A waltz over evolutionary timescales: why it’s so hard for animals to invent a new mating dance theconversation.com/a-waltz-over...
Emily Weigel (Dr. if we're formal)
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A waltz over evolutionary timescales: why it’s so hard for animals to invent a new mating dance theconversation.com/a-waltz-over...
Naturally selected and sexually selected wing structures synergistically enhance the attractiveness of katydid acoustic signals | Proceedings B | The Royal Society royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
Naturally selected and sexually selected wing structures synergistically enhance the attractiveness of katydid acoustic signals
Abstract. Naturally selected adaptations are often thought to impair the elaboration of conspicuous sexual signals. In katydids, males produce acoustic sig
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Traffic Reduction during COVID-19 Lockdowns Benefited Species Already Tolerant of Noise Pollution: An Acoustic Analysis | The American Naturalist www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
Traffic Reduction during COVID-19 Lockdowns Benefited Species Already Tolerant of Noise Pollution: An Acoustic Analysis | The American Naturalist
Abstract High levels of anthropogenic noise pollution affect wildlife globally. Traffic noise contributes a ubiquitous source of noise pollution and shows high intensity at lower sound frequencies.…
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The Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics of Sexual Traits That Increase Mate Encounter Rates | The American Naturalist: Vol 207, No 5 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
The Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics of Sexual Traits That Increase Mate Encounter Rates | The American Naturalist: Vol 207, No 5
Abstract Sexual selection theory focuses on variation in mating success caused by a shortage of mates relative to same-sex competitors, but variation in mating success can also arise if mates are…
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When sexual selection through mate choice depletes versus exaggerates genetic variation: Unraveling the lek paradox | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
When sexual selection through mate choice depletes versus exaggerates genetic variation: Unraveling the lek paradox | PNAS
The evolution of female preferences for male display traits relies on females receiving indirect benefits from their mate. This requires substantia...
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Surviving and Thriving in Difficult Circumstances, Part 1 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Cognitive individual differences are key in the network of trait covariance academic.oup.com/beheco/artic...
Cognitive individual differences are key in the network of trait covariance
Animal cognitive abilities can vary widely among individuals. This study examined how individual differences in cognition covary with behavioral, physiolog
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‘Continuity over novelty’: why environmental science needs to rethink its focus www.nature.com/articles/d41...
‘Continuity over novelty’: why environmental science needs to rethink its focus
With government funding in decline, researchers should prioritize data collation and training the next generation of scientists.
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A field cricket's solutions to the cocktail party problem in conspecific choruses academic.oup.com/beheco/artic...
A field cricket's solutions to the cocktail party problem in conspecific choruses
Have you ever found it hard to communicate in loud social gatherings? This experience is known as the ‘cocktail party problem’. Acoustically communicating
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Scientists Watched Beetles Have Sex for 40 Years—and Saw Evolution Speed Up www.popularmechanics.com/science/anim...
Scientists Watched Beetles Have Sex for 40 Years—and Saw Evolution Speed Up
Evolution is slow, but with the right experimental set-up—and enough time to spare—you can watch nature do its methodical work.
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Women’s Soccer Sets Sights on Atlanta news.gatech.edu/news/2025/12...
Women’s Soccer Sets Sights on Atlanta
In 2028, Atlanta will be home to a yet-to-be-named National Women’s Soccer League team, announced Nov. 12. The announcement comes at a time when soccer is building momentum in Atlanta and across the…
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Action Underfoot - #MySciJourney in Biology
YouTube video by Galactic Polymath
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Weihenstephan campus: TUM commemorates professors persecuted during the Nazi era www.ls.tum.de/en/ls/public...
Weihenstephan campus: TUM commemorates professors persecuted during the Nazi era
TUM opens memorial site on the Weihenstephan campus and commemorates four professors who were dismissed during the Nazi era.
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Parental control: ecology drives plasticity in parental response to offspring signals academic.oup.com/beheco/artic...
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Gametic and non-gametic parental resources and the definition of sexual selection: a comment on Janicke academic.oup.com/beheco/artic...
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Organs cannot simply be classified as male or female www.mpg.de/25425064/091...
Organs cannot simply be classified as male or female
Human organs form a mosaic of sex-specific characteristics
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Age-dependent changes in reproductive behaviour and success in a long-lived beetle (Bolitotherus cornutus) academic.oup.com/beheco/advan...
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Male Reproductive Senescence in Mammals Is Pervasive and Aligned With the Slow‐Fast Continuum onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
Male Reproductive Senescence in Mammals Is Pervasive and Aligned With the Slow‐Fast Continuum
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New Course Gives Students a Hands-On Role in Designing for Dignity | School of Industrial Design id.gatech.edu/feature/desi...
New Course Gives Students a Hands-On Role in Designing for Dignity | School of Industrial Design
School of Industrial Design
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Loyal workers are selectively and ironically targeted for exploitation www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Variation in sexual signals and defensive strategies elicits receiver-dependent shifts in attractiveness - PubMed pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40709752/
Variation in sexual signals and defensive strategies elicits receiver-dependent shifts in attractiveness - PubMed
Sexual selection often favors the evolution of conspicuous mating displays. Emitting such overt displays carries the risk of interception by eavesdropping enemies, i.e. predators, parasitoids and…
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Effects of mismatched mate availability cues on reproductive investment in female crickets cdnsciencepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Effects of mismatched mate availability cues on reproductive investment in female crickets cdnsciencepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
GT Rugby Club Scores With 'Hand-Off' of Uniforms by GTRI's Rafa Dominguez gtri.gatech.edu/newsroom/gt-...
GT Rugby Club Scores With 'Hand-Off' of Uniforms by GTRI's Rafa Dominguez
GTRI Operations Manager Rafael (Rafa) Dominguez, a self-described "rugby enthusiast," recently donated new uniforms to the Georgia Tech Rugby Club.
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Future of STEM Workforce in Jeopardy Amid NSF Overhaul www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
Future of STEM Workforce in Jeopardy Amid NSF Overhaul
The National Science Foundation says major budget cuts, restructuring and priority changes are designed to build a more robust STEM workforce. But experts say the changes, which include axing…
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Meta-analysis reveals that phenotypic plasticity and divergent selection promote reproductive isolation during incipient speciation - Nature Ecology & Evolution www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Meta-analysis reveals that phenotypic plasticity and divergent selection promote reproductive isolation during incipient speciation - Nature Ecology & Evolution
The authors examine factors affecting reproductive isolation in the early stages of speciation by collating data from 34 experimental speciation studies in 15 species ranging from yeast to…
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Contributing to Sustainable Urban Planning via Smartphone App www.tum.de/en/news-and-...
Contributing to Sustainable Urban Planning via Smartphone App
By documenting trees in an app, you can take part in a citizen science project — that’s what ‘Mein Baum’ makes possible.
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What birds can teach us about the ‘biological truth’ of sex www.thetransmitter.org/sex/what-bir...
What birds can teach us about the ‘biological truth’ of sex
Part of our job as educators is to give students a deeper understanding of the true diversity of sex and gender in the natural world.
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