Article: Sea squirts and the origin of the vertebrate brain
My second article for Princeton Insights! This time I delve into what studying the nervous system of sea squirts can tell us about how complex brains originated.
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My first podcast!
I hosted a podcast for the first time! This was a follow-up to an article I wrote about hummingbird vision. I spoke with Cassie Stoddard (my PhD advisor) about the experiments she did to determine if hummingbirds can see colours that are not in the rainbow--nonspectral colours! Listen to find out more.
Among my Princeton EEB privileges: a small but excellent ornithological collection that we get access to. Along with labmates I'm putting these together to bring you #flappyhour a semi-regular bird thread that starts with a randomly chosen specimen. Today, the SHOEBILL STORK! pic.twitter.com/NkC53Ub5n1
— Jarome Ali 🇹🇹 (@notazookeeper) July 24, 2021
Some Twitter fun!
Together with labmates, I've started sharing some fun specimens from the Princeton ornithological collection on Twitter with the hashtag #flappyhour.
Article: Prince, perception and purple
My first article for Princeton Insights! I explore how behavioural experiments are teaching us what colours hummingbirds can and can't see.
Image by Becky Matsubara on Flickr.
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