📣 Registration for #ABL2026 is now OPEN!

Join the Animal Behaviour Live Annual Conference on 12 November 2026 — a free, global, online event celebrating animal behaviour research 🐾🌍

🆓 The event is FREE, but registration is mandatory.
This year's theme: "Studying Animal Behaviour in a Changing World"

📄 Register & submit your abstract here:
https://ablaoc.sciencesconf.org/
⏳ Registrations close 11 Nov 2026 (day before the event)!

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Why I don’t like recording events

I was asked earlier why I don’t like recording events and realised I’d never actually written it down. There are a few reasons I feel increasingly strongly about this:

• We have started to record academic events by default and I think that is fundamentally problematic in principle
• There’s an assumption that the ease with which we can record online events means we should record them and I just don’t get why that is
• There’s a fundamental value in the academic event as something that brings people together synchronously which recording undercuts
• The biggest problem with online events is passive engagement and (automatic) recording of them fits into that structure
• The quality of engagement should be more important than the quantity in most cases. What matters is how richly a core audience engages and there are trade offs which we need to recognise.
• Recording undermines the space for intellectual improvisation and risk taking
• The evidence I’ve seen (as someone who ran a lot of academic social media for a long time) is that engagement rates with event recording is very slow.
• My hunch is that the request for a recording often tracks a fear of missing out as much as it does a deliberate intention to engage with the recording

I’m not saying never record events. Clearly this serves a purpose in some cases. But we should only record events when we are clear about the rationale for doing so.

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📢 Abstract submissions for Animal Behaviour Live Annual Conference are now OPEN!

🗓 Deadline: 7 Sept 2025

🎤 Choose from:
🔹 15-min live or recorded talk
🔹 5-min pre-recorded video poster (our classic format!)
📄 Submit here: https://ablaoc25.sciencesconf.org/

Join us at this global virtual event on animal behavior 🌍🧠
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📣 Registration for #ABL2025 is now OPEN!

Join the Animal Behavior Live Annual Conference on 13–14 November 2025 — a free, global, online event celebrating animal behavior research🧠🌍
🆓 The event is FREE, but registration is mandatory.
📄 Register here: https://ablaoc25.sciencesconf.org/
⏳ Registrations close 12 Nov 2025 (day before the event)

#AnimalBehavior #ABL2025 #OpenScience #AcademicEvents

🚀 Discover how digital tools are transforming anti-corruption efforts

💬 On May 27 at 3 PM (CEST), join us for the launch of Fernanda Odilla’s The Digitalisation of Anti-Corruption in Brazil.

🔗 More info: https://www.eu-respond.eu/events/the-digitalisation-of-anti-corruption-in-brazil-book-launch-event-with-michael-johnston-alice-mattoni-and-fernanda-odilla/

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🙏 Thanks to everyone who joined us for yesterday’s RESPOND seminar with Dr Denis Ivanov on corruption and inequality in Lithuania, Hungary and Moldova.
With this event, following Monday’s session with Prof. Emanuela Ceva, we conclude two intense and inspiring days for the RESPOND project.
📢 Stay connected for upcoming RESPOND events and research updates!

Visit our website: https://www.eu-respond.eu/

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🙏 Thanks to everyone who joined yesterday’s RESPOND event on rethinking the concept of corruption

🔎 See you again today at 3 PM with new experimental insights from Lithuania, Hungary and Moldova
👉 https://www.eu-respond.eu/events/awareness-of-corruption-and-attitudes-toward-socio-economic-inequality-experimental-evidence-from-lithuania-hungary-and-moldova/

📷 Image by Endrik Severin Meitinger

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🔔 Reminder: Two RESPOND seminars next week!

📅 Apr 14 – Prof. Ceva on conceptualising corruption
📅 Apr 15 – Dr. Ivanov on corruption & inequality
📍 University of Bologna or online

🔗 Full info: https://www.eu-respond.eu/events/

See you there!

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On Saturday, the Carmelite Church in Straubing was dedicated as university church for our Campus Straubing for #Biotechnology and #Sustainability. It will be used for modern research, teaching, university services and larger #AcademicEvents: http://go.tum.de/006788

📷J.Winter