"I arrived at the concert venue all dressed up for the big event – only to find it empty except for security personnel!" LSU Department of Biological Sciences PhD student Rujuta Vaidya interviews Weizmann Institute PhD student Tal Ohana about her violin playing hobby: thelattinlab.com/beyond-the-ben…

Are you applying for academic jobs in this cycle? Are you a member of SICB ? If so, this is a great opportunity to create / polish your job application materials 👇

It’s chanterelles season in Louisiana! 😍

If you plant it, they will come! I’m excited to see swallowtail caterpillars on the fennel and Gulf fritillary caterpillars on the passion vine in my garden ❤️🐛🌱

Encourage members of Congress to remove language in current legislation that would restrict essential animal research at the Department of Veterans Affairs: speak4.app/lp/xj01qska/

The lab is hiring a postdoctoral fellow to work on the historical and contemporary population genomics of invasive capeweed! Collaborative work with Kay Hodgins , Tim Conallon, Akane Uesugi, and Allan Ellis, please share on whatever platforms are cool! eeb.utoronto.ca/wp-content/upl…

Congrats to the new Dr. Stansberry Keegan Stansberry who did a fantastic job presenting his PhD work on how climate-related stressors impact developing songbirds. We are all so proud of you & your amazing research! 🙌🎉🐦‍⬛🪺🐣🧑‍🔬 LSU Department of Biological Sciences LSU College of Science

More evidence for social learning in the gregarious house sparrow! Our new paper in Frontiers Bird Science led by Melanie Kimball-Toups, PhD shows sparrows habituate to novel objects near food (top graph), but not when exposed to sparrow alarm calls (bottom graph): frontiersin.org/journals/bird-…

The ecoevo job list for 2024-2025 is out. This is for those who are looking for a faculty position or postdoc in ecology, evolutionary biology, etc docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

Abstract submissions are now open for the SICB meeting in Atlanta GA Jan 3-7 2025! I'd love to see a great representation of integrative & organismal biologists especially from my colleagues in the southeast USA: sicb.org

The highlight of my summer vacation was definitely getting to see this manatee while snorkeling in Belize 😍 (video was shot in slo mo)

Scientist/artists: design a SICB Student-Postdoc sticker for the Atlanta 2025 SICB meeting & win Visa gift card prizes! Art files should be submitted as PDFs or high-quality PNGs (>600 dpi); no AI art please. Submit here by 5pm EST on October 1st -> docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Brief list of some great #postdoc fellowship opportunities. Many due dates are coming up quick. Any others that I should add? Screenshot below but details and links at quantmarineecolab.github.io/join/#postdoct…

Our Biological Invasions paper (which involved Tosha Kelly, PhD (she/her) Melanie Kimball-Toups, PhD Keegan Stansberry blake dusang Sara Lipshutz & others) shows house sparrows are WAY more willing to eat novel foods than their less successful invasive relative the Eurasian tree sparrow LSU Department of Biological Sciences link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Some bats have ultraviolet glowing toes! Is this a potential signal to communicate with their kin? German Society for Mammalian Biology @sciencemagazine science.org/content/articl…

Congratulations to Dr. Keegan Stansberry, our second PhD from the lab! Despite challenging field conditions, he collected 2 years of data testing important hypotheses about how climate-related stressors affect wild birds. So proud of him! 🥹🎉🐦‍⬛🪺☀️🌧️LSU Department of Biological Sciences LSU College of Science

Sometimes you walk out your front door and there is a giant moth clinging to it 😅 (I think this one is a Polyphemus silk moth)

I was SO EXCITED to see these wild stingless bees in Belize … bees are always cute but they bring it to the next level 🥹 🐝🍯🇧🇿

JOB OPPORTUNITY! Mount Holyoke College Biology Dept is hiring an EVo-Devo tenure track faculty member!!! Our Dept is inclusive & supportive, and located in western mass, a top place to live in the USA. Please apply now and pass this on!! Careers mtholyoke.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External…