Caro Dittrich

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Behavioural and evolutionary ecologist with a penchant for frogs 🐸 and a love of beer 🍺; HERper; Brewer; also interested in Ethnoherpetology, Art and Music

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🔺 Interested in doing fieldwork in the Amazon while studying 🐸 with amazing capabilities? Then this opportunity could be for you! Join Andrius Pašukonis and me at #KLIVV (Vienna) for a PhD adventure on sensory ecology and cognition in #poisonfrogs 👉 bibianarojas.co/news/ Please spread the word!

The new #TrueFacts episode by #ZeFrank about #possums feigning death also features my European Common 🐸 research 🤩 Very proud first author here 😊 www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_w_... 🧪👩‍🔬

True Facts: Not-Dead Opossums and Their Weird Defenseswww.youtube.com Go to https://brilliant.org/zefrank to get a 30-day free trial + 20% off their annual subscription.merch: https://ze-true-store.myshopify.com/patreon: https:...

Together with #AaronComeault #FranzHoelzl @biobiiana.bsky.social and collaborators, we present a high-quality #genome assembly of the dyeing poison #frog 🐸🧬 and investigated the role of transposable elements (TEs) in gene-size variation. Find our paper here doi.org/10.1093/gbe/... 🧪🧬🖥️👩‍🔬 #evolution

Genome assembly of the dyeing poison frog provides insights into the dynamics of transposable element and genome-size evolutiondoi.org Abstract. Genome size varies greatly across the tree of life and transposable elements are an important contributor to this variation. Among vertebrates, a

🧪👩‍🔬 #academicsky #evolution doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...

A recent study by Valencia-Aguilar et al. showed that glass 🐸have traded testes size w/ paternal care (!) In this TREE spotlight, @carodittrich.bsky.social, #SaraCalhim and I discuss whether the same tradeoffs exist in spp with ≠ paternal care type and duration. We need more data! 🧐 rb.gy/9tocn2

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As director of CESAB, I'm incredibly proud to share the latest article of our postdocs today in Ecology Letters. 👏 They call for a more ethical academic publishing landscape but also ask to not let only the Early Career Researchers pay the price of this paradigm shift ! doi.org/10.1111/ele.... 🧪🌍

Check out my seminar today in the afternoon! "Drop dead! Female mate avoidance in an explosively breeding frog", chaired by Assoc. Prof. Polly Campbell 🐸🧪👩‍🔬 Thursday 14th Mar 2024 17.00 PM (Europe/London) cassyni.com/events/4YDUH...

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Great work on how diet 🥚🥗 affects aposematism in the wood tiger moth 🦋 by @crisottocento.bsky.social ! 🧪👩‍🔬🌍 See her thread below for details or check out her new paper journals.biologists.com/jeb/article-...

⚠️New gland-like structure in saber-toothed frogs 🐸🦷identified, contains sex- and species specific chemical profiles 🧪, lead by Marvin Schäfer from Rödel Lab at MfN Berlin published with Royal Society royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.... and featured at IFLScience t.co/SypU2m5DLX Congrats!

Saber-Toothed Frogs Found To Have A Mysterious "Gland" Unknown To Sciencet.co A venomous weapon? Or a pheromone foghorn? Scientists took a closer look.

I am pleased to announce that my final PhD chapter on female mate avoidance in a European frog species 🐸 was ranked second among the most popular articles published in the Royal Society this year. This concludes the year 2023. What an honour! 🥳🧪👩‍🔬#evosky

Celebrating the most popular papers from 2023 | Royal Societyroyalsociety.org As we count down to 2024, we’re celebrating the top 10 most popular articles of the year according to Altmetric.

New paper out! We show that mercury contamination reaches high levels in small phytotelmata used by poison frogs 🐸 for tadpole deposition, and increases with proximity to small-scale artisanal gold mining. @biobiiana.bsky.social 🧪🌎👩‍🔬🦤 #AcademicSky #evosky www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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My lab at the University of South Florida is looking for a postdoc to collaborate on a project on the evolution of poison frog color, behavior, and learning! Happy to answer questions, and I will be at #SICB2024 to chat - come join us!! Details on how to apply: shorturl.at/uwxIU Please share widely!

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Drawing generalisations about a species based on only 1 pop can be misleading, as shown in this new study led by Lia Schlippe Justicia: "Intraspecific divergence of sexual size dimorphism and reproductive strategies in a polytypic poison frog" rdcu.be/dsyOF @carodittrich.bsky.social Out in EvolEcol

Reposting since I have now learned how to use tags (or pretend to). We have shown that ♀️🐸 display tonic immobility during mating. Younger females exhibited this behavior more often, suggesting that experience may play a role. 🧪 #AcademicSky 🌍 #ecoevo #SciComm #EHBEA

The study got a lot of attention, visually this was the best www.iflscience.com/female-frogs...

Female Frogs Fake Their Own Deaths To Avoid Having Sex With Unwanted Maleswww.iflscience.com Other tactics also include rotation and mimicking male release calls.

This week we made some news on Amphibiaweb! 🐸♀️🧪 EHBEA Our article "Drop dead! Female mate avoidance in an explosively breeding frog" got featured amphibiaweb.org/index.html

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New Genome Assembly! We present a high-quality 6.3 Gbp genome assembly of the poison frog Dendrobates tinctorius. The dynamic role of transposable elements seems to drive the evolution of 'genomic gigantism' in amphibians 🐸🧪🧬 doi.org/10.1101/2023...

Our study on mate avoidance behavior in the European common frog got mentioned in Psychology Toady www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/lies... #EHBEAS

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Looking for something to stock your book shelf, celebrate achievements, or perhaps stock holiday stockings?!?! Women in Herpetology Book is OUT Buy your copy here: shorturl.at/lrDHM All profits will help create a scholarship to attend the World Congress of Herpetology

Women in Herpetologyshorturl.at Women in Herpetology: 50 Stories from Around the World is a captivating read that reveals the grit, determination, and passion of women who have chosen to devote their lives to the study of amphibians...

The study got a lot of attention, visually this was the best www.iflscience.com/female-frogs...

Female Frogs Fake Their Own Deaths To Avoid Having Sex With Unwanted Maleswww.iflscience.com Other tactics also include rotation and mimicking male release calls.

I am happy to see the last chapter of my #PhD out RSOS. We show that female frogs in dense breeding aggregations use mate avoidance tactics, probably due to stress. One is tonic immobility, they appear death royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

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If you're in any of the white hot areas on this map, dim your lights tonight (and tomorrow). If you have a low window that might reflect trees or other greenery, some quick DIY solutions: - tape strips on the window 4" apart - use tempura paint to make a pattern with a similar density

Hello 🔵🏙 I am one of the newbies, please let me join the science and ecology fun 😁 @danirabaiotti.bsky.social @ethanfreedman.bsky.social Thank you!

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