Aadhi Ramkumar

5.Started a journal club for the CEB, innovatively named the “CEBrief”.

6. Got stuck in an elevator.

7. Won a “Best Poster Award” for the RSWA 2025 Poster presentation competition. It was a sobering experience walking into a room filled with rectangular posters.

Onwards and forwards. Beantastic.

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3. Presented my proposal to an enthusiastic crowd of CEB members. Got a lot of amazing feedback and fell in love with morph transitions.

4. Supervised master’s students for a mini beetle research project! They are doing great, and I was there to say encouraging things.

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Quick fire big bean updates from the past few months:

1. Began demonstrating labs and running tutorials at UWA! Helping students in the same place I was 5 years ago has been extremely humbling and rewarding.

2. Proposal completed - I am now 0.5% closer to achieving my dreams of obtaining a PhD.

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Great flash talk by Jackson Randell at #AES2025! @ceb-uwa.bsky.social

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Great talk by Kim Wong at #AES2025 … this talk never gets old! @brainiants.bsky.social @ceb-uwa.bsky.social

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Avantika Sharma showcasing her plans for her PhD on intrasexual selection in magpies at #AES2025. Great work Avantika! @mandyridley.bsky.social @ceb-uwa.bsky.social

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Who doesn’t enjoy a good animal behaviour video at #AES2025? Andrea Piccinini surely had captured our attention by presenting his work on post-copulatory mating behaviour in mygalomorph spiders 🕷️ @austevolsoc.bsky.social

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🐞 Ornaments Aren’t Just for Males 🏆
@hasbeanbeetle.bsky.social is studying female beetle ornaments, testing whether traits such as melanisation are used in mate choice, conflict, or resistance to harm — showcasing that ornaments may have functions beyond mate acquisition. 🐞👩‍❤️‍💋‍👨🥊 2/11

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Crazy! Who would do such a thing?!

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Presenting at the CEB ✅ Was awesome having a large and engaged crowd!

More presentations and emotional-support beetles to come.

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@brainiants.bsky.social discussed her PhD proposal this afternoon where she plans to study variation in intraspecific cognition & its relation to complex behaviors, specifically combat and group foraging in Western Australian ants. 🐜 @mandyridley.bsky.social @notthebestsam.bsky.social #LeighSimmons

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Darwin came to town!
@beetlebonking.bsky.social @brainiants.bsky.social @upama.bsky.social

#UWAOpenDay #EvolBio #EnvironmentalScience

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