Sounds of silence: electric mobility promises a quieter soundscape for wildlife, but may challenge ultrasonically sensitive species globally Expanding transportation networks generate anthropogenic noise, a stressor for wildlife. The rapid transition to electric mobility, with projections of 40-45 million new electric vehicles (EVs) annual...

Electric vehicles (EVs) are quiet alternates decarbonising transport but are EVs quiet for urban wildlife? With🦇s as a model,we Manjari Jain & @olindecke.bsky.social review the impacts of noise acoustics & explore its implications for a future dominated by EVs
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www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

a man is sitting at a table with a fork in his hand in a restaurant . ALT: a man is sitting at a table with a fork in his hand in a restaurant .

Here's an idea: What if editors confidentially flagged low-quality reviews to the reviewer? Not for punishment, but as a way to quietly stabilize quality standards over time. Could this be more effective than 'reward' systems for good reviews? 5/5 #Science #AcademicChatter

This trend can't be good for science. But how can we improve this? Better (and paid) editorial training for maneuvering conflicting feedback? I'm keen to hear how others think we can strengthen the system for better scientific outcomes. 4/5 #ECRchat

a man is holding a gun in front of a window with the words `` not again ! '' ALT: a man is holding a gun in front of a window with the words `` not again ! ''

The result? Manuscripts come back with minor tweaks (wording...), ignoring core scientific points. This forces diligent reviewers to repeat themselves over multiple rounds, which devalues our time and expertise and is frustratingly inefficient for a free service. 3/5 #AcademicChatter #Peerreview

a man in a shirt and tie is standing in a room and says `` minimum champion '' . ALT: a man in a shirt and tie is standing in a room and says `` minimum champion '' .

The core problem: a single, low-effort (positive or negative!) co-review can completely undermine a thoughtful, detailed review. This leaves authors confused and editors in a tough spot, often leading them to pass on contradictory revision requests. Is this a common experience? #ECRchat #Reviewer2

I've been an ECR peer-reviewing for 10 years, and I feel the system is under increasing strain. While it's always been a challenge to find reviewers, I'm now more frequently encountering a specific issue 👇1/5 #PeerReview #AcademicChatter #Biology

2.1/2 It's a chronic issue to get reviewers, however, it seems to be that no matter how much one highlights the strength (or flaws tbh) of a finding (novel or even confirmatory #replicationcrisis), another obviously less carrying reviewer can affect the process so that the authors must be confused..

Hört, hört! Wir sind dabei Oldenburger #NaviSense Cluster of Excellence 🥳

🍾💥 We are on the map! The new www.navisense.org cluster will be funded by the DFG for the next 7 years! Thx for great companionship along the way. Exciting collaborations are ahead of us. And we’ve got them all 🐦 🦐🐜🦋 and 🦇, of course 🙂 But also robotics and quantum physics, so check it out!

Freude über den sensationellen Erfolg (v.l.n.r.): Unipräsident Prof. Dr. Ralph Bruder, Prof. Dr. Christiane Thiel, Sprecherin Hearing4all, Prof. Dr. Henrik Mouritsen, Sprecher NaviSense, und Prof. Dr. Helmut Hillebrand, Oldenburger Sprecher Ocean Floor. - Copyright Universität Oldenburg / Markus Hibbeler

Überragender Erfolg für die Universität Oldenburg: Im Exzellenzwettbewerb war sie mit den drei Exzellenzclustern Hearing4all, Ocean Floor und NaviSense erfolgreich. In den Vorhaben geht es um Hörforschung, Meeresforschung und Tiernavigation...
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Big congrats to the Navisense excellence cluster www.navisense.org that will be funded by the DFG for the next 7 years! Congrats to all of our SFB members that are involved! @genmig.bsky.social @commonternproject.bsky.social @migecol.bsky.social @cataglyphilosophy.bsky.social @olindecke.bsky.social

Batworkers doing cave counts, watch out! #bats

‘They have no one to follow’: how migrating birds use quantum mechanics to navigate Evidence is mounting to explain how birds use the Earth’s magnetic field to help fly thousands of miles with unerring accuracy – a discovery that may help advance quantum technology

Great article on the work of @genmig.bsky.social and others:
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

You are what you eat...and what your mother ingested and managed to compensate for. #seabirds 🐣

Who is calling? Bats outsmart deception by solving sensory conflicts

www.cell.com/current-biol...

Super review, on point.

A remarkable paper out for the true bat-sommelier🤌 on age discrimination of some horseshoe bats based on UV-reflectance of pelage www.italian-journal-of-mammalogy.it/Full-pelage-... @vincentwt.bsky.social #bats

Happy to share a new publication by
@genmig.bsky.social, @migecol.bsky.social
@thiemokarwinkel.bsky.social, @olindecke.bsky.social: 'Marine artificial light at night: Implications and potential hazards for offshore songbird and bat movements in the Greater North Sea' doi.org/10.1111/csp2...

Bats' amazing Plan B for when they can't hear New research by Johns Hopkins neuroscientists reveals instant compensation strategy that other animals might share

When bats can't hear...

🦇Plan B(at)🦇

... they compensate by adapting their flight path and vocalizations.
They flew lower, oriented themselves along walls and increased both the number and length of their calls, boosting the power of echo signals used for navigation.
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hub.jhu.edu/2024/11/25/b...

Bat genomes illuminate adaptations to viral tolerance and disease resistance - Nature A systematic analysis of 115 mammalian genomes, including 10 new bat genomes, reveals prevalent positive selection in immune genes in bats and shows key adaptations in the antiviral gene ISG15 that ai...

🚨Bat1K Paper Alert🚨There couldn’t be a better first post for us on this app - excited to share 10 new bat genomes and groundbreaking insights into bat immunity and viral resistance! 🌍🔬 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

An image of Claude Shannon, holding a wooden mouse in a small maze.

Did you know that Claude Shannon also developed maze solving algorithms?

Which he implemented physically using a wooden mouse named Theseus.

To solve a given maze, on a grid, Theseus used two modes:

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Listen! Just two more weeks to send in your abstracts for the Conservation Biology session of the European Mammal Congress (which I am chairing). Looking forward to seeing everyone in Greece in April. #wildlife #ecology #conservation 🌍🐾🦇🐺🐻 ecm9.com