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KLIVV Vienna @klivvvienna.bsky.social · 20h

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KLIVV Vienna @klivvvienna.bsky.social · 20h

📢 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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KLIVV Vienna @klivvvienna.bsky.social · Jul 25

📢 NEW PAPER: Do dogs form reputations of humans? Find the answer to this question in the recent publication by the Domestication Lab! 🐶
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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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! 🐴
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KLIVV Vienna @klivvvienna.bsky.social · Jul 23

📢NEW PAPER! Edina Nemeshazi and Co. studied the effect of chlorpyrifos on fitness-related traits in agile #frogs, and found that, at certain concentrations, this insecticide alters anti-predator behaviour and leads to decreased body mass at metamorphosis 🐸 👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.aquatox.2025.107400

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Bibiana Rojas @biobiiana.bsky.social · Jul 22

One of those bitter-sweet moments in academic life… @carodittrich.bsky.social has been fundamental for the achievements we’ve had as a group and we will miss her greatly, but I’m already looking forward to hearing about the exciting science she’ll be doing in this new phase! 🤩🐸 🟡⚫️🦎⚫️🟡 🧬👩🏻‍🔬🫶🏼

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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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Penn-Zala Lab @pennzalalab.bsky.social · Jul 18

📣 Paper alert! Have you ever wondered what a ketogenic diet might do to unborn offspring? Here we show that pregnant healthy 🐭 on a ketogenic diet give birth to less females pups and that the male pups die earlier than controls.
Check it out: ▶️ doi.org/10.1371/jour...
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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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Penn-Zala Lab @pennzalalab.bsky.social · Jul 8

🎉 Congratulations to Berta Retana Ferrés, who just defended her BS thesis at the University of Barcelona 🥳 presenting her work from the Erasmus internship that she did in our lab in Vienna! 😃 Berta found very interesting results on how 🐭 respond to USVs 🎶 👏
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Bibiana Rojas @biobiiana.bsky.social · Jul 3

And I had the opportunity to present our work (led by Mileidy Betancourth) on the impact of habitat disturbance on the morphology and behaviour of the Little Devil’s poison frog in Colombia # ATBC2025 @klivvvienna.bsky.social

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Bibiana Rojas @biobiiana.bsky.social · Jul 3

Two more presentations from our group at #ATBC2025 are done and dusted! 🐸🧪🌍Paul Kesseler presented a poster on Hg contamination in phytotelmata and their inhabitants at Nouragues (French Guiana), which he investigated during his Master’s (1/2)

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Bibiana Rojas @biobiiana.bsky.social · Jul 1

Super proud of Lia Schlippe Justicia, who gave an excellent talk on her PhD work involving frog disease, skin microbiome and habitat disturbance 🐸🧬🍄🏘️🏗️
#ATBC2025
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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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Bibiana Rojas @biobiiana.bsky.social · Jun 20

✴️ NEW PAPER! ✴️ In the beautiful Caucasian mountains of 🇬🇪 lives a moth whose wing colour variation (🔴🟠🟡) has intrigued us for ages. Here (doi.org/10.1111/1744...), we studied whether such variation is associated with 🧬 structure or other traits such as size. (1/3)

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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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EMPSEB30 @empseb30.bsky.social · Jun 6

The DEI panel is an important part of every EMPSEB. This year, participants discussed five selected scenarios in smaller groups. Thanks to all, for great discussions about Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Special thanks go to @biobiiana.bsky.social, who concluded the event with an encouraging talk.

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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🐭
pbs.twimg.com/media/GtIyYn...
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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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Bibiana Rojas @biobiiana.bsky.social · May 25

We are ready for the #BiosphärenparkCup2025! Join @carodittrich.bsky.social Kristin Szydlik and me at the Kartause Mauerbach to play our #SalaMemo ⚫️🟡🦎🟡🟤 @klivvvienna.bsky.social

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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 🐊 💧🧪
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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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Bibiana Rojas @biobiiana.bsky.social · Apr 18

Great talk, Edina! So proud to have you as part of our group! 🤩
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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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