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Ecstatic to share that a PhD student in our lab, Alyssa Sargent (not on Twitter) was awarded the @NSF #GRFP!! Alyssa will be working with us in Colombia with many #hummingbirds!
Read moreThrilled to congratulate our current postdoc, Jay Falk @JJinsing, for receiving an @NSF #PRFB! Keep up the fabulous work and continue to enjoy the field season in Panama!!
Read moreRT @UWBiology: ‼️ JOB ALERT ‼️ We are still accepting applications! @UWBiology is seeking an Assistant Teaching Professor in #Neuroscience…
Read moreRT @UWBiology: ‼️ JOB ALERT ‼️ @UWBiology is seeking an Assistant Teaching Professor in #neuroscience & #physiology. Applications must be r…
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How Hummingbirds Feed and Fight (Burke Museum’s News & Stories, April 2020) (https://www.burkemuseum.org/news/how-hummingbirds-feed-fight)
He Knows His Hummingbirds (University of Washington Magazine, March 2020) (https://magazine.washington.edu/feature/hummingbirds-sing-to-burke-museums-resident-expert/)
Animal Slander! Debunking ‘Birdbrained’ and ‘Eat Like a Bird’ (NPR’s Shortwave, April 2020) https://www.npr.org/transcripts/840338275
A Honeybee’s Tongue Is More Swiss Army Knife Than Ladle (New York Times’ Trilobites, August 2020) https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/11/science/honeybees-drink-video.html
Can hummingbirds do math? Read this work and commentary by several biologists in this Forbes article. (https://www.forbes.com/sites/saratabin/2020/07/15/not-bird-brains-research-suggests-hummingbirds-use-numbers-to-find-flowers)
Not Bird Brains: Research Suggests Hummingbirds Use Numbers To Find Flowers (Forbes, July 2020)
Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology “Physical Mechanisms of Behavior” Symposium Upcoming events, 2020 (Symposia Organization and Presentations) ( SICB symposium)
Some male hummingbirds wield their bills as weapons (ScienceNews for Students, February 2019) https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/article/some-male-hummingbirds-wield-their-bills-weapons
