Rebecca Rimbach
Energetics, eco-physiology, urban ecology | @ University of Münster | mainly 🐭🐿️🐒 but also into 🦎| Mom of 2 | firstgen | she/her | http://rebecca-rimbach.com
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- Reposted by Rebecca RimbachFor the love of mammoths, if you're not going to review a manuscript please decline right away. Don't just ignore the reminders and then let the system auto-decline after two weeks. Happy holidays to all who say "no" in a timely manner, and may those who suggest alternatives have a happy New Year.
- We have a new paper out! @jzoology.bsky.social 🐀🧪🐀🧪
- Adaptation to harshness is fundamentally different from the adaptive stress response: Results from a 20 years long case study in African striped mice zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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- Reposted by Rebecca RimbachJOB ALERT: We have an exciting Senior Research Assistant post available for a project tracking predators and prey simultaneously starting early 2026. We need someone with experience tagging adult raptors or wader chicks. This you? app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car...
- Reposted by Rebecca RimbachWant to know everything about bird smell? I wrote an "Ornithological masterclass" on Avian Olfaction for BTO News @btobirds.bsky.social #ornithology Link to the article 👉 www.researchgate.net/publication/...
- Reposted by Rebecca RimbachWith #eseb2025 coming to a close, it is time to start making plans for 2026. Interested in the interface of evolution 🧬 and ecology 🌳? Come to our #ExE conference hosted by @uniexecec.bsky.social in beautiful #Cornwall. Leave your email address at tinyurl.com/EvolxEcol to join our mailing list!
- Reposted by Rebecca Rimbach2025. How human activity impacts urban squirrels' problem-solving abilities phys.org/news/2025-09...
- Reposted by Rebecca RimbachCome and work with us! Three new academic posts (including Animal Behaviour) and superb facilities in the new Life & Mind Building
- Oxford Biology is growing 📢 We’re appointing 3 Associate Professors in: 🌱 Plant Sciences 🦉 Animal Behaviour 🔬 Molecular Cell Biology 3 fields. 3 opportunities. One new home for Oxford Biology. Learn more 👉 bit.ly/41S2Tc7 Apply now 👉 bit.ly/488CNW3
- Loving the colors of the sea
- Actual footage of me on my way into the weekend...
- When you set traps to capture small rodents, but a least weasel only sees an easy meal
- Enjoying lizard fieldwork in Croatia
- Do animals dream? Here is a bank vole, sleeping (and dreaming?) in a metabolic chamber
- Fieldwork prep has started! Looking forward to the next field season here in Münster. Let's hope there are loads of small rodents around
- 📸🐭🐿️🦔🐇🏙️New paper out! Using camera trap data we found that small mammal community composition, species diversity and evenness do not change along an urbanization gradient in and around Münster, Germany. First published study with @mdammhahn.bsky.social www.publish.csiro.au/WR/WR24196
- Kerrin scored > 50.000 photos. We recorded 8 taxa, with Apodemus spp. dominating (72.6%). The probability of occurrence of all species was not affected by increasing impervious surface cover.
- A quick recap of our South Africa excursion! So much beauty and diversity @mdammhahn.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Rebecca RimbachI am extremely pleased to share this feature articulating why I have lost my sanity lately. www.science.org/content/arti...
- How your email finds me
- And a dream came true. We got to visit the Kalahari Meerkat Project run by Marta Manser from Zurich
- We also visited a very green Addo Elephant National Park
- Just came back from a 3 week excursion to South Africa with 11 students and @mdammhahn.bsky.social. We covered over 4500km and explored 5 different biomes. Here are some of my favorite pictures (more to follow)
- New paper alert! The function of plants collected by bush Karoo rats (Otomys unisulcatus): Do dried up food plants represent stored food? Fun collaboration using plant data I collected quite some time aho. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Looking forward to the @dzg2025berlin.bsky.social meeting! Who else is going?
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- Reposted by Rebecca RimbachExciting new paper by Jens Ulrich & Risa Sargent: "Urban landscapes with more natural greenspace support higher pollinator diversity." esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
- That's us! Loved working with the wall lizards. Hoping for more to come (fingers crossed for the grant application)
- What a week - submitted a reprint, submitted a revised grant proposal 🦎🐁🦠 (with an amazing group of researchers: Isabel Damas Moreira & Öncü Maraci), supervised an exam, analysed new hormone data. Looking forward to this weekend
- Reposted by Rebecca RimbachI usually reserve this account for my personal views; but today I want to represent my position as President of @asn-amnat.bsky.social to post a message that will shortly go out to the membership of the American Society of Naturalists from the ASN Executive Council
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- Trying out my new board game - when you're a biologist and it's your birthday... quick and fun game with beautiful art
- Reposted by Rebecca RimbachJoin us as a Doctoral student in Biology w/focus in ecological physiology. A PhD project with @cyanistesnord.bsky.social “HotLife – Pathways to survival in a hotter world” supported by @ercresearch.bsky.social. #lunduniversity Please apply no later than 18 February! lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
- Reposted by Rebecca RimbachMore than 60 German-speaking universities and research institutes have just jointly announced they will cease activities on X because “the current orientation of the platform is not compatible with their core values” incl. scientific integrity, transparency and democratic discourse” 🧪
- Actual footage of me and collaborators trying to fit our proposal to the page limit 🐀🦎🏙️
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- Reposted by Rebecca RimbachWhat a cool paper! 🤩 Using @inaturalist.bsky.social observations, Mayer et al. found that there are more melanistic snakes in colder regions than in warmer ones AND that melanistic snakes are more abundant with ⬆️ avian predator density 🐍🐦 Have look at it here: doi.org/10.1111/jbi....
- PhD position available 🚨Öncu Maraci is looking for a #PhDstudent to study the impact of #anthropogenicnoise on fitness-related behaviours, #geneexpression profiles, and #gutmicrobiome in #birds. Read all about it here: tinyurl.com/4xknfw8n
- Very cool new study by @danielwanoble.bsky.social and colleagues
- Reposted by Rebecca RimbachGemütlich im Mittelbau #einkuscheln?! Ihr wisst: Ich habe #IchBinHanna gestern im Wissenschaftsausschuss des NRW-Landtags vertreten. Was ich da alles gesagt hab? 1 🧵! Da ich vermute, dass Euch das besonders interessiert, fange ich mal mit meiner Reaktion auf das Einkuscheln an. (1/8)
- Quite an interesting and important read by @taphozoan.bsky.social and a paper we talked about in our weekly journal club (when talking about the publishing system in general) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Reposted by Rebecca RimbachInterested in fitness consequences of the gut microbiome in the wild? Keen on being involved with an iconic long-term study system? Check out a PhD opportunity working on Soay sheep microbiomes! Info below and feel free to contact with q's. e4-dtp.ed.ac.uk/e5-dtp/super...
- Reposted by Rebecca RimbachHow does pollution impact behavioural evolution? We're looking for an awesome PhD student to find out. Project spans behaviour, genetics + ecotox, working with cherry shrimp @exetercec.bsky.social. Cosupervised with @lauraakelley.bsky.social and Dave Spurgeon at CEH. App + info tinyurl.com/yvthn7xn
- This never gets old...also works with grants or teaching...
- Phillipines - a very beautiful place with loads of marine wildlife to discover
- Throughback to last December when we visited my Dad in the Philippines and went snorkeling every day
- Bye Bye cranes... I prefer seeing you come back
- Game night with biologists. What do we play? Of course, biology-related board games such as Wingspan 🐦🐛🦢🐧🦆🐓🐔🦉
- Reposted by Rebecca Rimbach🚨Final reminder! If a faculty position in ecology / biodiversity / conservation at the University of Namur (Belgium) sounds appealing to you, please consider applying! 😁 ‼️Deadline soon: 30 Nov! ⏳️ Happy to chat about atmosphere etc. 😊 @ilee-unamur.bsky.social euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/284721
- 🐀🏙️🧪I had a fun and engaging time during an outreach event at a school today! Enjoyed talking about the small mammal projects we run here in Münster with @mdammhahn.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Rebecca RimbachThe Institute of #ecology and #evolution at @unibern.bsky.social is looking for two tenure-track assistant professors (APTT): APTT Mathematical or Computational Ecology 👩💻 APTT #Conservation #Biology 👨🏾🔬 More info: tinyurl.com/IEEjobs Application deadline: 1 March 2025
- Reposted by Rebecca Rimbach📢 JOB ALERT ‼️ Interested in animal behaviour and ecology?🔎🦗🐛🐒🐝 👉 Then check out our webpage imprs-qbee.mpg.de/66685/current 👀 for exciting PhD positions 👨🎓 Application deadline is Nov 24th, 2024 📨
- Weather fits the current mood
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- These days I get my exercise by moving around my equipment by bike - #urban field work fun @sablesys.bsky.social 🐁🧪🏙️🪤
- Finally back to field work. We've had a very successful first week trapping bank voles, and wood and yellow-necked mice in Münster with @mdammhahn.bsky.social & Jules Petit
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- Reposted by Rebecca RimbachI was just forwarded communications from Duke admins that this is true: one of the largest and most active herbaria in the United States is being closed in the middle of an extinction crisis, because Duke leadership does not wish to support the infrastructure costs.
- Reposted by Rebecca RimbachFriends, I wrote up a quick guide to getting started on Bluesky for folks who are used to old Science Twitter. Please share it with your folks who are joining. And please let me know if I missed anything or got anything wrong. 🧪 www.southernfriedscience.com/bluesky-is-n...
- Things you do while on the train to a metabolomics workshop in Bielefeld: a Google scholar word cloud. Seems about right 🧪🐀🔋 check it out shiny.rcg.sfu.ca/u/rdmorin/sc...
