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Cliodhna Quigley @cvq.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

This is a very accessible conference - fully online and completely free 🥳

Cliodhna Quigley @cvq.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The Euro banknotes are being redesigned. Some of them feature European birds 🕊️! More info here www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/banknot... including a survey where you can share your opinions on the candidate designs

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PEC Exeter @pec-exeter.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Are bowers artwork? 🖼️ Do we (humans) like the same bower designs that the choosy females like? Please fill in this short survey asking you to "RATE MY BOWER" No expertise needed. We just want your aesthetic judgment🎨🖌️ exe.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Takes <10 mins

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Barbara Klump @barbaraklump.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

More of a field person? We have a work contract available on walnut dropping in carrion crows within the @wwtf.at funded project on "The interplay between cognition and ecology in extractive foraging behaviours". More info: barbaraklump.com Application deadline July 24th. Please share widely!

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Barbara Klump @barbaraklump.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Join us in Vienna! We are looking for a PhD student and a Postdoc to investigate innovation in corvids within the “Comparative ecological innovation styles” project funded by @fwf-at.bsky.social. More info: barbaraklump.com Application deadline July 24th. Please share widely!

A carrion crow holding a walnut. Photo: @valentine-comin.bsky.social

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Sudara @sudara.at · 22/05/2026

What is a harmonic? Check out the interactive comics about additive synthesis that @aleclongstreth.bsky.social and I made! melatonin.dev/additive-syn...

Sudara waves from a piano: ‘Hi, I'm Sudara. Let's talk about harmonics! When you play a note…’

An interactive demo where you can pick an instrument, see, hear and play with their harmonic relationships.

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mhoeschele.bsky.social @mhoeschele.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

I have a new PhD position available on any topic related to musicality or animal communication that aligns well with our current research programs. Deadline March 31: oeaw.ac.at/jobs?jh=795a... For more info about my Musicality and Bioacoustics group: oeaw.ac.at/en/ari/resea...

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Melanie Dusseau @melaniedusseau.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

This is one of the most reasoned & persuasive arguments for not allowing LLMs anywhere near reading & writing intensive classrooms. We can 100% choose not to outsource our reading & writing labor to a bot, and model for our students why they should do the same. #EduSky www.tue.nl/en/our-unive...

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Are AI-generated summaries suitable for studying and research?

Despite didactic, ethical, and environmental concerns, the use of GenAI is on the rise in academia. For most applications, the jury is still out on whether and how they will benefit education and rese...

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Natalie Schaworonkow @nschawor.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

📆 updated for 2026! list of summer schools & short courses in the realm of (computational) neuroscience or data analysis of EEG / MEG / LFP: 🔗 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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various computational neuroscience / MEEG / LFP short courses and summer schools

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mhoeschele.bsky.social @mhoeschele.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Looking for a Postdoc position and have a background in bioacoustics and animal cognition? Interested in whether other animals might have something akin to language? Join our team: www.oeaw.ac.at/en/oeaw-home...

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Isabella Wagner 🧠🦠 @isabellacwagner.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Open postdoc position!🚨 Passionate about gut microbes 🦠 and the brain 🧠? We are an interdisciplinary group at the Faculty of Psychology & @cemess.bsky.social 🌍 @univie.ac.at and invite individuals who self-identify as female. Details: 4 years, full-time ➡️ careers.univie.ac.at/en/postdoc/e...

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Cliodhna Quigley @cvq.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Abstract submission closes soon for our local doctoral conference (focus: cognition, behaviour, neuroscience). Free to attend, always really fun and interesting! Masters students can submit abstracts for poster presentation, which is a great chance to present to a friendly crowd :)

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Cliodhna Quigley @cvq.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

5pm (CET) today, free, easy to register, very important topic for academics

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Izzie Héjja-B. @izziehb.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

🚨We have an open part-time paid position for an *Austria-based* master student in #ComputerScience (incl. adjacent fields) to help develop an automatic stress assessment in wild #GreatTits 🐦 More info in the job description below Remote work is also possible for non-Viennese students🇦🇹 #AnimalWelfare

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Cliodhna Quigley @cvq.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

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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Cliodhna Quigley @cvq.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Calling all Austrian academics who care about the situation in Gaza. researchers4palestine.org have an open letter you can sign (and a petition of support if you're a nonacademic). They also link to an EU letter calling for a stop to EU funding for Israeli institutions.

Screenshot of About text:

Researchers4Palestine provides a platform for academics and researchers to share perspectives, resources, and open letters on topics of justice, human rights, and policy. Among our publications is a recent open letter addressing developments in Gaza, available for study and engagement of both academics and the concerned members of the public.

Together, we can make a difference.

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Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

🪶🤖 Someone stored an image in a Starling song! “This little bird successfully learned and emulated the sound in the exact same frequency range that he heard it…transferring about 176 kilobytes of uncompressed information…” (!!!) www.iflscience.com/i-saved-a-pn...

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"I Saved A PNG Image To A Bird": YouTuber Stores 176KB Drawing Of A Bird Inside A Bird's Song

According to Benn Jordan this effectively makes the birds capable of storing and transmitting image data.

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Cliodhna Quigley @cvq.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Although my work has often involved brains, I haven't often talked about how my own unruly brain (migraine) affects my work. Thanks to @carodeimel.bsky.social for suggesting we and another colleague contribute to this inspiring TREE series on disability in EcoEvo: dlvr.it/TLShPk

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Disability in ecology and evolution

In this TrendsTalk series ‘Disability in ecology and evolution’ in Trends in Ecology and Evolution, we hear from people about their experiences being disabled in ecology and evolution. We are asking e...

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 27/06/2025

Hello & HAPPY FRIDAY, as promised an open letter by my lovely colleagues and myself. Everybody, feel free to sign this even if you are not NL-based and ‼️ share ‼️ (anonymous signature is poss): Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia openletter.earth/open-letter-...

Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia

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Cliodhna Quigley @cvq.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Excellent thread about an important resource. Entertaining and relevant - do read to the end. 🤗

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Universität Wien / University of Vienna @univie.ac.at · 05/03/2025

We’re standing up for science ! 🤝 On March 7 at 1 pm, the #MarchforScience will start in front of the University of Vienna - an initiative of scientists raising their voices worldwide for free science. The University of Vienna shares this important cause.‼️🏛️ #standupforscience2025 #scienceforall

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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Zotero is great and I think that anyone who needs to organise and cite more than a handful of references should be using it. Here's an intro to Zotero that I made for my undergrad students (but the info is relevant for anyone new to Zotero). Full vid [13 mins]: youtu.be/SlUHjOqVCyU Preview ⬇️

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Cliodhna Quigley @cvq.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Caught our regular balcony visitor politely asking for a drink...

A red squirrel regularly visits our balcony in Vienna, Austria. In the photo, the squirrel is standing with one paw on a crate of Ottakringer beer, looking directly at the camera.

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Izzie Héjja-B. @izziehb.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Can humans discriminate individual birds of the spotted bowerbird from photographs?🪶 Students from the @fusanilab.bsky.social @univie.ac.at need you to answer that question! You can test your visual discrimination skills with their online experiment (~15 min long): sosci.univie.ac.at/bowerbird_di...

Picture showing the back of two bowerbirds, potentially corresponding to the same individual. Below is the question: Are these two pictures showing the same individual or different individuals?

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Maria Santacà @mariasantaca.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Wonderful Etho2025 conference in Tutzing! It was really nice to be able to present some previous works 🐟 and my current project 🐦 at @univie.ac.at with the @fusanilab.bsky.social

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 17/02/2025

Archive Request xkcd.com/3052

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Cliodhna Quigley @cvq.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

For my plant-loving friends in Vienna: the city makes excellent soil out of organic waste and it's on sale again at municipal trash centres. Very reasonably priced too!

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Cliodhna Quigley @cvq.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Happy Valentine's day from the Dove Lab @fusanilab.bsky.social @univie.ac.at We're preparing Maria Santacà's new experiment investigating the possible role of visual illusions during courtship. Female birds will watch videos of courting males in different illusion-inducing configurations ♥️🕊️♥️

Photo showing the dove lab, currently in disarray as we prepare our next experiment. A very large computer screen shows 5 birds who are arranged to induce a visual illusion which should alter the size perception of the central bird.

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SKeupp @skeupp.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

A beautiful insightful video about urban wildlife during new year’s eve in Berlin (sadly, representative of any German city) by @distrustful-dinos.bsky.social If you are tempted to light even just 1 explosive for your pleasure, this video is for you www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCfH...

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Harder! Faster! Louder! – Crows! Fireworks! Berlin! (Krähen in der Silvesternacht)

YouTube video by distrustful dinosaurs

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Judge Roy Ferguson @judgefergusontx.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Happy #Lawyercat Anniversary for all who celebrate! It's been four years since the kitten appeared in my Zoom courtroom, and I released the 48 second video that made the whole world laugh. Here is the full video showing the big reveal at the end (in two parts because Blue sky). Enjoy!

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Vienna Cognitive Science Hub @viennacogscihub.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

🚨 Call for Papers! 🚨 Don't miss the chance to apply for the interdisciplinary graduate conference "From Minds to Movements - Foresight in Cognition and Activism" in Vienna!

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