Dee Sidhu

#ISBE2026 Call for Abstracts is now open! Submit your abstract by 15 December 2025 on www.isbe2026.com

@behavecol.bsky.social

Meet our plenary speaker Renata Sousa-Lima!

Professor at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (Brazil), Renata ‘s research focuses on bioacoustics of aquatic mammals and has pioneered the field of ecoacoustics and soundscape ecology in Brazil.

Meet our plenary speaker Eva Ringler!

Professor at the University of Bern, Eva Ringler and her research group are interested in understanding variation in animal behaviour from an ecological and evolutionary perspective focusing on Neotropical poison frogs and glassfrogs.

Meet our plenary speaker Kulbhushansingh Suryawanshi

Director of the India Program for the Snow Leopard Trust working on snow leopards and human-wildlife coexistence in the high Himalaya. His work focuses on the interactions between large carnivores, their wild prey, and farming communities.

Meet our plenary speaker Felicity Muth!

Assistant professor at the University of California Davis, her lab group are broadly interested in cognition, especially aspects of learning and memory that have a clear function in the natural world, focusing on captive and wild bumblebees.

Meet our Plenary Speaker Daniela Rößler

Fueled by curiosity and a deep love of natural history Daniela discovered a REM-like sleep state in spiders and uses integrative field, lab and comparative approaches to investigate the function, ecology, and evolution of sleep across the spider tree of life.

Honored to announce the Hamilton Lecture 2026!

Leigh Simmons, Emeritus Professor of Evolutionary Biology at the University of Western Australia has made an outstanding contribution to the field of sexual selection acting from the whole organism to its gametes, and to our Society.

@karendeepsidhu.bsky.social tells us about how monogamy/polygamy alters responses to heatwaves in burying beetles (well a 25oC Scottish heatwave anyway)

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tinyurl.com/UoATransphobia
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im sure many of you are aware of hostility towards #trans staff & students in my department

myself & other ECRs have published a desperate call for action on #transphobia from departmental and university management

please read, share and SIGN IN SOLIDARITY ❤️

Right, you fucks, if you live in the UK sign this. If you don’t live in the UK share it as some of your followers might and they should sign this.

As Israeli airstrikes continue to devastate Gaza, claiming countless lives in an unrelenting conflict, a quieter but equally devastating crisis is unfolding — the environmental destruction left in its wake. Conservative estimates based on satellite imagery comparing before-and-after conditions suggest that the conflict, which began on October 7 last year, has left much of the enclave uninhabitable, with its scars likely to endure for years long after the bombs have stopped falling. More: https://tribune.com.pk/story/2517527/gazas-environmental-scars-may-never-fully-heal

As Israeli airstrikes continue to devastate Gaza, claiming countless lives in an unrelenting conflict, a quieter but equally devastating crisis is unfolding — the environmental destruction left in its wake. Conservative estimates based on satellite imagery comparing before-and-after conditions suggest that the conflict, which began on October 7 last year, has left much of the enclave uninhabitable, with its scars likely to endure for years long after the bombs have stopped falling. More: https://tribune.com.pk/story/2517527/gazas-environmental-scars-may-never-fully-heal

My latest article examines the #environmental impact of the #Gaza conflict. As @pmbigger.bsky.social from @cplusc.bsky.social noted: A substantial portion of land has now been destroyed, making it much harder to achieve any level of food sovereignty once the #genocide ends.

More: shorturl.at/C1v1R

“It's amazing how pollution has dropped in #Paris in 15 years. @annehidalgo.bsky.social has filled the city with bike-lanes & not only has she reduced pollution by 40% but she’s also been re-elected.”

Trading car space for green space, bike space, kid space…trading pollution for people. Good trade.

Postdoc @ evol-lab. A Leverhulme funded 3-year postdoc studying body shape evolution (through a sexual conflict lens) on Exeter's Penryn (UK) campus. Starts April 2025. Contact David Hosken @ U of Exeter for detail.

#BIPOC voices are often missing from autistic spaces, so here is a BIPOC starter pack! 😊

go.bsky.app/TtXfpAt

#racialequality #antiracism

The image of autism as “only white boys” leads to underdiagnosis, discrimination & isolation for many

Our autistic community is much more diverse than that! ❤️

That would be amazing!!!

1. Kate Otter in front of a slide reading “Biology but make it Gay A case study teaching queer and feminist perspectives in biology to first-year undergraduates Kate Otter & Denise Pope” 2. Karendeep in front of a slide reading “Addressing colonial bias in Animal behaviour research?” Karendeep Sidhu Supervisors: Prof Lesley Lancaster, Dr Greta Bocedi, Dr Paul Caplat, Dr Natalie Pilakouta 3. Designing inclusive international conferences: Insights from Animal Behaviour Live Natacha Rossi, Alexis Buatois, Valentin Lecheval & Ebi George • School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, UK • Molecular toxicology group, Eawag, Dubendorf, Switzerland • Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, Switzerland 4. Slide with a woman and man symbol reading “The scientific impact of gender in animal behaviour” MARINA PARADOPOULOU, ANDREA ARUINE with a small video of Marina speaking in the corner

Final talks of #ASABWinter2024 by Kate Otter, @karendeepsidhu.bsky.social, @natacharossi.bsky.social / @animalbehaviour.live & Marina Paradopoulou

Finishing with teaching queer & feminist perspectives in biology, addressing colonial bias, online outreach & gender ratios in academic publications.

It was amazing to get to give a talk on colonial legacies in Animal Behaviour, work has been ongoing for a long time behind the scenes, hopefully there will be more to come! #ASABWinter2024 #DecolonisingSBS

Amazing to hear more in depth about helicopter research/parachute science with some colonial context! #ASABWinter2024

Melissa Bateson awarding the medal to Rebbeca Kilner

Congratulations to the 2024 ASAB medal winner Rebbeca Kilner🏅

We award this medal annually for contributions to the science of animal behaviour, through teaching, writing, broadcasting, research or for work on behalf of the association. Any member can nominate candidates! #ASABWinter2024

Great to see @asab.org speakers promoting of the value of traditional indigenous skills, and how certification allows for a range of benefits (including better salaries for locals in grant applications).

#ASABWinter2024

Tatsuya in front of a slide showing a runners race track titled “Language barriers to the generation of evidence by non-native speakers” Text reads :50% of non-native English speakers often decide not to give an oral presentation; 30% of non-native English speakers often decide not to attend a conference; Presentation Need 94% more time to prepare and practice; Paper revision Frequency of language related revision is 12.5 times higher; Non-native Ask someone to edit their English for 75% or more of their papers; Values are for those with one publication Reading Need 91% more time to read a paper; Writing Need 51% more time to write a paper; Paper rejection Frequency of language related rejection is 2.6 times higher Amano et al (2023) PLOS Biology

Final plenary by @tatsuya-amano.bsky.social concerning the language barriers in science. The hurdles for non-native English speakers are significant! #ASABWinter2024

Also, our congratulations to Tatsuya for winning the @britishecolsoc.bsky.social Equality and Diversity Champion award this week!

First talk session wrapped up at #ASABWinter2024 and my mind is racing with all these new understandings of biases! Can't wait for what's to come!

The sad truth is this isn't even everything, this department's transphobia and racism is completely out of control and continues to hurt so many people

When I try to explain how things are actually getting worse, people look at me like I'm crazy.This piece is spot on. #SIStem (senior #womeninSTEM)

torn poster

tweet on invitation of simon fanshawe to give EDI workshop

reflecting on the past year of #queerphobia in my department (school of Biological sciences) at bsky.app/profile/unio...

TW: #transphobia

• posters torn down
• posters defaced with penis stickers
• transphobe invited by management to give #EDI workshop

(1/5) #PhDSky #AcademicSky #QueerInSTEM

"Anyone who considers themselves a member of the STEMM community is welcome to sign.

Please go to: forms.gle/oHqgSPGpiYte..., and provide your name, affiliation, and field of study."

(a) The raised beds on June 15, 2023. (b) The Three Sisters planting design typically forms a large circular shape with maize/bean mounds interspersed with squash. In our study, the Three Sisters were established in raised beds by planting four maize seeds in a 6-in. (15.2 cm) square each with a bean plant 3 in. (7.6 cm) toward the edge of the bed on a diagonal with the center of the maize square. Maize/bean squares were spaced 4 ft (1.2 m) apart within each row. Squash seeds were planted in pairs between each maize/bean square.

I'm very happy to share with you the results of a collaborative experiment between the Catawba Indian Nation and faculty, staff, and students at Davidson College.

Yield, growth, and labor demands of growing maize, beans, and squash in monoculture versus the Three Sisters🌽🫘🎃

A few take home points:

Can I please be added?

#CiteBlackScholars