13 years of studying 🦁 📸 Dec 2025, Tsavo Simba Research Project: documenting behavior of a collared 🦁 📸 Dec 2012, Documenting a mating pair of 🦁 during my MSc in Gir 🇮🇳 From grad researcher to PI—the title changed, the work didn’t. Still learning from lions in the wild. Grateful & humbled🙏🐾🦊🪶

This #GivingTuesday please consider donating to @abcmicrogrants.bsky.social to support undergraduate students globally!! 🫶🗺️ Help us make #animalbehaviourresearch more inclusive 🐝🐝🐝 Sign up to be a monthly donor, or make a one time contribution using this link opencollective.com/animal-behav...

📢Jumping back on here amidst busy fieldwork to announce 📢 🌍🦁 Our Tsavo Simba Project website is LIVE! From the red-dust plains of Tsavo straight to your 💻🤩 Dive into our research, field stories & lion insights 🦁💛 🔗 www.tsavosimba.com #jointhepride #tsavosimbaresearchproject #nsffunded

I am recruiting 1-2 postbacs for our NSF-funded Tsavo Simba Research Project, investigating fission-fusion! The position is for recent undergrads who have not yet started grad school. Come be a part of our team and help us track/monitor 🦁🌍🛰️📸🧪 Job ad⬇️ careers-macalester.icims.com/jobs/2221/po...

Grateful to @behaviour2025.bsky.social @asab.org for an amazing opportunity to reconnect with friends and colleagues🤩Loved showing them around the City of Joy – and ofc, no trip to #Kolkata is complete without diving into its irresistible food scene! 🍲🕌🥘🧆🤤 #behaviour2025

Closing @behaviour2025.bsky.social with a very nice talk by @stotra.bsky.social on the costs and benefits of co-existence for wolves, coyotes and cougars in Yellowstone National Park. @asab.org

🔥 Into wolves, coyotes and pumas? 🐺🐾 Come thru 📍Hall 2 at 4:20pm for some neat Yellowstone carnivore science! Last-day energy @behaviour2025.bsky.social @asab.org — let’s GOOOOO! 🐺🐾 #Behaviour2025 #collaborativescience Artwork credit @ayuna-lh.bsky.social 🙏

Had the pleasure of presenting our collaborative work on 🦁 comparative behavior alongside fantastic colleagues at #behaviour2025 @asab.org Super fun to engage in such a thoughtful symposium on the challenges and future directions of comparative social behavior across species 🦁🐒🧪🔬

#Behaviour2025 @asab.org 🦁 Pls Don’t sleep on our lion talk tomorrow at the Comparative Research in Animal Social Behaviour Symposium! 👀 🗓️Aug 28 ⏰ 3:50 PM | 📍 Hall 2 Stoked to share the stage with truly amaze colleagues 🤝#LionResearch #AnimalBehaviour Artwork Credit: @ayuna-lh.bsky.social 🙏

Folks looking for support/guidance/mentorship in Animal Behaviour, pls come talk to us! We are representing @abcmicrogrants.bsky.social at #Behaviour2025 @asab.org poster session!! What a joy to be able to do this with colleague phenomenal @delphinedemoor.bsky.social and @emmasmcewen.bsky.social 🐝🤝

#behaviour2025 drumroll begins🥁 In Kolkata, picking up dear colleague and friend @delphinedemoor.bsky.social!! Excited for a week of #animalbehavior science and #networking #academicconference #wildliferesearch #animalbehaviorresearch #colleaguesmeetup 🦁🧪🐒

🦁 13 years of working with lions — still in awe #WorldLionDay Update: GPS/SAT-collared 10 lions in Tsavo for our #NSFfunded project 📡🐾 with KWS supervision + permits 🩺 We are now tracking movement + social dynamics in this semi-arid landscape 👣🦁🌍🔬🧪 🙏 to partners: wrtikenya, KWS, TsavoTrust, UMN

It’s official🎉 Thrilled (& relieved) to share that I've been awarded an NSF grant to study high-res fission-fusion and social dynamics in Tsavo 🦁🌍 This 3y grant supports 📡 Telemetry-based field research 🧩 database dev 🏕️ Expanding our research base 🙏 #NSF POs and reviewers www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...

Love in the air, lessons in the wild, and science in action! From a mating 🦁 pair 💘 to curious sub-adults learning never to mess with a mongoose 🐾💥, to collar checks and sampling kits 🧪— ‘tis all happening in Tsavo! 🌿🔥🔬🦊 #TsavoSimbaResearchProject #WildlifeResearch #EcologyInAction #ProudPI

Best. Birthday. Ever. 🦁🎉 Couldn’t be more thrilled to officially launch our Tsavo Simba Research Project — right here in Kenya, and on my BIRTHDAY! 🎂✨ A dream come to true, working on something so close to my ❤️, with the most phenomenal team and partners 🤝 To new adventures, big cats, and science🧪🦁

Kicking off my pre-tenure sabbatical - EXCITED and getting ready to head out to Kenya for fieldwork for our Tsavo Simba Project! 🦁 Can’t wait to collar some 🦁 and dive into pride dynamics🤩 🧪🔬🦊🪶 Also, look at our gorgeous new logo—big shoutout to the amazing Kimberly Boustead for the design! 🎨🙌

1/2 Tough semester😮‍💨 but so grateful for my amazing lab fam🤩 Huge (belated) shoutout to Sophie Carpenter for crushing her undergrad thesis on predation mapping in N. Tanzania🐆🦁🐂 & @ayuna-lh.bsky.social for wrangling ~1M cam-trap photos 📸 to investigate puma–fox–prey dynamics in 🇦🇷 🦊🐾 Legends #ProudPI🧪

What’s on the *royal menu*—and how does it impact critically endangered herbivores?🦁 Check out our popular article in current-conservation spotlighting new undergrad-led research from my lab on lion diet in Tsavo, Kenya. ⬇️ #collaborativeresearch 🧪🔬🦁🦌🦊 www.currentconservation.org/whats-on-the...

This weekend has be difficult😢😢 Pls send pet photos 🙏🏽🦊🪶

JOB ALERT! We are hiring two seasonal field technicians for mid July - mid October to conduct research on mule deer in the Santa Monica Mountains, CA. The project is a collaboration between UC Davis and NPS. Ungulate capture experience preferred. Please share! jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu/view-job/?id...

It is spring and time for a new round of mentorship matching! This time we are also looking for new mentors, so if you are interested in supporting animal behaviours students do join us! Mentee sign up here: forms.gle/zPgk4Nwq2znE... Mentor sign up here: forms.gle/cD3cEqoXHaLT...

Friendly reminder: if you are waiting on something from a US-based scientist/reviewer/editor, please realize that we're barely making it through each day putting out non-stop fires and trying not to collapse into tears. We're trying our best, but things will take longer right now. Give grace.

‘Of crisp winter days and pretty sunsets’ 🌅 Views from my study have been lately very poetic 😍😍 Def. helping with this lengthy review panel 😋 🧪🦊🪶

I have been trying to submit an abstract for #behaviour2025 but the site keeps glitching☹️ Also, can’t go back to editing the abstract; I’ve started over 6 times☹️ My lab members are facing similar issues 🙈 Org. Commitee - help? 🧪🦊🪶

Spending New Year's Eve solo, but honoring the 'palate tradition' 😋 Enjoying some slow-cooked goat with caramelized 🧅, 🥔, and a blend of spices, along with generous amounts of 🫚🧄 🌶️. An indulgent Bengali dish in an otherwise grey MN evening🥶 #HappyNewYear2025 #NewYearsEve #Foodie

1/2 As #Mufasa hits the 📽️, check out our #SciArt highlighting new research on 🦁food habits in Tsavo (doi.org/10.1017/S0030605324000085). Co-developed with Joseph Bump and Eliza King, the poster lion is a montage of prey art as found in 🦁diet. Illustrated by Kimberly Boustead🤩 Pls zoom in 🔍 🧪🦊🌍🪶

Great selection of talks in the morning session @asab.org #ASABWinter2024

Folks at @asab.org #ASABWinter2024, check out our talk “Building Bridges from Boxes”🦁 tomorrow, Sesh 3 🗣️🎙️ Bummed that I can’t join in-person cause of *visa delays*😩 but SUPER grateful for amaze co-authors who are gonna represent the collab🤝 #behaveecol #collaborativescience #diversesci

Update from Saadani Lion Project: After 100 days of intense fieldwork, we wrapped up the SECR population estimation survey for 🦁 in Saadani NP. Besides getting to see these unique and shy🦁, I am extremely intrigued with how frequently they hunt big prey like🦒🐃 #mammals 🦊 CW: Predation📸

🦁🦁🦁 We are seeking a Research Technician to assist our South Texas Lion Project! Work duties include maintaining our camera traps, investigating kill sites, and participating in lion work-ups. A phenomenal opportunity in the South Texas brush country. See below for more: shorturl.at/aftKp 🦁🦁🦁

While the main focus of our Saadani Lion Project is ofc 🦁, this magical place also boasts a super diverse herbivore community with buffalo, waterbuck, bushbuck, hartebeest, and some rare feats like the sable antelope, to name a few🤩 #academicsky #conservation #lionresearch #mammals

Publishing a paper on a topic you ❤️ is rewarding, but it's so motivating to see students excited about it🥹 My wildlife conservation course just discussed our brand new paper on 'constellations of coexistence,' & I was thrilled by their enthusiasm and attention to detail🤩 🔗🧵⬇️

🚨New Paper 🚨 in @ConBiology (wow what a week, 2 papers in the same journal in a span of 3 days)‼️ Thrilled to contribute to this important paper (led by Keshab) from our long-term Asian 🦁 project, exploring human-lion coexistence and how co-adaptive mechanisms unfold 🦁🏡 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/cobi...

Saadani Lion Project #SLP Update: Spent the day observing one of our monitored prides, very relaxed with full bellies from a recent 🦒kill 🦁 Thankful for a great team and ofc the 🦁 Fieldwork and data curation continues, as we are wrapping up our search encounter SECR survey ! #FieldResearch #mammals

Saadani Lion Project #SLP update: had a wonderful time discussing the 🦁population estimation survey progress & co-developing next steps with Chief Warden & TANAPA officials. We’re working hard to get lions id-ed & our data curated 🤩 #DreamTeam 🤝 #fieldwork

🚨New OA paper alert🚨 in @ConservationBiology A super rewarding collaboration where we dived into case studies from our study systems to highlight the importance of local contexts and perspectives in HWC mitigation, while connecting them to global realities🦁🐘🐆🐻🐺 Aalayna’s thread for details ⬇️

Hello new followers 👋🏼 Just chiming in from our fieldsite in Saadani NP, Tanzania. We are wrapping up our lion population survey and guess what? Sorting lion-id photos have never come with a better view 🤩 #AcademicSky #Fieldwork #mammals

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Happy #valentines ❤️ Sprinkling your thread with some moments of tender affection from the wild 😍😍 #valentinesday2024 ❤️ #mammals 🦁🐘🦌🦊

Your yearly reminder, that #SuperbOwl 🦉exists 🤩 A pair of Verreaux Eagle owls in Tsavo, Kenya 🦉😍 #fieldwork #research #birds 🧪

Missed posting these on #internationalzebraday 🦓 Zebras are so beautiful that sometimes I wonder are they even real? 👀 I can’t get over how pretty they are, and how fuzzy and blonde the foals are 🤩 it was brilliant to see them in Tsavo recently 😍🦓 #fieldwork #academicchatter #mammals 🦊🧪

Has anyone, I know or otherwise, applied for a NSF BRC-BIO or PUI related grant? Would you be willing to chat/help out with some qs 🙏🏼 pls comment if you know someone or would like to help out🥺🙏🏼 pls help spread the word 🙏🏼#AcademicChatter #newPI 🦊 📸just to grab your attn 😁

Happy new year folks!! Just back from an incredible field trip to Tsavo, Kenya! ‘Twas phenomenal🤩 some amazing wildlife that we were lucky to have witnessed ⬇️ #wildliferesearch #fieldwork #academicchatter

Manuscript acceptance on a FRIDAY eve?😳 I thought those were the things of myths and legends 🦄 Friday eves have been a 🧲 for ms rejection emails 👀 Not today though, sweet start to the weekend 😁🐺🦌 ms led by Ellen Candler #academicchatter #ecoevo #academicpublishing @billseverud.bsky.social

A moment of calm amidst difficult times 🍁🍂 ‘tis that season on campus, and a little walk brought me peace 🙂😍 #fall2023 #fallphotography #campuslife #academicchatter

‘Twas so much fun introducing my #AnimalBehavior students to the world of data collection👩‍💻📊 Scan/focal/ethograms/hypothesis testing from coding videos of adorable meerkats 🤩🤩 Huge shoutout to ASAB for creating such resources for AnimBehav Ed 🙏🏼🙏🏼

Got my updated COVID (moderna) 💉 yesterday!! I’m not flexing, I can’t 🙈🤣

Happy #WorldLionDay2023 🦁 Blessed and fortunate to be able to observe and study these incredible big cats in the wild 🤩🦁 #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #lionday #roarforlion

🔔New paper alert🔔 This one is special- its the 1st one from my lab in collab with BumpLab @UMNFWCB & @WRTIKenya We examined carnivore interactions at elephant-carcasses in Tsavo 📷🐘💀🦁 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352249623000332?dgcid=author

Here’s a wet bear-butt to remind you to keep swimming even when the waters are choppy 🐻🌊💪😃