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Congratulations, @ghost_graduate on winning the @URIUofA University of Alberta Award for Outstanding Mentorship in Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities!!! So well deserved!! @Psych_UAlberta @ualbertaScience @UofA_Arts

is it really field work if you don’t have to dig the car out?

I am happy to announce that I have passed my dissertation defense and now have my Ph.D.! It has been such a blast studying these unique birds 🐣#PROWandCow

Congrats to Dr Hannah @Hannah_Scharf_ for defending her all published PhD @iBioIllinois !!

Congratulations Dr Hannah!!! @Hannah_Scharf_

THANK YOU to everyone involved in making this dream a reality - and IM SORRY to everyone who has to be around me now. 🤍 I refuse to be cool about this. 🤍 MOUNTAIN CHICKADEE RESEARCH HOURS!!!!!!!!!!! (pic by @kt_stenstrom) 3/3

This considerable effort could not have been accomplished without our field manager @kt_stenstrom, the wonderful folks at the @UCalgary Barrier Lake Field Station, and the rest of the SNL who held down the fort in our absence (@prateek754, @JonesJA91, and Sarah Smeltz). 2/3

After two years of dedicated work, the @SNLab2002 has brought mountain chickadees back into our research program! 1/3

The @SNLab2002 welcomes Sarah Smeltz to the lab as an MSc student this September! @Psych_UAlberta @ualbertaScience (Sarah on the right pictured with former @SNLab2002 member, Victoria, at graduation)

@cbsturdy trying to avoid breaking anything, filling feeders with @kt_stenstrom and @ghost_graduate - @Psych_UAlberta @SNLab2002 in the wild!

thinking about how i’ll never top these chickadee pics

My 4th chapter of my dissertation with @cowbirdlab, Niche Construction through a Goldilocks principle maximizes fitness for a nest-sharing brood parasite, is now published! (1/4) @RSocPublishing royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

Flying to Athens for FDG tomorrow but I couldn't help making fanart for my favorite neuroethology research lab @SNLab2002

Thanks to @vicrennie and @prateek754 and everyone else for all their work bringing the @SNLab2002 website (bit.ly/SNL2002) into the modern age! @Psych_UAlberta @Arts_UofA @ualbertaScience

Life update - I'm trading in my time at the (sub)tropics for life in the far north! I'm excited to announce that I have accepted a Postdoctoral position at the Songbird Neuroethology Lab (@SNLab2002) with @cbsturdy!

The @SNLab2002 in @Psych_UAlberta welcomes our newest member, Postdoctoral Researcher @JonesJA91 who will start in autumn 2022! @ualbertaScience

@SNLab2002 members @vicrennie , Michelle Gao, @kt_stenstrom , @prateek754 and #WISESTsrp student, Cayla Polege present at the @WISESTualberta Celebration of Research! @Psych_UAlberta @ualbertaScience

Excited to be at #ISBE2022 talking about social information, population density, and brood parasitism. Monday 1st, 12:05, room C3

Study shows that marmosets practice calling their mothers in the womb phys.org/news/2022-07-m…

I don’t think I’ll give talks on two continents 8 days apart again any time in the near future, but wow #ABS2022 was a blast and #ISBE2022 is shaping up to be as well!