KE Cain

I can probably swing an invite for Uni Auckland. And certainly provide a guide to Tiritiri Matangi or Tāwharanui

Check it animal behavior peeps in the Australasian region.

Exciting news! We can now confirm our incredible plenaries and workshops. We are also announcing a photography and art competition. There is still time to get for Early Bird Registration. Deadline is Friday 16 May.

All the details are available on the conference website www.assab.org/assab-2025

Reminder: Tomorrow (14 May) is the last day for submitting abstracts to #ASSAB2025

See you all in Armidale!

The effects of human presence, restraint, and stressed neighbors on corticosterone levels in domesticated budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus) Limiting stress during interactions between captive animals and humans is important for effective husbandry. One physiological change during the vertebrate stress response is the release of glucocorti...

My sabbatical this semester is focused on finishing projects that have languished. This study was completed in 2017! We tested how different interactions with humans affect CORT levels in budgerigars, including whether stress transmits socially between neighbors - www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Forget me not If our memories make us who we are, what’s it like to have a different type of memory entirely? What can animals remember? Do goldfish have a memory longer than three seconds? And can plants remember ...

The illustrated ‘Just So’ series in @nzgeo.bsky.social is a total delight! The very talented @rebekahwhite.bsky.social and Giselle Clarke have outdone themselves with their piece on memory in the December issue It even features my favourite old (toutouwai) guy Spark! www.nzgeo.com/stories/forg...

I'm building a Starter Pack of Early Career Evolutionary Biologists. It's hard to gather usernames using the search tool. Please add your name to this thread if you want to be added!

Omg. I didn’t know how much I needed this.

a gigantic mug that reads "eat my nuts Jeff Bezos"

How about a great big cup of Eat My Nuts, Jeff Bezos?

https://www.effinbirds.com/collections/eat-my-nuts-jeff-bezos-collection

I'm hiring a post-doc! Come work with me on emperor penguins using SAR imagery - UC is a great place to work and New Zealand is even better than all the advertisements you've ever seen.
🧪🌍🦑🦉

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Boosting this! I’m still recruiting for two positions!

Apropos of nothing in particular, if you happen to live in Texas…

Me, An Old, in my environmental law class: y’all don’t understand, we heard about acid rain ALL THE TIME as kids. The fact that we’ve nearly eradicated it is amazing.

My gen z classmates: what’s acid rain

Me: EXACTLY

Guilty.

Hey. That’s me @jgmussoi.bsky.social and @kamyabio.bsky.social. With @ecostanley.bsky.social and J Lesku at LaTrobe. Gonna be fun!!

Ngā mihi nui ki a Dr Cain @kecain.bsky.social at the University of Auckland @aucklanduni.bsky.social, who has a #MarsdenFund grant to investigate how sleep disruption impairs vocal learning in young birds!
🐦💤🎶
#birds #sleep #learning
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The speaker shenanigans are happening because y’all laughed too hard at Britain and the lettuce last year

If only some system existed for informing the public would highlight this instead of transcribing claims about lawless cities.

3 PhD students graduating from University of Auckland

So proud of this wonderful ecology & animal behaviour bunch - coming out with a PhD is hard enough, doing it through Covid times shows how strong & resilient these women are. Fabulous to celebrate with them yesterday at UOA graduation. 🌏🧪 Projects on myna vocalisations, feral cats & pūkekos

Scientific Method = FAFO Circular process Fuck around: observation -> research area -> hypothesis -> Find out: experiment -> analyze data -> report conclusions ->

My sister just sent me this picture. I teach study design today. Yes, this just got added to my slides. #Episky

A painting of a bird beside the text "this shit gets sadder every day."