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Penn-Zala Lab @pennzalalab.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

🎶 Do male courtship vocalizations always attract females? How repeatable and generalizable are playback studies? Maja Peng tackled this question, and her paper is out #USV @klivvvienna.bsky.social‬: ⤵️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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KLIVV Vienna @klivvvienna.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

The newest study from the @pennzalalab.bsky.social shows that female mice 🐭 are not attracted to male songs as assumed, which raises questions about the repeatability and generalizability of playback studies in house mice. Read all about it here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 📷: Bettina Wernisch

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Penn-Zala Lab @pennzalalab.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

📢 The first Vienna Behaviour and Cognition Network meeting has just taken place. What a wonderful initiative Leo Fusani❗️ Thank you, Dustin Penn and Maja Peng for presenting our lab’s work! 🐭🎶👏 ▶️ vibecog.net

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KLIVV Vienna @klivvvienna.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

The @pennzalalab.bsky.social just published a review of the methods and tools for processing and analyzing #mousevocalizations, including #USVs, proposing new labels and a novel hierarchical classification for all types of 🐭 vocalizations. Check it out!▶️https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2026.116337

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Penn-Zala Lab @pennzalalab.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

📢 We just published a review of the methods and tools for processing and analyzing #mouse vocalizations, including #USVs, proposing new labels and a novel hierarchical classification for all types of 🐭 vocalizations. Check it out! ▶️https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2026.116337 @klivvvienna.bsky.social

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Penn-Zala Lab @pennzalalab.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Did you know that male mice 🐭 not only sing like songbirds, but males and females duet 🎶 during mating? Thank you, Sophie von Merten, for inviting us to present our work at the University of Salzburg! # USV @klivvvienna.bsky.social

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Penn-Zala Lab @pennzalalab.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Great job Maja Peng and Ludmila Kerhartová presenting our work on 🐭 vocal recognition 🎶 at the “Ethology 2026” conference in Grünau 👏. We also listened to Rosemary and Peter Grant giving amazing talks 🐦‍⬛. What an inspiration! @klivvvienna.bsky.social

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Bibiana Rojas @biobiiana.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Don’t miss this opportunity to attend #ISBE2026 next year!

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Penn-Zala Lab @pennzalalab.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

📣 Congratulations to Anna Kruppa who just finished her MSc thesis 🥳 and presented her study on USVs and inbreeding status in wild house mice! 🎉 How do 🐭 respond to USVs 🎶? Brava Anna! 👏 @klivvvienna.bsky.social‬

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Ben Sheldon @sheldonbirds.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Interested in a PhD in ornithology? Funding available for projects at the interface of ecology, behaviour & evolution from Oct '26 working on long-term population studies of tits at Wytham, based in @biology.ox.ac.uk in the new Life & Mind Building in Oxford www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Celebrating a successful field season with great food & good company - May 2025

Front view of the Life & Mind Building, which opened in Oct 2025: The new home of Biology at Oxford

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Penn-Zala Lab @pennzalalab.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

So very rewarding teaching children about the ultrasonic songs of mice and seeing the kids’ (and their parents’ 😉) faces upon hearing them (which we made audible for human ears). Thanks to Maja Peng and Bettina Wernisch for their great teamwork! @klivvvienna.bsky.social

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Penn-Zala Lab @pennzalalab.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

📣 Paper alert! Have you ever wondered what a ketogenic diet might do to unborn offspring? Here we show that pregnant healthy 🐭 on a ketogenic diet give birth to less females pups and that the male pups die earlier than controls. Check it out: ▶️ doi.org/10.1371/jour... @klivvvienna.bsky.social

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Penn-Zala Lab @pennzalalab.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

📢 Should you be on a ketogenic diet when pregnant? We found that this is not a good idea for healthy 🐭, and we raise concerns that ketogenic diets during pregnancy may have detrimental effects on offspring health and longevity. Coming out soon! 😃

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Penn-Zala Lab @pennzalalab.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

🎉 Congratulations to Berta Retana Ferrés, who just defended her BS thesis at the University of Barcelona 🥳 presenting her work from the Erasmus internship that she did in our lab in Vienna! 😃 Berta found very interesting results on how 🐭 respond to USVs 🎶 👏 @klivvvienna.bsky.social‬

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KLIVV Vienna @klivvvienna.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

🔔NEW PAPER by the @pennzalalab.bsky.social! "Pre- and post-copulatory traits are affected by experimental inbreeding, but they are not correlated" out now in BMC Biology🐭 pbs.twimg.com/media/GtIyYn... 📸: Wikipedia

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Penn-Zala Lab @pennzalalab.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

📣 Paper alert! Here we show that inbreeding impacted primary and secondary sex traits in wild 🐭. It negatively impacted testes mass, sperm quantity & quality, altered male courtship vocalisations 🎶, and reduced courtship behaviors. Check it out ▶️ doi.org/10.1186/s129...

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Pre- and post-copulatory traits are affected by experimental inbreeding, but they are not correlated - BMC Biology

Background It has been suggested that the expression of males’ secondary sexual traits provides reliable indicators of their sperm traits, predicting positive correlations between pre- and post-copula...

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FIWI Vienna @fiwivienna.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Don't miss this exciting workshop on "Honest signalling and communication: from microbes to humans", next week in Leiden. #SarahZala is one of the scientific organizers, and we are looking forward to this event!🗣️🧪 @klivvvienna.bsky.social @lorentzcenter.bsky.social @pennzalalab.bsky.social

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Penn-Zala Lab @pennzalalab.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

📢 Six papers 🐭, one wedding and one baby later 👶… congratulations to Dr. Doris Nicolakis 🥳, who just gave a great talk 👏 and defended her PhD entitled “Adaptive functions of courtship signals in male house mice (Mus musculus musculus)” 🎵 🎉 Looking forward to new great discoveries with Doris!

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Elli Leadbeater @ellileadbeater.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Do you know of a researcher working in the field of zoology and/or conservation who you think has made an outstanding contribution that deserves recognition? Nominations are due on Feb 25th for the ZSL awards program, which spans all career levels from UG onwards www.zsl.org/about-zsl/aw...

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Awards | ZSL

ZSL's programme of science and conservation awards recognises outstanding contributions

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Bibiana Rojas @biobiiana.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Fabulous news! @ameliedesvars.bsky.social has been nominated by the Austrian Academy of Sciences to the Frontiers Planet Prize! Congratulations, Amél! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽https://www.vetmeduni.ac.at/universitaet/infoservice/news/news-detail/frontiers-planet-prize-nominierung-fuer-amelie-desvars-larrive

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

The most iconic figure in the environmental sciences is the Keeling Curve, the CO₂ record from Mauna Loa, Hawaii. @noaa.gov had a wonderful site where you could visualize and download these data, and now it's just gone. These data belong to us and we should not let this happen!

$A line graph showing atmospheric CO2 levels at Mauna Loa Observatory from 1955 to 2025. The y-axis represents CO2 mole fraction in parts per million (ppm), ranging from 320 to 420 ppm, while the x-axis is years.$

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Penn-Zala Lab @pennzalalab.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

When you arrive at work and it looks like this! 😃 @KLIVVWien @VetmeduniVienna

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Penn-Zala Lab @pennzalalab.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

📢 Teresa Klaus heroically classified >53000 USVs in wild🐭during courtship and mating. We found changes in their vocal composition, some USVs correlated with mating success, and there is evidence for vocal duetting! 🎶 @KLIVVWien @VetmeduniVienna🐭 ▶️ doi.org/10.1016/j.an...

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Behaviour 2025 @behaviour2025.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Big news for #behaviour2025 attendees !! 📣 We are thrilled to announce that @asab is offering travel grants for #behaviour2025 attendees! 🎉🎊 Hurry! apply now! For more details, check out the post below 👇 bsky.app/profile/ccio...

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Julien Renoult @julien-renoult.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

PLEASE SHARE: Postdoc Opportunity in Montpellier France. 18 months starting May 2025: Generative AI for Studying the Influence of Habitats on the Diversification of Bird Color Patterns. Applications and information here: tinyurl.com/2368teak @evoldir.bsky.social

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Penn-Zala Lab @pennzalalab.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

🎉 What a great job Martina Zani! Her MS thesis talk on USV discrimination in wild 🐭 was excellent. Congratulations! 🥳 @KLIVVWien @VetmeduniVienna🐭

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