Lily Johnson-Ulrich

Genes and gene networks underlying spatial cognition in food-caching chickadees Mountain chickadees rely on specialized memory for recovering cached food sources, and variation in this trait has strong effects on fitness. Semenov et al. identify genes and gene networks underlying...

Hmm that link seems to be broken. Here is another!
www.cell.com/current-biol...

24.04.2024 16:26 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

I was just forwarded communications from Duke admins that this is true: one of the largest and most active herbaria in the United States is being closed in the middle of an extinction crisis, because Duke leadership does not wish to support the infrastructure costs.

14.02.2024 19:11 — 👍 958    🔁 655    💬 54    📌 41

Female cougar with GPS collar and two kittens at a kill site, caught on a camera trap.

New publication on maternal care by cougars and the influence it has on kitten survival rates! TLDR: more experience + more care = better kitten survival. Details @ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧪

11.02.2024 16:03 — 👍 25    🔁 3    💬 3    📌 0

I'd like to be added to the zoologist feed! Here is me during my PhD research with one of my favorite study subjects, the spotted hyena.

12.02.2024 10:11 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The European Conference on Behavioural Biology will be hosted by the Animal Behaviour group at the University of Zurich.

Abstracts opened today!

Visit www.ecbb.uzh.ch for all the details.

31.01.2024 10:11 — 👍 11    🔁 13    💬 0    📌 1

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Applications for the 2024 Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute (DISI) are now open!!

Interested in intelligence, mind, and cognition in all its forms? Scholars from any discipline—and storytellers in any medium—are encouraged to apply! disi.org

01.02.2024 19:33 — 👍 17    🔁 14    💬 2    📌 2

My lab at University of Alaska Fairbanks is recruiting an NSF-funded postdoc to study the evolution of ice-binding proteins in intertidal species. Field and labwork in beautiful places! 2 years of support at $67K/yr. Applications accepted until 3/16. Please share!

careers.alaska.edu/en-us/job/52...

06.02.2024 19:41 — 👍 14    🔁 13    💬 0    📌 0

Harsh Mountain Winters Have Made Chickadees Smarter A decade of research has revealed how the cognitive abilities of chickadees are shaped by their surroundings. Now scientists have begun to peer inside the black box of genetics, uncovering the variati...

Here's the winning story: www.allaboutbirds.org/news/harsh-m.... Now off to rewrite the bio I use for everything to start out "Rebecca Heisman is an award-winning science writer..."

22.01.2024 20:18 — 👍 13    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

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19.01.2024 11:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Advancing the comparative study of behavior

New article out on curiosity in meerkats and other mongooses (and how habituation towards humans affects multiple aspects of exploration in contrasting ways).

29.11.2023 09:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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...

14.11.2023 17:01 — 👍 94    🔁 85    💬 2    📌 2

I described these estimates last week in my intro lecture for the human evolution core course at my institute. Surprises a lot of ppl. And odd for a primate to be ~half mammal biomass, given how insignificant other primates are. More bat biomass than non-human primate. Humans are weed monkeys.

13.11.2023 08:10 — 👍 22    🔁 10    💬 2    📌 1

New publication on the use of parametric speakers (such as the SoundLazer) for animal communication studies.

02.10.2023 14:14 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0