Very excited that MEEC will be hosted at University of Louisville this year, organized by University of Louisville Department of Biology grad students! 🎉

Check out MEECs logo made by UofL Biology’s very own phd student Morghan McCool! We’ve chosen crossing divides as this years theme, promoting inclusion & bridging interdisciplinary divides while giving a nod to Louisville’s many iconic bridges & rep as “the gateway to the south”

Featured Ready-To-Teach from Data Nuggets - Do female crickets respond to a newly evolved purring song? about.dataclassroom.com/ready-to-teach… #DataScience #TeachingStats #DataLiteracy

THE MOMENT WE HAVE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR…. REGISTRATION & ABSTRACT SUBMISSIONS ARE LIVE!! Check out our website (in our bio) for the links. We look forward to hanging out & sharing some cool science together 🥳

As it’s our first year back in person MEEC is offering grants for both undergraduate & graduate students! Link to the form below. Hope to see you all in Louisville March 31-April 2nd! 🌼🌿docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Grants applications are due in just 5 days!!!

Hey everyone! We have decided to extend the deadline for abstracts one week now DUE MARCH 10th! Tell your friends, spread the word, the more the merrier at MEEC 2023 🥳

PS DID WE MENTION THAT THERE ARE FREE BREWERY TOURS FOR MEEC FOLKS!!! Tours are first come first serve, looking forward to seeing you all there! 🥳

Looking forward to the MEEC kickoff!

One of our favorites at the Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival!

So proud of Rowan, Naomi, and Nick who all did an incredible job presenting on the research they have been doing in the Alycia Lackey lab at the Undergraduate Research Showcase. @sophiaanner.bsky.social and I have been so lucky to get to work with them over the past year!!

So lovely to celebrate candidacy by spending the weekend climbing with Claire and Connor Morozumi!

Highly highly recommend! I participated 2 yrs ago and the long term peer mentoring that followed was a crucial support as I started my PhD. Feel free to dm if you have any questions!

Evidence for sexual isolation in #Rhagoletis #flies, a system well-known for rapid #ecologicaldivergence. Very recently diverged apple and hawthorn flies mate more within population than between Alycia Lackey Alyssa Murray @mirzanadiaali & TPowell ow.ly/wIpI50OnHAf

Hot off the presses! 📣 New paper on response to climate change in Rhagoletis flies and their wasp parasitoids doi.org/10.1111/ele.14… Three main takeaways 🧵

VERY proud of Rowan Ward for their first presentation at a national meeting!! #Evol2023 And ever impressed by the supportive mentoring from @sophiaanner.bsky.social It’s the people that make the science fun and exciting. . . . This is the photo you get when you say “Say Rhagoletis!!”

Had a great time in Albuquerque presenting my ongoing research at #Evol2023 Cheers to great science and exploring new places!

We've just released new data! Want to help us out by counting cricket sperm in microscope images 🔬? Sure you do! Head on over to The Cricket Wing 🦗 at The Zooniverse to get started: zooniverse.org/projects/maryw…

Really excited to have this paper out exploring some unexpected impacts of traffic noise on cricket fitness!