Rebecca Rimbach
@urban-squirrel
Energetics, eco-physiology, urban ecology | @ University of Münster | mainly 🐭🐿️🐒 but also into 🦎| Mom of 2 | firstgen | she/her
What a lovely plenary by @roesslerdaniela.bsky.social. I learn something new every time about 🕷💤 Just image all-day follows on tiny jumping spiders, in the rain forest. Way to go!! @isbe2026.bsky.social
Enjoying great plenaries, talks and social events at @isbe2026.bsky.social in Turin. @mdammhahn.bsky.social
The deadline for the abstract submission got extented to July 1st.
Join us for the next DZG meeting in Münster (September 7-11 2026). The line up is amazing! Looking forward to seeing many people here. 🐭🐸🐖🐟🕷🦇🧪🧬🦴
There were also 3 awsome and very inspiring plenaries at this year's meeting of the @ethoges.bsky.social: Thomas Bugnyar (sadly I took no picture), Rosemary Grant and Lars Chittka 🐦🐝
We got to see the famous geese at the Konrad Lorenz Forschungsstelle in Grünau during the meeting of the @ethoges.bsky.social
When you set traps to capture small rodents, but a least weasel only sees an easy meal
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
A quick recap of our South Africa excursion! So much beauty and diversity @mdammhahn.bsky.social
And a dream came true. We got to visit the Kalahari Meerkat Project run by Marta Manser from Zurich
And some more pictures of African penguins and dassies (rock hyrax)
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)
That's us! Loved working with the wall lizards. Hoping for more to come (fingers crossed for the grant application)
Trying out my new board game - when you're a biologist and it's your birthday... quick and fun game with beautiful art
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
Game night with biologists. What do we play? Of course, biology-related board games such as Wingspan 🐦🐛🦢🐧🦆🐓🐔🦉
🐀🏙️🧪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
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