Aaaand field experiment is a go! European Starlings <1 day old; you can still see their #eggtooth! Grumpy old man stage is a personal fav. Decoy egg (left) to record #incubation temp and specs on remaining eggs indicate mite #parasiteload of momma #fieldwork #research Keegan Stansberry

@Beth_macshack Keegan Stansberry VIOLA 😂 @c_lattin Melanie Kimball-Toups, PhD kait @EvoEcoJoel

Worth a read. A fantastic, scathing opinion from The Reveille LSU's legal qualms, political fears won't protect campus from deadly virus lsureveille.com/opinion/editor…

Postdoc opening in my lab🐦 Evolution of Behavior & Behavioral Mechanisms. Start date: Spring '22 or Spring '23. Apply by Nov 5. Pls RT. tinyurl.com/5avavtph

I’m recruiting PhD students to start in Fall 2022! Interested in behavioral endocrinology, genomics, physiology, and maternal effects in songbirds? Click here tinyurl.com/bentzlab to find out more. Please RT.

🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨 Scientists at SDZWA discovered two California condor chicks have hatched from unfertilized eggs. This sort of asexual reproduction, known as parthenogenesis, is a first for the species and provides new hope for their recovery. Read more: sdzwa.org/condorchicks

i'm recruiting a MS or PhD student to work on bat migration, immunology, and infectious disease to start in Fall 2022 at OU Dept. of Biology. support includes at least one year of RA funding followed by TAs. get in touch for more information, and please RT! apps are due 12/1.

Hot off the press! Telomeres, stress, life history evolution, and POT1 Sarah Wolf Kim Rosvall onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

Congrats to Sarah Wolf, on her latest publication on the ecologically interesting gene POT1 and its potential role in telomere dynamics. This was a lot of hard work, including 2 awesome ugrad CISAB, Indiana University #REU co-authors. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

New paper out with Kim Rosvall in Molecular Ecology's special issue on #telomeres in ecology and evolution! The telomere regulatory gene #POT1 maps onto fitness-related traits in a wild songbird. A🧵 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11…

In the chaos of prepping to defend, I forgot to share that a third chapter of my dissertation is out in Behavioral Ecology! Here we tested the 'classic' social aspect of the challenge hypothesis (does testosterone💪 go up after a social challenge?) in ♀️ birds doi.org/10.1093/beheco…

Meet the multi-talented Tosha Kelly, PhD (she/her) for a watercoloring break at the [email protected] and [email protected] booth during today’s poster session at #SICB2022!

Here’s an idea to put Scholarship First: get behind the bill to remove graduate student fees in Louisiana. Previous provosts have said this would happen. Make it so LSU President Dr. Wade Rousse LSU. Here’s the link: legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocu… #FierceFees

First first-author publication is out! Read about how neophobic and non-neophobic house sparrow brains responded to novelty. My favorite result is a neural activity difference in the hippocampus, which I am planing to explore in my next projects. authors.elsevier.com/a/1eueabrwfE-wU

There’s still time to sign up! If you’re in the Baton Rouge area and know an inquisitive middle schooler, this is the perfect event for them! Register for this awesome, free STEM program at this link: lsu.formstack.com/forms/crash_co… LSU Museum of NatSci @brown_birds

Telomeres, growth, & self-maintenance— the answer to eternal youth: Sarah Wolf & Kim Rosvall look at several tissues (brain, adrenals, blood, & liver) to assess the directionality & timing of relationships between growth & telomere length onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/je…

#SICB2023 talk from Keegan Stansberry: because birds usually manage synchronous hatching by not brooding until full clutch is laid, climate change can throw some interesting wrenches into the mix. Higher ambient temperatures can start incubating first laid eggs well ahead of schedule!

Awesome presentation about increasing nest temperatures and hatching asynchrony affecting nestling survival at #TWS2023 by Keegan Stansberry from the @c_lattin lab. Looking forward to investigating a similar question with my #RCWoodpecker nestlings!

Come geek out about #RCWoodpecker fecal sacs and genetics with me in the endangered species conservation symposium at 1:30PM in Nunn. If you attend, tweet me and use the hashtag: #TWS2023 😁😁

IU IU EEB Graduate Program Evolution Ecology & Behavior is hiring in partnership with CISAB, Indiana University, in the area of Physiological Mechanisms of Animal Behavior. Apply by 10/7: indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/25250