The Elephantine Memories of Food-Caching Birds Some animals can remember where they’ve buried hundreds of thousands of seeds. Why can’t we remember where we’ve put our eyeglasses?

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Please enjoy the Happiest Boy in the World.

Just 3 more weeks to apply for the Princeton EEB Fellows Program! 🌵🦥🦩🦠🧫🌻Please identify at least 2 faculty collaborators, craft your research program, & apply here:

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New preprint: we use several established methods to break down zebra finch social networks, revealing several social tiers that largely match those from mammalian societies. Read more: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

This work involved fine-scale tracking of colonies containing 80 individuals!

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...

New work from the lab!
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Collaboration with @drscottataylor.bsky.social on genetics of variation in spatial cognitive abilities in food-caching chickadees. New reference genome, 162 full genomes. cell.com/current-biol...
#birds, #science

Interested in a 3-year postdoc fellowship to study neotropical bat behavior with me at @stri_panama? If so, email me. Deadline July 15 stri.si.edu/nomis

Fieldwork can be a handful at times.
Pine siskin invasion!
#birds

Please repost: Evolution, Ecology, & Organismal Biol at The Ohio State University is hiring an "Integrative Biologist" that focuses on genotype-to-phenotype questions: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/26856

A mountain chickadee perched on an open feeder, examining the contents

Hey. Hey. Hey you. Watcha doin. Hey. What's in there.

Photo of a mountain chickadee held in the hand

Here, have a chickadee.

Some progress shots. So much printing, so much sanding.

Oh hey new social media. Let's start things off right with my traditional Halloween overkill. #EldenRing #Malenia