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Maria Santacà @mariasantaca.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

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Maria Santacà @mariasantaca.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Can fish and birds be “fooled” by the same optical illusion? 🐟🐦 Our new study in Frontiers in Psychology compares guppies and ring doves in their perception of the Ebbinghaus illusion — with surprising results! 🔗 www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.... @univie.ac.at @fusanilab.bsky.social

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Maria Santacà @mariasantaca.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

My new article has been published in @peerj.bsky.social peerj.com/articles/19064 🥳 We explored the classical and numerical Delboeuf illusion using transcranial alternating current stimulation 😊 Check it out! #Neuroscience @fwf-at.bsky.social @univie.ac.at

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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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Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

🚨 Calling from #RoyalSocietyPublishing! 🚨 We are excited to share that the #BiologyLetters Early Career Researcher Competition is open for submissions until April 30, 2025! Grand prize: £1000 2 runners-up: £500 each. 🔗 More details: royalsociety.org/journals/aut...

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Biology Letters early career researcher Competition | Royal Society

Open for entries to early career researchers until 30 April 2025.

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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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Data Science @ Uni Vienna @ds-vienna.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Happy #InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience Today we highlight dynamic women in #DataScience and their contributions to the scientific community to inspire the next generation #GirlsInSTEM #WomenInSTEM #WomenInScience #DiversityEquityInclusion #DSHQ datascience.univie.ac.at/events/women...

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Collage with headshots of women active in data science

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