Featured on the cover! #Ormiaochracea

🎉 Two new papers from the Lee Lab on #Ormiaochracea development now published in Annals of the Entomological Society of America! #UndergraduateResearch #LiberalArtsSTEM #SmallCollegeBigImpact @entsocamerica.bsky.social #Stolaf

Lee Lab Postbac Lauren Bitner @laurenbitner.bsky.social gave a “dynamite talk” (as recognized by Marlene Zuk)! In her latest work, she discovered that auditory sensitivity in the acoustic parasitoid fly #Ormiaochracea is modulated by their reproductive status. Gravid flies hear better!

🚨We're hiring!🚨 St. Olaf is launching a new Neuroscience Major and seeks a tenure-track neuroendocrinologist to help shape its future 🧠✨ Passionate about inclusive teaching, research, and mentoring at a SLAC? Join us! #NeuroJobs @animbehsociety.bsky.social @neuroethology.org ‪@sbn-bsky.bsky.social‬

Congratulations to Jeyssi, one of our 2025 Turner Awardees! Jeyssi is a third-year undergraduate at Gettysburg College studying how eavesdropping predators and parasites influence the evolution of mating signals in the Trillo lab. She is interested in understanding how... (1/2)

Congratulations to Marie Taylor, one of our 2025 Turner Awardees! Marie Taylor is a third-year undergraduate at Utah Valley University studying individual variation of bottlenose dolphin shipside feeding in the Cusick lab. She is working towards becoming a wildlife biologist. ... (1/2)

Congratulations to Leila, one of our 2025 Turner Awardees! Leila is a third-year undergraduate at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee studying sexual communication and speciation in treehoppers in Rafael Rodríguez's Behavior and Evolution lab. She is interested in using similarities between ... (1/2)

Congratulations to Cristian, one of the ABS 2025 Turner Awardees! Cristian is an early-year undergraduate at Gettysburg College studying bioacoustics and calling behavior in tropical tree frogs. (1/2)

Congratulations to Madi Evans, one of the ABS 2025 Turner Awardees! Madi Evans is a third-year undergraduate at Fort Lewis College studying social behavior in a variety of animals in Andrew Fulmer's Social Ethology lab. (1/2)

Congratulations to Kaya Simmons, one of the ABS 2025 Turner Awardees! Kaya Simmons is a fourth-year undergraduate at Florida State University studying investigative cooperative courtship behavior in the DuVal lab and neural communication and reproduction in the Lemmon lab. (1/3)

Congratulations to Yuchen Chen, one of the ABS 2025 Turner Awardees! Yuchen Chen is an early-year undergraduate at Duke University studying anti-predator responses, sexual selection, communication, and social networks. She is interested in different types of animal relationships and... (1/2)

Congratulations to Juliana Fonseca-Tellez, one of the ABS 2025 Turner Awardees! Juliana is a Master's student at Universidad del Rosario studying how behavior influences major evolutionary processes, such as speciation, in Adriana Maldonado-Chaparro's Behavioral Ecology and Conservation Lab. (1/3)

Congratulations to Henry Rosato, one of the ABS 2025 Turner Awardees! Henry Rosato is a third-year undergraduate at University of Minnesota studying the evolution of mate-search strategies using agent-based models as well as morphological diversification in crickets in the Xu lab. (1/3)

Congratulations to Tiana, one of the ABS 2025 Turner Awardees! Tiana is an third-year undergraduate at Gettysburg college interested in research integrating ecological context into evolutionary theory. (1/2)

Congratulations to Kennedy, one of the ABS 2025 Turner Awardees! Kennedy is a fourth-year undergraduate at Howard University studying virology, eco-toxicology, and evolutionary biology. She is interested in using behavior and genetics to study the evolution of eusociality. (1/2)

My grad student, Jessica Hearn wrote a mini-review on Neuroanatomy of Blood-Feeding Arthropods! It's mostly an area of open questions!

Special thanks to this year's organizer of the Neuroethology GRC, Julie Simpson & @genmig.bsky.social. We had a fantastic week of great science, met colleagues or started collaborations. We are looking forward to the next GRC in 2 years. 2027 Co-Vice chairs: Jessica Fox & @scottjuntti.bsky.social

Flies from the genus Ormia parasite crickets which they localize by eavesdropping. Cricket songs have therefore rapidly diversed, in Hawaii . A new study @currentbiology.bsky.social gives insights into the rapid evolution in sensory tuning of an eavesdropper. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Our latest work from an awesome collab between the Lee Lab @St.Olaf and @robinmting.bsky.social’s group @DU - now published in @currentbiology.bsky.social ! www.cell.com/current-biol...

This is a great write up on a really cool study and I was happy to be able to chime in with some thoughts. It's really a shame that the great science in the article is overshadowed by the attacks on federal science funding in the US. We risk losing so many people and so much knowledge.

NEW: I wrote about a new study on the rapid evolution of purring crickets and parasitic flies—and what scientists dealing with federal funding cuts can learn from these resilient lil guys 🧪 read it in @atmosmagazine.bsky.social:

📣 Opportunity Alert! We have two PhD positions in our lab at Cambridge University starting in Autumn 2025. Exceptional candidates may join earlier as RAs and receive PhD funding if scholarship applications are unsuccessful (RA advert coming soon!). Details here: www.keshavarzilab.com/blog/phd-pos...

Please spread the word on our paid research program for recent biology graduates at #okstate. The ON-RaMP program provides a year-long biology research experience with tons of resources. More info here: cas.okstate.edu/onramp/ Apply here (by Feb 28!): etap.nsf.gov/award/475/op...

Chicka-dee-dee! 🪶 For #DarwinDay, here's a free natural selection card game based on NSF-funded research into climate change impacts on chickadee hybridization! Features @drscottataylor.bsky.social, @amberricelab.bsky.social & Tim Roth. #EduSky #SciComm #Birds 🧪 www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IqK...

For decades, the U.S. has funded science, then left scientists to direct their own work. Science has flourished, and the country has benefited. Now the government is testing just how much it can renegotiate that relationship, @katherinejwu.com writes:

As we close out 2023, reflecting on a wonderful semester and year with the Lee Lab group @ St Olaf. Thank you to all of my students and mentees! Happy holidays!