Busy week in the Kirkpatrick/Reynolds house, as my wife passed her comprehensive exams! She is studying quantum physics (I know…way smarter than me…). Here’s our kitchen blackboard she used for prep!

Very cool

Here is an important example of why anthropomorphism is harmful. This is just plain inaccurate

I’m a lucky student!

Check out two amazing posters at SICB on Wednesday and Thursday! Lorraine Perez 1/3 P1-88 🪰 Sila Inanoglu 1/4 P2-94 🐣 SICB Division of Ecoimmunology and Disease Ecology UConn Undergrad Research UConn EEB Department

If you’re going to #SICB2024 this year, come by and see me on Thursday, Jan. 4th at 1:45 (details in pics below)! I’m very excited to share the first talk with results from my dissertation! Feel free to grab me to chat about birds, behavior, or just to chat! #SICB

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!

Am I doing Seattle right? Hell yeah I’m doing Seattle right

Join me today in 608 at 1:45!

On National Bird Day, we are celebrating a record number of bald eagles observed at Lake Coeur d’Alene in Idaho! 🦅 Photos by Derek Butler

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!

My sex-biased transmission study with DuRantLab is now in issue and on the cover of this month’s Journal of Animal Ecology 📸: Jeremy Cohen, PhD

The very awesome Erin Sauer 🐸 and DuRantLab put out a really cool paper with Jeremy Cohen, PhD’s photo on the cover! Congrats y’all!

Our new article is out in Journal of Animal Ecology. Congrats on a cool study Erin Sauer 🐸 . Thanks for the great cover photo Jeremy Cohen, PhD ! UArkansas Research U.S. National Science Foundation

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Gonna steal this

Do enough people know about the glory of scales::label_wrap???? (No)