Publication alert! 1- The Nicobar Bulbul has been shifted between different genera several times since it's initial description. We (Ashwin W 🕸️ Vishnupriya Kolipakam Prof K. Sivakumar and team) address this uncertainty in its placement thanks to support from Wildlife Institute of India

Me doing PCRs

We downsized for NSAB 2024 Dehradun this year, #6 reps only 😉 Thank you for the photo Manjari Jain ! 😄

NISER Bhubaneswar ATREE CSIR-CCMB 5th talk in open session on biogeography is by Archita Sharma from IISER Tirupati about finding the temporal origins of endemic birds of Peninsular India. (5/n) #iwec24

It was great presenting my talk at the Open session on Biogeography at @iwec24 and getting the opportunity to listen to a variety of talks and posters on so many different themes in Indian ecology. Also got to catch up with field friends from 5 years back.

One of the major issues that needs fixing is to make purchase & admin tasks easy. It is currently designed to be like an obstacle race, where students take the major burden of constantly running around for 3 different signs across different departments for days if not weeks.

Quick shoutout to Isha Bopardikar and her very cool work on marine mammal acoustics at IISER Tirupati in collaboration with Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics featured by @ShreyaDasgupta in their new podcast. open.spotify.com/episode/5ed9vd…

I had a great time last week at the BNHS museum (Natural History Collection) looking at bird specimens from India, many of which were collected more than a century back. 🐦

Fieldwork photos from DNP Rajasthan

Interested in #bioacoustics and variation in #birdsong across biogeographic barriers? Come work with us at IISER Tirupati! Two positions open, link to apply  forms.gle/Z1pLFnvsJN2hQP… Deadline 21 February 5pm. Webpage- skyisland.in cc Archita Naman Goyal V. V. Robin

Had a great time taking a hands-on training workshop on bird call recordings for Forest Department Officers and participants at the Kawal Bird Festival 2025 with Arpitha Bhat organised by WWF-India and Kawal Tiger Reserve cc Raja Bandi

Had a great time at nsab2025, Great talks and posters!! And got to try good Punjabi food after so long. Grateful to Manjari Jain and all the student volunteers for organising it and bringing together so many avian enthusiasts and researchers all across India. 🐦

Last-leg of data 🤞 - (1) said goodbye to our trusty steed who saw us though 2.5 years of fieldwork; (2) if anyone caught us on their camera trap walking through the Sholas - hi to those sifting through the photos; (3) ending with an (almost😄-)all-girl-field team! 💪💪

Spatial patterns of diversity in forest birds of peninsular India biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_ecology

Host niche breadth differentially modulates the effects of anthropogenic disturbance across generalist and specialist parasites biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_ecology

Super congratulations to Madhavi for winning the Best Poster Award 😎 at the EMBL BioMalParXXI in Heidelberg! Her poster was on how extracellular vesicles help the malarial parasite increase its infectivity by altering the signalling pathway in the human host. IISER Tirupati

AOS 2025 Conference had 5K run/march, had so much fun :) #aos2025 Got to use strava in the US, eBird next. Check out my activity on Strava: strava.app.link/KwaRG0JCNVb

The EMBO genome assembly workshop was super helpful, big thanks to all instructors and organizers. I could make it from India to Florence because of the EMBO travel grant, and I am grateful for the opportunity.