Excited to share our new paper on ant personalities! Working on this with Eva Sofia Horna Lowell, @NoaPinter, Ana Rubio and Sean O'Fallon was one of the highlights of this past year, all such brilliant scientists

The first paper from my PhD thesis was accepted yesterday 🎉 at Parasitology . Keep your eyes open for my study looking at the infection rate in recently hatched stickleback fish with the cestode Schistocephalus solidus. Women In Parasitology

#PhalaropePhriday has been on hold while I was in the Arctic, but lots of new #phalarope media to come! Here's a whirligig of phalaropes spinning in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut

Mark your calendar!! Our annual GEEB Symposium is happening this Friday, 02/03, from 6-9:30pm at Cafeteria and Co in Urbana! The student presentations and posters will be accompanied by light snacks and drinks will be for sale!

GEEB Symposium tonight from 6-9:00pm at Cafeteria and Co in Urbana!! See you there! 🐸🦈🐟🐝🪴🦠

Our #robofish now independently adapts its behavior to live #guppy - it becomes gentler for the shy and more direct for the bold! The fish love it and follow the robot for minutes! Study led by Tim Landgraf Science of Intelligence IGB Berlin (now on Bluesky) iopscience.iop.org/article/10.108…

Doug Booher For this work, Nick Gotelli developed a method to show how museum collections can be used to shed light on how abundant species used to be. This is a game changer for the important of museum collections in ecological research. See more here: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

The eggs of two killifish species are so hardy that they can withstand being digested by birds—this may be the first firm evidence that birds disperse fish. #EggcellentReads🥚 Story by Richa Malhotra. l8r.it/tVLC

Hot off the press! Our work on a new model framework for PCR duplicates led by Nicolas Rochette now available at Molecular Ecology Resources (Molecular Ecology): On the causes, consequences, and avoidance of PCR duplicates: Towards a theory of library complexity doi.org/10.1111/1755-0… 1/n

We need a labor party in the U.S.

we have 4th graders in debt for cheese sticks and applesauce

#DisabilityPrideMonth - Embracing #neurodiversity in #graduate programs By SICB Mangum blogger, Dr. Kevin Neumann "The progression of both #science and society depends on promoting the #inclusion of all people." …veandcomparativebiology.wordpress.com/2024/07/16/dis…