🚨 M.Sc. Alert! 🚨 I am recruiting M.Sc. students to join my lab at MizzouBiology for the Fall of 2024! SICB Animal Behavior Society SSAR More info about the application process/deadlines here: biology.missouri.edu/grad/graduate-… More info below:

Help shape ATBC and tropical biology-- please consider service on the Biotropica Editorial Board. See link for details: forms.gle/AHE8ZN3zNkdfZZ…

Looking for recommendations: Colleagues, what fellowship/funding sources do you know of to support postdocs (particularly international scholars) in your US-based lab? Oh, and hopefully, the funding emphasizes behavior, ecology, evolution, and biomechanics. Thanks!

Fascinating talk on the broad effects and importance of limb autotomy in harvestmen by Ignacio Escalante! #SICB2024

Today I saw three amazing science talks by three outstanding scientists! Mimi Koehl talked about marine larvae moving on turbulence, Tessa Patton talked about the genetic bases of bird reproduction, and aq told us about frog resilience to pathogens. #SICB2024

This Spring, I am participating in a field class in Costa Rica. This class is offered by Tropical Studies to graduate students from 6 Latin American countries. We visit 3 environments, conduct short research projects, and visit conservation and restoration projects.

Internship Alert 🚨 Smithsonian Panama We are seeking 3 or more interns to research tropical species ID and tropical tree woody growth in Panama 📷Get full position descriptions and see how to apply here: rb.gy/2psdy0

In their section “outside JEB,” Journal of Experimental Biology covered our 2023 paper on wolf spider biomechanics. We explored the environmental and morphological constraints of the locomotion in tropical highlands where temperatures fluctuate greatly daily. t.ly/sU898 UIC Department of Biological Sciences

And that’s a wrap! Our Tropical Ecology and Conservation graduate course for Latin American students concluded with a huge success. Help us spread the word so this amazing opportunity keeps supporting the regional emerging leaders in the field. Tropical Studies

New paper out today! We studied what factors allow 'baby spiders' (aka spiderlings) to improve their prey capture abilities. It's 'old' data from my Masters at UCR but analyzed with fresh eyes and tools in collaboration with colleagues at UW-Milwaukee. UIC Department of Biological Sciences University of Illinois Chicago

Open position available! Let me know if you have questions. Animal Behavior Society RAEL - Red de Aracnología Emergente Latina American Arachnological Society

New paper out! This was a great international collaboration between engineers and biologists. We reviewed the bio-inspired design of hard-bodied mobile robots based on arthropod morphologies: doi.org/10.1088/1748-3… via Bioinspiration & Biomimetics UIC Department of Biological Sciences University of Illinois Chicago

💤More sleep for behavioral ecologists!💤 Out now! Barrett Barrett Klein and I wrote a piece inviting behavioral ecologists to look more closely at sleep in their diverse study animals. Best part? It comes with a Tinbergen/sleep comic by Bug! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/je…

So happy and proud of the research we did this summer and fall in the Chicagoland area! dm me ur bugs Sage DeLong

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Super happy with our new collaborative paper in the Neotropics! We examined how climatic variability affects sexual selection for nuptial gifts. Congrats Camila for this awesome research 🙌🏻 and the fantastic work of all authors Find out more at @ASNAmNat journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.10…

We have two exciting job openings! 1. Open Rank Teaching Faculty (Genetics), Non-Tenure Track: go.uic.edu/TeachingFaculty 2. Tenure Track Asst Professor in #Genetics and/or #Epigenetics : go.uic.edu/AsstProfGeneti… Both postings will close 12/16 @ 5pm 📣Spread the word!📣

New paper out in Ethology! We studied if larvae of antlion use their defensive behaviors differently depending on the number of neighboring larvae. The project was part of a field ecology & conservation class in Costa Rica. UIC Department of Biological Sciences Tropical Studies shorturl.at/53dvW

Two new papers out now in the same issue of [email protected] ! (1) Shannon O'Brien & I reviewed the robustness of Opiliones to leg loss. (2) Along with collaborators, we proposed how animals use robustness and adaptive control to move in an uncertain world. academic.oup.com/icb/issue/64/5