Sekhar M A

Anecdote: When courtship blurs: a case of male-directed sexual signaling in house crickets (Acheta domesticus)
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My lab at Indiana University is searching for a *postdoc* and *technician* to contribute to our work studying the evolution of social behavior using fruit flies as a model system. Details below, feel free to email me with any questions! More info on our research: saltzlab.com

The Animal Behavior Society (ABS) is seeking proposals for a freelance editorial assistant to assist our full-time Managing Editor for the journal Animal Behavior! Initial contract will be for 4 months & renewable. Send your proposal by Nov 14!

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In memory of the Christmas Island shrew It never weighed more than a spoonful of sugar. Five or six grams of life, soft-furred and sharp-nosed, darting among the roots and leaf litter of a tiny island in the Indian Ocean. At night, its voic...

RIP the Christmas Island Shrew. Now declared extinct.
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Insect populations are declining at an unprecedented rate The most diverse group of organisms on the planet are in trouble and the consequences could be dire.

I still think this #SciComm deserves a #Pulitzer.

#InsectApocalypse
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Work program for the postdoctoral project. The first phase focuses on comparing video tracking metrics obtained with classical background substraction with metrics that use pose tracking. The bottom figure explain a sampling design where individual are compared along a dose gradient to recover ecotoxicological parameters.

Interested in doing a postdoc in behavioral #ecotoxicology? I have a 12-months fully-funded position to work on the effects of pesticide exposure on generalist arthropod predators. More details here: rroyaute.github.io/blog/2025/po...

Our Founders Award Winner was Sekhar M.A. for a poster titled "Ungeneralizable generalizations? The influence of taxonomic bias on meta-analytical inferences in behavior"

The Founders Memorial Poster Award is given to outstanding posters presented by grad students or postdocs. This year, @sekharma.bsky.social nabbed the top spot with "Ungeneralizable generalizations? The influence of taxonomic bias on meta-analytical inferences in behavior" Congrats!!

Still buzzing from the society meeting! 🧠💬 From cool talks & social mixers to winning 1st poster 🏆 AND becoming grad rep for my home society, what a ride! Upward & onward🚀 #AcademicTwitter #ABS2025

Check out the new preprint from @sekharma.bsky.social!

Also with @batsrkul.bsky.social (new to Bluesky!).

Sekhar did a deep dive into which parts of an agonistic interaction are influenced by direct and indirect effects, from the physical to acoustic components.

@sekharma.bsky.social and I have a new preprint up about the use of mixed-effects models to examine social buffering. Check it out!