Huge congrats to @gnavalon—it’s brilliant to see our new 80-million-year-old bird on the cover of @nature! Navaornis hestiae provides the clearest insight yet into how and when the distinctive brains of modern birds evolved. Paper open access: nature.com/articles/s4158…

AWARD ISSUE OUT! Featuring 5 outstanding mini-reviews on a broad range of topics, written by early career researchers who participated in the review competition ➡️ vist.ly/3mme3s7 Violeta Caballero-Lopez Guillaume DILLENSEGER @FrankMuzio21 Grace Blackburn Camilla Soravia #HeatherWolverton

🐦📢 very pleased to share our freshly published cultural diffusion experiment w/ GustavoAlarcón-Nieto and Lucy Aplin in PLOS Biology that explored decision-making of immigrant great tits after moving into a new social group: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar… Centre for the Adv Study of Collective Behaviour MPI-AB is on Bluesky @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social University of Zurich

🧵 Understanding Degrees of Freedom in Statistics In statistics, degrees of freedom (d.f.) are the number of independent values that can vary in your data after certain constraints are applied. #Statistics #DataScience #Research #Science

Understanding Bootstrapping in Statistics Bootstrapping is a resampling technique introduced by Bradley Efron in 1979. It involves repeatedly drawing samples, with replacement, from an observed dataset to estimate the sampling distribution of a statistic. Resampling with

New paper out in Animal Cognition: bumblebee social learning, Lego, and DeepLabCut 🙂 link.springer.com/article/10.100…

NEW PAPER: Incubating black-tailed godwits use five main call types for nest communication and predator alerts, showing distinct diurnal patterns and high variation in call frequency between breeding pairs. ➡️ vist.ly/3mnq3bx Ondrej Belfin MPI for Biological Intelligence #ornithology #godwits

New paper out in The Royal Society Interface: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs… Using 11 different human social networks, we show how identifying 'Superspreaders' requires careful consideration of temporal dynamics & turnover in social connections. Led by Rachael Pung w/ Adam Kucharski

Lovely blog post about our recent paper in Ornithology (American Ornithological Society)! We applied agent-based models and machine learning to 36 yrs of mourning warbler song, and found evidence that males have a learning bias for more complex syllables: americanornithology.org/cultural-evolu…

- To zupełnie nowy mechanizm, przez który zmiany klimatu mogą hamować wzrost drzew - wyjaśnia prof. @mic_bog z Centrum Biologii Lasu #UAM. Więcej o reprodukcji buków w najnowszych badaniach: amu.edu.pl/dla-mediow/kom…

The loss of megafauna over the last 50,000 years has caused ecological theories to be based on already-degraded ecosystems. doi.org/10.1111/oik.11… Skjold Alsted Søndergaard Rasmus Ejrnæs Camilla Fløjgaard Jens Svenning Nordic Society Oikos Wiley Ecology & Evolution

Honey bees all dance slightly differently, and these differences impact their communication outcomes! I did indeed put name tags on 6,000 bees to find this out! Our paper is out today in Current Biology 🤩 cell.com/current-biolog… Cell Press #honeybee #science #PhD

New paper out in Current Biology! A primer on cognition in multi-species sociality, focusing on the octopus-fish case 🐙🐟🐠 Read it here: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

W rozmowie z Nauka o Klimacie Aleksandra Kardaś opowiadam o tym co może stać się z lasami w różnych scenariuszach zmian klimatycznych, prezentując nasze najnowsze mapy naukaoklimacie.pl/aktualnosci/z-…

Just published🌿 A study led by Santiago Ramírez Barahona from UNAM, published in @Science reveals that climate change and deforestation are pushing species to higher altitudes, between 1.8 and 2.7 meters per year. Cloud forests are vulnerable! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Online now: Multiplayer videogames to analyze behavior during ecological interactions dlvr.it/TJSKFD

Physics professor discloses in 1 minute the full insight of Quantum Mechanics.

🐁Happy to share my very first article of my Swiss project! 🐿️🌲 "Seed predation by rodents suppresses recruitment of a bird-dispersed tree at its upper range limit" besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/13… Project funded by Narodowe Centrum Nauki Department of Zoology Image: Tomek Samojlik

Outstanding from Oasis tonight in Wembley 🏟️🔥 🎥 ‘Don’t Look Back In Anger’

Wembley Stadium … 80,000 voices. One Wonderwall. Thanks Adam Cannon #OasisLive25