Michael Reichert

Schematic of the structure of the paper. We looked at dietary differences between ages and sexes, seasons and habitat types. We looked at the identity of prey in the diet and the number of dietary items.

New publication! 🚨

If you're looking for a paper on what great tits eat then this is for you! 🦋🐛🐞🪲🐦

We looked at variation in diet using DNA metabarcoding and found lots of differences between adult and young birds and between habitat types.
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Many thanks to my co-authors John Quinn, Gabrielle Davidson @drgdavidson.bsky.social Michael Reichert @reichertfroglab.bsky.social and Jordan Cuff @jordancuff.bsky.social . Also remembering Bill Symondson who I really enjoyed working with and who would have been pleased to see this work out there.

I was proud to take part in this event! (Even if very annoyed that a terminated NSF grant got me there) Every effort to communicate the importance of scientific research matters

This is an excellent tool, I'm really happy to have contributed to its development! I think it will be especially useful for teaching #bioacoustics

I'm looking for a postdoc in quantitative ecology / macroecology to start in summer/fall 2025 in my lab at Oklahoma State University. Please spread the word

www.gilbertecology.com/opportunities

We love it! 🤩🐸
Great to see students diving into data in our Balancing Act unit based on @reichertfroglab.bsky.social's NSF funded research! #SaveNSF 🧪

Students listened to 🐸 calls and analyzed their spectrograms to learn about tradeoffs in nature: frogs can have long calls or frequent calls, not both! Then tried to figure out which call attracts more ladies.

Great lesson set called Balancing Act by Galactic Polymath! www.galacticpolymath.com

Please DM or email me also, in the same boat

This is a really exciting app for #bioacoustics, especially for teaching. Please support if you can.

Designing Microbial Interventions to Study Behavioural Effects in Wild Birds (DAVIDSON_U25DTPR) | Doctoral Training Partnership This project is open to Home Fee Status applicants only. The gut microbiome influences how animals behave and interact with their environment via the microbiome–gut–brain axis (MGBA).

🚨 🪺🐦🦠 PhD opportunity in my lab for UK home fee students. Feel free to contact me for informal enquiries. Please share! shorturl.at/wUo8r

Humans are visual creatures. We're missing out on so much because it's currently expensive & technical to visualize sounds.

Please help @galacticpolymath.com finish a web app to change this!
👇 $10 gets you access to the beta app. (Public release will be free, if we can reach our goal!) 🧪🔊 #edusky

OSU biology professor partners with education studio to develop free lessons for high schools nationwide - Oklahoma State University The calls of gray treefrogs are making their way from Oklahoma wetlands to high school biology classrooms nationwide, thanks to Oklahoma State University professor Dr. Michael Reichert.

Great writeup on our educational outreach work with @galacticpolymath.com @okstate.edu news.okstate.edu/articles/com...

YouTube video by Galactic Polymath “Balancing Act” Unit Trailer: Free lessons about tradeoffs in life #bioacoustics

🔦Exciting fundamental biological research sponsored by NSF 🧪 🔉

🐸⚖️ Our free high school unit "Balancing Act" connects students to @reichertfroglab.bsky.social's big Qs & real data! Research & free lessons only possible through NSF Broader Impacts funds!

▶️🔥 New Trailer youtube.com/shorts/qqrVt...

This is a great write up on a really cool study and I was happy to be able to chime in with some thoughts. It's really a shame that the great science in the article is overshadowed by the attacks on federal science funding in the US. We risk losing so many people and so much knowledge.

Please spread the word on our paid research program for recent biology graduates at #okstate. The ON-RaMP program provides a year-long biology research experience with tons of resources. More info here: cas.okstate.edu/onramp/ Apply here (by Feb 28!): etap.nsf.gov/award/475/op...

YouTube video by Galactic Polymath Foraging Frenzy: A hands-on natural selection memory game

Chicka-dee-dee! 🪶
For #DarwinDay, here's a free natural selection card game based on NSF-funded research into climate change impacts on chickadee hybridization!
Features @drscottataylor.bsky.social, @amberricelab.bsky.social & Tim Roth. #EduSky #SciComm #Birds 🧪
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IqK...

Great tit being held in hand after capture

⭐New paper out on great tits' social behaviour⭐
We manipulated food access & stability of social interactions at feeders (small-scale) to investigate their effects on individual-level social network position & dyadic assoc.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
(birds handled with required permits)

This is fundamental research, made accessible through NSF Broader Impacts funds! It is so important to nurture curiosity & understanding of science from a young age. We must fight efforts to dismantle basic research or devalue outreach! #SciComm #EduSky 🐸🧪🔊

Directional acoustic radiation in the strut display of male sage grouse Centrocercus urophasianus ABSTRACT. We present evidence that the acoustic component of the strut display of male sage grouse Centrocercus urophasianus is highly directional and that the nature of this directionality is unique ...

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Please check out these amazing free high school lesson plans based on our research! @galacticpolymath.com did a great job putting them together and I'm really excited to use our work to teach students about science and of course frogs. Please share with teachers! Supported by #NSF (RIP?)

I've posted it several times but the deadline is this Friday: encourage undergraduate students you're working with to apply to this fantastic program!

We've got amazing researchers and opportunities in organismal biology, biology education, applied ecology, evolutionary ecology and more!