Birgit Szabo 🦎🐸🏳️🌈, PhD
@birgit_szabo
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Researcher @ Gent University studying behaviour, cognition & welfare. Passions: science, animals, cooking & eating, gaming, sleeping & weekends off. They/them
Bern, Switzerland
Joined February 2016
1. Animals are adapted to the environment: from body shape to mental abilities. But we still wonder. What shapes mental abilities?. To get an answer we need to study a broad range of animals, including 🦎 like the Tokay #gecko, a social #lizard from South-East Asia.#AnimBehav2023
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RT @MikeG_lizards: Are you a student looking for a PhD? I have a funded PhD project on investigating the season of grazing and pygmy blueto….
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RT @KoHuanLee: One more chapter published from my PhD. Merry Christmas!.
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Our study examined the co-occurrence patterns of gut bacteria in 87 sleepy lizards over their activity season, finding that bacterial richness and prevalence generally increased over time, likely...
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RT @DanielWANoble: Check out our Inside JEB commentary article on our new paper just out in JEB. I think it does a nice job summarising our….
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RT @LaurentPretot: 📣 👀 PAPER ALERT 👀 📣 So thrilled to see this out in @SpringerNature’s @NatureHumBehav! A tremendous collaborative effort….
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RT @RaphaelArlettaz: Our institute of Ecology and Evolution, Uni Bern, Switzerland, is opening a competition for a post of professor (tenu….
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RT @ISCABC_: [ENG] It's with great pleasure that we announce Dra. Catarina Vila-Pouca as one of the plenaries. Her research focuses mostly….
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RT @FernandoBlancoS: I'm looking for #Postdocs ! 🧑🔬🔍.I'm a highly motivated researcher with experience in R programming, network analys….
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RT @simonbaeckens: We tracked lizard chemical signals over time in five experimental populations on natural islands in the Greek Cyclades 🦎….
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RT @KLF_UniVienna: Job Alert! 5-year position: #PostdoctoralFellowship with expertise in #socialcognition and communication and a sincere….
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Well, the cat is out of the bag now! I will be joining @ECoBird_UGent as a postdoc to work on cognition, welfare and maybe conservation in birds. New place, new group & new animal models = new and exciting research to come. I am very excited to start this new chapter!.
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More interest in the familiar mate in males might be reltated to pair formation and bi-parental care, but we know little about Tokay geckos mating system and if more tongue flicks also translates into a preference. So, many questions still remain! #ThinkLikeALizard
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