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🇨🇦 Chris Sturdy 🇨🇦

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🇨🇦 Chris Sturdy 🇨🇦 @cbsturdy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Prateek joins lab alums Drs. Lauren Guillette, Allison Hahn, and Marisa Hoeschele as recipients of this prize!
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🇨🇦 Chris Sturdy 🇨🇦 @cbsturdy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Funding for Prateek and his research generously provided by the Government of Alberta, NSERC, Tri-Agency Secretariat, @UAlbertaArts and Faculty of Science.
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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
Funded by @nserc @TIPS_SPIIE @Psych_UAlberta @ualbertaScience @UAlbertaArts @youralberta.bsky.social
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🇨🇦 Chris Sturdy 🇨🇦 @cbsturdy.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Sahu, P.K., Garcia, A.D., Deimeke, M.J., Smeltz, S.M.L., Stenstrom, K.H., Curiston, P., Okocha, O., & Sturdy, C.B. (30 July 2026). 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 · 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
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Differential response variability of black-capped chickadees to wingbeat sounds and vocalizations
Summary: Black-capped chickadees, a North American songbird, appear to show stronger response with reduced variance, when acoustic cues (wingbeat or vocalizations sound) are presented sequentially as ...
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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
Thanks to committee members Drs. Digweed, Bayne, St. Clair, and defense chair Dr. Gagne.
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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
Funded by @NSERC_CRSNG @TIPS_SPIIE @YourAlberta @ualbertaScience @Psych_UAlberta @InnovationCA
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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
Funded by Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Tri-agency Institutional Programs Secretariat (TIPS) University of Alberta Faculty of Science and Department of Psychology!
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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
funded by Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) _CRSNG Tri-agency Institutional Programs Secretariat (TIPS) Government of Alberta, University of Alberta Faculty of Science, Departmentof Psychology (photo credit Prateek Sahu’s photos: @laurenguillette )
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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
Funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) _CRSNG Tri-agency Institutional Programs Secretariat (TIPS) Government of Alberta University of Alberta Faculty of Science and Department of Psychology (photos by Prateek Sahu)
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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
Funding provided by Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Tri-agency Institutional Programs Secretariat (TIPS) Government of Alberta Faculty of Science, University of Alberta and Department of Psychology University of Alberta.
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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
Funded by the Government of Alberta Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Tri-agency Institutional Programs Secretariat (TIPS) University of Alberta Faculty of Science and the Department of Psychology at the University of Alberta.
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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
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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 joins Katie Stenstrom who graduated with the M.Sc. in fall 2025.
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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
Sahu, P.K., Deimeke, M.J., Garcia, A.D., Stenstrom, K.H., Smeltz, S.M.L., Wang, Y., Ratch, J., Sturdy., C.B. (accepted 20 February 2026). Re-examining hidden fitness: Female preferences for long-path songs in zebra finches. Registered report to appear in PLOS ONE.
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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
Behavioural processes, 225, 105151. lnkd.in/ghWs-7VP Funded by NSERC, CRC, University of Alberta Faculty of Science, and the Department of Psychology.
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🇨🇦 Chris Sturdy 🇨🇦 @cbsturdy.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Smeltz, S. M. L., Deimeke, M. J., Sahu, P. K., Stenstrom, K. H., Montenegro C., Rennie, V., Ebrahim, I., Starenchak-Baukhagen, I., Jones, J. A., & Sturdy, C. B. (2025). Individual vocal identity may be obscured following colony assembly in captive black-capped chickadees.
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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
@InnovationCA University of Alberta @KillamTrusts @YourAlberta @ualbertaScience @Psych_UAlberta #albertaingenuity #kananaskisfieldstations
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🇨🇦 Chris Sturdy 🇨🇦 @cbsturdy.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
This would not have been possible without logistics and funding generously provided by Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Tri-agency Institutional Programs Secretariat (TIPS)
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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
Funding from NSERC, Canada Research Chairs, and the University of Alberta Faculty of Science gratefully acknowledged.
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🇨🇦 Chris Sturdy 🇨🇦 @cbsturdy.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Stenstrom, K.H., Deimeke, M.J., Sahu, P.K., Smeltz, S.M.L., Sturdy, C.B. (accepted 22 December 2025). What is rescue anyway: A comprehensive review of rescue and rescue adjacent behaviour across taxa. Manuscript to appear in Animal Behavior & Cognition.
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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
Stenstrom, K.H., Deimeke, M.J., Sahu, P.K., Smeltz, S.M.L., Sturdy, C.B.  (accepted 10 December 2025). Risk versus reward: A systematic review on the threat mobbers face. Manuscript to appear in Animal Behavior & Cognition.
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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
Congdon, J.V., Skurdal, A.M.M., Campbell, K.A., Hahn, A.H., & Sturdy, C.B. (accepted 26 Nov 2025). Black-capped chickadee (P. atricapillus) behavioural responses to avian and mammalian predator mounts of varying threat levels. Manuscript to appear in Learning & Behavior.
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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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🇨🇦 Chris Sturdy 🇨🇦 @cbsturdy.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
By the Best Western?
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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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