This project has been a long time coming and huge slog, with me ultimately repeating an entire greenhouse experiment when we realized we were missing a necessary control. But I'm really excited that it's finally published! Royal Society Publishing royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.10…

We are continuing to seek applications for our Fall 2023 Travel Grant ($2000) sponsored by @WilsonOrnithSoc. Read More and Learn how to Apply: fieldinclusive.org/2023/07/01/fi-… Deadline: July 31 by 11:59 PM ET.

#CrayWeek Day 2! My research focuses on burrowing crayfish. These animals can create impressive burrows that make them very tough to sample. Luckily I love playing in the mud as my job! 🦞

Excited to present my robin growth work at #AOS_SCO23 (Thursday 16:45 Salon B) and help lead Rainbow Lorikeets 🏳️‍🌈 events there (discussion panel and social!) I'm also hoping to defend Spring 2024 so I'm looking for postdoc positions, check out sarahwinnicki.com for more about me!

What do egg hormones, non-linear mixed models, and 252 baby American Robins have in common? They're all the stars of my #AOS_SCO23 talk today about project #GrowBirdGrow! If you're in town come check it out (4:45 PM Salon B), delighted to have significant results (for once)!

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Jonah Dominguez crushed his presentation about sentinel calling behavior!!

Bram Osterhout is shocking minds here at GEEB symposium talking about protein synthesis (including heat shock 🔥!)

Feeling itchy? Juliana Soto’s talk about feather lice phylogeny and their endosymbiotic bacteria was one to beat!

⚡️⚡️⚡️Poster session is off and questions are abundant! So awesome to see such diversity in biology!! ⚡️⚡️⚡️

Roberto Cucalon made a stellar presentation about cavefish distribution!

Yeeeooouch! Jules Chabain stabbed our interest explaining the evolution of stingray serration!

Thanks Derek MacFarland for the lovely talk about tick born diseases over time and landscape changes, 10/10 for the photos!

My brain 🧠 is exploding after listening to Simran Singh’s talk! Great job!

Madam GEEB president Jeannette Cullum knocked her talk out of the park about aquatic ecosystem health with the Daphnia study organism!

Abby Weber punctured my interest about parasitoid host resistance!

Got to chat paddlefish with some fellow grad students at the GEEB symposium tonight! Always a privilege to share about such a cool fish!

Check out our 2025 GEEB Symposium on Youtube!!😍 youtube.com/watch?v=EpDZGY… The GEEB Symposium showcases research from undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Illinois, featuring presentations on ecology, evolutionary biology, and closely related disciplines.

Check this! We recently launched a new outreach event at Yankee Ridge Multilingual School STEM night! Great job GEEBers!! 🥳🎉🎉