#SICB2024 is upon us! Grad researchers Moth Castagna & Rita Afagwu, & undergrad researcher Jenny Burrow (they/she), + myself will be giving talks! We'd love to chat with you! Missouri State CNAS at Missouri State

Hey #SICB2024! I am recruiting a postdoc to work on poison frog sexual selection and learning. Come chat if you are interested, and please share!

Want to get more involved with SICB_DAB? Well, we are looking for volunteers for the DAB Nominating Committee! This 3-member committee will recruit candidates for the 2024 DAB Chair election. Please contact DAB Chair, Avery Russell for more information ([email protected]).

Are you at SICB? We'd love to see you at the DAB Member Meeting TODAY at 5:45 pm! Then, save the date TOMORROW to meet and mingle with other members at the DAB, DCE, DEDE, DNNSB Joint Social at 8:30 pm - just after the Bern Lecture featuring former DAB Chair, Marilyn Ramenofsky!

Happy first full day of #SICB2024!! Tonight’s SICB President’s Select Plenary will be given by Dr. Matthew Harris on “Inherent capacity for change: latent developmental potential and the evolution of the skeleton.”

Come stop by the SICB_DAB Member Meeting happening in 5 minutes in room 606!

Hello #SICB2024 if you like frogs, behavior and development. Come today to my talk (2:30pm; 608). I’ll be presenting at the SICB_DAB Zuk BSP talk competition. I’ll be talking about mechanisms enabling adaptive embryo behavior in frogs! 🐸

Be sure to come by room 608 from 1:30–3:30pm today for the SICB_DAB Marlene Zuk Best Student Presentation session! #SICB2024

Tonight at 6:00 PM join us in Ballroom B for the SICB member meeting, then stay for the George A. Bartholomew lecture at 7:30 PM by Dr. Eleanor Caves on “the promise of integrative biology in studying animal perception: lessons from mate choice and mutualism.”

Congratulations to Maria Salazar Nicholls (Maria Jose Salazar-Nicholls)—our 2024 SICB_DAB Marlene Zuk Award winner! And another round of applause to all of the finalists!

It’s hard to believe #SICB2024 is coming to a close! Dr. David Shiffman 🦈 will deliver the John A. Moore lecture today at 4 PM to close out a wonderful series of plenary lectures. Come learn more about effective public science engagement!

Attention SICB community: We have added BlueSky and Instagram to our social media portfolio for those who prefer those platforms! Give us a follow on both below! BlueSky: bsky.app/profile/sicb-d… Instagram: instagram.com/sicb_dab/

Opportunity alert! Showcase your work at the 2024 Warder Clyde Allee Session for Best Student Paper during this year's Animal Behavior Society conference in London, Ontario (June 26–29)! All eligible should submit entries by March 8! More award info here: tinyurl.com/c6bsatm7

Please share! My lab will be hiring 2-3 postdocs over the coming months to study the genetic basis of behavioral traits in darters using brain transcriptomics & population genomics. First ad is posted here: tamus.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/TAMU_External/… #behavior #popgen #evolution #neuroethology

SICB Member Update: July 2024 Abstract submissions are now being accepted for the 2025 SICB conference in Atlanta, Georgia from 3–7 January! The abstract deadline is 28 August. Abstract portal: tinyurl.com/bdf8nbd3

This week we're highlighting the SICB Best Student Presentation winners for the Division of Animal Behavior! Congratulations to Maria Salazar Nicholls (best talk) & Isabella Strohmeier (best poster) You can find their work highlighted on the sicb.org main page!

Think your research might not be suitable for SICB? SICB has 12 divisions spanning nearly every biological discipline you can imagine (sicb.org/divisions). Also a reminder to get those abstracts submitted so we can hear about your amazing research in Atlanta in January!