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MSc student Sarah Smeltz from the @SNLab2002 and @Psych_UAlberta won the @ComparativeCog best publication by a graduate student award at the Conference on Comparative Cognition ( photo: @ghost_graduate ).
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Yay, Sarah! Next stop: PhD!
Congratulations to 🎓Sarah Smeltz 🎓(supervisor Dr Chris Sturdy) for passing their MSc defense today!
Thanks to Drs Erin Bayne, Colleen St. Clair, and, Shannon Digweed for serving on Sarah's thesis committee, and, to Dr Christina Gagne for chairing.
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Nice work, Sarah!
Congratulations to 🎓Sarah Smeltz 🎓(supervisor Dr Chris Sturdy) for passing their MSc defense today!
Thanks to Drs Erin Bayne, Colleen St. Clair, and, Shannon Digweed for serving on Sarah's thesis committee, and, to Dr Christina Gagne for chairing.
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Congratulations to our own Dr Carolina (Kina) Montenegro on her Provost's Award for Early Achievement in Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching!
Congratulations to all 2026 Teaching Excellence Award recipients @UAlbertaArts. Read about them here:
ualberta.ca/en/the-quad/2026…
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Congratulations to @prateek754 and the rest of the @SNLab2002 members in @Psych_UAlberta on a great new publication in @BiologyOpen ! Funded by @NSERC_CRSNG @TIPS_SPIIE @YourAlberta @ualbertaScience @UAlbertaArts !!!
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Sahu, P.K., Nottebrock, K., Ratch, J., Smeltz, S.M.L., Stenstrom, K.H., Deimeke, M.J., & Sturdy, C.B. (accepted 4 June 2026). Differential response variability of black-capped chickadees to wingbeat sounds and vocalizations. Manuscript to appear in Biology Open
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Patrick in action at the 2026 @OfficialCSBBCS conference at York University! Funding provided by @NSERC_CRSNG @TIPS_SPIIE @YourAlberta @ualbertaScience
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Had a blast last week discussing current issues in studying the origins of spectral (pitch and timbre) percepts in musicality last week.
Thanks to the Dutch Research Council and the @lorentzcenter and the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation for sponsoring our workshop!
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Ph.D. student @prateek754
wrote a guest post for @Raspberry_Pi
about songbird preference testing setup the SNL developed “Raspberry Pi reveals songbirds’ favourite sounds” raspberrypi.com/news/raspber…
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Congratulations to @kt_stenstrom for winning the @ComparativeCog #CO3_2026 Best Poster Award (photos by Sarah Smeltz). Funded by @NSERC_CRSNG @TIPS_SPIIE @ualbertaScience @Psych_UAlberta
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Sarah and @kt_stenstrom from the @SNLab2002 present their posters at the first poster session of #CO3_2026 @ComparativeCog - funded by @NSERC_CRSNG @TIPS_SPIIE @YourAlberta @ualbertaScience and @Psych_UAlberta
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Sarah and @kt_stenstrom from the @SNLab2002 present their posters at the first poster session of #CO3_2026 @ComparativeCog - funded by @NSERC_CRSNG @TIPS_SPIIE @YourAlberta @ualbertaScience and @Psych_UAlberta ( photos by @prateek754 )
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MSc student Sarah Smeltz from the @SNLab2002 and @Psych_UAlberta won the @ComparativeCog best publication by a graduate student award at the Conference on Comparative Cognition ( photo: @ghost_graduate ).
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Smeltz, S.M.L, Deimeke, M.J., Montenegro, C., Sahu, P.K., Stenstrom, K.H., Camacho-Alpízar, A., & Sturdy, C.B. (2025). Individual discrimination within, but not between, two vocalization types of the black-capped chickadee. Ethology, 131, 1-12. DOI: doi.org/10.1111/eth.13572
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Go, @prateek754 !!!!
Graduate student Prateek Sahu (supervisor Dr Chris Sturdy) describes the qualities that birds look for in a “sexy” birdsong on @CBCRadioActive @ualbertaScience
cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-5…
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Graduate student Prateek Sahu (supervisor Dr Chris Sturdy) describes the qualities that birds look for in a “sexy” birdsong on @CBCRadioActive @ualbertaScience
cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-5…
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Listen to @SNLab2002 and @Psych_UAlberta PhD student, @prateek754 tell @cbcradio about what makes birdsong sexy! cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-5… - funded by @YourAlberta @NSERC_CRSNG @TIPS_SPIIE @ualbertaScience @Psych_UAlberta
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The @SNLab2002 @Psych_UAlberta presented posters and @prateek754 gave a talk at the Royce Research Conference last Friday - and Maki won best undergraduate poster!
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