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Wendel van der Sluis
@wendelvandersluis.bsky.social
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Assoc. Editor, Life Sciences at De Gruyter Brill. Publishes on behavior (Behaviour, Folia Primatologica, Amphibia-Reptilia, Animal Biology, Contributions to Zoology) & perception (Multisensory Research, Timing & Time Perception, Art & Perception).
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Interested in nocturnal primates?🌙🦧

Submit to Folia Primatologica’s special issue on the Natural history of the nocturnal strepsirrhines and tarsiers!

Guest Editors: Marina B. Blanco, Lydia K. Greene, Sharon Gursky & Anna Nekaris

📅 New deadline: Dec 21, 2025

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Image of a lemur sitting in a tree. Extended deadline for the Call for Papers: natural history of the nocturnal strepsirrhines and tarsiers - Folia Primatologica.
November 11, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Humans perceive edges, shape & hardness reliably, even with variable touch. A new #OpenAccess article explores haptic invariants via skin–body–environment interactions. 🤲🧠

Insights also guide robotic haptic design. 🤖

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(A) Dedicated setup for identifying the biomechanical parameters of the skin model. (B) Skin model to approximate the dynamics of the skin tissue (from Rongala et al., 2024). Citation: Multisensory Research 2025; 10.1163/22134808-bja10165.
November 7, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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🧠✨ An Illusion of Tactile Slip

A 2-part haptic interface creates the feeling of slipping with no actual movement. Different motion frequencies can also control the perceived speed. 🤲

Published in Multisensory Research @multisensoryres.bsky.social #OpenAccess:
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Figure: (A) Results of Experiment 1 grouped by values of trise. Colour code indicates conditions. For 0.9 s rise time with larger spread, the individual data points are presented. (B) Pooled reaction times per condition. Error bars represent standard deviation of the mean. (C) Results of Experiment 2 grouped by values of common-mode motion amplitudes (0.15, 0.30, and 0.60 mm). Colour code indicates differential-mode motion amplitudes. Error bars represent standard deviations of the mean. Note that the estimated distance is in arbitrary units. Citation: Multisensory Research 2025; 10.1163/22134808-bja10164.
November 7, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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📣🐒 The latest issue of Folia Primatologica is now available online, featuring a lovely cover photo by Leila M. Porter capturing an adult Weddell’s saddleback tamarin consuming a bush katydid.

Explore the full issue here:
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Cover of the latest issue of Folia Primatologica featuring a lovely photo by Leila M. Porter capturing an adult Weddell’s saddleback tamarin consuming a bush katydid. Explore the full issue here: 👉 https://brill.com/view/journals/ijfp/96/3-4/ijfp.96.issue-3-4.xml
November 6, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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👃 Our sense of smell shapes emotion, memory & mental health. A new #OpenAccess study shows self-awareness of smell varies by task – less insight for faint scents, better alignment for discrimination & identification.

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Woman smelling a brow bottle. Part of an article exploring how accurately we understand our own sense of smell and perception. Published in Multisensory Research.
November 6, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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🐙 Octopuses, squids, cuttlefish … not just shape-shifters, they’re geniuses of the sea! 🌊 Share your research in Minds of the Deep: New Frontiers in #Cephalopod #Behavior #Research, special issue to be published in Behaviour.

📅 Deadline: Oct 31, 2026
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Image of a cuttlefish for a Call for Papers: New Frontiers in Cephalopod Behavior Research to be published in the journal Behaviour.
November 5, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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🐍 Slow worms of the Netherlands carry hidden genetic tales! mtDNA barcoding uncovers native lineages, French/Spanish hay-linked imports & unexpected Polish haplotypes 🌿🧬 Tracing origins, movements & hidden diversity across regions.
In #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1163/1568...
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Image of Anguis fragilis for article in Amphibia-Reptilia on mtDNA barcoding reveals native and introduced in Dutch slow worms.
November 5, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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👀🎶 Your brain naturally links moving shapes with sounds! Mid-level audiovisual patterns show how perception connects across senses – beyond simple features or meanings. Perfect for multimedia design, crossmodal art & immersive experiences.
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Review article on sounds and shapes that aren't random - your brain links them naturally! In Multisensory Research.
November 1, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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🎬 Music in film isn’t just background – it changes how we see, feel & remember. Guiding attention, shaping emotion, boosting memory … sound is both art & science. Perfect for movies, VR, & immersive experiences. 🎶In Multisensory Research @multisensoryres.bsky.social

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Review article on background music that shapes how we see, feel and remember films in the journal Multisensory Research.
November 1, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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🐒 The new Behaviour issue honours Jane Goodall’s groundbreaking work and impact on generations of behavioural scientists. Cover + tribute by long-time collaborator Koen Margodt inside.

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Cover of the journal Behaviour with the photo of the late Dr. Jane Goodall.
November 1, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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💥Your brain might be lying to you!💥
Feeling things happen together ≠ senses integrating.
TWS ≠ TWI. Confusing them has scrambled research from schizophrenia to VR. 🧠 brill.com/view/journal...
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October 31, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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🧠 How do our senses work together? The Merging of the Senses inspired decades of research – celebrated in a new Multisensory Research @multisensoryres.bsky.social special issue!

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Pioneering multisensory research, shaping generations of scientists. "The Merging of the Senses" in a Multisensory Research special issue!
October 30, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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🌟 Huge congratulations to Mariska Kret, Editor-in-Chief of Behaviour, on receiving the 2025 Dr. Hendrik Muller Prize from @knaw-nl.bsky.social🏆for her groundbreaking work on emotion, behaviour and social cognition.👏

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Photo of Mariska Kret, recipient of the 2025 Dr. Hendrik Muller Prize from KNAW - the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
October 30, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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Spotlight on #Women powering #Africa’s insect value chain 🦗🌍

From collecting and cooking to processing and marketing, women drive the edible insect sector. As insect-based feed industries expand, their vital roles deserve greater recognition and support. 💪🏾

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Women drive insect-based food and feed production across Africa. Published in the Journal of Insects as Food and Feed.
October 28, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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📢 Call for Papers!

Folia Primatologica invites submissions for a special issue on “Primates and Invertebrate Prey” 🐒🦧🕷️

Guest Editor: Leila Porter (NIU, USA)

Exploring primate–invertebrate interactions, behaviour, nutrition & ecology amid global change.
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Call for Papers: Special Issue on Primates and Invertebrate Prey - Folia Primatologica.
October 27, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Belgian ethicist Koen Margodt had the privilege of collaborating with the world-renowned primatologist Jane Goodall (1934–2025) for nearly thirty years. He wrote her obituary, now published in Behaviour, following her death on October 1, 2025.

You can read it here: doi.org/10.1163/1568...
October 26, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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🎶🐟 Sound + unpredictable food = carp keep coming back! Partial reinforcement beats continuous for long-term training.

📖 Dive into full #OpenAccess study in Behaviour: doi.org/10.1163/1568...

#CommonCarp #PREE #AquaticResearch
Train common carp (Cyprinus carpio) with sound? Yes, it works! Journal article in Behaviour.
October 26, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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📸 Last week, Fuat Balci had the pleasure of attending Timing Research Forum 4 (#TRF4) in Tokyo, Japan as Editor-in-Chief of Timing & Time Perception. Here are some of his impressions from this event.
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Impressions from the TRF4 meeting in Tokyo, Japan. Images by Fuat Balci, Editor-in-Chief of the journal Timing & Time Perception. Logo of the TRF4 meeting in Tokyo, Japan. Impressions from the TRF4 meeting in Tokyo, Japan. Images by Fuat Balci, Editor-in-Chief of the journal Timing & Time Perception. Impressions from the TRF4 meeting in Tokyo, Japan. Images by Fuat Balci, Editor-in-Chief of the journal Timing & Time Perception.
October 23, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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PIT-tagging #Newts reveals rare tag loss and higher mortality in aquatic T. marmoratus and juvenile T. cristatus. Long-term studies in Mayenne, France, inform research on smaller newts. By Jan W. Arntzen, @unileiden.bsky.social @naturalis.bsky.social

#OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1163/1568...
Tracking newts with PIT-tags: insights, lessons and discoveries in Amphibia-Reptilia.
October 22, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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Marsh frogs are overrunning Limburg, NL! 🐸 mtDNA analysis of hundreds of water frogs reveals four distinct invasive marsh frog lineages from across Europe & beyond. Immediate conservation action is needed to protect native populations. In Amphibia-Reptilia.
🧬https://doi.org/10.1163/15685381-bja10239
Genetically diverse marsh frogs are rapidly invading the southeastern Netherlands, published in Amphiba-Reptilia.
October 22, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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Can insect farming be both ethical and sustainable? 🐛

In her just published editorial, Silvia Cappellozza explores how rethinking sericulture can inspire models where humans and insects coexist for mutual benefit.
Published in the Journal of Insects as Food and Feed: 👉 doi.org/10.1163/2352...
Editorial in the Journal of Insects as Food and Feed: Rethinking insect farming: harmony between humans and insects.
October 21, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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🐒 Swinging by to share a Call for Papers! Our special issue on Decolonizing Human–Wildlife Coexistence in Folia Primatologica wants your research on humans & primates living together. Submit by 31 March 2026🌿

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October 21, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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A 2014 fire at Glasgow School of Art (@glasgowschoolofart.bsky.social) revealed NZ #Kauri disguised as oak. New research traces its 19th-century journey from prized export to “cheap ballast,” uncovering NZ–UK trade links.

Read #OpenAccess in Int. J. of Wood Culture: doi.org/10.1163/2772...
Lantern slide of a kauri tree and bushmen, York & Son, 55 slides on New Zealand, 1901. Taken from full #OpenAccess article “‘An Excellent Empire Wood’: The Awareness, Export, and Use of New Zealand Kauri (Agathis australis) at ‘Home’ (United Kingdom)". Citation: International Journal of Wood Culture 2025; 10.1163/27723194-bja10049.
October 19, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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Animal Biology’s latest issue is out now!

On the cover a wonderful image by Adriana Bocchiglieri of a marsupial, Marmosa demerarae (woolly mouse opossum), inside an artificial bamboo nest.

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Cover journal Animal Biology Volume 75, No. 3, 2025. A marsupial, Marmosa demerarae, inside an artificial bamboo nest by by Adriana Bocchiglieri.
October 18, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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Male barn swallows may sound like their own chicks! 🐦 A study by Masaru Hasegawa & Masahiko Nakamura in the journal Behaviour shows nestlings respond to male “nestling-like” courtship calls just as to real begging calls – evidence of intraspecific mimicry in action.
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October 17, 2025 at 8:02 AM