Me too!!!

Thanks! We’re focused on courtship & piloting video capture in key locations of each mesocosm throughout the day. We also built portable versions of our courtship rig to quantify in nature. All this paired with high throughput courtship screens in the lab to dissect what traits & genes are evolving.

And of course I have to thank the amazing field assistant Wallace the Wonderdoodle. Like his namesake, he is fascinated by natural selection, particularly in the context of beautiful courtship displays.

I am very thankful for the support from the Department of Biological Sciences and Dartmouth @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social for supporting my interdisciplinary research vision! We are recruiting Post Docs and Grad Students to join this exciting endeavor!

We also built in mechanisms to control climate (e.g., temperature and RH) so we can study rapid evolution to seasonal change as well as test hypotheses about the role of specific climatic variables in adaption.

The mesocosms each have electricity inside so we can capture video live in real time in addition to behavior screens using portable behavior rigs we’ve built to quantify behavior in nature.

Amazing design! Sorry we didn’t meet in person but I would love the knitting pattern!

thank you!! I'm so excited!