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Niels Dingemanse

@dingemanselab.bsky.social

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I love animal behaviour, behavioural ecology, life history strategies, quantitative genetics, social evolution, SQuID-teaching, mixed models, birding, dragonflies, chickens, diving, the sea & the mountains. Prof @lmumuenchen. Views are my own. He/him

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Niels Dingemanse @dingemanselab.bsky.social · Jul 18

And thanks @rivers-disguise.bsky.social for another piece of wonderful sparrow artwork (can you spot the hybrid house x tree sparrow?)

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Niels Dingemanse @dingemanselab.bsky.social · Jul 18

Congrats Dr. @roriwijnhorst.bsky.social @lmumuenchen.bsky.social for an impressive PhD-presentation and defence. Thanks partner in crime @cdegroot.bsky.social and collaborators @ali--wilson.bsky.social, Henrik Jensen & Jon Wright and @dfg.de for funding his project on social evolution in sparrows

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Niels Dingemanse @dingemanselab.bsky.social · Jun 23

Big congrats to Dr. @cdegroot.bsky.social for a wonderful PhD defence @lmumuenchen.bsky.social. A big thanks to all collaborators and partner in crime @roriwijnhorst.bsky.social, and @rivers-disguise.bsky.social for producing wonderful artwork. Time to celebrate!

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Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo @multicellgenome.bsky.social · May 31

Thanks @dingemanselab.bsky.social @desiaguilas.bsky.social Stefan &others

@ibe-barcelona.bsky.social @prbb.org
@erc.europa.eu @csic.es

#scicomm #protists #animalorigins

👉the book: takatuka.cat/libros/hola-...

¡Hola, plancton! Unas criaturas acuáticas fascinantes

Este libro ilustrado explora el impacto del plancton en el planeta y su papel en el equilibrio de los océanos. Sin él no podríamos respirar.

takatuka.cat

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Niels Dingemanse @dingemanselab.bsky.social · May 30

Nudibranch happy with it's first meal upon arrival in Spain

@annikaguse.bsky.social
@lmumuenchen.bsky.social
@multicellgenome.bsky.social

#Nudibranch #predation #anemone #aiptasia #sciencecommunication

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Melissah Rowe @melissahrowe.bsky.social · Apr 30

PhD position alert! Fully-funded PhD in my group to work on avian reproductive microbiomes and immunity. Please RT! Deadline June 29th, reach out for more information. #microbiomes #sparrows #spermbiology

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SEBiology @sebiology.bsky.social · May 29

🚨 Last chance!

Apply for the SEB Conference Travel Grant before Saturday and get help covering your costs to attend our Annual Conference in Antwerp.

Early career? Limited funding? This is for you.
www.sebiology.org/resource/las...

#SEB2025 #TravelGrant #SciComm

Last chance to apply for the SEB Conference Travel Grant

Don't miss out on up to £400 in travel support to attend SEB Annual Conference in Antwerp – apply by 31 May!

www.sebiology.org

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ASAB @asab.org · May 21

Don’t forget the deadline for this current round of grants is approaching on June 1!

www.asab.org/research-gra...

Research Grants — ASAB

Research Grants of up to £10,000 support original research projects.

www.asab.org

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Hannah Scharf @hannah-scharf.bsky.social · May 30

A pair of blue tits begging for food on their first morning outside of their nestbox. Hopefully I will see them again next year!

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Niels Dingemanse @dingemanselab.bsky.social · May 29

Would you get any work done with this view?

Niels Dingemanse @dingemanselab.bsky.social · May 29

Setting up the Plankton Exposition in the Auditorium for the official opening tonight

@annikaguse.bsky.social
@multicellgenome.bsky.social
@lmumuenchen.bsky.social

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Niels Dingemanse @dingemanselab.bsky.social · May 28

To translate in Spanish 🤔

Niels Dingemanse @dingemanselab.bsky.social · May 28

Finishing the Plankton memory game

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Niels Dingemanse @dingemanselab.bsky.social · May 28

Setting up the microscopes (with attempted predation in action 😍)

Niels Dingemanse @dingemanselab.bsky.social · May 28

@annikaguse.bsky.social @multicellgenome.bsky.social‬ @lmumuenchen.bsky.social‬

Niels Dingemanse @dingemanselab.bsky.social · May 28

This week, we set up an exhibition in Águilas (Murcia, Spain) about the hidden and unseen world of plankton, its role for the functioning of planet earth, and for answering big questions in science

#exhibition #nature #plankton #art #ScienceCommunication #outreach #MarineConservation #aguilas

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Niels Dingemanse @dingemanselab.bsky.social · May 28

☺️ @annikaguse.bsky.social

Maria Stockenreiter @mstockenreiter.bsky.social · May 27

Was great

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Center for Adaptive Rationality (MPIB, Berlin) @arc-mpib.bsky.social · May 27

🚨(Another) Job Alert🚨

We're seeking a Student Research Assistant to support the ice-fishing project led by Ralf Kurvers (@ralfkurvers.bsky.social) at @mpib-berlin.bsky.social.

See the link for more details!👇
www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/2046424/2025...

Student Research Assistant | Center for Adaptive Rationality

www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de

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Tom Ratz @tomratz.bsky.social · May 27

Looking for a PhD project on sexual selection? Join us at UZH!

Application deadline: 9 June 2025.

jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...

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Niels Dingemanse @dingemanselab.bsky.social · May 27

And some amazing #orchids (Lady's slipper!)

Niels Dingemanse @dingemanselab.bsky.social · May 27

With some amazing #birds and #mammals, including Ibex, black grouse & white-backed woodpecker (even Merlin @cornellbirds.bsky.social got it right 😊) ...

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Niels Dingemanse @dingemanselab.bsky.social · May 27

Some of my most favourite #teaching: the #Alpine #Ecology #Excursion to the Tutzinger Hütte at the #Benediktenwand with our new cohort of Ecology, Evolution & Systematics #Master #student @lmumuenchen.bsky.social @mstockenreiter.bsky.social

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Niels Dingemanse @dingemanselab.bsky.social · May 27

Hi all, was out for a year but now back and very happy to findi all my sciency friends here at blue sky 😊

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Barbara Class, Ph.D. (she/her) @barbaraclass.bsky.social · May 25

Our paper on disentangling assortative mating and indirect genetic effects in empirical datasets has just been accepted in @jevbio.bsky.social ! It has been a long process (5 years in the making!) and I am very proud of the result 🥳
academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-...

Disentangling non-random assortment, indirect effects, and joint plasticity as causes of phenotypic (dis)similarity between social partners

Abstract. Social partners frequently resemble each other. These correlations between the phenotypes of interacting individuals (e.g. social partners, group

academic.oup.com

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