Many firsts for the lab at the @Behaviour2025 conference in Kolkata last week! 🎉 Two of our new PhD students (Shivam Shinde and Dhwani Dave) attended their very first Behaviour conference, and had an absolutely great time engaging with the community. #Behaviour2025 1/5

Animals don’t just live in their environments—they transform them. And in doing so, they may also shape their own evolutionary trajectories. Our new paper in Trends in Ecology & Evolution introduces a framework for zoogeochemical niche construction. A thread 👇

When botanist Richard Deakin examined Rome’s Colosseum in the 1850s, he found 420 species of plant growing in the ruins: cypresses and ilex, pea plants and more than 50 types of grasses. But some flowers growing there mystified him. They were so rare they were found nowhere else in Europe.

Since we've moved platforms, I thought I'd make a new explainer thread for our (Aamir Sadiq, @vishuguttal.bsky.social, Rohini Balakrishnan, and I) recent paper on tree crickets. Meet Oecanthus henryi. Like in many cricket species, O. henryi males call to attract mates. #science #evobio 🌍 🧬

To avoid predation by an invasive parasitoid fly, crickets on Hawaii are remixing their love songs for females but these escape plans might not be foolproof, at least not yet. My latest for @thehindu.com is on an evolutionary arms race in real time. www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/sci...

🚨 PhD in Ecology 🚨 We’re looking for up to 2 PhD students to join our lab! If you’re curious about behavioural ecology & species interactions, this is for you! 🌐 More info: torsekar.in 📅 Deadline for Univ PhD entrance exam: 12 May '25 🔗 Apply: tinyurl.com/23ubx89z #PhDOpportunity #Ecology

Thrilled to announce our symposium on the 'mechanisms of collective behaviours: theory, empiricism, and applications' as a part of the Behaviour 2025 conference scheduled August 25-30 in Kolkata, India. Send in your abstracts and come join the discussion!

Excited to announce our symposium on the 'maintenance of trait variation under sexual selection' as a part of the Behaviour 2025 conference scheduled August 25-30 in Kolkata, India. Send in your abstracts! 1/2

Exciting News! 🎉 Behaviour 2025 symposia are finalized! 🌍🐾 Join thought-provoking discussions on behaviour variation, evolution, neuroethology, comparative research & AI. Visit our website for details & plan your trip to Kolkata for an unforgettable experience! ✨

Registration is now open for the IISER Kolkata outreach event. 40 seats only! Thanks @abhadra7.bsky.social and others for organizing, this looks great!

Big day today! I've written a book on overconfidence and it's out in India! Equal parts nervous and excited 😊 Out in bookstores and online. Have a read and tell me what you think!

"One Nation One Subscription will provide country-wide access (in India) to research articles all Higher Education Institutions managed by the central and state govts. It will benefit 1.8 crore students, faculty, researchers and scientists" I wonder if this will work www.livemint.com/education/ne...

I am at UCLA this week, giving an invited talk on our lab's work on collective animal motion at the Workshop: Modeling Multi-Scale Collective Intelligences! www.ipam.ucla.edu/programs/wor...

That's me! Thanks Kate! What a great conference that was. If anyone's interested here are the papers I spoke about at #ISBE2024 - esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... and royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

And I am gladly joining in

That feeling when a paper cites your work in the appropriate context