Kim Rosvall
@rosvall-lab.bsky.social
Assoc Prof of Biology. Indiana U. Interested in: mechanisms of behavior + how they evolve. she/her. https://rosvall.lab.indiana.edu/
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We have TWO post-doctoral fellowships in the Biodiversity Centre at UBC next year! Am happy to chat if you might want to be hosted in my lab. biodiversity.ubc.ca/training-and... Deadline January 15th!
November 3, 2025 at 5:16 PM
We have TWO post-doctoral fellowships in the Biodiversity Centre at UBC next year! Am happy to chat if you might want to be hosted in my lab. biodiversity.ubc.ca/training-and... Deadline January 15th!
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Years ago, I attempted a self-assessment of my potential gender biases in an academic research setting:
ecoevoevoeco.blogspot.com/2016/04/subt...
Today, I happened on a very nice summary of how to avoid such biases in letters of recommendation, which provides an comprehensive outline. Check it out
ecoevoevoeco.blogspot.com/2016/04/subt...
Today, I happened on a very nice summary of how to avoid such biases in letters of recommendation, which provides an comprehensive outline. Check it out
October 31, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Years ago, I attempted a self-assessment of my potential gender biases in an academic research setting:
ecoevoevoeco.blogspot.com/2016/04/subt...
Today, I happened on a very nice summary of how to avoid such biases in letters of recommendation, which provides an comprehensive outline. Check it out
ecoevoevoeco.blogspot.com/2016/04/subt...
Today, I happened on a very nice summary of how to avoid such biases in letters of recommendation, which provides an comprehensive outline. Check it out
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How bowhead whales live for centuries—and how we might borrow some of their biology to extend our healthy lifespan. Gift link to my new column: nyti.ms/4hyD9ry
October 29, 2025 at 4:33 PM
How bowhead whales live for centuries—and how we might borrow some of their biology to extend our healthy lifespan. Gift link to my new column: nyti.ms/4hyD9ry
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AI tools like DeepLabCut and SuperAnimal are changing how scientists study movement, helping them understand how brain activity drives behavior.
Read more: bit.ly/4qnX7JF
@trackingactions.bsky.social @deeplabcut.bsky.social
Read more: bit.ly/4qnX7JF
@trackingactions.bsky.social @deeplabcut.bsky.social
How AI Is Changing Neuroscience Discovery
AI is altering how scientists study the brain
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November 1, 2025 at 12:07 AM
AI tools like DeepLabCut and SuperAnimal are changing how scientists study movement, helping them understand how brain activity drives behavior.
Read more: bit.ly/4qnX7JF
@trackingactions.bsky.social @deeplabcut.bsky.social
Read more: bit.ly/4qnX7JF
@trackingactions.bsky.social @deeplabcut.bsky.social
This is a brilliant piece. youtu.be/EsxYrC_dwVk?...
kpop demon hunters but make it fungus
YouTube video by acapellascience
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October 17, 2025 at 2:19 AM
This is a brilliant piece. youtu.be/EsxYrC_dwVk?...
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Watching birds watch a total eclipse--this week on the @science.org podcast w/ @rosvall-lab.bsky.social
Listen here: www.science.org/content/podc...
Listen here: www.science.org/content/podc...
October 10, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Watching birds watch a total eclipse--this week on the @science.org podcast w/ @rosvall-lab.bsky.social
Listen here: www.science.org/content/podc...
Listen here: www.science.org/content/podc...
This is an incredibly cool way to learn about behavior
Scientists suspected that Europe’s largest bats snack on migrating songbirds when they can, but a stunning newly published observation proves it
Bat vs. Robin—Scientists Capture Real-Life Audio of Midair Hunt
Scientists suspected that Europe’s largest bats snack on migrating songbirds when they can, but a stunning newly published observation proves it
www.scientificamerican.com
October 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
This is an incredibly cool way to learn about behavior
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The “Great North American Eclipse” of April 2024 was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to study how birds and other wildlife respond to total solar eclipses
The Eclipse Turned Day to Night—And the Birds Went Quiet
The “Great North American Eclipse” of April 2024 was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to study how birds and other wildlife respond to total solar eclipses
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October 9, 2025 at 6:22 PM
The “Great North American Eclipse” of April 2024 was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to study how birds and other wildlife respond to total solar eclipses
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Community science! Input from over TEN THOUSAND PEOPLE! From Mexico to Canada! In a natural experiment!
“Bc a total solar eclipse occurs in the same location once every 3 or4 centuries, most free-living birds, like most ppl, have never seen day turn quickly to pm, only to return again mins later”🧪
“Bc a total solar eclipse occurs in the same location once every 3 or4 centuries, most free-living birds, like most ppl, have never seen day turn quickly to pm, only to return again mins later”🧪
I have to fan-girl for a minute here. My friend @rosvall-lab.bsky.social built an app to gather data on bird behavior during the 2024 solar eclipse. 10,000+ citizen scientists contributed (including my kids), and the resulting paper was published in Science today!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Total solar eclipse triggers dawn behavior in birds: Insights from acoustic recordings and community science
On 8 April 2024, a total solar eclipse disrupted light-dark cycles for North American birds during the lead-up to spring reproduction. Compiling more than 10,000 community observations and artificial ...
www.science.org
October 10, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Community science! Input from over TEN THOUSAND PEOPLE! From Mexico to Canada! In a natural experiment!
“Bc a total solar eclipse occurs in the same location once every 3 or4 centuries, most free-living birds, like most ppl, have never seen day turn quickly to pm, only to return again mins later”🧪
“Bc a total solar eclipse occurs in the same location once every 3 or4 centuries, most free-living birds, like most ppl, have never seen day turn quickly to pm, only to return again mins later”🧪
This is a nice IU short on our eclipse project. #NSF youtube.com/shorts/PrQGn...
Indiana University scientists lead project on how birds responded to the 2024 Great American Eclipse
YouTube video by Kimberly Rosvall
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October 9, 2025 at 9:36 PM
This is a nice IU short on our eclipse project. #NSF youtube.com/shorts/PrQGn...
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 8:06 PM
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)
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
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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!
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Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
October 5, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
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Our group at the Allen Institute is recruiting a technician and postdoc to work on light microscopy-based connectomics. Please DM me or share with anyone you think may be interested in this NIH BRAIN CONNECTS funded project.
October 8, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Our group at the Allen Institute is recruiting a technician and postdoc to work on light microscopy-based connectomics. Please DM me or share with anyone you think may be interested in this NIH BRAIN CONNECTS funded project.
Reposted by Kim Rosvall
Reposted by Kim Rosvall
From policy to practice: Progress towards #data- and #code-sharing in ecology and evolution #ProcB @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social @eivimeycook.bsky.social tell us more in our blog royalsociety.org/blog/2025/09...
September 26, 2025 at 8:59 AM
From policy to practice: Progress towards #data- and #code-sharing in ecology and evolution #ProcB @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social @eivimeycook.bsky.social tell us more in our blog royalsociety.org/blog/2025/09...
I know I needed to see this today. Maybe you did too
September 26, 2025 at 11:48 PM
I know I needed to see this today. Maybe you did too
Reposted by Kim Rosvall
Reposted by Kim Rosvall
1 in 6 vertebrate species were highly exposed to unprecedented temperature in 2024. This is a shocking statistic. In this post, I give some of the details behind this statistic from a recent paper led by Cory Merow.
Species did nothing to deserve this... we decide what happens next
One in six vertebrate species were highly exposed to unprecedented temperature in 2024
predirections.substack.com
September 26, 2025 at 12:36 AM
1 in 6 vertebrate species were highly exposed to unprecedented temperature in 2024. This is a shocking statistic. In this post, I give some of the details behind this statistic from a recent paper led by Cory Merow.
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It was great to chat with @katarinazimmer.bsky.social for her important article on discrimination and microagressions in peer review.
Without system-wide changes, we must rely on individual action - if you experience this behaviour, inform the editorial team ✏️
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Without system-wide changes, we must rely on individual action - if you experience this behaviour, inform the editorial team ✏️
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
‘Lipstick on a pig’: how to fight back against a peer-review bully
Scientific societies, journals, editors and researchers are pushing back against mean-spirited peer reviews.
www.nature.com
September 18, 2025 at 1:37 PM
It was great to chat with @katarinazimmer.bsky.social for her important article on discrimination and microagressions in peer review.
Without system-wide changes, we must rely on individual action - if you experience this behaviour, inform the editorial team ✏️
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Without system-wide changes, we must rely on individual action - if you experience this behaviour, inform the editorial team ✏️
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
So honored to be honored by a society I value so much
Newly elected ABS Fellow: @rosvall-lab.bsky.social ! Kim studies all things aggression from behavior to neuroendocrine mechanisms to genomic analyses. Working mostly in birds, her group is also exploring how changing environments are shaping behavior & physiology.
rosvall.lab.indiana.edu
rosvall.lab.indiana.edu
August 27, 2025 at 4:38 PM
So honored to be honored by a society I value so much
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I'm a little bit late, but happy to see this new paper led by @imillercrews.bsky.social and anchored by @rosvall-lab.bsky.social now out on bioRxiv.
We analyze comparative songbird RNA-seq data using new features in our software package, CAGEE. Check it out!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We analyze comparative songbird RNA-seq data using new features in our software package, CAGEE. Check it out!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
How sex shapes transcriptome evolution in the songbird brain
Sex differences have captivated scientists for a long time, yet the evolutionary rate of change in sex-biased gene expression has not been directly quantified. To address this issue, we leverage brain...
www.biorxiv.org
August 27, 2025 at 1:24 PM
I'm a little bit late, but happy to see this new paper led by @imillercrews.bsky.social and anchored by @rosvall-lab.bsky.social now out on bioRxiv.
We analyze comparative songbird RNA-seq data using new features in our software package, CAGEE. Check it out!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We analyze comparative songbird RNA-seq data using new features in our software package, CAGEE. Check it out!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Join us (and @sfn.org) this Wednesday for a webinar that will explore how brains cope with changing environments. Hear from experts on recent advances in the field.
Learn more: bit.ly/3HeL1kv
#KavliNeuro #neurosky @rosvall-lab.bsky.social
Learn more: bit.ly/3HeL1kv
#KavliNeuro #neurosky @rosvall-lab.bsky.social
Join SfN and @kavlifoundation.org for an upcoming webinar that will explore how brains cope with changing environments. Hear from experts on recent advances in the field and get all of your questions answered related to neural adaptation.
Register now 🔗 vist.ly/32mnu
#neurosky
Register now 🔗 vist.ly/32mnu
#neurosky
August 18, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Join us (and @sfn.org) this Wednesday for a webinar that will explore how brains cope with changing environments. Hear from experts on recent advances in the field.
Learn more: bit.ly/3HeL1kv
#KavliNeuro #neurosky @rosvall-lab.bsky.social
Learn more: bit.ly/3HeL1kv
#KavliNeuro #neurosky @rosvall-lab.bsky.social
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From @plos.org #Computational #Biology | Ten simple rules for leading a many-author non-empirical paper | #Education #Bioinformatics #PLOSCBTSR #OpenScience 🧬 🖥️ 🧪 🔓
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Ten simple rules for leading a many-author non-empirical paper
Many-author non-empirical papers include recommendations or consensus statements, catalogs of ideas, roadmaps for future research, calls to action, or “how to” articles. These papers have great potent...
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August 16, 2025 at 9:11 PM
From @plos.org #Computational #Biology | Ten simple rules for leading a many-author non-empirical paper | #Education #Bioinformatics #PLOSCBTSR #OpenScience 🧬 🖥️ 🧪 🔓
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