🐍 Stephen Lougheed and I are looking for a PhD student to study the sociality of Grey Ratsnakes! 🐍

The position starts in January 2024. Check out the ad and our lab websites for more details. Please share (RT) and apply by Sept 30!

So why did the juries in Eurovision Song Contest love Loreen so much more than the public did? Do juries and the public have different tastes in music? I've actually been exploring that question, using data from Alessandro Nai et al.! Here are the results of the Eurofan analysis... 🧵

Attention researchers, family of researchers and australian residents. Sign this incredibly important petition. PhD students work very long hours for less than minimum wage and often live in poverty.

‼️All researchers: Sign this petition‼️

🔗aph.gov.au/e-petitions/pe…

Tell your colleagues, families & friends.

PhD students do heavy lifting in Australian research. But they're struggling to even pay the rent.

MINIMUM WAGE. Literally the least they should get!

#RaiseTheStipend

Big News!!! Our first book, HOW TO WIN FRIENDS AND INFLUENCE FUNGI, will be filled with 70+ of our favorite presentations over the years! On sale 2/20/24 from @stmartinspress, it’s now available for preorder: bit.ly/NerdNiteBook #SciComm #Science #NerdNite

Preprint updated! Dr Peri 🏳️‍🌈🦘🦅🐍🧗‍♀️ et al.
Neurogenomic landscape of status-dependent cooperative behavior biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Come work with us at BHL Australia @biodivlibrary Museums Victoria! We're seeking a Digitisation & Technical Officer to help us make Australia's biodiversity literature freely accessible online: 2 days/week for 1 year. tinyurl.com/7792xvuz cc Atlas of Living Aust Please share!

Okay. Who else feels like this sometimes?

H/T Tom Isaacson

Cientos de milanos (Ictinia mississippiensis) surcan los cielos sobre Bocas del Toro, registró en un vídeo el investigador de aves rapaces, Karl Bardon. Smithsonian NMNH #TRVerde

(1/3) New lab pre-print: Led by Dr Peri 🏳️‍🌈🦘🦅🐍🧗‍♀️. The study combines detailed behavior and gene expression to define a Neurogenomic landscape of social status-dependent cooperative display behavior biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

lol who did this

BREAKING NEWS:
The 2022 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Svante Pääbo “for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution.”

The Burmeister Lab is interested in recruiting graduate students with an interest in behavior, neurobiology, and/or genomics.

Apply to the UNC EEOB program. | The deadline for applications is November 29, 2022.

Please retweet.
#neurobiology #EvolNeuro #animalbehavior

Sometimes I feel like my life is just spent entering and re-entering passwords, and doing various methods of MFA.

Check out the post on my upcoming work on these endangered cuties looking at how immune genes relate to severe outcomes from avian TB

An interesting facet of disconnection with the natural world is the increasing difficulty that people have in knowing which viral videos depict actual wildlife. E.g. 125K likes for an animatronic elephant in a theme park here, or CGI marmot videos this week.

Truth. 😆😭😮‍💨

If you care about democracy, come to this hearing in Washington, D.C. We need your presence to show how much the citizens of the United States care about our democracy!

Finally some publicity for this interesting lawsuit and good cause!