Fritz Francisco

Just a regular day, in a behavioralist’s life….when the camera does its thing while you are huffing the fumes 🐟🫠

To be a pigeon, one must think like a pigeon! 🕊️ 🧐 Check out our recent work from the www.thekaolab.com, led by the flocking amazing @knaticat.bsky.social in @elife.bsky.social: A tale of two birds: cognitive simplicity drives collective route improvements in homing pigeons doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

I have a personal interest in „the brightest it can be“ and would love to build this, as we always seem to need good (bright) lighting solutions in the lab and field! 👌

I have not been able to get conda/pip to reliably work across platforms. Now when starting a new project, I create a dockerfile with all the dependencies. Works best for my cases and you can serve jupyter or other GUIs on local ports to be opened in any browser….
…uv above does appealing too though

Picture showing the book “The Evolution of Social Behaviour” by Michael Taborsky, Michael Cant and Jan Komdeur

Whoop
Whoop
Is the sound of the evolution of social behaviour!!! 🤗🐟🚨
…excited to start reading up on policing in animal groups!

📣 We're on the lookout for a creative postdoc with strong computational skills!

Be the go-to person in the lab for building simple but powerful simulations that test wild ideas on biological rythems: from daily cycles of mussel groups at deep sea, to firefly flash synchronization!

More info below👇

Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...

Very smart, high ROI initiative from the Spencer Foundation.

Providing bridge funding for canceled NSF grants:

1) directs funds to projects already screened by a top-noch review process.
2) avoids imposing proposal prep costs on researchers.
3) ameliorates the disruption from GOP sabotage.

Stand up for science 🧪

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A tale of two birds: cognitive simplicity drives collective route improvements in homing pigeons Cognitive abilities are central to how animals navigate complex environments. Beyond individual cognition, group living can also enhance navigation by pooling individually acquired information. One wa...

🚨Pre-print alert!🚨
Excited to share our recent study that explores the navigation mechanism(s) pigeons 🐦 use to improve homing efficiency and if these fit the criteria of cummulative cultural evolution. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Hey folk in higher ed in Massachusetts! Please help push forward this bill in the state legislature to end the practice of 'pass-the-harasser' by requiring disclosure of past sexual misconduct. rallystarter.com/rally/2574/s... Thanks to @laurakgee.bsky.social for her efforts on this!

The future is pink 💗! A pair of Spine-cheek Anemomefish in their host Bubble-tip anemone. I only did minor edits and this is the actual color of the anemone! 🐟🌴

Darren Beattie is a white nationalist and Uyghur genocide denier. He is wholly unqualified to serve as the top diplomat representing American values and cultures on the world stage. That’s why I led 43 colleagues in a letter to Secretary Rubio calling for Beattie's immediate dismissal.

Very cool opinion piece on multi-level societies and division of labour! 🐟🐠

Want to know more about Elacatinus colini? Like when he initiates the hatching of his offspring by picking them up with his mouth and spitting them out to conquer the world? Check out this paper by @gobywan.bsky.social in @royalsocietypublishing.org: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....

Nobody: How many post-docs can one person do at the same time?
Me: THIS IS SPARTA!!!!

These look like incredibly cool projects and a great team to address them! ☺️

FUCK ANTICIPATORY OBEDIENCE!!!!

Just arrived in Boston. Very much looking forward to giving the Winston Chen Lecture at Harvard on Friday!

🧪🦑🌎🌊🤯

This a great opportunity as research to policy fellow at UW CIP

uwhires.admin.washington.edu/ENG/candidat...

Same, that would be a major bummer. I just checked and hope/think it may just be that the documentation has been archived. They seem to do this every year before putting out the new syllabus. I very much hope we don’t have the same as the NIH

Disinformation Summer Institute (DSI) - Disinformation Summer Institute Disinformation Disinformation is false or misleading information created and spread to advance policy, political, economic or ideological goals. It is sometimes used by industries, governments, and ot...

This summer institute is the coolest opportunity, with a host of my favorite folks running it.
@jevinwest.bsky.social , @naomioreskes.bsky.social , @katestarbird.bsky.social , Jennifer Jacquet, @cailinmeister.bsky.social and soooo many more.

Applications open!

disinfoinstitute.org#aboutusanchor

Frozen river photographed from above with air bubbles trapped under the ice

We took a similar one just today on the Charles!

Flier for PhD position. Text with a lab logo at the bottom with a cricket silhouette of a cricket with antenna that look like normal curves. Also has a picture of a cricket (Acheta domesticus) on a white background. Text: Crickets! Behavior! Genetics! Statistics! The Dochtermann Lab in the Department of Biological Sciences at North Dakota State University is seeking to fill a PhD assistantship examining how selection has shaped phenotypic plasticity and patterns of genetic variance. The position will start Fall Semester 2025 and the incoming student will be joining a dynamic department (www.ndsu.edu/biology) and an interdisciplinary graduate program that provides a broad foundation for success (www.ndsu.edu/ecs). For more information about the lab visit www.neddochtermann.com If interested, please contact me at ned.dochtermann@gmail.com with a brief synopsis of your research interests. @neddochtermann.bsky.social

I have a PhD position open to start fall semester 2025!

The position will include investigations of the structure of both phenotypic (behavioral) plasticity and genetic variation in behavior as well as lots of opportunity to develop your own project.
#Evolution #evobio #evolsky #Ecology 🧪

Today‘s Pygmy sunfish (Elassoma sp.) Linoleum print turned out pretty cool! 🐟🥰

Damn, this is one sweet setup! 🥰😘🐟🐠

The non-model organism “renaissance” has arrived Meet 10 neuroscientists bringing model diversity back with the funky animals they study.

The non-model organism “renaissance” has arrived
Meet 10 neuroscientists bringing model diversity back
@mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social

www.thetransmitter.org/animal-model...

my lab (www.tuthill.casa) at UW is hiring a research assistant/tech. basic scope is to apply machine learning/computer vision tools to measure and model 3D animal behavior and mechanics. we are a diverse, collaborative, curiosity-driven group.

Apply: uwhires.admin.washington.edu/ENG/Candidat...

Congratulations! You should fit right in. Let me know if you need any recommendations for the city!

Juvenile spine-cheeked anemonefish in a bubble tip anemone” - Happy to have been awarded the faculty photo prize of the International Education Week 2024 at UMass Boston! 🎉🐠📷 #UMassBoston #SciArt