Dustin Reichard
@juncowren.bsky.social
Behavior, Evolution, Endocrinology, and Birds. Associate Professor at OWU, a PUI/SLAC. Research with undergraduates!
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Dustin Reichard
@juncowren.bsky.social
· Mar 19
Can Animals Pass Down Culture?
YouTube video by Ohio Wesleyan University
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At OWU, students nominate professors to give 3-minute, "i^3 lectures" that mimic TED talks. I was honored to present a few weeks ago, and discussed animal culture and evolution. Have 3 minutes? Check it out!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=33qK...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=33qK...
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Things I wish I'd known as a junior academic #37
November 6, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Things I wish I'd known as a junior academic #37
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Anyone know if any good apps for estimating surface area? (Or maybe manual/imageJ are the best alternatives?)
We're measuring surface area of bird wings tomorrow with grid paper but I'm hoping to improve the class in the future!
We're measuring surface area of bird wings tomorrow with grid paper but I'm hoping to improve the class in the future!
November 5, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Anyone know if any good apps for estimating surface area? (Or maybe manual/imageJ are the best alternatives?)
We're measuring surface area of bird wings tomorrow with grid paper but I'm hoping to improve the class in the future!
We're measuring surface area of bird wings tomorrow with grid paper but I'm hoping to improve the class in the future!
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Making students do The Wave to explain how action potentials travel along a neuron is one of my favorite parts of teaching Intro Bio II.
One of the best teaching evals I've received was "I will never forget that I am a voltage-gated sodium channel."
One of the best teaching evals I've received was "I will never forget that I am a voltage-gated sodium channel."
Here's the slide I made when we were online during COVID, but it's so much more fun to make students do it in person. Once full-speed, then once in slow-mo so you can talk about what's happening at each step.
I think it's one of the best teaching brainwaves (ha!) that I've ever had.
I think it's one of the best teaching brainwaves (ha!) that I've ever had.
November 5, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Making students do The Wave to explain how action potentials travel along a neuron is one of my favorite parts of teaching Intro Bio II.
One of the best teaching evals I've received was "I will never forget that I am a voltage-gated sodium channel."
One of the best teaching evals I've received was "I will never forget that I am a voltage-gated sodium channel."
Wow! Definitely worth a look for those of us teaching and doing research on stress.
What makes us feel "fight or flight" may be less adrenaline and more of something else—a hormone that seeps out of our bones.
Learn more on #Halloween: https://scim.ag/4hDR7sw
Learn more on #Halloween: https://scim.ag/4hDR7sw
October 31, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Wow! Definitely worth a look for those of us teaching and doing research on stress.
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I am looking for a postdoc to work in our long-term system of food-caching mountain chickadees in the Sierra Nevada mountains. The expected start is April 2026. Please see details here: chickadeecognition.com/positions
If interested and qualified, please contact me directly (email on the website).
If interested and qualified, please contact me directly (email on the website).
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October 28, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I am looking for a postdoc to work in our long-term system of food-caching mountain chickadees in the Sierra Nevada mountains. The expected start is April 2026. Please see details here: chickadeecognition.com/positions
If interested and qualified, please contact me directly (email on the website).
If interested and qualified, please contact me directly (email on the website).
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No kings only kingfishers, kinglets, and kingbirds!
Rally in Bend, Oregon, drew thousands ….
#nokingsday #birders
Rally in Bend, Oregon, drew thousands ….
#nokingsday #birders
October 19, 2025 at 2:57 AM
No kings only kingfishers, kinglets, and kingbirds!
Rally in Bend, Oregon, drew thousands ….
#nokingsday #birders
Rally in Bend, Oregon, drew thousands ….
#nokingsday #birders
Glad to finally see some good news out of IU, courtesy of our rivals at Purdue stepping up big time.
Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!
October 19, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Glad to finally see some good news out of IU, courtesy of our rivals at Purdue stepping up big time.
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I can’t think of a better reason to finally join Bluesky - my first first-authored paper is out! It being published in @science.org is surreal. This was a community effort in every sense, led by an incredible team with @rosvall-lab.bsky.social @mathcancer.bsky.social @juncowren.bsky.social
As the Moon eclipsed the Sun on 8 April 2024, birds took note.
Leveraging nature’s own experiment, scientists and the public joined forces to show how different species responded to sudden midafternoon darkness followed by a new “dawn.” Learn more this week in Science: https://scim.ag/48WbhLL
Leveraging nature’s own experiment, scientists and the public joined forces to show how different species responded to sudden midafternoon darkness followed by a new “dawn.” Learn more this week in Science: https://scim.ag/48WbhLL
October 10, 2025 at 8:10 PM
I can’t think of a better reason to finally join Bluesky - my first first-authored paper is out! It being published in @science.org is surreal. This was a community effort in every sense, led by an incredible team with @rosvall-lab.bsky.social @mathcancer.bsky.social @juncowren.bsky.social
🧵with the behind the scenes story of our eclipse paper!
I do want to take a minute to share the backstory of our paper on the total solar eclipse that triggered dawn behavior in birds. This was SUCH a fun paper to work on, a major light in a lot of different tunnels over the past 18 months. doi.org/10.1126/scie... < ☀️ Let the light puns begin ☀️ > (1/x)
two men are fighting with lightsabers in front of a doorway
ALT: two men are fighting with lightsabers in front of a doorway
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October 9, 2025 at 8:28 PM
🧵with the behind the scenes story of our eclipse paper!
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So proud of this multidisciplinary project, showing in particular the power of community science when enabled by user-friendly design, bolstering deep expertise.
In the 2024 solar eclipse, 11k observations from 1700 laypeople via a jointly developed, user-friendly smartphone app.🔭🧪
In the 2024 solar eclipse, 11k observations from 1700 laypeople via a jointly developed, user-friendly smartphone app.🔭🧪
October 9, 2025 at 6:45 PM
So proud of this multidisciplinary project, showing in particular the power of community science when enabled by user-friendly design, bolstering deep expertise.
In the 2024 solar eclipse, 11k observations from 1700 laypeople via a jointly developed, user-friendly smartphone app.🔭🧪
In the 2024 solar eclipse, 11k observations from 1700 laypeople via a jointly developed, user-friendly smartphone app.🔭🧪
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Pumped to share our work on bird behavior and the 2024 Eclipse, in today's @science.org. 100k bird vocalizations + 10k continent-wide observations from the public = really fun collab led by Liz Aguilar, with @juncowren.bsky.social @mathcancer.bsky.social @imillercrews.bsky.social #NSF
October 9, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Pumped to share our work on bird behavior and the 2024 Eclipse, in today's @science.org. 100k bird vocalizations + 10k continent-wide observations from the public = really fun collab led by Liz Aguilar, with @juncowren.bsky.social @mathcancer.bsky.social @imillercrews.bsky.social #NSF
So excited to finally share our work on how birds responded to the 2024 Great American Eclipse! Thanks to @rosvall-lab.bsky.social for inviting me on this journey! I never expected any of my research to show up in @science.org, let alone on the cover. Surreal. I hope you enjoy it!
As the Moon eclipsed the Sun on 8 April 2024, birds took note.
Leveraging nature’s own experiment, scientists and the public joined forces to show how different species responded to sudden midafternoon darkness followed by a new “dawn.” Learn more this week in Science: https://scim.ag/48WbhLL
Leveraging nature’s own experiment, scientists and the public joined forces to show how different species responded to sudden midafternoon darkness followed by a new “dawn.” Learn more this week in Science: https://scim.ag/48WbhLL
October 9, 2025 at 6:19 PM
So excited to finally share our work on how birds responded to the 2024 Great American Eclipse! Thanks to @rosvall-lab.bsky.social for inviting me on this journey! I never expected any of my research to show up in @science.org, let alone on the cover. Surreal. I hope you enjoy it!
New paper out today! We found that captive female budgies show limited support for social transmission of stress, but have stronger CORT responses to the presence of human caretakers after repeated blood sampling.
doi.org/10.1002/zoo....
doi.org/10.1002/zoo....
The Effects of Human Presence, Restraint, and Stressed Neighbors on Corticosterone Levels in Domesticated Budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus)
Female budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus) did not significantly elevate their plasma corticosterone levels in response to human presence at the beginning of the experiment. However, plasma cortico....
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October 8, 2025 at 2:18 PM
New paper out today! We found that captive female budgies show limited support for social transmission of stress, but have stronger CORT responses to the presence of human caretakers after repeated blood sampling.
doi.org/10.1002/zoo....
doi.org/10.1002/zoo....
Honored to be elected as a Fellow. The AOS has been where I felt most at home since I was an undergrad.
Congratulations to the 2025 Classes of AOS Fellows and Elective Members! Individuals are elected to these special membership classes in recognition of their exceptional and sustained contributions to ornithology and to the AOS
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October 7, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Honored to be elected as a Fellow. The AOS has been where I felt most at home since I was an undergrad.
12 years ago today, I caught my first Steller’s Jay. They are extraordinary birds! (Captured and released safely with federal and state permits)
October 6, 2025 at 4:33 PM
12 years ago today, I caught my first Steller’s Jay. They are extraordinary birds! (Captured and released safely with federal and state permits)
This morning I woke up to a drunken message from a 2023 grad telling me that every time they drink, they think about the connection between alcohol, ADH, and urination that they learned in my Endocrinology class. They apologized for being "unprofessional," but it literally made my day!
October 5, 2025 at 5:55 PM
This morning I woke up to a drunken message from a 2023 grad telling me that every time they drink, they think about the connection between alcohol, ADH, and urination that they learned in my Endocrinology class. They apologized for being "unprofessional," but it literally made my day!
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There's a new guest post on the WOS blog! Konshau Duman writes about his discovery that White-throated Sparrows regularly mimic the chip calls of Golden-crowned Sparrows, opening up new questions about whether calls are learned. #ornithology wilsonsociety.org/2025/09/26/g...
September 30, 2025 at 8:02 PM
There's a new guest post on the WOS blog! Konshau Duman writes about his discovery that White-throated Sparrows regularly mimic the chip calls of Golden-crowned Sparrows, opening up new questions about whether calls are learned. #ornithology wilsonsociety.org/2025/09/26/g...
I was interviewed last week by The Scenic Route Podcast, which is hosted by Cal Klinzing, a very talented undergrad here at OWU. We discussed birds, urbanization, feral cats, and resiliency. If you want to listen, here's the Spotify link: open.spotify.com/show/63QY3iw...
22: Dr. Dustin Reichard - Behavioral Ecologist and Professor at Ohio Wesleyan University
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September 29, 2025 at 1:01 PM
I was interviewed last week by The Scenic Route Podcast, which is hosted by Cal Klinzing, a very talented undergrad here at OWU. We discussed birds, urbanization, feral cats, and resiliency. If you want to listen, here's the Spotify link: open.spotify.com/show/63QY3iw...
One thing that keeps me going during the fall semester is listening to the Carolina Wrens singing in my suburban development. Things get so quiet after the breeding season ends, but those wrens just keep singing their little hearts out.
September 23, 2025 at 3:32 PM
One thing that keeps me going during the fall semester is listening to the Carolina Wrens singing in my suburban development. Things get so quiet after the breeding season ends, but those wrens just keep singing their little hearts out.
Still kind of in disbelief that we are regularly having debates on topics like this...
To be clear, there are no data that provide a link between short-term use of Tylenol during pregnancy and autism. In fact, one of the best prospective studies w/ sibling controls, if anything, pointed to a protective effect for use less than 7 days
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September 23, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Still kind of in disbelief that we are regularly having debates on topics like this...
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PhD position available to study the migration ecology and year-round demography of blackpoll warblers.
September 17, 2025 at 1:35 PM
PhD position available to study the migration ecology and year-round demography of blackpoll warblers.
Must be Exam 1 day in Invertebrate Zoology!
September 17, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Must be Exam 1 day in Invertebrate Zoology!
Yesterday, I had a off day and did a poor job presenting a crucial example in Intro Bio. When class ended, I recorded a short video with a better explanation, posted it to the LMS, and emailed my students an apology + link to the video. I checked today how many had watched it. Only 3/38. #notgreat!
September 17, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Yesterday, I had a off day and did a poor job presenting a crucial example in Intro Bio. When class ended, I recorded a short video with a better explanation, posted it to the LMS, and emailed my students an apology + link to the video. I checked today how many had watched it. Only 3/38. #notgreat!
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Wow!
An Intergeneric Hybrid Between Historically Isolated Temperate and Tropical Jays Following Recent Range Expansion | doi.org/10.1002/ece3... | Ecology and Evolution | #ornithology 🪶
September 12, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Wow!