Rebecca Rimbach
@urban-squirrel.bsky.social
Energetics, eco-physiology, urban ecology | @ University of Münster | mainly 🐭🐿️🐒 but also into 🦎| Mom of 2 | firstgen | she/her | http://rebecca-rimbach.com
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IT'S THIS TIME OF THE YEAR AGAIN!! 🧪🦢🐸🐀
Registration for the Annual Meeting of the Ethological Society is open! Join the science & networking fun in Grünau im Almtal 16-21 February 2026 univie.eventsair.com/etho26-dkcog...
Registration for the Annual Meeting of the Ethological Society is open! Join the science & networking fun in Grünau im Almtal 16-21 February 2026 univie.eventsair.com/etho26-dkcog...
a black and white photo of a cat and a duck standing on their hind legs
ALT: a black and white photo of a cat and a duck standing on their hind legs
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October 23, 2025 at 12:31 PM
IT'S THIS TIME OF THE YEAR AGAIN!! 🧪🦢🐸🐀
Registration for the Annual Meeting of the Ethological Society is open! Join the science & networking fun in Grünau im Almtal 16-21 February 2026 univie.eventsair.com/etho26-dkcog...
Registration for the Annual Meeting of the Ethological Society is open! Join the science & networking fun in Grünau im Almtal 16-21 February 2026 univie.eventsair.com/etho26-dkcog...
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Award alert! 🎖️🚨 Every other year, the Ethologische Gesellschaft awards the Niko Tinbergen Award to outstanding post-doc level researchers in Behavioural Biology (<=6yrs post PhD exam).
...and this year is one of these years! Please send us your nominations! 🫵 Infos: www.etho-ges.de/wordpress/aw...
...and this year is one of these years! Please send us your nominations! 🫵 Infos: www.etho-ges.de/wordpress/aw...
Awards – Ethologische Gesellschaft e.V.
www.etho-ges.de
October 31, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Award alert! 🎖️🚨 Every other year, the Ethologische Gesellschaft awards the Niko Tinbergen Award to outstanding post-doc level researchers in Behavioural Biology (<=6yrs post PhD exam).
...and this year is one of these years! Please send us your nominations! 🫵 Infos: www.etho-ges.de/wordpress/aw...
...and this year is one of these years! Please send us your nominations! 🫵 Infos: www.etho-ges.de/wordpress/aw...
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JOB ALERT: We have an exciting Senior Research Assistant post available for a project tracking predators and prey simultaneously starting early 2026. We need someone with experience tagging adult raptors or wader chicks. This you? app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car...
October 8, 2025 at 4:36 PM
JOB ALERT: We have an exciting Senior Research Assistant post available for a project tracking predators and prey simultaneously starting early 2026. We need someone with experience tagging adult raptors or wader chicks. This you? app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car...
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Want to know everything about bird smell?
I wrote an "Ornithological masterclass" on Avian Olfaction for BTO News @btobirds.bsky.social #ornithology
Link to the article 👉 www.researchgate.net/publication/...
I wrote an "Ornithological masterclass" on Avian Olfaction for BTO News @btobirds.bsky.social #ornithology
Link to the article 👉 www.researchgate.net/publication/...
October 8, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Want to know everything about bird smell?
I wrote an "Ornithological masterclass" on Avian Olfaction for BTO News @btobirds.bsky.social #ornithology
Link to the article 👉 www.researchgate.net/publication/...
I wrote an "Ornithological masterclass" on Avian Olfaction for BTO News @btobirds.bsky.social #ornithology
Link to the article 👉 www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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With #eseb2025 coming to a close, it is time to start making plans for 2026. Interested in the interface of evolution 🧬 and ecology 🌳? Come to our #ExE conference hosted by @uniexecec.bsky.social in beautiful #Cornwall. Leave your email address at tinyurl.com/EvolxEcol to join our mailing list!
August 22, 2025 at 1:32 PM
With #eseb2025 coming to a close, it is time to start making plans for 2026. Interested in the interface of evolution 🧬 and ecology 🌳? Come to our #ExE conference hosted by @uniexecec.bsky.social in beautiful #Cornwall. Leave your email address at tinyurl.com/EvolxEcol to join our mailing list!
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2025. How human activity impacts urban squirrels' problem-solving abilities phys.org/news/2025-09...
How human activity impacts urban squirrels' problem-solving abilities
How human activities negatively affect urban red squirrels' problem-solving skills and potentially their chances of thriving is revealed in newly published research from the universities of Chester an...
phys.org
September 25, 2025 at 4:14 AM
2025. How human activity impacts urban squirrels' problem-solving abilities phys.org/news/2025-09...
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Come and work with us! Three new academic posts (including Animal Behaviour) and superb facilities in the new Life & Mind Building
Oxford Biology is growing 📢
We’re appointing 3 Associate Professors in:
🌱 Plant Sciences
🦉 Animal Behaviour
🔬 Molecular Cell Biology
3 fields. 3 opportunities. One new home for Oxford Biology.
Learn more 👉 bit.ly/41S2Tc7
Apply now 👉 bit.ly/488CNW3
We’re appointing 3 Associate Professors in:
🌱 Plant Sciences
🦉 Animal Behaviour
🔬 Molecular Cell Biology
3 fields. 3 opportunities. One new home for Oxford Biology.
Learn more 👉 bit.ly/41S2Tc7
Apply now 👉 bit.ly/488CNW3
September 15, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Come and work with us! Three new academic posts (including Animal Behaviour) and superb facilities in the new Life & Mind Building
Loving the colors of the sea
August 18, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Loving the colors of the sea
Actual footage of me on my way into the weekend...
July 4, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Actual footage of me on my way into the weekend...
When you set traps to capture small rodents, but a least weasel only sees an easy meal
June 30, 2025 at 1:18 PM
When you set traps to capture small rodents, but a least weasel only sees an easy meal
Enjoying lizard fieldwork in Croatia
June 26, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Enjoying lizard fieldwork in Croatia
Do animals dream? Here is a bank vole, sleeping (and dreaming?) in a metabolic chamber
June 20, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Do animals dream? Here is a bank vole, sleeping (and dreaming?) in a metabolic chamber
Fieldwork prep has started! Looking forward to the next field season here in Münster. Let's hope there are loads of small rodents around
May 27, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Fieldwork prep has started! Looking forward to the next field season here in Münster. Let's hope there are loads of small rodents around
📸🐭🐿️🦔🐇🏙️New paper out! Using camera trap data we found that small mammal community composition, species diversity and evenness do not change along an urbanization gradient in and around Münster, Germany. First published study with @mdammhahn.bsky.social www.publish.csiro.au/WR/WR24196
City life does not change a small mammal community composition
Context Urbanization is a global phenomenon with profound forms of land-use change. Urban areas are characterized by habitat fragmentation and replacement of natural habitat by human-made structures, ...
www.publish.csiro.au
May 12, 2025 at 6:36 AM
📸🐭🐿️🦔🐇🏙️New paper out! Using camera trap data we found that small mammal community composition, species diversity and evenness do not change along an urbanization gradient in and around Münster, Germany. First published study with @mdammhahn.bsky.social www.publish.csiro.au/WR/WR24196
A quick recap of our South Africa excursion! So much beauty and diversity @mdammhahn.bsky.social
May 9, 2025 at 6:37 AM
A quick recap of our South Africa excursion! So much beauty and diversity @mdammhahn.bsky.social
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Love the lil flex when they realise they just became the most famous bird in the world.
May 8, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Love the lil flex when they realise they just became the most famous bird in the world.
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I am extremely pleased to share this feature articulating why I have lost my sanity lately. www.science.org/content/arti...
U.S. scientists’ lives and careers are being upended. Here are five of their stories
As the second Trump administration sends U.S. science into upheaval, countless researchers are fighting for their futures
www.science.org
May 3, 2025 at 10:23 PM
I am extremely pleased to share this feature articulating why I have lost my sanity lately. www.science.org/content/arti...
How your email finds me
May 3, 2025 at 7:47 PM
How your email finds me
And a dream came true. We got to visit the Kalahari Meerkat Project run by Marta Manser from Zurich
May 2, 2025 at 1:35 PM
And a dream came true. We got to visit the Kalahari Meerkat Project run by Marta Manser from Zurich
We also visited a very green Addo Elephant National Park
May 2, 2025 at 8:11 AM
We also visited a very green Addo Elephant National Park
Just came back from a 3 week excursion to South Africa with 11 students and @mdammhahn.bsky.social. We covered over 4500km and explored 5 different biomes. Here are some of my favorite pictures (more to follow)
May 2, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Just came back from a 3 week excursion to South Africa with 11 students and @mdammhahn.bsky.social. We covered over 4500km and explored 5 different biomes. Here are some of my favorite pictures (more to follow)
New paper alert! The function of plants collected by bush Karoo rats (Otomys unisulcatus): Do dried up food plants represent stored food? Fun collaboration using plant data I collected quite some time aho. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The function of plants collected by bush Karoo rats (Otomys unisulcatus): Do dried up food plants represent stored food?
Food storing to cope with food reduction during winter has been observed in many rodents in the northern hemisphere. Food storing could also be adapti…
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April 23, 2025 at 11:03 AM
New paper alert! The function of plants collected by bush Karoo rats (Otomys unisulcatus): Do dried up food plants represent stored food? Fun collaboration using plant data I collected quite some time aho. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Looking forward to the @dzg2025berlin.bsky.social meeting! Who else is going?
👋 Looking forward to the 117th Annual Meeting of the German Zoological Society. Please like and share 🤩
April 3, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Looking forward to the @dzg2025berlin.bsky.social meeting! Who else is going?
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2025. #DEI - My experience of speaking at a conference with a baby.
Hannah Chance spent a day during her parental leave telling a group of postdocs about her science-policy work. Aidan, aged six months, came along too. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Hannah Chance spent a day during her parental leave telling a group of postdocs about her science-policy work. Aidan, aged six months, came along too. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
My experience of speaking at a conference with a baby
Hannah Chance spent a day during her parental leave telling a group of postdocs about her science-policy work. Aidan, aged six months, came along too.
www.nature.com
February 28, 2025 at 12:13 AM
2025. #DEI - My experience of speaking at a conference with a baby.
Hannah Chance spent a day during her parental leave telling a group of postdocs about her science-policy work. Aidan, aged six months, came along too. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Hannah Chance spent a day during her parental leave telling a group of postdocs about her science-policy work. Aidan, aged six months, came along too. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Exciting new paper by Jens Ulrich & Risa Sargent: "Urban landscapes with more natural greenspace support higher pollinator diversity." esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
February 25, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Exciting new paper by Jens Ulrich & Risa Sargent: "Urban landscapes with more natural greenspace support higher pollinator diversity." esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....