Collaborative account covering research news from the labs of David Bierbach @LeibnizIGB, Pawel Romanczuk @HumboldtUni & Tim Landgraf @FU_Berlin

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Seeing the waves even made old hand Jens Krause standing still for a moment, deeply impressed by nature’s beauty. >900 analyzed bird attacks later, we know the fish do it to confuse the birds. @LeibnizIGB @scioi_cluster @dfg_public authors.elsevier.com/c/1eHx-…
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🚨Job alert!🚨 We're looking for a new PhD student in our #behavioral #physiology group at Humboldt-University #Berlin Work with electric #fish, use a robotic fish, unravel how they sense and communicate! haushalt-und-personal.hu-ber… Deadline: March 28 @EfishConnection

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Paper alert! Super stoked that this is finally out in #Oecologia. Been busy for a couple of days, so here a slightly delayed 🧵1/10 doi.org/10.1007/s00442-024-0…
Our new paper on coastal #pike #ecotypes led by @RittwegTimo and with @clivetrue in Oecologia is out link.springer.com/article/10…
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🐟🐟🐟Is fast prey also easy prey? Researchers from the @scioi_cluster have shown in an underwater field study in the #ocean off Mexico that the faster a school of prey moves, the higher the capture rate of the striped marlin: igb-berlin.de/en/news/fast-p… @HumboldtUni
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New paper out! @LeibnizIGB and @scioi_cluster scientists have discovered that when striped marlin hunt groups of small fish, the faster the escape the more the marlin get to eat!
🐟🐟🐟Is fast prey also easy prey? Researchers from the @scioi_cluster have shown in an underwater field study in the #ocean off Mexico that the faster a school of prey moves, the higher the capture rate of the striped marlin: igb-berlin.de/en/news/fast-p… @HumboldtUni
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Am Mittwoch werden @NinaHanning und ich im Zeiss-Großplanetarium diesen öffentlichkeitsorientierten Vortrag über unsere Forschung halten: Unruhiger Blick, stabile Sicht: Die Kameraarbeit unserer Augen Eintritt frei. Tickets online buchbar. Kommt vorbei! planetarium.berlin/veranstal…

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Fantastic international conference of Poeciliid Biologists at @txst just ended. Big thank you to Cummings and Gabor-Asbury labs for great organisation! Here are some impressions...and yes, we helpt @michitobler to catch some fish! See you '26 in Padua!
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What an amazing time at the 11th International Conference of Poeciliid Biologists!! Had a blast in San Marcos talking livebearers and research with so many awesome scientists
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Thank you @ISBE2024 for the travel award and giving me the opportunity to present my research and visit this beautiful country! #ISBE2024
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Mit der Wahl der richtigen #Lebensmittel kann man viel für die eigene #Gesundheit tun – und auch zu einem mehr oder weniger umweltfreundlichen #Konsum beitragen. Das gilt auch für #Fische und ihr Futter > igb-berlin.de/news/jetzt-abe…
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New mormyrid pub: "Trophic ecology of the African riverine elephant fishes (Mormyridae)" by Sommer et al. in Ecology and Evolution. doi.org/10.1002/ece3.70173
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Had a blast presenting it at #SAB2024 'From Animals to Animats' 🐟🐦🤖💻 Many thanks to the organisers at @UCIrvine & @scioi_cluster, and @univgroningen & @NWOFunding for their support! Full proceedings here: link.springer.com/book/10.10…
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📢 Our new framework for developing data-inspired models of collective escape is out! 👇 link.springer.com/chapter/10… Looking for a spatially explicit model to better understand your data on collectives? Happy to chat about our software 😁 #R pipeline also coming soon!

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NEW PAPER ALERT! Predator exposure early in life stabilises and keeps among-individual behavioral variation low. New study using clonal Amazon mollies revealed. Congrats for the great work Ulrike Scherer and Molly Kressler! #teamfish #animalpersonality rdcu.be/dUbLa
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Check it out 👇📖@blusquare and I share our experiences @scioi_cluster as computational modellers joining biologists on field trips. 🌵🌊 From stinky sulphur streams and uncharted ocean waters to building computer models that explain biological phenomena. 🐟💻 #fishteam
🖨 Hot off the press: the Science of Intelligence Cluster Report 2024! 📚🔦 140 pages of #interviews, visualizations, #illustrations, and stories about SCIoI #people and their #research. 📈👩‍🏫 💡 Intelligence is a fascinating topic. Have a go🧑‍🔬 👇 scienceofintelligence.de/hot…
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After unforeseen production delays, it was great to return the final proofs of our new edited book back to the production team today. Hopefully not too long to go before it comes out. A massive shout out again to co-editor @ulrikacandolin and our amazing chapter contributors 🙏
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Attention all fish people!🐟🐠🐡 Come join us in Berlin (it’s so lovely in November!)
Deadline extended to 15.09.! Join us in November in Berlin! Fantastic keynotes by A. Burns @alburns1, U. Scherer @scherer_ulrike, F. Dhellemmes @dr_felisea, A. Groneberg, @AntoniaGronebe1 & C. Sommer @CTrembo ichthyologie.de/gfi-tagung-2…
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