Check it out! Kara Mia Ehler won top overall poster at this past weekend's Chicago Area Undergraduate Research Symposium! Her research is on the life history of the mini camel Poebrotherium 🐪 caurs.com/caurs-2024-2

Great to see a California Conservation Genomics Project paper out, led by Brock Wooldridge & Chloe Orland !👇Love talking about this story bc we thought the PCA signal was some kind of batch effect; turns out it was a huge inversion & the only notable variation in the species!

PICK YOUR KING 👑

Do females prefer males with more chest spots? Only time will tell 🤩

Amaya Bechler & Bryce W. Robinson did such a great job on these Savi Made digitally sculpted #SongSparrow models

Fun fact: music 🎶 wordplay ~ always jumping in my 🧠 youtu.be/3h0WoiNaI-E?si…

A majority of birds migrate over a locality on just 9 nights in spring. Tonight is one of those special nights!

Lights out, cats in, bird tape up!
Migration-o-meter: 🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦

15 million will fly over IL.

Find a bird in need? call us: 773-988-1867.

We're hosting the Animal Behavior Society sponsored SIGNAL professional development workshop. Ambika Kamath (ambikamath.bsky.social) and Charissa Owens are keynote speakers with career panelists from industry, government and academia Dr Mikel Delgado, PhD. Cat Behavior Consultant Dr Amrita Bhattacharya Dr. Sebs Echeverri @spiderdaynightlive.bsky.social Mingzi Xu NOAA
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Our new paper on alpaca copulation is out! Alpacas are not as cuddly as they look! They are the first animal described as having intrahorn insemination! 🦙1/x

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First preprint from Forest Speciation Lab: a multimodal documentation of rainforest tinamou mating ritual. The female courted with egg-laying-hen-like clucking and peacock-like feather-ruffling.
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#paleognath #courtship #dance #behavioralsciences #Panama

Have a look at this @forbes article by Andrew J Wight 🇦🇺🇨🇴✍🏽🕺🏻💃🏽 on the academic journey and cool studies of one of my favourite #poisonfrog researchers (and once my school pupil!), Roberto Márquez 🫶🏾 'Unlocking The Mystery Of Why Poison Frogs Don’t Poison Themselves' 🐸☠️ forbes.com/sites/andrewwi…

Please RT: I’ll be recruiting in Fall 2024! Fieldwork in Chile, Peru, & the Tetons. Potential grad students (MS & PhD), undergrads, & postdocs, please reach out.

Por favor RT: Pronto buscaré estudiantes (MS, PhD) y postdocs para el lab—ponte en contacto si estás interesado/a!

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Every year, up to one billion birds die from hitting windows. Meet the researchers Duke University who are trying to change that: Madi Chudzik Sara Lipshutz Nicki Cagle, Ph.D. Duke Environment
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Interns to work with me and Michelle Thompson for reptile and amphibian surveys this summer are open!!!! Apply here fieldmuseum.hrmdirect.com/employment/job…

Open PhD position on the role of #microbiome in #thermal #adaptations in #birds , in Finland Faculty of Mathematics and Science! Application DL 15th May, start date August 2024 (flexible). With Charli Davies, Antoine Stier Andreas Nord #ecophysiology #temperature Please RT!

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Awesome article about Madi Chudzik's PhD research on nocturnal flight calls Duke Biology!

Enhanced enjoyment of our spicy takes about #neophobia #experimentaldesign ! 🌶️🔥😅 [email protected] Melanie Kimball

Please RT: Interested in a 3-year postdoc fellowship to study neotropical bat behavior with me at Smithsonian Panama? If so, email me. Deadline July 15 stri.si.edu/nomis

During the 2024 eclipse, biologists like us want to find out how birds will respond to darkness in the middle of the day theconversation.com/during-the-202… via The Conversation U.S.

Ohhhh yes. Another one!
Field Inclusive is happy to offer ONE $2000 FALL Travel Award for a marginalized or historically excluded student to attend any conference, workshop, or training opportunity in a natural sciences field.

This application will close August 1, 2024 at…

Happy to announce that I received the U.S. National Science Foundation CAREER award for our project on actomyosin-ring-independent cytokinesis and its coordination with chloroplast division. I'm grateful for the members of my lab, collaborators, and friends and for the support from Duke University Duke Biology.

Congrats to our great friend and collaborator OnishiLab_Duke on their U.S. National Science Foundation CAREER award!! 🤩🥳