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🇨🇦 Chris Sturdy 🇨🇦

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🇨🇦 Chris Sturdy 🇨🇦 @cbsturdy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Congratulations to @prateek754 from the @SNLab2002 in the @Psych_UAlberta who won an Andrew Stewart Memorial Graduate Prize!
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🇨🇦 Chris Sturdy 🇨🇦 @cbsturdy.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Our WEISEST students, Shahd and Samantha, supervised by the excellent Moriah Deimeke and Prateek Sahu, presented their final poster today! Funding generously provided by NSERC, CRC, the Government of Alberta, Faculty of Arts and the Faculty of Science.
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🇨🇦 Chris Sturdy 🇨🇦 @cbsturdy.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
The amazing Prateek Sahu & Moriah Deimeke from @SNLab2002 @Psych_UAlberta along with two equally amazing @WISESTualberta students made this app to see sound! bcch.art Funded by @NSERC_CRSNG @TIPS_SPIIE @YourAlberta @ualbertaScience @UAlbertaArts @Psych_UAlberta
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🎶 Visualize Sound 🎶
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🇨🇦 Chris Sturdy 🇨🇦 @cbsturdy.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Congratulations, @prateek754 and the rest of the @SNLab2002 from @Psych_UAlberta on a fab new paper in @iScience_CP ! Sahu, P.K., et al. Vocal consistency is associated with auditory perceptual ability in a songbird. Manuscript to appear in iScience.
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🇨🇦 Chris Sturdy 🇨🇦 @cbsturdy.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Congratulations to @prateek754 and the rest of the @SNLab2002 members in @Psych_UAlberta on a great new publication in @BiologyOpen ! Funded by @NSERC_CRSNG @TIPS_SPIIE @YourAlberta @ualbertaScience @UAlbertaArts !!!
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🇨🇦 Chris Sturdy 🇨🇦 @cbsturdy.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Congratulations to Sarah Smeltz who defended their MSc today! Funded by Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Tri-agency Institutional Programs Secretariat (TIPS) Government of Alberta University of Alberta Faculty of Science and Faculty of Arts !
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🇨🇦 Chris Sturdy 🇨🇦 @cbsturdy.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Patrick in action at the 2026 @OfficialCSBBCS conference at York University! Funding provided by @NSERC_CRSNG @TIPS_SPIIE @YourAlberta @ualbertaScience
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🇨🇦 Chris Sturdy 🇨🇦 @cbsturdy.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Ph.D. student Prateek Sahu interviewed by @raspberrypi.com about songbird preference testing setup the SNL developed “Raspberry Pi reveals songbirds’ favourite sounds” raspberrypi.com/news/raspberry… @psychualberta.bsky.social
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🇨🇦 Chris Sturdy 🇨🇦 @cbsturdy.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Congratulations to Katie Stenstrom for winning the Comparative Cognition Society #CO3_2026 Best Poster Award (photos by Sarah Smeltz).
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🇨🇦 Chris Sturdy 🇨🇦 @cbsturdy.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Prateek Sahu and Moriah Deimeke presenting at Comparative Cognition Society #CO3
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🇨🇦 Chris Sturdy 🇨🇦 @cbsturdy.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Sarah Smeltz and Katie Stenstom from the @SNLab2002 present their posters at the first poster session of #CO3_2026 Comparative Cognition Society.
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🇨🇦 Chris Sturdy 🇨🇦 @cbsturdy.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
MSc student Sarah Smeltz from the Songbird Neuroethology Laboratory and the Department of Psychology at the University of Alberta won the Comparative Cognition Society best publication by a graduate student award at the Conference on Comparative Cognition (photo: Mo Deimeke).
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🇨🇦 Chris Sturdy 🇨🇦 @cbsturdy.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Listen to Songbird Neuroethology Lab and Department of Psychology PhD student, Prateek Sahu, tell CBC/Radio-Canada about what makes birdsong sexy! lnkd.in/gamqZyKK
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🇨🇦 Chris Sturdy 🇨🇦 @cbsturdy.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
The @SNLab2002 @Psych_UAlberta presented posters, @prateek754 gave a talk, and Maki won best undergraduate poster!
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🇨🇦 Chris Sturdy 🇨🇦 @cbsturdy.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Moriah Deimeke graduated with their M.Sc. in Psychology from @psychualberta.bsky.social yesterday!
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PLOS One @plosone.org · 10/03/2026
A new Registered Report Protocol by Prateek Sahu, @cbsturdy.bsky.social and colleagues pre-registers tests of whether female zebra finches prefer “long path length” songs, in order to re-examine earlier claims that this holistic song feature signals male quality.
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Re-examining hidden fitness: Female preferences for long-path songs in zebra finches
Female songbirds can evaluate male quality from secondary sexual characteristics such as songs. Studies have shown mixed findings on which acoustic features contribute to song attractiveness. In a…
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🇨🇦 Chris Sturdy 🇨🇦 @cbsturdy.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Congratulations to @prateek754 and the rest of the members from @SNLab2002 in @psychualberta.bsky.social who just had a new registered report accepted to appear in PLOS ONE! Funded by #NSERC_CRSNG #TIPS_SPIIE @ @ualbertascience.bsky.social @youralberta.bsky.social
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🇨🇦 Chris Sturdy 🇨🇦 @cbsturdy.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Congratulations to Sarah Smeltz from the Songbird Neuroethology Laboratory who won best student paper from the Comparative Cognition Society!
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Gail BK @weedlawyer.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Froze my ass off at the Iowa City anti-ICE rally, but it was worth it
Middle aged white lady carrying a blue poster board sign with the words SEE YOU AT NUREMBERG FUCKERS
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🇨🇦 Chris Sturdy 🇨🇦 @cbsturdy.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
The Songbird Neuroethology Lab turns 24 today! It has been great fun to get to work with such an amazing group of people over the years.
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🇨🇦 Chris Sturdy 🇨🇦 @cbsturdy.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Congratulations to Katie Stenstrom and the rest of the lab on an excellent new publication!
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🇨🇦 Chris Sturdy 🇨🇦 @cbsturdy.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Congratulations to @kt_stenstrom and the rest of the #SNLab2002 in @psychualberta.bsky.social on an excellent new publication! Funded gratefully by #NSERC_CRSNG #TIPS_SPIIE and @ualbertascience.bsky.social !
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🇨🇦 Chris Sturdy 🇨🇦 @cbsturdy.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Congratulations to #jennacongdon and the rest of the #SongbirdNeuroethologyLab members in @psychualberta.bsky.social on an excellent new publication! Funded generously provided by #NSERC_CRSNG !
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PsychUAlberta @psychualberta.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Applications for MA, MSc and PhD programs in Psychology @ualberta.bsky.social are now open! For application information and FAQ, please visit our website below. Deadline December 1st. Join us! www.ualberta.ca/en/psycholog...
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Jared Wesley @jaredwesley.ca · 30/04/2025
A government under seven (7) different investigations for corruption just introduced a bill that would bring more corporate money into politics. This is not normal. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Alberta overhauls election laws to allow corporate donations, change referendum thresholds | CBC News
The Alberta government wants to bring back corporate and union political donations, eliminate vouching for a voter’s identity at election polling stations, and lower the threshold for recalls and refe...
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animal prattle @animal-prattle.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
First author should be Smeltz! (Sarah M.L.) -- thank you @cbsturdy.bsky.social for correcting that
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animal prattle @animal-prattle.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Caller ID: Meltz et al. (@cbsturdy.bsky.social) show black-capped chickadees learn to discriminate chickadee calls by individual in go/no-go task but don't generalize to feebee calls Suggests they may use more context info in wild onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #prattle 💬 #bioacoustics
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Individual Discrimination Within, but Not Between, Two Vocalization Types of the Black‐Capped Chickadee
Black-capped chickadees' chick-a-dee calls and fee-bee songs are individually distinct. We used an operant conditioning Go/No-go paradigm to train chickadees to discriminate among four individuals' c...
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Dr. Raymond Vagell 🏳️‍🌈🐒 @prancingpapio.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
www.thetimes.com/uk/history/a...
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Oxford dons ‘drank wine from skull of a slave woman’
A silver chalice made with a sawn-off human skull was used regularly at formal dinners at Worcester College until 2015, according to a museum curator
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Canadian Cynic @canadiancynic.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
As Canada buckles down to protect its sovereignty, try to remember that Pierre Poilievre hand-delivered coffee and donuts to violent insurrectionists who wanted to overthrow the federal government and called for the murder of the Prime Minister.
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animal prattle @animal-prattle.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Evolving language: - Reports that HAQERS -- human-ancestor quickly evolved regions, acquired after split from chimpanzees -- influence language not general cognition - Via altered behind of Forkhead transcription factors (eg FOXP2) - Finds HAQERS-like seqs in other vocal learners #prattle 💬
Figure 1, overview of study. Infographic showing components of study.
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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
NIH is likely cutting up to 25% of its workforce this week. NIH staff have substantial expertise, typically PhDs. And they really *believe* in the work. NIH's will not be able to meet its mission w/these cuts. The scientific threat is not just direct funding cuts www.statnews.com/2025/03/14/n...
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At NIH, ‘everyone is on edge’ as they brace for deep cuts and more centralized control
As the NIH braces for cuts of up to 5,000 of its 20,000 positions, “people are scrambling and freaking out,” a researcher said.
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Jen the Feisty Librarian @feistywaters.com · 18/03/2025
There is a lot going on in this photo. It’s art.
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Sarah Benson-Amram @sarahba.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
I am excited to announce that @neeltjeboogert.bsky.social and I are co-editing a special collection in the journal Animal Cognition on "Cognition in the Wild". Submissions are due by June 15. We are excited to see the amazing work you have been doing! link.springer.com/collections/...
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Animal Cognition in the Wild
Recent technological advances have improved our ability to study animal cognition in the wild, and the field has made significant progress in recent years. ...
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Dr. Young-Leslie {use alt-text, humans} ElbowsUp! 🇨🇦🚲 @ethnographer.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
In memorium 💔🥀 🇨🇦 Geneviève Bergeron Hélène Colgan Nathalie Croteau Barbara Daigneault Anne-Marie Edward Maud Haviernick Maryse Laganière Maryse Leclair Anne-Marie Lemay Sonia Pelletier Michèle Richard Annie St-Arneault Annie Turcotte Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz #Dec6 #Canada youtu.be/PaLb52ILCgw?...
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The Tragically Hip - Montréal (Live From Molson Center, Montréal/2000)
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Andrea DeKeseredy @andiewinnipeg.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
🧵Tonight UofA announced at the GSA council that international tuition in 26/27 will be increasing an astonishing 10% for all undergraduate programs and course-based graduate programs. The increase for thesis-based program is still undecided. All domestic students will experience a 2% increase.
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Heleen Slagter @haslagter.bsky.social · 21/09/2024
Dear all, I am looking for a postdoc for an ERC-funded project on meditation and the predictive brain in my lab. More details can be found here: heleenslagter.com/positions Feel free to reach out with any questions! Please help spread the word!
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Positions
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Tom Kash @superkash.bsky.social · 22/05/2024
I am hiring a research technician. Please spread the word. unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/281...
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Research Technician
The Research Technician will assist the Principal Investigator and members of the laboratory with experiments involving molecular biology, animal behavior, biochemistry, electrophysiology, optogenetic...
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Women in Cognitive Science Canada+ @wicscanada.bsky.social · 08/02/2024
Know someone who is a great mentor to 🇨🇦 research trainees? Nominate them for the Women in Cognitive Science Canada+ Mentorship Award: wicsc.ca/wp-content/u...
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Dr. Young-Leslie {use alt-text, humans} ElbowsUp! 🇨🇦🚲 @ethnographer.bsky.social · 12/12/2023
Please read this: You'll weap, but still, please read: *Learning While Female in Kabul* "My student Asma had been missing for four class sessions when I tried to reach her. Her response came back after a few days. “Please professor,” she wrote. 'Do not alone me'."
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Opinion | Learning While Female in Kabul
How educators around the world keep hope alive in a hopeless place.
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Peggy St.Jacques @pstjacques.bsky.social · 12/12/2023
Excited about this Assist Professor position in AI + Biological Cognition in Dept Psychology at Univ of Alberta! Candidates should play equally well in AI and Neuroscience fields & contribute to our knowledge of how AI + Neuroscience relate. Please share! www.careers.ualberta.ca/Competition/...
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Eric 🏳️‍🌈 @erichastie.bsky.social · 05/10/2023
Come work with an amazing group of faculty at UNC Bio! unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/266... Also, please share!
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Teaching Assistant Professor
The Department of Biology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill seeks applicants for a faculty position to be effective July 1, 2024. This position will be at the rank of Teaching Assista...
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Dan Stoebel @profstoebel.bsky.social · 12/09/2023
Harvey Mudd College is looking for a new tenure-track faculty member whose research and teaching interests sit at the interface of biology and climate. If that sounds like you, I very much hope you'll apply. Application review starts September 18th.
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Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Hixon Center for Climate and the Environment & Department of Biolo...
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Tom Kash @superkash.bsky.social · 28/08/2023
Unc people. Get inside. Active shooter reported on campus
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Tom Kash @superkash.bsky.social · 14/08/2023
FACULTY JOB OPENING - come work at UNC! feel free to reach out to me with any questions.
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Open Rank-Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies_ Pharmacology
The Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies (http://www.med.unc.edu/alcohol) and the Department of Pharmacology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (http://www.med.unc.edu/pharm) invite appli...
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