Some Hawaiian cricket populations are losing the ability to sing. Males on Oahu invest more in sperm competition than males on Kauai by making more sperm and packing more proteins to increase sperm viability and slow female remating: @jessiectanner.bsky.social et al. (2025) doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...

New paper out in Journal of Evolutionary Biology! Using a field cricket undergoing rapid sexual signal loss, we looked at whether seminal fluid proteins could explain differences in paternity success between males capable of sexual signaling and mutant, silent males. academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-...

Justice for the Chicago Squirrel Hole.

New work from our lab out today in Ecology & Evolution! Trina Chou led this study testing the hypothesis that sexual signals reflect infection. She worked with spring peepers 🐸 naturally infected with Bd, the pathogen that causes chytridiomycosis (#chytrid). onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

New paper today in ProcB! We measured sexual selection on temporally emergent properties of treefrog calls – call rate and regularity – and found that while ♀ prefer fast & regular calls, selection weakens changes shape as the number of choices increases. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

If you're out and about in the evenings, keep an eye out for tree crickets performing their incredible signaling behavior! Ashlesh could use some #communityScience help investigating its evolution. #newPI #animalBehavior #citizenScience #behavioralEcology

I never remember to bring a tripod and my camera work is shaky, but look at this little guy calling his lungs out. Cope's gray treefrog recorded in East Tennessee in May of this year.

Resurfacing after the treefrog season 😅 #newPI #bioacoustics #behavioralEcology

My new paper with Claire Hemingway is officially out today in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, with page numbers and everything. We review what's known about choice overload in non-humans, and discuss its possible ecological & evolutionary consequences. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Bioacoustics fans, here's an opportunity to help fund a cool web tool to teach about sounds: www.indiegogo.com/projects/sou...

Here is a write up from the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Tennessee about my recent paper with Claire Hemingway.

Academics, how many student dissertation committees are you on right now?

I know it's small in the whole scheme of things, but the bloodbath at NPS in Hawaii is almost certainly going to lead directly to the extinctions of no fewer than 4 native Hawaiian songbirds in the next 4-5 years.

ᏩᎶᏏ ᏓᎾᎵᎪᎲᏍᎨᏍᏗ. ᏥᏈᏍᏗ ᏧᏓᎴᏅᏓ ᎠᏆᏛᏁᏗ ᏄᏍᏗ ᎠᏆᏛᏁᎢᏍᏙᏗ.* *The frogs will be getting together soon. There are a lot of things I need to do to get ready. (Also, @bsky.app lacks a Cherokee language option in the list, so they should get on that??)

Claire Hemingway and I have a new paper in Trends in Cognitive Sciences about choice overload and its ecological and evolutionary consequences in non-human animals. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #behavioralEcology #behavioralEconomics #newPI

Big nerd for tiny animals; accurate.

ᎦᏙ ᎤᏍᏗ ᏂᎦᎵᏍᏗᏍᎪ ᎠᎭᏂ?

I feel like it might be a bad sign that I'm now thinking of my to-do list less like an agenda and more like a trolley problem