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Oceanic ecosystems comprise Earth's largest living space. In these vast, fluid, and mostly dark ecosystems, resources aggregate in patchy, fleeting hotspots of biological activity. These conditions pose immense challenges both for resident lifeforms and researchers seeking to elucidate their ... [more]

This talk gives researchers and IT staff a roadmap for managing research data across its full lifecycle — from collection and active analysis to long‑term archiving. It covers core questions about ownership, sharing, and access, explains the difference between backup and archive workflows, and ... [more]

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When the Virginia opossum feels threatened, she becomes paralysed, her body temperature drops, her breathing and heart rate are reduced to a minimum, her tongue turns blue, and her glands simulate the smell of rot. Despite her convincing corpse disguise, the opossum is paying close attention to her ... [more]

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Advances in tracking technology during the last decade have shown that migratory birds have the capacity to fly longer and faster than we previously thought was possible. Yet, we do not know how birds perform these seemingly impossible travels as it previously only was possible to record ... [more]

This interactive workshop explores how culture shapes the way we perceive, interpret, and engage with the world—and with one another. Participants will identify key factors that influence their own cultural perspectives as well as those of others, uncovering how these elements affect everyday ... [more]

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Animal movement and habitat selection underpin important ecological phenomena, from individual behaviour to population-level distributions. Despite navigating three-dimensional space, the spatial locations of animals are often measured and analysed on a two-dimensional plane, which limits our ... [more]

We know that gut feeling can be as powerful an analytic as conscious neural processes. We studied magnetoreception in homing pigeons and surprisingly found that it is mediated via “gut” cell populations. The effect is built upon quantum mechanisms. [more]