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Arezo Shamsgovara

@arezosha.bsky.social
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MSc & Research Assistant at Stockholm University | Animal behaviour, Sexual selection, Cognition and Genetics🐟🦋🐝

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Arezo Shamsgovara @arezosha.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Thanks for another great conference @isbe2026.bsky.social! It was a pleasure presenting my work and connecting with so many inspiring researchers. I enjoyed the fantastic talks, catching up with friends, and making new ones. Looking forward to the next one! 🐟
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Ioan Smart @ioansmart.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Two identical squares in the Adelson checker block illusion look different, even though they’re the same. @slowfourier.bsky.social, Ken Scott-Brown and myself showed 123 people edited variants to test how context shapes what we see. Data + stimuli openly available. doi.org/10.1177/2041...
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Arezo Shamsgovara @arezosha.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Do males strategically associate with mating partners, and how does social context influence their choices? Excited to share my first publication!🎉 It’s been an amazing journey and thanks to @lennartwinkler.bsky.social, John Fitzpatrick & all co-authors for your hard work! doi.org/10.1002/ece3...
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Male Strategic Association With Mating Partners Under Varying Social Contexts in a Livebearing Fish
We found that in halfbeaks, a shoaling fish species, males preferentially associated with an opposite sex pair (i.e., a female and a male) over rival males, but showed no preference when choosing bet....
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Arezo Shamsgovara @arezosha.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Big thanks to @asab-spring-2025.bsky.social for another incredible conference! Fascinating talks, insightful posters, and great discussions with attendees. Looking forward to the next one! #ASABSpring2025 @lirsamuni.bsky.social Daisy Johnston-Barrett @nikosirmpilatze.com
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bioRxiv Animal Behavior and Cognition @biorxiv-behav.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Habitat complexity alters the strength of sexual selection on brain size in a livebearing fish www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Arezo Shamsgovara @arezosha.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
I had an incredible time at the Swedish Oikos Meeting 2025! The inspiring presentations and posters left me full of ideas and excitement. Huge thanks to the organizers for putting together such a well-organized and memorable event! @nordicoikos.bsky.social
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ASAB @asab.org · 08/01/2025
Did you miss #ASABWinter2024 ? Or do you want to re-watch a talk or catch one you missed? Well, its your lucky day. Videos of the conference are now up on youtube for your perusal! Day 1: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwF8... Day 2: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dz8S...
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ASAB Winter Meeting Edinburgh 2024 (Day 1)
YouTube video by Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour
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Chiara Benvenuto @cbenvenuto.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Now that @arezosha.bsky.social l is on BlueSky, I can let her know how much I liked her talk #ASABwinter2024 on male mate choice copy 🐟!
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Arezo Shamsgovara @arezosha.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
It was a pleasure being a part of the ASAB Meeting 2024. The opportunity to present my project to such an amazing audience was an invaluable learning experience from an undergraduate perspective. A heartfelt thank you to the organizers for making this event possible! 🐟❄️ #ASABWinter2024 @asab.org
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ASAB @asab.org · 12/12/2024
First #ASABWinter2024 talk session ft. @elisabettaversace.bsky.social, @alperyelimlies.bsky.social, Arezo Shamsgovar & David Shuker We learned about the combinatorial advantage of biases, song in understudied females, mate choice copying in males & putting ecology back into sexual selection 🐥🐤🐟🐜
1. Elisabetta in front of a slide with a chick on it reading “Early biases:
The adaptive role of plastic predispositions
Elisabetta Versace & collaborators”

2. Alper in front of a slide with a yellow warbler reading “Female song and territorial defense across seasons in the Galápagos Yellow Warbler
Alper Yelimlies, Katherine Albán Morales, Çaglar Akgay & Sonia Kleindorfer”

3. Arezo in front of a slide with a fish reading “Rethinking Sex-Biased Assumptions in Mate Choice Research: Are Males More Willing to Mate Choice Copy Than We Currently Expect?
Arezo Shamsgovara” 

4. David in front of a slide with insects reading “Towards an inclusive paradigm for the identification of the causes and the prediction of the consequences of sexual selection
David Shuker, Thomas Green, and Eleanor Gourevitch  Insect behavioural ecology lab”
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