Vasudha Kulkarni (she/her)
vkulkarni.bsky.social
Vasudha Kulkarni (she/her)
@vkulkarni.bsky.social
PhD student at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA)

BS-MS @IISERPune
Interested in collective behaviour, behavioural ecology and evolution
In love with written words

Website: https://vasudha-kulkarni.github.io/
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In many social animals, group members try to hide their sickness to prevent social exclusion. Ants flip that script. Adult ants, approaching death, for example, leave the nest, opting for a solo exit to keep their colony safe.
December 3, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Reposted by Vasudha Kulkarni (she/her)
🚨 Out this week in @pnas.org 🚨
The flagship paper from my PhD @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @livingingroups.bsky.social - We show surprising statistical similarities in animal behaviour across states, individuals, and even species.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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May 16, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Reposted by Vasudha Kulkarni (she/her)
Put together my thoughts about how to be a scientist in a world where it feels like the creationists have won
The creationists are winning. Here’s what we scientists can do about it
Clouds over Life Sciences South at the University of Idaho, where I earned my PhD. (Flickr, jby) In my first year of graduate school at the University of Idaho, I joined a bunch of my colleagues in…
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January 20, 2025 at 8:17 PM