Stotra Chakrabarti, PhD
@stotra.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @Macalester College, Grad Faculty @UMN USA | #AnimalBehavior & #Conservation Research | Mammals 🦁🐺🐘🦌🦫| #NewPI | Sci Ed | Team @abcmicrogrants.bluesky.social | he/him
Lab Website: stotrachakrabarti.com
Lab Website: stotrachakrabarti.com
I am recruiting 1-2 postbacs for our NSF-funded Tsavo Simba Research Project, investigating fission-fusion! The position is for recent undergrads who have not yet started grad school. Come be a part of our team and help us track/monitor 🦁🌍🛰️📸🧪 Job ad⬇️
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September 9, 2025 at 10:48 PM
I am recruiting 1-2 postbacs for our NSF-funded Tsavo Simba Research Project, investigating fission-fusion! The position is for recent undergrads who have not yet started grad school. Come be a part of our team and help us track/monitor 🦁🌍🛰️📸🧪 Job ad⬇️
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Grateful to @behaviour2025.bsky.social @asab.org for an amazing opportunity to reconnect with friends and colleagues🤩Loved showing them around the City of Joy – and ofc, no trip to #Kolkata is complete without diving into its irresistible food scene! 🍲🕌🥘🧆🤤 #behaviour2025
August 31, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Grateful to @behaviour2025.bsky.social @asab.org for an amazing opportunity to reconnect with friends and colleagues🤩Loved showing them around the City of Joy – and ofc, no trip to #Kolkata is complete without diving into its irresistible food scene! 🍲🕌🥘🧆🤤 #behaviour2025
🔥 Into wolves, coyotes and pumas? 🐺🐾 Come thru 📍Hall 2 at 4:20pm for some neat Yellowstone carnivore science! Last-day energy @behaviour2025.bsky.social @asab.org — let’s GOOOOO! 🐺🐾 #Behaviour2025 #collaborativescience
Artwork credit @ayuna-lh.bsky.social 🙏
Artwork credit @ayuna-lh.bsky.social 🙏
August 30, 2025 at 4:37 AM
🔥 Into wolves, coyotes and pumas? 🐺🐾 Come thru 📍Hall 2 at 4:20pm for some neat Yellowstone carnivore science! Last-day energy @behaviour2025.bsky.social @asab.org — let’s GOOOOO! 🐺🐾 #Behaviour2025 #collaborativescience
Artwork credit @ayuna-lh.bsky.social 🙏
Artwork credit @ayuna-lh.bsky.social 🙏
Had the pleasure of presenting our collaborative work on 🦁 comparative behavior alongside fantastic colleagues at #behaviour2025 @asab.org
Super fun to engage in such a thoughtful symposium on the challenges and future directions of comparative social behavior across species 🦁🐒🧪🔬
Super fun to engage in such a thoughtful symposium on the challenges and future directions of comparative social behavior across species 🦁🐒🧪🔬
August 29, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Had the pleasure of presenting our collaborative work on 🦁 comparative behavior alongside fantastic colleagues at #behaviour2025 @asab.org
Super fun to engage in such a thoughtful symposium on the challenges and future directions of comparative social behavior across species 🦁🐒🧪🔬
Super fun to engage in such a thoughtful symposium on the challenges and future directions of comparative social behavior across species 🦁🐒🧪🔬
#Behaviour2025 @asab.org 🦁 Pls Don’t sleep on our lion talk tomorrow at the Comparative Research in Animal Social Behaviour Symposium! 👀
🗓️Aug 28 ⏰ 3:50 PM | 📍 Hall 2
Stoked to share the stage with truly amaze colleagues 🤝#LionResearch #AnimalBehaviour
Artwork Credit: @ayuna-lh.bsky.social 🙏
🗓️Aug 28 ⏰ 3:50 PM | 📍 Hall 2
Stoked to share the stage with truly amaze colleagues 🤝#LionResearch #AnimalBehaviour
Artwork Credit: @ayuna-lh.bsky.social 🙏
August 27, 2025 at 3:54 PM
#Behaviour2025 @asab.org 🦁 Pls Don’t sleep on our lion talk tomorrow at the Comparative Research in Animal Social Behaviour Symposium! 👀
🗓️Aug 28 ⏰ 3:50 PM | 📍 Hall 2
Stoked to share the stage with truly amaze colleagues 🤝#LionResearch #AnimalBehaviour
Artwork Credit: @ayuna-lh.bsky.social 🙏
🗓️Aug 28 ⏰ 3:50 PM | 📍 Hall 2
Stoked to share the stage with truly amaze colleagues 🤝#LionResearch #AnimalBehaviour
Artwork Credit: @ayuna-lh.bsky.social 🙏
Folks looking for support/guidance/mentorship in Animal Behaviour, pls come talk to us! We are representing @abcmicrogrants.bsky.social at #Behaviour2025 @asab.org poster session!! What a joy to be able to do this with colleague phenomenal @delphinedemoor.bsky.social and @emmasmcewen.bsky.social 🐝🤝
August 27, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Folks looking for support/guidance/mentorship in Animal Behaviour, pls come talk to us! We are representing @abcmicrogrants.bsky.social at #Behaviour2025 @asab.org poster session!! What a joy to be able to do this with colleague phenomenal @delphinedemoor.bsky.social and @emmasmcewen.bsky.social 🐝🤝
#behaviour2025 drumroll begins🥁 In Kolkata, picking up dear colleague and friend @delphinedemoor.bsky.social!! Excited for a week of #animalbehavior science and #networking
#academicconference #wildliferesearch #animalbehaviorresearch #colleaguesmeetup 🦁🧪🐒
#academicconference #wildliferesearch #animalbehaviorresearch #colleaguesmeetup 🦁🧪🐒
August 23, 2025 at 4:36 PM
#behaviour2025 drumroll begins🥁 In Kolkata, picking up dear colleague and friend @delphinedemoor.bsky.social!! Excited for a week of #animalbehavior science and #networking
#academicconference #wildliferesearch #animalbehaviorresearch #colleaguesmeetup 🦁🧪🐒
#academicconference #wildliferesearch #animalbehaviorresearch #colleaguesmeetup 🦁🧪🐒
🦁 13 years of working with lions — still in awe #WorldLionDay
Update: GPS/SAT-collared 10 lions in Tsavo for our #NSFfunded project 📡🐾 with KWS supervision + permits 🩺
We are now tracking movement + social dynamics in this semi-arid landscape 👣🦁🌍🔬🧪
🙏 to partners: wrtikenya, KWS, TsavoTrust, UMN
Update: GPS/SAT-collared 10 lions in Tsavo for our #NSFfunded project 📡🐾 with KWS supervision + permits 🩺
We are now tracking movement + social dynamics in this semi-arid landscape 👣🦁🌍🔬🧪
🙏 to partners: wrtikenya, KWS, TsavoTrust, UMN
August 10, 2025 at 4:36 PM
🦁 13 years of working with lions — still in awe #WorldLionDay
Update: GPS/SAT-collared 10 lions in Tsavo for our #NSFfunded project 📡🐾 with KWS supervision + permits 🩺
We are now tracking movement + social dynamics in this semi-arid landscape 👣🦁🌍🔬🧪
🙏 to partners: wrtikenya, KWS, TsavoTrust, UMN
Update: GPS/SAT-collared 10 lions in Tsavo for our #NSFfunded project 📡🐾 with KWS supervision + permits 🩺
We are now tracking movement + social dynamics in this semi-arid landscape 👣🦁🌍🔬🧪
🙏 to partners: wrtikenya, KWS, TsavoTrust, UMN
Love in the air, lessons in the wild, and science in action!
From a mating 🦁 pair 💘 to curious sub-adults learning never to mess with a mongoose 🐾💥, to collar checks and sampling kits 🧪— ‘tis all happening in Tsavo! 🌿🔥🔬🦊
#TsavoSimbaResearchProject #WildlifeResearch #EcologyInAction #ProudPI
From a mating 🦁 pair 💘 to curious sub-adults learning never to mess with a mongoose 🐾💥, to collar checks and sampling kits 🧪— ‘tis all happening in Tsavo! 🌿🔥🔬🦊
#TsavoSimbaResearchProject #WildlifeResearch #EcologyInAction #ProudPI
July 6, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Love in the air, lessons in the wild, and science in action!
From a mating 🦁 pair 💘 to curious sub-adults learning never to mess with a mongoose 🐾💥, to collar checks and sampling kits 🧪— ‘tis all happening in Tsavo! 🌿🔥🔬🦊
#TsavoSimbaResearchProject #WildlifeResearch #EcologyInAction #ProudPI
From a mating 🦁 pair 💘 to curious sub-adults learning never to mess with a mongoose 🐾💥, to collar checks and sampling kits 🧪— ‘tis all happening in Tsavo! 🌿🔥🔬🦊
#TsavoSimbaResearchProject #WildlifeResearch #EcologyInAction #ProudPI
Best. Birthday. Ever. 🦁🎉
Couldn’t be more thrilled to officially launch our Tsavo Simba Research Project — right here in Kenya, and on my BIRTHDAY! 🎂✨ A dream come to true, working on something so close to my ❤️, with the most phenomenal team and partners 🤝 To new adventures, big cats, and science🧪🦁
Couldn’t be more thrilled to officially launch our Tsavo Simba Research Project — right here in Kenya, and on my BIRTHDAY! 🎂✨ A dream come to true, working on something so close to my ❤️, with the most phenomenal team and partners 🤝 To new adventures, big cats, and science🧪🦁
July 1, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Best. Birthday. Ever. 🦁🎉
Couldn’t be more thrilled to officially launch our Tsavo Simba Research Project — right here in Kenya, and on my BIRTHDAY! 🎂✨ A dream come to true, working on something so close to my ❤️, with the most phenomenal team and partners 🤝 To new adventures, big cats, and science🧪🦁
Couldn’t be more thrilled to officially launch our Tsavo Simba Research Project — right here in Kenya, and on my BIRTHDAY! 🎂✨ A dream come to true, working on something so close to my ❤️, with the most phenomenal team and partners 🤝 To new adventures, big cats, and science🧪🦁
Kicking off my pre-tenure sabbatical - EXCITED and getting ready to head out to Kenya for fieldwork for our Tsavo Simba Project! 🦁 Can’t wait to collar some 🦁 and dive into pride dynamics🤩 🧪🔬🦊🪶
Also, look at our gorgeous new logo—big shoutout to the amazing Kimberly Boustead for the design! 🎨🙌
Also, look at our gorgeous new logo—big shoutout to the amazing Kimberly Boustead for the design! 🎨🙌
June 23, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Kicking off my pre-tenure sabbatical - EXCITED and getting ready to head out to Kenya for fieldwork for our Tsavo Simba Project! 🦁 Can’t wait to collar some 🦁 and dive into pride dynamics🤩 🧪🔬🦊🪶
Also, look at our gorgeous new logo—big shoutout to the amazing Kimberly Boustead for the design! 🎨🙌
Also, look at our gorgeous new logo—big shoutout to the amazing Kimberly Boustead for the design! 🎨🙌
1/2 Tough semester😮💨 but so grateful for my amazing lab fam🤩 Huge (belated) shoutout to Sophie Carpenter for crushing her undergrad thesis on predation mapping in N. Tanzania🐆🦁🐂 & @ayuna-lh.bsky.social for wrangling ~1M cam-trap photos 📸 to investigate puma–fox–prey dynamics in 🇦🇷 🦊🐾 Legends #ProudPI🧪
June 12, 2025 at 3:33 PM
1/2 Tough semester😮💨 but so grateful for my amazing lab fam🤩 Huge (belated) shoutout to Sophie Carpenter for crushing her undergrad thesis on predation mapping in N. Tanzania🐆🦁🐂 & @ayuna-lh.bsky.social for wrangling ~1M cam-trap photos 📸 to investigate puma–fox–prey dynamics in 🇦🇷 🦊🐾 Legends #ProudPI🧪
‘Of crisp winter days and pretty sunsets’ 🌅
Views from my study have been lately very poetic 😍😍 Def. helping with this lengthy review panel 😋 🧪🦊🪶
Views from my study have been lately very poetic 😍😍 Def. helping with this lengthy review panel 😋 🧪🦊🪶
January 18, 2025 at 12:01 AM
‘Of crisp winter days and pretty sunsets’ 🌅
Views from my study have been lately very poetic 😍😍 Def. helping with this lengthy review panel 😋 🧪🦊🪶
Views from my study have been lately very poetic 😍😍 Def. helping with this lengthy review panel 😋 🧪🦊🪶
I have been trying to submit an abstract for #behaviour2025 but the site keeps glitching☹️ Also, can’t go back to editing the abstract; I’ve started over 6 times☹️ My lab members are facing similar issues 🙈
Org. Commitee - help? 🧪🦊🪶
Org. Commitee - help? 🧪🦊🪶
January 13, 2025 at 2:03 PM
I have been trying to submit an abstract for #behaviour2025 but the site keeps glitching☹️ Also, can’t go back to editing the abstract; I’ve started over 6 times☹️ My lab members are facing similar issues 🙈
Org. Commitee - help? 🧪🦊🪶
Org. Commitee - help? 🧪🦊🪶
Spending New Year's Eve solo, but honoring the 'palate tradition' 😋 Enjoying some slow-cooked goat with caramelized 🧅, 🥔, and a blend of spices, along with generous amounts of 🫚🧄 🌶️. An indulgent Bengali dish in an otherwise grey MN evening🥶 #HappyNewYear2025 #NewYearsEve #Foodie
January 1, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Spending New Year's Eve solo, but honoring the 'palate tradition' 😋 Enjoying some slow-cooked goat with caramelized 🧅, 🥔, and a blend of spices, along with generous amounts of 🫚🧄 🌶️. An indulgent Bengali dish in an otherwise grey MN evening🥶 #HappyNewYear2025 #NewYearsEve #Foodie
2/2 The colors in the poster represent the red hues of the Tsavo landscape, and the 🦁 mimics a typical scrawny-maned Tsavo (male) lion 🦁 ⬇️🧪🦊🌍🪶
December 27, 2024 at 9:08 PM
2/2 The colors in the poster represent the red hues of the Tsavo landscape, and the 🦁 mimics a typical scrawny-maned Tsavo (male) lion 🦁 ⬇️🧪🦊🌍🪶
1/2 As #Mufasa hits the 📽️, check out our #SciArt highlighting new research on 🦁food habits in Tsavo (doi.org/10.1017/S0030605324000085). Co-developed with Joseph Bump and Eliza King, the poster lion is a montage of prey art as found in 🦁diet. Illustrated by Kimberly Boustead🤩 Pls zoom in 🔍 🧪🦊🌍🪶
December 27, 2024 at 9:08 PM
1/2 As #Mufasa hits the 📽️, check out our #SciArt highlighting new research on 🦁food habits in Tsavo (doi.org/10.1017/S0030605324000085). Co-developed with Joseph Bump and Eliza King, the poster lion is a montage of prey art as found in 🦁diet. Illustrated by Kimberly Boustead🤩 Pls zoom in 🔍 🧪🦊🌍🪶
Folks at @asab.org #ASABWinter2024, check out our talk “Building Bridges from Boxes”🦁 tomorrow, Sesh 3 🗣️🎙️ Bummed that I can’t join in-person cause of *visa delays*😩 but SUPER grateful for amaze co-authors who are gonna represent the collab🤝 #behaveecol #collaborativescience #diversesci
December 12, 2024 at 2:46 PM
Folks at @asab.org #ASABWinter2024, check out our talk “Building Bridges from Boxes”🦁 tomorrow, Sesh 3 🗣️🎙️ Bummed that I can’t join in-person cause of *visa delays*😩 but SUPER grateful for amaze co-authors who are gonna represent the collab🤝 #behaveecol #collaborativescience #diversesci
Update from Saadani Lion Project: After 100 days of intense fieldwork, we wrapped up the SECR population estimation survey for 🦁 in Saadani NP. Besides getting to see these unique and shy🦁, I am extremely intrigued with how frequently they hunt big prey like🦒🐃 #mammals 🦊
CW: Predation📸
CW: Predation📸
December 8, 2024 at 10:21 PM
Update from Saadani Lion Project: After 100 days of intense fieldwork, we wrapped up the SECR population estimation survey for 🦁 in Saadani NP. Besides getting to see these unique and shy🦁, I am extremely intrigued with how frequently they hunt big prey like🦒🐃 #mammals 🦊
CW: Predation📸
CW: Predation📸
While the main focus of our Saadani Lion Project is ofc 🦁, this magical place also boasts a super diverse herbivore community with buffalo, waterbuck, bushbuck, hartebeest, and some rare feats like the sable antelope, to name a few🤩 #academicsky #conservation #lionresearch #mammals
December 4, 2024 at 4:19 PM
While the main focus of our Saadani Lion Project is ofc 🦁, this magical place also boasts a super diverse herbivore community with buffalo, waterbuck, bushbuck, hartebeest, and some rare feats like the sable antelope, to name a few🤩 #academicsky #conservation #lionresearch #mammals
Publishing a paper on a topic you ❤️ is rewarding, but it's so motivating to see students excited about it🥹 My wildlife conservation course just discussed our brand new paper on 'constellations of coexistence,' & I was thrilled by their enthusiasm and attention to detail🤩 🔗🧵⬇️
December 3, 2024 at 12:32 AM
Publishing a paper on a topic you ❤️ is rewarding, but it's so motivating to see students excited about it🥹 My wildlife conservation course just discussed our brand new paper on 'constellations of coexistence,' & I was thrilled by their enthusiasm and attention to detail🤩 🔗🧵⬇️
🚨New Paper 🚨 in @ConBiology (wow what a week, 2 papers in the same journal in a span of 3 days)‼️
Thrilled to contribute to this important paper (led by Keshab) from our long-term Asian 🦁 project, exploring human-lion coexistence and how co-adaptive mechanisms unfold 🦁🏡 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/cobi...
Thrilled to contribute to this important paper (led by Keshab) from our long-term Asian 🦁 project, exploring human-lion coexistence and how co-adaptive mechanisms unfold 🦁🏡 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/cobi...
November 30, 2024 at 6:37 PM
🚨New Paper 🚨 in @ConBiology (wow what a week, 2 papers in the same journal in a span of 3 days)‼️
Thrilled to contribute to this important paper (led by Keshab) from our long-term Asian 🦁 project, exploring human-lion coexistence and how co-adaptive mechanisms unfold 🦁🏡 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/cobi...
Thrilled to contribute to this important paper (led by Keshab) from our long-term Asian 🦁 project, exploring human-lion coexistence and how co-adaptive mechanisms unfold 🦁🏡 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/cobi...
Saadani Lion Project #SLP Update: Spent the day observing one of our monitored prides, very relaxed with full bellies from a recent 🦒kill 🦁 Thankful for a great team and ofc the 🦁 Fieldwork and data curation continues, as we are wrapping up our search encounter SECR survey ! #FieldResearch #mammals
November 29, 2024 at 6:42 PM
Saadani Lion Project #SLP Update: Spent the day observing one of our monitored prides, very relaxed with full bellies from a recent 🦒kill 🦁 Thankful for a great team and ofc the 🦁 Fieldwork and data curation continues, as we are wrapping up our search encounter SECR survey ! #FieldResearch #mammals
Saadani Lion Project #SLP update: had a wonderful time discussing the 🦁population estimation survey progress & co-developing next steps with Chief Warden & TANAPA officials. We’re working hard to get lions id-ed & our data curated 🤩 #DreamTeam 🤝 #fieldwork
November 27, 2024 at 2:10 AM
Saadani Lion Project #SLP update: had a wonderful time discussing the 🦁population estimation survey progress & co-developing next steps with Chief Warden & TANAPA officials. We’re working hard to get lions id-ed & our data curated 🤩 #DreamTeam 🤝 #fieldwork
Hello new followers 👋🏼 Just chiming in from our fieldsite in Saadani NP, Tanzania. We are wrapping up our lion population survey and guess what? Sorting lion-id photos have never come with a better view 🤩 #AcademicSky #Fieldwork #mammals
November 24, 2024 at 3:13 PM
Hello new followers 👋🏼 Just chiming in from our fieldsite in Saadani NP, Tanzania. We are wrapping up our lion population survey and guess what? Sorting lion-id photos have never come with a better view 🤩 #AcademicSky #Fieldwork #mammals