@ahanaaurora
Emmy Noether Group leader |STRI Research Associate | Research interests: Bioacoustics, Vocal learning, Social behavior, Vocal ontogeny, Neuroethology | Bats | Hummingbirds | Dog owner | www.ahanaaurorafernandez.org
Batnight in Gamboa Panama
An important part of science is outreach. The batlab in Gamboa excells at it: so many enthusiastic researchers sharing their knowledge and findings. Proud if being a part of it! #Batsareawesome #Batnight
Our new paper on vocal expression of emotions (using recently published database of ungulate emotionally loaded calls: zenodo.org/records/1463...), shows that negative calls tend to have lower individuality than positive ones www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@behaveco.bsky.social
Bat fieldwork 2025 well underway in Panama
#batsareawesome
Meet our plenary speaker Renata Sousa-Lima!
Professor at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (Brazil), Renata ‘s research focuses on bioacoustics of aquatic mammals and has pioneered the field of ecoacoustics and soundscape ecology in Brazil.
Congrats to the winners of the best poster and best talk of the #gradmeeg25.
But all the contributions were really stunning!! @dzg-behaviour.bsky.social @denisebe.bsky.social
Impressions from #gradmeet25 @dzg-behaviour.bsky.social
Also the second and third day were a full success. Days filled with amazing student talks -from bachelor to postdoc. Thanks for all your effort. #gradmeet25 @dzg-behaviour.bsky.social
In our first session of day 2 at #GradMeet25, it’s all about sending and receiving information — from chemical communication in spiders to alarm calls in monkeys. 🕷️🦇🐒
@michellebeyer.bsky.social
A buzzing 🐝 poster session at #GradMeet25 — great science, great conversations, great energy! ✨
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
Inspiring talk about raven sociality and cognition from Thomas Bugnyar at #gradmeet25. Impressively shows how important long-term studies and observations in the wild are! @dzg-behaviour.bsky.social
The first day of our #gradmeet25 was filled with stunning student talks, a lot of questions and networking. Way to go!
Kicking off our invited talks in the Behavioural Biology section!
First up, @roesslerdaniela.bsky.social shares insights into spider sleep and future directions in this exciting field. 🕷️💤
Fantastic talk with amazing visuals! #DZG2025
So excited that our #gradbehav25 is about to start! Looking forward to all the student contributions and two amazing plenary talks! @dzg-behaviour.bsky.social
Someone please call the ant ambulance!
In our second invited talk, @etf1989.bsky.social highlights his research on wound care behaviour in various ant species.
Another fantastic talk, with impressive videos of these behavioural displays!
🐜🐜🐜
#DZG2025
Great start to our "Wildlife in Urban Spaces" symposium! This morning, two excellent speakers, @tanjastraka.bsky.social & Jannis Gottwald, shared insights on interdisciplinary approaches & the latest technical advancements in measuring and understanding human-wildlife interactions.
#dzg2025
Kicked off our first behaviour session with 6 fascinating talks—covering everything from spiders, electric fish, and fossil insects to sex pheromones and how parental behaviour shapes immunity. 🌍🕷️🐟🪲
#DZG2025
@janka-p.bsky.social @andifischer10.bsky.social @leo-theo.bsky.social
From pigeons to foxes—urban jungles are wilder than you think!
We’re hyped for our Wildlife in Urban Spaces symposium, kicking off right before #DZG2025 sweeps us into 3 fantastic days of conferencing in Berlin!
dzg-meeting.de/en/program/
And #DZG2025 is officially open!
Great opening event at the @mfnberlin.bsky.social - what a stunning venue! We are looking forward to a great conference!
some impression from my presentation on elephant vocal learning - IBAC2025
New publication from my lab: Vampyrum spectrum, the Neotropics' largest carnivorous bat, is very cooperative. These gentle apex predators regularly provide prey for family member – documented in the wild for the first time.
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
🦇 These giant carnivorous bats hug, cuddle — and even share dinner: www.sciencenews.org/article/carn...
📢 Mark your calendars for the Joint Graduate Meeting of @ethoges.bsky.social and @dzg-behaviour.bsky.social!
Don't miss this fantastic opportunity to showcase your research and network with peers!
📆 08.10. - 10.10.2025
🌍 Leipzig, Germany
🔗 tinyurl.com/GradMeetingA...
Amazing post🦇
Bats are underrated.
We studied the evolution of infant-directed communication by comparing vocal input rates across great apes!
A collaborative study led by @carolinefryns.bsky.social, Johanna Schick and me;
www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....
One thing that makes humans remarkable is baby talk. And that might be one reason why we have language. Here's my story [Gift link] nyti.ms/4k5duXd
..in the field had already been invited (and) declined to review.
I used to like Frontiers for some high-quality published work and I have had positive experiences publishing with them myself.
My editorial experiences though.. I do hope they take my feedback on board.
(7/7)
Tweet from 2023 saying: 'I resigned as an Associate Editor for a Frontiers journal because of the way their automated system took away much of my editorial autonomy. some details that might also explain odd reviewer/author experiences:' (1/7)
Originally posted on Twitter in 2023—reposting after a chat with a colleague about possibly publishing in an MDPI journal (whose review practices are similar to Frontiers). Not sure if either has since addressed the issues raised, but I feel process should be public knowledge.
For #PrideMonth , an updated reading list
by @jjinsing.bsky.social
via
integrativeandcomparativebiology.wordpress.com/2025/06/10/w...
List
jayjinsing.github.io/ReadingList/
& be sure to read Jay's coauthored ICB work
Cross-sexual Transfer Revisited.
doi.org/10.1093/icb/...
#LGTBQI #Pride
