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#SICB2024 is over and we would like to say a big congrats to our 2024 Best Student Presentation Winners for DCB, David Cuban won the Mimi A. R. Koehl and Stephen A. Wainwright Award for their talk on feeding in sunbirds

Abrimos el numero 24 de la revista #OrnitologiaColombiana 👉asociacioncolombianadeornitologia.org/ojs/index.php/…

Check out this science #dissemination article on our honeybee nectar-feeding research! Especially its connections to the importance of deepening our understanding of the details of the mechanisms for our broader understanding of ecological success:

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Reaching deep: honeybees adapt their nectar extraction mechanisms to maintain feeding efficiency! Check out our data- and methods- rich paper on #mechanoethology and the importance of considering the actual behavior rather than accepting preconceptions!
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Hummingbirds are famous for hovering but they'd take any opportunity to avoid doing so, and this reflects in their evolution! A new highlight of our research, in a nutshell: 'Clinging hummingbirds have smaller beaks and bigger feet than do honest hoverers'
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Most hummingbird-pollinated flowers droop upside down, so the animals must nimbly hover to access them, frantically beating their wings up to 80 times a second.

Yet some sneaky hummingbirds can cheat the system—with the help of their toes. scim.ag/3gH

Special Friday blog:
rounding out #Pride2023 with

Guidelines for Making #Fieldwork Accessible and Safer for #LGBTQ + #Scientists with
Maryam K & Kelsey (she/they)

By SICB Mangum participant Juliette Rault-Wang

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Congratulations Jessie Williamson !!! It was a fantastic talk! #Evol2023

Hey #evolution2023 , I will be recruiting inaugural members of my upcoming lab at UW Biology and Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture starting in Fall 2024. Please reach out if you are in Albuquerque and would like to chat! You can also stop by my poster on Saturday night, #135.

Tongues are the treasures that you rarely see because they are concealed inside the chest (mouth... confusing words with multiple meanings!), and there is so much to discover about these hidden gems!! Research from folks at our lab is featured here:
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Since first evolving 350 million years ago, the tongue has taken myriad forms, unlocking new niches and boosting the diversity of life. #LongReads scim.ag/2NX

Awesome video featuring Nora Lee's work with us at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture instagram.com/p/CsKJtpgok8b/…

Cutting edge science doesn't have to involve the fanciest, most expensive technology.

In a new paper, Burke Ornithology Curator Alejandro Rico-Guevara (Alejandro Rico-Guevara) shows just how much can be illuminated using a flashlight, a camera, and a tube full of sugar water.

Check out Alyssa Sargent's (a PhD student at our Behavioral Ecophysics Lab) work on a STEM curriculum and a 'Hummingbird game'! facebook.com/burkemuseum/po…

New research on adaptations to frugivory in the pale spear-nosed bat, #Phyllostomus discolor, by Laura Quinche, Sharlene Santana & Alejandro Rico-Guevara:
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The paper is part of our upcoming Special Issue on ecological morphology and sensory biology of #bats

Cover of the current issue! royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rspb/2022/…

Our latest #hummingbird research is out in Royal Society Publishing ! With Alejandro Rico-Guevara Marcelo Araya-Salas Juan Parra and Gary Stiles. We studied how elevation and habitat structure gradients affect sexually dimorphic traits in the whole family, and we made the cover too!🧵