Simone Maddox
@mone_maddox
EEB PhD Student at the University of Minnesota | 🐦🧠 | Rice Grad (Wiess '19) |
Science. Soccer. Sondheim. | she/her/hers
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Come check out how we prepare specimens for research & Bell Museum archival collections.
We’ve been having so much fun with swans, backbirds, warblers, owls. Team Bird will back Saturday with more species to see up close and personal, inside and out 😂 #NaturalHistoryMuseums
Day 3 of Bell Museum Expeditions — Team Bird was busy! More to come from different curators and students as they prep specimens for the scientific collection through Saturday 8/19, come check it out under the big tent on the Big Woods Plaza 10a-3p bellmuseum.umn.edu/event/bell-exp…
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus 'The worst thing any country could do now is to use this news as a reason to let down its guard, to dismantle the systems it has built, or to send the message to its people that #COVID19 is nothing to worry about'-Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
A couple of gems from my U.S. National Science Foundation #PRFB comments:
Rev.2: 'Weaknesses: The work would be conducted at the same institution as their PhD.'
Rev. 3: 'Weaknesses: No justification is given for staying at the same institution.'
A thread about the multidimensionality of diversity... 1/n
Our study is officially published in PNASNews! We show parallel morphological adaptations to urbanization are mirrored w/ parallel genomic changes. w/coauthors: Shane Campbell-Staton, Ph.D. Jonathan B. Losos Liam Revell BCVerrelli Anthony J Geneva
#urbanevolution
pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…
Go #BehindTheScenes with Simone Maddox and celebrate #BlackInNHMS week! Simone is a PhD Student at UMN. Currently, she studies bird brains in rural environments & cities to better understand how our urban environments shape the wildlife around us.
youtube.com/watch?v=ynGCS7…
Just 2 weeks left to see the #SeeingBirds exhibit Bell Museum featuring birds in science & art that I helped to develop w/ Keith Barker @PeteMakovicky and Bell team in celebration of our 150th anniversary.
Here are my 5 favorite things - bellmuseum.umn.edu/seeing-birds/
Heard about the missing magpies? PhD student Simone Maddox chimes in with what she thinks might come next for the tropical birds mprnews.org/story/2022/09/…
Songbirds of the Americas are speciose and ecologically diverse
Tyler Imfeld & Keith Barker show that diversity descends from 46 separate colonization events
Diversification varies between clades, trait evolution doesn't
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/je… diverse.Here
Today the team prepped a northern flicker, American robins, cedar waxwings and 2 river otters. Lots more in store through the rest of the week including more birds, herps and plants! Expeditions continues at the Bell Museum through Saturday July 16!
Our second summer of Expeditions to the Bell Museum started today!
If you were at #AOS_BC_22 you may have heard my talk about our success with the program, but you weren't able to make it, I made a summary slide. :)
Meet Simone Maddox, a PhD student at the UMN studying bird brains! Simone's work studies bird brains in rural environments and cities in order to better understand how our urban environments shape the wildlife around us.
youtube.com/watch?v=ynGCS7…
#BlackBirderWeek
It was fun to have you visit our Bell Museum backyard Stotra Chakrabarti, PhD and #heymac to spend time with lab - Anya Auerbach Simone Maddox Yi Fang Tan / Clare Zheng Oong Brie Ilarde - spring is sort of happening and birds are slowly coming #MNlife #CrossCampusCollaboration #ornithology