Funded by Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Tri-agency Institutional Programs Secretariat (TIPS) University of Alberta Faculty of Science and Department of Psychology!
Congratulations to Katie Stenstrom for winning the Comparative Cognition Society #CO3_2026 Best Poster Award (photos by Sarah Smeltz).
funded by Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) _CRSNG Tri-agency Institutional Programs Secretariat (TIPS) Government of Alberta, University of Alberta Faculty of Science, Departmentof Psychology (photo credit Prateek Sahu’s photos: @laurenguillette )
Funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) _CRSNG Tri-agency Institutional Programs Secretariat (TIPS) Government of Alberta University of Alberta Faculty of Science and Department of Psychology (photos by Prateek Sahu)
Sarah Smeltz and Katie Stenstom from the @SNLab2002 present their posters at the first poster session of #CO3_2026 Comparative Cognition Society.
Funding provided by Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Tri-agency Institutional Programs Secretariat (TIPS) Government of Alberta Faculty of Science, University of Alberta and Department of Psychology University of Alberta.
MSc student Sarah Smeltz from the Songbird Neuroethology Laboratory and the Department of Psychology at the University of Alberta won the Comparative Cognition Society best publication by a graduate student award at the Conference on Comparative Cognition (photo: Mo Deimeke).
Funded by the Government of Alberta Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Tri-agency Institutional Programs Secretariat (TIPS) University of Alberta Faculty of Science and the Department of Psychology at the University of Alberta.
Listen to Songbird Neuroethology Lab and Department of Psychology PhD student, Prateek Sahu, tell CBC/Radio-Canada about what makes birdsong sexy!
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The @SNLab2002 @Psych_UAlberta presented posters, @prateek754 gave a talk, and
Maki won best undergraduate poster!
Moriah joins Katie Stenstrom who graduated with the M.Sc. in fall 2025.
Moriah Deimeke graduated with their M.Sc. in Psychology from @psychualberta.bsky.social yesterday!
A new Registered Report Protocol by Prateek Sahu, @cbsturdy.bsky.social and colleagues pre-registers tests of whether female zebra finches prefer “long path length” songs, in order to re-examine earlier claims that this holistic song feature signals male quality.
Sahu, P.K., Deimeke, M.J., Garcia, A.D., Stenstrom, K.H., Smeltz, S.M.L., Wang, Y., Ratch, J., Sturdy., C.B. (accepted 20 February 2026). Re-examining hidden fitness: Female preferences for long-path songs in zebra finches. Registered report to appear in PLOS ONE.
Congratulations to @prateek754 and the rest of the members from @SNLab2002 in @psychualberta.bsky.social who just had a new registered report accepted to appear in PLOS ONE! Funded by #NSERC_CRSNG #TIPS_SPIIE @
@ualbertascience.bsky.social @youralberta.bsky.social
Behavioural processes, 225, 105151. lnkd.in/ghWs-7VP
Funded by NSERC, CRC, University of Alberta Faculty of Science, and the Department of Psychology.
Smeltz, S. M. L., Deimeke, M. J., Sahu, P. K., Stenstrom, K. H., Montenegro C., Rennie, V., Ebrahim, I., Starenchak-Baukhagen, I., Jones, J. A., & Sturdy, C. B. (2025). Individual vocal identity may be obscured following colony assembly in captive black-capped chickadees.
Congratulations to Sarah Smeltz from the Songbird Neuroethology Laboratory who won best student paper from the Comparative Cognition Society!
Middle aged white lady carrying a blue poster board sign with the words SEE YOU AT NUREMBERG FUCKERS
Froze my ass off at the Iowa City anti-ICE rally, but it was worth it
@InnovationCA University of Alberta @KillamTrusts @YourAlberta @ualbertaScience @Psych_UAlberta #albertaingenuity #kananaskisfieldstations
This would not have been possible without logistics and funding generously provided by Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Tri-agency Institutional Programs Secretariat (TIPS)
The Songbird Neuroethology Lab turns 24 today! It has been great fun to get to work with such an amazing group of people over the years.
Funding from NSERC, Canada Research Chairs, and the University of Alberta Faculty of Science gratefully acknowledged.
Stenstrom, K.H., Deimeke, M.J., Sahu, P.K., Smeltz, S.M.L., Sturdy, C.B. (accepted 22 December 2025). What is rescue anyway: A comprehensive review of rescue and rescue adjacent behaviour across taxa. Manuscript to appear in Animal Behavior & Cognition.
Congratulations to Katie Stenstrom and the rest of the lab on an excellent new publication!
Stenstrom, K.H., Deimeke, M.J., Sahu, P.K., Smeltz, S.M.L., Sturdy, C.B. (accepted 10 December 2025). Risk versus reward: A systematic review on the threat mobbers face. Manuscript to appear in Animal Behavior & Cognition.
Congratulations to @kt_stenstrom and the rest of the #SNLab2002 in @psychualberta.bsky.social on an excellent new publication! Funded gratefully by #NSERC_CRSNG #TIPS_SPIIE and @ualbertascience.bsky.social !
Congdon, J.V., Skurdal, A.M.M., Campbell, K.A., Hahn, A.H., & Sturdy, C.B. (accepted 26 Nov 2025). Black-capped chickadee (P. atricapillus) behavioural responses to avian and mammalian predator mounts of varying threat levels. Manuscript to appear in Learning & Behavior.
