We are hiring a post-doc to work on invasive and urban wall lizards here in Ohio! It’s a two-year, NSF-funded position including research and teaching, especially focused on those interested in pursuing a career at a PUI. Full details here: tinyurl.com/4f56up8a Please RT!

Lizard lovers, travelers, grey nomads, & sandgropers, lend me your ears: If you’re in Western Australia and come across a dead thorny devil, we’d love to have it as part of our genetic assessment of the species across its range. *Especially* if it’s from btwn Perth and Shark Bay.

Thorny devils are older than Australia's deserts, scientists hope the lizard's genetics can tell us why abc.net.au/news/2023-03-1… Ian Brennan

To be nominated by the Master's students for the Karl Peter Grotemeyer Prize 2022 for outstanding teaching at Bielefeld University kind of feels like being nominated for an Oscar. And if this was not awesome enough, they also made a surprise out of it. So proud and honoured. Danke!!! 🥰

Register this week for early bird tickets! ⌛️ Deadline: 30 April uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/bi…

I have the huuuge honour to have 2 photos selected for the Swiss National Science Foundation science photo contest!! I can't be more excited!!! This is the category winner photo. My research at Universität Bern is focused on parent-offspring interactions in frogs, amazing animals that [1/3]

🚨 Job alert! 🚨 We are hiring up to 4 field assistants for 3 months from July-September, to work with us on bin-opening behaviour in SC-cockatoos. Free free to contact me for more details; applications close May 24. jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/field-ass…

The field season has begun! Ciao lizzie 👋🦎 #Hrvatska #lizard

Happy to share our new study on the preen oil of pied flycatchers BOU 👩🏻‍🏫👨🏿‍🏫🧕🏽👳🏽‍♂️ 🌈! We analysed the composition of #preenoil and found that it contains #chemical information that could be used for #olfactory communication 🐦 Link 👉 doi.org/10.1111/ibi.13… #ornithology

We are pleased to share more information about the amazing plenary talks happening at #Behaviour2023: Title and Abstracts for all Plenaries can be found here: uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/bi…

This week we are celebrating the Global Women in Herpetology Project, which highlights female scientists worldwide. Their captivating book showcases 50 inspiring women, their fieldwork, challenges, and amphibians & reptiles. womeninherpetology.com amphibiaweb.org

The organising team is ready to welcome you in Bielefeld for the #behaviour2023 conference!

Isabel Damas Moreira rocking her talk on the cognition of urban lizards 🦎 #Behaviour2023

Check out our new paper on urban lizards, published in a very cool Special Column "Behavioural Flexibility and Novel Environments": academic.oup.com/cz/advance-art… 🦎🏙️ 🥳 Birgit Szabo 🦎🐸🏳️‍🌈, PhD Barbara Caspers Caro Behavioural Ecology Bielefeld

Wading into new waters... Measuring metabolic rates in wall lizards in Croatia for our NC3 project with Öncü MARACI and Isabel Damas Moreira

It turns out...Komodo dragons have iron-coated teeth! nature.com/articles/s4155… Their serrations and tips pop into the mouth with an orange hue. Using different techniques, we show that these iconic lizards have special iron-rich coatings on each tooth, keeping them razor sharp!

I am so immensely thankful for this award! Thank you to all the students who continue to surprise and amaze me. ☺️🧑‍🎓 aktuell.uni-bielefeld.de/2024/07/24/kar…

Do not forget to include on your today's reading list our new paper, on Tokay geckos and human handlers. 🤩🥳🥳 nature.com/articles/s4159… Birgit Szabo Behavioural Ecology Bielefeld

It is finally out my paper with Isabel Damas Moreira where we described an usual association between ocelots and common opossums in the Peruvian Amazon. esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ec…

So cool!