Sekhar M A
sekharma.bsky.social
Sekhar M A
@sekharma.bsky.social
PhD Candidate @NDSU
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My lab at Indiana University is searching for a *postdoc* and *technician* to contribute to our work studying the evolution of social behavior using fruit flies as a model system. Details below, feel free to email me with any questions! More info on our research: saltzlab.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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The Animal Behavior Society (ABS) is seeking proposals for a freelance editorial assistant to assist our full-time Managing Editor for the journal Animal Behavior! Initial contract will be for 4 months & renewable. Send your proposal by Nov 14!

www.animalbehaviorsociety.org/web/news.php...
The Animal Behavior Society
www.animalbehaviorsociety.org
November 4, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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Interested in doing a postdoc in behavioral #ecotoxicology? I have a 12-months fully-funded position to work on the effects of pesticide exposure on generalist arthropod predators. More details here: rroyaute.github.io/blog/2025/po...
September 12, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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The Founders Memorial Poster Award is given to outstanding posters presented by grad students or postdocs. This year, @sekharma.bsky.social nabbed the top spot with "Ungeneralizable generalizations? The influence of taxonomic bias on meta-analytical inferences in behavior" Congrats!!
September 2, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Still buzzing from the society meeting! 🧠💬 From cool talks & social mixers to winning 1st poster 🏆 AND becoming grad rep for my home society, what a ride! Upward & onward🚀 #AcademicTwitter #ABS2025
July 14, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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Check out the new preprint from @sekharma.bsky.social!

Also with @batsrkul.bsky.social (new to Bluesky!).

Sekhar did a deep dive into which parts of an agonistic interaction are influenced by direct and indirect effects, from the physical to acoustic components.
A saga of agonistic interactions in house crickets (Acheta domesticus): A direct and indirect effects perspective https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.28.635358v1
January 31, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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@sekharma.bsky.social and I have a new preprint up about the use of mixed-effects models to examine social buffering. Check it out!
Social buffering as an indirect effect: mixed-effects modeling approaches https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.15.633205v1
January 20, 2025 at 9:30 PM