🎉 New paper out!! 🎉

The typically short-winged meadow grasshopper develops a long-winged dispersive morph at high rearing densities.

Read more here: doi.org/10.1186/s128...

Year two of gardening: the slugs have decided to share. We might get actual food this time!

🎉New paper out @jevbio.bsky.social 🎉

We show that unpredictability in escape behavior of a grasshopper species is partly heritable and may be linked to a boldness behavioral syndrome 🦗💨

📖 Read more: doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...

#BehavioralEcology #Heritability #Grasshoppers

Finally, Dr. Winter 🎉

🎉 New paper out now! 🎉

We found that the unpredictability level in escape behavior of grasshoppers is relatively constant throughout an individual's life, but that differences among individuals increase during ontogeny!

More here: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

First version of my first #R package is out and working! 🥳

gabewinter.github.io/VarDecomp/

It has functions to:
- produce and evaluate #brms models
- do variance decomposition
- summarize and plot results

Let me know if you have some data to test it out and help improve it!

Next week I will be talking in our "Reproducible pipelines" book club about why testing the code is essential, what unit tests are, and how you can incorporate them into your developing practices.

To join, register here: www.meetup.com/rladies-colo...

Next Thursday I am leading the discussion in our book club on Bruno Rodrigues' book “Building reproducible analytical pipelines with R”.

If you want to learn how to make your code more reproducible by simply using functions, join us here: meetup.com/rladies-colo...

New paper fresh out of the oven!

We followed the color development of two grasshopper species and found that color morph is defined in the second nymphal stage and doesn't change during life (unlike other color-changing grasshopper species).
t.co/fNaWjBbUm9

Last week's sketching :)
1) Steppe grasshopper Chorthippus dorsatus
2) European earwig Forficula auricularia
3) African elephant Loxodonta africanus