Tessera
Folgen

Norman Lee

@normanlee.bsky.social

Neuroethologist, Associate Professor of Biology, PI of Lee Lab Neural Systems and Behavior and Director of the Neuroscience Program @ St. Olaf College, Northfield MN

25 Posts775 Follower56 Folgt
Norman Lee@normanlee.bsky.social · 3w ago

How does an eavesdropping acoustic parasitoid fly recognize host cricket calling songs? Our new paper, led by @Laurenbitner.bay.social, out today shows that #Ormiaochracea do not rely on pulse rate alone but evaluate multiple song features together to recognize host crickets. doi.org/10.1242/jeb....

Song recognition in Floridian Ormia ochracea reflects multidimensional temporal tuning

Summary: The acoustic parasitoid fly Ormia ochracea is behaviourally tuned to combinations of durations and interpulse intervals of cricket songs in the context of host recognition.

journals.biologists.com

Animal Behavior Society@animbehsociety.bsky.social · last yr.

Congratulations to Jeyssi, one of our 2025 Turner Awardees! Jeyssi is a third-year undergraduate at Gettysburg College studying how eavesdropping predators and parasites influence the evolution of mating signals in the Trillo lab. She is interested in understanding how... (1/2)

Jeyssi stands smiling in a black puffy jacket and light grey field pants framed by a rock wall to the left and a forest in the background.In a forest at night, Jeyssi stands squeezing her eyes shut as a frog lands on the band of her headlamp.
Animal Behavior Society@animbehsociety.bsky.social · last yr.

Congratulations to Marie Taylor, one of our 2025 Turner Awardees! Marie Taylor is a third-year undergraduate at Utah Valley University studying individual variation of bottlenose dolphin shipside feeding in the Cusick lab. She is working towards becoming a wildlife biologist. ... (1/2)

Marie Taylor stands smiling in a black dress with pink flowers.
Animal Behavior Society@animbehsociety.bsky.social · last yr.

Congratulations to Leila, one of our 2025 Turner Awardees! Leila is a third-year undergraduate at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee studying sexual communication and speciation in treehoppers in Rafael Rodríguez's Behavior and Evolution lab. She is interested in using similarities between ... (1/2)

Leila stands smiling in front of a white wall, wearing a dark-blue patterned collared shirt.
Animal Behavior Society@animbehsociety.bsky.social · last yr.

Congratulations to Kaya Simmons, one of the ABS 2025 Turner Awardees! Kaya Simmons is a fourth-year undergraduate at Florida State University studying investigative cooperative courtship behavior in the DuVal lab and neural communication and reproduction in the Lemmon lab. (1/3)

Kaya Simmons touches the brim of her green-grey baseball cap in front of a landscape of rocks and trees.
Animal Behavior Society@animbehsociety.bsky.social · last yr.

Congratulations to Yuchen Chen, one of the ABS 2025 Turner Awardees! Yuchen Chen is an early-year undergraduate at Duke University studying anti-predator responses, sexual selection, communication, and social networks. She is interested in different types of animal relationships and... (1/2)

Yuchen Chen stands in a blue shirt, smiling on a beach at sunset.
Animal Behavior Society@animbehsociety.bsky.social · last yr.

Congratulations to Juliana Fonseca-Tellez, one of the ABS 2025 Turner Awardees! Juliana is a Master's student at Universidad del Rosario studying how behavior influences major evolutionary processes, such as speciation, in Adriana Maldonado-Chaparro's Behavioral Ecology and Conservation Lab. (1/3)

Juliana Fonseca-Tellez stands, smiling, in a blue dress on a balcony next to a large bouquet of pink-and-white flowers.
Animal Behavior Society@animbehsociety.bsky.social · last yr.

Congratulations to Henry Rosato, one of the ABS 2025 Turner Awardees! Henry Rosato is a third-year undergraduate at University of Minnesota studying the evolution of mate-search strategies using agent-based models as well as morphological diversification in crickets in the Xu lab. (1/3)

Henry Rosato stands in a blue shirt in front of a white board, giving a presentation.
Animal Behavior Society@animbehsociety.bsky.social · last yr.

Congratulations to Kennedy, one of the ABS 2025 Turner Awardees! Kennedy is a fourth-year undergraduate at Howard University studying virology, eco-toxicology, and evolutionary biology. She is interested in using behavior and genetics to study the evolution of eusociality. (1/2)

Kennedy stands in a yellow shirt and black blazer, smiling in front of a blue-and-white research poster.Kennedy smiles in front of an aquarium full of fish and rays.
International Society for Neuroethology@neuroethology.org · 2y ago

Flies from the genus Ormia parasite crickets which they localize by eavesdropping. Cricket songs have therefore rapidly diversed, in Hawaii . A new study @currentbiology.bsky.social gives insights into the rapid evolution in sensory tuning of an eavesdropper. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Neural and behavioral evolution in an eavesdropper with a rapidly evolving host

The diversification of animal communication systems is driven by the interacting effects of signalers, signal receivers, and the environment. Yet, the…

sciencedirect.com

Michael Reichert@reichertfroglab.bsky.social · 2y ago

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.

Jason Dinh@byjasonpdinh.bsky.social · 2y ago

NEW: I wrote about a new study on the rapid evolution of purring crickets and parasitic flies—and what scientists dealing with federal funding cuts can learn from these resilient lil guys 🧪 read it in @atmosmagazine.bsky.social:

Jason Dinh@byjasonpdinh.bsky.social · 2y ago

NEW: I wrote about a new study on the rapid evolution of purring crickets and parasitic flies—and what scientists dealing with federal funding cuts can learn from these resilient lil guys 🧪 read it in @atmosmagazine.bsky.social:

‘A Quiet Place’ Is the Lived Reality for These Hawaiian Insects | Atmos

Parasites forced Hawaii’s crickets to evolve hushed mating songs. A new study shows the parasites might be evolving their hearing in turn.

atmos.earth

Michael Reichert@reichertfroglab.bsky.social · 2y ago

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...

Oklahoma Network-Research and Mentoring for Post-Baccalaureates - Oklahoma State University

Oklahoma Network-Research and Mentoring for Post-Baccalaureates

cas.okstate.edu