Investigating sociality, anti-predator behavior & genetics of Yellow-Bellied Marmots || Blumstein Lab @UCLAEEB and @RMBLGothic
Colorado, USA
Joined May 2018
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Be sure to follow Fat Marmot Week -- a fun event to learn about marmots and hibernation and see who will be crowned the chunkiest! sites.google.com/view/fatmar…
A huge THANK YOU to the $OnlyMarms community for your incredible support of our long-term marmot research. This is such a creative way to use memecoins for good! THANK YOU!
Marmots on ollogies. Dan had a GREAT conversation with Alie Ward. Enjoy! alieward.com/ologies/marmoto…
Xochitl was on SciFri talking about adversity in marmots! sciencefriday.com/segments/e…
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There is a system for measuring adverse childhood experiences in humans. But what about wild animals?
@xortizross, a PhD student at @UCLAEEB, joins us to discuss research on measuring adverse events animals experience.
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Dan just came back from giving a keynote the Zombie Apocalypse Medicine Meeting (zombiemed.org/) where guess what, a zombie marmot was the logo that occupied the full back of the t-shirt. Artist Neil Smith shared the marmot (sans the logo). Happy Halloween!
It's Halloween so it's time to understand our fears and what a better way than to listen to our inner marmot...the marmots are featured on NPR's Short Wave podcasthttps://www.npr.org/2024/10/30/1211596886/halloween-horror-science-scream
GREAT PBS piece about the Rocky Mountain Biological Lab:
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Wild animals can experience trauma and adversity too − as ecologists, we came up with an index to track how it affects them theconversation.com/wild-ani… via @ConversationUS
Hardship early in life can affect health and longevity -- even for marmots sciencedaily.com/releases/20…
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My first dissertation chapter has been published!! 🎉
Read about cumulative adversity indices and how they lower lifespan. Cumulative adversity and survival in the wild - Ortiz‐Ross - 2024 - Ecology Letters - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
An episode of The Wild podcast on fear featuring Dan
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Most of Team Marmot 2024 at our first pot-luck this year. Training is well underway and we're doing well!
Madison's microbiome paper gets written up in The Scientist!
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