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FIWI Vienna @fiwivienna.bsky.social · 18h

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FIWI Vienna @fiwivienna.bsky.social · 18h

📢 NÖ Forschungsfest | Come and visit us at this event for the entire family! With entertaining show acts and over 80 research stations, the world of science becomes an experience!

📅 Friday, 10 October 2025 | 1:00 p.m.–9:00 p.m.
📍 Palais NÖ, Herrengasse 13, 1010 Vienna
🌞 Admission free!

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FIWI Vienna @fiwivienna.bsky.social · 9d

Join us for our first #WilhelminenbergSeminarTalk this semester: 1.10. | 2:00 PM with Patricia Brennan, Mount Holyoke College
📍@klivvvienna.bsky.social 1160 Wien or online 👩‍💻
→ vetmeduni.ac.at/fiwi/seminar...
📢 Tip for students: The participation is recognised as an elective! (KV 128 804)

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FIWI Vienna @fiwivienna.bsky.social · 14d

📢 Vetmed Campus Open Day | Come along and experience animal research up close! 🐾
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📅 Saturday, 27 September 2025 | 10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
📍 Vetmeduni Campus, Veterinärplatz 1, 1210 Vienna
🌞 Admission free!

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FIWI Vienna @fiwivienna.bsky.social · Jul 24

At our final #WilhelminenberSeminarTalk last semester, we got a history lessen by our own Elmira Mohandesan, who spoke about the impact of the Roman conquest of the northern Alpine foreland in 15 BCE on local horse populations! 🐴
@klivvvienna.bsky.social

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KLIVV Vienna @klivvvienna.bsky.social · Jul 22

📢Congratulations to @ericacalabretta.bsky.social for the publication of her first PhD thesis chapter, "Passerine stopover physiology: weather variability does not alter corticosterone dynamics after sea crossing"! 👏🥳🐥 doi.org/10.1002/jav.... @fusanilab.bsky.social

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FIWI Vienna @fiwivienna.bsky.social · Jul 22

Yesterday on "Wien heute" (ORF), our pathologist Anna-Kübber Heiss and Angelika Auer from Vetmeduni spoke about the current rising infections of myxomatosis in rabbits and hares. Watch it here: on.orf.at/video/142847... (in German)

Kaninchenpest grassiert in der Stadt - Wien heute vom 21.07.2025

15-Jähriger Islamist zu Haftstrafe verurteilt | Kaninchenpest grassiert in der Stadt | Klinik Ottakring präsentiert Unfallchirurgie-Rohbau | Liegewiese im Augarten wird demnächst eröffnet | Kurzmekdun...

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Bibiana Rojas @biobiiana.bsky.social · Jul 2

Our group’s first study on fire salamanders is out! 🟡⚫️🦎⚫️🟡 🧪🌍We report differences in predation rates between managed and non-managed forest areas, due mostly to increased 🐦 attacks in managed areas. Both types of areas differ mainly in 🌳 diversity and evenness (1/2) doi.org/10.1111/jzo....

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FIWI Vienna @fiwivienna.bsky.social · Jul 3

We had the pleasure of having Sylvain Giroud as a speaker for a #WilhelminenbergSeminarTalk and he gave us insights into early-life metabolic flexibility and its lifelong and intergenerational effects in a small hibernator 🐭 @klivvvienna.bsky.social

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KLIVV Vienna @klivvvienna.bsky.social · Jun 30

Thank you to Kang Nian Yap who spoke about an integrative approach to studying lifehistory trade-offs: The roles of endoplasmic reticulum physiology, bioenergetics, and oxidative stress at his #WilhelminenbergSeminarTalk🗣️
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FIWI Vienna @fiwivienna.bsky.social · Jun 26

Tomorrow is dormouse day 🐹
Here at the FIWI, we are not only researching its hibernation, but also its adaptability and way of life 🔍
Take a closer look at this nocturnal animal: www.vetmeduni.ac.at/en/research-...

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KLIVV Vienna @klivvvienna.bsky.social · Jun 11

🔔NEW PAPER by the @pennzalalab.bsky.social! "Pre- and post-copulatory traits are affected by experimental inbreeding, but they are not correlated" out now in BMC Biology🐭
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KLIVV Vienna @klivvvienna.bsky.social · Jun 11

Last week, @biobiiana.bsky.social was one of the plenary speakers at the European Meeting of PhD students in Evolutionary Biology (#EMPSEB30) in Milovy (Czech Republic), a conference for PhD students organised by PhD students! 🐸

EMPSEB30 @empseb30.bsky.social · Jun 6

Todays plenary talk was given by Bibiana Rojas. She showed us her thrilling research that focuses on the study of poisonous frogs that display unique behaviour in parental care and early life.🐸 Thank you Bibiana for not only the talk, but contribution to DEI Panel and friendly athmosphere!

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FIWI Vienna @fiwivienna.bsky.social · May 28

Hathaipat Rattanathanya, Valentina Weiland, and Szilvia Kalogeropoulu from the FIWI Wildlife Medicine Group presented their research at the ZWHC in Györ, covering oxygen delivery in anaesthetized ungulates, Asiatic black bear anaesthesia, and post-euthanasia EEG studies in lions.

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FIWI Vienna @fiwivienna.bsky.social · May 28

Aletta Bonn held a wonderful online #WilhelminenbergSeminarTalk about biodiversity: "Biodiversity is good for you! Street trees, urban nature, citizen science, and health", convincing us (even more!) that it is crucially important and beneficial for us all! 🌲🐸 @klivvvienna.bsky.social

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FIWI Vienna @fiwivienna.bsky.social · May 28

We had a great AVA Spring Meeting, read more about it here: vetmeduni.ac.at/en/research-...
Thank you to all the supporters! @klivvvienna.bsky.social

FIWI Vienna @fiwivienna.bsky.social · May 28

Another enjoyable and informative #WilhelminenbergSeminarTalk, this time by Wibke Peters: "Informing wildlife management through research on the spatial ecology of ungulates" - thank you for sharing your research with us! 📊 @klivvvienna.bsky.social

FIWI Vienna @fiwivienna.bsky.social · May 27

We very much enjoyed the #WilhelminenbergSeminarTalk by Thomas Müller - he spoke about "Animal movement in the Anthropocene", specifically about the benefits of monitoring animal movement and the difficulties of interpreting the collected data. 🐾

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Valeria Marasco @valeriamarasco.bsky.social · May 15

🔥Thrilled to share our OA review "Life at new extremes: Integrating stress physiology and the bio‐exposome in the Anthropocene"✨ with D Costantini, M Sebastiano, & S Messina #ecophysiology #wildlife nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@fiwivienna.bsky.social #VetmeduniVienna #Unitus

NYAS Publications

We propose to expand the concept of extreme environments to encompass those that are profoundly altered by climate and global changes, highlight the critical role of stress resilience in understandin...

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KLIVV Vienna @klivvvienna.bsky.social · Apr 30

We had a great time with Jéremy Lemaire, who gave a wonderful and entertaining #WilhelminenbergSeminarTalk about mercury monitoring and it's impacts in Caimans 🐊 💧🧪
@univie.ac.at @fiwivienna.bsky.social

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KLIVV Vienna @klivvvienna.bsky.social · Apr 22

Save the date! Next month, the #BiosphärenparkWienerwald will be hosting the #BiosphärenparkCup & @biobiiana.bsky.social will be there with a stand on #firesalamanders 🟡🦎⚫️ Join us! @carodittrich.bsky.social
📆 24.05
📌Kartäuserplatz 2, 3001 Mauerbach
⏰ 11-16:30
More info 👉 bpww.at/de/veranstal...

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FIWI Vienna @fiwivienna.bsky.social · Apr 23

We were very happy to welcome Martin Kuhlwilm for a #WilhelminenbergSeminarTalk at the beginning of April. He spoke about "Great ape genome diversity and museomics" 🦧🧬
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FIWI Vienna @fiwivienna.bsky.social · Apr 17

Don't miss this exciting workshop on "Honest signalling and communication: from microbes to humans", next week in Leiden. #SarahZala is one of the scientific organizers, and we are looking forward to this event!🗣️🧪
@klivvvienna.bsky.social @lorentzcenter.bsky.social @pennzalalab.bsky.social

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FIWI Vienna @fiwivienna.bsky.social · Apr 16

#FriederikePohlin represented the FIWI at the XIII International Conference of FAUNA in Lisbon and gave two great talks about the complexity of rhino translocations and about wildlife anaesthesia monitoring.
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FIWI Vienna @fiwivienna.bsky.social · Apr 10

Another great #WilhelminenbergSeminarTalk was given by Julia Walochnik about medical parasitology🔬, specifically about emerging parasitic infections and current research projects - thank you so much for sharing your reasearch with us! 🥼🧪
@klivvvienna.bsky.social