Congratulations, @ghost_graduate on winning the @URIUofA University of Alberta Award for Outstanding Mentorship in Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities!!! So well deserved!! @Psych_UAlberta@ualbertaScience @UofA_Arts
I am happy to announce that I have passed my dissertation defense and now have my Ph.D.! It has been such a blast studying these unique birds 🐣#PROWandCow
ALT A picture of a cake that says “Congrats Dr. Scharf” with an edible picture of baby birds.
THANK YOU to everyone involved in making this dream a reality - and IM SORRY to everyone who has to be around me now. 🤍 I refuse to be cool about this. 🤍 MOUNTAIN CHICKADEE RESEARCH HOURS!!!!!!!!!!! (pic by @kt_stenstrom) 3/3
This considerable effort could not have been accomplished without our field manager @kt_stenstrom, the wonderful folks at the @UCalgary Barrier Lake Field Station, and the rest of the SNL who held down the fort in our absence (@prateek754, @JonesJA91, and Sarah Smeltz). 2/3
My 4th chapter of my dissertation with @cowbirdlab, Niche Construction through a Goldilocks principle maximizes fitness for a nest-sharing brood parasite, is now published! (1/4) @RSocPublishingroyalsocietypublishing.org/d…
Life update - I'm trading in my time at the (sub)tropics for life in the far north!
I'm excited to announce that I have accepted a Postdoctoral position at the Songbird Neuroethology Lab (@SNLab2002) with @cbsturdy!
I don’t think I’ll give talks on two continents 8 days apart again any time in the near future, but wow #ABS2022 was a blast and #ISBE2022 is shaping up to be as well!
ALT Me presenting at the international society of behavioral ecology meeting in Stockholm Sweden on July 29th 2022
ALT Me presenting in the Allee Symposium at the Animal Behavior Society meeting in San Jose Costa Rica on July 21st 2022