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Cliodhna Quigley @cvq.bsky.social · 21d

Calling all Austrian academics who care about the situation in Gaza. researchers4palestine.org have an open letter you can sign (and a petition of support if you're a nonacademic). They also link to an EU letter calling for a stop to EU funding for Israeli institutions.

Screenshot of About text:

Researchers4Palestine provides a platform for academics and researchers to share perspectives, resources, and open letters on topics of justice, human rights, and policy. Among our publications is a recent open letter addressing developments in Gaza, available for study and engagement of both academics and the concerned members of the public.

Together, we can make a difference.

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Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social · Jul 31

🪶🤖 Someone stored an image in a Starling song!
“This little bird successfully learned and emulated the sound in the exact same frequency range that he heard it…transferring about 176 kilobytes of uncompressed information…” (!!!)
www.iflscience.com/i-saved-a-pn...

"I Saved A PNG Image To A Bird": YouTuber Stores 176KB Drawing Of A Bird Inside A Bird's Song

According to Benn Jordan this effectively makes the birds capable of storing and transmitting image data.

www.iflscience.com

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anthrofuentes.bsky.social @anthrofuentes.bsky.social · Jul 18

This is not the time to step back. It’s unquestionably the time to step forward. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

This is not the time to step back from diversity, equity, and inclusion

Recently, I exchanged views with a prominent Ivy League scientist who was complaining about the minority students and junior faculty applying to his program. He claimed that the university, through di...

www.science.org

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Cliodhna Quigley @cvq.bsky.social · Jul 11

Although my work has often involved brains, I haven't often talked about how my own unruly brain (migraine) affects my work. Thanks to @carodeimel.bsky.social for suggesting we and another colleague contribute to this inspiring TREE series on disability in EcoEvo: dlvr.it/TLShPk

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · Jun 27

Hello & HAPPY FRIDAY, as promised an open letter by my lovely colleagues and myself. Everybody, feel free to sign this even if you are not NL-based and ‼️ share ‼️ (anonymous signature is poss):

Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia

openletter.earth/open-letter-...

Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia

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Cliodhna Quigley @cvq.bsky.social · Mar 18

Hopefully of interest to @univie.ac.at people at UBB. More info here: wobio.univie.ac.at/events-netwo...

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Cliodhna Quigley @cvq.bsky.social · Mar 11

For buying book books I like www.kennys.ie, based in Ireland and ship worldwide. For ebooks I only ever borrow from my local library (but live in Vienna so it's a ridiculously good one!)

Buy Books Online, Kennys Bookshop Ireland

www.kennys.ie

Cliodhna Quigley @cvq.bsky.social · Mar 6

Excellent thread about an important resource. Entertaining and relevant - do read to the end. 🤗

Altmetric @altmetric.com · Mar 5

THREAD

The Wonderful World of Wikipedia (WWW)

If you are of a certain age, Wikipedia has been a constant in your life. It was not always so.

Here is a pre-history, a history and potential future of the world's great shared book that we all read and write. Also why is it called "Wikipedia"?
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Universität Wien / University of Vienna @univie.ac.at · Mar 5

We’re standing up for science ! 🤝
On March 7 at 1 pm, the #MarchforScience will start in front of the University of Vienna - an initiative of scientists raising their voices worldwide for free science.
The University of Vienna shares this important cause.‼️🏛️ #standupforscience2025 #scienceforall

Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · Feb 21

TWO WEEKS UNTIL #STANDUPFORSCIENCE2025! 📣☀️🌎

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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · Nov 15

Zotero is great and I think that anyone who needs to organise and cite more than a handful of references should be using it. Here's an intro to Zotero that I made for my undergrad students (but the info is relevant for anyone new to Zotero).

Full vid [13 mins]: youtu.be/SlUHjOqVCyU
Preview ⬇️

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Cliodhna Quigley @cvq.bsky.social · Feb 26

Caught our regular balcony visitor politely asking for a drink...

A red squirrel regularly visits our balcony in Vienna, Austria. In the photo, the squirrel is standing with one paw on a crate of Ottakringer beer, looking directly at the camera.

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Izzie Héjja-B. @izziehb.bsky.social · Feb 24

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 · Feb 22

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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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · Feb 17

Archive Request xkcd.com/3052

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Cliodhna Quigley @cvq.bsky.social · Feb 16

For my plant-loving friends in Vienna: the city makes excellent soil out of organic waste and it's on sale again at municipal trash centres. Very reasonably priced too!

Stadt Wien @wien.gv.at · Feb 16

Die Blumenerde „Guter Grund“ aus hochwertigem Kompost aus der Wiener Biotonne ist zurück! 🌿 Jetzt auf allen Wiener Mistplätzen. Torffrei, nachhaltig & perfekt für euren Garten oder euren Balkon! 🌍♻️ Mehr Infos: https://www.wien.gv.at/umwelt/ma48/beratung/muelltrennung/biogener-abfall/blumenerde.html

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Cliodhna Quigley @cvq.bsky.social · Feb 14

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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SKeupp @skeupp.bsky.social · Feb 13

A beautiful insightful video about urban wildlife during new year’s eve in Berlin (sadly, representative of any German city) by @distrustful-dinos.bsky.social

If you are tempted to light even just 1 explosive for your pleasure, this video is for you
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCfH...

Harder! Faster! Louder! – Crows! Fireworks! Berlin! (Krähen in der Silvesternacht)

YouTube video by distrustful dinosaurs

www.youtube.com

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Judge Roy Ferguson @judgefergusontx.bsky.social · Feb 9

Happy #Lawyercat Anniversary for all who celebrate! It's been four years since the kitten appeared in my Zoom courtroom, and I released the 48 second video that made the whole world laugh. Here is the full video showing the big reveal at the end (in two parts because Blue sky). Enjoy!

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Vienna Cognitive Science Hub @viennacogscihub.bsky.social · Feb 4

🚨 Call for Papers! 🚨
Don't miss the chance to apply for the interdisciplinary graduate conference "From Minds to Movements - Foresight in Cognition and Activism" in Vienna!

Maria Fedorova @mariafedor.bsky.social · Feb 4

CFP: The interdisciplinary graduate conference "From Minds to Movements: Foresight in Cognition and Activism"
Date: May 8–10, 2025
Venue: University of Vienna
Application deadline: March 10, 2025
#cogsci #philsky
mindstomovements.carrd.co

From Minds to Movements

Interdisciplinary graduate conference

mindstomovements.carrd.co

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Cliodhna Quigley @cvq.bsky.social · Jan 23

The map got even redder since ye posted it. Eeeeee!

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