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Carsten Schradin @carsten-schradin.bsky.social · 2d

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Behavioral ecology: Striped mice speak up

The social behaviors of mice have been a focus of laboratory research for over a century. A new study trades the lab for the coastal shrublands of Sou…

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Frontiers in Social Evolution Seminar FINE @fine-seminar.bsky.social · 10d

Special FINE 30th September 2025
17:00 Paris / 11:00 New York
60min panel talks followed by 60min general discussion

Zoom link opens at 16 :45 /10:45
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Meeting ID: 833 3724 9371

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Frontiers in Social Evolution Seminar FINE @fine-seminar.bsky.social · 16d

DONT miss todays FINE

23rd September, James Tumulty, Rhodes College, USA

Title: Evidence of a selective link between cooperation and individual recognition in a paper wasp.

Live on YoutTube 11:00 New York / 17:00 Paris
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Carsten Schradin @carsten-schradin.bsky.social · 25d

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Songs of the striped mouse show who’s friend and who’s foe

Ultrasonic calls, too high for the human ear to detect, convey a wealth of information across the rodent’s territory.

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Carsten Schradin @carsten-schradin.bsky.social · 27d

Ultrasonic signals support a large-scale communication landscape in wild mice: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...

Ultrasonic signals support a large-scale communication landscape in wild mice

Perrier et al. show that wild African striped mice (R. pumilio) use short-range ultrasonic signals for large-scale communication. By vocalizing at key territorial locations, they extend the functional...

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Carsten Schradin @carsten-schradin.bsky.social · 29d

Comparative life-cycle analyses reveal interacting climatic and biotic drivers of population responses to climate change url: academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

Comparative life-cycle analyses reveal interacting climatic and biotic drivers of population responses to climate change

Abstract. Responses of natural populations to climate change are driven by how multiple climatic and biotic factors affect survival and reproduction, and u

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Frontiers in Social Evolution Seminar FINE @fine-seminar.bsky.social · 29d

Today FINE
9th September, Adam Reddon, Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom
17:00 Paris / 11:00 New York

Title: Conflict management in social fishes
Zoom link opens at 16 :45 /10:45 urosario.zoom.us/j/82256099694

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Frontiers in Social Evolution Seminar FINE @fine-seminar.bsky.social · Sep 1

Join us tomorrow for the first FINE of the Fall 2025:

2nd September, Andrew Bass, Cornell University (USA)

Title: Crystal Clear Brains: Benefits & Tradeoffs of Miniaturization in Danionella Fishes

When: 2nd September, presentation starts at 11:00 NYC / 17:00 Paris.

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Frontiers in Social Evolution Seminar FINE @fine-seminar.bsky.social · Sep 1

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Nature Ecology & Evolution @natecoevo.nature.com · Aug 11

Kotz, Amano & Watson show that exposure to heat extremes is associated with declines in bird populations, especially in tropical regions

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Large reductions in tropical bird abundance attributable to heat extreme intensification - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Climate change poses a growing threat to biodiversity, but disentangling its overall impact from other anthropogenic stressors is challenging. Here the authors use a data-driven climate attribution fr...

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Carsten Schradin @carsten-schradin.bsky.social · Jul 31

Our results revise prevailing theories of mammalian social evolution, revealing that pair-living emerged early, shifting the focus of mammalian social evolution from the origins of pair-living to the origins of group-living.
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Pair-Living Emerged Early in Placental Mammals

It is widely assumed that the first placental mammals were solitary. This assumption has been used as the default in previous comparative studies, but has never been tested independently. Here, we com...

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Carsten Schradin @carsten-schradin.bsky.social · Jul 31

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Here we first quantified and described bush Karoo rat lodges as an example of animal architecture, then compared conditions inside versus outside the architecture, before experimentally testing for its function.

Thermal Refuges as Extended Phenotypes: Lodge Construction by Bush Karoo Rats

Animal architecture has received considerable attention as an extended phenotype that buffers organisms against environmental harshness. However, few studies have described animal architecture in a re...

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Carsten Schradin @carsten-schradin.bsky.social · Jul 7

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'Humans need solitude': How being alone can make you happier

From spending time by yourself to making the most of being single, flying solo can be fulfilling – a philosophy championed by a new wave of books.

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Carsten Schradin @carsten-schradin.bsky.social · Jul 6

The email-newsletter Solo-Times number 3 is now available for download.
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Newsletter

To subscribe, enter your email above or email us directly at [email protected] . Alternatively, join our Google Group " Solitary Living Research - Google Groups " to receive our...

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Carsten Schradin @carsten-schradin.bsky.social · Jun 26

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How many PhDs does the world need? Doctoral graduates vastly outnumber jobs in academia

PhD programmes need to better prepare students for careers outside universities, researchers warn.

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Carsten Schradin @carsten-schradin.bsky.social · Jun 20

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A common parenting practice may be hindering teen development

A poll shows U.S. parents are wary of unsupervised teens, but lack of independence undermines normal development, experts say.

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Carsten Schradin @carsten-schradin.bsky.social · Jun 17

Close encounters of the friendly kind: pacific between‐group interactions in primates - Grueter - Biological Reviews - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Close encounters of the friendly kind: pacific between‐group interactions in primates

While intergroup conflict features prominently in the behavioural ecology literature, its antonym, intergroup peace, has been a rather neglected phenomenon until recently. Neighbourly relations and a....

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Carsten Schradin @carsten-schradin.bsky.social · Jun 13

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P hacking — Five ways it could happen to you

Some data practices can lead to statistically dubious findings. Here’s how to avoid them.

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · Jun 6

Front page of the New York Post.

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Carsten Schradin @carsten-schradin.bsky.social · Jun 5

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Skeletons from ‘green Sahara’ offer genetic peek at a lost human population

Ancient DNA sheds light on a fleeting, lush interlude of North African prehistory

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Frontiers in Social Evolution Seminar FINE @fine-seminar.bsky.social · May 27

Last week season 10 of Fine finished.
You can watch each of the exciting talks we had in this and all previous seasons on our YouTube channel

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Seminar on Frontiers in Social Evolution

International Remote Seminar on Frontiers in Social Evolution (FINE) • Meet weekly with people worldwide who are fascinated by social evolution. • Hear talks about sociality of naturally occurring p...

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Frontiers in Social Evolution Seminar FINE @fine-seminar.bsky.social · May 27

Here is a first glimpse of our program in fall, FINE season 11. The full program will be available in August.

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Carsten Schradin @carsten-schradin.bsky.social · May 23

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What should we be doing as behavioural ecologists?

This is essentially a definition of modern behavioural ecology and what we need to do to generate new hypotheses and advance the field. We need to put ecol

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Frontiers in Social Evolution Seminar FINE @fine-seminar.bsky.social · May 6

Tuesday, May 6th 2025, 11 AM NYC / 5 PM Paris
Eli Strauss, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Germany

Title: Exploring nepotistic societies with spotted hyenas

Live on zoom for subscribers.
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Frontiers in Social Evolution Seminar FINE @fine-seminar.bsky.social · May 4

In case you missed the live FINE on Tuesday, you can watch here the amazing talk by Isabella Capelini about the evolution of parental care in amphibians.
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29 April 2025, Isabella Capelini, Parental Care in Amphibians

YouTube video by Seminar on Frontiers in Social Evolution

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