hiring! We look for a person with programming skills in R and/or Python. Application deadline is March 14th 2025. All details here: www.ab.mpg.de/654153/job_f...
Technical Assistant (m/f/d) | Moveapps
Help maintain and improve existing apps, create new apps, help maintaining the user manual up to date, support other developers if they encounter issues when developing their apps
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February 3, 2025 at 11:42 AM
I am trying to find 2 reviewers for a paper on camera traps and predator-prey interactions. 16 invitations sent, 6 declined, the rest are ghosting me, and we're 60 days into submission. Is it that Peer community in Ecology is asking to review? We might be deserving the mess we find ourselves in.
January 23, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Just returning from a kickoff meeting at the Schneeferner Umweltforschungsstation located on top of Germany. A most stunning place to start a DFG Forschungsgruppe with high ambitions in joining ecology and remote sensing through cutting edge IT research.
January 15, 2025 at 7:55 PM
You can't have your cake and eat it! There would be no cherished and social media advertised papers WITHOUT EVERYONE (corresponding a MS) also reviewing AT LEAST 4 MSs. Not even speaking of serving as editor etc. Be a mutualist not a parasite! You are risking to die with your host. Happy holidays!
December 18, 2024 at 7:19 AM
Animals sensing the environment. Knowing your animals can provide whole new perspectives in how we interact with our natural world. www.theguardian.com/science/2024...
Can goats predict earthquakes? Can dogs forecast volcanic eruptions? These scientists think so
Tracking the behaviour of tagged animals from space could transform the research into a host of natural phenomena
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2024 at 2:35 PM
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The US NIH has announced a competition to develop a metric to reward data sharing that might be of interest to some of you.

The first place prize is US$500,000.00 (only US entities/citizens or permanent residents eligible to win the $)

https://buff.ly/3V7oytb
November 25, 2024 at 9:01 AM
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⏰A reminder that applications for #PhD projects in IMPRS-QBEE close on Sunday. Projects starting in 2025 span:
#locusts
#moths
#meerkats
#lemurs
#hyenas
#nematodes
#baboons
Apply here:
➡️https://imprs-qbee.mpg.de/66685/current

@unikonstanz.bsky.social
November 18, 2024 at 2:51 PM
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Two amazing jobs at Uni Bern. Assistent professorships in conservation biology and computational ecology. Bern is a wonderful place to live and work in!
www.iee.unibe.ch/about_us/job...
November 15, 2024 at 7:16 PM
We have a new exciting preprint to report on, which is worth of our first ever post here. Do you know about the three forces eagles use to soar? There are thermals, orographic updrafts (wind pushing up hills) and ...? The mysterious third: surfing gravity waves. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Golden eagles regularly use gravity waves to soar in the Alps: new insights from high-resolution weather data
Soaring flight developed as a result of behavioural and morphological adaptations that allow birds to reduce the metabolic cost of flight by harnessing the energy available in the atmosphere. Despite ...
www.biorxiv.org
November 18, 2024 at 11:14 AM