Annemarie van der Marel

!PhD opportunity! We are recruiting a student to use biotelemetry and modelling to understand bycatch in Europe's most endangered seabird, the Balearic shearwater. If you are interested come to our online Q&A session on 12th Dec. See advert below!

An excellent write up!! I'll add that these challenges are further amplified by international academics, esp from the global south, with the perpetual uncertainty of where "home" will be in the next few years and the lack of nearby family support that could potentially add optimism to plans 🥲

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yallll! check out my recent interview with CBC quirks and quarks ~ we talk about my white sturgeon conservation research, the impacts of climate change stressors, and what a dream it is to work with these fish! 🐟🐠🧪👩🏻‍🔬

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Presented at #ISBE2024 in Melbourne yesterday! Excited to hear about all the amazing research that's happening in behavioural ecology for the rest of the week.

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The ecoevo job list for 2024-2025 is out. Now featuring both faculty and postdoc positions. 🌍🧪

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An image showing the title of our paper in PLOS Biology (“Inferred Attractiveness: A generalized mechanism for sexual selection that can maintain variation in traits and preferences over time”), a photo of all four authors while visiting the Santa Fe Institute (with the best monolith, Beta, in the background), and the main conceptual and summary plots of the paper.

New paper!! "By casting the female brain as the central selective agent, Inferred Attractiveness captures novel & dynamic aspects of sexual selection & reconciles inconsistencies between mate choice theory and observed behavior" doi.org/10.1371/jour... @emilyhduval.bsky.social @servedio.bsky.social

Still spaces available for students to join our mentorship-matching event!

Grants & Awards for Animal Behaviour Students Sheet1 Name of the grant:,What type of grant?,Who is eligible?,How much money?,Which organisation?,Link to the grant: ASAB Undergraduate Recognition Award,Award,Undergraduate students,NA,Association ...

Are you a student in animal behaviour looking for funding? We have created a list of grants for you! Our microgrants go some way to supporting you personally and we hope that this list helps you to find the rest of what you need: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

A conceptual figure showing how population size decreases, and genetic drift increases along an environmental gradient to the point where adaptation is no longer possible (the expansion threshold)

Why do species have finite distributions? In this preprint we find genetic drift is stronger closer to range edges using open data from >37k individuals/ 59 species, meaning edgier populations might not have the adaptive capacity to expand their range. Feedback welcome ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

I am very excited to be recruiting a Ph.D. student in Complex Systems and Data Science for Fall 2024 to work with me at the University of Vermont. I am looking for students interested in data ethics and computational social science. Please help spread the word! www.uvm.edu/socks/node/6...

As jobs are coming out and folks are applying, here's your regular reminder of lots of examples of successful job apps (mostly research academia but also industry, PUI, gov). And if you've gotten a job recently, please consider contributing! github.com/RILAB/statem...

I am presenting my research today! If you are interested in social evolution, social resilience or key individuals or want to see cute pictures of parakeets, degus, or ground squirrels, come check it out! socialevolutionseminar.com

Check out our latest on killer whales in the Arctic! With lengthening ice-free seasons we are seeing more & more KWs in the Arctic. We found 2 pop's as genetically distinct as ecotypes found elsewhere use the region. KWs could bring significant ecosystem-level change to the rapidly changing Arctic

Visual summary of manuscript in Journal of Zoology examining what factors influence mammalian relative testes size

We, 3 female behavioral ecologists, decided it was high time we collate the BIGGEST database on mammal testes size (571 species!).

What factors influence relative testes size? Mainly mating system and litter rate.

In sum: SIZE IS NOT EVERYTHING!

Check it out here: doi.org/10.1111/jzo....

10 Tricks to Reduce Your Word Count in Academic Writing — Redwood Ink Learn 10 ways to cut words and characters to meet a page, word, or character limit in your academic, scientific, and medical writing.

To all the postdoc hopefuls out there playing a frantic last-minute game of word jenga to hit that 6pg limit on the NSF PRFB due tomorrow, best of luck!!
some good advice for cutting length here: www.redwoodink.com/resources/10...

I'm excited to present my FINE seminar Dec 5! Please come check it out to see my previous work with squirrels and parakeets and prelim results of the effect of key individuals on social instability in degus!

Help kick off my new project on the cultural transmission of lyrebird vocalizations! Any funds raised above the target will go toward the salary of a student research assistant. experiment.com/projects/how...