🚨I am thrilled to finally share the amazing news of being awarded an Emmy Noether grant from @dfg_public. In the next years, my group will focus on comprehensively studying (REM) sleep behavior, its function & ecology, in a comparative evolutionary framework using #spiders! 🕷️💤
💙 The recent events were the last push I needed to finally at least delete this cursed app from my phone. Joining the #Xodus - see you on #Bluesky! Great animal behavior and neuroethology crowd over there...feels so much more friendly and sciency again 🥰💙
🚨🚨 New @sciam short doc 🚨🚨 - about 2 of my absolute favorite topics - Spiders and Sleep! A true dream come true for me making this film! featuring the incredible work of @RoesslerDaniela with cameos by the inimitable Portia spider shorturl.at/21EeA
The Indian contingent at #ISBE2024 grows rapidly every conference! Thanks partly to the incredible support offered by the @BehavEcol society
@kavitaisvaran giving the plenary was a big break for (behavioral) ecology in India and an emotional moment for many of us in the audience
#ProudPI 😌 My student @_nadjageiger just submitted her MA thesis! - totally deserved her Portia sticker! 🙌Grateful for the privilege of having mentored her and looking forward to seeing what she's up to next. First next stop: #ISBE2024! Do not miss her talk in Melbourne!
🥁🥁We just distributed ✨1600 GBP (4 microgrants of 400 GBP each) ✨in our special Women in Fieldwork round of funding 🥰💪
This was made possible by a very generous donor who raised the money in a charitable art auction 🥳
ALT Special funding round in Women in Fieldwork poster
Are you good enough to collect harvestmen in the field? Play this creative game and help Brazilian colleagues in a research about visual ecology in opilionids. (please RT)
visual-ecology.com/harvester…
🚨 Job Opening! 🚨 The Natural History Museum is hiring a Head of Molecular Labs to lead and advance our labs and sequencing facility, aligning with the Museum’s evolving and dynamic research needs. Learn more and apply: jobs.nhm.ac.uk/internal/Job/…
EXCITING NEWS!
We are accepting applications for a special funding round - Women in Fieldwork. If you identify as a woman conducting animal behaviour-related fieldwork, we welcome your application for one of four grants of £400 each. Deadline September 1st, 2024.
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ALT EXCITING NEWS!
We are accepting applications for a special funding round - Women in Fieldwork. If you identify as a woman conducting animal behaviour-related fieldwork, we welcome your application for one of four grants of £400 each. Deadline September 1st, 2024.
🦀🐝🧠🤖 How should we make decisions when faced with systems of uncertain sentience? My new book The Edge of Sentience: Risk and Precaution in Humans, Other Animals, and AI is available online for free at academic.oup.com/book/57949. Please download it! Just click on PDF to get a PDF of the whole book. Individual chapters are also available as PDFs - just click on whichever chapters you want. The book is completely free to everyone and I'm grateful for all shares and forwards.
Very excited to share my first paper is out! 🎉 We explore the evolution of the multiple eye pairs in spiders🕷️(cell.com/current-biology/ful…)
Couldn’t have done it without to the mentorship of the brilliant @Lauren_hSR!
Daniela Rößler invited me to write this commentary with her, inviting more behavioral ecologists (and any curious person) to explore SLEEP and its relevance to all behaviors. I'm glad she did! Bug Hartsock graciously provided our spider protagonist...
drive.google.com/file/d/1A8v…
💤More sleep for behavioral ecologists!💤
Out now! Barrett @pupating and I wrote a piece inviting behavioral ecologists to look more closely at sleep in their diverse study animals. Best part? It comes with a Tinbergen/sleep comic by @BugTheBard!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
Unfortunately, for now the article is not open access - we are working on a 💵solution, in the meantime, email me or Barrett for a PDF copy if your institute does not have a subscription!