Excited to be presenting the first parts of my dissertation research at #SICB2026 on how urbanization affects house sparrow physiology and behavior! Come visit me at my poster (P41) tomorrow during the DCE Best Student Poster Competition! @sicb.bsky.social

Excited to be presenting my work tomorrow (Sunday Jan 4th) at SICB in the @sicb-dce.bsky.social DCE Gorbman award session! Stop by room B116 at 2:30pm to hear about thermal imaging during flight in house sparrows #SICB2026

PLEASE SHARE 🚨🚨 6-month RA position available at the Univ. of St Andrews to work with Sue Healy (@cogwild.bsky.social), Simone Meddle (@simonemeddle.bsky.social) and I on the behavioural neuroendocrinology of early reproduction in zebra finches. tinyurl.com/577cx9tj Deadline: 03/12/2025 ⬇️

Thermal imaging opens multiple windows into wild animal physiology! Our new systematic review surveys links between body surface temperatures and four key physiological processes to identify approaches likely to push the technique to it's full potential. buff.ly/p4s37I5 #biology #physiology

Body surface temperatures as biomarkers of physiological environmental adaptation in wild birds and mammals | onlinelibrary.wiley.... | Biological Reviews | #ornithology 🪶

I am recruiting 1-2 graduate students (M.S. or Ph.D. track) to join my lab at @psychualberta.bsky.social in Fall 2026! Please share widely, and if you are interested in endocrinology, animal behavior, neuroscience, and/or seasonal biology, I would love to chat! 🐟🧠🧬🍂

SEIU MA State Council Denounces Detention of Tufts Graduate Student & SEIU 509 member Rumeysa Ozturk. Read more here: www.seiu509.org/seiu-massachusetts-state-council-denounces-detention-of-tufts-graduate-student-and-seiu-509-member-rumeysa-ozturk/

New paper out in @peerj.bsky.social ! Here, we tested the physiological effects of adding artificial grass to housing while introducing wild house sparrows to captivity. doi.org/10.7717/peer...

DEI is under attack, but the stakes are higher than many realize. Universities *must stand firm* in defending it. I lay out why in my latest piece for Nature. Silence is complicity. Without DEI, we fail our students, our research, and our future. www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪

‘Silence is complicity’ — universities must fight the anti-DEI crackdown

Higher-education establishments must not be bullied into abandoning their mission of diversity, equity and inclusion.

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Feather corticosterone is lower in translocated and historical populations of the endangered Laysan duck (Anas laysanensis) | royalsocietypublishi... | Proceedings of the Royal Society B | #ornithology

Hey #SICB2024 ! Stop by poster #48 this afternoon to hear about a potential stress reducer during introduction to captivity in birds! 🐦 @sicbjournals.bsky.social

Excited that my first post here is to introduce our new R package, "profrep", for quantifying Profile Repeatability of individuals' stress response curves! Install it directly in your RStudio console using install.packages("profrep") and find more information here ubeattie.github.io/profrep/