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Norman Lee @normanlee.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

How does an eavesdropping acoustic parasitoid fly recognize host cricket calling songs? Our new paper, led by @Laurenbitner.bay.social, out today shows that #Ormiaochracea do not rely on pulse rate alone but evaluate multiple song features together to recognize host crickets. doi.org/10.1242/jeb....

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Song recognition in Floridian Ormia ochracea reflects multidimensional temporal tuning

Summary: The acoustic parasitoid fly Ormia ochracea is behaviourally tuned to combinations of durations and interpulse intervals of cricket songs in the context of host recognition.

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Michael Reichert @reichertfroglab.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

We are hiring a #postdoc to work on our NSF funded project on metabolic rate as a driver of individual variation in treefrog acoustic communication. Please spread the word to potentially interested candidates (or apply if you are one of them): jobs.okstate.edu/jobs/postdoc...

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Norman Lee @normanlee.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Had a wonderful time at ISV/Biotremology 2026! My students @laurenbitner.bsky.social and Mary Cate Pugh gave awesome talks! I also shared our work in a symposium honoring Ron Hoy!

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Norman Lee @normanlee.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Our latest work on song recognition in Floridian #Ormiaochracea led by @laurenbitner.bsky.social !

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Norman Lee @normanlee.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

🎉 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

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Norman Lee @normanlee.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

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!

Lauren Bitner giving a “dynamite” talk on how Ormia ochracea hearing sensitivity varies with their reproductive status.

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Norman Lee @normanlee.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

🚨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

St. Olaf Tenure Track Search for a Neuroendocrinologist

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Animal Behavior Society @animbehsociety.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

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)

Jeyssi stands smiling in a black puffy jacket and light grey field pants framed by a rock wall to the left and a forest in the background.

In a forest at night, Jeyssi stands squeezing her eyes shut as a frog lands on the band of her headlamp.

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Animal Behavior Society @animbehsociety.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

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)

Marie Taylor stands smiling in a black dress with pink flowers.

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Animal Behavior Society @animbehsociety.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

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)

Leila stands smiling in front of a white wall, wearing a dark-blue patterned collared shirt.

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Animal Behavior Society @animbehsociety.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

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)

Wearing a head lamp in a dark forest, Cristian smiles at a thin, light brown snake in his hands.

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Animal Behavior Society @animbehsociety.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

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)

Madi Evans gestures peace signs in front of large models of brown bats and green foliage.

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Animal Behavior Society @animbehsociety.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

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)

Kaya Simmons touches the brim of her green-grey baseball cap in front of a landscape of rocks and trees.

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Animal Behavior Society @animbehsociety.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

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)

Yuchen Chen stands in a blue shirt, smiling on a beach at sunset.

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Animal Behavior Society @animbehsociety.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

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)

Juliana Fonseca-Tellez stands, smiling, in a blue dress on a balcony next to a large bouquet of pink-and-white flowers.

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Animal Behavior Society @animbehsociety.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

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)

Henry Rosato stands in a blue shirt in front of a white board, giving a presentation.

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Animal Behavior Society @animbehsociety.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

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)

Wearing a head lamp and coveralls in the dark, Tiana smiles at the camera, holding up a frog.

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Animal Behavior Society @animbehsociety.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

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)

Kennedy stands in a yellow shirt and black blazer, smiling in front of a blue-and-white research poster.

Kennedy smiles in front of an aquarium full of fish and rays.

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International Society for Neuroethology @neuroethology.org · 04/07/2025

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

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International Society for Neuroethology @neuroethology.org · 06/03/2025

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...

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Neural and behavioral evolution in an eavesdropper with a rapidly evolving host

The diversification of animal communication systems is driven by the interacting effects of signalers, signal receivers, and the environment. Yet, the…

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Norman Lee @normanlee.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

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...

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Michael Reichert @reichertfroglab.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

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.

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Jason Dinh @byjasonpdinh.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

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:

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‘A Quiet Place’ Is the Lived Reality for These Hawaiian Insects | Atmos

Parasites forced Hawaii’s crickets to evolve hushed mating songs. A new study shows the parasites might be evolving their hearing in turn.

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Sepiedeh Keshavarzi @sepikeshavarzi.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

📣 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...

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Michael Reichert @reichertfroglab.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

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...

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Oklahoma Network-Research and Mentoring for Post-Baccalaureates - Oklahoma State University

Oklahoma Network-Research and Mentoring for Post-Baccalaureates

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Galactic Polymath Education Studio (GP) @galacticpolymath.com · 12/02/2025

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...

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Foraging Frenzy: A hands-on natural selection memory game

YouTube video by Galactic Polymath

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 15/02/2025

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:

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The Erasing of American Science

How far can the Trump administration bend U.S. research before it breaks?

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Norman Lee @normanlee.bsky.social · 24/12/2023

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!

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