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Thank you guys for alerting me to #ShutDownAcademia, #ShutDownSTEM, and #Strike4BlackLives. Tomorrow: no research, no meetings, just learning as much as possible about racism from black authors, particularly institutional racism in academia and its funding agencies.

My latest paper is out in Animal Behaviour! Zebra finch parents naturally respond to their offspring's immature song, and juveniles incorporate both paternal song and maternal non-vocal cues into their learning and song development.

Happy Friday! You might hear about fancy mating dances done by birds in the tropics. Piping Plovers have one too! Goose stepping (tattooing) is a courtship dance done by the male right before copulation. The female rejects or accepts this dance! 💃 Video by Plover Lovers

Song learning in fruit flies? From Xiaodong Li et al: "Auditory experience prevents loss of the innate song preference as a selective cue in Drosophila": biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

@KatherineJohnson and @ChristopherClark find that a conspecific tutor must be present for male Costa's hummingbirds to learn songs properly. Check out the full story here: bit.ly/3anZZjg #AcousticCommunication #animalbehaviour #learning

This is important! "Oxytocin increases the salience of both positive and negative social contexts"

Robotic bird models reveal the visual component of duet displays helps to compensate for the effects of spatial separation on Australian magpie-lark duetting partners #birds #ornithology Out now in #AnimalBehaviour from Paweł Ręk & Robert D. Magrath doi.org/10.1016/j.anbe…

Wait he said what about birds now?

Interested in why babies are the way they are? Turns out it's an evolutionary plus. Check out the Cornell Chronicle article on a review by grad students Katerina Faust and Mary Elson, post-doc Samantha Carouso Peck, and prof Michael Goldstein : news.cornell.edu/stories/2021/0…

🤩 😃 😁 Birds of The World: The Cornell Lab 🦅 Reports added a “Sex Differences” section in the song descriptions. This is a game changer. Now when we go looking for female song reports we won’t have to guess if anything is known. It’ll be reported! Female Bird Song

Today in my Psychology of Language class, I had students generate memes for psycholinguistic phenomena that we've covered during this semester. #ActiveLearning The students came up with some excellent memes and voted for their favorites. Here are the top-3 1/6

Thank you to Katerina Faust, Samantha Carouso Peck, Mary Elson, and Michael Goldstein for talking to me about your insightful paper on how altriciality gives infants of all species the ability to exploit social learning.

In two papers out today in #PhilTransB, we explore the ways in which vocal development is shaped by evolution. With Samantha Carouso Peck, we test a evolutionary model of socially guided vocal learning in songbirds royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

Why do some species learn their vocalizations while others do not? In the second paper, with Samantha Carouso Peck and Tecumseh Fitch we take a broad comparative approach and propose specific ways in which VL is adaptive.royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

Vampire bats vaaaant to suck blood, preferably with friends! While scientists knew that these bats can form persistent social bonds in the roost, new research shows that those friendships often extend to nightly hunting. My latest Science News sciencenews.org/article/vampir…

I am stunned. What a terrible blow to the field of comparative cognition. I’m so sorry Nicola Clayton

Altriciality and the Evolution of Toe Orientation in Birds ow.ly/Pk93w #ornithology