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

Note that there will be no FINE the 7th Oct and 14th Oct.
FINE will be back 21st Oct with a talk by Alli Harari.

Frontiers in Social Evolution Seminar FINE @fine-seminar.bsky.social · 9d

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
urosario.zoom.us/j/83337249371
Meeting ID: 833 3724 9371

YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/channel/UClX...

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Carsten Schradin @carsten-schradin.bsky.social · 24d

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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.

www.nature.com

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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...

www.cell.com

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Frontiers in Social Evolution Seminar FINE @fine-seminar.bsky.social · 15d

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
www.youtube.com/channel/UClX...

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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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Frontiers in Social Evolution Seminar FINE @fine-seminar.bsky.social · Aug 8

FINE Fall 2025 will start in just 4 weeks.
Here is the preliminary program.
Stay tuned!

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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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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

www.youtube.com/@seminaronfr...

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 20

TODAYS FINE 11:00 New York / 17:00 Paeris

Geoff While, University of Tasmania, Australia

The Evolutionary Ecology of Family Living in Lizards

Australian lizards exhibit remarkable diversity in social organization based around family life.

YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/channel/UClX...

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Frontiers in Social Evolution Seminar FINE @fine-seminar.bsky.social · May 13

TODAYS FINE, May 13th 2025, 11 AM NYC / 5 PM Paris
Erin Siracussa, University of Exeter, United Kingdom

Title: Social ageing: Toward a deeper understanding of the intersection between sociality and senescence

YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/channel/UClX...

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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.
YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/channel/UClX...

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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.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEun...

29 April 2025, Isabella Capelini, Parental Care in Amphibians

YouTube video by Seminar on Frontiers in Social Evolution

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Carsten Schradin @carsten-schradin.bsky.social · May 4

The homepage on solitary living has just been updated. Let me know if you have any publications, commentaries, as well as descriptions of your solitary study species and yourself to be included into our next Newsletter and the homepage.

solitaryliving.weebly.com/researchers....

Researchers

Here you can introduce yourself. Please send us to [email protected] profiles of yourself, your students, your colleagues, following the same format as in the examples you find...

solitaryliving.weebly.com

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

TODAYS FINE

April 29th 2025, Isabella Capelini, Queens University, Belfast, Ireland
Title: Drivers and consequences of the evolution of parental care diversity in amphibians.

How to attend:
YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/channel/UClX...

Zoom: Ask for the link

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

Bush Karoo rats sometimes eat left overs, but do not actively store food. Thus, their dried plant material -plantong - is similar to South African biltong with regards to heat conserving food, but less so in function.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The function of plants collected by bush Karoo rats (Otomys unisulcatus): Do dried up food plants represent stored food?

Food storing to cope with food reduction during winter has been observed in many rodents in the northern hemisphere. Food storing could also be adapti…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Frontiers in Social Evolution Seminar FINE @fine-seminar.bsky.social · Apr 22

Watch here last weeks FINE by Mike Webster about

Sexual signals & divergence in Australian fairywrens: From genes to behavior to speciation

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNMD...

15th April 2025, Mike Webster: Sexual signals & divergence in Australian fairywrens

YouTube video by Seminar on Frontiers in Social Evolution

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Frontiers in Social Evolution Seminar FINE @fine-seminar.bsky.social · Apr 22

Todays FINE
FINE SEMINAR ANNOUNCEMENT

April 22nd, Martín Kowaleski

Title: Life history traits and social dynamics in black and gold howler monkeys (Alouatta caraya) in northern Argentina

April 22nd, presentation starts at 11:00 NYC / 17:00 Paris.

YouTube www.youtube.com/channel/UClX...

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Frontiers in Social Evolution Seminar FINE @fine-seminar.bsky.social · Apr 15

April 15th, Mike Webster, Cornell University, USA
Starts at 11:00 NYC / 17:00 Paris.

Title: Sexual signals & divergence in Australian fairywrens: From fenes to behavior to speciation

Theory suggests that social interactions play a critical role in the process of speciation.

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Carsten Schradin @carsten-schradin.bsky.social · Apr 9

www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...

What the surprising lives of solitary animals reveals about us

A new understanding of why some animals evolved to be loners, and the benefits that brings, shows that a social lifestyle isn’t necessarily superior

www.newscientist.com

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Carsten Schradin @carsten-schradin.bsky.social · Apr 10

In this paper, Qiu and Makuya study the relationship between resting metabolic rate and range size of bush Karoo rats. They show that larger range sizes provides sufficient energy to support increased RMR in female bush Karoo rats.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Home range sizes correlate positively with resting metabolic rate in bush Karoo rats (Otomys unisulcatus) - Mammal Research

Home range size limits the amount of resources an individual can access; hence, it often increases with energy demands. However, maintaining a large home range also requires more energy expenditure, a...

link.springer.com

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

African striped mice control the production and temporal dynamics of their vocalisations, addressing targeted
information to specific receivers via the acoustic channel.

doi.org/10.1016/j.bb...

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Frontiers in Social Evolution Seminar FINE @fine-seminar.bsky.social · Apr 7

FINE tomorrow:

We are excited to invite you to participate in a discussion about the past, present, and future of FINE on April 8th.

To help guide our conversation and gather your valuable insights, we created a short survey forms.gle/BWpK4Htp2Z12...

YouTube www.youtube.com/channel/UClX...

FINE Seminar Survey

This survey aims to evaluate the experiences of FINE seminar participants, helping us identify strengths and areas for improvement. Your responses will be used exclusively for evaluating the seminar s...

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