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Sushant Potdar
@sushantpotdar.bsky.social
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Postdoc at Andy Clark and Mariana Wolfner Labs @Cornell. PhD at University of Arkansas. Phenotypic plasticity, sexual selection, social environments, plant-insect interactions, 🪰🦋🐝. 🐈‍⬛🐱 parent!
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Day 6 of #Behaviour2025 @behaviour2025.bsky.social and I am finally presenting, on my last PhD chapter, and my current postdoctoral work at 11:45 AM in Hall 2. If anyone is interested in butterflies, flies, ejaculate, brain, and behaviour, do come to my talk 😁🦋🪰🧠
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August 30, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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Kanika Rawat talks about whether stress experienced in one stage is carried over to the next stage in metamorphosis using mosquito larvae! A case for cellular epigenetic inheritance as defined by Eva Jablonka?
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August 29, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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@josharbon.bsky.social spoke on intergroup interactions in African mongooses
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August 29, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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Gokul Valiya Parambil gave an amazing talk on weapons use and aggression behaviours in Rock Agamas!
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August 29, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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Gokul Bhaskaran gave a brilliant talk on the similarities and differences in predatory aggression and conspecific aggression (both intermale and maternal aggression) in bank voles
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August 29, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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Dinesh Rao spoke about how insects avoid their "not so" conspicuous (conspicuous to us) predators (obviously by considering their umwelt)
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August 29, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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Dheeraj C. L tells us how sexual signalling is affected by predation risk in Agamas, by using incredibly funny cartoons 😂
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August 29, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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Anoushka Datta spoke about the correlative effects of predation (active vs ambush predators) and competition in anti-predatory behaviours of mosquito larvae
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August 29, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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Andrew Spires talks about kinship and aggression in fruitflies
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August 29, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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Lizards as pest control, Jugaad (and extortion) in Macaques, seed dispersing tortoises on the hunt for mango jelly, aggressive potential queens, and the power of press releases. A great selection of talks in the Animal Congition and its implications symposium at #Behaviour2025
August 29, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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@harishprakashhp.bsky.social talks about movement of mesocarnivores in a mosiac and human shaped landscapes! And students, go check out his new lab at GITAM in Vizag!
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August 29, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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Shruti Unnikrishnan spoke about contrasting dominance structures in two primitively eusocial paper wasp species.
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August 29, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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@coldbloodedcog.bsky.social talks about cognition in Red-footed tortoise in the context of seed dispersal. And these tortoise love mango jelly!
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August 29, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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Anindya "Rana" Sinha gave an excellent historical account and used vernacular ethology in his talk on Macaques in India!
August 29, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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Moths with an eye for symmetry? 🌸
Join me this Saturday, the 30th, at #Behaviour2025 @behaviour2025.bsky.social to hear all about it
August 29, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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Day 5 of #Behaviour2025 kicks off with a plenary by @samellisq.bsky.social on a question that I have thought about many times. Why does menopause evolve in some species but not in others? And how do social structures and conflict contribute to their evolution?
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August 29, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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Balamurali GS talks about stressors' effects on cognitive biases in Bumblebees, and the transmission of such a stress to other bees!
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August 28, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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@ba-whittaker.bsky.social gave an incredible talk on information bias in neat-building related cognition in zebra finches
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August 28, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Jennifer Colbourne presented on tool use emergence and selection acting on such emerged behaviour for it to become inherited and specialized!
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August 28, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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@augustpaula.bsky.social showed how ants make spatiotemporal decisions using ants tethered to a virtual reality rig! That is freaking awesome!!
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August 28, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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Annika Boussard looked at heatwaves and brain size linked cognition in guppies
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August 28, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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@laurenguillette.bsky.social presents string pulling, nest building, and sex specific cognitive differences in learning in Zebrafinches! I knew only about bumblebees pulling strings, but this is insanely cool too!
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August 28, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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Dr. Molly Cummings talks about social experience driving cognitive capacities in swordtail fish!
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August 28, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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Prof Mewa Singh gave an incredible talk on the lives of monkeys in India's urban ecosystems, and how they have adapted to living in urban environments for over centuries, the conservation efforts, and policies needed in saving monkey habitats!
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August 28, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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@thebeesearcher.bsky.social, Rui Oliveira, @viveknityananda.bsky.social, @coldbloodedcog.bsky.social, and Pragya Singh discuss the importance of failure and reporting failed experiments, and animal failure in cognition research!
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August 27, 2025 at 10:37 AM