A quick announcement that Patricelli lab member Teresa Iglesias’ first dissertation paper is now out in Animal Behavior. I think her project is a nice model for how a lot of science still needs to come from basic behavior and natural history observation, and also how one can do cool local, low cost field experiments (although Teresa ended up including more high-tech neurobiological component to her research as well). Teresa set out to understand why western scrub jays call loudly and recruit other jays to the site of a dead conspecific. She set up feeding stations throughout Davis, which helped get her research out to the local public, and also involved numerous undergraduates in facilitating the experiments.  Anyway, a link to the paper. Congrats Teresa.

Teresa is currently working at Woods Hole on cuttlefish behavior, which gives me an excuse to post this link.