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PhD in Animal Behaviour - Biodiversity Conservation - creator of Drops of Science - News from Natural Science @dropsofsciencenews.bsky.social - ITA ENG ESP posts about random things from science, comics, music, tv show, politics...
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I can officially say that my project is one of the 1696 selected for the MSCA postdoctoral fellowship Under the supervision of @wascherclaudia.bsky.social I am super excited! I will only say: 🐊

Happy Birthday to Me 😊

"Jocelynn Rojo Carranza took her life after experiencing months of relentless bullying from her sixth grade classmates over her family's immigration status, with some students even threatening to contact the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)." Just no words ...

Apapachar is one of the most beautiful words that exists It comes from náhuatl and it means something like "hug with the soul"

News of The Week! Can lab behaviours be the same as those in wildlife? Find out with this new study on Oryzias latipes www.tumblr.com/dropsofscien... #stem #scicomm #news #science #fish #medaka #ethology

Today I'm turning 35... 👴👴👴 It would be awesome if you share my art as a gift 👐

Male-female friendships are a under-rated driver of gender equality. When women can fraternise freely, they can share ideas, gain respect, & build empathy with men who care about their wants & welfare. Countries with high male-female friendships score better on equality 👇

Happening the same in Italy We are having many cases of diseases related to non vaccinated people

The inimitable Tilda Swinton used her platform in Berlin Thursday night, where she received a Golden Bear for lifetime achievement, to call out political extremism, environmental degradation, and the rise of authoritarianism around the world.

Tilda Swinton, Oso de Oro de Honor. ❤️

🚨NEW paper🚨 out today in @royalsociety.org experimentally testing the combined effects of elevated #predation risk & anthropogenic #noise on dwarf mongoose #vigilance behaviour. First paper for 🌟Lucy Westover🌟 from her #Masters. #OpenAccess #cover @bristolbiosci.bsky.social doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...

It’s never been more important to celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science 👩‍🔬 Here’s a collection of posts from last year about some of the remarkable historical #WomenInSTEM in the animal field:

11 Febbraio giornata internazionale delle ragazze nella scienza.

🚨We’ll be having a Disaster Researchers for Justice meeting Thursday to discuss *gestures around*. Practitioners, journalists, students, and others who do disaster work are also welcome to join. Message Scott for info. #GreySky

I have received this morning a life changing news An early birthday gift I will tell more soon, but I need to close some "chapters" first It is an amazing and huge thing I am still processing

Dog: Time to get up Me: Just let me sleep for 10 more minutes Dog: Okay. Time to get up. Me: I said— Dog: In dog years, I just gave you an extra half hour.

We are having technical problems, so we will not be able to publish our News of the Week, this time. Don't worry, it's just a temporary fault. In the meantime you can listen to our podcast for free, episode 17 is online on streaming platforms, in ITA, ENG and ESP

Just sharing a live picture of Chaná during nap time #dogs

When you look for the perfect example of Ecosystem Service!!!! "While Czech Region is Busy Planning Hydro-Project, Beavers Do it For Them–Saving Millions" www.goodnewsnetwork.org/while-a-czec... #siccome #science #nature #beavers

Probably the worst thing about social media is when some random corncob tells you that you don’t know anything a topic you’ve written a WHOLE ASS BOOK ABOUT.

Have you read our news of the week? #scicomm 🧪

Happy Lunar New Year - www.cityu.edu.hk/jcc/about-us...

Dropping weekly news on DoS This time, we talk about chimps and pee Follow the link! ESP and ITA versions are available on our blog #scicomm #dropsofscience

Genial esta obra de Eduardo Castaldo.

Our review article of methods used to study olfaction of birds during foraging is now published. We found 80 experiments of this topic. In most of the experiments birds were attracted to the odour source, but there were biases, too. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #ornithology

right now, I'm halfway through this #book in Spanish I'm among the names in the initial dedication reason? my mom wrote it 😜 If you like #surrealism this is for you

Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research. I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.

🔥🔥🔥 Nueva publicación liderada por Andrés Garcia como parte de su tesis doctoral. Se trata de una revisión sistemática del turismo con jaguares en Latinoamérica, evaluando los principales impactos ambientales, económicos y socioculturales de esta actividad. 🧪🐯 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

If you’re afraid to write your book because you think its content stands no chance in the coming climate, Remember that banned books (and books victims thought the world would never see) are the only honest window we have into some of the darkest moments of history. Write the book. #booksky

Vocal communication in corvids: a systematic review. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... In our new paper we review 130 papers and summarise empirical evidence for socioecological factors affecting vocal communication, as well as evidence for vocal learning in different corvid species.

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This is where I am tonight #theatre #musical #thereunion

Insult to injury with climate change: it’s the people who already are struggling who suffer more. Climate change is a disability issue. Climate change is a poverty issue. Climate change is an inequity issue. More people should have been saying this all along.

Another record for Chile 🇨🇱 In December, the country produced more than 40% of its electricity from wind and solar. A third of its power came from wind and solar in the whole of 2024. Chile is showing what a rapid transition of the electricity system can look like.

With carbon pollution fueling hotter summers, weather whiplash, and fiercer Santa Ana winds, the dead of winter is now fire season in southern California, after the hottest year in human history.

A month ago I received the worst call of my life, we had lost Eric forever. Many asked me how you could help, and I didn’t know how to respond. Today, I ask you to read the in memoriam that we wrote for Eric. It was written with tears in our eyes and much love in our hearts. A catharsis.

as LA is burning, a swath of the country is recovering from an ice storm, Alabama is preparing for up to 6” of snow and I’m praying for the TX power grid, a reminder: we don’t need climate action just for future generations, we need it now. the climate crisis is here, all around us

Same!

Each January, @asab.org journal Animal Behaviour publishes its 'Guidelines for the ethical treatment of nonhuman animals in behavioural research and teaching': www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Please read and implement. #AnimalEthics #AnimalBehaviour

The first news of 2025 just dropped on our blog! Have you ever wondered who would win between #ants and #humans in moving objects between rooms? 🧪 tmblr.co/Zeey7Pgs9kAH... #DropsOfScience #scicomm #news #science 🥹

I was a young girl when I first heard of Jane Goodall. She is someone I greatly admire. Today, she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom. From 2021 >> Jane Goodall: Championing animal conservation for six decades. www.nationalgeographic.com/impact/artic...

This one never gets old 🧪 (c) The upturned microscope

Crocodile mothers’ response to hatching calls🐊 👇New paper (open access) by the ENES Bioacoustics Research Lab & Co. @animalbehav.bsky.social #bioacoustics www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Things I love: my nephews asking me for scientific information, help with their PowerPoint presentations and similar things they are so young and so curious!

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CONTEXT: I wrote/drew this in 2020. Lol. Happy New Year!