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Describing the energy landscape for flying animals: a tale of environmental proxies, scale and resolution

Institute Seminar by Martina Scacco
  • Datum: 15.04.2025
  • Uhrzeit: 10:30 - 11:30
  • Vortragende(r): Martina Scacco
  • My research interest spans different topics and animal systems, with the overarching interest of understanding how the physical environment affects animal movement behaviour, and in turn, how animal movement affects ecosystem dynamics. During my PhD and first postdoc at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behaviour, I focused on the predictability of animals’ flight behaviour and the environmental factors that affect energetic cost of transport across flying species. Recently, I joined the Dynamic Macroecology Unit at the Federal Swiss Institute WSL for a new postdoc project, where I will use theoretical models to investigate changes in the migratory patterns of waterbird species under climate change scenarios.
  • Ort: MPI-AB Möggingen
  • Raum: Seminar room MPI-AB Möggingen + Online
  • Gastgeber: Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
  • Kontakt: cbaldoni@ab.mpg.de
Movement allows organisms to access resources and avoid unfavourable environmental conditions, predators, and competition, while facilitating the redistribution of nutrients, energy, and species across ecosystems that are kilometres to continents apart. However, movement comes at a cost, and ... [mehr]

On the radar: offshore aeroecology and dynamic aeroconservation of nocturnal landbird migration

Rado Seminar by Maja Bradaric
  • Datum: 11.04.2025
  • Uhrzeit: 10:30 - 11:30
  • Vortragende(r): Maja Bradaric
  • Ort: MPI-AB Möggingen
  • Raum: Seminar room MPI-AB Möggingen + Online
  • Gastgeber: Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
  • Kontakt: ddechmann@ab.mpg.de
Nocturnal bird migration over land generally occurs across a broad spatial front but might have distinct spatiotemporal patterns at sea, shaped by the ecological barrier effect and unique environmental drivers. Understanding offshore movements is essential not only for building a comprehensive ... [mehr]

Cooperation in animals: from theory to data and back

Institute Seminar by Redouan Bshary
  • Datum: 08.04.2025
  • Uhrzeit: 10:30 - 11:30
  • Vortragende(r): Redouan Bshary
  • Redouan Bshary is a full professor at the Université de Neuchâtel. His research focus is on cooperation within and between species (mutualism).
  • Ort: Bückle St. 5a, 78467 Konstanz
  • Raum: Seminar room MPI-AB Bücklestrasse + Online
  • Gastgeber: Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
  • Kontakt: cchen@ab.mpg.de
The empirical literature on mutual helping for direct fitness (often termed cooperation within species and mutualism between species) has long been dominated by the aim to test model predictions from rather stylised games, such as the iterated prisoner's dilemma. However, more empirically informed ... [mehr]

How to speak to the media

Learn techniques for natural, confident interviewing from veteran science journalist
  • Datum: 01.04.2025
  • Uhrzeit: 12:00 - 15:00
  • Vortragende(r): Roland Knauer
  • Science and nature journalist
  • Ort: TBA
  • Gastgeber: Carla Avolio
  • Rubrik: Gesprächs- und Diskussionsformate, Vorträge
  • Kontakt: cavolio@ab.mpg.de
Congratulations, you’ve been contacted by a journalist to talk about your latest MS! Now what? Join veteran science journalist, Roland Knauer, to learn the tricks for piloting a successful interview. In a three-hour interactive workshop, Roland will share what he has learned over 35 years of ... [mehr]

Evolution of Behavioural Form and Function in Tanganyikan Lamprologine Cichlids

Rado Seminar by Nishtha Pareek
  • Datum: 28.03.2025
  • Uhrzeit: 10:30 - 11:30
  • Vortragende(r): Nishtha Pareek
  • Ort: Bückle St. 5a, 78467 Konstanz
  • Raum: Seminar room MPI-AB Bücklestrasse + Online
  • Gastgeber: Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
  • Kontakt: ddechmann@ab.mpg.de
Studying behavioral evolution presents a unique challenge due to the absence of fossils and the complex relationship between behavioral form (observable traits) and function (its effect on the environment). This link is shaped by dynamic interactions of internal states, phylogeny, and ... [mehr]

Nature’s housing market: architectural foundations of animal social life

Guest seminar by Mark E. Laidre
  • Datum: 26.03.2025
  • Uhrzeit: 14:00 - 15:00
  • Vortragende(r): Mark E. Laidre
  • Mark Laidre works at the scientific interface of behavior, ecology, evolution, and conservation. For the past 20 yrs, his in-depth research has focused on the shell ‘housing markets’ of both marine and terrestrial hermit crabs. He and his student co-authors have published >50 peer-reviewed scientific publications on field-based research around the world, particularly in the tropics. His long-term research program has spanned Cornell University, Cambridge University, Princeton University, UC Berkeley, and Dartmouth College. Furthermore, he has taught biology classes for over a decade as a Dartmouth professor. From 2025 to 2029 he is PI of a long-term research project, funded by National Geographic, focusing on whole-island experiments on coconut crabs (Birgus latro) across the Indo-Pacific. Much of his research was inspired by reading Darwin. He and his partner also have a dog named Darwin.
  • Ort: Bückle St. 5a, 78467 Konstanz
  • Raum: Seminar room MPI-AB bücklestrasse 4.06
  • Gastgeber: Barrett, Brendan James
  • Kontakt: bbarrett@ab.mpg.de
Architecture and social behavior might appear to occupy different worlds: one the physical world, the other the social world. Yet for many animals these two worlds are intimately connected, having reciprocally shaped one another over ecological and evolutionary time. This talk focuses on over a ... [mehr]

Beyond BRMS: Building Custom Bayesian Models in Stan - Follow up Q&A

  • Datum: 25.03.2025
  • Uhrzeit: 14:00 - 15:00
  • Vortragende(r): Mitzi Morris, Stan Core Developer
  • Ort: online
  • Kontakt: kbrock@ab.mpg.de
These two sessions are designed for those who have built Stan models in R with BRMS, rethinking, or similar packages. We’ll learn how to edit the Stan code directly to create models that are challenging or out of reach with these packages.18 March 14:00 - Seminar25 March 14:00 - Follow up Q&A [mehr]

Career Development Seminar for late PhDs and early Postdocs

Institute Seminar by Daniel Piechowski
  • Datum: 25.03.2025
  • Uhrzeit: 10:30 - 11:30
  • Vortragende(r): Daniel Piechowski
  • Ort: Hybrid meeting
  • Raum: Seminar room MPI-AB Bücklestrasse + Online
  • Gastgeber: Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
  • Kontakt: dpiechowski@ab.mpg.de
A career in science is a rather difficult undertaking to plan, much depends on external factors that are difficult to influence, such as the publication of the right job openings at the right time and not two years too early or too late, the famous, always negative third reviewer, and the deadline ... [mehr]

Data Analysis with R - Introduction to R Programming (online course)

Data Analysis with R (online course)
  • Beginn: 25.03.2025 09:30
  • Ende: 08.04.2025 17:30
  • Vortragende(r): Rick Scavetta
  • Rick Scavetta has been operating as an independent workshop trainer, freelance data scientist, and co-founder since 2012. Under the name Scavetta Academy, Rick maintains a strong and recurring presence at prominent research institutes throughout Germany. These include several Max Planck Institutes and Excellence Clusters, covering diverse fields such as primatology, earth sciences, marine biology, molecular genetics, and behavioral psychology. With online courses featured on DataCamp, Rick's teachings have reached more than 200,000 students since 2016. Additionally, he has made contributions to advanced data science courses offered by O’Reilly and Manning.
  • Ort: online
  • Gastgeber: IMPRS AND KONSTANZ RESEARCH SCHOOL
  • Kontakt: imprs@uni-konstanz.de
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Beyond BRMS: Building Custom Bayesian Models in Stan

  • Datum: 18.03.2025
  • Uhrzeit: 14:00 - 15:00
  • Vortragende(r): Mitzi Morris, Stan Core Developer
  • Ort: online
  • Kontakt: kbrock@ab.mpg.de
These two sessions are designed for those who have built Stan models in R with BRMS, rethinking, or similar packages. We’ll learn how to edit the Stan code directly to create models that are challenging or out of reach with these packages.18 March 14:00 - Seminar25 March 14:00 - Follow up Q&A [mehr]
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