Lily Johnson-Ulrich
@wildcognition.bsky.social
Postdoc studying meerkats, she/her/hers 🏳️🌈
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Hmm that link seems to be broken. Here is another!
www.cell.com/current-biol...
www.cell.com/current-biol...
Genes and gene networks underlying spatial cognition in food-caching chickadees
Mountain chickadees rely on specialized memory for recovering cached food sources,
and variation in this trait has strong effects on fitness. Semenov et al. identify
genes and gene networks underlying...
www.cell.com
April 24, 2024 at 4:26 PM
Hmm that link seems to be broken. Here is another!
www.cell.com/current-biol...
www.cell.com/current-biol...
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I was just forwarded communications from Duke admins that this is true: one of the largest and most active herbaria in the United States is being closed in the middle of an extinction crisis, because Duke leadership does not wish to support the infrastructure costs.
sad news - Duke University decided to dump their herbarium, which has over 800,000 plant specimens, one of the largest among in America, and includes many type specimens of Lady Gaga ferns. What a shame. Please stop Duke admins for making this horrible mistake!!
February 14, 2024 at 7:11 PM
I was just forwarded communications from Duke admins that this is true: one of the largest and most active herbaria in the United States is being closed in the middle of an extinction crisis, because Duke leadership does not wish to support the infrastructure costs.
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New publication on maternal care by cougars and the influence it has on kitten survival rates! TLDR: more experience + more care = better kitten survival. Details @ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧪
February 11, 2024 at 4:03 PM
New publication on maternal care by cougars and the influence it has on kitten survival rates! TLDR: more experience + more care = better kitten survival. Details @ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧪
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The European Conference on Behavioural Biology will be hosted by the Animal Behaviour group at the University of Zurich.
Abstracts opened today!
Visit www.ecbb.uzh.ch for all the details.
Abstracts opened today!
Visit www.ecbb.uzh.ch for all the details.
January 31, 2024 at 10:11 AM
The European Conference on Behavioural Biology will be hosted by the Animal Behaviour group at the University of Zurich.
Abstracts opened today!
Visit www.ecbb.uzh.ch for all the details.
Abstracts opened today!
Visit www.ecbb.uzh.ch for all the details.
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Applications for the 2024 Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute (DISI) are now open!!
Interested in intelligence, mind, and cognition in all its forms? Scholars from any discipline—and storytellers in any medium—are encouraged to apply! disi.org
Applications for the 2024 Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute (DISI) are now open!!
Interested in intelligence, mind, and cognition in all its forms? Scholars from any discipline—and storytellers in any medium—are encouraged to apply! disi.org
February 1, 2024 at 7:33 PM
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Applications for the 2024 Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute (DISI) are now open!!
Interested in intelligence, mind, and cognition in all its forms? Scholars from any discipline—and storytellers in any medium—are encouraged to apply! disi.org
Applications for the 2024 Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute (DISI) are now open!!
Interested in intelligence, mind, and cognition in all its forms? Scholars from any discipline—and storytellers in any medium—are encouraged to apply! disi.org
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My lab at University of Alaska Fairbanks is recruiting an NSF-funded postdoc to study the evolution of ice-binding proteins in intertidal species. Field and labwork in beautiful places! 2 years of support at $67K/yr. Applications accepted until 3/16. Please share!
careers.alaska.edu/en-us/job/52...
careers.alaska.edu/en-us/job/52...
February 6, 2024 at 7:41 PM
My lab at University of Alaska Fairbanks is recruiting an NSF-funded postdoc to study the evolution of ice-binding proteins in intertidal species. Field and labwork in beautiful places! 2 years of support at $67K/yr. Applications accepted until 3/16. Please share!
careers.alaska.edu/en-us/job/52...
careers.alaska.edu/en-us/job/52...
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Here's the winning story: www.allaboutbirds.org/news/harsh-m.... Now off to rewrite the bio I use for everything to start out "Rebecca Heisman is an award-winning science writer..."
Harsh Mountain Winters Have Made Chickadees Smarter
A decade of research has revealed how the cognitive abilities of chickadees are shaped by their surroundings. Now scientists have begun to peer inside the black box of genetics, uncovering the variati...
www.allaboutbirds.org
January 22, 2024 at 8:18 PM
Here's the winning story: www.allaboutbirds.org/news/harsh-m.... Now off to rewrite the bio I use for everything to start out "Rebecca Heisman is an award-winning science writer..."
New article out on curiosity in meerkats and other mongooses (and how habituation towards humans affects multiple aspects of exploration in contrasting ways).
Advancing the comparative study of behavior
www.animalbehaviorandcognition.org
November 29, 2023 at 9:29 AM
New article out on curiosity in meerkats and other mongooses (and how habituation towards humans affects multiple aspects of exploration in contrasting ways).
Reposted by Lily Johnson-Ulrich
As jobs are coming out and folks are applying, here's your regular reminder of lots of examples of successful job apps (mostly research academia but also industry, PUI, gov). And if you've gotten a job recently, please consider contributing! github.com/RILAB/statem...
November 14, 2023 at 5:01 PM
As jobs are coming out and folks are applying, here's your regular reminder of lots of examples of successful job apps (mostly research academia but also industry, PUI, gov). And if you've gotten a job recently, please consider contributing! github.com/RILAB/statem...
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I described these estimates last week in my intro lecture for the human evolution core course at my institute. Surprises a lot of ppl. And odd for a primate to be ~half mammal biomass, given how insignificant other primates are. More bat biomass than non-human primate. Humans are weed monkeys.
November 13, 2023 at 8:10 AM
I described these estimates last week in my intro lecture for the human evolution core course at my institute. Surprises a lot of ppl. And odd for a primate to be ~half mammal biomass, given how insignificant other primates are. More bat biomass than non-human primate. Humans are weed monkeys.
New publication on the use of parametric speakers (such as the SoundLazer) for animal communication studies.
royalsocietypublishing.org
October 2, 2023 at 2:14 PM
New publication on the use of parametric speakers (such as the SoundLazer) for animal communication studies.