
Dr. Danielle Levesque
@dl_levesque
Associate Professor at the University of Maine. Specializes in tenrecs, treeshrews, and mammalian temperature regulation. 🇨🇦 living in 🇺🇸. She/her.
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https://umaine.edu/levesquelab/ 14-10-2014 03:26:04
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Excited this work is finally out. Thought we had both northern and southern flying squirrels on campus but the northerns are likely long gone from the southern parts of Maine. Found them up north though so watch this space for more! E. Han Tan Emily Gagne

How much does reproduction really cost? Out today in Science Magazine we show that more energy is spent creating offspring than are in the offspring themselves. 🧵science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Next year I'll be recruiting postdocs & PhD/MSc/Hons students to develop The Julia Language and test (field/lab work) new approaches for predicting how Aussie pests (insects, mammals) will respond to climate change as part of a 5yr project arc.gov.au/2024-laureate-… More details soon...


New review w/ Nathan Senner Jonathan Velotta Zac Cheviron. Relieved to have this out: it took ~7 yrs to draft + 4 yrs to publish. Please help make the emotional toll worthwhile by giving it a look 🙏 We hope it will generate some conversation! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/13…




Respirometry is a standard technique for estimating metabolic rate & water loss, with various reporting methods & results. We provide a checklist guideline on five key areas to facilitate transparency & reproducibility | doi.org/10.1016/j.cbpa… Comp. Biochem. Physiol.


Exciting PhD opportunity (for UK-fee students) available in my lab and also with Fleur Ponton! Please share with your networks! Open to anyone interested in insect behaviour, vector ecology and developing (evo/epi) models (i.e. experience not required, just enthusiasm to learn!).


📢 Global PhD opportunity: very happy to update that our advertised project on maternal behaviour and larval environment in mosquitoes is now open to applicants from *any* country and the deadline has been extended to 31 August! with Fleur Ponton Ajay Narendra Dr Helena Stage


Voges, Freeman, Wolf and McKechnie doi.org/10.1016/j.jthe… Functional role of metabolic suppression in avian thermoregulation in the heat Marc Freeman🇿🇦, University of Pretoria, FitzPatrick Ins, SA Biodiversity, Univ. of New Mexico 📸credit: Jochen Voges (bulbul) and Marc Freeman🇿🇦 (others)



We're hiring here UBC Zoology in comparative physiology! Come be my colleague in a fantastic department! If you have any questions about the department, UBC, or Vancouver, please don't hesitate to ask. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/28155 Please spread widely.
