Talks & Workshops

My public speaking and teaching work is split between technical training for researchers and public engagement for broader audiences.
I believe that if research is not shared in an accessible way, the work is functionally incomplete.

Technical Training


Upcoming

  • How to make your own website with Quarto - SORTEE Code Club
    May 18, 2026
    Event link coming soon

  • Behavioural flexibility, not efficiency, as the cognitive trait under selection
    ISBE – July 21-25, 2026
    Torino, Italy

Recent

  • Software Carpentry Workshop - Philipps University Marburg
    March 3-4, 2026
    Event link

  • Winter School 2026 - SARA Institute of Science
    January 23-27, 2026
    Github Repo

  • How to start your own Code Club - SORTEE Unconference 5
    October 16th, 2025
    Open Guide · Slides · Github Repo

  • Data wrangling with {tidyverse}
    July 26th, 2025
    Event link · Slides · YouTube

  • Scrollytelling Science with Quarto and Closeread
    May 28th, 2025
    YouTube · Slides

  • What is Open Science Anyway?
    February 14th, 2025
    Event link · Slides

  • SORTEE Code Club
    2025
    List of events

  • Personal Knowledge Management and Note-Taking Apps
    December 2024 - November 2025
    Open Resources

Public Engagement

  • Building Inclusive Computational Skills
    WiCS+E · February 23rd, 2026
    Event link · Slides

  • Shrinking shrews: what a small mammal can teach us about brain and behavior
    Univesität Konstanz, Germany · November 20th, 2025
    Open Science Slam - Invited Talk

  • The curious case of the Common Shrew
    Hochrhein-Seminar für Mathematik und Naturwissenschaften · November 7th, 2025
    Event link

  • Live from the nesting box – programming for birds
    MAXCINE, Germany · October 3rd, 4th, 5th, 2025
    Event link · Poster

In the Media

  • “Rare seasonal brain shrinkage in shrews is driven by water loss, not cell death” - Max Planck Society

  • “Cervello del toporagno si restringe in inverno e rinasce in estate: c’è qualcosa da imparare?” - Alzheimer Reise

  • “Wasserverlust lässt das Gehirn von Spitzmäusen im Winter schrumpfen” - Vbio

  • “Rare seasonal brain shrinkage in shrews is driven by water loss, not cell death, MRI study reveals” - Phys Org

  • “Shrews’ Seasonal Brain Shrinkage Tied to Water Loss” - MirageNews

  • “Shrews That Shrink Their Brains with the Seasons May Hold Clues to Treating Brain Disease” - DongaScience

  • “Gene Expression Shifts as Shrews Shrink and Regrow Their Brains” - The Scientist

  • “Scientists found that this tiny mammal ‘regrows’ its brain in winter. And it could help cure Alzheimer’s” - Discover Wildlife

  • “Why this mammal eats its own brain” - Washington Post

Scientific Conferences and Seminars

2026

  • Baldoni C.
    Invited Seminar — University of Tübingen
    Tübingen, Germany
    The common shrew: cognitive challenges in a changing brain

2025

  • Baldoni C. & Dechmann D.
    Beyond the standard: Unconventional vertebrate models in biomedicine, EMBO
    Edinburg, UK
    The shrew as a model for brain shrinkage without neurodegeneration

  • Baldoni C.
    Invited Seminar — Messerli Institute
    Vienna, Austria
    Shrinking Shrews: Cognitive Challenges in a Changing Brain

2024

  • Baldoni C., Farantouri M., Raptis K., Nourani E., Dechmann D.
    International Society for Behavioral Ecology (ISBE)
    Melbourne, Australia
    Seasonal Brain Size Variation and Its Impact on Spatial Navigation and Learning in the Common Shrew (Sorex araneus)

2023

  • Baldoni C., von Elverfeldt D., Dechmann D.
    Wikelski Department Seminar Radolfzell, Germany
    News from the Shrews: Brain structure during Dehnel’s phenomenon from neuroimaging

  • Baldoni C., Farantouri M., Raptis K., Nourani E., Dechmann D.
    Animal Behaviour Conference
    Bielefeld, Germany
    Brain size and spatial learning in the common shrew (Sorex araneus)

  • Baldoni C., Nourani E., Dechmann D.
    IV Convegno Nazionale sui Piccoli Mammiferi
    Grosseto, Italy
    Seasonal brain size changes affect spatial learning in common shrews (Sorex araneus)

2022

  • Baldoni C., Dechmann D.
    Animal Behaviour Society
    San José, Costa Rica
    Seasonal brain changes impact associative learning in common shrews (Sorex araneus)

2019

  • Baldoni C., Scaravelli D., et al. 
    IV Italian Bat Conference
    Padova, Italy
    Nocturnal bat migration at the bird ringing station ‘Bocca di Caset’

  • Baldoni C., Cicero M., et al. 
    XX Italian Ornithology Conference
    Naples, Italy
    Citizen-science approach to Ring-necked parakeet distribution in Bologna

  • Baldoni C., Brucks D., et al. 
    ASAB Summer Conference
    Konstanz, Germany
    Self-control in two macaw species using a rotating paradigm

2018

  • Baldoni C., Giglio G., Scaravelli D.
    II European Meeting of Young Ornithologists
    Torino, Italy
    Effects of fire on birds in Mediterranean woods