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Jannes Meyer

@jannesdoesscience.bsky.social
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28 year old Biologist Master of Science Assistant Curator at Zoo Dortmund Animal Behavior and (Behavioral) Ecology Travel, Books, Animals, Video Games, Football ⚽

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Eric Turkheimer @ent3c.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
In 2018, Charles Murray challenged me to a bet: "We will understand IQ genetically—I think most of the picture will have been filled in by 2025—there will still be blanks—but we’ll know basically what’s going on." It's now 2025, and I claim a win. I write about it in The Atlantic.
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Your Genes Are Simply Not Enough to Explain How Smart You Are
Seven years ago, I took a bet with Charles Murray about whether we’d basically understand the genetics of intelligence by now.
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Ahana Aurora Fernandez @ahanaaurora.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Impressions from #gradmeet25 @dzg-behaviour.bsky.social
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DZG section Behavioural Biology @dzg-behaviour.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Our 2nd session of the morning focuses on personality and flexibility — from aggression rates in lemurs to inhibition in cichlids, showcasing again the incredible diversity of behavioural research! 🐒🐀🐟 #gradmeet25 @jannesdoesscience.bsky.social @saskiasp.bsky.social
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DZG section Behavioural Biology @dzg-behaviour.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Kicking off day 3 of #GradMeet25 with more talks on sociality — linking it to dispersal, cognition, and endocrinology! From social dispersal in burying beetles to hormonal changes in cheetahs 🐘🐅🦀🪲 @paulhuber.bsky.social @carolin-schlarb.bsky.social @robotowilliam.bsky.social
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DZG section Behavioural Biology @dzg-behaviour.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Our final session focused again on methodologies 🧩 — with exciting applications from form-based approaches to assess chimpanzee gestures to facial action coding in rabbits 🐒🐇 @chiarazulberti.bsky.social #gradmeet25
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Jannes Meyer @jannesdoesscience.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Thank you very much for having me on today! Had a great time presenting my results about the adorable mouse lemurs.
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Martin A. Nuñez @martin-nunez.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Is it ok to acknowledge in papers funding opportunities that did not give you any $? Like "We’d like to specially thank the NSX grant panel ABC for not giving us a cent and for pushing our creativity to a level we didn’t know we had—allowing us to complete this project with no funding"? #academia 🧪
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Project Seahorse @projectseahorse.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Sir David Attenborough’s latest film reveals the truth about bottom trawling — a fishing method that razes the seafloor like a bulldozer. This #WorldOceansDay, let’s raise our voices and take a stand.
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Tom J. Langbehn @tomlangbehn.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Are you into 🐟🦐 ,🌊&💻📈? Come join us at the Theoretical Ecology Group @unibergen.bsky.social We’ve got 2 #PhD and 1 #Postdoc openings—fully funded, all for 3 years, all part of a funtastic team. 🔗 PhD: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... 🔗 Postdoc: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... #AcademicJobs
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PhD Research Fellow (two positions) in marine evolutionary ecology (281140) | University of Bergen
Job title: PhD Research Fellow (two positions) in marine evolutionary ecology (281140), Employer: University of Bergen, Deadline: Sunday, June 15, 2025
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Martin A. Nuñez @martin-nunez.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
To add to your annual report
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Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
On a remote Panamanian island, capuchin monkeys began kidnapping baby howlers and carrying them for days. Nobody was on the island to witness the origin and spread of this strange social tradition. But camera traps were there: www.ab.mpg.de/677569/news_... Study from @livingingroups.bsky.social ⬇️
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Capuchin monkeys caught abducting baby howlers
On Panama’s Jicarón island, biologists documented five male capuchin monkeys carrying at least eleven different infant howler monkeys—a behavior never before seen in wild primates.
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Ecology of Animal Societies @livingingroups.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Humans have many unusual traditions. But did you know animals’ strange behaviors can become culture too? Out now in Current Biology (doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...) we show the rise and spread of a surprising tradition: interspecies infant abduction. Interactive timeline (www.ab.mpg.de/671374) 🧵 (1/12)
An illustration of a white-faced capuchin monkey carrying a howler infant on their back while cracking nuts with a stone
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Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Cross-species teamwork from @livingingroups.bsky.social reveals unexpected similarities in three social mammals 🤔 By lead author @pminasandra.bsky.social with Emily Grout, Katrina Brock, Meg Crofoot, Vlad Demartsev, Amlan Nayak, Eli Strauss, Ari Strandburg-Peshkin🧵1/2 www.ab.mpg.de/679000/news_...
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Very different mammals follow the same rules of behavior
Research hints at an underlying architecture that orders the movements of animals
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Vibes only @brazuca.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
In related news: arstechnica.com/science/2025...
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Europe launches program to lure scientists away from the US
EU will spend over $500 million to recruit researchers and scientists.
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Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
For German and French speakers interested in animal culture, this doco will be well worth 43 mins of your time. For everyone else, great tits solving puzzle boxes speak for themselves 🐦🧩🧠@lucymaplin.bsky.social @mchimento.bsky.social www.arte.tv/de/videos/11...
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Kultur im Tierreich - Voneinander lernen - Die ganze Doku | ARTE
Bei Menschen wie bei Tieren beruht die Weitergabe von Kultur auf sozialem Lernen. Vier Arten geben Einblicke in die Kulturvermittlung im Tierreich: Kohlmeisen und Grünmeerkatzen lernen die Tricks der ...
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Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Bonobo societies are famous for being “female dominant.” But females are weaker than males, so how can this be? Study by Barbara Fruth and Martin Surbeck on wild bonobos explains how. Hint: it has to do with female solidarity. Paper ▶️ www.nature.com/articles/s42... www.ab.mpg.de/673281/news_...
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Female solidarity keeps male bonobos in check
Study on wild bonobos reveals that females team up to maintain power in their societies
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Migration Department, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior @animaltracking.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
ICARUS BIRDS Where, how, and why do birds die? We are launching the ICARUS BIRDS project to find out! Join us in tracking common birds across Europe to uncover the factors behind their decline. Learn more on our website: www.ab.mpg.de/icarus
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ICARUS Projects
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Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
2025. A new approach for better understanding animal consciousness phys.org/news/2025-02...
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A new approach for better understanding animal consciousness
A team of researchers has outlined a new approach for better understanding the depths of animal consciousness, a method that may yield new insights into the similarities and differences among living o...
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Jeff Stevens @jeffreyrstevens.com · 05/03/2025
🐶🐕🐩 My colleagues in the Department of Ethology at Eötvös Loránd University (Hungary) are conducting a survey of dog owners. So if you are a dog owner, please consider completing their survey at tally.so/r/nPXKPb. #dogs
Advertisement for study at Department of Ethology, Eotovos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary. Image includes face of black and brown dog with its nose buried in a blanket. Text reads: Why do you have a dog? We need your help! This questionnaire is part of a research project conducted at Eotvos Lorand University, Hungary. Our main goal is to identify factors associated with perceived (dis)advantages of sharing life with a companion dog.
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